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How about a daily round of applause for Sweden?.....
5/03/20 | The Fop

Posted on 05/03/2020 11:54:44 AM PDT by The Fop

To all people with common sense, who have watched events unfold over the past two months, and have made the attempt to read and inform themselves, carefully weighing data, and keeping an open mind, only to ultimately conclude that COVID-19 is not the Black plague, or even a Screaming Blue Meanie, and are mad as hell about it!

Mad about the inaccurate predictions. Mad about massive government overreach. Mad about the scare tactics. And most of all, mad at the easily manipulated sheeple and the naked attempt by politicians to use this flu as a last ditch attempt to defeat Trump.

So here's a way to be heard. Every night at 6 pm, let's open our windows and give a round of applause to the one Western nation that didn't reflexively join the wild herd. The one country that ignored all the noise and used their own judgement.

Sweden will be have the last laugh on all the masked doomsayers. Until they let us go back to living our normal lives, I consider myself to be an honorary Swede!


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To: House Atreides

“You asked a question because you didn’t want to say that you didn’t know.”

No. You should learn not to try to read minds.

I asked because I did know, and wondered if you did.


81 posted on 05/03/2020 2:20:24 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: House Atreides

Exactly. Because comprehensive antibody testing using super accurate tests hasn’t been done yet, anywhere, which is something I knew.

As long as everyone’s guessing we might be at herd immunity here in the USA as much as Sweden might be.


82 posted on 05/03/2020 2:24:31 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

Look at the actual death stats. In absolute terms they have 2600 deaths, and 2300 of those deaths are ppl 70+. This thing hitting a few nursing homes has upped their stats but doesn’t mean anything bad for normal healthy populations.


83 posted on 05/03/2020 2:53:00 PM PDT by socalgop
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To: dynoman

Sweden’s cases per 1 million is much less than the US. I can’t explain why so many deaths. Sweden’s deaths per 1 million is 265, vs. US 207. https://virusncov.com/


84 posted on 05/03/2020 2:54:42 PM PDT by stuckinloozeeana
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To: tallyhoe

So dont pay rent, shut utilities off, fire staff, eatn no income, pay no taxes, vendors, accounts payable and then just reopen one or two years later? WHAT?


85 posted on 05/03/2020 2:55:35 PM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: The Fop

A fascinating discussion from a Noble prize winner who thinks that “lock down” has been a big mistake, death projections for the virus have been grossly over stated and that the growth rate of the epidemic was never exponential. Very much worth watching.

https://unherd.com/thepost/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-the-covid-19-epidemic-was-never-exponential/

Very interesting site that shows the virus transmission rate by states. Click on the tabs that show the numbers by week starting with 4 weeks ago. Dramatic improvement....very encouraging.

https://rt.live/


86 posted on 05/03/2020 3:10:31 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: socalgop

Like here. Vast 80% are 65 and older.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku


87 posted on 05/03/2020 3:51:49 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: stuckinloozeeana

“Sweden’s cases per 1 million is much less than the US. I can’t explain why so many deaths. Sweden’s deaths per 1 million is 265, vs. US 207.

That doesn’t make sense, 265/million is more than 207/million. The chart on post 23 shows the same thing.

US is doing better than Sweden.


88 posted on 05/03/2020 3:56:59 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: tallyhoe

There’s no evidence that social distancing did anything to lessen the death rate..... Nobody knows to what degree the virus had already spread before any lock downs..... In New York City for sure the lock down did absolutely nothing.... just look at the graph... It looks like graph from typical flu season..... If the potential for many more deaths was there, then the plateau would have lasted many more days or weeks before trending downward


89 posted on 05/03/2020 6:35:53 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: The Fop

NYC didn’t start sanitizing subway cars until last week.


90 posted on 05/03/2020 7:59:02 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

Exactly why Trump’s actions have been brilliant. They never thought he would “listen to the scientists” and close the economy. But he recognized their trap. Now we are opening, Trump beat them at their own game, again.

Trump never closed the economy. He just recommended that people should stay home and the Governors closed down the economy!!


91 posted on 05/03/2020 10:22:46 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: MinorityRepublican

Very few restaurant owners own the building they operate in. If it was me, I would say “screw it” to rent, furlough my employees so they can collect unemployment. Them I can get a job working at Amazon for a year or two. Ha.

It takes a lot of capital to get going again! Most will be financially broke by then and probably declare bankruptcy!


92 posted on 05/03/2020 10:28:36 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: tallyhoe

Technically yes, but Trump says all the time “we closed the economy” and “I had to close the best economy the world has ever seen”.


93 posted on 05/04/2020 6:12:13 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: The Fop

Couldn’t an argument be made that the curve started a downward trajectory shortly after public health measures were implemented in NYC? Didn’t the NYC area drop the R number below 1 thanks to public health measures?


94 posted on 05/04/2020 6:18:16 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: dynoman

Trump says all the time “we closed the economy” and “I had to close the best economy the world has ever seen”.

Yea I know but actually the Governors stopped the economies in their states..


95 posted on 05/04/2020 12:06:47 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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