Adams has always been an arrogant, selfish, greedy egomaniac. Shitbirds of a feather flock together.
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No, he went into this New Age laws of attraction kind of bullshit in the Dilbert Future. I an forgive that up to a point, but the funny parts of the book just weren’t that funny. So I kind of gave up on him.
His later flirtation with evolution denial was more sad than surprising. I just rolled my eyes when I found out he was a Trump supporter.
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I allowed nothing of the sort.
I’ve actively campaigned and fought Trump tooth and nail in every way legally and professionally possible over the last 4 years. Trumpanzees have cost me a job, and sanity.
I’ve lived in the aftermath fighting the blind idiocy of the people that support him for the last 4 years, I voted against him, and campaigned on the pavement for someone currently still running against him.
I “allowed” Trump to become president? Nothing could be further from the truth. I wonder, though, what it is that you have done to feel you can say something like that to a randomdude?
You really don’t stand up to your username, buddy
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And a P.S. from CA: stay the f#&* out of our auto emissions standards!
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There’s a relatively new one from China which is, methodologically speaking, better than the first tiny study (which wasn’t at all worth any of the hype).
Still only 62 patients, but randomised. Mild cases, PCR tests positive. Lung CT shows first signs of lung infiltration. No other conditions which would speak against chloroquine treatment. There is an effect, but data on the the state of the infection is missing. And the effects not at all strong.
Folks, don’t hope for chloroquine. If - and that’s still a big if - it helps, it’s rather a weak help. And it definitely isn’t for everyone. Having no retinal condition, no cardiac arrhythmia, no liver problems and no kidney problems is important for chloroquine to be even considered.
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Still a small study, but encouraging. Certainly not the cavalry coming over the hill certain political types would like it to be, but if it can keep a percentage of patients from progressing to ICU status, that would be useful. It is worth noting that while case and control groups were well matched, there was a female preponderance in both. Considering the tendency for males to have significantly worse outcomes, that stands out to me as a possible confounder.
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According to Adams, Trump is a wizard. That really says it all.
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Maybe they are implying that somebody should take inspiration from Michael Steven Sandford?
Very quickly before going offline for a while: there’s a main question.
There is a larger number of patients with fever in the chloroquine group and also a slightly larger number of patients with an initial cough. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the chloroquine group has had worse starting conditions. That can also mean that the chloroquine patients are simply a bit more advanced in regard to time of infection.
FTR, I pulled this nearly verbatim from Christian Drosten in the Corona update podcast on NDR.
I’m really glad that he does that science communication. This is helping me immensely to get through this.
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“We’re at a point where nearly half the country doesn’t believe what this president and White House says and we have nearly half the rest of the country that’s been told not to believe what they see in a newspaper or see in television news or any other form of mainstream news."
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Since our experience with this thing is so limited, it’s really difficult to know if that difference between groups is significant or not. So, 
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I thought he was merely an honorary Klan member.
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I would suggest disallowing republicanism (representative democracy, the confounding “delegate system”, etc.) going forward and moving towards a more direct form of democracy and representation utilizing both technology and common sense. By ALLOW I mean you relax and let it happen, phraseology/verbiage intended to cajole the likes of (all of) you to move towards the “disallow” camp. 
perhaps, unbeknownst to me, my reply to your comment was not TO you? perhaps we should ALL move to a rural county to game the fucked up voting system they have gerrymandered in place?
how on earth are people not freaking out at how insane the POTUS act at every one of these
sunday night was off the walls, a man who has bankrupt seven companies, has never built a road in his life, stands there lecturing at a nationwide presentation on how 200,000+ people are about to die for his lack of preparation since january, on how to build a road
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You, yourself, wrote it directly at me.
It’s one thing to think aloud in 3rd person, as if one is the so-called royal “we”, it’s entirely another when you speak directly at people in this way.
It’s condescending at best, obnoxious and presumptuous at worst.
Please stop digging the hole deeper, think about what you write intelligently, and quit giving blanket ultimatums to people who have done the exact opposite of what you accuse them of.
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Rather, the GOP would have to change into something that more closely resembled what it was in the 50s and 60s: an opposition party that tried to win by appealing to a majority of voters by presenting contrasting policies. Instead it has doubled down on appealing ever more strongly to a slowly disappearing demographic on social issues while doing all it can to gerrymander and suppress voters that oppose it. All while pursuing it’s main goal of the ever greater concentration of wealth and power.
Edited to add: A degree of concentrated wealth that only a tiny minority would support if it hadn’t been lashed to regressive social policies. Now even those regressive social policies are only supported by a minority of Americans, so every more voter suppression is required to continue to be competetive.
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Honorary hell, he’s a legacy pledge!
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