Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "COVID Global Update" video.

  1.  @LisaBowers  I agree. This isn't political, it's practical. The places (mostly democratic) that had the virus early got smart. The ones (mostly republican) that are getting it now, are getting smart now. . It has zero to do with politics, except that we have no national strategy due to excessive politics.
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  2. I havent seen one person in Walmart without a mask. (NM here also :)) There are some small businesses doing well but overall that's a big problem you have identified. People in my town are wearing masks inside, but not on the sideway, which is fine because it's a small town, you can walk without even seeing anyone half the time.
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  3. brilliant! pure guess: two weeks training
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  4.  @wretchedhope5409  I agree with both of you. . Except on one point: the US deaths "should" be rising already, as cases went up over 3 weeks ago. Are they? . Not much but a little. We're probably much better at treating it now...
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  5.  @rogerstarkey5390  vitamin D is free :) sulight is right! . So cheap the ivermectin. Wow. . Keep on going you guys
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  6. Jesus requests that y'all don't yell, the good news is good even in a whisper.
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  7. fake news
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  8. The Democrats are also anti-science. They just do it more gently. If I'm wrong then show me a random sample test to estimate prevalence in any state or city. That's science.
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  9. Yes it is beyond dispute. Masks give 14% protection, eye glasses 10%, and staying at least 3 feet from a sick person 10%. . However I agree on forced anything. If they can't convince us to do it voluntarily, maybe they should work on their convincing skills.
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  10.  @opforsix1582  Science does not support things either way. We don't have the science we need. . Random sample studies are simple and cheap but we don't have them. . There is NO other way to estimate prevalence or risk. . Perhaps if science students go back to school now and graduate soon they can invent statistics, lead us out of the middle ages, and we'll all be ok. lol . Why is our science so missing
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  11.  @justine7083  So... we think there are conspiracies because there are conspiracies... . I can agree with that. Also our CIA killed our president, so there is that.
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  12. Sorry but I don't believe you have actually asked all your friends that question. .
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  13.  @Sun_Flower1  There were no "race riots." However, the protests and riots were harmful, as was the President's rallies. . Rallies riots and protests are all extremely minor effects compared to how we shop and work.
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  14. yeah because you just finished a tour of all 59 states lol . go back to commenting on your All Hamsters All The Time channel . AHATT is awesome
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  15.  @armyofone5219  I agree. We can live sustainably on the world with natural materials. That's a good thing.
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  16. The numbers have been all but useless for the entire world for months now. Random sample testing is the only way to estimate prevalence. . Two countries have done it, Iceland and Thailand.
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  17. The Russian haters are the democrats. The gun nuts are the republicans. Do keep them straight eh? . Not that it matters, both parties are dumb and failing massively.
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  18. paw paw is fake news. (citation required)
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  19. yes that's right
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  20. ... and because many EU countries have more virus than the US...
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  21.  @raindrop5273  Mask don't matter? Yes they do!
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  22.  @mastercommander4535  "the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%." -(from the paper) . Data is data. It does not contradict other, factual data such as the mass graves in Sao Paulo. Multiply 0.1% times 7.8 billion and we still have massive numbers. There's no need for ignoring the truth either way.
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  23.  @jwarmstrong  Hint: look up "rhetorical" in the encyclopedia
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  24. We need random invitation studies. That's the only way to estimate risk. . Not surprising there's confusion where we are going given this old ford has plywood for a windshield.
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  25.  @timower5850  Thailand also has great news. 20% tested positive for antibodies, which is above the threshold for herd immunity! . (given that many people have immunity but don't test sero positive, due to T-cells or whatever.) . Our host did cover some of that; I got all the info from him or the comment streams.
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  26.  @bidentity69  astonishing. five months in and Earthlings can't make cloth. I'm glad I'm watching from Mercury where it's so hot the virus will be gone by mid summer.
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  27. more like three days than three years
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  28. Have you looked?
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  29. nah
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  30. Random sample testing is required. . If we don't know the prevalence we can't adjust behavior based on rational risk assessment. . Thankfully such testing is as easy as (2+2) / n
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  31. The dumb is worldwide. Only Iceland and Thailand have done random invitation studies, which is the only way to estimate prevalence. .
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  32. brazil was early
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  33.  @jimmybee7966  The survey was conducted by randomly sampling the US population. By that we mean, 'we noticed some youtube comments.'
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  34. death rate is probably closer to 0.02%
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  35. day by day numbers fluctuate unreasonably, I guess due to reporting paperwork. either that or people choose to not die on weekends
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  36. not by the scenes on the news
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  37.  Andrew Ongais  Yes, amazingly enough, PCR is so powerful, it might detect one case in a city. . It's the technique used for ancient DNA too.
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  38. some tests give results in minutes. some take weeks to send to the lab and wait and wait
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  39. Unfortunately there are no science people in the world, except in Iceland and Thailand, the only two nations that have done randomized testing.
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  40. It's a good idea to refrain from comment on subjects that are largely unknown to the refrainer. . (hint Nevada hint)
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  41.  Andrew Ongais  dry and dusty, nothing to see here ;)
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  42. Along the lines of "this food is toxic... and the portions so small!"
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  43.  @kastanie7445  I thought the antibody test is very specific also. . citations?
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  44. Yes and no. The paper does NOT say "you only need a small percentage..." The paper does NOT say "herd immunity is nearly in place everywhere." . It says that every percentage counts towards lessening the impact. . Thailand repoted ~20% seropositive in an actual randomized study. The paper you cite is very helpful to interpret that number: "seropositivity measures of 10-20% are entirely compatible with local levels of immunity having approached or even exceeded the HIT, in which case the risk of resurgence is lower than currently perceived." -https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.15.20154294v1.full.pdf
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  45. I'm glad someone is using the extra fur from animals that were probably eaten for meat anyway. Fur is fine. We should be very kind to the animals we raise however.
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  46. that's true lol We need to do random invite studies every week. As few as 1000 samples per week would be amazingly informative, done randomly like a scientific poll.
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  47. There are no good numbers for prevalence. I'm masking it up over here, but only about 2 nations have scientifically defensible numbers. .
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