I'm beginning to think you're not a healthcare professional at all & never were.
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When I donate, I give well under 10% of my blood and all the things in it, and the body immediately starts making more as soon as it is taken. I could have double the amount of blood and antibodies in me, and it would do literally no good against covid-19, and there's no evidence that healthy, non-oldAF ppl giving makes an immune system weaker at all unless I/they already have some sort of underlying problem. If you have good evidence to prove me wrong, I'm for sure open to it.
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Originally Posted by Crowe Diddly
People on the left like to simplify him because it's much easier to hate an evil movie-type villain than someone with a mixture of good and bad qualities.
Managing a crisis doesn't fall into Trump's set of strengths. He's definitely made mistakes. He wasn't honest at the beginning.
However, he's right that he stopped allowing Chinese nationals from coming into the US relatively early in the whole mess, when many on the left were decrying it as '"racist", "xenophonic", or "hysteria". That's the type of thing Trump is good at -- doing what he feels is right, without worrying about political correctness or objections from other countries.
Presently, I feel Trump has a good handle on the true danger we are facing from this virus, while at the same time having an eye toward the long term future of the country if we leave it shut down too long. He still says stupid things at times, and he still focuses upon pettiness on Twitter, but he's not trying to put the country in danger for the sake of his own reelection.
There is a failure at the moment regarding the lack of availability of tests. There's also a failure regarding the lack of a medium-term plan. Right now, we should have answers to, "What if this isn't any better in a month? What about 2 months? What about 4 months? What about 6 months?" We don't have those answers, and we should. At the moment, we are flying by the seats of our pants, and that's not good.
Trump's statement that he would like to see the country's shutdown end by Easter is actually refreshing. It shows that he's starting to think about not just what's right in front of us, but what we will be doing down the road.
The short-term solution might lie in the antibody tests. If enough get produced, those could be used to slowly identify who is and isn't already past the virus, and then allow those people to go back to work and interact outside. Of course, there's the issue of people potentially being dishonest about it. It would be great if these tests could be authenticated in some way, but I don't see that as being possible. But those tests really are key, especially if there are as many asymptomatic people as suspected.
All of it. There is no high turnover through the door on the best of days, and less so now, unless like 3-5 people in an hour is somehow high turnover. Everything that can be single use is, everything else is sterilized between every donor, anything that even looks weird gets trashed immediately, ... The Dedham bank I go to started wearing n95 masks at least 2 weeks ago, they have always been constantly disinfecting and sterilizing everything all during the day, beds have always been ~8-10 feet apart from each other for the last 20 years I've been going and they go every other bed in regular times anyway. The room is massive so the only people you ever come close to are the person who does the pre-donation testing, which is the questionnaire, taking the pulse, taking your temp, etc, and the one who sticks you. This isn't a high school auditorium blood drive, its a medical facility that does nothing but handle blood. To call it a petri dish-type environment is ridiculous to me.
Do you give blood? Is your experience different? If so, you are going to the wrong place.
We have a plasma donation place here. Biotest. It’s in a nice area in a plaza, but it’s almost entirely addicts or young people using it to supplement income. I wouldn’t sit in that room right now for 15 minutes for $1000, and I’m moving around pretty freely for a lockdown state. I hate cooking so I’m getting takeout from local places daily so they don’t go under. I’m not paranoid, or overly fearful of interaction, but that place, no fucking way.
That’s not making a comment on blood donation or the Red Cross and decreased immunity or any of that. I’m not qualified to have an opinion on that. I give blood fairly regularly to keep my rbc lowered as mine is higher normal range, but that’s out of self-interest as much as goodwill. I donate it. I donated during times when they’ve needed it, but this situation is unique. I’d have to read on it. I’m not 30.
I’ll probably have to risk/reward that decision in a month when I’m due to donate again and read up on who is right in this argument.
. I am qualified to spot a bunch of junkies though and I wouldn’t even see Ken in person if he’s going to that type of plasma joint. I’d simply tell him see you in august. I’d send him cash in the mail if he needed a loan as I assume he may not even have a bank account.
Doesn’t matter what you think. You couldn’t be any more naive. Everything you do at this point will affect or not affect you. It is not a matter of being generous or good or any other bs. This shit can kill you. You need your full immunity at this point in time. They need to tighten up on restrictions for blood transfusions. I cannot tell you how many 100 plus year olds that had 8-10 units pumped into them while they were in full gi bleed that they could never recover from, yet they got them because family wanted it.
We are in a different world until this shit blows over and thinking has to be logical to survive it. It is not logical to give you antibodies to anyone right now unless you have already proven recovered from covid.
is there a reliable site where I can purchase 3m N95 masks?
FREE TYDE
honestly you should qualify for government assistance like you should be forced to cover ur face 95 percent of the day
I may limitles 2nite
lol @ the "CARES" act btw, these scam acronyms remind of the mr. show sketch about the "last American indian" amirite, limitless??
40 seconds - 1 minute here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZr7ADxLff8
No matter what the place is called, if they are paying for blood or blood products, it is not a "donation" center. The people you find in these places are college students, homeless people, crackheads, and Scalirs. A real blood donation center, one that does not pay, has no crackheads, junkies, or Kens. The types of people who go there are not nearly the same. If you go to a legit blood bank that only does donations, not a place of commerce where you sell your internal juices, you find people who give blood for all manner of reasons, of which money is not one of them.
Who do I come across at my blood bank? People who have relatives with cancer, friends of people who were burn victims, people who like to help others that they will never know about, in general, you get people who know the value of blood to those who need it. Hell, druff called me selfless for giving blood, but I don;t see it that way, like, at all. In 95, I was in a car accident that I had no business surviving, but a little bit of luck, a medflight helicopter from Norwood to Mass General, and a bunch of days in the ICU kept me alive. I also got a few pints of blood, without which the rest of the deal wouldn't have mattered one bit. I'm not selfless, I'm thankful and indebted, I couldn't possibly give enough blood to make up the debt I have to whoever gave theirs to me. I also happen to have A-, which makes it feel more important for me to give, since there's not a lot of that type out there.
As for the splitthis and immunity deal, if I give up ~8% of all my blood and antibodies, I will be no better or worse able to fight covid-19, since I cannot possibly have antibodies for that. What about other shit? Well, if I come into contact with something that I DO have antibodies for, I still have 92% of what I had before, and the body immediately begins making a lot more of them, so that soon enough, I will have a lot more of them than I did before I gave blood, because that's how the immune system works. Sure, it will take a few weeks to have all the ones I had before at all levels, but in no way am I compromised. Again, find me any research that contradicts this, and I might reconsider. The fact is, a few nights of bad sleep will harm my immune system many times more than a blood donation ever could.
As for the RBC count, if I'm in the middle range of a healthy adult male and I lose 8% of them all, guess what: I'm very much still in the normal range for healthy men my age. Hardly a bubble-buy, split. You could take my count after a donation and you still wouldn;t know if I gave blood, because I wouldn;t be anywhere near what any sane person would consider a low RBC count. Again, if you got research that shows me wrong, please provide. You certainly haven't given any yet, you are just scaring people away from a very important service, and that's pretty shitty, esp in this circumstance.
Lastly, its the white blood cells that attack infections, viruses, and the like, not the red ones. WBCs get replenished within a day or 2. because the cells only live for ~2 days anyway.
The curve is already starting to flatten and those scare propaganda charts showing infected and deaths rising over the weeks are for morons. Obviously the more testing you do the more you find and people die. Youre part of the propaganda problem, youre too ignorant to understand how things play out so you run to tell everyone the end is near!
Then there is Cuomo who lies steady, over dramatic, has mask stock piled but tells the world they don't have any, assumes all infected will die... complete virtue signalling propaganda snowflake Trump hater. Should resign.
Common sense, not at PFA.
You raise fair points.
There is a big difference between what's being reported and what really happened.
I guess it's easier to report Beijing put the doctors who tried to tell the truth in prison, and it was the central government who were destroying test results and actively trying to hide this... none of which happened.
I'm not giving the central government a pass, and certainly not the local authorities.
It is annoying though when half truths are twisted to suit other agendas.
I think he actually got more praise than criticism for doing it from democrats. He's trying to make it seem like the criticism for all the other things he's done was actually for shutting down China travel - but it wasn't.
He's also making it seem like his decision was some huge thing that only he could've had the foresight would've do, but he made the call to stop people who had been to China from entering America after the major American airlines cancelled all service to and from China, WHO declared global health emergency, and more than a week after China put Hunan into full lock down.
The thing he's good at is tricking people into believing whatever thing he did was a much bigger deal than it was, and all the democrats worked together to try and stop him, but he overcame and now your life is so much better because of it!
Not yet, not even close.
If you think this is justification then we should have shut down for the FLU a long time ago and lived in bubbles. You realized 50000-80000 more people will die of the FU this year.
Wash your hands, don't spit on people and keep away from old sick people.
While we are at it, ban smoking, fatty food, lightening, sharks, water, red meat, cars, all environmental factors, stress, computers from keeping us from walking... what else?
You talk about XXX deaths in a day like its millions, do you know many times more die each day of other things? But CNN and the media isn't pushing that stuff so like a brainless sheep you just sit and drink it up and let them use you. The virus is real, need real response but this is out of hand and over hyped. If you don't see this being used to attack Trump, youre a liberal.
Bah bah bah
A couple days ago the aggressive Media estimated 2.5M deaths in the USA. Now it's 80,000, and it's going lower, the numbers don't lie. Even Cuomo backed off big time today on the 30,000 ventilators. For the record, the 2018 flu claimed 80,000 lives.
Trump by the way is absolutely annihilating Biden in the betting markets right now. Wait for 2024 Sonatine, don't waste your time in 2020. The economy when it opens is going to surge beyond expectations due to pent up demand. And guess who will take credit for it? Yes, Donald J. Trump.
but was DTHP always the leader of the MAGA movement here? i feel like i haven't been mocking him and i apologize for that
bro if you let piece of shit blake sass mouth just know that ur life is actually over
Up 15.6% over the past 3 months. Thanks for asking.
Reading the money bill, and I just want to clarify. If you are unemployed because of corona, you get unemployment--even if you didn't qualify regularly... AND $600 a week for 16 weeks?
Also, is this money being taxed?
I might have to ask to get fired cause I for sure ain't making any commission the next 4 months and I might as well continue to generate revenue elsewhere.
No one cut's OSA's salary.
I'm legit stunned as to how ignorant you are with this whole deal.
If this were sone random pfa poster, I would consider the source.
But I just cannot believe you are this ignorant here.
As someone who is supposedly analytical when making a decision & statement, it is beyond me how you can be this ignorant.
That hurts man, cuts deep. On one hand I read that and it made my day then suddenly your disappointment in me brought me down hard.
I understand fully the virus is real, needs containing and yes action is required. I just wish those actions were more along the lines of wash hands, don't touch face, self quarantine if returning from X, stay away from the elderly or compromised people, be courteous when you cough, sneeze etc
This grand over reaction of out doing the next in terms of actions and shut downs for a virus that kills a literal .000001 or less of otherwise healthy or younger folks is mind boggling.
Why do we see higher numbers in places like Italy or Spain, many factors but close quarter living, family togetherness, ignorance etc but I think each geographical landscape needs to differ reacting to containment.
On a side note Ive been stuck at home for 2 weeks now and am a little frustrated. I lined up (relatively close) with people to buy groceries this week on the sidewalk for 30 minutes and walked by a 2 foot plastic shield that protects a cashier (laughable) all to have the guy opening the door cough on me as I walked by. This is a literal joke. These measures do not replace common courteous and hand washing/no face touching. I could ramble on but logic is not part of this plan as much as panic is.
Im starting to think that same way though. I mean, I need to stick my dick in a tight young hole already but NOONE WANTS TO LEAVE THEIR FUCKING HOUSE. I just cant anymore.
If we had zombies outside I would literally be outside with a metal bat swinging for the fucking fences to get some dick, I wouldnt care.
This twink I was seeing turned 20 today. Instead of having his finger knuckle deep in my butt, hes sitting home, jerking himself off instead of face fucking me.
This is no way how to live. No gym and no dick. EVEN IN PRISON, YOU HAVE BOTH.
When Trump hopes for Easter, I say, wheres the Peeps?
In spite of all the call center scammers, you have to love India. The first video appears to show the police throwing turmeric water at lockdown violators. I had no idea what turmeric water was but I guess it's used for joint pain and general detoxing. In this case it turns clothing yellow leaving a "mark of shame".
https://www.newsflare.com/video/3470...southern-india
In the 2nd video the police are using calisthenics as a punishment.
https://www.newsflare.com/video/3470...-with-violence