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  1. 2 minutes ago, Liquor and Poker said:

    Age?  Fit? Active?  Taking ARBs or ACEIs? Vape?  Drinker?   O blood type or A?  Vegan?  Filtered water or tap?  Eye color?  Earlobe attached or hanging?
     

    Without a lot more information, these are all just anecdotes- as are the “healthy 23 yo just dropped dead in the hallway” stories.  

    Oh, I know. I'm just saying that we might get lucky and not get the worst flu of our lives.  Or we could. 

  2. 1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I question any lull in new cases narrative.  22 states had highs in new cases either yesterday or the day before.  MA, MD, IL are trending much worse.  I also worry that the US military is now reporting large number of cases. If counted along state or territories, the US military now has the 22nd most cases.

    Are they already included in case #'s for the states where they are stationed?

  3. 38 minutes ago, NoName said:

    NY Post: Anthony Fauci compares race disparities of coronavirus to AIDS epidemic

     

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    Anthony Fauci compares race disparities of coronavirus to AIDS epidemic
    By Steven Nelson April 7, 2020 | 8:22pm    | Updated
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    Anthony Fauci compares race disparities of coronavirus to AIDS epidemic


     

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    White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that the coronavirus outbreak’s disproportionate death toll among black Americans reminds him of HIV/AIDS largely impacting gay people.

    “I couldn’t help sitting there reflecting about sometimes when you’re in the middle of a crisis, like we are now with the coronavirus, it really does… ultimately shine a very bright light on some of the real weaknesses and foibles in our society,” Fauci said Tuesday at a White House press conference.

    Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, said “as some of you know the greater proportion of my professional career has been defined by HIV/AIDS.”

    He continued: “And if you go back then during that period of time when there was extraordinary stigma particularly against the gay community.

    “And it was only when the world realized how the gay community responded to this outbreak with incredible courage and dignity and strength and activism —I think that really changed some of the stigma against the gay community. Very much so.”

    Enlarge ImageDr. Anthony Fauci
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    African-Americans dying at greater rates from COVID-19 could be a similar moment, he said.

    “I see a similarity here because health disparities have always existed for the African-American community,” Fauci said.

    “Here again with the crisis, how it’s shining a bright light on how unacceptable that is because, yet again, when you have a situation like the coronavirus they are suffering disproportionately.

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    “As Dr. Birx said correctly, it’s not that they are getting infected more often, it’s that when they do get infected their underlying medical conditions — the diabetes, hypertension, the obesity, the asthma — those are the kind of things that wind them up in the ICU and ultimately give him a higher death rate.”

    Fauci said, “when all this is over and, as we said, it will end, we will get over coronavirus, but there will still be health disparities which we really do need to address in the African American community.”

    The respiratory virus has infected nearly 400,000 US residents and killed almost 13,000.

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded to data indicating higher minority death tolls by calling for coronavirus legislation to consider reparations.

     

     

    Did they just slide that last line in there to see if anyone is paying attention?

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  4. 2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Just found out my graduation (Med) got delayed 3 months. It’s all relative and compared to what others are going through this is nothing....but it still fucking sucks. 

    However will you spend your time?

  5. 1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

    I dig her. She has a legit gripe but she needs to be careful. I don't think they started development on the Rebels sequel with Ahsoka, Sabine and Ezra. Would suck if they had someone else voice Ahsoka for that series.

    Is that an actual thing or a theory?  I haven't heard anything about that.

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