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Calvinball has been suspended

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Why does Dr. Adams sound like a trump backing hack? Perhaps it's because he really, really needs that 4th star on his shoulder. Vice Admiral is just the punch line to a joke.

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Ox News, Limbaugh, and any others that broadcast virus disinformation that can be documented to have lead to injury or death, should be fully liable for negligent homicide. Don’t wake me up, let me dream. But if I were to advertise a clothes iron that was not UL certified, and burned a homemaker, I would be so liable, sued, and shut down.

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vice admiral adams can shove his Rosie the Riveter symbolism. That does not belong to the trump administration. they don't have the gravitas to get anywhere near it. they are trying to make lardo a wartime president but he's not fit to lick the ground FDR touched.

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Roodles is the one I ALWAYS take my medical advise from.

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That sounds kind of like a body bag (the one thing Trump’s govt seems to provide freely).

I’m ok with that.

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Serious medical question—we’re told to wear masks to protect others from us, but told that they don’t protect US from them. How can that be? How does my mask become the Hotel California for the virus—it can get in but not out?

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I lived in NB for eleven years in the 90s and 00s; I believe even now a friend of mine, Chuck Poltz (we have fallen out of touch, alas), is an extremely competent health-care officer in North Bay. As long as he is still theree, North Bay is in safe hands, I trust.

Kees B

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Because the mask prevents you from exhaling virus into the environment but if you touch an infected surface, including possibly the exterior of your mask, then touch your eyes or nose then you can still get infected.

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NYC ER doc says the mask is a good idea just to remind you not to touch your face. Most transmission is from being around a sick person, touching them or stuff they've touched, and then touching your face.

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Ta, MM.

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Did the Simpsons know they were ripping off Frank Zappa?

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I wondered why he seems to suck so much and lo and behold Adams was Pence's State Health Commissioner in Indiana whose "morality" helped cause that HIV outbreak and whose ineffectiveness helped the US get its highest flu deaths in 40 years.

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FEMA is reselling them through two GOPers who just set up a brand new company to profiteer off the crisis.

"The veteran Republican fundraiser Mike Gula and Republican political operative John Thomas just started a company selling coronavirus testing kits, personal protective equipment and other “hard to find medical supplies to beat the outbreak”. They call themselves “the largest global network of Covid-19 medical suppliers”.Asked how he’d found such equipment, Gula explained: “I have relationships with a lot of people.”Thomas added: “In politics – especially if you’re at a high enough level – you are one phone call away from anybody in the world.”https://www.theguardian.com...

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Koop? Didn't do squat for the first four years of the early AIDS crisis.

How about Admiral Regina Benjamin or Vivek Murthy, FTW?

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