rcummings

3 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Thats because the same person you've been hating on for years is at the helm. We could shut the country down completely and use the guard to blockade the streets and might get covid under control but wed also cause untold misfortune in doing so. 

 

You dont know how it would have played out if another politician was at the helm and assuming you did is laughable. 

You mean because all those politicians whom Trump supporters accuse of toeing the establishment line, somehow would have defied said establishment in this case? It is to laugh.

2 minutes ago, Credo said:

I would suspect that it works, but that the positive effect would not be lasting.  It is very, very doubtful that it would actually stimulate a persons immune system to produce antibodies for Covid.  So, once the plasma wears off, so does the benefit.   Of course, that might be enough time to keep a patient alive for either the body to produce it's own antibodies or for other medicines to start working.   

As a treatment, it is certainly worth studying.   

 

It's definitely worth studying and protection might last a few months. Fortunately, a related but more promising therapy should soon be released. It uses monoclonal antibodies. Basically, one kind of antibody  that has found to have been very effective against covid-19 is administered to ill patients.

11 minutes ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

Says it right in the OP too bud, never said it wasn't. What this did do however was make it more widely available to more people. 

 

 

Really? So you posted this for no reason related to the latest FDA move?

"If you're one of the very statistically unlucky ones who is not doing very well, you should have the option to try any available treatments." 

39 minutes ago, rcummings said:

You mean like Steve Cohen? How did those great lawyers fare when Trump sued others for libel and slander? You know how many of those cases he won? Less than one. He uses the cost of legal proceedings to bully others into submission when he has no substantive case.

Should have been "Michael Cohen".

3 hours ago, scammed said:

sounds like conjecture to me, what would be the mechanism for that illogical assertion ?

Not sure what you mean by "mechanism." But there is evidence to back it up.

https://www.sciencealert.com/older-children-transmit-covid-19-as-much-as-adults-do-new-evidence-suggests

And why would such an assertion be illogical?

Just now, thaibeachlovers said:

Lot of egg on faces now, though I do not expect any retractions.

You mean like in the case of the FDA approval of hydroxychlorquine that has since been retracted? Who has got egg on their faces now?

And had I claimed back then that it's false that the FDA had approved said drug for use, would that have been correct? 

3 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Would you care to correct that? The FDA has agreed.

So you're claiming that what Matzzon said was false? Had the FDA approved of it when Matzzon made his post? Had Matzzon claimed at the time that the FDA had approved it, would it have been true?

18 minutes ago, pedro01 said:

Perhaps - when you make a comment about a post - you could quote the post you are referring to instead of a different one.

 

As it is - the point is valid. My 10 year old can read sentences fluently and tell a good story.

 

This is not a difficult skill to master. Hence - he will struggle to debate, regardless of how eloquent he sounded in this speech. 

 

My personal opinion is that teleprompters should be banned for political speeches. It's farcical that we judge a man based on the words written by another. 

What's really farcical is that you believe that, before teleprompters existed, speeches were generally delivered extemporaneously.

11 minutes ago, pedro01 said:

Perhaps - when you make a comment about a post - you could quote the post you are referring to instead of a different one.

 

As it is - the point is valid. My 10 year old can read sentences fluently and tell a good story.

 

This is not a difficult skill to master. Hence - he will struggle to debate, regardless of how eloquent he sounded in this speech. 

 

My personal opinion is that teleprompters should be banned for political speeches. It's farcical that we judge a man based on the words written by another. 

Really? So reading a speech effectivelyy is more or less just like reading to yourself? In that case,  given Trump's poor delivery of prepared speeches, then we only have more evidence that Trump has serious difficulty reading anything. 

9 hours ago, Susco said:

I just read somewhere that the Spanish Flu indeed killed millions, but that most of those deaths were caused by the vaccine they got injected.

 

I also read that Oxford vaccine / Astra Zeneca is producing millions of doses currently for European countries, but the governments have to sign that they can not be held responsible for possible damages caused by the vaccine

Astra Zeneca is charging $4 per dose during the pandemic. And that also covers R&D costs. So they're not going to be profiting much if anything from it. It doesn't seem unfair that they be exempted from liability. 

7 minutes ago, timendres said:

No, I don't know that the virus entered the US from Europe. Much evidence points to infections in the US as early as February. Where would that have come from? And the US shut down flights from China, against WHO recommendations, very early, and got lambasted for doing so. China's actions are irrefutable.

Maybe you don't know that, but epidemiologists do know that in the worst hit area, the virus did come from Europe:

https://www.contagionlive.com/news/most-early-new-york-covid-19-cases-came-from-europe#:~:text=Instead%2C the majority of introductions,the result of community spread.

Trump waited another 40 days to ban air travel from continental Europe and 44 days to ban travel from the UK and Ireland.

5 minutes ago, timendres said:

When you willingly, and with forethought, deliver a payload of death, I am not sure I care what your "intent" was.

The question is whether there was intent. "Willingly and with forethought" signifies intent. So not really an unbiased question, is it?

In Beijing the Chinese govt. only fessed up to the actual levels of air pollution after the American Embassy installed its own detectors on the roof and then, via the internet, made that info available. The only figures anyone should trust concerning levels of flow in the Mekong are those that are generated via an international agency not subject to Chinese control.

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

I would agree with most of that. Flu is'nt China's fault but covid19 is. American response, in my opinion was due to the breakdown in leadership, I think the medical people were very plausible but the leader is a fool with a separate agenda, re election is more important to him than the good of the people. I would take Thailand's covid figures with a grain of salt!

If Covid were a serious problem in Thailand the government hospitals would be overrun with patients. No sign of that happening at all.