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Flubros and Flubras! Day 140 ( a place for Flubros and Flubras)
www.freerepublic.com ^ | 11 August 2020 | Impimp

Posted on 08/10/2020 5:03:10 AM PDT by impimp

It’s just the flu, bro.

Coronavirus deaths are dropping nationally. It’s all about applying the pressure to politicians now. They often don’t change policies instantly - pressure on them now to end the lockdowns will pay off down the road.

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Great to see recreational basketball and baseball ramping up where I live in the suburbs of Houston. Swimming, football and water polo are still not competing. Are youth sports competing where you are or are they still too shut down?

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I know it is not a principled stand that I am taking by doing this but wearing a mask and just keeping it below the nose is tolerable. I breathe through my nose anyway and I have only had one person tell me my mask was on wrong so far (I 100% ignored what that person said). This technique is good enough to get me into church, kids’ sports, and the very rare shopping that I do.


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KEYWORDS: belowthenose; coronavirus; notaprincipledstand
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To: cweese

The mask will prevent you from transmitting the disease inadvertently, Darren


41 posted on 08/10/2020 6:58:20 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

masks are not the only difference between here and Thailand or vietnam and vietnam is currently having an outbreak. Put your mask on and go away please


42 posted on 08/10/2020 6:59:01 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: haffast
Perhaps your god is powerless

Masks reduce the chances of transmission

Have you bothered to look at the sources of data yourself? The numbers are clear - and even if you take 164K as double the actual number, that' still 82K dead in 5 months.

43 posted on 08/10/2020 6:59:44 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

You are wrong. The death rate is quite similar to seasonal flu and nowhere near 3 percent. If you wish to spread misinformation and fear do so elsewhere. good day


44 posted on 08/10/2020 7:00:40 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD
Thailand and Vietnam have densely packed cities, yet their death rates are a fraction of the USA's -- at 0.8 and 0.1 deaths per million (compared to the USA's 488/million)

Heck, even Greece, with it's masks policy has only 20 deaths per million, Slovakia with 6 deaths per million.

All of them with masks policies

Putting the mask prevents the transmission

45 posted on 08/10/2020 7:02:24 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

That’s not what the CDC or the WHO said 5 months ago.

Of course now they said they lied about it then?

Or are they lying about it now.

574 / 48000 new cases = .01%

Is math that hard for you?

Flu season isn’t over yet - fearbro.


46 posted on 08/10/2020 7:05:50 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Mom MD
you then say "Vietnam is having an outbreak" -- this country of 97 million had an outbreak of 31 cases and 1 death.

Those were all people who were stopped at the borders

Vietnamese attribute the country’s success to the “Honda effect:” “We’re a people who go everywhere on Honda motorcycles. We’re accustomed to wearing masks to keep out the dust. I think that is what saved us this time.”

Vietnam made use of the lessons it learned from the SARS outbreak. As soon as an infected person was identified, he or she was placed in a state-owned facility such as a university dormitory or military barracks. All close contacts of the infected person were also placed on “stand-by” in these facilities, even if they were asymptomatic at the time. In early April, when only 240 people had been infected, 45,000 people were under quarantine. Whenever a small cluster of infections emerged, the entire village was sealed off from the outside world.

47 posted on 08/10/2020 7:07:42 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

Right - their death rates are near .01% of their infection rates.

To what do you attribute that fearbro?

Masks?


48 posted on 08/10/2020 7:08:05 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Mom MD
You're just pulling numbers out of your hat.

Here are the factual numbers - 5 million cases and 164K deaths. Do the maths - that's 3.28%. Even if you take the deaths as exaggerated by 100%, that's still 1.14% death rate

You keep saying "similar to the flu" and bring nothing but your statements as proof.

49 posted on 08/10/2020 7:09:21 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

Ah yes - so you admit it wasn’t the masks but because they contained the infection to a few dozen people.

You KNOW we did that here too but the infection slipped through and spread anyway.

Oh and how do you account for all the doctors and nurses wearing N95 masks that got it anyway?


50 posted on 08/10/2020 7:12:00 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Cronos

1.14% IS the typical seasonal flu death rate - fearbro.


51 posted on 08/10/2020 7:13:29 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise
the masks worked for Vietnam, for Thailand, for Greece, for Slovakia.

your number 574/48000 = .01% -- do you even know how to calculate percentage??

(574/48000)*100 = 1.195%

Did you learn maths in school?

52 posted on 08/10/2020 7:14:02 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Kozak

+800K...REPORTED abortions last year!!

and similar numbers for many years past

and similar numbers for many years to come if we keep following the lead
of people like you who fall into step with these Marxist haters and ignore the REAL pandemic happening in your face!

so go hide at home and wait for your check.


53 posted on 08/10/2020 7:14:40 AM PDT by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: Skywise

The fearpers are getting g more desperate as they are proven wrong on all sides. The only statistics they believe are their own


54 posted on 08/10/2020 7:17:37 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Skywise
First you don't know how to do math, then you don't know how to look through data?


55 posted on 08/10/2020 7:18:12 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: gdc61; Kozak

Both are horrific. You don’t have to do a “whatabouttery” - one can attack abortion and also reduce the spread of a disease


56 posted on 08/10/2020 7:22:33 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Skywise
Perhaps some reading comprehension would help? Vietnamese attribute the country’s success to the “Honda effect:” “We’re a people who go everywhere on Honda motorcycles. We’re accustomed to wearing masks to keep out the dust. I think that is what saved us this time.”
57 posted on 08/10/2020 7:23:20 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

It looks as if the ChiComs may have designed this thing to cull their own elderly population. Decades of a one-child policy have left them demographically screwed.


58 posted on 08/10/2020 7:23:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Cronos
You must've missed the first part of my reply to you :

"You can do whatever makes you feel safe. I'll do what makes me feel safe"

Is that so hard to understand?

59 posted on 08/10/2020 7:23:46 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: Skywise
And as for the docs - did you even read this? the masks are more for preventing the wearer from spreading the disease inadvertently - as there is a 14 day incubation period with no symptoms)??
60 posted on 08/10/2020 7:23:52 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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