Texas response to Corona virus

[Trainwreck2100]

He still has a ridiculous voter ID requirement. My driver's license is good through next year, but because it doesn't have the star on it it ceases to be usable for voting starting in October, and I can't renew online since I renewed online last time. And there is absolutely no way I'm going to wait inside a DMV for an hour while this pandemic is raging. , I wouldn't even do it back in March when we were at a much lower level of infection than now. Fortunately I can use my passport to vote, but a lot of Texans don't have a passport and aren't going to want to go renew a perfectly usable drivers license right now that's conveniently set to be ineligible for the November election.

The realID deadline got pushed back to October 2021 though

[ElNono]

He still has a ridiculous voter ID requirement. My driver's license is good through next year, but because it doesn't have the star on it it ceases to be usable for voting starting in October, and I can't renew online since I renewed online last time. And there is absolutely no way I'm going to wait inside a DMV for an hour while this pandemic is raging. , I wouldn't even do it back in March when we were at a much lower level of infection than now. Fortunately I can use my passport to vote, but a lot of Texans don't have a passport and aren't going to want to go renew a perfectly usable drivers license right now that's conveniently set to be ineligible for the November election.

Hopefully what this means is a lot of old people go renew their driver's licenses... teehee

[CosmicCowboy]

Hopefully what this means is a lot of old people go renew their driver's licenses... teehee

Yep... it. I will just use my passport to vote. I'm not going near the ing DMV.

[baseline bum]

The realID deadline got pushed back to October 2021 though

Huh, didn't know that. Wonder when that happened.

[elbamba1]

Our housekeepers son in his 40's got it. No pre-existing conditions. It really ed him up. Besides being in the hospital for two weeks and coming just short of going on a vent, there was some serious neurological stuff. He's been in rehab for over a month now learning how to walk again and talk again.

My family member had to learn how to walk again and went through about 6 weeks of rehab. She is in her late 70s and was pretty unhealthy. Saw her last week and she looks almost completely healed which is the good news.

[elbamba1]

I’ve had covid three times and I have no side effects.

You ought to be on the phone with Faucci then. You seem to have special DNA.

[Play Boban]

You ought to be on the phone with Faucci then. You seem to have special DNA.

Well he doesn’t wear mask even when telling us to so he must be special dna too.

[tholdren]

Texas and CA way under counting.

They arent

[midnightpulp]

They arent

The excess death plots shows they are.

Now I hope you're wearing your mask and believing it to work, because it does.

[Blake]

They arent

You're a nobody to make that claim

[ChumpDumper]

The excess death plots shows they are.

MOTORCYCLE BRISKET CHILD SUICIDES

[Winehole23]

Texas comes clean on nursing home data after trying to hide the ball for four plus months.

COVID-19 infections have exploded in Texas nursing homes this month, with 8,291 confirmed cases through Monday — four times more than the number of cases recorded in all of June, according to the state’s health agency.

More than three quarters of Texas’ 1,215 nursing homes have reported at least one coronavirus case since the beginning of the pandemic, up from just over half at the end of June.

It’s the same story in the state’s assisted living facilities, which reported 924 cases to the Texas Department of State Health Services through Monday, compared with 267 in June.

So far in July, the state has tested residents and staff members at 148 facilities, with 93 more facilities scheduled through the end of the month, Weldon said. That’s about 7% of all Texas long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted-living facilities.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07...ronavirus/amp/

[DarrinS]

Texas comes clean on nursing home data after trying to hide the ball for four plus months.





https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07...ronavirus/amp/

They were very transparent about it in San Antonio.

[Winehole23]

They were very transparent about it in San Antonio.

If true, good on the SAMHD. Texas hid the ball.

[tholdren]

The excess death plots shows they are.

Now I hope you're wearing your mask and believing it to work, because it does.

They do not. Download the data.

[Winehole23]

They do not. Download the data.

Happy reading!

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2007800
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2#Sec3
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10...aff.2020.00818
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...e_June_15_2020

anecdotal but striking:

Two compelling case reports also suggest that masks can prevent transmission in high-risk scenarios, said Chin-Hong and Rutherford. In one case,a man flew from China to Toronto and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. He had a dry cough and wore a mask on the flight, and all 25 people closest to him on the flight tested negative for COVID-19. In another case, in late May,two hair stylists in Missouri had close contact with 140 clients while sick with COVID-19. Everyone wore a mask and none of the clients tested positive.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/41...-masks-prevent

[tholdren]

Happy reading!

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2007800
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2#Sec3
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10...aff.2020.00818
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...e_June_15_2020

anecdotal but striking:

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/41...-masks-prevent

This wasn't the argument. The argument was fatality count.


But


There has been no replicated study or gold standard for masks or no masks being effective against covid.

[pgardn]

This wasn't the argument. The argument was fatality count.


But


There has been no replicated study or gold standard for masks or no masks being effective against covid.

this is biology you ing idiot.


Givel me the gold standard experiment that proved smoking causes lung cancer.

[tholdren]

this is biology you ing idiot.


Givel me the gold standard experiment that proved smoking causes lung cancer.

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You and science and math lolololollllll

[Winehole23]

This wasn't the argument. The argument was fatality count.

A couple of the linked studies address that.

But


There has been no replicated study or gold standard for masks or no masks being effective against covid.

Of course there hasn't. It's a novel virus, understanding what COVID-19 does will take time.

Btw, it's false to suggest there is no research supporting the efficacy of masking to reduce the spread of respiratory diseases. There is. There are also preliminary findings suggesting that masking may reduce the severity of COVID-19 infections.

Did you bother to read the links?

[tholdren]

A couple of the studies address that.


Of course there hasn't. It's a novel virus, understanding what COVID-19 does will take time.

Btw, it's false to suggest there is no research supporting the efficacy of masking to reduce the spread of respiratory diseases. There is. There are also preliminary findings suggesting that masking may reduce the severity of COVID-19 infections.

Did you bother to read the links?

That wasn't suggesting anything other than there's no proof either way, yet some claim its science....the same people who claim science is irrefutable.... which obviously don't understand science

[pgardn]

That wasn't suggesting anything other than there's no proof either way, yet some claim its science....the same people who claim science is irrefutable.... which obviously don't understand science

Who claims science is irrefutable?

[tholdren]

Who claims science is irrefutable?

You do

[pgardn]

You do

wrong

as I have stated before, science is valuable because the method allows for correction when new evidence is found and tested thus eliminating a previous model

this has happened continuously

And it will keep happening especially with something as complex as biology which you know nothing about. You don’t even know why biology is complex.

go sit in the corner

[Winehole23]

That wasn't suggesting anything other than there's no proof either way, yet some claim its science....the same people who claim science is irrefutable.... which obviously don't understand science

Demanding replicated experiments so soon after the discovery of a novel pathogen is preposterous, though I agree that saying that science is irrefutable (who said this?) is inconsistent with the theory of scientific research.

There's not proof in science the way there is in math or geometry, falsifiability is the criterion of the domain. (Karl Popper) Irrefutables -- unfalsifiable theories -- belong to pre-science or pseudoscience.

For someone who sets such store by science you sure are stingy with your own data set. When are you going to lay your cards on the table? There are many questions from many posters pending.