Here is the roster of the 14 guys at the top and their former professions:
Russell M. Nelson Famous heart surgeon
Dallin H. Oaks Justice of Utah Supreme Court
M. Russell Ballard Ballard Motor Company – Businessman
Jeffrey R. Holland President BYU
Henry B. Eyring President Ricks – Harvard Business School alum, his dad
was a famous Physicist
Dieter F. Uchtdorf Senior VP of Flight Operations Lufthansa Former fighter
pilot
David A. Bednar President Ricks (BYU Idaho) Business school professor
Quentin L. Cook Corporate Attorney
D. Todd Christofferson Corporate Attorney
Donale Rasband Business Executive
Gary E. Stevenson Business Executive
Dale G. Renlund Cardiologist, Professor, Medical Director
Gerrit W. Gong. Professor – Political science US State Department
Ulisses Soraes Auditor
Note: Not a single doctor of theology or philosophy...
From: ch...@wbmfg.com
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 11:12 AM
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I think we are pretty good at top down organization and rule following. The
LDS church has a huge amount of sway over the state government. Actually at
all levels. The good thing is that the upper echelons of the LDS church is
populated by highly educated people. The president of the church is a former
world renown heart surgeon. If he mentions something, people listen... kinda
like Charles Schwab.
From: Robert
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 11:01 AM
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Utah seems to be far ahead of the curve... Yep the mormons understand
disease...
On 4/26/20 9:16 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Because 100% of deaths in Utah are tested for Coronavirus...
From: Robert
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 10:07 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Dang, not normal
There was just an interesting article written that lamented how inaccurate
coroners have been on cause of death for the whole existence of coroners...
Like 50% accurate. Why would they get better now?
On 4/26/20 8:23 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
There is so much we don't know for a number of frustrating reasons. One is
the asymptomatic infection problem, and how long that lasts. The other is that
the symptoms are "similar" to the flu, and sometimes other things. One headline
that caught my attention this morning is that Santa Clara County had 29 people
listed as "dying of flu-like symptoms", and 9 (roughly 1/3) have been
reclassified as COVID-19 after they tested for the virus.
I snipped this from the article, and it pretty well sums up the situation
at present:
“We’ll never, ever know how many people contracted the coronavirus in San
Clara County or California or the U.S. That ship has sailed. Even
self-reporting would be inherently inaccurate or impossible,” Santa Clara
County Supervisor Dave Cortese said. “Our only hope of getting a decent history
of it is by counting the dead. I’m really disappointed that coroners all over
the country haven’t done a better job. They’ve been signing death certificates
as strokes or heart attacks or natural causes.”
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 4/26/2020 8:12 AM, Robert wrote:
Does it bug anyone else that this "doctor" says that we aren't treating
this like other epidemics and quarantining the sick, when Covid-19 IS NOT LIKE
OTHER epidemics. It has a 2-10 day period of being contagious _without_
symptoms.
I was agreeing with him up until that point.
Then he goes into the NY numbers and he does the same extrapolation
of the testing vs sick numbers that many have done before ( including myself )
which is BAD Science. It's not a good test case to extrapolate to the gen pop
from, because the testing has not been randomly done across gen pop! The
people who get tested typically are those who exhibit symptoms. This may
under guess the number who have gotten it OR over guess, but it's still NOT
science.
He also neglects the effect of the quarantine actions on the results
of the number of cases in his region. Gee wilikers I want to hear the same
information done from actual scientific method testing. Then he says
"hundreds of thousands of deaths which were inaccurate"... Um we are over 54K
deaths and the curve ISN'T going down. It seems to have leveled off but is
still going strong. In basically 1.5 months. We are 1/4+ the way to the
model with social distancing. Without social distancing we could start making
a gain on the other models. I think this is yet another example of
someone, this time a doctor, who looks at the results of successful social
distancing and says it's overreaction. And then he talks about 0.1% of death
and then 92% recovery. Um doesn't that sound like 8% who DON'T recover? And
if you throw 8% at the hospitals of the population in a much shorter time from
not social distancing, what happens to the hospitals? Sorry but this is an
"agenda" again...
IT'S NOT LIKE THE FLU!
On 4/26/20 7:34 AM, James Howard wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLVxx_lBLU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2Z1n4E0sxMyXc82UZxrXNKJqf9oaC_kF53Be6NZaVPnuP8jwTDKxk5w4g
From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:13 AM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' mailto:af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Dang, not normal
Steve, the usual solution is for nervous dwelling beings to engage in
“spring cleaning”, to the annoyance of all other dwelling beings.
https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/04/26
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Steve Jones
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 12:27 AM
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I just reread that and am going to have to call a lent. Sorry
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 12:19 AM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
That's another thing that really needs kicked to the curb, political
correctness. This is serious business, and housewives get nervous. A nervous
housewife can make a whole lot of bad decisions. Those bad decisions have real
world consequenses that dont care about being politically correct. You can say
house person if you want. Well maybe being, since son is in person, indicating
Male, if a gender actually exists. And I guess house indicates some level of
financial status.
Would you feel better about "dwelling being".
"Keeping dwelling beings occupied and less nervous" does that make
you feel better?
Fyi, that's specifically the reason I have my wife, who is suffering
severe post partum depression in the middle of the end of the world, looking
for templates on making masks, so i dont come home to the real world
consequense of my babies drown in the bathtub. I'm not quite sure if her doing
that would be PC or not.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 11:56 PM Bruce Robertson <br...@pooh.com> wrote:
“keeping housewives occupied and less nervous”
Really? You’re aware this is 2020, right?
On Apr 25, 2020, at 8:18 PM, Steve Jones
<thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
You asked
What was recomended by the White House. Regional opening with
result driven response. (Without rhetoric, example, my county TRIPLED its cases
over the weekend. It went from 1 to 3, the 2 new ones are related, so the
increase is pretty irrelevant.) Tracing is more important than testing. That's
just a matter of fact, testing is a slice in time, you can be infected, and
test negative if you were recently infected, you can get infected at a test
site. You can test positive from an environmental exposure without having
actually caught it. It's like MRSA of the nairs.
Once identified, the tracing leads back to likely hotspots. I'd
personally put the bulk of the funding into tracing. Use every bit of data
volunteered. Particularly request the tracking data from mobile devices. If its
volunteered, you have a map. If they dont, well, you work with what you have.
"Testing" is a tool of politics. The only way to effectively test
would be real time monitoring. Which A. Doesnt exist and B. Wouldn't be
feasible.
The governors each now have in their possession the location of
every single test processing facility in the nation. So what little relevance
testing actually plays in management is their responsibility to delegate
coordination. So it's a moot issue.
Any location exposed in tracing gets a mandatory scrub scrub (to
be honest, I dont understand any public venue that wouldn't be surface
decontaminating once ever 24 hours minimum anyway, there's no shortage of
killitol level disinfectants)
I think the mandatory face covering is nonsense. If it were
mandatory rated filtration masks that would be different.
But there isnt a production capacity for that on the entire
planet. But since it makes people feel like they're doing something, I'm all
for it. Placebo is actually a powerful medication for much of what ails
society. Plus the homemade masks are keeping housewives occupied and less
nervous. That actually matters.
Occasionally a tracing may require a mandatory compensated
closure. Example being a county here in illinois that has a processor who has
over 20 employees infected, they're still operational. There is autonomy and
constitutional rights, and then there is stupidity and a true public health
risk. That falls under the latter and should be closed pending decontamination.
A forcible closure, from a document able and legitimate public
health risk should require medical screening of all staff/administration prior
to resuming activities. There is no shortage of available healthcare
practitioners right now, so depts of public health can contract that . Once
again, the focus should be on tracing. Heavily funded tracing. "Patient zero"
in the above mentioned case has probably long since recovered. Tracing is where
they are identified, as theyll test negative now. Cases like this are where
antibody testing should be prioritized, assuming there is consent.
Tracing
The same applies to public venues. If tracing identifies probable
contamination, the venue scrubs. Applicable staff are cleared, tracing, tracing
tracing. Video surveillance has a huge role where it is voluntarily submitted.
Voluntarily being key and subjective, since it will be a whole lot quicker to
clear a location of all tracing resources are made readily available. Call it
extortion if you want, it is what it is, and it is a tool.
Metrics must be clearly defined. If two people happenned to have
been in the same place, it doesnt need to necessarily be shut down. But the
threshold must be clearly defined. We have very little that is clearly defined.
That has a whole lot to do with the defiance. Selling seeds being a prime
example, at no point did illinois shut that down, yet places cordoned them off
and facebook images went nuts. This is literally the same thing that cause the
rapid spread in the US, images of empty shelves. Many of the people protesting
still dont know that nurseries and greenhouses were specifically deemed
essential last week, but that's why they're there. Clearly define everything,
on the state and county websites. Accurate information is critical. That and
tracing.
Define regional thresholds for stages of opening. If a region
declines, shut it down. If a region does well, progress the stages. Exactly as
the feds recommend.
Define and justify every single essential and non essential
industry. With a mandatory state clarification within 24 hours of a designation
request. Justify being key. And publicly accessible designations. This would be
fluid and ongoing.
Leisure activities need designations. Nuclear family needs
clarification. As it reads, I cant take my family fishing in illinois because
the designated limit is 2. This will get police in situations with bad outcomes
because nobody bothered to clarify.
If a region's medical resources are verifiably and documented to
be taxed to a predefined and clearly defined level, then ease back on the
stages, all the way to lockdown if need be. But media reports and public
opinion arent the metrics. The staffing levels and documented patient loads
define that.
I can continue
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 9:01 PM Chuck Macenski <ch...@macenski.com>
wrote:
Would you please articulate specifically "what is right" in
this situation? I am asking for your non-political opinion of the most
constructive way forward.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:24 PM Steve Jones
<thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
I sit back and watch as people contradict their own
statements. "Its going to be here like this for years" "tests are growing, as
is the number" "it's been here longer than we think" "it hasn't peaked because
muh testing" "it's going to be worse in fall" "mitigation has had a major
impact"
The best is regarding the medication mien fuehrer liked.
"Its only anecdotal" "a tiny group had a negative outcome, thisnis the gold
standard and this drug must be banned"
I live in a state where our governor is in a pissing contest
with the White House, but doing pretty much what the White House recommends,
with the exception of looking at things by region. We only have two regions,
chicago, and people who voted for the current president at 1600. So the whole
of downstate will be punished for not voting the right way. When asked about
the data, for the "science" behind this, we were told the state doesnt own the
data, so we cant see it.
I'm part of a foster parent group. One of the fosters is
utterly destroyed right now. Her prior ward, that she stayed in contact with
died 3 days ago at 15. He had returned home, but went back into the system
during this (our state, in its infinite wisdom has effectively shut down the
foster support system, non essential and all) he couldn't come back to her
because she is at capacity. He had cancer and was in a drug trial. He had been
thriving. The governors orders didnt allow for him to get access to the trial
resources, so he lost his trial spot, as is the nature of trials. There were no
resources available to get him into a linear treatment. 3 days ago he succumbed
to the complication. While anecdotal, this is exactly what the cure being worse
than the disease looks like. Granted, the speed at which he declined from
thriving to dead indicates underlying issues, the chicago emperors orders made
certain there were no resources. Right now, thanks to the emperors orders,
there are approximately zero resources available to the foster families.
Anticipate a whole lot of negative outcomes.
Point is, everybody is more concerned about proving how wrong
their political enemy is, that nobody is even actually looking for what is
right.
Thankfully mother nature doesnt care and this will, like all
ailments of proximity, diminish in the next week or so.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 5:48 PM Bill Prince
<part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just listened (in part) to a discussion about COVID-19 as
it regards China/US relations. It is a discussion between Dubner, Michèle
Flournoy ( former undersecretary of defense and co-founder of
strategic-advisory firm WestExec.), and Michael Auslin (historian at Stanford
University’s Hoover Institution).
Within the discussion Auslin asserts that the death toll
within Wuhan alone was between 45 and 47 thousand; at least 10X what they have
reported through official channels. He gets his data through croudsourcing
crematoria activity and the number of people picking up urns of deceased family
members.
If you don't have time to listen to this, it is at least
worth a read of the transcript.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/covid-19-china/
bp<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 4/25/2020 3:11 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote:
This virus doesn't care if you are a Republican, a
Democrat, an Independent, agnostic, religious or an atheist...if it gets you it
might kill you...
Stay smart, listen to doctors and scientists....not
ineptus maximus politicians.
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 12:45 PM Bill Prince
<part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
As we test more, we are undoubtedly going to find more
cases that were previously going undetected (asymptomatic infection). This is a
long way from over. The other thing we have not come to grips with is the
uneven spread/mitigation.
There was an interesting graphic for the state of
California showing the state as a whole versus just the Bay Area (Mercury News
this morning). The 7 counties around the bay instituted shelter in place very
early, and it's beginning to show in the statistics. The Bay Area accounts for
almost 18% of the entire state population (7 of the 40 million).
bp<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 4/25/2020 8:45 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Might be Chebyshev BPF though... hopefully...Bessell.
Hopefully not high pass...
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