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But in September 2020, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a highly regarded Brazilian research institute for public health, recommended that the city impose movement and business restrictions. Manaus was beginning to experience a second wave of the disease, it said. But the city did not impose one. The Amazon's gateway city is struggling to battle the coronavirus "We gave 13 alerts, and a very alarming one in mid-December, saying that the situation was getting very serious. Everyone was making fun of the studies and warnings, especially the President Jair Bolsonaro," says Jesem Orellana, researcher at Fiocruz. Orellana adds that both the state and federal government used the theory of herd immunity to back up their relaxed measures. "They all talked about herd immunity, and an environment was created for this discourse to crystallize, and the measures to relax. That feeling may have been responsible for this relaxation of people's behavior." https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/americas/brazil-manaus-covid-second-wave-intl/index.html You know saying something louder and more forcefully doesn't make it right. Would you be willing to work in a COVID ward with no mask?

Encouragement.

Thank you.

He had just turned 65 and had a couple of serious comorbidities. We were all so proud of him. In August, he went back to his original AA meeting place to receive and accept his 40 year chip. He was a man of great intestinal fortitude. I spoke with him ten minutes before he went on the ventilator. "Cheese" you need to use that same fortitude you have with Alcohol to get thru this. You can do this. He had a sense that he wasn't going to come out of this and he didn't. Sorry, I ramble.

Not any more. We are 5th in Technology and not even in the top ten in economic stability. Reminds me of this skit. And, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

After seeing what my buddy went thru just recently, I'm for trying anything. He spent 21 days off and on the ventilator and then the last two days at 100% of the time until his wife could make that grim decision. It is not the way I would want to go out.

Morning Wendy, There's always hopes for magic, They're called New Year's resolutions :) If you haven't already fixed the issue - If you have your iPhone connected to an Apple fit bit, there's a bug issue and the update is available, but it should be installed automatically, There used to be a school of thought to let batteries almost drain completely before charging. That is no longer the case - "lithium-ion batteries do best when kept above a 50 percent charge. Repeatedly allowing the battery to drain fully may shorten its life and decrease its overall capacity." https://www.samsung.com/nz/support/mobile-devices/tips-for-battery-charging-and-how-to-make-your-battery-last-longer/

Cheap antiparasitic could cut chance of Covid-19 deaths by up to 75% A cheap, off-patent antiparasitic drug has been shown to have a significant effect in reducing mortality in patients with moderate to severe Covid-19. Researchers have hailed the preliminary finding as a pivotal step towards broadening the arsenal of drugs used against the disease. The University of Liverpool’s Andrew Hill and others carried out a meta-analytical breakdown of 18 studies that found that ivermectin was associated with reduced inflammation and a faster elimination of Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEMYAPYPy3bqgYVC3pxQjI6MqGAgEKg8IACoHCAow-4fWBzD4z0gw_fCpBg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen https://www.ft.com/content/e7cb76fc-da98-4a31-9c1f-926c58349c84 Notes: Evidently you only get one chance to read it before the javascript demon takes you to a subscription page.

Yeah, I was being sarcastic and prolly shoulda .<sarcasm> that shit</sarcasm>.

Well, according to the Who Coronavirus map; Turkmenistan and North Korea are obviously doing even better than them with 0 cases and 0 deaths.

This was almost a year ago and still today Doctors are trying just about anything to save lives. Sounds like the new protocol is monoclonal antibodies and ivermectin. At this point trying anything is on an individual case basis and what seems to work best for that particular person. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But, God bless the healthcare professionals for trying.

Go to your room

Except one. I'll give you that. She started early and hard.

Because NOBODY got it right the first time. It should have been a complete 3 month shutdown. Now, let's have curfews in Europe at 6PM WTF is that going to do? Is it only spread at night? sheesh. Maybe this is God's, Buddha's, Mohammad, et.al. way of cleansing us of silly ideas.

40 or 50 years old now or 16 years ago when this happened? So, you know who he worked for before, where he works now, you have a job offer for him, but you don't know his name? Skip tracing or bootie call?

While the first part is correct, DeSantis did fuck up by not having the elderly tested and took a whack-a-mole approach (Outbreak- React) to outbreaks in the nursing facilities. There were some nursing homes that couldn't get the proper PPE even after requesting it from the Governor's office - not even masks. Look up Seminole Nursing facility. Complete goat-fuck. And, you're right - "EVERYONE knows that the elderly are particularly vulnerable to pathogens of any sort," and they should know that the caretakers and medical professionals are the ones who pass the pathogens on to the elderly. I'm not going to get into a long circular debate with you, Brent. Your agenda was clear in the first post. The bottom line is, EVERYONE has fucked this up from the top down no matter what (X) is after their name. PSA: Wear a fucking mask. The life you protect could be a family member.

Every state has an Emergency Management Agency. Every agency has a copy of the national incident management system (NIMS). It's the same playbook and we all attended the national and regional exercises. I cannot speak for the Governor's you mention and if the plan was already being rolled out before anyone knew . . . But, I do happen to notice they each have a (D) after their names whereas, you don't include DeSantis. According to the Florida Healthcare System; there have been 7,000+ confirmed deaths from the virus among residents and staff at long-term care facilities. There's 50 Governor's who did not do well There's an entire world of countries who made mistakes. There's a whole lot of other reasons to throw rocks at politicians, but this ain't one of them and your aim is off - why not include the countries' leaders?. And, there's a whole lot more R's that refuse to wear a fucking mask and I've now buried three friends in the last six weeks.

One is medical science, the other is social science. Were you drunk when you wrote that?

Nothing. He was following FEMA's Incident Command System and the roles and responsibilities for Emergency Support Functions six & eight. (ESF 6 & 8). During a disaster, emergency, etc. and there is a medical surge, no different than rolling up on a large airplane crash; one has to prioritize (triage) the situation. Nursing homes are part of the national emergency response framework and shifting sick people out of hospitals and into nursing homes that are not needing emergency critical care is part of that framework. Wait till it gets bad enough that they start shifting people to Veterinary Clinics. There's a whole lot of reasons to hate Cuomo, but that ain't one of them.

Zeppelin

Mom's philosophy from my early years was, "You can die crossing the street; you might as well die doing something you love."

That's called Section 3 of the 14th Amendment Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. Source: US Constitution

Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday refused President Donald Trump’s demand that he try to block confirmation by Congress of Joe Biden’s election as the next president of the United States. Pence said in a letter that he did not believe, as Trump has claimed, that a vice president has the power to reject some Electoral College votes for a candidate. “It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Pence wrote in his three-page letter addressed to members of Congress. His dramatic break from Trump came minutes before the Republican vice president began presiding over a joint session of Congress, which is meeting to declare the former Democratic vice president Biden the victor. Pence said in his letter that he shared “the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of this election,” which Trump and his supporters have claimed without evidence was corrupted by widespread ballot fraud. But Pence also wrote that “vesting the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide presidential contests would be entirely antithetical to” the system of check-and-balances between branches of the government designed by the framers of the Constitution. SOURCE: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/mike-pence-rejects-trumps-call-to-overturn-biden-election.html

Invasion of privacy is a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his/her private affairs, discloses his/her private information, publicizes him/her in a false light, or appropriates his/her name for personal gain. https://www.stimmel-law.com/en/articles/legal-right-privacy

You really don't read more than headlines that suit your narrative, do you? I realize the French Fries article may be a bit long, but you can do it.