Everything posted by alphanguy74
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You have to go to Ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/300-3boxes-Latex-Disposable-Gloves-Powder-Free-Vinyl-Nitrile-Free-Size-Large/110904467359?hash=item19d26bdf9f:g:MboAAMXQQANREQRW
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It's not really. That is spin. Outbreaks in rural counties are traced to nursing homes and public events that have been held there. It's almost all density. Some of it is the actual DESIGN of the housing. In most of rural America, apartment buildings aren't multiple floor buildings with a single entrance, like New York. they are 3 floor complexes with covered outdoor stairs. No shared entry door to the building, no shared laundry facilities, no shared elevators. In New York, the percentage of positive cases to people tested is 40%. In my county, it is 4.5%. It's 8.5% in the entire state of Missouri, and that takes into account St. Louis, which has 58% of the positive cases.
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I agree with you about Trump. But the spread of this virus is caused by one thing. People in too close a proximity to each other. In New York, this fire was ignited by the subway system, and apartment buildings that cram people in like sardines. All in the name of the almighty dollar.
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How am I defending it? It's a global scourge. I wish it was gone TODAY
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Stones should be thrown at both. BTW... can you give me the name of one country that does not practice factory farming?
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And FYI... hormones and steroids are banned in chicken production by the FDA in the United States, these huge chicken breasts you see today are a result of selective breeding. Antibiotics are absolutely used, but they do not affect the finished size of the bird. If most people had actually tasted a free range chicken, they'd be demanding THAT, and factory farms would go the way of the wind. It's all about consumer demand. High fructose corn syrup is reducing in use year by year also, due to consumer demand.
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It's simply the manner in which the Chinese process and sell. They simply need to update their food handling practices, or else the next virus might kill half the world's population or worse. and this article was written 14 YEARS ago. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16940861
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Factory farming is awful... but also a large portion of the United states does not do it. For isntance, there are 600 cattle farms in my county, and not one of them is a factory farm. they are all cattle grazing on open land. Much of it is the way the animals are handled, and how they are eaten. After all, when was the last time a new virus originated in North america?
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Countries need to stop doing things like this, and maybe these viruses would not emerge.
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Oh.. peeshaw. Obama won by 10 million votes, America tolerated him well. You just live in a meth head trailer trash state, so your perception is skewed. If Social media did not exist, most people would never be the wiser about the feelings low class white Americans had about Obama.
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So, is this really a thing? Is this why the percentage of black deaths from the virus are proportionally higher?
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What are you talking about "Can't get them" The link I posted a few days ago sold out, but there is plenty more. If you just go to Ebay and type in "nitrile gloves" there are over 14,000 results. Amazon has a ton available as well. And that's exactly what I do. Throw them away every time I have to touch something. Normally I go through about 600 gloves every 4 months. I've been through 500 in the last month. I will wear 1 pair to touch all the "dirty" stuff at one time, then throw them away before I get into my car or touch anything else I own.
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I know.... I guess that vendor has sold out. There are still others on ebay, and quite a few. Sorry... but if you aren't being provided adequate protection, and they refuse to let you bring your own, I'd walk. Simple as that.
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Are you not allowed to bring your own from home?
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I think you're right. And I was wondering about Rand Paul just this morning. Why are you having to ration gloves? This is where I buy them: https://www.ebay.com/itm/McKesson-Confiderm-3-8-Nitrile-Exam-Gloves-Large-Powder-free-CS-1000/274254263506?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
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Like Joan Rivers says, you just keep moving forward. Go to work, come home, get on with life.
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Oklahoma has got to be perhaps the most ridiculous state in the union at this point, they are NOT TESTING, they have the lowest testing rate in the entire country.....even Wyoming has tested more people. There has got to be literally tens of thousands of Typhoid Marys walking around down there. Only 1,794 people tested in the WHOLE STATE. And 565 positives (that is a 31.49% positive rate of those tested). Kansas to the north is better, with 424 positives, but they have at least tested 5,424 people, giving them a positive rate of 8.7%.
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The vast majority do show symptoms well within that time frame. I had found a medical site that gave a more detailed account of what they know so far, they said that 97% of people who are exposed will show symptoms by day 11. There are a few outliers that will show on day 12 and 13, that's why they say 14 days. This story was from a year ago, and gives much credence to that theory.
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Yes, his video was ridiculous. What about Ecoli? It used to be called "Summer complaint" in the early 1900's, and my great grandmother had 2 children die of it at the age of 3.
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I'm wondering if he might buy himself a comb?
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And that is exactly how I do it. I've gone through 250 gloves since February 29.
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I understand. That's why I stopped going to the store. I am working, because I work outdoors without needing any face to face interaction.... but I haven't set foot inside a store or public building in 8 days now, and intend to keep that up for the next 3 weeks at least. I do curbside pickup with groceries, and use gloves to dump the contents of my purchases into another container when I get home. Just treat the stuff exactly as if it were a hot pan coming right out of the oven. No bare hand contact.
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I'm not sure that has been ironed out yet. I have heard that if you filed online, and got a refund through direct deposit in 2018, then that will be the way it happens again, and everyone else gets a check in the mail. I think people who flout the system and don't file their taxes may get left out. But that will remain to be seen. Ironically, I'm going to be using mine to pay my social security taxes, since I'm still working.
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THANK GOD. That's what it should have been in the first place. This BS about lower income people getting 600 was just ridiculous