The women are there and more prominent then in times past but they still cannot
hold the priesthood. So until that changes it will be run mostly by white old
men.
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> On Apr 26, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Robert <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:
>
> Good group to rely on, but women?
>
> On 4/26/20 10:22 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
>> 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
>> To: af@af.afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Dang, not normal
>>
>> 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
>> To: af@af.afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Dang, not normal
>>
>> 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
>>>>>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Dang, not normal
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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