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Are you still harping on testing?
Suggest a better solution. I see a whole thread arguing about numbers that are based on ... what, exactly? Extrapolation from testing 2% of the population?
Hey, I am on your side kalakoa... just pointing out that it appears to me that those who would be accountable for any actual test results don't seem to be too keen on testing.
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In fact some hospitals are having to lay people off because business is slow especially in the ER sections.
Is this as you stated, a fact?
If it is, how many hospitals are laying off employees, and what percentage is this of all hospitals in the US, or Hawaii?
Have any doctors or nurses been laid off in Hawaii? Other than the cluster of health workers at Maui Medical who weren't exactly laid off, but laid up with COVID-19?
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Are they really?
You might want to take a stroll down Google Avenue.. and interesting read for sure. Dude, NY ain't alone. As it is it seems you are eating propaganda served up by those that would like to open it up as much as they want to lock her up. Great catch phases (they obviously caught you) but not exactly nourishing fair. Why would anyone be so blind as to buy into the current open it up I have no idea. My only consolation is in Darwin's explanation. It's just a shame we all gotta stay home while the culling takes place.
Just keep in mind, for every image you see on tv today, all those pics of people defiantly gathering, the chances are you are looking at pictures of soon to be very ill and in some cases dead people. If you think they are right, I encourage you to join them. Play the odds. I am sure we can start a thread and spends days arguing over what your chances are..
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kalakoa - I see a whole thread arguing about numbers that are based on ... what, exactly? Extrapolation from testing 2% of the population?
Actually it's only like 2% of some small samples of people, so certainly less. I'd guess about 0.88, but I have nothing to really base this on. Why should that stop me from adding garbage to the equations?
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a shame we all gotta stay home while the culling takes place
Really defeats the purpose of a pandemic.
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I've been watching the Reopen America protests on the mainland, with their full size, big wheel pickup trucks full of yahoos, gigantic flags fluttering off the back, smaller versions on the hood like they're diplomats from an asylum, waving signs - - and often in front of hospitals, even blocking health workers from getting inside.
In some small way I'm reassured that Hawaii doesn't have a complete monopoly on truck and flag festooned idiots who in this manner advertise their ignorance of science based professions like healthcare, or astronomy.
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Rednecks are the same everywhere.
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If that were true nationwide then the approximate death rate to date from Covid19 would be more in line with estimates for the flu, correct?
This is what the study is indicating. granted it was only antibody testing on about 3500 people. but it indicates that a lot more people have been exposed and have antibodies to the virus. This would be great news and also mean that we could be over this quicker than we will see a vaccine for it.
I was wondering about that, given the contagiousness of this new virus, if vaccine may be too late.
More news from the land of lutefisk. The Swedes are hopeful that in another month they will be out of the woods with the cursed virus.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/11-pr...t-covid-19
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"Diplomats from an asylum" Ha ha ha ha ha!! Here On The Primal Edge - you said exactly what I've been thinking! Wait 'til those idiots give their mothers or grandmothers covid 19 and get put on a ventilator - then maybe they won't be having so much fun playing with their flags and signs