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Rachel and the Con's Covid substitute experts (Original Post) malaise Sep 2020 OP
Tonight's show is chiling, Malaise shanti Sep 2020 #1
That's an understatement malaise Sep 2020 #3
We're guiding our country by a few waiters who can't keep their hands off masks between washings? TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #2
Herd immunity IcyPeas Sep 2020 #4
He's a mass murderer malaise Sep 2020 #6
He hears things on fox news IcyPeas Sep 2020 #8
I wonder how long it is going to be before certain businesses Doreen Sep 2020 #5
2.1 million dead is his best case scenario malaise Sep 2020 #7
Are you sure that is all the MOFO wants to kill. Doreen Sep 2020 #9
Not at all malaise Sep 2020 #10
Forget the straight jacket, get a firing squad. Doreen Sep 2020 #18
And one of my siblings wants to know why I said they won't be seeing malaise Sep 2020 #19
Seriously! My Dad is dying of cancer, on hospice as my sister who lives with (mooches off) him littlemissmartypants Sep 2020 #23
So sorry to hear about your difficult situation : ( electric_blue68 Sep 2020 #24
Thank you so much for your reply, electric_blue68. littlemissmartypants Sep 2020 #25
I feel your pain malaise Sep 2020 #26
I'm listening now, but missed most of it. I don't know if she's covered it, femmedem Sep 2020 #11
She did point out that Sweden tried the herd immunity approach and had to stop it malaise Sep 2020 #15
Thanks, Malaise. eom femmedem Sep 2020 #22
I like that Rachel canetoad Sep 2020 #12
Yep but I also like the fact that she's reminding us to watch what he does and malaise Sep 2020 #13
She did the math on herd immunity Mersky Sep 2020 #14
Wish someone would put these numbers in an ad IcyPeas Sep 2020 #16
Frightening indeed malaise Sep 2020 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author IcyPeas Sep 2020 #20
Adding this malaise Sep 2020 #21

TheBlackAdder

(28,190 posts)
2. We're guiding our country by a few waiters who can't keep their hands off masks between washings?
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:22 PM
Sep 2020

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No wonder why people who eat out have twice the COVID infection rate.

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IcyPeas

(21,869 posts)
4. Herd immunity
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:25 PM
Sep 2020

6.4 million deaths in the USA.

As long as the deaths are in blue states he doesn't care.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
5. I wonder how long it is going to be before certain businesses
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:27 PM
Sep 2020

ban face masks. Trump dictates a no mask rule in Federal buildings.

People who get COVID recover but end up with other health problems and can not get health insurance because it is a preexisting condition.

The MOFO is purposely driving the herd over the cliff.

Trump and his administration are bloody murderes.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
9. Are you sure that is all the MOFO wants to kill.
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:33 PM
Sep 2020

I would not be surprised if he wants to kill more. I am afraid, very afraid.

malaise

(268,986 posts)
10. Not at all
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:35 PM
Sep 2020

Using one of Rachel's calculations - the worst case scenario could be over six million dead.
And this monster thinks he should be president.
Get the strait jacket please.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
18. Forget the straight jacket, get a firing squad.
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:42 PM
Sep 2020

Yeah, sitting here listening to Rachel is scaring me.

littlemissmartypants

(22,656 posts)
23. Seriously! My Dad is dying of cancer, on hospice as my sister who lives with (mooches off) him
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 01:13 AM
Sep 2020

continues to go to the gym, dines out and goes shopping, while her daughter (also living there) works as a waitress even though she doesn't need the money. They are both bullies but I am staying away from all of it. I want to see my dad so badly but I don't want to take or get the virus in the process. I have been crying off and on since Sunday night. Each day I call and he sounds weaker and weaker. We are half sisters and she has been evil to me all my life. I'm just so sad thinking about it. Today she listened in on the call. I am so torn.

❤ lmsp

electric_blue68

(14,891 posts)
24. So sorry to hear about your difficult situation : (
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 03:25 AM
Sep 2020

The possibility of getting/giving the virus, I don't think your dad if you have what sounds like a good relationship with him would want you to get sick.

Part of me wants you to go before he's gone ... I'm older than you both of mine are gone - had I the such circumstances as we have and have to decide and they were still alive but dying I'd feel torn myself. Still probably not a good idea.

If nothing else keep telling him how much you love him. Share your favorite memories with him.

MCan you do some kind of cellphone, tablet, or computer - video call while a hospice person is there, so you wouldn't have deal with your sister?

I hope something very meaningful for you and your dad can happen.
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littlemissmartypants

(22,656 posts)
25. Thank you so much for your reply, electric_blue68.
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 05:30 AM
Sep 2020

He's such a great dad. I will miss him so much. I can't think about it without crying, like now. You have given me some good ideas and I deeply appreciate that. I just keep wishing he could stay a little bit longer. His mom, who I took care of in her later years, lived to be 94. I just don't want him to go. I just want him to stay a little bit longer.



Sorry.

femmedem

(8,201 posts)
11. I'm listening now, but missed most of it. I don't know if she's covered it,
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:36 PM
Sep 2020

but the craziest thing of all, other than the first round of deaths necessary to achieve herd immunity, is that peoples' antibodies don't last and people can become reinfected. Therefore herd immunity doesn't even seem possible, regardless of how many people become infected.

malaise

(268,986 posts)
15. She did point out that Sweden tried the herd immunity approach and had to stop it
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:41 PM
Sep 2020

the UK wanted to try it and stopped after deaths went up.

She did read the scathing letter from Atlas's former Stanford colleagues.

canetoad

(17,154 posts)
12. I like that Rachel
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:36 PM
Sep 2020

Is playing the idiotic 'herd mentality' clip over and over again. Scary scenario.

malaise

(268,986 posts)
13. Yep but I also like the fact that she's reminding us to watch what he does and
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:38 PM
Sep 2020

not just how he botches words.

Mersky

(4,981 posts)
14. She did the math on herd immunity
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:38 PM
Sep 2020

And showed the work for those afflicted with tRump herd mentality:

2.97% current death rate x 215,000,000 infected persons = 6,385,000 deaths!!!

That’s if, if catching the virus even makes people immune on the long term.

Response to Mersky (Reply #14)

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