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    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    5 minutes ago, BIG BILL FAN said:

    no, the real point is you were exposed as a partisan hack and fraud once again....i pointed out that Trump did not say it was a miracle cure and that hydroxyychloroquine is safe to take....you on the other hand just chose to mouth off with no facts..........actually i never said you wanted anything, i clearly said SOME.... MAYBE IT'S YOUR GUILTY CONSCIENCE BOTHERING YOU.....

    BBF:

    1) You haven't answered a single question that I posed to you.

    2) Trump literally said: "What is the harm?" in reference to taking the drug. That is dangerous

    3) It's comical for you to call anyone a political hack.

    4) I love that you get BIG MAD on a message Board. You and Old Guy are two peas in a pod.

     

     

     

    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    1 hour ago, BIG BILL FAN said:

    Telling that you don’t want to discuss the Facts that I presented. Why is that, too embarrassed??? You would think people would be happy about a 9,000 drop in new cases, not the liberal losers.. people like you prove my point...

    Let me make my point more clear: *** you for insinuating I want people to die. 

    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    24 minutes ago, Old guy said:

    I made an exception to read your post above after placing you in the ignore list.

    You finally admit that you are not capable of producing anything close to a medically valid argument. You admit that you do not have a scintilla of medical knowledge. You may know molecules, reactions, and number crunching of testing results. So, you should keep your opinions where they belong, in the trash file given the fact that you have no idea of how to evaluate different kinds of medical publications. The small French study you do not have the knowledge or the intelligence to evaluate properly, with all the faults it may have, probably served to save hundreds if not thousands of lives, by giving a go ahead to the thousands of ID MDs who are using this mode of therapy to control the epidemic. This was exactly what its authors desired, to let as many ID MDs this was a life saving therapy that should be tried. Your slavery to number crunching and statistical perfection has NO PART in this discussion, it never had any part in it. I am glad you agree you are a total nothing in this regard with totally invalid opinions in medical matters.

    As far as the Covid ballad that you published in this thread, it is a totally disgraceful display, in full view of everybody, of an educated adult who should know better than to joyfully celebrate, albeit indirectly, in a public forum the current world wide disaster. The amount of human suffering you indirectly celebrate joyfully with your little ballad is unmeasurable. If nothing else, coming out in a public forum with this little indirect joyful celebration of the epidemic denotes, at the very least, extremely poor judgement. This little ballad, your indirect celebration of death and human suffering, goes completely beyond the pale and reveals you for what you are, a total mediocrity with a high sense of entitlement. The most unbelievable thing about it is that you probably posted it believing, I assume, that it was clever and cute. The Covid ballad has nothing to do with your level of ignorance, it has everything to with revealing what a colossal piece of ____ you are. 

    One last thing I want to mention to you personally. That grandmother at the Cleveland Clinic who locked herself voluntarily with her 3 year old grandson in a Covid isolation room, fully knowing she is at high risk of dying from it and choosing to stare directly at the face of death, reveals a LADY the likes of which you are not and will never be. In the face of this and many other acts of mostly unknown heroism (which you probably think are acts of stupidity) and the immense human pain and suffering caused by this epidemic, you little ballad is an atrocious and uncalled for insult upon the thousands of victims and relatives of the victims of this disease.

     

    @SluSignGuyI mean seriously? 

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    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    14 minutes ago, Old guy said:

    I made an exception to read your post above after placing you in the ignore list.

    You finally admit that you are not capable of producing anything close to a medically valid argument. You admit that you do not have a scintilla of medical knowledge. You may know molecules, reactions, and number crunching of testing results. So, you should keep your opinions where they belong, in the trash file given the fact that you have no idea of how to evaluate different kinds of medical publications. The small French study you do not have the knowledge or the intelligence to evaluate properly, with all the faults it may have, probably served to save hundreds if not thousands of lives, by giving a go ahead to the thousands of ID MDs who are using this mode of therapy to control the epidemic. This was exactly what its authors desired, to let as many ID MDs this was a life saving therapy that should be tried. Your slavery to number crunching and statistical perfection has NO PART in this discussion, it never had any part in it. I am glad you agree you are a total nothing in this regard with totally invalid opinions in medical matters.

    As far as the Covid ballad that you published in this thread, it is a totally disgraceful display, in full view of everybody, of an educated adult who should know better than to joyfully celebrate, albeit indirectly, in a public forum the current world wide disaster. The amount of human suffering you indirectly celebrate joyfully with your little ballad is unmeasurable. If nothing else, coming out in a public forum with this little indirect joyful celebration of the epidemic denotes, at the very least, extremely poor judgement. This little ballad, your indirect celebration of death and human suffering, goes completely beyond the pale and reveals you for what you are, a total mediocrity with a high sense of entitlement. The most unbelievable thing about it is that you probably posted it believing, I assume, that it was clever and cute. The Covid ballad has nothing to do with your level of ignorance, it has everything to with revealing what a colossal piece of ____ you are. 

    One last thing I want to mention to you personally. That grandmother at the Cleveland Clinic who locked herself voluntarily with her 3 year old grandson in a Covid isolation room, fully knowing she is at high risk of dying from it and choosing to stare directly at the face of death, reveals a LADY the likes of which you are not and will never be. In the face of this and many other acts of mostly unknown heroism (which you probably think are acts of stupidity) and the immense human pain and suffering caused by this epidemic, you little ballad is an atrocious and uncalled for insult upon the thousands of victims and relatives of the victims of this disease.

     

    You’re a psychotic old guy grandpa 

    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    1 minute ago, BIG BILL FAN said:

    No, it sounds like a biased, politically motivated hit piece. Trump never said anything was a miracle cure, so that’s a flat out lie. The drug HAS BEEN PROVEN SAFE EXCEPT IN SOME INSTANCES OF LONG TERM USAGE, WHICH IS NOT THE CASE HERE!  it’s stunning the lengths some will go to harm our President and our country. Meanwhile, new cases dropped by nearly 9,000 today. Sadly, some will not take this as encouraging news...

    I’ve tried to ignore you but you keep commenting and acting like a presidential lap dog.  

     

     

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    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    1 hour ago, rgbilliken said:

    Old man, keep my name out of your pathetic mouth. I have not, and will never, claim to have a scintilla of medical knowledge. I am not an MD. i did not attend medical school. I cannot diagnose or treat a patient. I never claimed any of those things. you can continue to bloviate for 8000 words per post all you want but leave me out of it and don’t outright lie about what I’ve said. 
     

    There are many things I don’t know, and I admit that. One thing I do know is how research is typically conducted. the specific study you posted earlier in this thread was poorly designed and lacked statistical power. That is the only thing I have argued with you about. If the 6000 number you posted above is true that’s great. I am glad it is working. That is completely separate and apart from the small French study you cited earlier. 

    Dr. Megan L. Ranney, an emergency physician at Brown University in Rhode Island, said in an interview on Sunday night that she had never seen an elected official advertise a “miracle cure” the way Mr. Trump has done. But she took pause.

    “There are side effects to hydroxychloroquine,” Dr. Ranney said. “It causes psychiatric symptoms, cardiac problems and a host of other bad side effects.”

    Dr. Ranney said hydroxychloroquine could be effective for some patients, but there wasn’t nearly enough scientific evidence to support Mr. Trump’s claims.

     

    wow sounds pretty similar to what RG said. 

    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    3 hours ago, Old guy said:

    This is new data (to me at least):

    Mortality data shows that the mortality rate increases rapidly with age and gets over 15% for patients over age 80. This does not mean that younger age people cannot die of Covid infection.

    Survival from standard ARDS (not Covid) treated with ventilation at BJC has been 50% give or take. No idea what the survival for ARDS induced by Covid may be at BJC, suspect it may  be lower.

    SLU Hospital  currently has (mid week last week) 15 Covid patients, 8 in ICU but not receiving ventilatory support, 5 on ventilatory support, 2 in isolation at the wards.

    Cleveland Clinic currently has 192 Covid patients (as of Friday 4/3), 1/3 of which are isolated in the wards, including one pediatric patient 3 years old, and the rest are in ICU receiving ventilatory support. Cleveland Clinic has had around 90 patients that were discharged after surviving Covid induced ARDS treated with ventilation. The pediatric patient survived ARDS and ventilatory support before he was diagnosed with Covid. He is in isolation running happily around his room, playing with anything that resembles a toy and driving the staff crazy. His guardian, his grandmother, is staying inside the isolation room with the child (with special permission from the Clinic), she deserves a medal for heroism for facing something like this square in the face. If she survives this, I  hope they have a grand parade to honor her courage and love for the child. I also hope she is receiving preventive dosage of drugs to keep her free of infection. Who says women have no balls?, she certainly does have more than many men do.

    The classroom buildings of the Case Western Reserve Med school (Cleveland) are being converted into a holding hospital for milder hospitalization requiring overflow patients.

    Azithromycin tested in vitro against Zika and Ebola viruses show the antibiotic is active against these two viruses.

    World wide survey of ID MDs treating Covid cases (6000 ID MD responders) shows that the most commonly used and most effective drug used for treating Covid is Hydroxichloroquine. Bi_ch all you want about lack of testing and lack of safety, it does the job or so these 6000 INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALISTS (NOT PSYCHIATRISTS OR CHEMISTS) SAY. Anecdotal evidence yes, but it saves lives, something that never crossed you minds.

    The best two ways to survive Covid are: 1. Not getting it. and 2. Not getting Covid induced ARDS if you do get the disease. If you happen to test positive and develop clinical symptoms, the best treatment available is 200mg of Hydroxychloroquine po tid plus Azithromycin po 500 mg loading dose day 1 followed by 250 mg po qd X 4 days. This drug combo is used to lower viral load and prevent ARDS from developing.

    For those of you that have been busy providing your really miniscule level of medical knowledge and faulty opinion to this discussion, yes, I mean you SpoonBills and Rgbilliken the famous singer of the Covid ballad, stick this up anywhere it pleases you. As my ex marine friend used to say, GSIYH.

    This mess is NOT a political issue, it is a medical and public health issue that will be resolved some time, hopefully soon. Some of you people just LOVE to see the death toll rise just to dump on the President. I still hold on to my prediction of less than 26,000 Covid deaths for this epidemic in the US. 

     

    What a pathetic old man so threatened by a young MD in training and a female Phd

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    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    31 minutes ago, Aquinas said:

    I'm in my 60, the edge of the higher risk group. My wife and I have made many sacrifices to help our daughters get good educations, good jobs and have the opportunity to enjoy good careers and pursue their dreams.

    I have been concerned about trillion dollar annual deficits and the threat they pose to our economy and our country. Then last week Congress and the president approved adding 2 trillion more to the deficit.  So who is going to pay that 2 trillion?  Our children and grand children. 

    It is easy to say, chose life over money. But a more sober way to look at it is what spending and programs would we need to cut to come up with 2 trillion dollars? Our fed gov roughly spends 4 trillion per and roughly 1 trillion of that is social security.  So if we could cancel social security for 2 years, to come up with the 2 trillion dollars to cover it. But that would create tremendous hardships.  Those 2 trillion dollars represent life, and you can't come up with 2 trillion dollars without affecting lives, quality of life and physical life.

    If our government and the citizens  lack the will and desire to actually pay the debt back, the only other option is to just print more of it..... lots more.  If we continue to treat our dollars like Monoply money, soon it will be Monopoly money.  We are pretending that shutting down this economy has no real cost, but we are stealing from our children.

    We must get back to work, yes there will be consequences. Maybe I will get sick, and maybe I will need a ventilator and there won't be one. That is a risk that I am willing to take, before I watch this country and the future of our children collapse. We must take reasonable precautions, isolate those at greatest risk, but we must go back to work and we can not live in fear. 

     

    I get you’re willing to take a risk on your health but you don’t to make that decision for the millions of other high risk people across the country 

    Coach Ford on the Radio, 2020

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    25 minutes ago, Pistol said:

    -Ford said they're coping well, all things considered. Doing anything they can to stay connected to the team. Doing Zooms with the players and coaches regularly, and also the women's staff to kick ideas around.

    -He doesn't mind the players having a couple weeks off at the end of the season but now they need to get moving again. S&C coach is also doing Zooms with the players to get them exercising. "I don't think anybody can get ahead during these times, but you can certainly fall behind."

    -Definitely anticipated French and Goodwin declaring. Had long conversations with both and their families. He supported and even encouraged it. Hates that it looks like workouts and combines won't be happening, so they're not getting the full evaluations they deserve. If they're ever expected to be first-round picks, they need to stay in the draft. That's guaranteed money.

    -There are almost 700 names in the transfer portal but we haven't been in the pool since Hankton transferred, so we're late from that standpoint. Just taking it day by day and if Goodwin or French can go pro, we have to get busy in short order. It's a challenge but we're supporting everybody.

    -Goodwin has things you can't teach - leadership, motor, energy - but he needs to work on ball handling, jump shooting, spacing. He keeps getting better every year and will continue to do so. He doesn't agree with the maxim that you are who you are as a shooter by age 20. Says guys get provably better, especially bigs. Everyone shoots threes now.

    -The only recruiting we can do is on the phone - text, calls, FaceTime, Zoom, etc. We can offer guys and they can commit but signing dates have been moved back. "You're trying to get kids to commit who have never been to campus, seen the facilities, or met their teammates in person. Just through videos."

    -He can't talk about Lorentsson at all. We technically have two scholarships because he hasn't signed but really one (not his words but implied via the back-and-forth with Frank).

    -Transfers have already been through the recruiting process. They're older, they have an understanding of how it works. HS kids are more difficult because they want to take more visits, and who knows how long it'll be before we can do that again.

    -Tough to build relationships just over the phone but we're doing our best.

    -NCAA postponed the vote on immediate transfer eligibility until June. He thought it was going to go through but now is hearing that conferences might try to fight it. Not sure which ones or how valid the rumor is. He thinks the current numbers will double if it happens.

    -They keep a close eye on the transfer portal. Every coach, everyday.

    -"I know coaches with no scholarships available and are still calling recruits. We aren't doing that but it's the nature of the beast that you don't want to get behind in this...if you don't offer immediately, you're in a losing position. Recruits are asking about offers before the first conversation is over." Shared a story from his EKU days. A recruit committed the day after a home visit and offer. They pushed back and said you have to visit and meet your teammates first. The rest went well and he ended up being a starter almost his whole career. The insta-commitment hasn't happened since.

    -"The further I get from the end of the season, the more I realize how great we were playing. Not only the large margins of victory, but those last 2 or 3 were huge games for both teams playing. Rhode Island could've gotten an at-large. Both teams had a lot on the line and it wasn't even a game. Then you have St. Bonaventure and we're both playing for the double bye. I guess we got up to 26 at one point. George Mason, we're down 1 at half and end up winning by 12-13. Games weren't even close. We were playing at a high level, as well as any team as I've coached down the stretch. I'm proud of how we finished and had a chance to do something special in the A10."

    -It could be a great team if everyone comes back. Everyone's gotta be humble and hungry. And we've gotta get back together when all this is over.

    Inject this right into my veins. 

    SLU & NCAA Corona Virus Discussion

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    8 minutes ago, billiken_roy said:

    you are correct.   because from a child forward i was taught to take care of myself and be independent and not look for people to do for me.    if i needed more, i worked harder, made myself better and put myself in positions to get better jobs with better benefits and more money.    

    L Ron Hubbard said, "if you want milk, dont sit on a stool in a pasture and expect a cow to come along and back up to you".   

    us deplorables go get it.   the elite deep state wants it all just given to them.  

    Did not expect you to be a Scientologist, Roy. :) 

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