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I Hate Racism and Discrimination

For the record, calling it the China Flu or China Virus isn’t racist. The fact that people instantly went to virtue signaling when this pandemic started shows that a lot of you need to find some hobbies.

And if you are still foaming at the mouth over this just call it what I call it, the Wuhan Wheezer.

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

It may have started with the Chinese, but since the US has taken the lead by far in coronavirus cases and deaths, we should now call it the Trump Virus or Trump Plague. You are just virtue signaling if you can't accept that the US has done the worst job of controlling it by far, and has earned the nicknames.

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TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair Well when it comes to names it’s usually around where patient zero is from. Or contracted it from.

And then every mouth breather, left and right makes it’s about politics and conspiracies. Once you all die (again left and right) the world will balance out and society thrives. Again, both left and right. You are both equally worthless

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard Trump and his cultists call it the China virus to deflect from their own mishandling of their response. They are the ones who make it into a political issue. It has a proper name, Covid-19, which is how it is known in the scientific community worldwide. That is how it should be referred to, not by its origin, in an attempt to lay blame.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair Sorry buddy but both sides are making it political. And both sides are denying about making it political. The Virus doesn't care who is who it'll infect anyone. Who cares what the Trump does, who cares what the government does, only you can take care of you.

Enough of the ineffective slobber feast about Trump and what not. Doesn't mean a thing to me. Doesn't matter anymore who is to blame. Can't wait for you old timers to die off and we won't see anymore CNN and Fox fueled brainless flame wars on Facebook and here.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard Fewer people will become infected if a nation takes appropriate response. Most developed nations did. The US did not. Those are facts. Being a whiny uneducated millennial doesn't change the facts. The US should be sticking by CDC guidelines for managing the coronavirus response, not reopening and ensuring additional deaths. While the virus doesn't respect political boundaries, a continuing ineffective national response puts everyone at unnecessary risk. Even you.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair Hey Pee-Paw I have a Masters in the Sciences from Perdue University... I know the virus is serious but I’m not letting it consume my mind nor am I letting the media flood my phone with notifications.

Don’t forget that the CDC first said this was just like a flu and then changed their minds...

Don’t forget that the CDC said you won’t need masks and then changed their mind.

The CDC also claims there are only 37,000 deaths in the US as of the beginning of May while the news said 70,000

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard You certainly didn't learn much at Perdue, which the rest of the world knows as Purdue University. One would think if you really attended, you could spell the name of your own university. Maybe you can get your money back.

If you bothered to read the CDC website, they clearly indicated that their numbers were lower because they need time to log in and code death certificates. The news media has it correct by using the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, which is more accurate and up to date.

Oh, and by the way, the CDC website at the moment is reporting 75,477 deaths:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

It sucks when you have to use old, incomplete data in a desperate attempt to obfuscate.

The CDC never said this was just like the flu. Maybe you are confusing them with Perdue.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair Old Data from a week ago from the same source you are using.... that’s adorable... I’m assuming your family doesn’t visit anymore😂

And my degree is a masters in Environmental science with a mi or in Biology. I work for the Indiana DNR but worked EMS to get through school. But that’s right grandpa correct grammar after all you are all knowing and can single handedly stop the virus🤣

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard Yes, using old data that the very website you cite tells you is not up to date to support your own statement isn't the smartest thing you can do. But I guess when it is all you have, you have to use it, right?

Grammar and spelling are different, but they probably don't teach that at Perdue.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair typical peepaw doesn’t know what he’s talking about but swears by his source until it’s used against him. Then blames trump.

Take your lithium

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TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair You didn’t rehearse enough talking points grandpa, I don’t support either party but nice try.

I like that you source the CDC and I source the CDC but you claim the CDC is wrong because I also used it.

Fuck out of here with your mimic bullshit. Leave the science to us scientists😂

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard You clearly don’t understand science since you misuse partial information that the CDC itself warns against misusing, but blow off more current information from the same source that doesn’t support your false premise. If you did go to “Perdoo”, your professors would grade you a clear F.

I do trust the scientists. You are anything but.

I see you are now deleting my posts. People like you who can’t carry on a discussion always do.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair i lent to delete Harriets but did yours instead. So yeah no. And sorry you can’t select which science is true or not. Science is science. Which is why your source isn’t unreliable just like how mine is not especially when they came from the same source.

Which is why you should leave the science to us scientists. Try and discredit all you want in the end I’m doing the research and your drooling in a keyboard spewing what you like and calling it fact.

Must be hard not being able to use your pre made lines you would use for a conservative since I’m not one😂

Poor old guy

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard Poor pseudoscientist. The data you cited Is real. It just doesn’t show what you desperately want it to. Facts ARE facts. You just don’t want to believe what the CDC says about the ones you misused. The one I cited had no qualifiers. Yours did, no matter how many times you deny it. I hope you don’t approach your work at DNR like you do with your deliberate data misuse here. You won’t last long in any job that requires data integrity.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair please re-read what you said but slowly this time. Might need to use your bifocals😉

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard Your poor science is just poor science. It is like taking a Hach TKN Test Kit in your line of work with a reporting range of 1 to 16 mg/L and reporting 0.37 mg/L even though you know you are outside the range, and someone has correctly flagged your data as suspect and incorrect. When you knowingly use data incorrectly, you are not adhering to the scientific process. Perhaps you didn't realize your data were incomplete and misleading.

For the record, your misused data description by CDC, several paragraphs above the table you cited, reads as follows:

The provisional counts for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths are based on a current flow of mortality data in the National Vital Statistics System. National provisional counts include deaths occurring within the 50 states and the District of Columbia that have been received and coded as of the date specified. It is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated. Therefore, the data shown on this page may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods. Death counts for earlier weeks are continually revised and may increase or decrease as new and updated death certificate data are received from the states by NCHS. COVID-19 death counts shown here may differ from other published sources, as data currently are lagged by an average of 1–2 weeks.

And even in the footnotes for your table 2:

NOTE: Number of deaths reported in this table are the total number of deaths received and coded as of the date of analysis and do not represent all deaths that occurred in that period.

*Data during this period are incomplete because of the lag in time between when the death occurred and when the death certificate is completed, submitted to NCHS and processed for reporting purposes. This delay can range from 1 week to 8 weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction, age, and cause of death.

You should definitely leave science to the scientists.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair Sorry champ. Copy and pasting is one thing but actually performing is another.

Keep trying though.

I’m sure they let high school drop outs of your age in community college still. Maybe you could get a certificate in informatics😂

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard Amazing that you continue to support data that clearly does not represent the true number of coronavirus deaths by the CDC's own admission and warning. They must not have taught you reading comprehension at Perdue. Perhaps some night courses after you are done manufacturing data at your day job would help. At least until they discover that you are misrepresenting the data you collect. Caught in a big lie, and you just can't admit it. It speaks very poorly of your character.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair Is dementia hitting you hard? I never said it was the final numbers. I said that in the beginning of May those were the numbers they quoted while weeks before. MSM was stating other wise. Which is why we still stayed the same source. Yet you are some armchair concoction making keyboard warrior who thinks this about being right or wrong.

Typical of you old timers on both the left and right. Which is why when you all die off, the comment sections will be clear of senseless flaming.

Meanwhile we have to wait for your families to abandon you in a home and you are unable to fill forums with senseless copy and pastes of thing you don’t understand. It just sounds smart so you call it a day😂

Poor guy

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard You are the one who doesn't understand what you are claiming to be fact. Purposely and obtusely so. And if you are referring to HACH kits, I've run more environmental analyses than you ever will in your lifetime. I tried to use an example you might understand, but I was wrong to overestimate you. Your poor excuse for science is just that, an excuse. And it is obviously embarrassing to you.

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@windinhishair holy fuck this is going way over your head... re read everything old man... And yeah, you’ve never worked the field 🤣.

I’m finishing up a dissertation and beginning tagging on sturgeon populations in the Saint Joseph River from Lake Michigan. I get to spend my summer fishing for sturgeon while you flood more posts with things that you don’t seem to understand.

You must be one of those troglodytes who either though orange man wanted you to drink bleach one way or another🤣

CoffinFeeder · 31-35, M

@TakingBackMidgaard don’t you love it when boomers try to act like they know anything.

Also thanks for your work in the field. It’s nice to see someone caring for other living things in the environment.

I went to Purdue for Mortuary Science. Did you have Professor Elkette for BIO312?

TakingBackMidgaard · 31-35, M

@CoffinFeeder it’s all good. I’ve noticed a strange amount of boomers pretending that everything they find is fact. That’s usually anxiety setting in as they worry about the virus potentially killing them off.

And no problem I love fish/fishing and want to make sure our underwater allies have a forever home on Earth.

I loved Elkette, she made the class an amazing experience but also made it so that beginners and more advanced students were getting the same valued share of what was being taught.

I loved her Crappie tank in the room as well.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@TakingBackMidgaard You're the perfect example of someone who has to take a state job because you can't get a job doing anything else. You'd never survive a job that requires data quality and integrity. While you are tagging sturgeon, make sure you don't use a pollution-tolerant species of redhorse to try to bullshit your way through a belief that increasing numbers of pollution-tolerant species prove the water quality is improving, as you have done before. People see right through that kind of crap.

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