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Then they should just make the cone 1/3 bigger. Duh.19 points
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My mother, a hard core Magat, recently sold her house and land in Kyle and moved in with my sister, also a Magat, but she at least keeps it under the radar. She took the money from selling her house and gave most of it to that sister. She wanted to give me and my other sister a large chunk of it however. I told her to keep it, she might need it when the Dotard-apocalypse comes. She pooh poohed that, and gave it to me anyway. I told her I'd save it for her, and when social security stopped its monthly payments, and medicaid stopped paying for her health care, she could have it back. This was about a year ago. I'm about to call her up and see if she saw that tweet. And tell her I spent the money.18 points
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Aggy interest cooled when they saw the 4.82 and realized they don't know what to do with a DB that fast.17 points
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Every time Trump talks about Jesus or God or the Bible and doesn't get struck by lightning, I feel more comfortable with my agnosticism.15 points
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Let's all pause a moment to enjoy the fact that the most powerful supercomputers on Earth are furiously churning around the clock in order to generate big throbbing rainbow dick pics.12 points
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Why are y'all arguing with a known and convicted retard11 points
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You may all go to hell, I will go....ahead and drown in Texas.11 points
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Relocating from Beaumont to Waco? That’s like moving from Fallujah to Allepo.10 points
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Right. This shifting of the goal posts to "society can't function unless COVID is completely squashed" is inherently unreasonable and impractical.10 points
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I just cannot believe we didn’t make Wheatons top 3 after all the smoke about us leading for him. Literally nothing could have made him change his mind so quickly. I also just started reading this forum yesterday. UGH!10 points
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You posting nonsense. Your scenarios show you have no idea how hospital billing, documentation, insurance and Medicare documentation and billing, coding, and hospital costs work in the real world. The actual cost to a hospital for a PUI that turns out negative and is this discharged is a fraction of what a positive Covid patient who spends 27 days in the ICU. Unless they’re are very sick with symptoms, we don’t even admit PUIs. We send them home to quarantine pending results. And if they are admitted, we get in house results back within 24 hours. Hospitals ain’t making bank on an 18 hour stay. For us that doesn’t even qualify as an actual inpatient admission. Those 2 day PUI stays are not being reimbursed like the positive patient who spends weeks on a vent in the ICU. Any “extra money” (lololololool) made from your mythical patient is quickly eliminated by the costs of the long term ICU stays of serious cases. Show me a hospital CFO who would choose to have a building full of confirmed Covid cases in the ICU and a bunch of PUIs over a building full of normal inpatient surgical patients and outpatient procedures and I’ll show you a bad CFO. They twisted facts and downright conspiracies that have developed around this issue are ridiculous. The average person has zero knowledge of the basic facts, so they hear this nonsense about hospitals being “incentivized” to inflate their Covid numbers to rake in more money and they just take it as fact. There are shady physicians who manipulate situations for monetary reasons but this is not that. Those kinds of docs do that to line THEIR pockets - there’s not a doc alive who would risk their career or future or freedom to make a hospital more money lol. The Medicare reimbursement rates are based on past guidelines for treatments of similar respiratory diseases and historical costs for ventilator care - The numbers weren’t just pulled out of their ass. As for the extra CARES money - That money is to help cover the treatment of the uninsured and to help cover the costs of purchasing extra supplies and equipment (thousands of extra PPE, cost of emergency staffing, extra vents, extra security, etc.). And note the language - “a ’portion’ of which will be ‘used to reimburse healthcare providers, at Medicare rates, for COVID-related treatment of the uninsured’.” A PORTION - that’s a weasel word with no guarantee. And, again, the “extra” money for classifying a Covid patient is peanuts compared to lost revenue elsewhere. That juice ain’t worth the squeeze. Finally, the fact that this claim originated from an interview with a Minnesota state Senator on Laura Ingraham’s show is worth noting. The Senator, Scott Jensen, is a family practice physician who has also said the following about Covid - -It’s no worse than the flu -He’s been supportive of anti-vaxxers -He’s currently under investigation by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice for his statements on Covid10 points
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Shouldn’t this chick be seducing Bond and trying to steal the microfilm from his cuff links?9 points
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The crazy thing is that it's his administration's job to get it right, to safeguard the elections, to ensure that the elections are fair. Saying that the elections aren't going to be fair when it's his administration that has been in power for four years is like say "we have failed in our responsibility to do what every other adminstration before us has managed to do. Vote for us again."9 points
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Many people are saying that Trump gave Biden ten endorsements now and three to be named later to get Herschel's.9 points
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New Yorkers everywhere preparing for Superstorm Laura landfall by late Saturday/early Sunday.8 points
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Yes. The shutdown didn’t kill the virus. In part because it was estimated we shut down to about 50% activity. Shutting down further would have further reduced its prevalence in our society. Theyre having music festivals at water parks in fucking WUHAN without masks or social distancing because they got it under control there by fully shutting down. Unlikely that could ever happen here, but there’s gotta be something in between full shutdown and “fuck it. I’m bored. Let’s just have 300,000 dead Americans by Christmas”8 points
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That death rate is not at all representative of the age group impacted among students on college campuses. Theirs is closer to 0.03%. Professors/Support staff perhaps, but the 3% is not the mortality number to use if discussing the 18-29 age grouping. This has been discussed at length with data on this very thread. Not to say there aren't long term issues related to the virus but quit using 3% as a data point for college age mortality rates. Again not advocating for playing CFB or even having campuses open, I am simply advocating for the better use of data and statistics in these discussions.8 points
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If somebody said this to me - "Did you know that according to College statistics that the School that a man is more likely to me another is Little Brother of Aggy, the u of tx". - I wouldn't say another word, either. I would have no idea what that meant.8 points
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Dude was a retard. Cops shouldn’t have shot him. Now a bunch of poor and middle class people are going to have their shit destroyed. I believe I’ll pour myself another scotch7 points
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They also assume that every poor person lives in an area with public transportation, which is why rural areas are using telehealth as Miss Nurse from West Vahgenyah told America last night during the convention. I have also lived in a community where the library budget was bundled with the parks department and unfortunately the sports mad parents preferred baseball fields to books so the library was underwhelming. Someone that needed to use the library for career building or job seeking would probably find it beneficial to scrounge up a tent and camp nearby. The gap between subsisting and building a life with plans for the future is a day to day struggle with each task taking longer and longer because of the gaps in services. We should ALL be furious at the stock buybacks and golden parachutes and insider trading because the majority of us (including those on welfare) are not defrauding the government. We are being used BY the government to build the wealth of the 1%: with our labor, with our tax dollars, and with our lives. How much money could have been spent on fixing the roads instead of a wall? Or streamlining immigration paperwork so labor had a path to legal citizenship? All I see from Alex Azar to Jared Kushner to Steve Mnuchin to the gun couple in St Louis is 'what is mine is mine and what is yours is mine too.' and I'm fed up with it. Take my tax dollars but tax those bastards much greater and give it to the masses in ways that benefit them.7 points
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The true definition of insanity, is burning down your city/community every time your emotions get the better of you. And not understanding why the community hasn't changed. -Common Sense --Brothahorn7 points
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MediCARE is for the olds. MedicAID is for the younger poors. FICA tax funds SS and MediCARE. MedicAID is not substantially funded by FICA. Any long-term change in FICA tax is going to have to be passed by Congress and, as a revenue measure, such a bill would have to originate in the House. So, I think for the foreseeable future, Trump's blathering about the payroll tax is horseshit.7 points
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Yes, the Republican party is a like a bucket of saltwater left out in the sun. The water evaporates and the water gets saltier, but the bucket is no longer full.7 points
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Walter with a good reference. But also this. This is important too: It's been talked about on this forum, but get others to the polls. Drag them if you have to, but every vote must be to stop this.7 points
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Maybe if your “friends” are employed by a hospital owned practice and have an RVU component in their contracts but that has absolutely no bearing on a hospital based provider (ED physician or hospitalist) who are the clinicians caring for Covid inpatients. Listen, this whole conspiracy theory nonsense originated with a family practice doctor who is a Minnesota state senator who is a regular Fox News guest. He’s dangerously claimed the flu is more deadly than Covid, given support to anti-vaxxers, and is currently under medical board investigation. He was presented as an “expert” and lots of people fell for it. This is a huge problem on Fox News. They count on people to trust their “expert reporting” and count on their viewers to repeat and amplify their specious stories without doing any basic research. You fell for it. Next time you see something like this, do some research and don’t become a cog in the propaganda machine.7 points
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Or they could responsibly push the fact that masks and social distancing are working and show the positive trends. Give folks some positive encouragement to stay the course. Not everything needs to be fear driven.7 points
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I see Brisket is back, with his usual solipsism. I actually admire your conviction in the many, many attempts to tell your truth and story in as many different ways as possible, in the hopes that people just don't understand or get what you are trying to convey, but that what you are saying is necessary and right and poignant and needs to be heard...instead of the obvious reality that everyone hears you, considers (or, rather, considered months ago) your position, and then rejects it and then dismisses it. And then comes the confusion with the vanity of your repetition. It's like a comic who keeps telling the same joke, but nobody laughs, but the comic is convinced it's a really great joke. There is a beauty in it-- in the absurd. There is an artistic integrity in it, too. Keep telling your joke, Brisket. I'm here for it.7 points
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Trump had a very easy 3 years before corona. He didn’t really have any major crises to deal with and Obama left him an economy with roughly 60-70 months straight of growth. you could find some guy off the street and make him president and even he would’ve done a good job from 2017-2019. Easiest point in time to lead our country in a very long time.7 points
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