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My cousin the nurse gave me her opinion on covid tonight.
Free republic | 10/27/2020 | Chicagoconservative27

Posted on 10/27/2020 6:39:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

My cousin who is a head nurse at a local hospital in Chicago suburbs gave me this info on covid. These are the text messages from her. Take her information as you wish.

From what I've seen, there are very high false positive And negative rates. Also, if you test positive, then test again 3 days later and are all positive, that counts as 2 positives. What we can't dispute are the number of actual hospitalizations, which are definitely up in my area, but I'm very specious of anyone who has zero symptoms but comes up positive. The good news is that critically ill cases (needing ventilators) appear to be going down as we've learned so much about treatment. Those with comorbidities such as diabetes, copd, obesity are highest fatality risks, however fatalities are a pretty slim percentage. To compare it, I think there were like 7 gun violence deaths in Chicago alone compared to the 15 Covid deaths in the entire state of Illinois. No death count is ideal, but compared to other pandemics and causes of death, death from Covid seems to be pretty low comparatively.

Unfortunately I don't see the connection with shut downs and how it helps support the hospitals. I do with mandating masks, hand hygiene and social distancing. If restaurants and bars can manage these guidelines with limited capacities, I'm not sure I understand the shut downs.


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KEYWORDS: chicago; covid; hospital; illinois; jbpritzker; kimfoxx; lockdowns; virus
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To: Leaning Right

Respectfully, while wearing a mask, where does your oxygen come from, the mask?
- No, it comes from OUTSIDE the mask - recycled air that everybody shares.

Also, when exhaling, does a mask contain all of your carbon dioxide?
- No, it goes right back out.

Not to mention eyes, ears and even skin is porous...


61 posted on 10/28/2020 7:24:44 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: FreeReign
"I ate in one of tent configurations last week. It was chilly out so they closed all the flaps."

I mean, what is the bloody difference...

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IMO, the real difference is that tents typically have far more drafts to carry virus particles from one table to another...

TXnMA   
  

62 posted on 10/28/2020 7:34:00 AM PDT by TXnMA (The Democrat Party has a single-plank platform: HATRED...)
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To: TXnMA

If I wanted to eat in a tent, I’d join the Army!


63 posted on 10/28/2020 10:10:10 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: TXnMA

Can’t estimate but I think it’s pretty widespread knowledge that “obese” patients do not do well. Obese people tend to have type 2 diabetes or at a minimum metabolic syndrome/Insulin resistance. I read (very early on) about docs in New Orleans stating they noticed diabetic patients were the COVID patients who did not recover easily, wound up intubated, and died.


64 posted on 10/28/2020 12:45:14 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: Bulwyf
How can you upgrade for covid? HVAC won’t filter that small of a particle. Eat well, and get rest as another poster said.

Companies are starting to install ultraviolet lights in their HVAC ducts to kill viruses and bacteria.

65 posted on 10/28/2020 1:54:02 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625

Sweet, that’ll kill cancer too.


66 posted on 10/28/2020 2:12:59 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: moviefan8

‘Civil rights will never return...’

in what possible way would Biden benefit by that...?

‘He got fooled early on.’

man, you’re brave to come on here and say that, even though it’s true...but to be fair, anything he did was going to be wrong, according to the illuminati...


67 posted on 10/29/2020 1:40:51 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: miserare
I’m hearing in PA. about a very large number of false positives. These folks must quarantine for fourteen days, and never develop symptoms.

My son was exposed to a confirmed positive, and he had to quarantine for 14 days, even though he tested negative.

Which makes me wonder just how much faith the PTB have in these tests in the first place.

68 posted on 10/29/2020 1:44:03 PM PDT by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

specious?


69 posted on 10/29/2020 1:57:23 PM PDT by Theophilus
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To: TontoKowalski

That’s what I’m talking about.

People’s freedom of movement is being curtailed due to shitty testing.

That’s just the way Herr Wolf and Doktor Rachel want it.

Now they are starting contact tracing in all the school districts up here.

I feel like I’m living in Nazi Germany.


70 posted on 10/29/2020 3:47:12 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Covid? You mean the thing that you have a 99.98% chance of NOT dying from....? COVID is just a virus, you actually have to get tested to even find out if you have it!....and YES I know that people have died from it…but, people die every day...get over it and on with life.😉
71 posted on 10/29/2020 3:47:57 PM PDT by RevelationDavid (Don't just 'know about God'...... KNOW GOD....!)
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