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Originally posted by parabellum:
If we can accomplish just two things as a result of this catastrophe: Drastically and I do mean drastically reduce the number of illegal aliens in this nation, and take all necessary steps to reduce our dependency on goods from the land of lying, thieving assholes known as China- if we can accomplish these two things, then, in the lng run, all of this may turn out to be worth it.

From your keyboard to God's ears.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
They're juicing the numbers, and that is all there is to it.

Jensen then told Ingraham that under the CDC guidelines, a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.

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"Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. Nobody can tell me, after 35 years in the world of medicine, that sometimes those kinds of things [have] impact on what we do."

Read it again. They'll put you on a Goddamned ventilator- a condition which you may not actually require and from which you may very well not recover- just to line their Goddamned pockets.

Do you know what it means to be put on a ventilator? I mean what the patient may experience? Trust me- trust me- going on a ventilator is about the last thing you want. It's the end of the line, and docs and hospital administrators will put you through that torture just for filthy fucking money.

Half of patients with this virus, who get put on ventilators, die. Don't tell me it's more complicated than that; I know it's more complicated than that, and anyone who is being honest knows that I am speaking the truth in this post.

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I read essentially the same thing yesterday, but I don’t have a link to share. The article said Medicare is getting billed higher amounts for COVID-19 cases.

This is correct. The CARES act dictated that. Plus all major insurance carriers are paying all Covid-related facility claims at 100%. No copays or deductibles. Lots of room for abuse.

In Australia, the 4 day Easter long weekend is going to be a challenge for the complacent.

Easter, a time when many travel as a family, to see family, hook up the caravan and go-a-gypsying.
Visit the wineries, that B&B, social gathering for cricket or footy in the park.
Partying, and in general, get out into public places.
Hop into the car and go out with a friend or friends.
Easter egg hunts in public places.

Social gatherings for two or more, indoors or outdoors (family unit exclusion), banned.

The only reasons for traveling over this Easter break, are for essentials such as going to the supermarket, pharmacy, going to work, or a funeral (10 people) or wedding (5 people).

Yes, you can exercise, walk or run. But not on the beaches, they are closed.

On the spot fines will be issued by police, for deliberate, blatant, or obvious breaches.
In my state, Victoria, AUD1652

Tasmania is the exception, as that State has no laws for police to be able to issue on spot the fines. You’ll be summonsed or arrested.

And if you are under a public health order to self-isolate, and you decide that a bit of look around is in order, or maybe that nightclub siren song calls you well:

In Western Australia AUD50,000 fine AND 12 months in the pokey. Your own room - 3 squares and a cot.

Just stay at home.



Bondi, Sydney on 4 April 2020: Police officers ride horses as they patrol during a partial lockdown.
(Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg)

Really, just stay at home.
Don't put first responders, or others, at risk.

--chris

^^ Called my grandfather. No Passover this year. In all my years on this earth that's never happened. I didn't ask him, but I'd guess in all his years (86) it's never happened either. What a weird Easter/Passover week/Weekend it will be all over the globe. Everyone call your loved ones especially those without family's or living alone.

The 800 dollar band aid is why the whole "donate PPE to your hospital" thing really pissed me off.
Charge people outrageous amounts of money for health care but cant stock enough equipment for a prolonged emergency? Then want me to bail you out?
Nope. And all you guys saying hospitals are broke?
Funny.... A 300 million dollar for profit one just sprung up here last summer. Why would you build it if it will go broke?

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Would you rather they charge you $1 for the band aid and a mandatory $799 charge for a “patients who can’t pay for services fee?”

Yes. Always.

look at type 2 diabetes. instead of giving you diet advice that will reverse this easily, they prescribe a pill, then increase the dosage, then you're mainlining insulin, then you amputate limbs and go blind or die. they having a vested interest in keeping you sick. doctors, nurses, and the alphabet soup (american diabetes association, american heart association). yes, there are doctors and nurses who are wise to this - but i've yet to run into any when i accompany my wife on her 6 month visits.

I hadn't realized this, earlier, but I just found out, courtesy of the NRA, fracking Whitmer removed gun stores from the "critical" designation list, thereby forcing them all to close.

Goddamn leftist bitch

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Originally posted by parabellum:
If we can accomplish just two things as a result of this catastrophe: Drastically and I do mean drastically reduce the number of illegal aliens in this nation, and take all necessary steps to reduce our dependency on goods from the land of lying, thieving assholes known as China- if we can accomplish these two things, then, in the long run, all of this may turn out to be worth it.

I agree on both points, but it's easier said than actually done. Easiest way to get rid of illegals is to cut off all financial help for them. Many will go back or not come if they don't get all the freebies. We also need to make the legal process for GOOD immigrants to come here a bit easier.

As for the China goods, Americans will be Americans......Most are cheap bastards who want to buy the cheapest item that serves their purpose, rather than spend extra for a U.S. made quality product. It's easy to find a lot of products that aren't Chinese made, you just have to pay more for them. Generally they're much better quality, but try telling that to 8 out of 10 people.

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look at type 2 diabetes. instead of giving you diet advice that will reverse this easily, they prescribe a pill, then increase the dosage, then you're mainlining insulin, then you amputate limbs and go blind or die. they having a vested interest in keeping you sick. doctors, nurses, and the alphabet soup (american diabetes association, american heart association). yes, there are doctors and nurses who are wise to this - but i've yet to run into any when i accompany my wife on her 6 month visits.

My sister is a pharmaceutical rep for insulin drugs. TRY telling 9 out of 10 people that have type 2 diabetes to exercise, lose weight, stop eating sugar......and they'll say yeah yeah yeah and not change a thing.....it's not the doctors, it's the lazy patients.

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I agree on both points, but it's easier said than actually done.

Do I give you the impression that I needed to be told this?

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
My sister is a pharmaceutical rep for insulin drugs. TRY telling 9 out of 10 people that have type 2 diabetes to exercise, lose weight, stop eating sugar......and they'll say yeah yeah yeah and not change a thing.....it's not the doctors, it's the lazy patients.

the ada's advice is to keep eating carbs, keep eating sugar. the ada's diabetes diet class and handbook says to keep eating carbs, keep eating sugar. the ama's advice is to keep eating carbs, keep eating sugar. pretty damn clear what the message is - stay stick.

I had shoulder surgery several years ago and was in the hospital for three days. As a diabetic they would not let me regulate my insulin levels. they insisted on doing it for me and they did a lousy job. My sugar levels were very high during my stay and then I received the bill. It was thousands of dollars and it was ineffective sugar management. I watched the nurses scan bar codes for every thing they did. They scanned first and then provided treatment later. They might as well have walked in with a cash register to tally the bill. I wont blame Doctors or nurses but hospitals are a for profit business and making profit is what administrators demand. Hospitals make bank and they also have a roll in how under prepared out medical staff was during this virus nightmare considering the medical communities bankroll.

I have noticed last evening while watching the tube, that COVID-19 has now hired its own advertising and media consulting service. Almost every commercial was from myriad companies telling me how they were helping me out during this difficult time. While I spend money with them, of course.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Most Americans do not live in gated communities and have personal bodyguard protection 24/7. Most Americans are on their own, and it's a dangerous world. The police can't protect us.

Empty-headed fool. There's not a chance in Hell that this twit will ever figure it out.

There is an upside to this though. The people she's pissing off with this twaddle are not us dyed in the wool firearm owners, but rather, newbies and until recently, liberals. If she keeps yapping she'll eventually piss off everyone.

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
It's easy to find a lot of products that aren't Chinese made, you just have to pay more for them. Generally they're much better quality, but try telling that to 8 out of 10 people.

Put a 75% tariff on all imports from China and watch that economic dynamic switch. People will adapt to the price differential over time and the country will be far better off for the move.

Thank you cjevans

Smithfield Foods Closes US Pork Plant Due to CCP Virus

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...4e529a4846-238318549

CHICAGO—Smithfield Foods Inc, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Thursday it is temporarily closing a plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, because of the CCP virus, the latest disruption to the U.S. food supply chain from the outbreak.

The company will suspend operations in a large section of the pork plant on April 11 and completely shutter it on April 12 and April 13, after employees tested positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, according to a statement.

The plant has a total of 3,700 workers, Smithfield said. It supplies nearly 130 million servings of food per week, or about 18 million servings per day, in the United States, according to the company, which is owned by China’s WH Group Ltd.

Tyson Foods Inc said on Monday it closed a pork plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, after more than 24 cases of COVID-19 involving employees at the facility. U.S. beef plants run by JBS USA and National Beef Packing Company have also shut.

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Smithfield Foods Closes US Pork Plant Due to CCP Virus

Now that right there along with a few other plants closing might well send some illegals back to wherever they came from. I can't stand how many illegals these meat processors hire all around our country.

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Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken said during a press conference Thursday that the big challenge will be communicating with employees, many of whom are from immigrant communities, about preventing the spread of the disease from home. He has been working with the Hispanic and Nepali communities on COVID-19 response.

Trouble communicating with employees in Sioux Falls SD? No speak english? A plant with 3700 employees and 80 have the virus.

Don't know how many of these folks are here illegally or not but I think it would be worth looking into. You have the virus and are here illegally out you go. Want your job back come back in the country legally.

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