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DrearyDoomguy said:
If the rumors about Brazil's native bat population inducing more frequent mutation are true then it's not so much what the virus is capable of, moreso what it could be capable of.
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I’m kinda curious about this. Is someone able to explain this, with valid sources and references etc. In a fun, yet sciency manner.
 
JosephStalin said:
Folks, this is an object lesson as to why the wise person doesn't get tested unless they are really sick. Read and heed.




Added: The Hardin County Health Department has been reported to the Department of Justice for deprivation of the Linscotts' civil rights under color of authority. Federal offense.
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Oh shit, that's a DIFFERENT Kentucky family, isn't it? Beyond the other one that had armed police forcing them to stay inside?
 
Return of the Freaker said:
Today on Cleveland.com:
We need to shut everything down again because the stress of dealing with a pandemic means people can't think properly

Brought to you by some professor at Kent State. Beatings will continue until morale improves.
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I read and re-read that article and all I got from it is that this bitch is trying to tell everyone that they're too stupid/childlike/autistic to deal with any kind of thoughts or change of thoughts, so everyone should just sit and drool like good little potatoes until... Step 3 Profit?

Am I right or are my thoughts clouded by the food coma I'm half in right now?
 
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FatalTater said:
I read and re-read that article and all I got from it is that this bitch is trying to tell everyone that they're too stupid/childlike/autistic to deal with any kind of thoughts or change of thoughts, so everyone should just sit and drool like good little potatoes until... Step 3 Profit?

Am I right or are my thoughts clouded by the food coma I'm half in right now?
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I think the argument is that the disruption to people's day-to-day lives have drained everyone so much mentally, that we need to disrupt their day-to-day lives more...for their own good?

I dunno. I think the mental exhaustion and poor reasoning skills the author was talking about are fully at work in the article she wrote.
 
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Mario Romero Perez, the "angel of oxygen" dies (of covid)​
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The businessman, who was selling oxygen at a fair price, remained in Intensive Care Unit for ten days after becoming infected with COVID-19.​
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Mario Romero Pérez, the entrepreneur who recharged oxygen tanks at a fair price, lost the battle against coronavirus and died this Sunday, July 19. "God has one more angel," the family confirmed to newspaper La República.​
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The man was known as the ‘Angel of oxygen of San Juan de Miraflores" because he offered the essential element at S/. 15 per m3 (note: about $5). He remained ten days in ICU of Guillermo Kaelin Hospital in Nueva Esperanza.​
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It should be noted that, back in July 9, his family and employees from his OxiRomero Group store confirmed that 'the Angel of Oxygen' was in ICU due to the new coronavirus and made a request for help.​
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He required medicine and some care that was provided within few days. However, despite the attention and the prayer chain that his relatives requested, he lost his life.​
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Even five days ago, Eric Mario Romero, the man's son, pointed out that the family is not in financial trouble, so they have contacted the people who sent them donations to reimburse them. In exchange, he asks that they pray for his father's health.​
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“We thank all the kind people. (...) What we do ask for is prayer, not only for my father, but also for many people who are suffering in critical hospital units and who unfortunately have to wait in line for medicines and oxygen, "said the young man, who works as a doctor in Huaraz."​

for the curious, the reason oxygen tanks became so expensive was that the government decided to take absolute control of the situation, as in private hospitals couldn't do much to care for people at first, so prices eventually went out of control because people couldn't find spots in hospitals and everybody had to buy whatever medicine was rumored to work. Same happened when hospitals started to run out of oxygen tanks in the whole country. So yes, there were many people who died choking waiting in line at the hospital gates. The man was the only one who kept the prices at their regular number.
 
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JosephStalin said:
Folks, this is an object lesson as to why the wise person doesn't get tested unless they are really sick. Read and heed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kentucky-couple-fit-with-ankle-monitors-placed-on-house-arrest-for-refusing-to-sign-quarantine-documents-reports/ar-BB16VKYM?li=BBnbfcL
https://archive.vn/Y5piO

Added: The Hardin County Health Department has been reported to the Department of Justice for deprivation of the Linscotts' civil rights under color of authority. Federal offense.
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Stories such as this one are why I'm reluctant to get tested unless it were to be a required condition for working either my regular or side job. Even with the DOJ on their side, this family will still likely havea prolonged legal battle. One hopes they get a restraining order or injunction that allows them to be untethered once they complete quarantine and show no signs/symptoms.

More AWS-8Q Than You said:
No wonder the northern half of the state is getting reamed by the 'Rona, Columbus and Cleveland sound like they're full of morons. I remember that Cleveland wanted to put in place a mask order that included wearing one while you're in the car alone.
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That's absolute :lunacy:. I can understand someone choosing to wear a mask in their car just to make sure they have it for a destination that requires it. To explicitly state someone has to wear in their car even when alone is either pure stupidity or the sign of someone with way too much time on their hands.

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Of course, the open carry side always behaves itself.
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Michigan's open carry protestors also behaved while their political opposites screeched and freaked out over their legally-carried weapons. What few arrests took place, if I recall, didn't even involve firearms. Funny how those who go throught he trouble to familiarize themselves with open carry regulations also know how to folow and obey those laws -- and the law in general.
 
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Kiwi Lime Pie said:
That's absolute :lunacy:. I can understand someone choosing to wear a mask in their car just to make sure they have it for a destination that requires it. To explicitly state someone has to wear in their car even when alone is either pure stupidity or the sign of someone with way too much time on their hands.
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There's a reason it's called the mistake on the lake, even after the river stopped catching on fire.
 
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On the swedish island of Gotland, the local goverment is using knights to get people to keep distance.
 
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Protests over the re-opening of Detroit Public Schools for summer school are continuing, alongside a lawsuit that has been filed.
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Last week, protests took place for three days with no arrests. That was until Thursday [July 16], when the protests began taking place at a private business — ABC Transportation — and not the school district garages.
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Last week, 11 people were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
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About 25 people showed up to protest Monday, July 20. Three were arrested and one car was towed.
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Fact Checkers assure us that Governor Whitmer is not calling for violence when she says citizens should "politely, but also forcefully" enforce her mask-wearing orders.
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We rate this claim FALSE because it is not supported by our research. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer did call for Michigan residents to "politely, but also forcefully" enforce the mask mandate outlined in an executive order. But it is wrong to say the governor was calling for others to respond with violence, as the post claims.
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July 14. Dearborn woman, removes mask, sits on floor and refuses to move, after Secretary of State (DMV in other states) tells her she hadn't actually paid her fines.
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MICHIGAN RECAP
Second wave of official cases is here; second wave of official deaths is not. Masks are now mandatory. People starting to snap. Lawsuits grind on ever so slowly. Petitions begin circulation.
 
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Kiwi Lime Pie said:
Stories such as this one are why I'm reluctant to get tested unless it were to be a required condition for working either my regular or side job. Even with the DOJ on their side, this family will still likely havea prolonged legal battle. One hopes they get a restraining order or injunction that allows them to be untethered once they complete quarantine and show no signs/symptoms.
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Yeah, if you got the disease during a pandemic which is spreading out of control, stay the fuck home. Public health is more important than individual rights. Same reason why they can forcibly quarantine TB and ebola patients
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
It doesn't cause more cases. It's just that we have a more correct number of cases, whereas the other countries, which are not doing as many tests, have an incorrectly low number of cases.

It also doesn't help that multiple instances of case fraud have been found in the US. Hospitals not reporting negative results, for example, and hospitals reporting any death as a COVID death. As mentioned repeatedly, there seems to be an attempt to fearmonger with this disease for political reasons.
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I can't wait for the day when that get exposed. I've always been suspecting that half of these deaths is unrelated to covid. For all i know, they could've been cancer, heart diseases, ect. Even suicide
 
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
So you'd be okay with someone with ebola standing in line next to you in the supermarket? I am guessing you wouldn't be
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You know what the good thing about actually deadly viruses like ebola is? If it's deadly enough to likely kill you, you are going to be so sick from the symptoms that you're unlikely to be standing anywhere, you're instead lying in your bed feeling death inch over you. Which limits the spread of the disease.

Which is exactly why milder strains of diseases naturally flourish, while the ultra-deadly strains are often victims of their own success and don't spread very far.
 
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