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It is also beyond the pale that Rep Matt Putz – I mean @RepMattGaetz – would participate in this. What a fool.
Matt – You are not welcome in New Jersey, and frankly I don’t ever want you back in this state.
Also, this craziness:Ashley StClair
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Yeah, whenever you proclaim "I'm willing to die to go to church" it shouldn't be assumed that you are also willing to kill to go to church. Though it is implied. Hopefully her husband is OK and she recovers.El Guapo wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:47 pm Yeah, I dunno. This has a bit of a "she has it coming" vibe which I'm not totally in love with. I get that this is in large part a result of the choices that she and her husband made but....it's still the case that she's worried about her husband maybe dying.
She absolutely had it coming - her attitude is basically "bring it on", and the universe obliged. I can no longer sympathize with idiots that not only willingly endanger themselves and others, but do it with gusto in the name of "religious freedom" or "rights" or whatever.El Guapo wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:47 pm Yeah, I dunno. This has a bit of a "she has it coming" vibe which I'm not totally in love with.
But in this case, that's absolutely the potential outcome. If you're not willing to kill, don't pick up a gun. And definitely dont wave it around in public. If I kill someone while driving recklessly, I'm responsible. I don't see how this is different.LawBeefaroni wrote:Yeah, whenever you proclaim "I'm willing to die to go to church" it shouldn't be assumed that you are also willing to kill to go to church. Though it is implied. Hopefully her husband is OK and she recovers.El Guapo wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:47 pm Yeah, I dunno. This has a bit of a "she has it coming" vibe which I'm not totally in love with. I get that this is in large part a result of the choices that she and her husband made but....it's still the case that she's worried about her husband maybe dying.
Up next, is this the end for The Eucharist?
On the other hand, she was literally taunting other people for being worried about themselves or their loved ones maybe dying, and conducted herself in such a manner as to endanger them. Fuck her feelings.El Guapo wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:47 pm Yeah, I dunno. This has a bit of a "she has it coming" vibe which I'm not totally in love with. I get that this is in large part a result of the choices that she and her husband made but....it's still the case that she's worried about her husband maybe dying.
I don't feel bad for experiencing a complete lack of empathy for her - she has her religion to comfort her in these dark times.Max Peck wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:58 pmOn the other hand, she was literally taunting other people for being worried about themselves or their loved ones maybe dying, and conducted herself in such a manner as to endanger them. Fuck her feelings.
Select details:COVID-19 pandemic control requires a multipronged application of evidence-based strategies while improving health equity: universal face mask use, physical distancing, avoiding nonessential indoor spaces, increasing testing, prompt quarantine of exposed persons, safeguarding those at increased risk for severe illness or death, protecting essential workers, postponing travel, enhancing ventilation and hand hygiene, and achieving widespread COVID-19 vaccination coverage.
Arguably the most important takeaway:Universal use of face masks. Consistent and correct use of face masks is a public health strategy critical to reducing respiratory transmission of SARS-CoV-2, particularly in light of estimates that approximately one half of new infections are transmitted by persons who have no symptoms (2,3). Compelling evidence now supports the benefits of cloth face masks for both source control (to protect others) and, to a lesser extent, protection of the wearer.†
Physical distancing and limiting contacts. Maintaining physical distance (≥6 feet) lowers the risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection through exposure to infectious respiratory droplets and aerosols and is important, even if no symptoms are apparent, because transmission can occur from asymptomatic infected persons¶ (2,3). Outside the household setting, close physical contact, shared meals, and being in enclosed spaces have all been associated with an increased infection risk (4–7). Although the impact of physical distancing is difficult to disaggregate from other interventions, one study estimated that physical distancing decreased the average number of daily contacts by as much as 74% and reduced the reproductive number (R0, a measure of transmission, which describes the average number of persons infected by one infectious person) to <1 (8).
Avoiding nonessential indoor spaces and crowded outdoor settings. Exposures at nonessential indoor settings and crowded outdoor settings pose a preventable risk to all participants.**,†† Indoor venues, where distancing is not maintained and consistent use of face masks is not possible (e.g., restaurant dining), have been identified as particularly high-risk scenarios (7,10).
No single strategy can control the pandemic; rather, a multipronged approach using all available evidence-based strategies at the individual and community levels can break transmission chains and address high levels of community transmission; reduce related illnesses, long-term sequelae, and deaths; and mitigate the pandemic’s economic impact.
Pretty sure human sacrifice is more effective than prayer. I was raised Old Testament.LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:58 pmYeah, whenever you proclaim "I'm willing to die to go to church" it shouldn't be assumed that you are also willing to kill to go to church. Though it is implied. Hopefully her husband is OK and she recovers.El Guapo wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:47 pm Yeah, I dunno. This has a bit of a "she has it coming" vibe which I'm not totally in love with. I get that this is in large part a result of the choices that she and her husband made but....it's still the case that she's worried about her husband maybe dying.
Up next, is this the end for The Eucharist?
I trust that god will do what they will for the Willows.El Guapo wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 4:47 pm Yeah, I dunno. This has a bit of a "she has it coming" vibe which I'm not totally in love with. I get that this is in large part a result of the choices that she and her husband made but....it's still the case that she's worried about her husband maybe dying.
So excited that we’re going to have a cure for this in like, twenty seconds.
Well, this is a bit awkward. COVID-19 may cause long-term erectile dysfunction in men. Yet another reason to heed public health advice as the coronavirus continues to spread.
The Oregon Medical Board suspended the license of an Oregon doctor who said he refuses to wear a mask in his clinic while also encouraging others to not wear masks.
Dr. Steven LaTulippe told a pro-Trump rally in November that neither he nor his staff wears a mask while working in their Dallas, Ore. clinic. That violates a state order requiring health care workers to wear a face-covering in health care settings.
Members of the medical board voted Thursday evening to suspend LaTulippe’s license immediately. According to a statement on the Oregon Medical Board website, the suspension was issued “due to the board’s concern for the safety and welfare of licensee’s current and future patients.”
The indefinite suspension prevents LaTulippe from practicing medicine anywhere in the state. LaTuilippe ran a family practice clinic called South View Medical Arts in Dallas, Ore.
His anti-mask comments came during a “Stop the Steal” election rally in Salem on Nov. 7. The video was posted on YouTube by the Multnomah County Republican Party.
“I and my staff, none of us, not once, wore a mask in my clinic,” LaTulippe said at the rally. He also encouraged others to not wear a mask, saying people should “take off the mask of shame.”
If true, this. She's willing to die and spread the death for her religion. I don't know how to feel sorry for someone who holds that opinion on 11/26.Smoove_B wrote: Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:09 pm I don't feel bad for experiencing a complete lack of empathy for her
A study has found that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, may be able to access the brain by spreading through the border between our nasal system and neural tissue. The findings offer answers to the baffling array of neurological symptoms produced by COVID-19 and the rare but previously unexplained detection of SARS-CoV-2 genetic materials in regions of the brain.
The dead were at 3 facilities, Washington state health officials said. Four other fatalities are being reviewed for possible links to the 300-person party
Seven Washington state nursing home residents with Covid-19 died after staff members attended a 300-person wedding that violated the governor's coronavirus restrictions.
The deaths were at three nursing home facilities in Grant County, health officials said Thursday. They were men in their 70s, 80s, and 90s who had underlying health conditions, according to a press release by the Grant County Health District.
Four additional deaths are pending death certificate reviews.
The health department said it is looking into whether the deaths are linked to a Nov. 7 wedding in Ritzville, about 59 miles southwest of Spokane, but an investigation found that some staff members at the facilities had tested positive after attending the event.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, public-health experts have warned of one particular nightmare. It is possible, they said, for the number of coronavirus patients to exceed the capacity of hospitals in a state or city to take care of them. Faced with a surge of severely ill people, doctors and nurses will have to put beds in hallways, spend less time with patients, and become more strict about whom they admit into the hospital at all. The quality of care will fall; Americans who need hospital beds for any other reason—a heart attack, a broken leg—will struggle to find space. Many people will unnecessarily suffer and die.
“If, in fact, there’s a scenario that’s very severe, it is conceivable that will happen,” Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease doctor, said in mid-March. “We’re doing everything we can to not allow that worst-case scenario to happen.”
Fear of this scenario drove many of the most stringent stay-at-home orders in the spring. “There will be no normally functioning economy if our hospitals are overwhelmed,” Liz Cheney, a leading House Republican, said a week and a half later.
Yet that worst-case scenario never came to pass at a national level. At the springtime peak, even as northeastern hospitals faced a deluge, 60,000 people were hospitalized nationwide. When the Sun Belt frothed with cases this summer, hospitalizations again reached the 60,000 mark before they started to fall.
A month ago, in early November, hospitalizations passed 60,000—and kept climbing, quickly. On Wednesday, the country tore past a nauseating virus record. For the first time since the pandemic began, more than 100,000 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States, nearly double the record highs seen during the spring and summer surges.
The pandemic nightmare scenario—the buckling of hospital and health-care systems nationwide—has arrived. Several lines of evidence are now sending us the same message: Hospitals are becoming overwhelmed, causing them to restrict whom they admit and leading more Americans to die needlessly.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Tensions ran high Saturday night after large crowds descended on the Loop, and a large police presence worked to clear the streets.
CBS 2’s Jeremy Ross reports police officers began working around 7 p.m. to clear large crowds of teens and young adults from parts of downtown. Police were doing what they could to deescalate tensions.
“Just craziness, and then you had a lot of officers around here,” Starlesha Hooker said.
Parts of the Loop were blocked off by squad cars, the blaring sounds of sirens and blur of Chicago Police lights once again flooding shopping areas, as Hooker was trying to visit Macy’s and see the Christmas Tree at nearby Millennium Park at the time.
“There was a fight that broke out, and there was maybe about 400 kids that kind of ran towards the fight, and we just kind of got out the way so we wouldn’t be stumbled over,” she said. “Personally, it’s a little startling.”
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As for what was driving this winter assembly, Hooker said, “I’m guessing they don’t have anything better to do but to be in crowds and kind of yell about each other, yell amongst each other.”
It also happens amid a resurgence of the pandemic in Chicago, with officials repeatedly urging people to stay home as much as possible, and avoid large gatherings.
I can't feel bad for these people that have turned our country into a living nightmare. It could very well be trump's cover to end his coup attempt...or at least a cover story for its failure. I'm with Daehawk on this one -- I won't believe it until somebody trustworthy confirms it. Until then, I expect Rudy to go dark until the EC meets, and then stage a miraculous recovery.Holman wrote: Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:21 pm If they're wise, they'll take this opportunity to dial back the conspiracy theories and ridiculous stunt lawsuits.
How can you ask the military to come in to help doctors and nurses but you can’t ask me to put on a mask?
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was admitted to the hospital after he was diagnosed with COVID-19, sources told ABC News.
The 76-year-old personal lawyer to the president was admitted to Georgetown Hospital in Washington on Sunday. It is unclear when exactly Giuliani tested positive or the details of his condition.
Late Sunday, Giuliani posted on Twitter saying he was "feeling good."
The Arizona Legislature will close for a week "out of an abundance of caution" after Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal attorney, possibly exposed several Republican lawmakers to COVID-19.
The president announced Giuliani had tested positive for the virus Sunday, less than a week after the former New York City mayor visited Arizona as part of a multistate tour aimed at contesting 2020 election results. He was later admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center.
Giuliani spent more than 10 hours discussing election concerns with Arizona Republicans — including two members of Congress and at least 10 current and future state lawmakers — at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix last Monday. The 76-year-old led the meeting maskless, flouting social distancing guidelines and posing for photos.
He also met privately with Republican lawmakers and legislative leadership the next day, according to lawmakers' social media posts.
