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Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:07 am

Yes, of course. That's just how science works.

I think they're upset because they believe people dismissed the possibility of a lab leak out of hand.
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Post by Cunt » Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:02 pm

No, I think they're upset because the people who dismissed the possibility out of hand were duped by their hatred for a public figure.
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Post by Cunt » Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:13 pm

rainbow wrote:
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I can't watch the vid yet, but I'm going to try over lunchtime. This looks like it might be interesting to Bainrow.
What a load of nonsense.
Do you mean the 'nonsense' where the authorities answered his question about gain of function research incorrectly?

They answered about a file other than the one he asked about. Have you never worked in government before? A mistake is often the easiest way to lie.

Such as you saying there was no evidence, then citing the least convincing bit of evidence from that presentation.
The 'evidence' is Covid is a Corona Virus, and the Wuhan Lab did some work on viruses.

There is nothing to show it escaped from that lab or any other.

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Post by Tero » Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:10 pm

(I am included in this 65 and up group)
County vaccinated 80-year olds this week. Sports/concert arena was used, for parking reasons:

The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department originally set about 3,500 appointments, but when it found out it would receive more vaccine this week, it called about 900 people 80 and older who had registered on the city's vaccine website but hadn't yet got an appointment. The department also decided to let spouses of those with appointments get vaccinated even if they were younger than 80.

Up to 400 people an hour were scheduled to be shuttled through lines of volunteer vaccinators on the first floor of the arena.

More than 120 staff members were on hand to help anyone needing assistance to get their shot.

Friday's clinic marked the first widespread vaccination of people in Phase 1B of the state's vaccination plan, which includes people 65 and older, those with certain medical conditions and essential workers.

It will likely take several weeks to get through this phase and could be several months before vaccine is available to the general public, depending on what happens with supply.

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Post by JimC » Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:19 pm

I went to the doctor at our local clinic for a routine check-up (all OK), and he confirmed that his clinic will be one of the vaccination centres; Bron and I will probably get ours in late March or early April...
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Post by Animavore » Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:44 pm

Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.

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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:42 pm

It's like how Cunt thinks they are "Trump vaccines".
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Post by Hermit » Sat Feb 06, 2021 12:09 am

pErvinalia wrote:
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It's like how Cunt thinks they are "Trump vaccines".
"Trump vaccines to fight the Communist China Virus!"
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Post by JimC » Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:05 am

Trumpism is indeed a mind virus, from which the US will hopefully recover...
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Post by Tero » Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:50 am

Iowa governor removes all mandates
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Post by JimC » Sat Feb 06, 2021 2:54 am

An effective way for natural selection to work on Iowans. A higher proportion of Democrats will survive. Not sure about the breeding, though... :tea:
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:30 am

Viruses don't care who you vote for.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:37 am

Dr writing in today's Guardian...
... Please imagine it, for a moment, if you can bear to. Being wheeled from your home by paramedics in masks who rush you, blue-lit, to a hospital. Then the clamour and lights, the confusion and fear, the faceless professionals, gloved and gowned, who eddy and swirl past your trolley. Your destination is intensive care where too soon, or perhaps not soon enough, you will arrive at a point of reckoning. You will blanch when they tell you, because you’ve watched the news and know what it signifies: you are going to be put on a ventilator. You will understand, as clearly as they do, that your doctors cannot promise to save you.

Here, though, is the detail that haunts me. For every patient who dies from Covid-19 in hospital, from the moment they encounter that first masked paramedic, they will never see a human face again. Not one smile, nor pair of cheeks, nor lips, nor chin. Not a single human being without barricades of plastic. Sometimes, my stomach twists at the thought that to the patients whose faces I can never unsee – contorting and buckling with the effort of breathing – I am no more than a pair of eyes, a thin strip of flesh between mask and visor, a muffled voice that strains and cracks behind plastic.

Of all Covid’s cruelties, surely the greatest is this? That it cleaves us from each other at precisely those times when we need human contact the most. That it spreads through speech and touch – the very means through which we share our love, tenderness and basic humanity. That it transforms us unwittingly into vectors of fatality. And that those we love most – and with whom we are most intimate – are the ones we endanger above all others.

It’s late January. The wards and ICUs are overwhelmed, awash with the virus. The patients seem younger, the new variant more virulent. We are drowning, drowning in Covid. The sight of a doctor or nurse breaking down has become unremarkable. Too close, for too long, to too many patients’ pain, we have become – just like them – saturated. Behind hospital doors, tucked away out of sight, we seem to suffer as one.

Outside, on the other hand, the virus has once again carved up the country into simmering, resentful, aggrieved little units. It’s too old, too cold to be doing this again. One way or another, lockdown hurts us all. But instead of unity, community and a shared sense of purpose – that extraordinary eruption of philanthropy last springtime – we seethe like rats in a sack, fractious, divided...

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Post by Hermit » Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:43 am

Brian Peacock wrote:
Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:30 am
Viruses don't care who you vote for.
Right-wingers tend to see less need to protect themselves from them, so...
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