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re: Farage Warns: Chinese Interests Lining up for ‘Fire Sale’ of U.K. Businesses - US next?
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/11/20 at 6:17 am
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Let me get this straight---a Trumpkin here on PT is advocating for nationalizing companies to keep the Chinese from buying them??
You people are nuts.
My allegiance to capitalism is strictly outcome based. I have no ideological affinity for it or for any other economic system.
If capitalism has become a system that cannot function adequately without cheap third world labor and insists on trade with geopolitical foes who are poisoning our citizens, then let's scrap it and give national socialism a try.
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re: The Testing Debacle
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/11/20 at 6:09 am
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We lead the world in testing.
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2.5 million tests to date.
#2, Germany, has 1.3 million tests.
Based on the population we're testing 1/273, the Germans 1/90. I still can't go in to work and get a patient tested based on suspicious symptoms and clinical judgment unless they are admitted, on a ventilator, or live in a nursing home. Department of Health rules.
re: Are port cities and "sanctuary" cities getting hit harder?
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/11/20 at 6:02 am
There are certain scientific questions you are not allowed to ask or study because the results would damage the politically correct leftist narrative.
re: It will be a s&%$ show whenever Trump declares the economy is open
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/11/20 at 5:29 am
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I'm sure Trump knows that whenever he declares the economy is open the left will pitch a fit.
The left pitches a fit no matter what he does on anything. This won't be any different.
The timing is key. Keep things closed into late summer, spark a depression, lose the election. Open things up too early, see a resurgence in virus cases and deaths, lose the election.
Buchanan: Trump's Presidency Hangs On One Decision
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"Trump’s true adversary in this election is not Joe Biden, the hermit candidate sheltering in place. Biden is but a name on the November ballot you mark if you want to remove and replace Donald Trump.
Trump’s real antagonists are the media who detest him and are determined, having failed to impeach and remove him, to drive him from office by portraying him as a foolish, failed president in the worst crisis to hit the country since Pearl Harbor.
The crucial decision Trump will make is to choose the exact moment to reopen the country and the economy, without igniting a new spike in the pandemic that induces despair and causes a panic."
re: Calpers (US largest pension fund) remove its risk protection a few weeks ago ($Billion)
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 5:36 pm
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Yu, a U.S. citizen born in China
Curious coincidence.
Sort of like something a foreign agent might do as part of an asymmetric warfare strategy.
re: ID2020. This is unbelievable.
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 2:02 pm
re: Let's be honest: EVERYONE underplayed the virus early on
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 1:59 pm
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We keep seeing these quotes and gotchas about people joking about it, comparing it to the flu, saying it was exaggerated, etc., etc.
No one, that I have seen, is innocent. Trump, Fauci, Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, Cuomo, diBlasio, media people from Clay Travis to CNN talking heads, did this early on.
I know I certainly did (and still do, TBH).
Edit: Added the WHO to the underplayed list.
People should just acknowledge that this caught everyone off guard. No one was prepared for this, or took it serious enough early on.
I think we can all rally around one thing though, and that's frick China.
If they had been honest in the beginning, the people I mentioned above would likely have taken it more serious early on.
Didn’t catch me off guard.
...and yes, boycott China. Institute a ban on all imports from and exports to China. A total ban on immigration from China.
re: Farage Warns: Chinese Interests Lining up for ‘Fire Sale’ of U.K. Businesses - US next?
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 11:58 am
Banning the sale of American assets - from companies to real estate - to the Chinese would be a good move.
re: Theories on why mortality rate is climbing? ref. Chromdome's pinned stats
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 11:56 am
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We still arent testing healthy people with mild symptoms, at least 50% of infected have no symptoms and we are at the top of the curve
If you look at the stats that he is tracking, the percentage of tests that comes back negative is increasing. Soi have no reason to believe that we are missing the mild cases in substantial numbers.
re: Daily COVID Updated as of 11/2/20 8:00 PM
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 3:37 am
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We should know how correct the IHME model is about 5-6 days from now, as that model shows declining daily death numbers after the 12th.
Mortality is up to 3.56% the rate continues to increase and it looks like the increase is accelerating.
This number better start decreasing - or at least stop increasing - after the 12th.
The problem is that it is still increasing whether you track the data for the US, worldwide, Italy, or Germany (has practically tripled in the past ten days).
I'm really interested to see where Sweden ends up with no quarantines, open borders, and really no efforts at containment or mitigation so far. Just started tracking them, they're at 8.7%.
re: Daily COVID Updated as of 11/2/20 8:00 PM
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 3:34 am
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More testing was driving the death rate down as less sever cases started to get tested.
This is incorrect. I've been tracking the CFR, death rate, mortality rate, whatever you want to call it. Over the past couple of weeks in the face of increased testing it has steadily marched upwards and so far has given no indication of stopping.
re: Will Hell itself freeze over before urban New Yorkers admit that
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 3:23 am
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"Two city lawmakers are demanding Mayor Bill de Blasio oust Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot “before it’s too late,” saying her guidance on coronavirus has been disastrous.
Barbot “failed to take decisive actions to not only contain the virus early and flatten the curve, but her inaction has actually led to New York City becoming the epicenter of this pandemic,” City Councilmen Robert Holden and Eric Ulrich told de Blasio in a blistering letter obtained by The Post.
“Despite numerous warning signs from around the globe, Commissioner Barbot failed to keep New York City ahead of the curve. Significant research on pandemics and the spread of viruses should have been conducted early, and our city should have led the nation by taking drastic measures before any other city,” it says.
As the global outbreak heated up in January, Barbot repeatedly assured New Yorkers their risk was “low,” and to resume normal activities with only basic precautions such as washing hands."
Their initial response was "nothing to see here", "fake news", "it's the flu, brah".
Now they're screwed.
You either obey the thousands of years of history that tells us that quarantine is the way to deal with these sorts of things, or you pay the price.
Pretty simple.
"Two city lawmakers are demanding Mayor Bill de Blasio oust Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot “before it’s too late,” saying her guidance on coronavirus has been disastrous.
Barbot “failed to take decisive actions to not only contain the virus early and flatten the curve, but her inaction has actually led to New York City becoming the epicenter of this pandemic,” City Councilmen Robert Holden and Eric Ulrich told de Blasio in a blistering letter obtained by The Post.
“Despite numerous warning signs from around the globe, Commissioner Barbot failed to keep New York City ahead of the curve. Significant research on pandemics and the spread of viruses should have been conducted early, and our city should have led the nation by taking drastic measures before any other city,” it says.
As the global outbreak heated up in January, Barbot repeatedly assured New Yorkers their risk was “low,” and to resume normal activities with only basic precautions such as washing hands."
Their initial response was "nothing to see here", "fake news", "it's the flu, brah".
Now they're screwed.
You either obey the thousands of years of history that tells us that quarantine is the way to deal with these sorts of things, or you pay the price.
Pretty simple.
re: US Chinese Virus Tracker - 466,299 Cases, 16,686 Deaths, 26,104 Recovered (4/10/2020)
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 3:17 am
Having surpassed the average annual mortality for influenza by quite a bit with a tiny fraction of the cases, anyone care to make the case that "it's the flu"? Or we finally done with that nonsense.
re: Birx Rejects Theory that Coronavirus deaths are inflated
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/10/20 at 3:06 am
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Hospitals are being paid for having Covid patients. Of course they’re going to inflate the number at a time they’re hemorrhaging money.
I don't know what type of business you're in, but do you regularly lie to increase profits?
Medicine doesn't work that way.
re: Your Trump's debate coach, how do you debate Biden?
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/9/20 at 1:19 pm
More Reagan, less Trump. You don’t want to go Incredible Hulk on him and end up making him seem like a sympathetic figure. Reveal his dementia for the nation to see, get him off script.
re: Medicare pays hospitals $13,000 per COVID patient - $39,000 if on ventilator
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/9/20 at 7:54 am
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Dr. Scott Jensen (on Laura Ingraham last night) said Medicare pays hospitals $13,000 per COVID patient - $39,000 if on ventilator.
I understand that you probably work in some field unrelated to health care, but particularly in Emergency and Critical Care medicine the billing side of the house doesn't play a role in what ICD code you pick.
So don't try and apply whatever motivations exist in your line of work to medicine.
re: Biggest winner is Mexico
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/9/20 at 7:52 am
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If Mexico was an American city Id compare it to NO
As bad as NO is, it has a few redeeming characteristics. Memphis might be a better comparison.
Build the wall. American jobs for American workers.
re: Biggest winner is Mexico
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/8/20 at 11:22 pm
You globalists never learn do you. You spend 30 years enriching a communist regime that turns around and repeatedly poisons us and when you finally get called on it you want do the same for a failed narco terrorist state.
Well heck with that. Bring it home to America. Free trade for first world nations only. Walls for Mexico.
Well heck with that. Bring it home to America. Free trade for first world nations only. Walls for Mexico.
re: And thus it begins...
Posted by Boatshoes on 4/8/20 at 1:03 pm
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Then on April 1, the bankruptcy court supervisors fired the company’s CEO and CFO for paying $7 million in state sales taxes
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