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Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM
http://www.salon.com/2022/08/17/is-delusional-to-think-will-grow-tired-of-trump-they-love-his/
Quote from: facilitatorn on August 17, 2022, 01:46:29 PMhttp://www.salon.com/2022/08/17/is-delusional-to-think-will-grow-tired-of-trump-they-love-his/I don't expect his followers to get sick of him. But note that (a) at least a third of GOP voters did not revolt against the incumbent in Wyoming.In Alaska, Trump's endorsed candidate for Senate finished behind Murkowski.His followers are consistent, but even in red states they don't always control their party.They can be "not tired" for as long as they would like, but they are not the future of the GOP.
Quote from: Espnthree on August 17, 2022, 11:14:23 AMOh, THAT Science!While our understanding of viral transmission mechanisms leads to the assumption that lockdowns may be an effective pandemic management tool, this assumption cannot be supported by the evidence-based analysis of the present COVID-19 pandemic, as well as of the 19181920 H1N1 influenza type A pandemic (the Spanish Flu) and numerous less severe pandemics in the past. The price tag of lockdowns in terms of public health is highwe estimate that, even if somewhat effective in preventing death caused by infection, lockdowns may claim 20 times more life than they save. It is suggested therefore that a thorough cost benefit analysis should be performed before imposing any lockdown in the future https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/ijerph/ijerph-19-09295/article_deploy/ijerph-19-09295-v2.pdf?version=1659419794For only ~$1700 they finally got that published, huh?MDPI is noted for their less than rigorous standards and is considered by some to be a predatory set of journals, recruiting papers and then charging the authors a hefty sum to publish them once accepted.Another of their papers: "An Exploratory Study of Tweets about the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant: Insights from Sentiment Analysis, Language Interpretation, Source Tracking, Type Classification, and Embedded URL Detection"\\\And in 2016, MDPI journal Behavioral Sciences published a review paper that claimed that watching pornography is a cause of erectile dysfunction.My favorite line from the paper cited by Ward was this one:Due to the vast amount of relevant literature, we found it unfeasible to perform a systematic review of the existing literature.Here's a line from another of the lead author's papers:" The widespread introduction of regulations that obviously facilitate electoral fraud on the pretext of "facilitating" the turnout of very small extra groups of voters jeopardizes the certainty of the outcome of the choice made by all other voters. Mass postal voting with an unprecedented low percentage of rejected ballots, voting without identification cards, ballots collected by unofficial collectors - these and other novelties are now proposed to be established as a federal standard."I am also stunned by the suggestion that the authors were using the 1918-1920 flu for analysis of isolation effectiveness.The data on the handling of the 1918 flu is famously lacking because of the combination of an absence of national health mechanisms and the drive to keep secret the degree to which individual nations were impacted by the flu because of the war. With such a paucity of data, trying to extrapolate what methods were used when we didn't even know what viruses are is asinine, at best.Given that the Russian author is apparently writing to a purpose, it is no wonder he reaches so far for his "estimate" of the effectiveness of lockdowns. His numbers don't work and the data does not align with the conclusion.This is propaganda disguised as science.
Oh, THAT Science!While our understanding of viral transmission mechanisms leads to the assumption that lockdowns may be an effective pandemic management tool, this assumption cannot be supported by the evidence-based analysis of the present COVID-19 pandemic, as well as of the 19181920 H1N1 influenza type A pandemic (the Spanish Flu) and numerous less severe pandemics in the past. The price tag of lockdowns in terms of public health is highwe estimate that, even if somewhat effective in preventing death caused by infection, lockdowns may claim 20 times more life than they save. It is suggested therefore that a thorough cost benefit analysis should be performed before imposing any lockdown in the future https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/ijerph/ijerph-19-09295/article_deploy/ijerph-19-09295-v2.pdf?version=1659419794
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Quote from: Espnthree on August 17, 2022, 11:14:23 AMOh, THAT Science!While our understanding of viral transmission mechanisms leads to the assumption that lockdowns may be an effective pandemic management tool, this assumption cannot be supported by the evidence-based analysis of the present COVID-19 pandemic, as well as of the 19181920 H1N1 influenza type A pandemic (the Spanish Flu) and numerous less severe pandemics in the past. The price tag of lockdowns in terms of public health is highwe estimate that, even if somewhat effective in preventing death caused by infection, lockdowns may claim 20 times more life than they save. It is suggested therefore that a thorough cost benefit analysis should be performed before imposing any lockdown in the future https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/ijerph/ijerph-19-09295/article_deploy/ijerph-19-09295-v2.pdf?version=1659419794Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering? Seriously?
This is propaganda disguised as science.
Quote from: josh on August 16, 2022, 09:46:12 PM(The Shovels view...)Deftly done. Hadn't read their stuff before.
Quote from: josh on August 05, 2022, 05:36:48 PMQuote from: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 05:30:15 PMQuote from: josh on August 05, 2022, 05:18:19 PM"A woman working at a day care in Illinois has tested positive for monkeypox," multiple sources tell The Post. Multiple children reportedly exposed.What kind of close contact di she have with the kids?She worked at a day care.Are you being abnormally dense or have you just avoided learning how it spreads, in the hope that ignorance would somehow save you?cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.htmlSpreads by close contact - which is why I asked. Was she nuzzling with the kids? Not sure a diaper change qualifies.
Quote from: kidcarter8 on August 05, 2022, 05:30:15 PMQuote from: josh on August 05, 2022, 05:18:19 PM"A woman working at a day care in Illinois has tested positive for monkeypox," multiple sources tell The Post. Multiple children reportedly exposed.What kind of close contact di she have with the kids?She worked at a day care.Are you being abnormally dense or have you just avoided learning how it spreads, in the hope that ignorance would somehow save you?cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.html
Quote from: josh on August 05, 2022, 05:18:19 PM"A woman working at a day care in Illinois has tested positive for monkeypox," multiple sources tell The Post. Multiple children reportedly exposed.What kind of close contact di she have with the kids?
"A woman working at a day care in Illinois has tested positive for monkeypox," multiple sources tell The Post. Multiple children reportedly exposed.
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