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2020-09-18 Home Front: Politix

Joe Biden slams Donald Trump as 'close to criminal' and AG Bill Barr as 'sick' for comparing lockdowns to slavery as he says he would mandate masks on federal land and levy FINES to set example for nation

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-18 09:24|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Michelle Obama claims Trump White House doing what she, her husband never could’ve ‘gotten away with’

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-18 09:25|| 2020-09-18 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden changes answer on national mask mandate authority again, says he would not have power to enforce it

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-18 09:27|| 2020-09-18 09:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you think the deMSM could've won the election if Biden kept silent?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-09-18 09:40|| 2020-09-18 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 The left needs to be made an example of.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-09-18 09:48|| 2020-09-18 09:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Cloth masks worn by the untrained public day after day don't slow down the virus. At all. So why?

Posted by Iblis 2020-09-18 11:47|| 2020-09-18 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 (masks) don't slow down the virus.
But some recent studies do seem to show they reduce the severity of the infections, by reducing the viral load of the initial infecting dose, perhaps thus allowing the immune system a chance to keep pace with the virus growth.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-09-18 12:37|| 2020-09-18 12:37|| Front Page Top

#7 But some recent studies do seem to show they reduce the severity of the infections, by reducing the viral load of the initial infecting dose, perhaps thus allowing the immune system a chance to keep pace with the virus growth.

Let's set aside for a moment the value of any particular study--especially on a political hot potato topic like this. The holes in a cloth mask are way too big (.4-.5micron) to stop the virus (.12micron). And they certainly don't stop breathing. So what possible mechanism could account for any reduction in viral load? Karma?

Even CDC has stated that cloth masks are worthless for stopping ash from the wildfires, and the ash particles are several times larger than the virus.

Posted by Iblis 2020-09-18 14:07|| 2020-09-18 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Growing research indicates many COVID-19 cases might not be infectious at all

Elevated 'cycle thresholds' may be detecting virus long after it is past the point of infection.

Posted by Frank G 2020-09-18 14:34|| 2020-09-18 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ The New York Times said last month that a review of the cycle thresholds of positive cases in Nevada, New York and Massachusetts indicated that "up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus."

Unbelievable.
Complete incompetence.
A total, unmitigated fiasco.

Posted by Whilet Clitle5401 2020-09-18 15:18|| 2020-09-18 15:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Iblis, the logic is that masks stop the large droplets, which are the ones that carry a large viral load, and that being infected by a large viral load rather than a small one means your immune system may not be able to crank up as fast as the virus does, so the infection gets to the severe stage more often.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-09-18 15:27|| 2020-09-18 15:27|| Front Page Top

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