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From the article: >"My aim is to prepare France for a possible second wave while preserving our daily life, our economic and social life," new Prime Minister Jean Castex said in an interv…
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Yes, because they're now the ones who really needed mechanical respiration in the first place. The earlier "putting everyone with a <95% blood oxygen level on ventilator" strategy h…
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99% of the cases that last for months, like Nick Cordero, are from the early days of the pandemic where doctors mistakenly put people who didn't need mechanical respiration on ventilators, damagi…
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No longer putting everyone with a <95% blood oxygen level on ventilator. It's heartbreaking to read this article from three months ago ( https://www.statnews.com/2020/04…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/hlmo1q/new_zeal... …
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>This occurred in Italy, New York City, etc., and is now being seen in some cities in Texas and Florida. Not Florida. An article from yesterday ( https://www.news4jax.com/news/l…
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>Do we have evidence though, still? Remember, this is a hoax, Right? Trump did not call COVID19 a hoax. He called what Democrats said about his administration's response to the pandemic a &q…
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> If people can gather in the tens of thousands with masks on for a cause, then why couldn't we celebrate July 4th with our masks on? Why does the state get to sponsor a political movement? Ho…
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"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet" —Hugh Keough
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>Then we find out there was fabricated data about the drug in the world’s two top medical journal s that had to be retracted. FTFY Both The Lancet and NEJM !…
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>Disposable income (except confusingly on some US tax forms) does not account for private healthcare expenses (the figure that is post other necessary expenses like health insurance is called discr…
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Your citation says >A new study from academic researchers found that 66.5 percent of all bankruptcies were tied to medical issues —either because of high costs for care or time out of work . (My e…
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Come now. Why would whether income is median or mean affect expenses? My larger point is that, contrary to your and others' claims, income rankings that show the US at or near the top do not sudd…
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>The United States does actually have government health care programs for low income and disable people (Medicare, covers approximately 23% of the US population) and for elderly (Medicaid, covers p…
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As mentioned elsewhere, the US still does quite well in median income rankings ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income ).…
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As mentioned elsewhere, the US still does quite well in median income rankings ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income ).…
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At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD ( http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/ ), where "disposabl…
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No. At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD ( http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/ ), where "dispo…
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YOu would be wrong in your suspicion. At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD ( http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united…
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Population density really doesn't matter that much for a pandemic as infectious as COVID19. The number of people who live in the mountains or on a farm and only come into town every six months is…
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>A certain governor[1] of a southern state has escaped that fate though being of the correct political stripe I imagine put a big thumb on that scale. Heck, we've already forgotten the certain…
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Southern states by and large seceded over fear that the northern states, which outnumbered the south, would outlaw slavery throughout the country. That's clear from most of the declarations that …
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I've enjoyed working through https://regexcrossword.com/
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Too embarrassing
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Meanwhile, we are told by the city councilor for the Seattle district with CHAZ that the real cause of the murder of two teens by CHAZ "security" is not taxing Amazon enough ( https:/…
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>Both companies are getting the same service in America , but the foreign companies get it much more cheaply. The fact that you have to explicitly point this out to derriz ...
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"Part of left's problem is it expects/demands blacks/hispanics to vote on ethnic basis but is appalled when whites do" ( https://twitter.com/JYDenham/statu…
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Is that why I've been able to sell Best Buy and Amazon gift cards on eBay for about face value?