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  1. yes, you can have those on a message board. don't forget that.
  2. how about reading the exchange between me and the OP - that will answer your questions. We were talking and if you read it you will see it was very civilized.
  3. There is a book called How to Lie with Statistics written in 1954. How to lie with Charts was published this year and it looks more at misleading visual information. In neither of those books does it say you must share family details before raising questions about stats and numbers. So no not a legitimate question.
  4. you make no sense and save your platitudes.
  5. I have been to Texas numerous times. The born and raised there are pretty hardcore about not liking gov't in their lives. Remember the big flooding of Houston in 18 - that was ultimately attributed to minimal city planning over the past few decades during its large growth.
  6. i think it goes without saying that the amount of infections is far beyond what has been tested even in areas with more testing than Texas - the highest I have seen 85 times higher than the number of people tested and shown to be infected (4 something % infected) . Between the 2 dates given the over 1000 mark is not significant at the moment. But say over the next week or so if it keeps going up then they need to ask more serious questions. Again for me is what is the infection rate and how stable it is. Without testing you cannot get an accurate understanding of it though. Many places seem to prefer managing the virus without proper data.
  7. Answering with questions is how you usually go about getting clarification on something. It is a good skill to have. And is especially important when the other person doesn't make much sense.
  8. How does asking common sense questions about a number posted on Twitter which is not properly contextualized have anything to do with family? Please explain.
  9. Texas is 29 million. I would ask about this basic data. Is what is the overall infection rate. So of those 1033 how many overall were tested. My other question would be how many of those were in care facilities and so forth. And how much has testing increased since April 10th. And were these actual tests performed and reported on that day. Lastly what have the numbers looked like each day in between the dates. 1000 is not some magic benchmark. PS i just found a graph for texas.
  10. https://www.alberta.ca/external/covid19-alberta-relaunch-strategy.pdf RIP Alberta. Hopefully I'm wrong but I think they're being a bit too hasty. how are they being hasty? as early as May 14th. that is still 2 weeks away. reading it over it looks consistent with what is happening in other countries for 're-opening' and even more stringent than countries that have had only voluntary social distancing. The second step is contingent on what happens during the first.
  11. I do my contributing in the real world. Judging by the amount and quality of your posts you don’t spend much time there.
  12. Not an insult but a statement of fact and concern. Recently, you come across as a lot more derailed.
  13. I think your posts have deteriorated quite a bit the past 3 plus weeks.
  14. The big concern with Biden is the state of his brain. At times he reminds me of Reagan in his second term.
  15. Early modelling was 2.2 million for the US. In Sask which I have ties to the first projection was 15,000 deaths. In Japan for example it was 400,000 we are currently at 370. UK was 500,000. We don't know what the numbers will end up but it won't be these projections.
  16. I think you mean don't speak English well? English is my native language. I do spend a lot of time in BC each year as well. I hope I am wrong and will be dancing in the streets if he is out. I am not saying he is going to win, just that his chances are a lot better than what people expect. 4 more years of him would be extremely painful.
  17. Why, because where was it before Covid? Gov't's are now suddenly concerned about people's health but for example companies have 'been allowed' to knowingly pump out crap addictive food for decades and created an obesity epidemic in large parts of the world which has led to things like diabetes and so forth. The victims of corona overwhelmingly had modern day illnesses as well. My point is that the gov't and all this new found concern for the health of citizens at least for me runs pretty empty. As you know the choice to pay care workers very poorly in under resourced conditions is a societal choice. Lastly, I would have also preferred to have seen this new concern for citizen well being in early January or Feb not March. Hard not to think that economic interests were not partially behind the late responses in most countries. There is an article that came out in the UK that shows the time line of the UK response - it is horrifying. I doubt many gov't differed that much.
  18. I actually thought the crisis would be his undoing, but now I think the fact that the projections of fatalities were way off and he has flipped that on to the dems and it being a virus originating in China (trade enemy) that this offers him a potentially winning narrative unfortunately. Hopefully, I am wrong.
  19. Depends how you define socially conservative and what it relates to.
  20. Sorry, I mean electoral college. My point being that people should not right him off (I wish they could). But yes, the Senate could fall into Dem control and keep the house.
  21. Not sure about that. The electorate in most countries has been turning right for sometime and this disaster is only going to hasten it. Immigration, job loss were blamed on neo-liberal policies and now you got this virus that people will rightly blame on globalism. This is going to push out people like Trudeau. It was already happening as evidenced by the last election. People who have written off Trump should brace themselves. He won with 40 some plus percent of the vote and he has that right now. Some suspect that his winning game could be an anti-China campaign. Remember he has been consistent about China for some time and now he has the virus to work with Who knows but if the economy shows some life in the fall and Biden's competency questions get worse I would be braced for it. In the US it is electoral votes.
  22. You and the peanut gallery don’t know that care home work is a lowly paid career and often part time. There is lots of worker turnover and obviously this impacts the care given. In short it is not a valued professional by society. You think the deaths in these facilities have nothing to do with work conditions prior to the Covid.
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