notacausualobserver

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ohdrap4 4 years, 8 months ago on Patient’s death investigated

Patient’s death investigated

may be he jumped from the tenth floor while having covid 19.

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Well_mudda_take_sic 4 years, 8 months ago on Inner Wheel making masks to meet demand

Inner Wheel making masks to meet demand

A lot of really dumb things are now being done by people whose knowledge of virology is non-existent or very limited at best. Most people cannot begin to fathom just how infinitesimally small (very very very very minute) the covid-19 virus is. Only the very rare person who has had the opportunity to look at and study both the size and behaviour of viruses under an electron microscope will appreciate that homemade (non-medical) masks provide the wearer with very limited, if any, meaningful protection from a virus like covid-19 that is capable of aerosol transmission. Masks made to stringent medically required specifications and properly fitted to the wearer's face help prevent the transmission of viruses by normal inhalation and exhalation at the outer edges of the mask. Not so in the case of homemade masks.

Moreover, it is very much open to question whether wearing any type of homemade mask does any better a job at protecting others from an infected person than would be achieved by an unmasked person simply coughing or sneezing into their elbow. Also, coughing is a natural defense mechanism that protects the respiratory tract from inhaling foreign bodies and it's not entirely clear the extent to which wearing a homemade mask may stifle that ability and therefore actually be harmful to the wearer.

It's perhaps worth noting too that the covid-19 virus has exceptional glue-like stickability to just about anything it comes into contact with. Those using any kind of mask must ensure it has been very carefully sterilized/sanitized before each use and the average user of a mask will not have either the discipline or ability to do this at home.

And of course Minnis and Sands, both being medical doctors, no doubt know all of this.

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Clamshell 4 years, 8 months ago on PM condemns wealthy owners who rushed to lay off staff : Where’s your heart ... your compassion ... your soul?

PM condemns wealthy owners who rushed to lay off staff : Where’s your heart ... your compassion ... your soul?

Easy for him to say — the government remains open, and he and everybody else continues to draw a salary because the government is still collecting VAT, property taxes, endless fees, etc., etc. Yet he expects a business owner to keep paying employees while taking in NO revenue at all. Because, hey, ya gotta have “heart.”

You wanna see who has a “heart, compassion and a soul,” Mr. Prime Minister? Suspend all government taxes and fees and see how long you can keep paying government employees — and yourself. Put your money where your mouth is.

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hrysippus 4 years, 8 months ago on PM condemns wealthy owners who rushed to lay off staff : Where’s your heart ... your compassion ... your soul?

PM condemns wealthy owners who rushed to lay off staff : Where’s your heart ... your compassion ... your soul?

What sacrifices exactly is the doctor referencing that these employees have spent years making? Is it the sacrifice of getting up in the morning to go to work and get paid for it? All these businesses have, or should have, paid 5.5% of every employers wage every month every year to nib so that nib would have funds to pay the employees pension, sickness, and unemployment benefits. The employees themselves have paid a further 3.3% of their wage to nib tax. Successive administrations have squandered this money; and that is the true face of heartlessness in this situation. A cheap political shot which will probably come back to haunt them during their next round of electoral fundraising. They not getting nothing from me this time around.

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