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Friday, April 17, 2020 1:24 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by Kevin:
I see New York is padding the death numbers by admitting to just adding 2,000+ deaths, because we're New York and we do whatever we want to do.
Quote:"In other words" means you have to restate your original post because it wasn't true. So you admit that it's not about NY doing 'whatever we want to do' just because it's NY.
Originally posted by Kevin:
In other words...
And I just thought I'd mention - those annual deaths due to 'the' flu that the CDC publishes that you believe, are made up out of thin air.
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Friday, April 17, 2020 1:55 AM
Quote:Trump says he is fighting a war against Covid-19. How stupid is Trump's war strategy? We can find out by comparing Trump's country to Vietnam:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I DON'T CARE WHAT TRUMP SAYS. He hosted a reality TV-show, remember? He says whatever he thinks he needs to say to get what he wants done, DONE.
I'm more interested in what HE DOES.
Jeezus, SECONDRATE, are you a dupe of reality TV shows?? You seem to take everything said seriously. ALL Presidents lie. Saint Obama lied, and he lied more consequentially than Trump.
In Vietnam, There Have Been Fewer Than 300 COVID-19 Cases And No Deaths. Here's Why
April 16, 2020
Vietnam shares a border with China, yet it has reported no deaths from COVID-19 and just 268 confirmed cases, when other Southeast Asian nations are reporting thousands.
Experts say experience dealing with prior pandemics, early implementation of aggressive social distancing policies, strong action from political leaders and the muscle of a one-party authoritarian state have helped Vietnam.
"They had political commitment early on at the highest level," says John MacArthur, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's country representative in neighboring Thailand. "And that political commitment went from central level all the way down to the hamlet level."
With experience gained from dealing with the 2003 SARS and 2009 H1N1 bird flu pandemics, Vietnam's government started organizing its response in January — as soon as reports from Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated, began trickling in. The country quickly came up with a variety of tactics, including widespread quarantining and aggressive contact tracing. It has also won praise for its transparency in dealing with the crisis from the World Health Organization and the CDC.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently characterized Vietnam's efforts as the "spring general offensive of 2020," a reference to the 1968 Tet Offensive that many claim helped turn the tide of the Vietnam War.
Tens of thousands have been put in quarantine camps. By the end of March, Vietnam had banned all international and domestic flights. The government locked down the country on April 1. State-run media say the current social distancing and stay-at-home orders are to be extended for at least another week.
Those who break the rules in this one-party Communist state are treated harshly. One man was jailed on a nine-month sentence for failing to wear a mask.
Streets normally buzzing with motorcycles and cars are almost empty in most large cities. As the economic toll of the lockdown becomes apparent, some entrepreneurs are stepping up to help. One has provided "rice ATMs" to dispense free rice to those who are out of work.
Some may still be skeptical of Vietnam's relatively low COVID-19 case numbers. The CDC's MacArthur is not.
"Our team up in Hanoi is working very, very closely with their Ministry of Health counterparts," he says. "The communications I've had with my Vietnam team is that at this point in time [they] don't have any indication that those numbers are false."
www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/16/835748673/in-
vietnam-there-have-been-fewer-than-300-covid-19-cases-and-no-deaths-heres-why
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Friday, April 17, 2020 2:01 AM
Quote:How would you know? You never pay attention to what he does.
Originally posted by second:
People lie to me constantly, Signym. I can tolerate lies. My problem is not with lying, but with people who don't make sense. Trump doesn't make sense. Obama did. Trump is criminally incompetent.
Quote:Since all you ever post about is what Trump says, or tweets, or what other people say he says, or tweets, how would you know about anything else?
Obama wasn't. Trump is disorganized, fat, lazy and loquacious. Obama wasn't.
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Friday, April 17, 2020 2:58 AM
Quote:Are you claiming that Trump is thin and doesn't have diarrhea of the mouth? This thing you and Signym have about evaluating Trump on what he does and not what he says: I can't prove Trump has done anything as President. It is his staff that does his work for him, what little is being accomplished as far as the pandemic. Must be nice for Trump getting paid for being boss yet never doing the parts he dislikes. But I can prove he never shuts his flapping mouth.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:How would you know? You never pay attention to what he does.
Originally posted by second:
People lie to me constantly, Signym. I can tolerate lies. My problem is not with lying, but with people who don't make sense. Trump doesn't make sense. Obama did. Trump is criminally incompetent.Quote:Since all you ever post about is what Trump says, or tweets, or what other people say he says, or tweets, how would you know about anything else?
Obama wasn't. Trump is disorganized, fat, lazy and loquacious. Obama wasn't.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Friday, April 17, 2020 3:18 AM
You SAY you care about Trump being incompetent.
And then you post about everything BUT what he does. For example, here you focus on Trump not being "thin" and having "diarrhea of the mouth".
I'll leave it for you to explain.
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Friday, April 17, 2020 3:29 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Kevin:
I see New York is padding the death numbers by admitting to just adding 2,000+ deaths, because we're New York and we do whatever we want to do.Quote:"In other words" means you have to restate your original post because it wasn't true. So you admit that it's not about NY doing 'whatever we want to do' just because it's NY.
Originally posted by Kevin:
In other words...
And I just thought I'd mention - those annual deaths due to 'the' flu that the CDC publishes that you believe, are made up out of thin air.
We're friends. You can call me Kev. ;)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Friday, April 17, 2020 3:30 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump says he is fighting a war against Covid-19. How stupid is Trump's war strategy? We can find out by comparing Trump's country to Vietnam:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I DON'T CARE WHAT TRUMP SAYS. He hosted a reality TV-show, remember? He says whatever he thinks he needs to say to get what he wants done, DONE.
I'm more interested in what HE DOES.
Jeezus, SECONDRATE, are you a dupe of reality TV shows?? You seem to take everything said seriously. ALL Presidents lie. Saint Obama lied, and he lied more consequentially than Trump.
In Vietnam, There Have Been Fewer Than 300 COVID-19 Cases And No Deaths. Here's Why
April 16, 2020
Vietnam shares a border with China, yet it has reported no deaths from COVID-19 and just 268 confirmed cases, when other Southeast Asian nations are reporting thousands.
Experts say experience dealing with prior pandemics, early implementation of aggressive social distancing policies, strong action from political leaders and the muscle of a one-party authoritarian state have helped Vietnam.
"They had political commitment early on at the highest level," says John MacArthur, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's country representative in neighboring Thailand. "And that political commitment went from central level all the way down to the hamlet level."
With experience gained from dealing with the 2003 SARS and 2009 H1N1 bird flu pandemics, Vietnam's government started organizing its response in January — as soon as reports from Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated, began trickling in. The country quickly came up with a variety of tactics, including widespread quarantining and aggressive contact tracing. It has also won praise for its transparency in dealing with the crisis from the World Health Organization and the CDC.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently characterized Vietnam's efforts as the "spring general offensive of 2020," a reference to the 1968 Tet Offensive that many claim helped turn the tide of the Vietnam War.
Tens of thousands have been put in quarantine camps. By the end of March, Vietnam had banned all international and domestic flights. The government locked down the country on April 1. State-run media say the current social distancing and stay-at-home orders are to be extended for at least another week.
Those who break the rules in this one-party Communist state are treated harshly. One man was jailed on a nine-month sentence for failing to wear a mask.
Streets normally buzzing with motorcycles and cars are almost empty in most large cities. As the economic toll of the lockdown becomes apparent, some entrepreneurs are stepping up to help. One has provided "rice ATMs" to dispense free rice to those who are out of work.
Some may still be skeptical of Vietnam's relatively low COVID-19 case numbers. The CDC's MacArthur is not.
"Our team up in Hanoi is working very, very closely with their Ministry of Health counterparts," he says. "The communications I've had with my Vietnam team is that at this point in time [they] don't have any indication that those numbers are false."
www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/16/835748673/in-
vietnam-there-have-been-fewer-than-300-covid-19-cases-and-no-deaths-heres-why
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
More evidence that Second doesn't give a single shit about the Constitution and that he's a Communist.
Keep posting buddy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Friday, April 17, 2020 3:49 AM
Quote:6ix, you might not know, but the Vietnamese are poorer than Americans and yet Vietnam shut down for Covid-19 because they care more about keeping the death toll low then they do about money while you have told us many times you care only about money and don't give a damn about who dies. You and Trump have got that in common which makes you two Ebenezer Scrooge before the Ghosts of Christmas scared him.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
More evidence that Second doesn't give a single shit about the Constitution and that he's a Communist.
Keep posting buddy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Friday, April 17, 2020 5:05 AM
You just applauded a government that shuts everything down at gunpoint.
Shut up, Commie. Your opinion is invalid.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Friday, April 17, 2020 5:56 AM
Quote:6ix, the GOP is a death cult. You've told us that everybody dies sooner or later and you regret you only have one life to give to Trump and the Economy. You told us about what the country does not shutdown for: traffic accidents, heart disease, cancer, and especially mass shootings. Those have a special, loving place in GOP hearts. To feel otherwise would make you a SJW, 6ix. Don't go there. Carry on as an out-of-work nutjob living in a shack you're proud of for purchasing so cheaply, 6ix, and eventually killing yourself with either tobacco, alcohol, firearms, obesity, Oxycontin, falling from the roof of your shack, etc. That is the Republican way -- a death cult. But before you die, vote for Trump. You'll be happy to know your vote was the one that gave Trump his victory since otherwise Indiana might have gone for Biden. On second thought, since you are sure Trump will win, maybe it makes no difference if you vote or not, work or not, live or die.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You just applauded a government that shuts everything down at gunpoint.
Shut up, Commie. Your opinion is invalid.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
As for me, I have work to do tomorrow and people depending on me to be there.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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