Loeffler Quarantines After Inconclusive COVID-19 Tests And Indoor Campaign Events | Talking Points Memo

Please, please, please.
And anyone knows what would happen in the special election if one of the cantidates croaks beforehand?

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Asymptomatic people spread Covid-19. I have no doubt that Sen. Loeffler has already infected others. She attended crowded events where attendees were maskless. Shame.

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Why oh why is it that most of these, um people, never really get sick? Or if they do we don’t seem to hear about it and there’s a long list.

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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Shitty things happening to shitty people fills me with J :hearts: Y!!! :tada: :confetti_ball: :fireworks:

ETA: I know, I’m a bad person.

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Carson and Christie both admitted to being deathly ill.

(Herman Cain could not be reached for comment)

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The rapid test is less sensitive in the sense that it requires a higher viral load to give a positive. It has been proposed that this actually makes it better, yielding fewer false positives, than the PCR, if the question is whether a person is infectious, capable of giving COVID to others. Unfortunately, this is still just a theory, because one of the many deficiencies in our response to COVID to date is that the two types of test have never been deployed together and within a coherent system that includes contact tracing that would enable us to judge precisely such questions.

So, it remains possible that Loeffler really has an infection in its early stage, when the rapid test isn’t sufficiently sensitive because the viral load isn’t high, and she might become symptomatic shortly. But it is also possible that she has already passed the peak viral load without developing symptoms, and is still PCR positive solely because of its sensitivity to small and innocuous viral loads, but rapid test negative because of the low viral load.

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This late, I think it goes forward with the same names. Dead senators (another punk band) have been elected before. The usual vacancies procedures take place after the election or after January 3rd, depending on incumbency.

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They’re crab-people.

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Pence has been involved/on the scene of quite a few people who have tested positive for COVID. I’m beginning to believe what was suspected before the virus is true, Pence is an android.

Hey who powered down the droid?

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But, still here for our enjoyment.

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So Kemp would appoint another Republican which leaves the Senate in morass.

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Just like Kim Jong Un, there is a set of body doubles for all the top folks, so as they keep dropping like flies, the doubles are being pressed into service to give the illusion that everything is still under control.

You’ll no doubt be relieved to know that almost the entire Joint Chiefs is now made up of out-of-work Broadway actors, for example.

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Some oldies are nothing but goodies.

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Aww, Kelly, nothing trivial, I hope.

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You mean other people like Perdue? How unfortunate.

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Question.

In the event that Loeffler does become seriously ill, and even, perhaps, goes to Judgment before the election, how is that handled?

Again, we’re trying to preserve amity and comity at this site, so, please, keep the contents of the thoughts and prayers to yourselves. Also, please, no speculation on the outcome of that Judgment. That would be undignified.

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Does that include one for the Dump and Barbie doll wife?

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Both of them have several. Nobody is sure if we’ve actually seen Melanoma since 2016.

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Oh my bad, you were discussing ā€œrapidā€ and I read it vapid. So sorry. :relieved:

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