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I thought straws were banned in your crazy locale. Why you grasping for some?

We don’t want facts. We want to be mad!

Murray overspent to collect prospect busts and head case players who all found their way outside of town in a few years. Left absolutely nothing in the prospect pool but Guhle. Now we have a foundation for a team. Missing pieces, but the foundation is there. Not walking on stilts to stay relevant anymore.

Uhhh. Wrong buddy.

Garbage in garbage out. Just like hockey statistics, stop getting all antsy about incomplete, severely flawed datasets. It’s telling how the entire media is doing everything they can to silence hydroxychloroquine hopes. Data is incomplete, but it’s hilarious how quickly the same people will throw out the initial trial datasets while simultaneously crying about the sky is falling due to Infection/mortality rates.

Calling it the China virus ain’t a lie tho

For people whose politics is really just emotional confirmation—- they can’t separate it.

What kind of clause prohibits the payout of PTO? That is beyond all sorts of legalities. Are they unionized or something? ok bye

The placebo effect is real and proven time and time again If the cheap drug doesn't have serious side-effects for most anyone-- even if it's baseline is a placebo that is an improvement Every year they multiply the reported flu cases by orders of magnitude to account for those who never even went to the doctor over it, or even realized they had it. This is no different. "From every indication" is a total lie.

Fair to bring that up. But if we weren’t competing with countries with zero labor laws then I don’t think the competitive pressure would exist that makes temp/staffing agencies a necessary evil.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-probe-finds-coronavirus-whistleblower-doctor-was-punished-inappropriately ^^ he's just the most publicized one. Who also managed to die at the age of 34. (Yes, the amount of exposure is a factor.. but he's the only healthy 34yo to die from it..) https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inside-chinas-campaign-to-blame-the-us-for-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-03-15 Wasn't Xi blaming the US, but their military absolutely sowed the seeds of discord. As for lying about the numbers--- when has China EVER been faithful reporting? Never. They don't get a pass now.

Power corrupts absolutely. It's not a story of 'corporations bad' or 'unions bad'. They are both good until they are bad. Just like governments, unions need to be able to quickly and freely form. but also disband once the objective is done. Yeah, you might say 'well that means unions will never be as organized as management', but that's overlooking how powerful striking is as a negotiation tool. If you want to give unions more power, stop outsourcing. That's what's been undermining the US worker more than anything for the last thirty+ years. Opening up to China and NAFTA, etc. is the problem. And the average worker understands this and is why Trump's 'oh god he's so racist' policies get the cult following despite the 'downsides'.

China killing off all the early whistleblowers of the disease and lying about all their numbers, then blaming the US for the whole thing--- not a dick move.

This is what I was saying earlier. Though, even with the fatality rate likely being lower, it is indeed much more contagious which is the reason for some of the panicking. Everything else is one huge social experiment.

These instruments are absurdly sensitive to contamination (of stray RNA/DNA), they take those pre-cautions even if they didn't care about anything. If your glove touches something you need to change it out or you'll likely contaminate the sample. And that's why the US testing is behind. 1) CDC declared a monopoly on testing then 2) contaminated their control. Anything you see about the US being behind is pure political pandering unless they are blaming the red tape.

The researcher himself who was all over the nightly news last night was ignoring those deets

Didn't they take everyone who was dying off the drugs and exlcuded them from the statistics because they 'didn't continue the dosage' when they were on the table? I'd love to be positive.. but data scrubbing like that and not outright mentioning it is a bit unfair..

Starting next to the only Level 4 lab in the country is more suspicious than the Sunda pangolin whose habitat isn’t even in Wuhan.

It doesn’t counter much. You can take a virus from a pangolin, split it 100-ways, subject it to light, and wait until one of the dishes takes host in humans. All they showed is that it’s likely not some CRISPR gene splice job.

The whole point of ‘the process’ is that guys are replaceable. Including Allen. The team is greater than the sum of its parts. Neither McDermott nor Beane are going anywhere barring them disowning God.

Maybe if you don’t run around kissing everyone you greet and your President telling every citizen to hug everyone who just got off a plane from endemic countries like the Italians both did, it won’t get as bad as the Italians have it.

The Republicans didn’t put forth Trump. Trump stole the entire party out of nowhere while it was in shambles. The Republican voters pushed for the Tea Party and the media co-opted their efforts and turned that movement into a farce giving all the idiots the microphones. But it left the party in shambles as the voters lost their faith. The entire power structure of the Republican Party has since turned over. There’s some swamp holdouts, but they at least had major change. The Democrats have chosen Biden. They’ve undermined Sanders every step of the way because he’s an external threat. All the ‘socialist/progressive minded people’ put their energy into him, but we’re about to see for the second time him selling out completely to keep the party intact. Do you blame the people for following his suit? Or do you blame Sanders for being such a cuck that he lets his happen for a second time? Youre right, until the populace loses its distractions (like during a boring Pandemic...), nothing will fundamentally change. That’s their game. I see a (new) politician on one side that changed the game, and one on the other who in the end just gives in to the people he decries against.

Everyone’s a socialist during a pandemic. Trump/Republicans are out there proposing cash checks for every organ sack in addition to airplane bailouts. Why not both?

Stuff that will actually make changes to things like that such as increasing capital gains taxes to be higher than income taxes like they were originally intended to be is something people on both sides of the aisle have floated every election for decades, but then drop it and distract people over rainbows and umbilical cords instead until the populace tunes out. I’m solidly in the position that nothing meaningful like that will change until the voting systems itself changes. Don’t look to one of the two parties to fix anything- they’d all lose if they made real change.

No. Cause we don’t have unfettered capitalism currently. Might shift the window a little bit, but the means of production aren’t changing hands.