The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

[Taraka]

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Edited April 29, 2020 by ~Kostabi~

[Hedge]

 

1 hour ago, Chef Jim said:

What’s the context of the Jews comment?  

 

1 hour ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

Don't know -- was hoping one of our NYCers would have more context. It just sounds real bad (likely because he's a moron rather than an antisemite) which is totally on brand for the mayor. 

 

I believe that this incredibly tone deaf phrasing was aimed at the Hasidic communities, which are largely ignoring social distancing guidelines and gathering en masse for funerals and other events. 

 

[Magox]

5 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

Good news is there's less deaths than last Tuesday.  Bad news is it's quite the spike from the weekend.

 

 

Based off of this chart, that would imply today’s/Wednesday’s end of day death count could probably be around 1600-1650.  And then Thursday and Friday maybe around 1500-1550.

[Gene Frenkle]

2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

Don't know -- was hoping one of our NYCers would have more context. It just sounds real bad (likely because he's a moron rather than an antisemite) which is totally on brand for the mayor. 

 

He should run for president.

[shoshin]

3 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

What’s the context of the Jews comment?  

 

A lot of NYC stories about Hasidic/Orthodox gatherings in large numbers. The immediate story had deBlasio on the scene here. 

 

 

 

And deBlasio followed his first  tweet with this one. "We have lost so many these last two months + I understand the instinct to gather to mourn. But large gatherings will only lead to more deaths + more families in mourning. We will not allow this. I have instructed the NYPD to have one standard for this whole city: zero tolerance."

 

 Trump school of communications in wording in first Tweet but the full context was the absurd funeral gathering. 

 

Edited April 29, 2020 by shoshin

[Westside]

14 hours ago, SectionC3 said:

 

I’m a vegetarian but I could go for that.  I probably wouldn’t be a vegetarian long with those.  A pepperoni face mask?  I’d be back off the wagon (is it on the wagon or off the wagon?) in seconds.  

That explains your self righteous behavior. Makes sense now. Anybody want to hire a vegetarian lawyer? Kind of like a lion with no teeth.

12 hours ago, Boatdrinks said:

Is there even such a rapid test available ? In the amount needed , which would be massive ? Imagine going to say, five places in a given day and being tested each time. I just don’t see this as a realistic thing. 

With computers, anything's possible. 

[Doc Brown]

2 hours ago, Magox said:

Based off of this chart, that would imply today’s/Wednesday’s end of day death count could probably be around 1600-1650.  And then Thursday and Friday maybe around 1500-1550.

That's pry correct.  I hate doing math based off a chart when it comes to people dying but we are on the decline when it comes to number of deaths which means we can start opening up soon depending on where you are as a state on the curve.  The areas hit hardest like NYC will pry have the most difficult transition as all they've heard is sirens the last month and a half or so.

[Kemp]

18 minutes ago, westside2 said:

That explains your self righteous behavior. Makes sense now. Anybody want to hire a vegetarian lawyer? Kind of like a lion with no teeth.

With computers, anything's possible. 

 

Sarcasm?

 

A vegetarian can't be a good lawyer?

 

Stupidity has no bounds.

[Doc Brown]

4 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

Don't know -- was hoping one of our NYCers would have more context. It just sounds real bad (likely because he's a moron rather than an antisemite) which is totally on brand for the mayor. 

Pry just an ill advised tweet that doesn't provide context as I doubt he's antisemtic.  He does hate groundhogs though so I wouldn't put it past him.

[Westside]

20 minutes ago, Kemp said:

 

Sarcasm?

 

A vegetarian can't be a good lawyer?

 

Stupidity has no bounds.

What are you his boyfriend? 

[Troll Toll]

7 hours ago, dpberr said:

On a strategic level, don't give the opposition easy buckets. If he wears a mask for the 20 minute visit, there's no story. That's the real idiot part. 

 

On a leadership level, he's the face of the virus task force visiting virus patients in a hospital. Since we're all going to get back to work and school with these things on whether we like it or not, lead by example.

I respectfully disagree. Even more than Pence, they want a picture of Trump with a mask so they can blast it during the campaign ads. If we’ve learned anything from their stance on abortion, the left doesn’t REALLY care about human life. It is all just a power game to them.

[MILFHUNTER#518]

Oh yeah. This is beginning to be beautiful. 

 

Dr. Fauci backed controversial Wuhan lab studying coronavirus

https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-studying-coronavirus/

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

No good deed goes unpunished:

 

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/04/20/hawaii-news/maui-brewing-co-under-investigation-by-maui-liquor-commission-for-hand-sanitizer-giveaways/

 

[Azalin]

9 minutes ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

No good deed goes unpunished:

 

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/04/20/hawaii-news/maui-brewing-co-under-investigation-by-maui-liquor-commission-for-hand-sanitizer-giveaways/

 

 

This sounds exactly like something the Texas Alcoholic beverage Commission would do. Bloody fascists. 

[Bakin]

7 hours ago, SectionC3 said:

Your comment is disgraceful.  

No it isn’t. You are clutching your pearls. 
I say this as a Jew. 
context. 

[BillStime]

1 hour ago, Troll Toll said:

I respectfully disagree. Even more than Pence, they want a picture of Trump with a mask so they can blast it during the campaign ads. If we’ve learned anything from their stance on abortion, the left doesn’t REALLY care about human life. It is all just a power game to them.

 

Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?

 

I'll give you time to remove your mask before you answer that...

[Warren Zevon]

1 hour ago, MILFHUNTER#518 said:

Oh yeah. This is beginning to be beautiful. 

 

Dr. Fauci backed controversial Wuhan lab studying coronavirus

https://nypost.com/2020/04/29/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-studying-coronavirus/

 

I've been telling you all he's #DeepState for at least a month know

[SectionC3]

3 hours ago, westside2 said:

That explains your self righteous behavior. Makes sense now. Anybody want to hire a vegetarian lawyer? Kind of like a lion with no teeth.

With computers, anything's possible. 

It’s hard to take anything you say seriously because you’re on the sheep list.  Carry on. 

[RiotAct]

8 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Um...

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1255309615883063297

came in here to post that.  Wtf??? 

[SoCal Deek]

24 minutes ago, BillStime said:

 

Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?

 

I'll give you time to remove your mask before you answer that...

And there it is in a nutshell people. Don’t kid yourselves! This post is what this whole thing’s been about since about two weeks after it started. 

[Magox]

2 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

That's pry correct.  I hate doing math based off a chart when it comes to people dying but we are on the decline when it comes to number of deaths which means we can start opening up soon depending on where you are as a state on the curve.  The areas hit hardest like NYC will pry have the most difficult transition as all they've heard is sirens the last month and a half or so.

 

It appears that over the weekend is a bit of an under count that is tallied on Sunday and Monday and then what was under counted is dumped on to Tuesday.  That's how it appears.

 

 

 

 

[GG]

4 hours ago, shoshin said:

 

A lot of NYC stories about Hasidic/Orthodox gatherings in large numbers. The immediate story had deBlasio on the scene here. 

 

 

 

And deBlasio followed his first  tweet with this one. "We have lost so many these last two months + I understand the instinct to gather to mourn. But large gatherings will only lead to more deaths + more families in mourning. We will not allow this. I have instructed the NYPD to have one standard for this whole city: zero tolerance."

 

 Trump school of communications in wording in first Tweet but the full context was the absurd funeral gathering. 

 

 

Good petri dish.  Let's see if Williamsburg cases spike by the end of the week. 

 

If they don't, then there's even less of a reason to continue the lockdown.

[Warren Zevon]

3 minutes ago, GG said:

Let's see if Williamsburg cases spike by the end of the week. 

 

I'd give it more than 3-4 days

Edited April 29, 2020 by Warren Zevon

[SoCal Deek]

9 minutes ago, Magox said:

 

It appears that over the weekend is a bit of an under count that is tallied on Sunday and Monday and then what was under counted is dumped on to Tuesday.  That's how it appears.

 

 

 

 

The curve has been flattened. Time to move on! NYC can stay permanently locked down for all I care. The rest of us are going back to work!

[GG]

11 minutes ago, Magox said:

 

It appears that over the weekend is a bit of an under count that is tallied on Sunday and Monday and then what was under counted is dumped on to Tuesday.  That's how it appears.

 

 

 

 

 

That's been the regular trend

[plenzmd1]

 

[SoCal Deek]

According to the CDC website as of the middle of April there were more or less a grand total 3,000 Covid deaths of anyone under 60 years old out of US population for that same age group of a little under 300 million people. That’s 0.00001 of the people under 60 years old....and yet we’re all shaming each other over not wearing masks on a beach. 

[Magox]

9 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

 

 

Fascinating.

 

 

Quote

Gilead said an open-label Phase 3 trial testing the therapy in severely ill patients found that those taking a 5-day or 10-day course of treatment led to similar results. At least 52% of participants taking either dosing regimen were discharged from the hospital after 14 days of treatment, and at least 53% of those patients were reported as reaching "clinical recovery." "Multiple concurrent studies are helping inform whether remdesivir is a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19," Gilead chief medical officer Merdad Parsey said in a statement. "The study demonstrates the potential for some patients to be treated with a 5-day regimen, which could significantly expand the number of patients who could be treated with our current supply of remdesivir." Minutes before this topline data was released, Gilead also said that a government-run clinical trial evaluating remdesivir in severely ill COVID-19 patients met the study's primary endpoint. That study is being conducted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is expected to provide additional information about that trial, Gilead said.

 

 

What I would like to know is how they define "severely ill"?

 

And with those severely ill patients, what % typically reach "clinical recovery" without Remdesivir?  

 

And, I thought that there were some initial trials that showed that people very ill were not improving that much.    In any case, if the market is reacting well to this and they are making the statement that it's assisting people then that is fantastic news.  

[SoCal Deek]

According to the CDC website there have a total of FOUR Covid deaths of any K12 aged student anywhere in America and yet we closed every school in the country. Yes....that’s right....FOUR! 

[plenzmd1]

Just now, Magox said:

 

Fascinating.

 

 

 

 

What I would like to know is how they define "severely ill"?

 

And with those severely ill patients, what % typically reach "clinical recovery" without Remdesivir?  

 

And, I thought that there were some initial trials that showed that people very ill were not improving that much.    In any case, if the market is reacting well to this and they are making the statement that it's assisting people then that is fantastic news.  

Only my recollection of events and numbers..will search further, but approximately

 

Trial in Chicago , results leakes about two weeks ago...something like 120 severely ill, 112 walked out of hospital within 2 weeks, 5 still fighting, 3 died. 

 

About a week ago, China says there trial ended in failure, and felt the drug was leading to unnecessary deaths, two other trials could not find enough volunteers for trial. Those results show up on the WHO website "by mistake" .Gtliead disputes results Stock tanked. Cramer came out and was very vocal dont trust China or Who, trust the U of Chicago and Harvard studies when they come out next week. He was crushed for that.

 

Today is today..need to read more , need @Hapless Bills Fan to help this dummy understand it.

 

Overall, just good to see some positive news. And count this TDS dude as one who praised Trump on his stance with the WHO!!!!

[RochesterRob]

19 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

The curve has been flattened. Time to move on! NYC can stay permanently locked down for all I care. The rest of us are going back to work!

  NO.  NYC needs to work through this ASAP.  State income taxes are high enough without Albany crafting a bailout for NYC because sales tax collection in NYC has cratered short term.  Most NY counties have enough retail establishments that the lack of sales tax collection has put these counties in the position of having to lay off workers.  Other portions of government services most likely affected with the short term remedy of raising property taxes most probable.  Sure there is waste and inefficiency but those are long term problems as revenue and expenditures are set short term.  

[Magox]

1 minute ago, plenzmd1 said:

Only my recollection of events and numbers..will search further, but approximately

 

Trial in Chicago , results leakes about two weeks ago...something like 120 severely ill, 112 walked out of hospital within 2 weeks, 5 still fighting, 3 died. 

 

About a week ago, China says there trial ended in failure, and felt the drug was leading to unnecessary deaths, two other trials could not find enough volunteers for trial. Those results show up on the WHO website "by mistake" .Gtliead disputes results Stock tanked. Cramer came out and was very vocal dont trust China or Who, trust the U of Chicago and Harvard studies when they come out next week. He was crushed for that.

 

Today is today..need to read more , need @Hapless Bills Fan to help this dummy understand it.

 

Overall, just good to see some positive news. And count this TDS dude as one who praised Trump on his stance with the WHO!!!!

 

 

That's true, that negative trial came out of China.   And I hate to be one of those people who just say automatically "Don't Trust China", but  DON'T TRUST CHINA!

[plenzmd1]

Just now, Magox said:

 

 

That's true, that negative trial came out of China.   And I hate to be one of those people who just say automatically "Don't Trust China", but  DON'T TRUST CHINA!

I was not there in Januray, not there in February..but by late March it is readily apparent WHO and China do not have the best interest of the world at heart. 

 

Cramer speculating China may have had some large shorts....

[SoCal Deek]

Just now, RochesterRob said:

  NO.  NYC needs to work through this ASAP.  State income taxes are high enough without Albany crafting a bailout for NYC because sales tax collection in NYC has cratered short term.  Most NY counties have enough retail establishments that the lack of sales tax collection has put these counties in the position of having to lay off workers.  Other portions of government services most likely affected with the short term remedy of raising property taxes most probable.  Sure there is waste and inefficiency but those are long term problems as revenue and expenditures are set short term.  

Come on Rob. You get my point. The national media is centered in NYC. They don’t realize that this is simply NOT a big problem in other parts of the country...it just isn’t! We’ve got young people out here in California driving on the freeway in a closed up car, wearing a mask! They have ZERO chance of either getting or spreading the virus! ZERO.

[GG]

7 minutes ago, Magox said:

   And I hate to be one of those people who just say automatically "Don't Trust China", but  DON'T TRUST CHINA!

 

Why?  It's the only truism that's come out of this mess so far.

[plenzmd1]

2 minutes ago, GG said:

 

Why?  It's the only truism that's come out of this mess so far.

Truer words have never been spoken

[KRC]

16 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

According to the CDC website there have a total of FOUR Covid deaths of any K12 aged student anywhere in America and yet we closed every school in the country. Yes....that’s right....FOUR! 

 

Well, we need nationwide mail-in balloting because seven people in Wisconsin were infected.

[RochesterRob]

3 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Come on Rob. You get my point. The national media is centered in NYC. They don’t realize that this is simply NOT a big problem in other parts of the country...it just isn’t! We’ve got young people out here in California driving on the freeway in a closed up car, wearing a mask! They have ZERO chance of either getting or spreading the virus! ZERO.

  Yes, I get it and a person can see it in my previous posts on the matter.  Having said that the drum needs to be beat on the matter of lost sales tax revenue and how it affects the operation of government.  A spike in property and income taxes (soak the rich) would just about drive quite a number of people out of NYS including myself.  At this point in time there is very little margin in my business so any more tax would be crippling.  I am not an old guy but I don't like change especially when it comes to where I live.  As far as the DNC and the media go they are heavily invested in a shutdown NYC as that is the first step towards a generally socialist state where the state tells you when and where you can pee.

[Foxx]

22 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

According to the CDC website as of the middle of April there were more or less a grand total 3,000 Covid deaths of anyone under 60 years old out of US population for that same age group of a little under 300 million people. That’s 0.00001 of the people under 60 years old....and yet we’re all shaming each other over not wearing masks on a beach. 

but, you know... let's destroy the economy and implement new precautions such as contact tracing and having people who had the virus wear patches or some such.

 

as seen on the interwebs... 'i did Nazi that coming'.

[SoCal Deek]

1 minute ago, RochesterRob said:

  Yes, I get it and a person can see it in my previous posts on the matter.  Having said that the drum needs to be beat on the matter of lost sales tax revenue and how it affects the operation of government.  A spike in property and income taxes (soak the rich) would just about drive quite a number of people out of NYS including myself.  At this point in time there is very little margin in my business so any more tax would be crippling.  I am not an old guy but I don't like change especially when it comes to where I live.  As far as the DNC and the media go they are heavily invested in a shutdown NYC as that is the first step towards a generally socialist state where the state tells you when and where you can pee.

They don’t and will never get it! Did you see Mayor DeBlasio on the Sunday morning shows? The very first thing he went to was a federal bailout for his City workers! Not their health. Not the guy who runs the donut store. Nope! He wants CASH to pay his public employees who had their hours cut back, or lost pension money during this mess. Tone deaf and shameful.