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05-08-2020, 11:51 AM | #29371 |
Life is changing..
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05-08-2020, 11:53 AM | #29372 |
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05-08-2020, 11:53 AM | #29373 | |
Please squeeze
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That is a more of an age issue than bad choices issue. There was a study by Harvard that estimated that once you are over 55 you have a 90% chance of hypertension. 1/3 of the country has high blood pressure and diabetes. I can tell you have never been around elderly people. |
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05-08-2020, 11:54 AM | #29374 | |
I love your mom
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05-08-2020, 11:56 AM | #29375 | |
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05-08-2020, 12:01 PM | #29376 |
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Looks like airline will start checking the temps of passengers. I would like it if thy would do that anyway. Too many sick people getting on planes before all this as it was.
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05-08-2020, 12:01 PM | #29377 |
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05-08-2020, 12:05 PM | #29378 |
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05-08-2020, 12:15 PM | #29379 |
Please squeeze
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05-08-2020, 12:15 PM | #29380 |
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05-08-2020, 12:17 PM | #29381 | |
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not saying it's an easy choice or even an easy thing to do but it IS a choice. speaking from experience. |
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05-08-2020, 12:18 PM | #29382 | |
Mahomes: We Are All Witnesses
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Otherwise wouldn’t every older person automatically get those conditions? No, there are plenty of healthy older people who are not obese, not diabetic and do not have hypertension because they make good lifestyle decisions and take care of their health. |
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05-08-2020, 12:18 PM | #29383 |
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05-08-2020, 12:19 PM | #29384 |
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05-08-2020, 12:24 PM | #29385 |
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It’s not indicating the number of positives, but rather the proportion. When testing was very limited in the beginning, only the most severe were tested. As such, the proportion of those tested who were positive was high. As testing becomes more available, more people are tested who have less severe symptoms. Now the positivity rate comes down. That isn’t the absolute number of positives though. It is very easy to have the rate come down but the absolute number to go up. It all depends on how much the testing has increased.
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