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uallas5

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I would have thought that someone with a background in healthcare would have made some efforts not to look so mindbogglingly stupid, but I guess that's what the cult he's in demanded of him.
The man still thinks the pyramids in Giza were built by Joseph as "grain silos". He may have been a brilliant surgeon, but critical thinking isn't exactly one of his strong points.. I wouldn't be surprised if he thought prayer would keep him safe.
 

zinfamous

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I would have thought that someone with a background in healthcare would have made some efforts not to look so mindbogglingly stupid, but I guess that's what the cult he's in demanded of him.

Surgeons are the fratboys of the medical profession. They are super skilled at one specific thing and pretty dumb about everything else, and you really only come to them when you have the one specific problem that they can fix or, if you are also looking for a diagnosis, they will more often than not diagnose you with the same fix that they diagnose everyone else that comes to them. In tool analogies, they are more similar to the hammer than say, the internist is really more like the scalpel of the actual medical field. Hell, ask them about any other surgical procedure than the specific one that they routinely perform, they're likely to blankly stare at you like Dax Sheperd in Idiocracy.

So, a guy like Carson really doesn't think about the coronavirus because it isn't something that he can cut out. It isn't in his atmosphere, at all. ....but more importantly, this is a guy that hasn't practiced medicine in something like 20 or more years. You might as well go seek medical advice from a yeoman at barber college or some other clown like Mehmet Oz before you ask Ben Carson anything about medicine.
 

kitkat22

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Sadly, we have a perfect example of what rampant covid infection looks like. All we have to do is look back to Italy or New York City and realize where this going.

I am not looking forward to 2 patients on the same vent.
 
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H T C

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Sadly, we have a perfect example of what rampant covid infection looks like. All we have to do is look back to Italy or New York City and realize where this going.

I am not looking forward to 2 patients on the same vent.

Actually, and assuming ventilators were in fact bought / manufactured / whatever since March, the problem may be the lack of personnel to supervise it's proper use: using a ventilator is not just switching it on and leave it be.
 

pauldun170

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Fenixgoon

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Republican shitstain who represents the Future Florida resident landfill known as Staten Island New York

i'm not sure how hardcore NYS is enforcing gathering bans, but this idiot just made himself a target.

of course then when the cops show up to break the gathering up, he'll cry about how he's being oppressed by the state, blah blah blah
 

pauldun170

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i'm not sure how hardcore NYS is enforcing gathering bans, but this idiot just made himself a target.

of course then when the cops show up to break the gathering up, he'll cry about how he's being oppressed by the state, blah blah blah


Staten Island is basically home to wall Trump supporting cops, racists assholes and Soprano's wannabe thugs.
His neighbor is probably a cop.
Cops show up at his house and he's going to whip out his photo album of PBA cards, caress his "No more Bullshit" Trump flag and invite them all in for some Turkey,
 

Lanyap

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i'm not sure how hardcore NYS is enforcing gathering bans, but this idiot just made himself a target.

of course then when the cops show up to break the gathering up, he'll cry about how he's being oppressed by the state, blah blah blah



I seriously doubt NYS will be enforcing gathering bans at people’s homes. The ban was an attempt to encourage sensible people to stay COVID safe during the holidays. Those with no common sense are the ones complaining and will probably break the ban and get the COVID to become a COVIDIOT.
 

CZroe

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Parked and was waiting to cross traffic to walk into the store. Cars stopped from both directions to let us cross. We acknowledged with a wave and crossed. Both vehicles started moving but the one from our left rolled down the window and yelled "COVID'S A LIE!"

Obviously, he was making an inference about us from our masks, since there was nothing else about us that implies we were duped by COVID lies or anything. Wish I could tell him that I've had my masks since January based on what I knew about what was happening in China while China was still lying about it, so it has nothing to do with what the government says/does. Heck, they literally told us to stop buying masks and not to wear them and that they were ineffective. As my record in the OT Coronavirus thread shows, I saw through that noise and applied critical thinking/healthy skepticism.

Obviously, I don't need him to tell me about governments lying to us about COVID-19. Love how conspiracy nuts think they are the real skeptics.
 
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esquared

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Just can't make this shit up. An MD takes medical advice and takes an "unproved plant extract" from
a guy that sells pillows for a living.

Carson took oleander extract, promoted by My Pillow CEO, to treat COVID infection

"I heard about the oleander extract from Mike,” Carson, a former neurosurgeon, said in an interview, according to the Washington Post. "

"Anybody who has ever gotten COVID and taken it, they are fine in five hours, and the next day are running around playing floor hockey in the hallway,” Lindell has claimed "


My first reaction would be to this lindel character, "you first".
 

Ajay

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Just can't make this shit up. An MD takes medical advice and takes an "unproved plant extract" from
a guy that sells pillows for a living.

Carson took oleander extract, promoted by My Pillow CEO, to treat COVID infection

"I heard about the oleander extract from Mike,” Carson, a former neurosurgeon, said in an interview, according to the Washington Post. "

"Anybody who has ever gotten COVID and taken it, they are fine in five hours, and the next day are running around playing floor hockey in the hallway,” Lindell has claimed "


My first reaction would be to this lindel character, "you first".
I still cannot understand how Carson was a brilliant brain surgeon and then became and idiot.
I do understand when people casually offer herbal solutions for things like arthritis or sciatica, but for a potentially fatal infection?
Freaking A.
 

Jhhnn

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Parked and was waiting to cross traffic to walk into the store. Cars stopped from both directions to let us cross. We acknowledged with a wave and crossed. Both vehicles started moving but the one from our left rolled down the window and yelled "COVID'S A LIE!"

Obviously, he was making an inference about us from our masks, since there was nothing else about us that implies we were duped by COVID lies or anything. Wish I could tell him that I've had my masks since January based on what I knew about what was happening in China while China was still lying about it, so it has nothing to do with what the government says/does. Heck, they literally told us to stop buying masks and not to wear them and that they were ineffective. As my record in the OT Coronavirus thread shows, I saw through that noise and applied critical thinking/healthy skepticism.

Obviously, I don't need him to tell me about governments lying to us about COVID-19. Love how conspiracy nuts think they are the real skeptics.

You're a conspiracy theory nut in claiming that China was lying in January.
 

Exterous

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Cases are surging and Michigan hospitals have reached 80% capacity. With hospitalizations up 5x since Oct 1st this is a really bad trend

Governor Whitmer aka by the GOP as that "Tyrant Bitch" issued a modified three week shutdown. And people are losing their minds
Restaurants are suing. She's the focus of a new OpEd in the Wall Street Journal. Even Matthew Stafford's wife is weighing in (Like we'd miss her if she and her husband left. What -are we going to be unable to win any playoff games without him?)


Let's just open everything back up. It's clearly working with our 7500 cases a day (3.5x the April numbers). It's fine it's not like we have a graph that shows a huge spike in cases in October when a lot of Gretchen's orders were overturned. Our legislature continues to refuse to act despite the thousand or so additional deaths so she's trying again and headed back to court

 
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nickqt

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I still cannot understand how Carson was a brilliant brain surgeon and then became and idiot.
I do understand when people casually offer herbal solutions for things like arthritis or sciatica, but for a potentially fatal infection?
Freaking A.
The short answer is that relatively smart people who chose to believe in their delusions have deep levels of cognitive dissonance operating to protect their egos from reality.
 
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