re: laugh at louisiana (covid testing)

I was living downtown east of hwy59 in Houston when Obama was running for presidency the first go round. There were shuttles that picked us up to go vote at the Community College off Elgin. I was given a voucher for a 4 piece churches chicken...lol. Given poor people crappy food bribes is nothing new.

Why is there a push to get more people tested? Shouldn’t there be a push for people to stay home?

Bill Cassidy Racial Disparities in Covid Deaths


Can you tell me what is being done to help the black community in your state right now, which clearly is being disproportionately hit by this disease?

... If you're going to look at the fundamental reason, African Americans are 60% more likely to have diabetes. Now, if you look at the NIH website, that would say that's for obesity, for genetic reasons, perhaps other things.

The virus likes to hit what is called an ACE2 receptor. ... Now, if you have diabetes, obesity, hypertension — and diabetes and hypertension are clearly risk factors for problems from COVID — then African Americans are going to have more of those receptors inherent in their having the diabetes, the hypertension, the obesity and inherent in them having an overrepresentation of that. So there's a physiologic reason which is explaining this.

Now, as a physician, I would say we need to address the obesity epidemic, which disproportionately affects African Americans — in all Americans, we need to address it. That would lower the prevalence of the diabetes, of hypertension, of the ACE receptors, etc., and that's what would bring benefit.

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If the goal isn’t to find more positives, why bribe them with fast food to have them come in to be tested? Do you really think an asymptomatic who comes in to get some McD’s and tests positive is going to self quarantine for two weeks with that knowledge? Hell, no.

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The goal shouldn't be "not to find new cases".

It's like this. High C is talked into a 50 man gang bang (holding fast to the 50 and under Man Date). After a few days, you hear from the grapevine the poor woman has a raging case of herpes. Do you go get tested upon the news or when a boil festers, pops and ruins your tighty whities?

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By “trying to make things better” you mean doing everything possible to inflate positive case numbers?

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Or ... and stay with me here... testing helps people know if they have it so they can stay the frick away from others instead of spreading it everywhere.

All these virus numbers are fake.

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Why is the government paying people indirectly to get tested?

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The government is just trying to make things better, doggone it.