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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

April 5, 2020 11:19 PM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
So far approx 0.0025% of the US population have died from this.....the bottom line is managing the curve will determine the ultimate result. If we manage to restrict the infection rate to a level that is manageable by the health system without completely wrecking the economy we will be both lucky and successfully save a lot of lives. All this picking at details is trivial......
What a hypocritical and nonsensical statement...For starters you compare the numbers of dead to the total of the US population and then you have the nerve to state, in your opinion, "all this picking at details is trivial". In fact, why stop there, Greg, why don't you compare the numbers of dead to the entire population on the planet? It'll definitely get that number even lower so you can post that one, too. Would anyone in their right mind care about that?
And, how about managing the infection rate? You can mitigate the latter through stay at home orders but EIGHT Republican governors refuse to do so. Trump said we're in a war against the corona virus but you don't go to war with 42 states, you need all 50 on board.The surgeon general just said this week is going to be our "Pearl Harbor moment", do you get that?

April 6, 2020 12:28 AM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, this strikes me as a bit of hysteria.
Darian, tell that to the surgeon general...

April 6, 2020 12:38 AM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Lacey


I agree, and this is fully in line with what most of the experts have been saying all along.
"If we manage to restrict the infection rate to a level that is manageable by the health system without completely wrecking the economy we will be both lucky and successfully save a lot of lives."
IF, brother, IF...
And, as far as the flattening the curve goes,  Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg laid out a six-step "forceful, focused campaign to eradicate Covid-19 in the United States. The aim is not to flatten the curve; the goal is to crush the curve. China did this in Wuhan. We can do it across this country in 10 weeks."
Perhaps Trump and his son-in-law ought to take that and run with it because whatever they're doing now ain't making it...

April 6, 2020 12:47 AM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

"Pearl harbor moment"? That strikes me as a 'bit over the top'.sad I fail to see the value of emotional statements such as that. 
First, coming from the  surgeon general, I don't believe it's an "emotional statement"; it's a metaphor for what we're up against now. As far as you failing to see it, well, so be it...

April 6, 2020 02:17 AM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

I'm not preoccupied with the situation 24/7; the sooner things get back to some degree of normalcy, the better. I see no reason to stay in a constant state of fear.
Neither do young people like the ones who suddenly died and we don't know why as described here:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/05/health/young-people-dying-coronavirus-sanjay-gupta/index.html

April 6, 2020 02:40 AM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


Fuck off Rod.....what I said is factual and your nitpicking, histrionics and partisan flag waving in here IS trivial.....
Why don't you tell that to the surgeon general? Maybe you can do a duet with Darian?

April 6, 2020 02:48 AM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, I guess everyone has to weigh all the factors and decide how much risk they are willing to take.
Understood, but also with consideration of other people's lives at stake...

April 6, 2020 08:09 AM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


Why? I dont see him acting the fool like you.....and I am sure he is perfectly capable of deducing 8400 deaths out of 330 million is approx 0.0025%
Golly gee, Greg, that's great! How about giving us the number for total deaths worldwide out of the world's population. I bet it would be even less. And it would inspire confidence and prevent fear-mongering. Why don't you post it along with your 0.0025% analysis on youtube and or call Fox news. Maybe you could share it with Dr Drew. While you're at it, contact the John Hopkins coronavirus tracking website and ask them to add as a new parameter so we can all follow it.
Ya gotta hand it to Greg...

April 6, 2020 11:01 PM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer


The CDC has been providing that calculation world wide country by country all along......perhaps you should go tell them it isnt relevant..... lol
Here are the CDC links to their websites, both nationally and internationally:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
and:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/world-map.html

I don't see them noting the calculation of "8400 deaths out of 330 million is approx 0.0025%" or anything akin to it. And, if you can find and or deduce that from their stats, you are misconstruing their stats and taking them completely out of context in an concerted and ignorant effort to minimize the critical state our country is in from a global pandemic. Nobody but a moron would do that...

April 6, 2020 11:31 PM Forum: Politics

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Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
LOL....you really are an idiot Rod. Are you denying simple math?
I'm denying the relevance of a simple stat that you've posted and of your claim that the CDC sees it as relevant as well...