Coronavirus - Overall
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@booboo Just yesterday WHO were cautioning us to be aware of the second wave...
Can someone tell me why Sikora gets so much attention? Just coz he's a Dr doesn't mean he's an expert on CV?
With this on his CV how can he be questioned?
In September 2009, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds. The Daily Telegraph reported that Sikora was one of the three doctors hired by the Libyan government to assess Megrahi's condition.
Sikora's report concluded that Megrahi had only three months to live due to terminal prostate cancer. In fact, Megrahi died on 20 May 2012, two years and nine months after his release. Sikora has since admitted that the "three months" timescale was suggested to him by the Libyans. According to The Daily Telegraph, this was not the first time that Sikora had been economical with the truth. Sikora's medical diagnosis was not used by the Scottish Justice Minister since it had been paid for by Libya, but his diagnosis did agree with the medical evidence that was used. Once released, Megrahi returned to Libya and far outlived the 3-month prognosis.
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@Catogrande explains how he got a gig writing for The Express
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@dogmeat said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@booboo Just yesterday WHO were cautioning us to be aware of the second wave...
Can someone tell me why Sikora gets so much attention? Just coz he's a Dr doesn't mean he's an expert on CV?
Because in amongst a sea of turds, the man is relief.
Most people take him on as part of their news, me included. Until you’re part of it, you can’t understand what effect a consistently damning negative press has on you.
Sikora is just part of a balanced diet.
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@Machpants said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Drowning, who knew?
The issue of course is how accurate these numbers are
Only now I m reading that past years flu deaths are not accurate
So how accurate are these reported figures for this virus?
Maybe they are accurate or maybe they are inflated for various reasonsThe 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC’s reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths—that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus—has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620, which far lower than the numbers commonly repeated by public officials and even public health experts.
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Winger classic case of looking at the numbers and making an incorrect deduction. Higher numbers of Dems in urbanized states I would assume for starters. I laugh at anyone who could think that a virus has a political bias
I still find it interesting
Total deaths 70144 verse 9107 with about the same population numbers. The reasons for this large diff needs to be looked into at some point
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@Winger said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Total deaths 70144 verse 9107 with about the same population numbers. The reasons for this large diff needs to be looked into at some point
I looked into it - turns out the virus does a lot better in big cities than it does elsewhere. Something about people being stacked on top of one another really helps the spread.
And wouldn't you know it, the vast majority of America's big cities vote Democrat.
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Winger said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Total deaths 70144 verse 9107 with about the same population numbers. The reasons for this large diff needs to be looked into at some point
I looked into it - turns out the virus does a lot better in big cities than it does elsewhere. Something about people being stacked on top of one another really helps the spread.
And wouldn't you know it, the vast majority of America's big cities vote Democrat.
anyone who shares something from social media with the preface "interesting if true" is a fucking retard and should be ignored.
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@Winger said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Winger classic case of looking at the numbers and making an incorrect deduction. Higher numbers of Dems in urbanized states I would assume for starters. I laugh at anyone who could think that a virus has a political bias
I still find it interesting
Total deaths 70144 verse 9107 with about the same population numbers. The reasons for this large diff needs to be looked into at some point
Versus
(although I understand "versing" is acceptable ... I know this upsets @Snowy #don'tannoythecerealkiller)
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@booboo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Winger said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Winger classic case of looking at the numbers and making an incorrect deduction. Higher numbers of Dems in urbanized states I would assume for starters. I laugh at anyone who could think that a virus has a political bias
I still find it interesting
Total deaths 70144 verse 9107 with about the same population numbers. The reasons for this large diff needs to be looked into at some point
Versus
(although I understand "versing" is acceptable ... I know this upsets @Snowy #don'tannoythecerealkiller)
Actually cereal is pretty safe around me. Bacon, not so much.
Their may be even more logic to democrats getting hit harder by the virus than population numbers. Poverty, health care, etc. Not hard to work out if you think for yourself.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Winger said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Total deaths 70144 verse 9107 with about the same population numbers. The reasons for this large diff needs to be looked into at some point
I looked into it - turns out the virus does a lot better in big cities than it does elsewhere. Something about people being stacked on top of one another really helps the spread.
And wouldn't you know it, the vast majority of America's big cities vote Democrat.
anyone who shares something from social media with the preface "interesting if true" is a fucking retard and should be ignored.
A childish post that adds nothing that hopefully is removed. As is this reply
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It will be interesting in the aftermath to delve into the statistics and various policy responses to gain an understanding of why some places were hardly affected and others utterly smashed.
And by that I mean beyond "these people aren't land whales and practise hygiene". Unless that becomes the real defining solution.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Overall:
It will be interesting in the aftermath to delve into the statistics and various policy responses to gain an understanding of why some places were hardly affected and others utterly smashed.
And by that I mean beyond "these people aren't land whales and practise hygiene". Unless that becomes the real defining solution.
Land whales is going to be up there