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3 hours ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Cyber Ninjas shutting down.  

The Cyber Ninjas firm that oversaw the problem-plagued review of the 2020 results in Arizona's Maricopa County is shuttering.

 

Do you think that they'll return the voting documents and information to Maricopa county before they close up?

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/588670-arizona-judge-fines-cyber-ninjas-50000-a-day-until-it-turns-over

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Judge Hannah  has stated that he will fine individuals responsible for the record release --not accepting that its an empty shell corporation.  Expect the Judge to personally fine CEO Doug Logan Monday , especially after seeing this AP report:  Cyber Ninjas chief says he wants new firm with same employees

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7 hours ago, Tweety said:

Falls under the "what was she thinking" or where is she getting her information question.  I agree with the sentiment "It's somewhat alarming that a Supreme Court justice doesn't have the right information on this. Wild disinformation."

At the end of the day, it's probably not going to go well for Biden's mandates.

People are having a field day between belittling people for downplaying children's hospitalizations and others fear mongering.

And now of course with the surge they can claim "Biden's fails covid strategy".  


 

She also said Omicron is as deadly as Delta, and some other bizarre things.

And according to Breyer, there were 700,000 million new cases the day before.

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20 minutes ago, Beerman said:

She also said Omicron is as deadly as Delta, and some other bizarre things.

And according to Breyer, there were 700,000 million new cases the day before.

Breyer said there were "700,000 million" new cases?, you might want to check your source on that.

And so far, there's no evidence that Omicron is 'less deadly' than Delta.  The case-fatality-rate of Omicron appears to be less than that of Delta, but the transmissibility is far higher.  How "deadly" something is would be a combination of case-fatality-rate and transmissibility.  Even if the case-fatality rate is lower it can still be more "deadly" if the transmissibility rate cancels out the reduction in CFR.  

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6 hours ago, Beerman said:

She also said Omicron is as deadly as Delta, and some other bizarre things.

And according to Breyer, there were 700,000 million new cases the day before.

There is a study that Omicron is turning out as serious as delta but it's really a bit early in the Omicron to have some solid data.

Fox News main headline yesterday was about the children's hospitalizations mentioned by the justice, and I'm sure the main headline would be about the 700,000 million statement which is just crazy.  But I can't find any back up to your statement.

Fox New's main story is about half (51%)  of covid hospitalizations in liberal and mandate heavy NYC being due to other causes.  Even though the same seems to be true in mandate-free Florida, it's better to spin it against their nemesis New York. 

I wonder how many of those 49% hospitalized for covid are vaccinated vs. how many of the 51%  in for other things and with asymptomatic covid are vaccinate.  This would be a more significant finding to my curiosity.  

I make a jump from that in that maybe mandates are working at keeping healthy from getting serious illness and that while covid admissions are high, it's not serious illness in 49% of them and that's good news, not a reasons to criticize mandates.

No mention that mandate free Florida has such high rates of covid that one in ten infections in the US are in Florida, the most free state in the US.

 But no, the very infectious Omicron doesn't seem to care much about mandates.  

Or lack of mandates for that matter.  Florida's average is over 56,000 a day.  

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Sotomayor is concerned about sick children, Breyer is concerned about the daily case rate, and Gorsuch can't be bothered to wear a mask.

It's pretty predictable how this is going to end up. 

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7 hours ago, Tweety said:

There is a study that Omicron is turning out as serious as delta but it's really a bit early in the Omicron to have some solid data.

The data you present below seems to contradict this study.

7 hours ago, Tweety said:

Fox News main headline yesterday was about the children's hospitalizations mentioned by the justice, and I'm sure the main headline would be about the 700,000 million statement which is just crazy.  But I can't find any back up to your statement.

It's actually 750 million.  I starred to type it out numerically,  changed my mind but didn't delete the zeros.

 

7 hours ago, Tweety said:

 Fox New's main story is about half (51%)  of covid hospitalizations in liberal and mandate heavy NYC being due to other causes.  Even though the same seems to be true in mandate-free Florida, it's better to spin it against their nemesis New York. 

Isn't thus good news?  Why would they purposely omit Florida, if they had that data?

7 hours ago, Tweety said:

I wonder how many of those 49% hospitalized for covid are vaccinated vs. how many of the 51%  in for other things and with asymptomatic covid are vaccinate.  This would be a more significant finding to my curiosity.  

Agreed!

7 hours ago, Tweety said:

I make a jump from that in that maybe mandates are working at keeping healthy from getting serious illness and that while covid admissions are high, it's not serious illness in 49% of them and that's good news, not a reasons to criticize mandates.

No mention that mandate free Florida has such high rates of covid that one in ten infections in the US are in Florida, the most free state in the US.

Maybe.  However, there is more to the mandate issue then if it's working.  Other things work too, that are less invasive on one's personal freedom.

Florida's has less covid deaths than they've had since early in the pandemic.

 

2 hours ago, nursej22 said:

Sotomayor is concerned about sick children, Breyer is concerned about the daily case rate, and Gorsuch can't be bothered to wear a mask.

It's pretty predictable how this is going to end up. 

Sounds like their concern is based on being very ill-informed. Or, they are fear mongering. 

Which is it, do you believe?

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19 minutes ago, Beerman said:

 

Sounds like their concern is based on being very ill-informed. Or, they are fear mongering. 

Which is it, do you believe?

I believe that they are concerned about the health of our country.

I can guess that Sotomayor mis-understood how infections rates are reported, because by convention, they are reported in numbers per 100,000. 

Breyer, I believe misspoke. Perhaps his notes had 750,000 but was amended to 1,000,000. 

Gorsuch stated that flu kills hundreds of thousands every year. Is he very-ill informed, or callous about fatalities? 

 

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12 minutes ago, nursej22 said:

I believe that they are concerned about the health of our country.

Maybe.  Hard to say.  We really don't know much about these folks.  And having worked in the medical field, and before that with attorneys and judges, I know many aren't as bright as you might think.  And, I think we all can agree the courts have become more political than we'd like.

48 minutes ago, nursej22 said:

I can guess that Sotomayor mis-understood how infections rates are reported, because by convention, they are reported in numbers per 100,000. 

That's a poor excuse.   I'd expect her to have done some preparation before hearing the arguments.

49 minutes ago, nursej22 said:

Breyer, I believe misspoke. Perhaps his notes had 750,000 but was amended to 1,000,000. 

Possible, I suppose.  Although,  750 million isn't a commonly used number t hat would accidently slip off the tongue. 

51 minutes ago, nursej22 said:

Gorsuch stated that flu kills hundreds of thousands every year. Is he very-ill informed, or callous about fatalities? 

Either is possible.  

So, if Sotomayor misunderstands and Breyer's notes are wrong, it still sounds like they are ill-informed.

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57 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Maybe.  Hard to say.  We really don't know much about these folks.  And having worked in the medical field, and before that with attorneys and judges, I know many aren't as bright as you might think.  And, I think we all can agree the courts have become more political than we'd like.

That's a poor excuse.   I'd expect her to have done some preparation before hearing the arguments.

Possible, I suppose.  Although,  750 million isn't a commonly used number t hat would accidently slip off the tongue. 

Either is possible.  

So, if Sotomayor misunderstands and Breyer's notes are wrong, it still sounds like they are ill-informed.

All good reasons to have term limits on SCOTUS appointments. 

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11 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

All good reasons to have term limits on SCOTUS appointments. 

Agreed.  Congress too.

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57 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Agreed.  Congress too.

Congress has term limits. They're called elections. Ask Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. 

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