Coronavirus

[IamNY]

Yet the Trump administration chose to release it to pump up the stock market.

If proven to be effective, Remdesivir can merely reduce hospitalization by 4 days.

Dr. Fauci brought it up during a press conference not Trump.

If Remdesivir can "merely" reduce hospitalization by 4 days you increase the chance of people surviving the coronavirus by having them off a ventilator sooner or not even having them go on it in the first place, increase hospital capacity by having more beds available, 4 days less of someone being on oxygen, decrease the mortality rates from 11.6% to 8%, and on and on. If the drug does shave off 4 days it's the real deal and will save lives.

Incorrectly assuming that the president is tied to this drug for a political reasons sends the wrong message giving the haters a reason to shit on something that can be good news for a change. Why can't we just enjoy some good news for a change?

Everyday you don't spend in the hospital increases your chance to survive.

 

[The Nature Boy]

While it sounds like the Oxford vaccine tests are promising

https://www.yahoo.com/news/6-monkeys-given-experimental-coronavirus-094138199.html

Still bet these guys would have preferred to take the place of the monkeys to speed up the human testing, particularly to have had a chance to get paroled in their 70s instead of a life sentence as a result of participating. The positive test percentage is astonishing.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/michigan-covid-19-prisons-lawsuit-094500996.html

why can’t you just let these inmates in their 70’s out regardless if they don’t need to be there?

 

[The Nature Boy]

That would be fine with me, but the U.S. over-incarceration system doesn’t allow it.

The U.S. will just let them die off of covid-19 in prison without concern or comment.

im pretty sure they are already letting people out dude. I think the same prison reform initiative that was started by Jared Kuschner and Van Jones and the trump admin is also addressing this.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Connecticut released almost 1,000 prisoners and the vast majority were over 50 years old. They were selected for release based on the nature of their crimes and their possible susceptibility to the virus.

 

[The Nature Boy]

Yea, I think this is going on EB for sure. I just didn’t get the connection to substituting Inmates for Primates with respect to vaccine trials

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51947802

 

[jalimon]

Hospitals should not be business... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52476128

 

[CLOUD 500]

^^^^^

Healthcare is never free not even in Canada. We all pay for it. Those workers got to get paid they are not working for free so yes it is kinda of business.

 

[donbusch]

Dr. Fauci brought it up during a press conference not Trump .....

Incorrectly assuming that the president is tied to this drug for a political reasons sends the wrong message giving the haters a reason to shit on something that can be good news for a change. Why can't we just enjoy some good news for a change? .....

Trump forced Dr. Fauci to mention that positive Remdesivir study on that day. As one of the world’s leading scientists, don’t you think Dr. Fauci knows that he cannot publicly promote a drug study that has not been verified via peer review?

I truly admire Dr. Fauci for his efforts to work within the system to save lives even at the expense of his reputation.

You want good news? Lots of good news from NZ which used social distancing to squash the curve. Also from South Korea using extensive testing & contact tracing to bring cases to single digit levels. Then there’s Germany having some success using a combination of both methods.

Instead of hoping for a miracle drug that may or may not appear to save the day, Trump can effectively contain Covid-19 by implementing social distancing combined with extensive testing & contact tracing. Because of the sheer size of the US plus high infection levels, this entire effort may mean shutting down much of the economy over 3-6 months but the federal government can provide extensive disaster relief via monthly payments to everyone. After that period, life can be mostly normal. With the virus effectively contained, the economy will automatically restart.

But Trump will never adopt such a sensible policy because the stock market & economy may not recover in time to ensure his victory in the presidential election on 3rd Nov.

 

[ShyMan]

Maybe a little good news for some folks who have credit card insurance and have lost their job because of the Covid-19 pandemic. They might get some relief from their credit card issuers.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova...-protector-insurance-refunds-canada-1.5548346

[FONT=&amp]"My jaw hit the floor," Toronto resident Allison Brown wrote in an email to CBC.
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[FONT=&amp]Brown is one of 13 people who have contacted CBC in the past three months to report they've been refunded a combined total of more than $50,000.
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[FONT=&amp]Credit card insurance is a product banks market as a way to help with credit card payments if a person loses their job or gets sick, but some customers have said they were signed up without their knowledge.
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[FONT=&amp]Critics say the insurance can be expensive, hard to claim and may cover only the minimum monthly payment or a small percentage of the balance owing.
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[FONT=&amp]Brown said she has had insurance on her PC Financial Mastercard since 2009. Until she read the CBC story, she thought it was mandatory. She was refunded almost immediately after asking for proof that she'd signed up.
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[FONT=&amp]"They were unable to tell me how this ended up on my account and I have zero recollection of ever having a discussion about this," she said. "They called me back less than 24 hours after my initial call to let me know they were refunding the entire amount. All $7,452.90 of it."[/FONT]

 

[jalimon]

https://www.lapresse.ca/internation...-cree-par-lhomme-ou-modifie-genetiquement.php

If ever this news makes it to Foxnews please let me know

 

[IamNY]

Trump forced Dr. Fauci to mention that positive Remdesivir study on that day.

You say he forced him. There is absolutely no proof of that. The balance of your post gets even more political when I was simply pointing out some good news for a change. I wish the anti Trump crew would just stick to the correct section under politics so they can slap each others backs about all the horrors the president has done in the past as well as the future.

 

[ShyMan]

Today, Trump’s greatest incentive & priority is to win the election again on 3rd November.

If an effective vaccine is invented before November 3, 2020 (even if that occurred outside America), which most experts say is highly unlikely, trump will proclaim that he discovered it and claim all credit for it.

I still doubt biden can beat trump.

 

[hungry101]

I just heard that Obama called Biden and announced on live TV that he was endorsing him. Biden said "For what?"

It is going to be a shit show for awhile. Too many of the C students get into politics.

 

[CaptRenault]

I just heard that Obama called Biden and announced on live TV that he was endorsing him. Biden said "For what?"
.

Biden already forgot that he is a Democratic candidate for the Senate?

"My name's Joe Biden and I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate..."

 

[IamNY]

I just heard that Obama called Biden and announced on live TV that he was endorsing him.

Maybe he called him during a round of golf while Michelle was telling everybody else to stay home:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...tine-n386764&usg=AOvVaw3-8x6SuLtm1bJduWoAhooD

 

[Doc Holliday]

Anyone see the militia in Michigan storming the Michigan Capitol???

All a bunch of good patriotic Americans who love their country, right?

Good bless America!

 

[donbusch]

You say he forced him. There is absolutely no proof of that. The balance of your post gets even more political when I was simply pointing out some good news for a change. I wish the anti Trump crew would just stick to the correct section under politics so they can slap each others backs about all the horrors the president has done in the past as well as the future.

The proof is painfully obvious for those who are not pretending to be naive. No credible scientist (let alone one as distinguished as Dr. Fauci) would peddle the results of a Non peer-reviewed study publicly.

Peer review is the critical cornerstone of ensuring the integrity of scientific literature - By subjecting the study to the scrutiny of other experts in the same field, it filters out flawed studies. Any credible scientist would have simply waited a few more days for peer review before making a public annoucement. Clearly Trump wanted ‘Good News’ to offset that terrifyingly bad 1st Qtr economic result announcement on Wed.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, I made a lot of money from my stock investments b/c of Trump’s election & his pro-stock market policies. But now the situation has changed drastically esp. w/ Covid-19; Trump’s short term focus on winning at all cost & refusal to be guided by scientific evidence are now pushing us all into an abyss.

I’m a realist, not a Trump cultist so I do know the difference between ‘Good News’ versus Trump’s political propaganda.

 

[donbusch]

Anyone see the militia in Michigan storming the Michigan Capitol???

All a bunch of good patriotic Americans who love their country, right?

Good bless America! ��

Fuck!!! Those are seriously scary looking assault rifles. They even tried to enter the legislative chamber floor with those rifles. There are photos & videos of the armed men yelling at the legislators from the gallery, outright intimidation.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/michigan-protests-coronavirus-lockdown-armed-capitol

 

[sene5hos]

I saw this morning.

Luckily, not all Americans speak with their weapons.

Unfortunately, as long as Trump is in power, weapons will be used more and more as an argument.

 

[EagerBeaver]

There will always be some small group of hooligans in the news who just speak for a distinctive minority of citizens.