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  • BankwalkerBankwalker Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    You probably also discount all of the theories on the military industrial complex, Haliburton, etc.

    Oh, and Russia, right? The Russia-Trump collusion thing must have had you rolling your eyes from day 1.

  • flemingislanddawgflemingislanddawg Posts: 622 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    That's the kind of response I would expect from a Gator fan . What part? You don't think money drives things in this country? It is funny how the experts said wearing masks doesn't help to oh my God they will save us all. What studies of mask wearing came out that quick to make them change their stance a full 180 degrees? I am telling you in this part of Florida during the supposed shutdown I saw more people in stores and at Home Depot etc. and nobody was wearing masks. The crowds were bigger because nobody was working. Now I see masks everywhere including me but the numbers are rising.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited July 2020

    Cucumbers are the answer to the pandemic.

    Edit: this is from a preprint paper

  • dawgnmsdawgnms Posts: 5,377 mod

    JACKSON, Miss. (WLOX) - Across the entire state, there were 1,017 new cases of COVID-19 and 14 new deaths reported Saturday.

    3rd consecutive day of 1000+ cases. What ever happened to flatten the curve?

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Politics was brought in wayyyyyy earlier than the pelosi gif. Things have gotten off track with a lot of unfounded claims and personal insults. Denmen and I were accused of wanting to kill millions of people.

  • dawgnmsdawgnms Posts: 5,377 mod

    Well, I have been lenient so far. Lets keep on track please as 2.0 will be the last .0

  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,838 mod
    1. not its not, it's just not the response you wanted
    2. first off, this website prides itself on "UNCOVERED JOURNALISM" which already perks my ears up to be an offshoot of Alex Jones style bananas crazy theories and cherry picking to prove the point they want proven.
    3. a cursory glance at the author's posting history already shows his own bias
    4. I've never seen anywhere masks were said to save us all, i've seen they were said to help stop the spread
    5. you and this author love dragging Fauci's good name through the mud over this issue. Why the two orders here? I couldn't say. I do know that for myself, if I get new info, I adjust to it. So a lot of smart people think masks help stop the spread, not that it keeps you from getting it. I think we all know that by now (or should). I'm not wearing a mask to keep myself from getting Covid19, i'm wearing it to keep YOU from possibly getting it.
    6. As far as your Home Depot anecdote, and how it's rising now? I have no clue. No one does and too many talking heads try to act like they do. Mr. Bobinski who wrote this article is just another one like many who look for whatever will support what he already believes and puts that forward. Hence, the tinfoil hat.
    7. I have confirmation bias just as bad as you or Mr. Bobinski.
    8. No one will really know what happened during all this until years later (i'm guessing). Big Pharma has a ton of issues, and I agree that they will make a killing off the vaccine...but isn't that capitalism? If they gave it away for free isn't that **clutches pearls** socialism or even worse communism??

    the tl;dr version...this guy is biased, just like any other journalist you're gonna find out there. @Boss_Dawg hit the nail on the other head the other day and it's part of the reason why I closed down the last one of these I started.

  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,838 mod

    Bank is the king of this type of behavior. He's a big boy and can take a joke. He tried acting like Woodward and Bernstein over Denmen's numbers and I found it a little off-putting. Then I gave him a Pelosi clapping gif because I couldn't think of a better one for "sarcastic clapping" gif. What does it matter that HE KNEW IT!!!!!!! maybe just kindly mention, "hey denmen, I think your numbers might be off" instead of grandstanding like he's trying to win a pullitzer. Just my view of the situation. The gif wasn't meant to be political, it was meant to be funny considering who it was used in reply to.

    then I kindly asked him to stay on topic because I knew his response led to nowhere good and in and of itself, is off topic and will nuke the thread which is another one of bank's hobbies on this message board pertaining to subjects not on football. "Let's try to stay on topic please" was my response. I didn't read that as threatening at all.

    This is a person who's screen name references the (alleged) size of his pen15. I would like to think he has a sense of humor.

    But since I can't seem to help myself on these threads, I'll bow out from now and just read only. I highly suggest to check in daily with Nate Silver's Covid19 tracking which gives simple numbers of the day. I or one of the other mods will step in if necessary, but otherwise I won't post in this thread.

    Hopefully that's fair enough for all involved.

  • Denmen185Denmen185 Posts: 7,535 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited July 2020

    That is the exact opposite of what I found. The tests you link to show 14,159 positive and 78,474 negative. The cases reported were 10,328 which is 3,831 lower than the positive tests to take out the repeat positive tests!. The negative tests reported were 40891 which is just over half of that shown on the link. The numbers I report for yesterday at 20.2% is correct based on their own data. The daily % they show includes all repeat tested and secondly taking out repeat positives. They don't take out the repeat negatives as per guidelines.

    Their own dashboard show only 51,219 people tested NOT 90,000

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    In other words the percent positive reported looks better than it actually is.

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