Dungass
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So this means that the Blues are doubling down on Binnington? Yikes, after that playoff performance where he got outplayed by Allen?
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Man, that's what you call a signature game. I think when Pettersson's legacy is more established 10 years from now, this game is going to figure prominently.
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1 minute ago, aznmonk said:
I'm feeling this is the csnucks year to win the stanley cup. The stars are aligning with us. Another break means Myers can recoup till Saturday!!!!!!
Gooo nNuckz
I'm thinking Quinn could use the rest as well.
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I think we can sometimes over look the Sedin's legacy as almost too attached to Petey. Markstrom played with the Twins for 2-3 seasons and saw how they carried themselves on and off the ice. They were role models and achieved excellence in the league. Marky seems to have a keen eye to seeing himself as part of the proud Swedish tradition this club has with that country and putting his name next to the likes of Gradin, Naslund, Ohlund, and the Twins.
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5 minutes ago, stawns said:
It's going to be the same with a vaccine. If they develop one, I have serious doubts that enough Americans will consent to taking it. The US will be completely isolated at that point..........no country will let them in and no one will want to go there
Nevermind you have an American President who has no qualms about pushing an unsafe vaccine on a population that is already skeptical of science, to boost his own election chances. Oh vey, what a disaster!
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17 minutes ago, RWMc1 said:
Are these new cases or are they part of the group already declared by the League? If it is, then this breaks confidentiality as they weren't going to single out specific teams.
They are new cases and it isn't being reported by the league, it's been leaked to Basu.
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3 hours ago, JoeyJoeJoeJr. Shabadoo said:
Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again, lol. Come on Washington, I thought you were better than that!
Say what you want about the performance, but it IS a catchy tune:
America is the best, we don't need no covid tests
We don't care about your race, just take that mask off your commie face
Scientists lie to you, they don't love the red white and blue
Scientists, what we gonna do? Let's feed 'em to the bears like the chechens do
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I suppose this thread is indicative, sadly, of how politicized the outbreak has become.
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12 hours ago, Kragar said:
Too many CDC names to tag here, but this is for all of you freaking out over Trump's (and others') comments about using UV light and disinfectant internally.
Does any of you understand the concept of innovation? Spit-balling ideas, including some really hair-brained ones, in the hope that something useful comes from it.
I'd be curious how all of you would have felt if he were to ever propose the potential benefits of injecting mustard gas or other poisons to attack the virus. Hardly sounds safe or sound, does it?
I only raise it up because deliberate injection of mustard gases were the first attempts at chemotherapy.
I've long made a point of trying to understand how Trump won the 2016 election, a person who was so manifestly unfit, and in over his head for the office of president. His crass narcissism, inability to admit any mistake or misstep, penchant for gross hyperbole, lack of any sort of understanding and even basic preparedness in dealing with most aspects of public policy should have made him a non-viable candidate. Yet he won. So here's what I learned: politics trumps personality.
Despite his severe limitations, he also did things which no other politician on the right had been able to do. He won over important sections of the working class AND renounced US foreign interventionism. Trump defends and is the standard bearer of a unique brand of conservatism in the US, a kind of right-wing populism seen in Europe. His supporters are willing to look past his shameful and embarrassing behaviour because of the policies that he champions.
But here's the rub: in the world of Covid-19 politicians are being judged by their ability to defend public, regardless of politics. It's why Trudeau, Legault, Ford, Horgan, etc. all have sky high approval ratings, despite their vast idealogical differences. They're seen as looking out for their citizens best interest. On the other hand, politicians who haven't been viewed as responsive are not doing as well in polling, such as Boris Johnson or Shinzo Abe.
Trump has been presented a chance to lead, as all leaders have. Yet he continues his shameful behaviour. And it is shameful. Why on Earth do his supporters think it is a good idea to regularly publicly over-ride and contradict the country's top health experts? Is there a single, other country in the world where this is happening? Why on Earth would it be a good idea to hold daily two hour press conferences where he boasts about how wonderful and super and fantastic everything he does is, and run campaign advertisements? Why on Earth is he encouraging people congregating in large public gatherings, deliberately not social distancing or wearing masks. IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC.
So yes, the United States is proving its exceptionalism after all in this crisis. It is proving that politics trumps personality.
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10 minutes ago, stawns said:
What would be the best case scenario? Re-opening schools in some way? I see it as a worst case scenario and a sure fire way to ignite this thing into a wildfire
I'm guessing you've heard the word on the street is May 15th. I'm not sure about older students, but for the younger grades, classes will be split in two and students will attend on alternate days.
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1 hour ago, Wilbur said:
Do people even think their conspiracy theories through? Covering up your own statistics is one thing, but to send out propaganda to hurt other economies? If China was caught doing that, say goodbye to all their trade deals, that would backfire so bad it wouldn't even be funny.
Seems to me China and Russia would be encouraging the opposite. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they are trying to encourage Trump supporters to head out and gather publicly. This will hurt the country far more in the long run than practicing safe public health policies.
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Trump adamantly argued that the coronavirus would not come back in the fall with the same virulence that has this spring – saying that at most it would be “the embers” of the virus the country will have to deal with when the next flu season begins.
Translation: Get your shovel and start digging your underground shelters now.
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Shocker, the snake oil is ineffective and dangerous:
https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2
A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported.
The nationwide study was not a rigorous experiment. But with 368 patients, it’s the largest look so far of hydroxychloroquine with or without the antibiotic azithromycin for COVID-19, which has killed more than 171,000 people as of Tuesday.
The study was posted on an online site for researchers and has has not been reviewed by other scientists. Grants from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia paid for the work.
Researchers analyzed medical records of 368 male veterans hospitalized with confirmed coronavirus infection at Veterans Health Administration medical centers who died or were discharged by April 11.
About 28% who were given hydroxychloroquine plus usual care died, versus 11% of those getting routine care alone. About 22% of those getting the drug plus azithromycin died too, but the difference between that group and usual care was not considered large enough to rule out other factors that could have affected survival.
Hydroxychloroquine made no difference in the need for a breathing machine, either.
Researchers did not track side effects, but noted a hint that hydroxychloroquine might have damaged other organs. The drug has long been known to have potentially serious side effects, including altering the heartbeat in a way that could lead to sudden death.
Earlier this month, scientists in Brazil stopped part of a study testing chloroquine, an older drug similar to hydroxychloroquine, after heart rhythm problems developed in one-quarter of people given the higher of two doses being tested.
Many doctors have been leery of the drug.
At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, “I think we’re all rather underwhelmed” at what’s been seen among the few patients there who’ve tried it, said Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control and prevention.
Patients asked about it soon after Trump started promoting its use, “but now I think that people have realized we don’t know if it works or not” and needs more study, said Safdar, who had no role in the VA analysis.
The NIH and others have more rigorous tests underway.
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12 hours ago, Dustbin said:
Elon Musk didn't discover Hcq. It's been in use for covid for months. Still no study complete by illustrious scientific researchers. It takes 10 days! Pathetic , inept, disgusting.
Luckily there are many health professionals who are able to ethically study the treatment without leaving half their patients at risk in a blind study for "science". Many drugs are used "off label" and many drugs in use now have never been proven in a double blind study where people can die for science.
If you have a question just ask.
The guy in charge says the doctors are using it, the doctors say their using it, the patients say they're getting it, stocks are running low, countries are hoarding their suppIies, I don't know what to tell you.
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/03/23/804620/
India adopts use of Hydroxychloroquine for prevention of COVID19 in Health workers Hydroxy-chloroquine has been recommended as the use for preventive treatment of healthcare workers and individuals in close contact of coronavirus patients.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ingrahams-medicine-cabinet-effectiveness-hydroxychloroquine-032642054.html
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/hydroxychloroquine-most-effective-coronavirus-treatment-poll/
Doctors began prescribing off-label use and in doing so are replicating the clinical results in remarkable fashion. One doctor in Monroe, New York has treated in excess of 700 patients. As of this writing he’s lost zero patients to death, zero to intubation, and only two to hospitalization. Another doctor in New York City has treated in excess of 100 patients with zero deaths.
If nothing else get your double blind study done you useless researchers.
https://www.isac.world/news-and-publications/official-isac-statement
"The medical and research community are really taking the potential of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine seriously," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme, said during a media briefing in Geneva on Monday.Currently, "there is no evidence from randomized control trials that it works and clinicians have also been cautioned to look out for side effects of the drug to ensure that first we do no harm," Ryan said. "We eagerly await the outcome of the trials that are underway."https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.07.20056424v1
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/health/drug-hydroxychloroquine-french-study/index.html
To summarize, unfortunately for Fox&Friends, the anecdotal evidence that they've been pushing doesn't make for good public health policy. The science that is emerging is painting an increasingly clear picture of a drug, that is completely ineffective as a prophylactic, largely ineffective as a therapeutic and has toxic side effects.
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Interesting that our federal system is working much more smoothly than our neighbours to the south. There is none of the partisan sniping that we see there with our own provincial and federal leaders. We are all in this together.
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3 hours ago, Junkyard Dog said:Thing is the same thing could be said about a lot of countries. Italy, Spain, France, Iran. I just think the Trump finger pointing about that is misplaced. Don't support him much but I don't think that this is something he can be blamed for a bunch, otherwise I might as well blame a bunch of other countries too for China's misdoings.
Also with China covering it up and not being direct it became harder for countries to predict how it would change things since the only one was watering down the information. Hence why Italy/Spain/France/USA got hit hard. By the time they had to deal with the virus it was already moves ahead of it.
I do think the blame falls more on China. If they didn't cover it up and made it clear that COVID-19 was no joke sanctions would of been placed much earlier and the curve could of been flattened early.
Where Trump messed up is by saying the things he said in order to instill safety and security where he should of simply stated it was ongoing and hard to predict. Initially I think he said those things back in January/December because he actually felt it was nothing due to China's misinformation, after that though honesty would be what was best.
This is a bit of a cop out. Yes the Chinese initially covered up the virus, but by the third week of January they had locked down an entire province of 60 million. After the virus had moved to Iran, the WHO began ringing the alarm bell, quite loud and clear.
Look, I think Republicans have a right to feel aggrieved by the Left. Trump was not the only leader to be behind the curve on this thing. Virtually every country in the world, with the exception of a few East Asian states have been. However, Trump's penchant for gross hyperbole, his tendency to double-down on previous statements, do complete 180 on policy positions and then back again, and above all, his crass obsession with re-election, make him an easy target for everyone of all political stripes, outside of the US.
By just about any metric, the United States is faring the worst of any country in this crisis. The leadership that the Trump administration has been a haphazard catastrophe. This is a significant part of the reason the country finds itself the mess it is currently in.
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On 3/7/2020 at 10:46 AM, DS4quality said:
World juniors he was mediocre at best... It's actually since then he's improved
His stat line was mediocre, but I was pretty impressed with his play. He made some unbelievable passes, that, for whatever reasons, his teammates couldn't bury. He looked like he had the skill and size to be a solid NHLer.
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Don't look now, but this kid is establishing himself as a legit #3 centre. 23 years old and looks like he'll get over .5ppg in his second season. Got to love his hustle and enthusiasm. Winning teams have to have effective secondary players like this. Not too shabby for a 5th rounder.
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[Trade] Blues trade Jake Allen, 2022 7th-round pick to Canadiens for 2020, 3rd-round pick, 2020 7th-round pick
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For sure, that can't be under-played. I dunno, he was OK in the regular season and then poor in the playoffs. I think that they've got a potentially big hole in net now. Not that it upsets me.