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  1. On 10/30/2020 at 5:31 PM, tlock said:

    I think one thing people tend to overlook when putting down the Swedish approach is, for the most part life went on as normal.  So even if their economy tanks along with the rest of the world, is there zero value in the fact that children mostly got to go to school, people got to go to gyms, no one was restricted to their homes by the police?  I think this is the "if it saves one life" argument, that even if millions of people don't get to go to school or exercise, it's worth it?  

     

    However, in the interest of honest discussion, I am surprised to see that Sweden is getting a new spike right now worse than in April (along with the rest of the world).  I had hoped the open approach would lead to some level of herd immunity.  Unfortunately, it looks like not enough people caught it in Sweden during the first wave.  

    Like most people you are misunderstanding how herd immunity works. 

     

    'The concept of achieving herd immunity through community spread of a pathogen rests on the unproven assumption that people who survive an infection will become immune. For SARS-CoV-2, some kind of functional immunity seems to follow infection, but “to understand the duration and effects of the immune response we have to follow people longitudinally, and it’s still early days”.  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4

     

    The vast majority of cases when herd immunity has worked (measles, flu, small pox etc) is when the there has been a vacine. Hoping people become immune because they have previously caught it (how many times can you catch a cold or the flu?) is a false promise and the ONLY hope for herd immunity with covid is with an effective vacine.

  2. On 10/30/2020 at 3:47 AM, bendejo said:

    This is actually a GOP tradition.  A long heritage of being sore losers.  Which you could say makes them perennial losers.  But it can't all be blamed on the orange guy with the big mouth, they have owned voter suppression for decades.  When the Dems became the party of Civil Rights the Republicans eagerly donned the mantel of the party of racism -- at least George Wallace outright admitted it.  While the Dems have elements of favoring business over people, for the GOP it's their credo.  The sick brilliance of that party is they have managed to convince so many people to vote against their own self-interest.

     

     

    And it's a Dem tradition to clear up all the messes the GOP leave. Whether it's the economy (Clinton clearing up Bush Snr's mess, Obama clearing up Bush Jnr) or envirnomentally, the GOP continually demonstrate their inability to govern yet somehow, some way they still get voted in. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, Berkshire said:

    Yes, the truth does hurt.  If only COVID was Trump's only failure, but it's not.  From an economic standpoint, Trump has lied to the American people even more than on the pandemic.  His policies (and the GOP Congress) have mostly helped corporations and the wealthiest Americans while sticking it to everyone else.  This article should be required reading for every American to see how Trump's gov has helped the rich get richer while raising the national debt to outrageous levels.

     

    [How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners]

    [The president promised a return to shared prosperity, but the benefits of his economic policies only bubbled up to the richest]

    [But even as the cost of the Trump tax cut has grown to a projected $1.9 trillion, the macroeconomic data don’t indicate any significant jolt to the economy. As it had in Obama’s last years, GDP continued to grow modestly, at 2.9 percent in 2018, declining to 2.2 percent in 2019.]

    [American inequality has reached a crisis moment. The 60 richest billionaires in America control as much wealth as the bottom 50 percent of Americans, according to the latest Fed data.]

     

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-covid-response-economy-jobs-taxes-inequality-1080345/

     

     

    Great article thanks 

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Tie Dye Samurai said:

    I have friendly wagers with a few friends of mine on what branch and dept actually ushers him out of the White House when he refuses to leave....I chose The Space Force (yes I know I am gonna lose that bet but how awesome would that be...lol)

    Wouldn't that be The Not Your Space Any More Force?

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  5. 1 hour ago, Whale said:

    I believe whatever the press tells me because thats the only way I can get info. So I think, as always the press will win. 

    One good thing to come out of Trump though has been my awakening to never ever ever again believing a word with Fox or CNN utter. 

     

    As an outside (not American) I see the choice between, on one side 2 completely weird old white guys who couldn't get a job at my local Tescos AND a guy whose too old to be my great grandad and his hard ruthless running mate. The only thing they all have in common is politics made them rich.

     

    America needs a better system to choose its leaders and politicians (as do most of us). 

    Politics didn't make Biden rich. Book deals after being VP did.

     

    https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a31265187/joe-biden-net-worth/

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