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That's fine, but I don't think it's fair that you criticize the media for hyping him up when you absolutely love to post all his garbage tweets.

I especially think after Jan 20th, posting his tweets should be a ban-worthy offense. I am so over it.

I mean we kinda knew that would happen though. Cortez Masto in a leadership position is nice, though.

He also shut down bar side seating, which is the bigger deal. He kinda snuck it in there too in the press conference.

I don't think your IQ is three. Your need to always present the negative angle without much forethought lately is a tad infuriating, but I get it! They're not even part of the media narrative, though. They don't call states. Even their shitlord conservative owner was like "wtf Rudy?"

RealClearPolitics is now the media narrative.

I expected this to be a petty Berne v Liz thing. Instead you presented a sound, well-reasoned argument. I leave disappointed.

I don't really care if he does, though I'm not sure how you are so sure.

If she isn't going to be replaced by a Dem, Biden would be a fool to give her a post.

I misread the tweet. My bad, guys.

What does this mean? I don't get it.

Dude, it's Jason! We've already pointed out that the "legal" ballots are the ballots that Biden won his margin by.

There's also the notion that viral loads when people are wearing masks are significantly lower: http://www.ucsf.edu//themes/custom/ucsf/favicon.ico One More Reason to Wear a Mask: You’ll Get Less Sick From COVID-19 WWW.UCSF.EDU It’s likely that face masks, by blocking even some of the coronavirus-carrying droplets you inhale, can reduce your risk of falling seriously ill from COVID-19, according to Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at UCSF. So even if you do get the disease and the mask mandate literally does not reduce transmission by a single case (not true), you are less likely to get severely ill if you are wearing a mask. This is why even as cases spike in Europe, death rates have not in nearly the same degree.

He's going by the notion that legally he can't, which makes @mclumber1happy: The Latest: Biden offers details of 'national mask mandate' - ABC News ABCNEWS.GO.COM Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is detailing his approach on what he’s called a “national mask mandate” as he campaigns against President Donald Trump I guess he had announced this over a month ago. Oh well.

This is not what is happening. They are planning to push mask mandates, just at the state and local level. They don't want it to be federal.

I never said to only use positivity rates. They are to be used in conjunction with rate of transmission.

This isn't accurate though. Positivity rate is still considered important and is cited by governors when reporting numbers. Even now, the total number of infections reported daily are still a vast underestimation of the the true numbers, just as before. That is why positivity rate is so important. For example, NJ has seen a sharp uptake in cases. Our numbers are close to our peaks in April. So why did Murphy not announce a shutdown today? Because our positivity rate, although rising, has not skyrocketed: Nominal cases were always going to increase as testing increased. Decisions are made based off Rt and positivity rate, not nominal cases.

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Less than half of the positivity rate. We've talked about positivity rate before. I've seen you discuss how total cases do not matter, but rather the positivity rate. Come on.

The positivity rate has been far lower since the mandate. Even the high they are hitting now is less than half of what they were hitting in the summer. You know this, too.

That sounds great as well! Democrats can do multiple things at once, I hope!

Anyway, this isn't even an issue regarding the efficacy of mandates. It's that Biden wants to push this on the state and local level instead of being a leader and doing it on the federal level.

Mask mandate appears to be helping in Texas, but experts ask Gov. Greg Abbott not to rule out a shutdown WWW.KCBD.COM A plateauing of new virus cases would hardly represent a victory over the pandemic, but it would help keep hospitals from being overrun with sick patients.

This isn't true. You can't tell me that 99% of conservatives in NJ believe in the efficacy of masks. Baseless assumption on your part.

NJ does not have an effective way to enforce the law, but the adoption rate is very high.