If you could go back in time, what would you tell the first American COVID patient before he boarded the plane from Wuhan?

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"Two years ago this weekend, a 35-year-old man traveling home from Wuhan, China, became the first American diagnosed with COVID-19. What if someone from today could have greeted him BEFORE he got on that plane?"

Read this insightful article by Mitch Albom
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/mitch-albom/2022/01/16/covid-19-pandemic-wuhan-china-time-travel-what-if/6540489001/

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4 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Are you discounting facts and evidence because of bias? Seems so...

She or he hasn't noted any facts.  What is "mucked up" ? What specifically is the complaint here except for the general Airing of Greivances?  Save it for Festivus!

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6 hours ago, Daisy4RN said:

Even your own source does not say he talked about injecting bleach, he commented (based on other study/MD), that injecting disinfectant to a particular area might help. Did he use the wrong word,   Yes, and I already stated it needed clarifying, and he did.

Directly quoted from the article eg is quoted direct by Donald Trump"

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"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."

I think Donald Trump is one the most ginormous idiots present in the 21st century. I have nothing to gain by misquoting something that can be checked so easily

I find it appalling as an educated health professional you can support a man who supports injecting or any other method of getting bleach into the lungs.

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11 hours ago, subee said:

She or he hasn't noted any facts.  What is "mucked up" ? What specifically is the complaint here except for the general Airing of Greivances?  Save it for Festivus!

The facts are quite obvious to anyone paying attention, I don’t need to spell them out to you nor will I. 
 

 

10 hours ago, Tenebrae said:

Directly quoted from the article eg is quoted direct by Donald Trump"

I think Donald Trump is one the most ginormous idiots present in the 21st century. I have nothing to gain by misquoting something that can be checked so easily

I find it appalling as an educated health professional you can support a man who supports injecting or any other method of getting bleach into the lungs.

I have already explained the point. But as usual when all else fails attack someone’s credentials for having a different political opinion, typical.

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18 hours ago, Daisy4RN said:

Even your own source does not say he talked about injecting bleach, he commented (based on other study/MD), that injecting disinfectant to a particular area might help. Did he use the wrong word,   Yes, and I already stated it needed clarifying, and he did.

But again, not sure why some of you remain focused on Trump when Biden is mucking up just about everything he touches, he is a hot mess and you continue to worry about Trump, amazing. 

 

As they say, follow the money and check the authors bias. Facts are most definitely not a problem for me!

"Mucking up",  "hot mess" are completely meaningless terms when you are attempting to crucify someone.  If you can't articulate what you mean, then you haven't thought it out yet.  Yet, we still have to worry about Trump because he left a Republican party which hasn't presented an agenda based on the needs of the constituents but a simple list of "solutions" to bring us back to the darker times.  Really?  Do you believe that we need laws to prevent critical race theory from being taught to 5 to 8 year olds?  This is all the Florida legislature has to spend it's money on?  I have yet to even see any evidence that CRT is even being taught to secondary students or undergraduate students in college.  It's just someone's theory that Tucker Carlson has latched onto to keep his ratings up.  Your ramblings are just that.  The politifact link you posted didn't even buttress up your point that  Biden was a liar so I don't know why you even linked that.  It made you look like you didn't even read it yourself before you linked it.  If you come here to rant then be prepared for people to use reasonable arguments.

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1 hour ago, Daisy4RN said:

The facts are quite obvious to anyone paying attention, I don’t need to spell them out to you nor will I. 
 

 

I have already explained the point. But as usual when all else fails attack someone’s credentials for having a different political opinion, typical.

You haven't offered any facts while refusing to acknowledge the facts presented in this thread which contradict your feelings about this pandemic and how it was mishandled by the previous administration.  Thats what's sadly typical in this thread.  

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On 2/11/2022 at 3:04 PM, Daisy4RN said:

I think the bigger question is what we should have told our politicians, news media, social media etc at the start of the pandemic and that would be to NOT politicize this pandemic. IMO, the politicization has caused many more problems than was necessary. 

I agree. However, how possible was / is this, realistically? What happened, happened on a mass scale, and there are opportunists everywhere, ready to take advantage and have a huge impact. So, sometimes the media is just covering those who are using a mass event to gain money and/or followers, and thereby inadvertently amplifying their message. It's a tough one, that's for sure.

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On 2/12/2022 at 9:59 AM, subee said:

Reasonable people were shocked when we watched the so-called Trump briefings and realized that he was going to use this as a re-election cause celeb.  I don't know how we could have changed anything.  There was no shutting this guy or his sycophants up.  All Fauci could do was put his hands over his face while the most egregious lies were being told.  How do you think it could have been stopped

Still chewing same curd?I would say reasonable people were shocked at the irresponsible Left,lefty,leftist, violence,free speech haters, and unreliable CNN,MSNBC,Univision,lying, every day,who are now so in love with cocaine junior and dementia Brandler.

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On 2/24/2022 at 9:03 AM, Daisy4RN said:

And we simply understand that the fact that Trump and others were banned/canceled etc was completely political and still is (except in extreme rare cases). This is why people continue to not trust the government, bc of the continued “politics” in place of the actual science being used to create policies etc. So you think Trump was having a say so within the CDC etc but Biden doesn’t? Highly unlikely! So you think that the CDC and FDA is withholding data all on their own, so that people have had to sue for the info, again highly unlikely! The Biden admin had pretty much won the contest as the most incompetent destructive President, and in only 1 year ! So, maybe it would be more productive at this point to start holding the Biden admin accountable (instead of blaming Trump for anything and everything) so maybe our Country can once again have some kind of normalcy. Although, I am afraid it is already too late, but I hope not!

Strawman arguments aren't helpful.  You could try discussing my actual words or comments instead. 

It's not clear why you won't hold Trump accountable for his many failures while simultaneously desiring accountability for the fellow that beat him in the last election.  It maybe it is clear...

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Lord I knew this would turn bad quickly. Glad I read through them all with my popcorn 

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I would say, you are about to change the world. I trust you survive this. 

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