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Post by Clemensbuff on Jul 1, 2020 5:41:28 GMT -6
Interesting debate where we have These PlayStation All Americans switching over to voice their opinions on a simple thing like wearing a mask. The Back Street Resturant in Sinton had a employee test positive and now they are closed temporary to desanitize. Workers lose pay. There is a beauty shop in Calallen Judi open back up after desanitze as one of their beauticians tested positive. They had employees not getting a pay check. These are people living pay day to payday. Losing a weeks paycheck is tough on them. You can’t eat with a mask on but my wife and I wear a mask until we sit down to eat. Takes very little effort. Our church has shutdown in consideration of a lot of elderly people in our church. I try to be considerate of others. I don’t like politics and I don’t like politicians. We have a culture war going on and the COVID has become political. You as a individual can help by not being political. If you can keep from getting the virus, you have won. Yes sir indeed
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Post by wfcoyote on Jul 1, 2020 5:41:34 GMT -6
Interesting, wildbill keeps burning his bridges and theN patching and coming back. This blog has a dual purpose as a toy and education and expression of opinion with some reasonable debate. Thankfully one can not have their feet held to the fire because the keyboard gets in the way. Heck I have to have johnnys bail me out when I misseak on GP history.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Jul 1, 2020 5:42:52 GMT -6
Fellas, this has become a political virus but we better also realize this is some serious chit!
Over 1200 diagnosed in SA yesterday alone.
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Post by FB fan on Jul 1, 2020 7:12:53 GMT -6
When you see someone not wearing a mask understand many have health issues that don't allow restrictions to their breathing of any kind. A mask causes you to breathe your own exhale. It's a catch 22 for them. Those people are very aware of the danger and are keeping the distancing. Not the same as those flaunting precautions. I hear ya FBfan and understand. But honestly, of the ones I've seen without masks in businesses in the last week I'd say that the HUGE majority, like 90% or better are very young (under 30). I seriously doubt many, if any of those have breathing difficulties in any way. I would say those are being irresponsible.
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Post by wfcoyote on Jul 1, 2020 10:26:48 GMT -6
There is hanky lanky going on in the testing.
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Post by raidercatphenomsmellmyown on Jul 1, 2020 16:09:19 GMT -6
Fellas, this has become a political virus but we better also realize this is some serious chit! Over 1200 diagnosed in SA yesterday alone. San Antonio Hospitals are feeling it too. We’ve got 1K folks in the hospital, in my opinion that is a lot of people.
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Post by CC_Varmints on Jul 1, 2020 16:39:10 GMT -6
There is hanky lanky going on in the testing. So what is gp37's opinion?
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Post by gp37 on Jul 1, 2020 18:14:15 GMT -6
GP37 says be innovative and come up with anything you can do to keep from getting the virus. I think you may be better off to avoid using the rest rooms at restaurants and stores. There is reason to believe China has combined the swine flu and the pig flu to make this Covid 19. A guy I use to work with is in quarantine as his wife caught it and she got real sick.
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Post by CC_Varmints on Jul 1, 2020 18:43:56 GMT -6
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Post by CC_Varmints on Jul 1, 2020 18:48:18 GMT -6
GP37 says be innovative and come up with anything you can do to keep from getting the virus. I think you may be better off to avoid using the rest rooms at restaurants and stores. There is reason to believe China has combined the swine flu and the pig flu to make this Covid 19. A guy I use to work with is in quarantine as his wife caught it and she got real sick. I am in quarantine in my own home, due to a careless 20 something coworker. He went to bars and caught Covid-19. Came to work then developed symptons. Sent to be tested and was positive. Isolated from my family in my own home! Wearing a mask and gloves to protect my wife and elderly Mom. No symptons, so I do not qualify for CDC Free Testing. Had to find National Guard run site to get tested. Waiting on results since testing on Sunday.
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Post by raidercatphenomsmellmyown on Jul 1, 2020 19:22:23 GMT -6
GP37 says be innovative and come up with anything you can do to keep from getting the virus. I think you may be better off to avoid using the rest rooms at restaurants and stores. There is reason to believe China has combined the swine flu and the pig flu to make this Covid 19. A guy I use to work with is in quarantine as his wife caught it and she got real sick. I am in quarantine in my own home, due to a careless 20 something coworker. He went to bars and caught Covid-19. Came to work then developed symptons. Sent to be tested and was positive. Isolated from my family in my own home! Wearing a mask and gloves to protect my wife and elderly Mom. No symptons, so I do not qualify for CDC Free Testing. Had to find National Guard run site to get tested. Waiting on results since testing on Sunday. Man I’m sorry and I hope you test negative and all ends up well. Careless people are not helping the situation at all.
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Post by leopard4life on Jul 1, 2020 21:19:45 GMT -6
There is less than a .3% death rate in the US (it's actually under .28%), even if you include the double/triple positives. I'm still baffled how this is a pandemic. The highest death rate I can find in the US is 1.51%, and they don't disclose how they got their numbers...
@jeffpolk10 has 12 reasons Texas will play high school football this fall on Twitter. I wear a mask most of the time because my wife is "faux" concerned about getting the virus.
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Post by gp37 on Jul 2, 2020 2:07:37 GMT -6
A Man in Giddings passed away and he was way over weight. I saw where somehow they had double counted 10000 cases that tested positive.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Jul 2, 2020 6:00:18 GMT -6
There is less than a .3% death rate in the US (it's actually under .28%), even if you include the double/triple positives. I'm still baffled how this is a pandemic. The highest death rate I can find in the US is 1.51%, and they don't disclose how they got their numbers... @jeffpolk10 has 12 reasons Texas will play high school football this fall on Twitter. I wear a mask most of the time because my wife is "faux" concerned about getting the virus. So what would you 'label' a pandemic then? This is a very, very contagious virus and affecting millions world wide, not a few thousand. Having 100% of the ICU beds in Houston, TX filled is not a concern to you? Furthermore, since some of those are asymptomatic altogether or have very mild symptoms they've not bothered to go to the Dr or get tested which means the likely overall number who've been infected by it is much, much higher than the numbers we are seeing.
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Post by leopard4life on Jul 2, 2020 9:01:26 GMT -6
There is less than a .3% death rate in the US (it's actually under .28%), even if you include the double/triple positives. I'm still baffled how this is a pandemic. The highest death rate I can find in the US is 1.51%, and they don't disclose how they got their numbers... @jeffpolk10 has 12 reasons Texas will play high school football this fall on Twitter. I wear a mask most of the time because my wife is "faux" concerned about getting the virus. So what would you 'label' a pandemic then? This is a very, very contagious virus and affecting millions world wide, not a few thousand. Having 100% of the ICU beds in Houston, TX filled is not a concern to you? Furthermore, since some of those are asymptomatic altogether or have very mild symptoms they've not bothered to go to the Dr or get tested which means the likely overall number who've been infected by it is much, much higher than the numbers we are seeing. If a virus is found on every continent is it a pandemic? If so the flu, the common cold, all other variations of COVID are pandemics. Ebola is much more deadly. I'm simply following the numbers. There are almost 30 million Texans and as of yesterday Texas had just under 168,000 cases. The asymptomatic cases have been proven to be mostly false positives. The WHO admitted that asymptomatic cases were rare. Over 10,000 cases were proven to be counted twice. In the beginning anyone with COVID like symptoms was counted, even though they were never tested for COVID. I've been reading the medical studies and executive summaries, not the newspapers and clickbait. Although some articles have remained factual with links to medical studies, there is a lot of garbage out there. 100% of the ICU beds in Houston are not filled with COVID patients, although COVID makes up 35% of those patients. www.khou.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/we-do-not-have-a-crisis-of-beds-texas-medical-center-leaders-explain-reformatted-icu-bed-capacity-data/285-12446283-4afc-46be-b5ba-a401bfe5ff14The stimulus bills pay hospitals 5K to diagnose, $13k to admit COVID patients, and $39k to place on a ventilator. Our hospitals are privately run in the US and most are owned by publicly-traded companies that answer to an executive board and stockholders. This exposes a flaw in the system where profits outweigh preparedness. There are multiple emergency-contingency programs such as bringing in hospital ships (Houston being a port) to uses college dorms as overflow. The fact is that 99.7+% of people who contract COVID-19 survive. www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/Jensen said, "Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."I want the elderly, the at-risk, and those around them to take great precautions. I wear a mask to make my wife happy, however, no one in my household is at great risk. We do see my mother-in-law occasionally, however, she is in great health and we take full precaution. Florida has decided not to shut down so I'll be reading the studies out of Florida and following the reports. I think Texas should have stayed the course. Texas is about to get a huge heat was with sustained heat and UV indexes and high humidity, all of which will combat the spread. However, I'm sure the decrease in numbers will be attributed to the latest round of shutdowns. For the record I think Corona should be taken seriously, but so should the flu and other communicable diseases. I just think that way too many people cried wolf and have been completely wrong in their predictions. I'm very pro-science but in the beginning, different theories and hypotheses were floated by overzealous media as facts. Way to much was taken out of context, and I firmly believe in Content over Context...
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