Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Cluster----.

Colorado started administering vaccinations yesterday, December 14.  My son the EMT (working in a hospital ER now) gets his first shot on Thursday.  Wonder what is taking Israel so long?  

Maybe California is a cluster, wouldn't surprise me, but I think the rollout here in flyover country USA is going pretty well.

Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

Colorado started administering vaccinations yesterday, December 14.  My son the EMT gets his first shot on Thursday.  Wonder what is taking Israel so long?  

Maybe California is a cluster, wouldn't surprise me, but I think the rollout here in flyover country USA is going pretty well.

Jim

p.s.  Colorado's distribution plan seems logical to me.  Good for us.  And, as I am sure Rich will appreciate, good for our commie, totalitarian, gay, leftist governor and his executive branch!

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

You meant to say "Good Job Mr. President Donald Trump"

Then again you would have said that if you were an honest person.  

Why must you always jump to attack mode Rich?  I was specifically (and honestly) talking about the speedy vaccine distribution in Colorado - a local issue.  Let me know when Trump shows up in Denver driving a refrigerated Pfizer truck, will ya?

On the broader front, I think the scientists, engineers, distribution chain, and health care professionals that are bringing us these vaccines at record pace all deserve kudos.  I mentioned that state and local governments appear to be doing a good job.  I think that "Operation Warp Speed" is one of the Trump administration's finest achievements.  Atta boy Don.

On the unfinished business front, I note that you turned tail after posts #16-19 in this thread.  https://astromart.com/forums/commentary-careful-read-the-terms-of-service/politics/specifically-for-the-one?page=2#post177225  You were laying it on pretty thick before you vanished.  Then you hid.  I wonder why.  Not really.

Jim

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I know facts don't always matter here but...
https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-joe-biden-donald-trump-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-76d1580f82b1586b207990396c1e3b5f

Hi Rod:

I fully understand that Pfizer and BioNtech were not financed under Operation Warp Speed.  Heck, BioNTech is a German company!  So of course when Trump claims credit for the Pfizer vaccine he is greatly exaggerating.  Still, Operation Warp Speed set a tone.  Trump's leadership in this instance had something to do with it.  Pfizer is not the only vaccine out there.  The FDA is responding with lightning-like approvals no matter what motivated the development effort.   

I would politely suggest that the development of such effective vaccines so quickly is a success story at all levels - the federal level included.  Maybe another president could have inspired the scientists and engineers to get it done about this quickly.  I doubt any could have led us to vaccination more quickly.  Maybe the president had little to do with it.  Isn't that always the case?  I think that about so many things the president is blamed for too. 

So, I stand by my kudos to Trump and his administration for Operation Warp Speed.

Jim

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Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

 https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/1977533/tom-cruise-covid-mission-impossible-rant/
You Trumptoids out there hear it? Is it clear enough for you? Is there anything you don't understand about it?

I'll be surprised if his rant does not get revealed as a staged publicity stunt one of these days.

Jim

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Far from it...

Come on...   I'm not saying that I disagree with Cruise or anything like that.  But do you believe that he or any other actor is above staging something like this to get some viral buzz for the new movie?

Jim 

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"The massive rise in infections began in October and is being blamed largely on people ignoring safety measures and socializing with others. More recently, health officials said they’ve seen cases stemming from gatherings during the Thanksgiving holiday and have pleaded with residents to avoid getting together with people from other households over Christmas and New Year’s."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/california-reports-record-coronavirus-deaths-as-new-cases-spiral-01608165436

Much of the country is showing a downward infection trend over the last 14 days.  Especially the smaller more rural states.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases-50-states

Jim

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"New on Wednesday, the DOH is reporting deaths in two different categories — deaths among people with COVID-19 and deaths caused by COVID-19. On the state website, “deaths among people with COVID-19” is described by “reflects people who died with COVID-19, but COVID-19 may not have been the cause of death listed on the death certificate.”
https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/covid-19-in-south-dakota-905-new-total-cases-death-toll-rises-to-1300-active-cases-at-10987/
That's like saying diabetic patients who died with heart disease died with diabetes...

"Deaths among people with COVID-19 and deaths caused by COVID-19" seems like a reasonable and medically important distinction.   Obviously, if the health care system plays politics with this it messes up the data.  I personally think that the lion's share of doctors, coroners and the like are too busy to play politics.  Even in South Dakota.   Who knows what the bureaucrats will do later, if they have the means to adjust the data one way or another.

A personal acquaintance recently lost his father in law.  The poor old chap had late stage untreatable lung cancer and was in the end stages of home hospice.   Palliative care only, DNR and so on.  The father-in-law's wife and daughter were scrupulously distancing with delivered groceries and no outside contact except for hospice care as they waited for the inevitable.  The end was going to be a few days away, at most.

Sure enough, a visiting hospice worker infected the whole family.  The father in law died at home the day after his positive test result.  They would have never tested him, but the wife and daughter got sick too, they are now recovered.

This happened in San Diego county.  I have no idea how his death was recorded, but if it is listed in any fashion as a Covid death, then grim Cancer has been deprived of one rightful victim.  

Jim

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

Millions of poor Americans can argue millions of poor immigrants do not help their economic prospects. Are they wrong?

Hi Mel:

Sometimes, I suppose that is true.  On the other hand, I have seen with my own eyes Mexican immigrants doing jobs that no one else wants to do, no matter how poor and out of work they might be.

Jim