Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Good lord.....Rich has reduced most of you to babbling, whiney children, competing to see who can win the get even with Rich competition, get a grip and act your age.....lol

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

I pretty much reserve that graphic just for you Rod......and it is permanent in your case.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

I have little doubt that the mandatory mask order is working in Texas. We are finally plateauing or decreasing, and the mask order went into effect right at four weeks ago. That's just the right amount of time to see an impact from the mandate. Masks are mandatory in public schools for any county with more than 20 active cases; needless to say, that will include any county with a large urban population. Instead of students moving between classrooms, teachers will change classes, and students have the option to do 100% remote learning. I think Abbot opened us back up too soon, but thank goodness he can admit his mistakes, learn from them, and adjust accordingly. I am so tired of the tendency for politicians never to admit their mistakes and instead double-down on lousy policy and ideas. I didn't vote for Abbot, but he's certainly earned my respect in this regard.

Originally Posted by Steve Nugent

I was disheartened when I discovered from the experts that when we finally do get a vaccine that works, it will only be maybe 50% effective.  Evidently there is nothing like contracting the real McCoy.  Even convalescent plasma donors that have had COVID are an issue.  If you didn't have a really bad case of COVID, then your plasma is not very interesting.  Not very good antibodies.

Secondarily, because of the stupid idiotic anti-vaccine lobby, only 50-60% of people are evidently willing to get vaccinated.

We will never get herd immunity at this rate.  The virus will continue to circulate and kill people for years and years.  Americans have to include the stupidest people on the planet.  It's sad and disappointing.  Another thing to be ashamed of as Americans.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Well thank you for presenting evidence for me that counters his Bullshit that Felons are Republicans and that "5X more republicans were indicted for felony crimes than Dems.  The statistics show that their values make them crooks".

This statement right out of the box in your 2nd link was perfect:   ex-felons who are registered overwhelmingly register as Democrats

I'm glad I didn't have to waste my time looking it up, since you made my point for me.

Was it intentional?  LOL

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi all:

I think it is puzzling that several EU countries are seeing a resurgence of Covid 19 infections, while the East Coast states that had very bad infection rates this spring have not seen a large resurgence.  See columns 1 and 2 below.  I have read that Spain opened the bars aggressively, and that is apparently not the case in NY and MA.  I'm not so sure about NJ.  Also, the EU countries were infected a few weeks before NY and the US East Coast.  

Still, the resurgence in Spain, France, and elsewhere in the EU calls into question my earlier optimism about early herd immunity plus residual immunity from other corona viruses (common cold) being in play.  It will be interesting to see how this works out as we head into the autumn with schools reopening in certain locales.  

The good news is that deaths in the EU and East Coast are coming in at low, and if I may be cold-hearted, "tolerable" rates.  See column 3.  Here in Colorado the Covid 19 death rate is down to about 2 per day.

Jim