I've learned that china attacked us, destroyed many livelyhoods, and changed our way of life. Surgical masks and gloves for everyone. What a kick in the nads to our freedom of going out in public without "protection".

Obesity is a medical diagnosis. Was the 40% obesity stand alone stat a CNN straw poll? BMI is still used becasue it makes the insurance companies feel better about themselves and it makes them money. It's an antiquated measure soley based on height to weght ratio and taken a little futher waist line to hip width. No concessions for genetics, body composition, or extraneous factors that may have an impact.

Scale weight and what your perception of a person's current health status never tell the story. Many friends in the medical community some more mature docs who are struggling not with the technology and being pushed to the teledoc portals but with the inability to fully interact with patients and drill down to finding a solution.

A lot more here than 'smoked meats posted on the TFF'...

What'll be really interesting is, when they can do the antibody test on people and see if it was present and nothing happened. Then wawi, you might get what you're looking for.

You have to be careful about some of the antibody test that are out so far. Some check for the common corona-virus and not COVID 19 specifically.

Yes, the currently available antibody tests aren’t great.

Another issue has been the quality of drive up nasopharyngeal swabs. Only about 40-50% of the samples have been of decent quality. To get a good sample, you’ve got to get that swab way back there (6-7 inches). It will bring a tear to most folks eyes when you reach the nasopharyngeal junction.

If we are not allowed to open the restaurants back up by May 1st to maybe 50 % occupancy I may just take my ball and go home. I cannot imagine what the owners who make their living from a restaurant are going through ( or any other similar business ) We have to get back to work or we are going to have a really bad train wreck.

This is New Orleans local.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox8live.com/2020/03/28/ldh-diabetes-leading-underlying-condition-covid-related-deaths/%3foutputType=amp

I don't see joke in my statement and I dont see hoax, I see said blown out of proportion. Some people dying is sad, so is destroying the economy and the livelihoods of millions of people. But you go on and beat that fear drum, you have done it from day one and I would expect nothing more.

Plus #1. However the USA will make a full RECOVERY!


Side Note: With all of the money we spend to help other countries I hope that will stop. We need to spend every dollar in the USA until our economy is back 100 percent! Just my two cents.

Nope. I can't imagine how things would be in the whole country turned out like NYC or even Detroit, New Orleans, etc.

I don't plan to participate in a debate on this. So you know where I stand personally on this topic though, as a general statement I'm against abortions from a moral standpoint. As a matter of public policy I think they should be outlawed after brainwaves start (which is pretty darn early). After that point I think it's essentially murder. I'd love to see zero abortions.

I agree with you here sir.

Stay the course my friend, better days ahead. And when the local politicians and arms twisters come looking for their usual handouts ask them where they were when they tried to put us out of business.

So at this point are we all willing to admit that


By reading your posts on the subject throughout the pandemic I felt like you thought it was the whole time.
By casting doubt in you question, it almost sounds like you aren't sure yourself.

I have gone back and forth on the way we handled it. I still think the only reason it was handled the way it has been is because in our society we don't expect people to pull together, even in an emergency like this.
I still don't think it was overblown. I would like to see an estimate on the numbers if we had continued to keep working and not done the slow down. I think the numbers would show pretty clearly they are saving many more lives than any estimates the deniers would agree with.

I don' think its been blown out of proportion in handling. In its reporting maybe but such is the state of the electronic age.

Way overblown.