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Onvacation says

If anyone wants to call...

After that note I would get a much larger flag.

That is a good summary of what happened.

Trump got elected. Democracy worked in spite of the media giving direct orders to vote for Hillary or else.

And the world did not end. Just the opposite. Things got a lot better under Trump. Military de-escalation, economic boom.

All the pent up leftist Democrat hate is now coming out as BLM violence (mostly by white people!) and demands to kill as many businesses as possible because of a virus that 99.7% of people survive no problem. In fact, 99% of the people who died from Wuhan virus had severe health issues to begin with.

Old school

For you youngsters, that's Biden and Byrd, a high ranking member of the KKK. In his 2005 book, Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields, Byrd recalled how his ability to quickly recruit 150 of his friends to the group impressed a top Klan official who told him, “You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation.”

Patrick says

From about 1905:

It ain't new. It began among mainlines who embraced "Higher Criticism" and disavowed the plain language of the Bible, esp. in Western Mass and Update NY. Same sort responsible for banning alcohol, abortion, and eugenics. Right after Civil War period. Many secret Lesbians in what they called "Boston Marriages" even though these women had lots of relatives and could afford to live alone with servants.

Alright read 'em and weep I've got the royal flush hand, I win Internet for today.

Booger says

I'd wear that t-shirt. Just the right side is all I need.

Stupid analogy.
Masks are designed to stop the big drops going out of your mouth, not fine particles going in.
Onvacation says

This highlights the most prevelent reason anti mask people hate masks.
Its because elected officials, infoemed by thousands of medical experts, told them they had to temporarily do something to save lives.


Onvacation says

MrEd says

This highlights the most prevelent reason anti mask people hate masks.
Its because elected officials, infoemed by thousands of medical experts, told them they had to temporarily do something to save lives.

If people are so vulnerable because of comorbidities or compromised immune systems they should self isolate. This is the first time healthy people have been asked to quarantine and small business has been forced to shutter to "protect" unhealthy people. Why is that?

Not expecting a cogent answer.

MrEd says

Masks are designed to stop the big drops going out of your mouth, not fine particles going in.

But I can still hear them!

But seriously, how do we stop that super small cloud of viruses that fly through masks like mosquitoes through chicken wire?

Onvacation says

Not expecting a cogent answer.

Because I seldom get one.

Surprise!
Onvacation says

If people are so vulnerable because of comorbidities or compromised immune systems they should self isolate. This is the first time healthy people have been asked to quarantine and small business has been forced to shutter to "protect" unhealthy people. Why is that?

Not expecting a cogent answer.

Why are some healthy, young people dying of Covid-19?
Health experts aren't sure why some otherwise healthy, young people are suddenly dying of Covid-19, but they do have some theories.

One theory is that some people are genetically predisposed to developing more severe cases of Covid-19 than others. For example, Philip Murphy, a biomedical researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Science Magazine's Jocelyn Kaiser that variations in a person's ACE2 gene receptor potentially "could make it easier or harder for the virus to get into lung cells."

Michael Skinner, a virologist at Imperial College London, said he believes it's "very possible that some of us could have a particular genetic makeup that makes it more likely that we will respond badly to an infection with this coronavirus."

Another theory is that some patients might have low levels of surfactant, a substance the body produces to help the lungs expand and contract, as a result of the disease. If a patient lacks an adequate amount of surfactant, their lungs will become stiff, which could explain why some patients have trouble breathing even if they're on a ventilator, CNN reports.

There's also a theory that the virus could be causing what's known as a "cytokine storm" in some young patients. The phenomenon, named after cytokine proteins which are part of the immune system, causes the immune system to overreact to an external pathogen, like a virus. The response ultimately could cause a patient's immune system to attack their lungs, causing their lungs to stop delivering oxygen to the rest of their body, and leading to respiratory failure and potentially death.

Other health experts suggest that patients exposed to larger amounts of the new coronavirus could become sicker than others. Alison Sinclair, a virologist at Sussex University, said, "A person with a high viral load has more virus particles than one with a low load. We do not yet know what impact viral load has on the symptoms of a person infected with Covid-19. Whether there is a link between a high viral load and worse outcomes is going to be important to find out."