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MI has made masks mandatory, and while a person can't be punished, they are going after businesses that don't enforce it.

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A friend post that on FB yesterday... First of all, 1% wouldn't die (assuming we keep it low enough for hospitals to not get overwhelmed). As far as I can tell, it's somewhere around 0.5%, possibly lower. (Assuming people can only catch it once) The vast majority of those people were going to die within a year or two anyway.

The heart/lung/etc damage... these claims are really hard to make at the moment. I was reading a study on "permanent" heart damage, but they didn't have pre-COVID scans to compare. I'm no cardiologist, but it seems like that would have been an important part of determining the impact. I know that we can tell some age of scarring by various signs, but I'm not convinced that the scans they did are detailed enough.

That being said, either way, I'm staying home for the most part.
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The 1% most at risk of dying are generally not the ones keeping the economy running.

I guess that pretty much explodes the argument. If he's going to take the time to make a huge infographic , he should stop using half facts. People will think he's either a shallow thinker, or has an agenda.
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GORDON wrote: The 1% most at risk of dying are generally not the ones keeping the economy running.
Right. Unless you're a nursing home :)
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According to the "ok boomer" millennials, the economy would actually be better off if the 1% most at risk of dying died, because they are a drain on the economy. According to millennials.
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GORDON wrote: According to the "ok boomer" millennials, the economy would actually be better off if the 1% most at risk of dying died, because they are a drain on the economy. According to millennials.
Are they volunteering to die when they turn 65? Once they make that legally binding, I'll listen.
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Renew! Renew!
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TheCatt wrote: Assuming people can only catch it once
It's already been established multiple times that people can catch it more than once.

The rest of the image is suspect, obviously, but several studies are proving that it's doing permanent damage to healthy bodies.
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GORDON wrote: According to the "ok boomer" millennials, the economy would actually be better off if the 1% most at risk of dying died, because they are a drain on the economy. According to millennials.
Are they volunteering to die when they turn 65? Once they make that legally binding, I'll listen.
Millennials are absolutely the worst generation of people so far.
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Leisher wrote: It's already been established multiple times that people can catch it more than once.
Right, but is that 1 in a million? 1 in 1000? 1 in 1? It matters.
Leisher wrote: The rest of the image is suspect, obviously, but several studies are proving that it's doing permanent damage to healthy bodies.
My major issue is the definitiveness. I'm certainly staying home :)

Our kids are enrolled in Virtual Academy (or, we applied, and they will be enrolled, hopefully), so we've planned a trip for September, another one for a month in Utah around March/April 2021, and trying to figure out the rest based on vaccines, etc.
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TheCatt wrote: Right, but is that 1 in a million? 1 in 1000? 1 in 1? It matters.
Bullshit. I have been clearly told that only black lives matter. :D
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TheCatt wrote: Yankees are to blame.
Greetings from Phoenix, AZ.

we're some of.the few wearing masks.
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GORDON wrote:
TheCatt wrote: Yankees are to blame.
Greetings from Phoenix, AZ.

we're some of.the few wearing masks.
Seems a little odd in AZ, weren't they having a bunch of cases before CA + FL eclipsed them?
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A.week ago.Phoenix was.the #1 city in the world for new cases.
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Oh man, who's going to throw batteries at Santa Claus?
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A local hospital, St. V's, is filling up rapidly with fresh C-19 patients needing hospitalization.

DeWine (OH) is holding a press conference today where he is expected to make masks mandatory and/or impose another lockdown. Fingers crossed for another lockdown. I've got home projects to finish!

Promising vaccine going to final testing.
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Well, I can only imagine these stories will go exponential now
Walmart will require customers to wear masks at its stores
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