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rogue3542

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  1. This is the best defense in IU football history: change my mind.
  2. Did you read the directive? It's clearly advising that if a patient dies before being able to be tested, displays symptoms of the virus, and someone with whom he/she had close contact with tests positive, then it's appropriate to ascribe death to the virus. I think that's a pretty appropriate scenario. Both the article and the senator, who both have clear agendas, grossly misrepresent the situation. Furthermore, the tagline of that website is "We report the truth - and leave the Russia collusion fairy tale to the Conspiracy media." It's not even in the same zip code as what I would deem reputable. Back when I was a teacher, I wouldn't have even allowed it as a source on a research paper. It's crystal clear that you can't trust the information coming from that site.
  3. There's no problem being skeptical of where that money goes and how it's allocated (especially since all the oversight was just removed), but it's literally dangerous (even deadly) to believe in and spread this kind of propaganda right now, because that's exactly what it is, and there's zero evidence of it's veracity. I seriously doubt cities and hospitals are going to willfully suffer the ignominy of being the next New York to make a few thousand (or even million) dollars extra by misrepresenting covid 19 deaths.
  4. There's pretty much nothing I can say without people bringing out the pitchforks on me here. So, I'll just post an article from a news source that's actually reputable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/08/tucker-carlsons-brit-humes-faulty-theories-about-coronavirus-deaths-being-exaggerated/?utm_source=reddit.com
  5. Where did you get that information?
  6. This is true, and the same reason it was prohibited in michigan initially - doctors there could still prescribe it for those conditions, but not for treatments not already approved by the FDA.
  7. In the 80s, the NBA was really good money. Today, just one year NBA salary is life changing money; one year could literally set you up for life. It's hard to turn that down or risk injury for another year when that's on the table.
  8. One thing I think is interesting, is that the streaming platforms have almost completely taken over quality tv from the networks. Aside from Elementary, there hasn't been a show on broadcast tv that I've really watched in years, and even that got repetitive after a while.
  9. Bosch on Amazon Prime might be my favorite show I've watched up to this point in my life. Titus Welliver is perfect for the role. I believe a lot of the people who made The Wire are involved with this show, too. If you like sci fi, The Expanse is great, and Altered Carbon is really good, too.
  10. It's the Washington Post, so it should be safe. The thing that stood out to me, aside from the tragedy of it, is how woefully unprepared and uninformed the hospital was. No quarantine, no isolation for days. They didn't even test until she was nearly in critical condition.
  11. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/28/voices-from-the-pandemic-indiana-man-recounts-partners-death-from-coronavirus/?arc404=true This is pretty eye opening.
  12. Once it's like it is in New York it's well beyond too late. They are on the brink of having their medical facilities and personnel overwhelmed. I have a feeling this is going to start spiking in Indiana (and many other places) in the next two weeks. If it doesn't spike like new york, that's a concrete sign that the measures being taken are having a positive effect. How many people have been tested in your county?
  13. All I can say is that I meant it in a denotative way, but it was apparently inferred as connotative. Honestly, and again, I'm sorry. I should have just let the question go.
  14. I'd like to apologize. I wanted to answer hoopsters question, but understood that my answer might seem political, which is why I tried to keep it short. In hindsight, I should have elaborated on what I was saying, as the attempted brevity proved to be the Crux of the problem. Also, for the record, I have no agenda here. I merely referred to people and entities as best I could while trying to use terms with the least political charge to them, though I'm not sure there are any terms that fit that criteria these days. I was also trying to just relay information factually, at least that was my intent. I can see now I should have elaborated on what I posted to make that more clear. I firmly reject the implication, though, that I was trying to stoke a political argument or be partisan in any way. I can see now how some took my post that way, but it was truly not my intention.
  15. Deleted, better safe than sorry. blue
  16. If we can test, find clusters, and successfully contain those clusters, we can quickly go back to the status quo. The people calling this a hoax coupled with the fact we did absolutely nothing as a country to prepare is what has put us in this situation. Now, we are in mitigation mode, whereas if we were proactive in initially testing, identifying, and quarantining, we wouldn't have to take these drastic measures.
  17. The "this is overreaction" posts are maddening. It's not overreaction. We aren't trying to stop people from eventually getting it or doing this because of the mortality rate. It's well known it affects primarily older people at 1-2% generally. The MASSIVE issue is that we need to contain the spread. I suggest you read this post: https://imgur.com/gallery/Folab56 . It's just a social media post, but it mathematically breaks down why this is a big deal. I also suggest people look up what "flattening the curve" means. To put it succinctly, if the numbers continue to climb as they have been, going up by a factor of ten every week or so, we are about a month away from our hospitals being completely overwhelmed. At that point, doctors and nurses are going to have to start deciding who gets treatment and who gets to go home to possibly die. It's not just about this virus, either. Having hospitals at capacity is going to affect ANYONE who needs medical attention, but if we can slow down the transmission, we won't so heavily overwhelm the hospitals. If we don't, you'll see mortality rates for literally every illness/condition go up, because we will be operating our hospitals like a front-line warzone triage unit. This is what is happening in Italy, and we'd have to be complete fools not to take that as a lesson. For reference, their mortality rate is currently at 7.3%, which doesn't factor in other medical problems that are going to be exacerbated by hospitals being at 200% capacity. I urge everyone to take this seriously and take simple steps to limit the spread.
  18. Can't have any new cases if you don't test anyone.
  19. It's a colloquial/generational thing. "You're welcome" doesn't really make much logical sense in this usage. "No problem" is actually better usage in a logical sense, which implies that the favor was not an imposition and was happily done; it just wasn't the norm until recently. Consider the Spanish response "de nada," which translates to "it's nothing," and the phrase "you're welcome" seems an odd reply and is a good example of the oddity of the English language. What, are you inviting me to your house now? As for my pet peeve; it seems to be a central Indiana quirk to drop the infinitive that comes before a past tense verb. An example would be "that pie needs baked" or "my car needs repaired." It honestly drives me NUTS because SO MANY people speak this way here.
  20. “What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.” “Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.” - John Irving from The Cider House Rules
  21. I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
  22. The sun's shining down on these green fields of France; The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance. The trenches have vanished long under the plow; No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now. But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man. And a whole generation who were butchered and damned. - Eric Bogle
  23. Tired of lying in the sunshine Staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long And there is time to kill today And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun You run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking And racing around to come up behind you again And the sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death - Roger Waters
  24. But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o' Mice an' Men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! Still thou are blest, compared wi' me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e'e, On prospects drear! An' forward, tho' I cannot see, I guess an' fear! - Robert Burns Also, if you ever wondered where Steinbeck got the name for his novel "Of Mice and Men," I think you've received your answer. P.S. Don't you just love the Scottish dialect?
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