Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "CNN" channel.

  1.  @marklutz95  Republican fairytales .. they voted for the exact same bill before. They only didn't vote for it this time to punish the Democrats for out-manouvering them on something earlier that was unconnected with this bill and now they make up false excuses. Just look at all that fist and elbow bumping afterwards - no care for veterans at all.
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  2. Everything's 'fake' and 'phoney' if it doesn't suit Trump's story but his story changes from day to day.
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  3. It's versus not verse. It's like you get what you vote for (except for those who didn't vote for them. They get what they didn't vote for).
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  4. Who is Kahn? Khan?
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  5. They should have seen this in the run up to the election. There were so many tell-tale signs they must have ignored.
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  6. Richard Fitzwilliams and Williams Fitzrichard.
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  7. What a whinger! How stupid he is. He doesn't seem to understand the relationship between cases, hospitalisation and deaths. Florida also has a lot of elderly people who will be more vulnerable to severe effects of the disease.
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  8.  @elzilchojd  Not me. I understand those things. I was in the top group in maths at school.
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  9.  @Angels1168  Just because people had other illnesses doesn't mean catching the virus didn't kill them. People can live a long time with many illnesses but Covid can attack the bodies of people with underlying illnesses more severely because they have less resistance. Covid can cause a thickening of the blood to produce strokes and can attack bodily organs.
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  10.  @awesomekingakathe66bro36  I guessed they are not reporting accurate figures but I've no idea of the real numbers.
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  11.  @keithhylton4631  As long as people don't touch each others clothes they should not catch it from that source, but it can be airborne from the mouth which is why a mask protects people in more. It stops it being spread in an airborne manner.
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  12.  @ubermind-tim  I agree with his aims.
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  13.  @ubermind-tim  No. There is only one science which is that whose results are verifiable and repeatable by any scientist. 'Science' that does not fall within those parameters is not science.
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  14.  timchuk mark  Well the medics insist on wearing masks as part of PPE and it certainly inhibits infected people from coughing over others. Of course masks alone are not going to stop a person getting Covid. Keeping social distance and frequent hand washing are essential too.
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  15.  rod speaks  What else should we be bound by but science? Superstition perhaps like in medieval times? There have been at least 1m Covid deaths in the world. The stats are individually reported by each country. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I believe the state does have my best interests at heart (UK) because I am in the older age group with co-morbidities. I do feel guilty about the effects on the rest of society of protecting the likes of me. Seasonal flu is seasonal and there's a vaccine. We don't know how or when Covid will end. I calculated that in the states about 2.6% of the population have had Covid so far. We don't know about the health of the survivors because there is such a thing as 'Long Covid' where people live with chronic conditions brought on by Covid. In the time of the Spanish Flu I think it was San Francisco that avoided the problems of the first wave by following strict conditions. Unfortunately they then got hit by a second wave which they weren't expecting and had relaxed conditions by then. We don't know that herd immunity can be achieved because Covid 19 is new and we don't yet know everything about it or how it behaves. There are now people who say they've had Covid more than once. If it mutates like flu and cold viruses it will certainly be able to infect people more than once.
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  16. Covid 19 isn't the same as flu. You should check the facts on that. It can make the blood sticky and inclined to clot so it can cause strokes and other problems. It can attack other organs. Young fit and healthy people will most likely not be badly affected by it but co-morbidities including obesity can make people more vulnerable to serious consequences. We don't yet know everything about the virus or how or whether it will end. We don't yet know whether herd immunity can be achieved as some people now claim to have had it more than once. We don't yet know whether it will mutate like cold and flu viruses or how long that might take and unlike flu there's no vaccine for it generally available yet. We don't know how many lives have been saved by restrictive measures or whether people are following them properly. In the UK research has indicated that at the height of the virus when the country was in lockdown, only 18% of people who should have been self-isolating did it properly and only 11% of people who should have been quarantining after travelling from abroad, did so properly. Public events seem to be the easiest way it spreads. It would be sad if there were no possibility any longer of music concerts, theatre and public celebrations. We should all try to do our best to bring down the R figure (the spread rate) for the sake of ourselves and our communities.
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  17.  @keithhylton4631  It's 3 things that are necessary to stop the spread of the virus, mask, hand washing and social distancing. The mask on its own probably won't do it but medics insist on wearing them and they do have the benefit of stopping anyone unknowingly infected from coughing or sneezing over others.
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  18.  @Angels1168  What you said about a virus not being able to give people strokes is not true and if you bothered to look things up you'll find that different viruses behave differently . Some are more virulent but less easily spread. Ebola didn't much affect the west. The few cases in the west were caught early on and isolated and treated. Also some have symptoms that everyone notices quickly. Covid 19 can be symptomless in some people and the highest time of infectiveness is just before symptoms appear so people can spread it without knowing they have it or before they get symptoms. I'm a bit fed up explaining things to people who think they know it all but are ignorant and can't be bothered to find out for themselves so that's all from me.
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  19.  @Angels1168  I agree. Science is literally knowledge and we need to pay attention to it. Scientists will admit there's a lot that is unknown about the Covid 19 virus yet. I've seen people now claiming to have had it twice. How long will immunity last even if there's a vaccine I wonder?
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  20.  @Angels1168  The cdc is science based is it not? I don't get the logic of your comment. Yes it spread to the USA and will continue to spread if people don't take action to avoid giving it to their neighbours. 230, 000 deaths so far. That's about 115 x the twin towers death toll isn't it?
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  21.  @Angels1168  There is a vaccine for the flu and the stats show that Covid has this year killed more people in the US than the flu killed in its worst year for deaths in the last 5 years.
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  22.  @Angels1168  I don't get how you can say that when you're not a doctor and you weren't there when they died. That's not facts that's just what you want to believe. People can live for many years with chronic illnesses but catching Covid often doesn't allow them to do that. I know that, I've had chronic asthma for 25 years and diabetes for 11 years, and I'm perfectly fine but I don't think I'd survive if I got Covid. Covid can also kill people who are obese. My brother in law had Covid and it gave him a stroke which happened during his illness because Covid can cause blood thickening and clotting. There is also Long Covid where people recover but find they have to live with long term symptoms such as fatigue or damage to their lungs. Covid is best avoided if at all possible. Also Covid is coming on top of seasonal flu and hospitals may become overwhelmed in the Winter having to deal with both at the same time.
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  23.  Peter Kit  No one knows who has natural immunity. Young people with no underlying conditions have died from Covid, so vaccination is the safest option (statistically).
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  24.  @gustavobarajas6155  Science is repeatable and verifiable by others conducting experiments, religion is not. It depends on faith alone.
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  25.  @loralarose9615  Could there be a less relevant comment? Were they keeping a distance or hugging each other. Were they all double vaccinated? You don't know the relevance of your statement unless you know those things and followed up to see how many caught Covid afterwards.
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  26. The plural of ally is allies, not ally's. That's a grammatical failure.
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  27. Angela phases out the German coal industry as part of moving to greener energy production. Thatcher just shut the UK coal industry down in the '80s to be replaced by cheap coal imports.
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  28. Is rectal cancer the same as bowel cancer? Bowel cancer is not uncommon, but I don't know about rectal cancer.
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  29. *have gone (grammatical English)
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  30. Isn't the blind spot because Russia is heavily invested in Trump businesses and Trump admires a strong, aggressive, dictatorial leader like Putin? Trump would like to be the same if he could get away with it.
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  31. This is trivial
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  32.  @jazsm5385  She's holding her headphones against one ear and from the expression on her face, she heard the translation o.k.
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  33.  matt eppich  You're a glutton for punishment.
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  34. @Uncle Ed and how was that handled?
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  35. Dennis King. Question: How can you identify a Trumptard? Answer: They want to lynch anyone who doesn't agree with them.
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  36. Why does it take so long to count votes? Normal for Arizona, apparently.
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  37.  @tatersalad76  I know the US is a big country and the results are close. In the UK the election results are in the next day. It's such an anti-climax if you can't work out who has won for a long time after election day.
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  38.  @samaguga  Lol.
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  39.  @pandamonium9255  which dumb broad? Are you referring to me? If I'm dumb I can't speak. That's what dumb means. Why can't people tolerate difference of opinion in a democracy? Don't Trump supporters believe in freedom of speech? Isn't that right enshrined in the American constitution? Are they unAmerican?
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  40. Both USA and UK governments seem now to be planning to fiddle the statistics to make themselves look better. You couldn't make it up. Oops sorry, George Orwell did make it up in his novel 1984 - the rewriting of history by Big Brother.
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  41. I thought his sister was the favoured heir (until recently?)
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  42. There have been previous bulletins about his treatment. He was given oxygen but luckily he didn't have to go on a ventilator. It could have gone that way, but thankfully it didn't in his case.
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  43.  @buzz3866  How would I know? One of the nurse's parents talked about their daughter having her hands on various control buttons. The NHS will never reveal exact details of someone's treatment, and it doesn't seem that Boris wants to talk about his treatment in detail, and neither would I if I were him. It's a private matter. It seems though that he may have had some supporting interventions short of being on a ventilator. I mean you can be given intravenous drugs and fluids to maintain blood pressure, reduce fever, keep you hydrated and nourished and support organs. I'm only guessing, though.
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  44.  @buzz3866  'anti-malarial zinc sulfate'? I thought that was fake news. Trump's little obsession. I'll look it up. It's true that only 50% seem to survive ventilators. Whether that's the ventilators or that they are too far gone by that stage I don't know. If you don't get enough oxygen your organs start to die anyway.
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  45.  @buzz3866  Here's some evidence. It appears not to be effective/ untried in severe cases. The NHS does not experiment with unproven treatments and they certainly would not be experimenting on the P.M. https://www.sciencealert.com/small-trial-found-antimalarial-is-not-effective-for-treating-coronavirus
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  46. He's 100 today and has now been made an honorary Colonel. He raised at least £29 million.
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  47. Don't worry they are going up again now. There is always a time lag between changes in Covid measures and the effects of that showing up in the Covid figures, but high levels of vaccination are helping.
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  48.  @iwantabetterworld1759  I sort of know the answer to my own question. I watched some documentary programmes on Trump. His father told him that winners and losers were born that way - that it's in their DNA -and that Trumps were born winners so they can't lose.
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  49. If Trump ever gets another chance at election, he will make sure to pick a corrupt running mate, so he has a stooge willing to overturn the election results. Trump is a scary demagogue whose desire is to be an authoritarian dictator that can never be ousted. Won't this hearing prejudice any future trial of Trump though?
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  50. One person defended him because "that just comes out of his mouth without intending to offend" (my paraphrase). Even though he implies that it bypassed what little brain Trump possesses. Trump says things in the White House that conflict with what he says to the media but inconsistency doesn't seem to bother Trump fans.
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