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Absolutely unforgivable that Trump didn't have 300 million test kits for testing this heretofore unknown virus already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses in anticipation of this wholly unexpected day. What were they thinking??? It's right on the level of Roosevelt not having twenty or thirty fighter squadrons moved to Pearl Harbor on December 6th. Have they lost the ability to see into the future?
Yup. The best defense is to spit out nonsense!Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
Oh, why was "this heretofore unknown virus already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses in anticipation of this wholly unexpected day"?
sorta like adult swim at the community pool. Where all the elders stand in circles chatting waist deep in water .Quote:
here's a novel twist for the novel virus, supermarkets implement elderly hours, but you have to get there before regular opening hours., now if the held an elderly day that would make sense
That was a response to Tal's post. I was being sarcastic and probably needlessly. Still, do you think it is reasonable to have expected those test kits for a virus pandemic basically unheard of even three months ago to be have been in place by now?Quote:
Oh, why was "this heretofore unknown virus already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses in anticipation of this wholly unexpected day"?
No, you missed my point. I was pointing out that the noun/subject "virus" and the predicate that follows don't belong together.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
We have to watch and alert you school admins....
Wouldn't "kit" have been the subject and "for testing this heretofore unknown virus" a simple prepositional phrase? "Absolutely unforgivable that Trump didn't have 300 million test kits...already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses."Quote:
I was pointing out that the noun/subject "virus" and the predicate that follows don't belong together.
"Kits" is the direct object in that sentence. "Trump" is the subject; "did have" is the verb.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
I thought you said that "virus" was the subject? Even if that was the case, what action did "virus" take so as to have a predicate? It was not the "virus" that was "already manufactured and stored away, it was "kits". That's why I reposted it as "Absolutely unforgivable that Trump didn't have 300 million test kits...already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses." Does that not make sense?
The kits, the direct object.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
Didn't you learn in grade school how to diagram sentences?
This was your reply. "I was pointing out that the noun/subject "virus" and the predicate that follows don't belong together." Well, there was no predicate that followed virus for which it could have been the subject. It was the kits that were to be already manufactured. I think you missed it on this one. Besides, a word can be BOTH a direct object AND a subject in a sentence. https://www.answers.com/Q/In_a_sente..._the_same_time
And for you to shame me by stating, "Didn't you learn in grade school how to diagram sentences?" How amazing for a committed liberal to do such a thing. My goodness!!!!! I fell out on the floor weeping. I'll have to go to some safe place and get counseling to get over such a disgrace.
Crazy question, but why didn't we start having test kits the same time as China and SKorea?
How do you know we didn't?Quote:
Crazy question, but why didn't we start having test kits the same time as China and SKorea?
Then where are they and why haven't they been used?Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
And you still haven't figured it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
I'm not a committed liberal; I'm a commmitted grammarian!
Please diagram this sentence you posted earlier, or at least note parts of speech:
"Absolutely unforgivable that Trump didn't have 300 million test kits for testing this heretofore unknown virus already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses in anticipation of this wholly unexpected day."
I have a novel idea: China had a big jump on the U.S. BECAUSE THEY HAD ALREADY PLANNED TO INTRODUCE THIS VIRULENT VIRUS STRAIN FROM THEIR Wuhan biological weapons laboratory!
These are Godless ChiComs! Anyone who thinks that its not within their capacity to do something like this only has to look at what these vermin have done in the past.
And, this may have only been a "TEST RUN"....they may be planning something bigger. They will do anything to keep Trump from being reelected.
The U.S. media, for the most part, is a fifth column for the Chinese Liberation Army: they are Red China's APOLOGISTS! The Democrats, unfortunately, are complicit in assisting the Red Chinese efforts to disrupt the U.S. economy.....effectively, the Democrat Party has become a stooge and tool of the ChiComs.
I think you are one of the most committed libs I know. And to be a committed grammarian, why did you misspell "commmitted"?Quote:
I'm not a committed liberal; I'm a commmitted grammarian!
I'll let the "commmitted" grammarian do that. I'm pretty sure that the word "virus" was not the subject of the sentence as you said it was.Quote:
Please diagram this sentence you posted earlier, or at least note parts of speech:
BTW, even though I'm convinced you were wrong in this instance, I most happily will agree that your knowledge of grammar is better than mine. When you asked if I had learned how to diagram a sentence in grade school, it made me laugh. I didn't learn much in school. When I went to college, that all changed, but I didn't get really clear on direct objects until I took Greek in Bible college at the age of 27. Had to learn it then.
Vac, I don't think the dems are stooges for the Chinese. I think they have figured out that "free" has become a more important word than "freedom" for many of the American people. We have become such a dull and lazy people that many of us will gladly give up our freedom and the freedom of others in order to get some "free" stuff. When Geraldo seriously suggests that we print 200 billion dollars so we can "give" every American a thousand dollars, then you know that we have gone quite a ways down the trail of stupidity. I pray we have not gone too far.Quote:
The U.S. media, for the most part, is a fifth column for the Chinese Liberation Army: they are Red China's APOLOGISTS! The Democrats, unfortunately, are complicit in assisting the Red Chinese efforts to disrupt the U.S. economy.....effectively, the Democrat Party has become a stooge and tool of the ChiComs.
we have found the cure and it was right here all the time
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...2c5e51706accb5
researchers in Queensland have found the cure drugs already known and tested
Guess I'll have to answer my own question.Quote:
Originally Posted by talaniman
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...failure-123166
They have been used and distribution will be ramped up now the properties are known
Your Politico article made me laugh. We have had fewer than 4,000 cases (a whopping SIX in Mississippi) but Politico thinks that amounts to the virus being able to "sweep the United States". Compare our number to South Korea and China that you have been bragging about. A far smaller than us South Korea has about 8K cases and Red China has 80K. Even the Netherands, with only 5% of our population, has had a thousand or so cases. So yeah, I kind of think we have done very well. Anyone who needs to be tested can be tested and the testing program is expanding greatly.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=how+ma...RM=CHRDEF&sp=1
Don't jump the gun, Clete. They haven't even conducted trials on the drug yet.Quote:
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...2c5e51706accb5
researchers in Queensland have found the cure drugs already known and tested
You will be laughing out of the other side of your face in a few days, this thing spreads exponentially, so a few cases this week become many next week, but as I said earlier the cure is known and availableQuote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
The trials will begin by the end of March, patients who have had the drug recovered, the drugs already exist and are readily available, the only thing needing to be confirmed is the application to this diseaseQuote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
Yeah that's what the dufus said, but you don't mind if we wait for actual wholesale testing has been done instead of the small sample we have thus far. One thing we know for fact is the number of infections is ever growing everywhere so resting on just your 6 cases in MS may not be the thing to rest your optimism on because the caveat should be 6 cases so far, since we are in the early stages of detection. Still waiting for that expansion part promised weeks ago, so go ahead and laugh, but experts and the locals are hollering for more help, as the markets dropped 2200 more points before they halted trading and they dropped further still when resuming.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
That could take a few months but still a ray of hope in the darkness.Quote:
Originally Posted by paraclete
Wholesale testing has not taken place anywhere.Quote:
we wait for actual wholesale testing has been done instead of the small sample we have thus far.
It's spreading everywhere? I thought the rest of the world had it all together?Quote:
One thing we know for fact is the number of infections is ever growing everywhere
I'm sure the number will grow, but it hardly amounts to "sweeping the country". That was clearly a bunch of anti-Trump hyperbole.Quote:
so resting on just your 6 cases in MS may not be the thing to rest your optimism on because the caveat should be 6 cases so far
We cannot say it isn't sweeping the country until a lot more testing has been done, so it also follows we cannot say it won't sweep the country either. We can say the numbers grow rapidly enough to warrant much caution, and precautions as seen in places with rapidly growing numbers and denser populations, but rural locations may have a bigger challenge to needed resources soon.
I highly recommend you not listen to the dufus on this and rely on health experts and local officials.
How surprising.Quote:
I highly recommend you not listen to the dufus on this
You only commented on the last sentence, but what about the rest of the post?
The rest of the post was kind of a non-statement. "We cannot say it isn't sweeping the country until a lot more testing has been done, so it also follows we cannot say it won't sweep the country either," just is a long way of saying that we really don't know what is going to happen. I think our level of response has been appropriate, and perhaps even over the top. Only time will tell. Large scale testing will prove helpful. I think we both agree on that, but South Korea has done more testing than us, and yet their numbers of infections are double ours.
More test, more cases seems to be the prevailing situation for now, and I think that will certainly hold true as things ramp up here.
I misspelled because I was testing your mood.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
I didn't say it was. "Trump" is the subject, and "kits" is the direct object. "Virus" is the object of the prepositional phrase. The phrasing makes it sound like the "virus" has been "already manufactured and stored."Quote:
I'll let the "commmitted" grammarian do that. I'm pretty sure that the word "virus" was not the subject of the sentence as you said it was.
"Absolutely unforgivable that Trump didn't have 300 million test kits for testing this heretofore unknown virus already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses in anticipation of this wholly unexpected day."
When I was in a public grade school in NC, I learned to diagram. My family moved to NY State when I was in 5th grade, and I continued to learn more complex diagramming in a Lutheran day school. I figured JL (since he is in my generation) was also taught diagramming.Quote:
BTW, even though I'm convinced you were wrong in this instance, I most happily will agree that your knowledge of grammar is better than mine. When you asked if I had learned how to diagram a sentence in grade school, it made me laugh. I didn't learn much in school. When I went to college, that all changed, but I didn't get really clear on direct objects until I took Greek in Bible college at the age of 27. Had to learn it then.
I'm wondering if, in three weeks' time or whenever the bars and restaurants reopen, the crowds return to the malls and shops, and all the schools resume classes, will a dormant coronavirus rear its ugly head again?
Yeah. Right.Quote:
I misspelled because I was testing your mood.
Oh??? Here is your quote. "I was pointing out that the noun/subject "virus" and the predicate that follows don't belong together." So you rather plainly said that "virus" was the subject and had a predicate following it.Quote:
I didn't say it was.
I thought it was supposed to just be men who didn't like admitting when they were wrong.
What I was taught and what I learned were, I'm sorry to say, two completely different things. I can actually remember seeing a sentence being diagrammed on the chalkboard, and I can also remember rather quickly finding other things to think about.Quote:
I figured JL (since he is in my generation) was also taught diagramming.
Here is what you posted:Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
"Absolutely unforgivable that Trump didn't have 300 million test kits for testing this heretofore unknown virus already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses in anticipation of this wholly unexpected day."
The virus is already manufactured and stored away?
Here is how it should read to be grammatically correct:
"Absolutely unforgivable that Trump didn't have 300 million test kits already manufactured and stored away in secure warehouses for testing this heretofore unknown virus in anticipation of this wholly unexpected day."
The test kits are already manufactured and stored away.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/03...e-coronavirus/Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
WG, you just start by saying, "I was wrong." Then you can continue with, "The sentence could have been worded more carefully, but when I said that the word "virus" was a subject, that was incorrect, and when I later claimed not to have said that, it was just a slip of the ole memory. Not only that, but I accidentally misspelled the word 'committed'."
See how easy that is? You would certainly earn everyone's respect.
I love how you wiggle!Quote:
Originally Posted by jlisenbe
What is "virus" then? You can't just yell at me; be a good educator and please tell me the correct answer.
That's not the point and you know it. You said it was the subject. It is not the subject. You said you didn't say that. You did say that. End of story.
I have no idea what part of speech it is and don't really care. That's why I didn't bring it up and don't refer to myself as the "commmitted grammarian". That's all on you.
what does it matter, have a little tolerance
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