Coronavirus (political)

[SunnySide]

The study found a link between working memory and social distancing, and subjects -- noting more benefits than costs -- with higher levels of fluid intelligence, fairness and agreeableness followed the new rules of social distancing compliance, the study found.

“The decision of whether or not to follow social distancing guidelines is a difficult one, especially when there is a conflict between the societal benefits (e.g., prevent straining public health resources) and personal costs (e.g., loss in social connection and financial challenges). This decision critically relies on our mental capacity in retaining multiple pieces of potentially conflicting information in our head, which is referred to as working memory capacity,” study author Weizhen Xie (Zane) told PsyPost.

“As a researcher in cognitive psychology, I feel that it is our duty to figure out why some people follow the developing norm of social distancing while others ignore it. Addressing this issue may help mitigate the current public health crisis due to the COVID-19,” Xie, a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, added.

Xie said: “Realizing this cognitive bottleneck, the bottom line is that we should not rely on people’s habitual following of a norm because social distancing is not yet adequately established in U.S. society. Policymakers should develop strategies to aid people’s decision by making information or debriefing materials succinct, concise and brief.”

https://www.foxnews.com/health/coron...working-memory

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Study says 2 things:

1. More intelligent people were able to comply with the mask/social distancing rules because they are able to consider and weigh multiple pieces of (sometimes conflicting) information.

Less intelligent people can only process a single thought, like "liberal media = evil" or "lock her up"

2. Trump could have saved a lot of the less intelligent people of our country if he came out and said "covid = bad, mask = good".

Bumper sticker approach to public speaking. K.I.S.S. and repeat it early and often.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

The study found a link between working memory and social distancing, and subjects -- noting more benefits than costs -- with higher levels of fluid intelligence, fairness and agreeableness followed the new rules of social distancing compliance, the study found.

“The decision of whether or not to follow social distancing guidelines is a difficult one, especially when there is a conflict between the societal benefits (e.g., prevent straining public health resources) and personal costs (e.g., loss in social connection and financial challenges). This decision critically relies on our mental capacity in retaining multiple pieces of potentially conflicting information in our head, which is referred to as working memory capacity,” study author Weizhen Xie (Zane) told PsyPost.

“As a researcher in cognitive psychology, I feel that it is our duty to figure out why some people follow the developing norm of social distancing while others ignore it. Addressing this issue may help mitigate the current public health crisis due to the COVID-19,” Xie, a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, added.

Xie said: “Realizing this cognitive bottleneck, the bottom line is that we should not rely on people’s habitual following of a norm because social distancing is not yet adequately established in U.S. society. Policymakers should develop strategies to aid people’s decision by making information or debriefing materials succinct, concise and brief.”

https://www.foxnews.com/health/coron...working-memory

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Study says 2 things:

1. More intelligent people were able to comply with the mask/social distancing rules because they are able to consider and weigh multiple pieces of (sometimes conflicting) information.

Less intelligent people can only process a single thought, like "liberal media = evil" or "lock her up"

2. Trump could have saved a lot of the less intelligent people of our country if he came out and said "covid = bad, mask = good".

Bumper sticker approach to public speaking. K.I.S.S. and repeat it early and often.

[BaltimoreSkins]

We don't know the long term health effects of this virus to say it doesn't impact children with any certainty cannot be said at this point. There is zero way to know the mid to long term health effects at this point.

Second there is just too many students with conditions not diagnosed asthma, diabetes that put them in the high risk category. Anecdotally I teach HS science courses and even there I am finding students that I need to report for SST for health reasons that have not been diagnosed.

While Europe has opened I would hardly use them as a perfect model for the U.S. They tend have much greater country wide policy instead of relying on the whims of regional leaders. We know there is a portion of the U.S. that looks at government trying to protect the population = bad.

My personal feelings are I would love to get back to work in the building. I didn't choose this profession to work with younger generations on a screen.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

My personal feelings are I would love to get back to work in the building. I didn't choose this profession to work with younger generations on a screen.

My group said the same thing. They all teach little ones K and 1st and all have said the best thing about teaching is the kids they were / are the fun part of teaching.

[SolidSnake84]

Per sources with the VA Governor's office, Virginia is expected to be moving back into Phase 1. An announcement will be officially made tomorrow at 2pm.

It is also expected that Governor Northam will announce that all of VA's schools will be distancing learning, going forward.

My thoughts: VA will stay in Phase 1 until we get the vaccine out to the masses.

[Chico23231]

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

That would work better with DeSantis

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by MTK

That would work better with DeSantis

Naw...watching the garbage media ball washing of Cuomo is simply amazing. Now he is running his mouth trying to gaslight everybody. His policies...nursing home, waiting to clean mass transit sometime in mid April, kids in school longer than national avg../

Then there is the 32k deaths...

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Naw...watching the garbage media ball washing of Cuomo is simply amazing. Now he is running his mouth trying to gaslight everybody. His policies...nursing home, waiting to clean mass transit sometime in mid April, kids in school longer than national avg../

Then there is the 32k deaths...

And yet NY right now is under control, opening back up, while Florida has 20% of all the cases in the US right now and keeps setting records almost daily, all this after DeSantis took his victory lap back in May like a buffoon. It's clear who the clown is right now.

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by MTK

And yet NY right now is under control, opening back up, while Florida has 20% of all the cases in the US right now and keeps setting records almost daily, all this after DeSantis took his victory lap back in May like a buffoon. It's clear who the clown is right now.

You forget the cardinal rule of the right. Whatever they did that was/is absolutely asinine was actually a democrat. The media just doesn’t like Trump and the republicans so everything you see and hear is the opposite. Duh.

[MTK]

Mission Accomplished!

[mooby]

Originally Posted by MTK

Mission Accomplished!

All it needs is a meme of Trump as Rocky knocking out COVID as Drago.

[SunnySide]

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro tore into Dr. Anthony Fauci in a stunning op-ed on Wednesday, saying the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, who has been a leading voice on the Coronavirus Task Force, has been “wrong about everything.”

“Dr. Anthony Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public, but he has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on,” Navarro wrote in a blistering op-ed for USA Today.

Navarro began by saying that Fauci “fought against” Trump’s “courageous decision” in late January to suspend flights from China as the novel coronavirus began to spread, arguing that that decision “might well have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tra...out-everything

The president’s comments contradict what both he and Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have said in the past. During the April 13 coronavirus task force press briefing, Trump was asked if he and Fauci were “on the same page.” He responded: “Yeah, we have been from the beginning.” At the same press briefing, Fauci discussed how responsive Trump was to the recommendations made by the task force. After discussing the recommendations they made regarding mitigation, Fauci mentioned: “The travel [restriction] was another recommendation, when we went in and said, ‘We probably should be doing that.’ And the answer was ‘yes.’ And then another time was, ‘We should do it with Europe,’ and the answer was ‘yes.’ And the next time, ‘We should do it with the U.K.,’ and the answer was ‘yes.’”

While Fauci said in the earlier stages of the pandemic that a China travel ban was “not something that I think we're even considering,” according to New York Times interviews with White House aides and Fauci himself, by January 30 the leading public health officials in the federal government were recommending travel restrictions with China to President Trump. Aides also told the Wall Street Journal that it was Fauci, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar that convinced the initially- skeptical Trump to make the decision. Azar’s explanation of the decision echoes this reporting, as he said the travel restrictions were implemented based on “the uniform recommendations of the career public health officials here at HHS.”

Fauci supported the travel restrictions with China publicly as well. At the task force press briefing on the day the restrictions were announced, Fauci said that “because there are so many unknowns here, we’re going to take the action that the secretary will describe [restricting travel from China], in a temporary way, to make sure we mitigate, as best as we possibly can, this risk.”

On February 3, the day after the restrictions took effect, Fauci appeared on CNBC and stated: “As the entry into the United States of potentially infected people is diminished because of the travel restrictions on both sides, of getting out of China and getting into the United States, I think you are going to see a dampening down of [coronavirus cases in the United States]. And that’s the reason why this was done: to protect Americans from travel-related cases.”

On February 7, Fauci told reporters that the positives of travel restrictions with China outweigh the negatives and that “this decision was not made lightly.”

During the February 29 coronavirus task force press briefing, Fauci repeated how valuable he saw the travel restrictions: “We prevented travel from China to the United States. If we had not done that, we would have had many, many more cases right here that we would have to be dealing with.” (The restrictions didn’t actually prevent all travel from China; they merely restricted it.)

On March 15, Fauci said, “The president's decision to essentially have a major blocking of travel from China, that already had an effect of not seeding the way, in Europe—Italy didn't do that.” The next week, on March 22, Fauci said the United States was “not necessarily at all” on the same trajectory for coronavirus cases as Italy, citing Italy’s decision not to “shut out as well the input of infections that originated in China” early on as a possible reason the country was hit particularly hard.

Fauci has consistently agreed with the travel decision. Indeed, a wide variety of reporting and his public statements make clear he was an early advocate for such restrictions in internal government coronavirus discussions. Based on all available information, Trump was not accurate to say that Fauci criticized the president’s decision to restrict travel with China.

https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/...ee-with-trumps

[SunnySide]

Trump and the WH can go fuck themselves.

Gameplan:

1. Deny (well go form 15 to 0 cases)
2. Divert (blame China, China China .. keep saying China)
3. Downplay (same as flu)
4. Discredit (attack Dr. Fauci bc he doesnt follow the WH narrative)

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This narrative that the WH has been pushing the last few weeks to attack and discredit Fauci is embarrassing.

Worry about the Country and the people ... not your re-election. Ironically, if Trump had led by doing whats the best for the Country and not best for him .. he wouldnt be in this mess campaign wise and would probably be much better in polling.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

Trump and the WH can go fuck themselves.

Gameplan:

1. Deny (well go form 15 to 0 cases)
2. Divert (blame China, China China .. keep saying China)
3. Downplay (same as flu)
4. Discredit (attack Dr. Fauci bc he doesnt follow the WH narrative)

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This narrative that the WH has been pushing the last few weeks to attack and discredit Fauci is embarrassing.

Worry about the Country and the people ... not your re-election. Ironically, if Trump had led by doing whats the best for the Country and not best for him .. he wouldnt be in this mess campaign wise and would probably be much better in polling.

Turning on Fauci just might be the single biggest mistake this WH can do for their re-election chances in Nov.