Wuhan Coronavirus

[Stapes]

I'm jumping on the Tito Ortiz train after the recall.

Is he talking about running?

If the recall is successful and the GOP actually wants to take the Governorship they will need a star Candidate (like Arnold last time) to get behind.

Tito is honing his skills on the HB City council right now. Refusing to wear a mask and making false accusations against fellow councilmen. He is perfect.

and he was banging a porn star for awhile

[Burn1dwn]

I'm jumping on the Tito Ortiz train after the recall.

Is he talking about running?

If the recall is successful and the GOP actually wants to take the Governorship they will need a star Candidate (like Arnold last time) to get behind.

Tito is honing his skills on the HB City council right now. Refusing to wear a mask and making false accusations against fellow councilmen. He is perfect.

and he was banging a porn star for awhile

Trumpers love this guy. He checks all the boxes.

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I'm jumping on the Tito Ortiz train after the recall.

Is he talking about running?

If the recall is successful and the GOP actually wants to take the Governorship they will need a star Candidate (like Arnold last time) to get behind.

Tito is honing his skills on the HB City council right now. Refusing to wear a mask and making false accusations against fellow councilmen. He is perfect.

and he was banging a porn star for awhile

Trumpers love this guy. He checks all the boxes.

Felony domestic violence charge? Perfect!

[Biker]

SEE!!! Masks do work!

CDC reports record-low positive flu tests

by Carly Roman, Associate News Editor | December 28, 2020 03:09 PM

As coronavirus cases surge nationwide, the flu has seen a remarkable dip. Reported cases of influenza reached record lows last week, with fewer than 40 diagnoses recorded during Dec. 13-19.

In week 51 of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "FluView" data monitoring system, 36 positive flu tests were documented. This marks a steep decrease from last year's total of 7,703 cases during the same time frame. The positivity rate has sharply declined this calendar year as only 0.10% of tests taken this year came back positive. The five-year average is 15.80% positive.

The data comes in defiance of the "twindemic" concerns perpetuated by medical experts, or the idea that the raging coronavirus pandemic and the seasonal increase in reported flu cases would converge with catastrophic results. Dr. Brian Garibaldi, the medical director of Johns Hopkins University’s Biocontainment Unit, told the Washington Examiner that “we have to be concerned about the possibility of having a surge in flu at the same time as we're seeing a surge in COVID.”

“In any given winter, hospitals are taxed by the flu,” Garibaldi said. “There’s always a concern that our emergency departments will be overwhelmed and ICU capacity will be strained [due to the concurrence of flu and COVID-19 outbreaks], particularly with people who have coexisting conditions that then get influenza.”

Some elected officials acknowledged the possibility of a so-called "twindemic" and laid out their proposals to combat a shortage of resources. In September, Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona expressed concerns about dwindling supplies, vowing he was taking preventive action.

“The overlap of COVID-19 and flu season presents a perfect storm, and we aren’t taking any chances,” Ducey said. “We are approaching this fall with a proactive mindset and plan of action to limit the impact of the flu and preserve hospital resources."

Other governors are taking disease containment plans a step further, shutting their states down for the second time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. States such as California and New York began their second rounds of heightened restrictions earlier this month.

According to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker, more than 19 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with the coronavirus to date, with more than 333,000 reported deaths attributed to the virus.

I really need Stapes to square all this data. Highest level of mask wearing, lowest level of flu cases, and highest rate of COVID. Tells us, what does Lord Fauci think about all this?

[FSchmertz]

I really need Stapes to square all this data. Highest level of mask wearing, lowest level of flu cases, and highest rate of COVID. Tells us, what does Lord Fauci think about all this?

Two thoughts on this

1) With people wearing masks and social distancing, we're preventing flu cases. Maybe that doesn't work as well for COVID?

2) Flu season isn't getting a chance to get started due to mask wearing. But COVID was already underway because we didn't start taking this seriously early enough to prevent "the surge."

I'm going with "maybe a bit of both."

[Biker]

I really need Stapes to square all this data. Highest level of mask wearing, lowest level of flu cases, and highest rate of COVID. Tells us, what does Lord Fauci think about all this?

Two thoughts on this

1) With people wearing masks and social distancing, we're preventing flu cases. Maybe that doesn't work as well for COVID?

2) Flu season isn't getting a chance to get started due to mask wearing. But COVID was already underway because we didn't start taking this seriously early enough to prevent "the surge."

I'm going with "maybe a bit of both."

So mask worship against COVID is overstated?

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I really need Stapes to square all this data. Highest level of mask wearing, lowest level of flu cases, and highest rate of COVID. Tells us, what does Lord Fauci think about all this?

Two thoughts on this

1) With people wearing masks and social distancing, we're preventing flu cases. Maybe that doesn't work as well for COVID?

2) Flu season isn't getting a chance to get started due to mask wearing. But COVID was already underway because we didn't start taking this seriously early enough to prevent "the surge."

I'm going with "maybe a bit of both."

Covid is way more infectious than the flu. Biker loves him some right wing propaganda though

[Biker]

I really need Stapes to square all this data. Highest level of mask wearing, lowest level of flu cases, and highest rate of COVID. Tells us, what does Lord Fauci think about all this?

Two thoughts on this

1) With people wearing masks and social distancing, we're preventing flu cases. Maybe that doesn't work as well for COVID?

2) Flu season isn't getting a chance to get started due to mask wearing. But COVID was already underway because we didn't start taking this seriously early enough to prevent "the surge."

I'm going with "maybe a bit of both."

Covid is way more infectious than the flu. Biker loves him some right wing propaganda though

The speed of transmission is an important point of difference between the two viruses. Influenza has a shorter median incubation period (the time from infection to appearance of symptoms) and a shorter serial interval (the time between successive cases) than COVID-19 virus. The serial interval for COVID-19 virus is estimated to be 5-6 days, while for influenza virus, the serial interval is 3 days. This means that influenza can spread faster than COVID-19.

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I really need Stapes to square all this data. Highest level of mask wearing, lowest level of flu cases, and highest rate of COVID. Tells us, what does Lord Fauci think about all this?

Two thoughts on this

1) With people wearing masks and social distancing, we're preventing flu cases. Maybe that doesn't work as well for COVID?

2) Flu season isn't getting a chance to get started due to mask wearing. But COVID was already underway because we didn't start taking this seriously early enough to prevent "the surge."

I'm going with "maybe a bit of both."

Covid is way more infectious than the flu. Biker loves him some right wing propaganda though

The speed of transmission is an important point of difference between the two viruses. Influenza has a shorter median incubation period (the time from infection to appearance of symptoms) and a shorter serial interval (the time between successive cases) than COVID-19 virus. The serial interval for COVID-19 virus is estimated to be 5-6 days, while for influenza virus, the serial interval is 3 days. This means that influenza can spread faster than COVID-19.

dupe

There are some key differences between flu and COVID-19. COVID-19 seems to spread more easily than flu and causes more serious illnesses in some people. It can also take longer before people show symptoms and people can be contagious for longer.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc ... r%20longer.

[Biker]

I really need Stapes to square all this data. Highest level of mask wearing, lowest level of flu cases, and highest rate of COVID. Tells us, what does Lord Fauci think about all this?

Two thoughts on this

1) With people wearing masks and social distancing, we're preventing flu cases. Maybe that doesn't work as well for COVID?

2) Flu season isn't getting a chance to get started due to mask wearing. But COVID was already underway because we didn't start taking this seriously early enough to prevent "the surge."

I'm going with "maybe a bit of both."

Covid is way more infectious than the flu. Biker loves him some right wing propaganda though

The speed of transmission is an important point of difference between the two viruses. Influenza has a shorter median incubation period (the time from infection to appearance of symptoms) and a shorter serial interval (the time between successive cases) than COVID-19 virus. The serial interval for COVID-19 virus is estimated to be 5-6 days, while for influenza virus, the serial interval is 3 days. This means that influenza can spread faster than COVID-19.

dupe

There are some key differences between flu and COVID-19. COVID-19 seems to spread more easily than flu and causes more serious illnesses in some people. It can also take longer before people show symptoms and people can be contagious for longer.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc ... r%20longer.

Dupe

Further, transmission in the first 3-5 days of illness, or potentially pre-symptomatic transmission –transmission of the virus before the appearance of symptoms – is a major driver of transmission for influenza. In contrast, while we are learning that there are people who can shed COVID-19 virus 24-48 hours prior to symptom onset, at present, this does not appear to be a major driver of transmission.

[FSchmertz]

I really need Stapes to square all this data. Highest level of mask wearing, lowest level of flu cases, and highest rate of COVID. Tells us, what does Lord Fauci think about all this?

Two thoughts on this

1) With people wearing masks and social distancing, we're preventing flu cases. Maybe that doesn't work as well for COVID?

2) Flu season isn't getting a chance to get started due to mask wearing. But COVID was already underway because we didn't start taking this seriously early enough to prevent "the surge."

I'm going with "maybe a bit of both."

So mask wearing against COVID is overstated?

Took the bullshit word out and put something less politically charged in. It's all we've got right now, but distancing and staying away from risky activities, especially indoors, is probably doing more.

And now it's possible there's an even more infectious mutated version circulating.

P.S. Countdown to bullshit "you're skeered" comment(s) or meme(s) or discredited "factoids" from the righties

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[Biker]

We have the highest level of mask wearing ever in this nation, the lowest flu positive cases ever, and the highest number of COVID cases ever.

Something isnt adding up, but let's let Dr Capt FS Stapes keep 'splaining to us that its the Trumpers that are the leading cause of COVID cases

[CaptQuint]

We have the highest level of mask wearing ever in this nation, the lowest flu positive cases ever, and the highest number of COVID cases ever.

Something isnt adding up, but let's let Dr Capt FS Stapes keep 'splaining to us that its the Trumpers that are the leading cause of COVID cases

Oh shut the fuck up, no one is gonna explain it to you for the tenth time.

[Biker]

We have the highest level of mask wearing ever in this nation, the lowest flu positive cases ever, and the highest number of COVID cases ever.

Something isnt adding up, but let's let Dr Capt FS Stapes keep 'splaining to us that its the Trumpers that are the leading cause of COVID cases

Oh shut the fuck up, no one is gonna explain it to you for the tenth time.

So nothing....got it, cuck

[Animal]

We have the highest level of mask wearing ever in this nation, the lowest flu positive cases ever, and the highest number of COVID cases ever.

Something isnt adding up, but let's let Dr Capt FS Stapes keep 'splaining to us that its the Trumpers that are the leading cause of COVID cases

its not obvious to you? if california is blowing up with covid cases, then there really is no other explanation than Trumpers doing stuff wrong. its the same logic that helps us understand that black men make up the majority of the prison system because of the unfair stuff.

[FSchmertz]

Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid

Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was 41.

Letlow, who announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, had been in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-co ... 54687.html

P.S. But the Rethugs and MAGAts say only really old folks die, so fake news?

[CaptQuint]

Deep state plant

[CHEEZY17]

Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid

Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was 41.

Letlow, who announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, had been in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-co ... 54687.html

P.S. But the Rethugs and MAGAts say only really old folks die, so fake news?

No, not "only" just overwhelmingly "mostly". Do you dispute the actual data?

[FSchmertz]

Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid

Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus, multiple sources confirmed Tuesday evening. He was 41.

Letlow, who announced on Dec. 18 that he tested positive for Covid-19, had been in the intensive care unit at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/louisiana-co ... 54687.html

P.S. But the Rethugs and MAGAts say only really old folks die, so fake news?

No, not "only" just overwhelmingly "mostly". Do you dispute the actual data?

I dispute your retarded talking points that you parrot from Chumpy and the Rethugs

P.S. It's only like the flu! Nothing to worry about

[CaptQuint]

He died of covid 19 in the hospital