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"get out loot on" My god.

He won't be found guilty, they've already set up the eventual not guilty charge in the autopsy report. This officer would also be walking free right now if not only for Minneapolis burning down Friday morning. The riots will calm down eventually, and start again once the not guilty charge comes down, and then they'll subside again until the next black man is killed for no reason on video for everyone to see. Change only comes if you want there to be change. There is no appetite for change among those in the USA who could make it happen. Likely because to get to that point you need to admit that there was a problem to begin with.

Judy Mikovits's (and other collaborators) paper regarding Xenotrophic murine leukemia virus-related virus being linked to chronic fatigue syndrome was pulled from Science, an extremely prestigious journal, after numerous other researchers tried and failed to reproduce the results. This type of research dishonesty, sadly, isn't rare in academic or professional research, as people often feel the pressure to publish high-impact articles to keep their career moving forward. Often though these types of things go undetected as they're published in less notable journals or have results which in the grand scheme of things no one cares about. When you publish an eye-opening article in a highly visible journal, people are going to pay attention, and people will try and reproduce the results (this is all very normal). Other collaborators on the publication were concerned about possible sample contamination, and in the end they were right. The false data that was published happened because of contaminated samples. To be honest, the alarm bell should have been going off in everyone's head with almost 4% of the control samples showed positive results for XMRV as it's a much likelier scenario than what they were worried about, that being that XMVR was running rampant, completely undetected, through the blood supply in numerous countries. All other authors and collaborators on the paper, sans Judy and a few others, agreed that this was the case and were in favour of retracting the published paper. However, no one could agree on how they would word the retraction. Eventually Science decided that all the collaborators were never going to agree on a retraction and took the rare step to retract it themselves without author input. All the while, Judy doubled down on the findings, saying they were true (it's clearly obvious the contaminated samples and messed up analysis came from her contribution to the project). If she had just admitted mistake and signed the retraction letter I'm sure things would be a lot better for her right now than they currently are. She was arrested after she took lab books and a lab computer out of the lab. While you may be assigned your own personal lab book that you can write whatever you want in, it doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the lab. Lab books are not permitted outside the lab, nor do you take them with you if you leave a company. If you publish a paper with data in it, your lab book needs to back that data up. You see what I'm getting at here? What was so critical that she needed to hide? There was going to be a disconnect between what was in the book, the data on the computer, and the published findings. Charges against her were dropped once she returned the books and computer (because why would you waste the time in court for that?) And now that she's essentially un-hireable in her field she's just gone off the deep end, as I said earlier, jerking off conspiracy theorists online. And finally, here's the million dollar question.....if for some stupid reason there was some larger force controlling big science and keeping important things under wraps, why the f*ck would they be worried about a connection between some obscure virus and chronic fatigue syndrome? There, is that good enough for you? Judy or yourself don't deserve a detailed response like this, but here it is. I've wasted a portion of my day explaining the scientific process behind what happened to Judy's career and ultimately you won't give a shit anyway.

Do you at least acknowledge how wrong the George Flyod situation is?

Sorry I had meant to respond to this. It's not a good look. Transmission while outside isn't as likely as while cooped up inside with other people, but when you're as tightly crammed in as people were in Trinity-Bellwoods then the risk is high no matter where you are. Considering the numbers and trends in Ontario aren't very good right now it's not a good look. When people wonder why strict measures are in place you can point to scenes like that. Despite not being in good shape as a province, when you give people an inch they will take a mile. Or in that case they'll take 1000 miles. You'll never get things under control if people do things like that every day.

hahahahahahaha okay sure. I mean, you would know all about the scientific review process, right? I'm sure you've been a part of it before since you speak so confidently. Once again, I'll leave you with this:

Also damn, Tim Waltz is angry.

You know what, I say let the anarchy continue. Imagine living in a country where people of a certain colour can storm a government building with assault rifles and nothing happens, and yet someone of another colour can be murdered by police for "suspected forgery". Imagine being in a country where a journalist can be arrested for no reason whatsoever. Imagine living in a country where the President threatens physical violence on social media. If things keep up maybe those in the USA who are blind to the countries faults will finally wake up and want to make things better.

What's the difference? In Canada we don't have multiple policing agencies with authority in a jurisdiction (either the RCMP, or a local police service). I'm certain they weren't following any orders, no one would have given them the orders to arrest a journalist, not in a "free" democratic nation. I'm almost certain that the colour of the reporters skin may be somewhat behind this. White journalists within an earshot of Mr. Jimenez were untouched. Anyway, Minnesota State Patrol tweeted saying that they were released from custody after they were confirmed to be from the media. Good thing the cameras were rolling so we could see how much of a lie that was. The police were presented with media cards and still arrested the crew. Damage control by lying doesn't really work when the arrest is on live TV.

Unfortunately this type of civil disobedience usually tends to turn public support away from your cause. Was this really necessary? At the same time I understand that peaceful protests in the USA have gone nowhere with pushing your cause (and if the police are going to hit you with tear gas anyway even if you're peacefully protesting you may as well go all in on the disobedience). It seems that the Minneapolis police were too busy deciding that they were going to arrest CNN journalist Omar Jimenez and his crew for no reason on live TV rather than try and do anything useful. I hope Mr. Jimenez and co sue the f*cking shit out of the Minneapolis PD.

Okay, you keep rambling. The rest of us adults will actually discuss COVID-19. In better, positive news, Canada is finally under 1000 new cases today for the first time in ages. The first wave is looking like it's nearing the end, sadly Quebec and Ontario are still in pretty rough shape but it's offset by the other provinces recovering very nicely.

Sure I can comment on it. I can point out that it's not true. That vaccination trials are currently only happening in the USA and China, and none are happening in Senegal. I could also point out that the video in question regarding these childrens deaths was dubbed over and falsely translated from Wolof to French. While the French dub mentions vaccines and children dying, the original video in Wolof is about a man who knocked on a door pretending to be a health worker to raise awareness of Coronavirus. He was not actually from the Senegal Ministry of Health, but was actually trying to sell cosmetic products. Further interviews from the woman living at that address post-conspiracy theory have her laughing it off, saying that everyone is okay. But you won't believe it anyway, since it doesn't match your crazy view, so why should I waste my time? Since some crazy website didn't post it you won't believe it. And lol @ Judy Mikovits. She's about as bad as bad as Andrew Wakefield. Her work has been discredited, a number of her academic papers have been retracted. She has not worked in her field since 2011, and for good reason. Now she just jerks off conspiracy theorists online with fake science. She may have gotten a PhD, but I guarantee you I've never had to fabricate data to publish my work

RFD CHIPS HAHAHAHA. I have a masters degree in Physical Chemistry. I am well aware that Thiomersal is used in some vaccines. I am also aware that the quantity of thiomersal in said vaccines is way below any amount that can cause harm. I am also aware of how very, very trace amounts of glyphosphate can end up in a vaccine, though once again the amounts (in the parts ber billion concentration range) is essentially zero and once again will not harm you. Why didn't you also make complaints about the horrid ingredient formaldehyde used in some vaccines? That way I could have told you that there is more formaldehyde in an apple than in a vaccine. You believe whatever you want, I seriously don't care if you want to rot your brain away. But I won't let you try and ruin other people. If you post bullshit, I will call it out in case someone reads it and for half a second might believe it. You and people like you are dangerous. You spread misinformation to people who don't know any better. Then you wonder why the rest of the world points and laughs at you.

45 seconds in and that idiot is speaking of Andrew Wakefield in a positive manner? So you're anti-vax now? This all I have to say about everything you post from YouTube.

Reading this article is pretty interesting, because it pretty much concludes that a myriad of factors which have helped Japan get through the storm relatively unscathed would not work if the same procedures were implemented in other countries. As well, did they really benefit from keeping the economy open? Japan slid into a recession and the next quarter is estimated to be the worst since World War 2.

Yes, those are indeed the numbers. However, if you don't understand why it's important to talk about cases per capita as opposed to raw numbers then there's no hope for any meaningful discussion. If you for some reason can't understand why population statistics are most often discussed per capita, ponder this question. Which hypothetical country is doing worse? 1. A country of 10,000 people that has 8,500 confirmed cases 2. A country of 250,000 people that has 10,000 cases

On a per capita basis Sweeden is 25th in the world (for most), with a infection rate of 3,288 per million people. If you need to know if that's good or not, it's not. And for death rate per million people, they're 8th in the world (for worst) with 396 per million. So by all intensive purposes they are doing freaking awful. But you believe whatever fake news you want to believe.

Viruses typically don't have a very long lifespan on surfaces to begin with. Depending on the surface type you're typically only looking at a few hours maximum. Problems arise when infected surfaces are in high traffic areas, like a washroom doorknob in an office. Or more seriously: surfaces in hospitals, where spread of infection can happen quickly and have the most serious outcomes. Your chances of being infected after grabbing some produce at a store is near zero, your chance of becoming infected after touching a doorknob and not washing your hands are much higher. Infections will go down during the summer months as people get outside more and minimize close interactions with people inside. Much like the reason that your chances of getting the common cold or influenza are very small during the summer months. Once fall starts and people move back indoors we'll see infections bump again. That's why most people are predicting the second wave to hit September-onward despite things opening now.

If you want to see how a hugely unpopular politician can turn around their fortunes with a good approach to COVID-19, check out Ontario Conservative Premier Doug Ford.

Each province is working on their own opening timelines. My province as an example, is taking a very tough, strict approach. I would imagine the earliest that things like hair salons and restaurants will open is June 8th. We have a good reason to be doing so as well: as an island province, we have the ability to completely eliminate COVID from within our borders and keep it that way. Things didn't start well for us, we had the highest per capita infection rate at the end of March/early April in all of Canada. Strict and prompt measures from the government, along with co-operation from people saw us flatten our curve in only about a month or so. We're finishing the first wave with an infection rate of about 520 per million, and a mortality rate of 6 per million (despite having the oldest average age in Canada, highest obesity, highest rate of heart disease, etc). Testing rate of about 22,000 per million. Likely final numbers for us: 260 infections, 3 deaths, and as of today only 4 active cases. We can realistically have 0 cases in a few weeks. The travel ban will continue for us likely throughout the fall, and anyone returning to the province will be required to 14-day quarantine. Being an island, we have the advantage of being able to screen every single person that lands here. There are two ways in: by plane , or by boat, and both are controlled by authorities. It's unrealistic to think that this is over, of course. People will travel to other hot spots, get infected, and ignore quarantine when they return as guards get let down.

I ordered clippers online about 3 weeks ago and they're still about 2-3 weeks away from delivery. One of two things will happen: they'll get here and I'll get to buzz my sides and back (but I'm not touching the top) and I end up looking like a member of Nazi Youth, or barber shops will open up before they arrive and I'll wait for 3 hours just to get a cut. I was also able to get a haircut literally just 3 days before everything was shut down by the government, however for some reason hair seems to grow faster when you can't actually go get it cut.

If you want something hilarious to gawk at, check out LeanTossup, a Canadian polling aggregate and political simulator/modelling website. These dudes will defend their models to death, but check out their ridiculous prediction for the Presidential election.... https://leantossup.ca/us-presidency/ They like to claim that they predicted the 2019 Canadian election very well, but while they may have predicted a close seat count their district vote share % for each party were insanely bad. They underestimated Conservative support in both the Federal and Provincial elections of my home town by a whopping 12% and 30% respectively.

Ultimately we're dealing with a virus with a high base reproduction number (higher than the common cold, influenza, or H1N1), high mortality rate (~ 20% of all "closed cases" have resulted in death), and a virus which can cause severe complications in young, healthy individuals who would otherwise be able to fight through something like influenza or H1N1. Unfortunately when you give people a inch they'll take a mile. Had the world stayed open for only the young and healthy, how many people would have actually taken it seriously? We do have a sense of immortality at our age, as unfounded as it is. Should everything open back up again tomorrow except for those at risk we're only going to prolong the lifecycle of the virus. Plus, those people still need to do things like buy groceries, possibly go to the bank, etc. We're essentially making it a lot more dangerous for them to go out and take care of essential business by us running around with no cares in the world. A lot have sacrifices have been made the past few months, and people are hurting and I understand that. However you need to think about this as a short term pain for a hopefully long term gain. Do our part for a few months so we can move forward hopefully very soon, otherwise we do nothing and prolong our own suffering. Eventually things will have to open, and it'll have to be long before there are 0 cases (that won't happen without a vaccine). When the floodgates do open again, it would be nice for the number of cases and hospitalizations to be at a decently low-moderate number. That, along with our new safety measures in place, can buy us time and slow the spread. I'm not 100% certain that the US was in the position, as of yet, to begin opening things, and only time will tell if it was a major mistake or not. I do understand the urgency of the situation considering there is an election staring Trump right in the face, and any president which faces an election with the unemployment numbers currently will be kicked to the curb, but if it backfires and cases uptick again there might be hell to pay.

Vaccine development is very difficult. There's no guarantee that one will be developed at all, or within a timely manner. If scientists had kept up with vaccine development for SARS-CoV-1 back in the early 2000's we might be in better shape right now, but most people backed off vaccine development when the original SARS outbreak cleared itself up since the commercial market for the vaccine disappeared. Having a working vaccine for that right now would be a great starting point for developing a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. The phrase you're looking for is "far gone".

Absolutely. And nurses in long-term care homes can take care of everyone there. The general population is a bit more challenging, but there are untapped resources which could be utilized, including medical residents and/or late program medical students (year 3 or 4) which could be deployed to help, given they are in good standing in their programs. It's certainly not ideal, but unfortunately nothing about this situation is ideal to begin with.