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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| The Coronavirus Encounters of an Average American Nobody |
| 2020-04-09 |
| [The Burning Platform] Last week, I read an online article in my local paper telling of a 68-year-old gentleman who died from COVID-19. In the article, it described how the man had retired in the last year because of cancer. Then, two days later, my wife asked me if I had read the article. When I said that I had, she responded: "Scary, huh? He was healthy." I replied: "What do you mean? He had underlying issues". And when we logged-on to read the article again, it was tagged as "updated 7 hours ago" and many of the words I’d read two nights before were.... gone. In the paragraph where it said he retired, it mentioned nothing of his cancer and instead described how the man was "active and enjoyed riding his bike". Of course, even a tin-foil-hat-wearing blogger like me would have a hard time believing that any conspiratorial pressure could be applied to my local paper. Perhaps the family requested the change or the original article was in error. It’s hard to say. But I do know what I read. And, the internet archive "Way Back Machine" showed the URL as being updated on March 31, 2020 and again on April 2, 2020, but the initial article was not archived. Now I wish I’d have taken a screenshot of, or printed, the original post. Why? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Agree Lex....sooner the better... |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2020-04-09 17:35 |
| #9 Mondale-Ferraro redux. Economy will start to rebound before end of Q2, markets even sooner, and OrangeMan will be re-elected with a healthy margin of victory. Smarter Dems see this. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-09 12:39 |
| #8 After Trump, historically speaking, we switch parties and the Dems take over again. Of course Reagan was so awesome the GOP got three terms and despite the virus Trump is along the same trajectory. The smarter folks in their party know this and are willing to give Trump powers they want, knowing he wouldn't use such powers, such as trying to make voting a Federal controlled thing.. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-04-09 12:13 |
| #7 I've wondered that, too, that the Dems are just going through the motions conceding defeat (which, I think, the GOP had done up against Obama). What others have wondered is what will come AFTER Pres. Trump. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-04-09 11:05 |
| #6 /\ Yes, harmless placeholder. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-09 11:04 |
| #5 Biden has been nominated because they know Trump will be re elected. They don't want loser tarnish on any of the others they will run again later. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-09 11:02 |
| #4 Anything short of 2.2 million deaths will make Trump look good. Trump is also the best suited president to get the economy up and running again. Many lefties know this which is why some are claiming we need 18 month lock down. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-04-09 10:25 |
| #3 Just not the press, it's the bureaucracy at work. How Honest is the COVID Fatality Count? Dr. Scott Jensen is both a physician and a Minnesota state senator. Yesterday he was interviewed by a local television station and dropped a bombshell: he, and presumably all other Minnesota doctors, got a seven-page letter from the Minnesota Department of Health that gave guidance on how to classify COVID-19 deaths. The letter said that if a patient died of, e.g., pneumonia, and was believed to have been exposed to COVID-19, the death certificate should say that COVID-19 was the cause of death even though the patient was never tested, or never tested positive, for that disease. It's all GIGO. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-09 07:00 |
| #2 Hydroxychloroquine |
| Posted by: KBK 2020-04-09 00:19 |
| #1 The press is lying. They are doing everything they can to reinforce panic and fear, in order to hurt "Orange Man Bad". including smearing a possible treatment that could reduce it to nothing more than a few days with the flu, hydroquinolone. |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-04-09 00:16 |