the last great uniform was in 1999. it’s never been the same, and i have no reason to believe they’ll get this one right. helmet, colors, or uni.

wv wrote:

Poverty is way scarier than the virus.

yes. and my patients are at a high risk due to many many many underlying medical conditions. it’s unfortunate. we’re only doing emergency appointments at this point. it just really sucks.

makes sense.

watching succession.

it’s good. i highly recommend.

haha. well. i will say that my father in law who was a republican (i’m pretty sure he voted for w bush). he’s now a democrat. he’s for medicare for all.

my own father and mother. both republicans who later switched over to the democrats. they are in favor of medicare for all.

i also talked to my father in law’s friend. he’s a pediatrician. he is for medicare for all.

they’re all pretty much centrists i would argue.

BUT. i should also add that my parents came from korea. my father in law is from japan. the pediatrician is also from korea. both countries have a national healthcare system. so they come from a totally different perspective than most americans i would say.

so yeah. there’s definitely a huge hill to climb.

i will say that most young americans i talk to. are for a national healthcare system. that’s the feeling i get. meaning people under the age of 30. just the hunch i get from casual conversation.

so maybe people don’t change… but generations do???

wv wrote:

The warning from the nation’s largest university, with some 40,000 students, applies “especially” to students staying in nations with “poorly developed health services,” as well as countries, “for example the USA,” with a “poorly developed collective infrastructure.”

maybe this will be the wake up call this country needs?

well. if i was the rams, i would totally take that trade. but there’s no way that this is true.

this is a cnn interview with the same guy rogan interviewed above.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/opinions/osterholm-coronavirus-interview-bergen/index.html

zn wrote:

We know a lot.

i’ve read it. we know a lot about other cases.

and we can project. we don’t know about this particular strain. again we can project. and make very educated guesses. there’s a range that we can work within. that’s it.

and thanks ag for that video. that was informative.

we’ll just have to see.

Mackeyser wrote:

I would really love if this was all hype and media bullshit, but the science doesn’t bear that out.

i’m just willing to wait it out until we know more.

that’s not to say the approach has been all wrong.

i agree with the cancellation of mass gatherings.

and we do need to do more testing.

and i’m keeping an eye on how the new vaccination trial is going.

but the science is changing every week.

i do still worry about the negative impacts this pandemic could cause beyond just the disease itself.

yeah. definitely the morbidity and mortality rates are significantly higher than the flu.

that can’t be denied. i just wonder if the amount of focus being paid to it is disproportionate to the actual threat it poses.

i know at least one doctor who was relatively unconcerned about it’s threat. maybe he’s changed his tune now. i haven’t talked to him in a couple months.

i just worry that this could do more damage than it necessarily should.

i mean let’s say the mortality rates end up being 0.7%. far less than the 3% that was initially reported. now maybe i’m being paranoid. maybe it doesn’t even matter considering hundreds of thousands of lives possibly millions are at stake.

but what if trump weaponizes this? what if he uses this to mobilize other agendas. agendas that could threaten the existence of this planet? i could see him saying look at the liberal media trying to destroy his maga mission. does he attempt to frame it in a way that diminishes the threat of global warming dismissing it as just another lie from the liberal media trying to destroy him? trust me when i say there are plenty of people watching this questioning the numbers being thrown out there. what are the optics when you get everybody in a frenzy saying mortality rates are north of 3% and they end up being less than 1%? the swine flu in 2009 was similarly touted as a threat to humanity when follow up studies showed it wasn’t any more dangerous than the regular flu. again this is not to say that this coronavirus is the same as the flu.

my point isn’t to diminish the seriousness of this issue. but i feel like it needs to be framed differently. i see the media using it as a way of exposing trump’s flaws. i think it’s a mistake.

am i paranoid? are my thoughts just too far out there? probably.

Rudy Gobert touched every microphone at Jazz media availability Monday, now reportedly has coronavirus

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/rudy-gobert-touched-every-microphone-at-jazz-media-availability-monday-now-reportedly-has-coronavirus/

With the NBA recently banning media from accessing locker rooms, players have begun fulfilling their media obligations at the podium. Gobert did so at Monday’s Utah Jazz shootaround. Afterward, he proceeded to touch every microphone on the stage, seemingly sending a message about his fearlessness in regards to the disease. It is unknown just how many people came into contact with those microphones after Gobert.

So…here is Rudy touching all the mics following Mondays shoot around that has some people concerned… #TakeNote #utahjazz #CoronaVirus pic.twitter.com/dr4auECTr4

— Dave Fox (@Davefox2) March 12, 2020

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i get the feeling this is a hoax.

i will only say this. i didn’t know where else to put it. i decided to put it here.

if biden is the democratic nominee. he will get eaten alive by trump. i don’t know who the republicans would prefer to face, but they better hope it’s biden.