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

[Big Blitz]

1 hour ago, fansince88 said:

I dont recall this one. Refresh my memory please.

 

 

At your service (I forgot she was a nurse but had quit and hadn't been in a hospital for over a year) because she was transitioning to be an "Instagram Influencer:"

 

 

 

 

[shoshin]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/unc-chapel-hill-coronavirus-cluster/2020/08/17/8ebce060-e0ab-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

 

 

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the largest schools in the country to bring students to campus for in-person teaching, said Monday it will pivot to all-remote instruction for undergraduates after testing showed a pattern of rapid spread of the novel coronavirus.

 

Officials announced the abrupt change just a week after classes began at the 30,000-student state flagship university.

They said 177 cases of the dangerous pathogen had been confirmed among students, out of hundreds tested. Another 349 students were in quarantine, on and off campus, because of possible exposure to the virus, they said.

 

The remote-teaching order for undergraduate classes will take effect Wednesday, and the university will take steps to allow students to leave campus housing without financial penalty if they wish.

 

“We understand the concern and frustrations these changes will raise with many students and parents,” UNC-Chapel Hill’s chancellor, Kevin M. Guskiewicz, and provost, Robert A. Blouin, wrote in a statement. “As much as we believe we have worked diligently to help create a healthy and safe campus living and learning environment, we believe the current data presents an untenable situation.”

 

Clusters of cases had popped up in three residence halls and a fraternity house at UNC-Chapel Hill in the first week of the fall term, sending students into isolation and quarantine rooms and raising faculty worries about how far the dangerous pathogen will spread in the campus community.

 

One influential administrator, the UNC-Chapel Hill dean of public health, called for a change in approach because she said the in-person method is not working.

 

 

 

 

[IDBillzFan]

7 hours ago, BeerLeagueHockey said:

What this virus should teach us is this: we collectively need to take personal control of our lives. 

 

As long as there are Democrats, there will be people telling you you're too stupid to be in control of your own life, and only the government knows what is best for you.

 

Every leftist I know has one common thread: they need the government to make life fair for them.

 

 

 

Edited August 17, 2020 by IDBillzFan

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

3 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Yep.

 

Still, I expect SoTier's latest post showing the national count going up.

 

As if, in an epidemic, when you add the next day's total to the whole, it isn't higher.

 

Of course it is higher, that is how it works !

 

Now have the balls to show how the infection rate and deaths are steadily decreasing.

 

 

 

 

 

...last I heard he was waiting for new calculator batteries from Amazon.........they can't find JAMESTOWN NY.....................

[BillStime]

Yup

 

 

[fansince88]

4 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

At your service (I forgot she was a nurse but had quit and hadn't been in a hospital for over a year) because she was transitioning to be an "Instagram Influencer:"

 

 

 

 

WOW! Didnt know about this impostor. Is this Tibs?

[TBBills]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-disease.html

[Big Blitz]

1 hour ago, TBBills said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-disease.html

 

 

"The degree of myocarditis was not explained by the severity of the initial illness.

 

Though the study has some flaws, and the generalizability and significance of its findings not fully known, it makes clear that in young patients who had seemingly overcome SARS-CoV-2 it’s fairly common for the heart to be affected."

 

 

 

But noted.  We will be studying its impact on humans for decades.  You're free to shelter in place until then.   

 

interesting tho what they declare confidently they know...and don't know.  In March a virus on this planet for 3 months, we KNEW HCQ was a nope.  Done deal.  Dont even bother.. Despite studies and front line doctors saying it works if given early and as a cocktail of drugs.  

 

Some "flawed" research on potential heart issues........stop the presses, close the colleges, cancel football.  

[Gary M]

4 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

"The degree of myocarditis was not explained by the severity of the initial illness.

 

Though the study has some flaws, and the generalizability and significance of its findings not fully known, it makes clear that in young patients who had seemingly overcome SARS-CoV-2 it’s fairly common for the heart to be affected."

 

 

 

But noted.  We will be studying its impact on humans for decades.  You're free to shelter in place until then.   

 

interesting tho what they declare confidently they know...and don't know.  In March a virus on this planet for 3 months, we KNEW HCQ was a nope.  Done deal.  Dont even bother.. Despite studies and front line doctors saying it works if given early and as a cocktail of drugs.  

 

Some "flawed" research on potential heart issues........stop the presses, close the colleges, cancel football.  

 

Any chance the myocarditis existed before the kung flu, but not diagnosed until after?

[ziltoid]

23 minutes ago, Gary M said:

 

Any chance the myocarditis existed before the kung flu, but not diagnosed until after?

 

Maybe, but most likely a result of an acute viral infection.  Myocarditis has a long and established link to most infections, snake/bug bites, chemotherapy - the list goes on and on.  Basically, your body get attacked by something, your body responds creating antibodies, and as a result tissues and sometimes organs get inflamed.  Similar to an autoimmune disease. 

 

Here is a good prognosis: "Patients with acute fulminant myocarditis, once they survive the acute illness, had an excellent long-term prognosis of 93% at 11 years..." Citation.

 

I get it, this is all new and needs further study.  But this opinion piece guy want more eyes on heart disease in general, and covaids has cracked that door open for his interests.

[BillStime]

173,772

 

[Foxx]

https://twitter.com/Americanlll/status/1295417128594444288

 

[BillsFanNC]

2 hours ago, Gary M said:

 

Any chance the myocarditis existed before the kung flu, but not diagnosed until after?

 

Entering Influenza  + myocarditis into pubmed =451 publications.

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Influenza+myocarditis+

 

1 hour ago, BeerLeagueHockey said:

 

Maybe, but most likely a result of an acute viral infection.  Myocarditis has a long and established link to most infections, snake/bug bites, chemotherapy - the list goes on and on.  Basically, your body get attacked by something, your body responds creating antibodies, and as a result tissues and sometimes organs get inflamed.  Similar to an autoimmune disease. 

 

Here is a good prognosis: "Patients with acute fulminant myocarditis, once they survive the acute illness, had an excellent long-term prognosis of 93% at 11 years..." Citation.

 

I get it, this is all new and needs further study.  But this opinion piece guy want more eyes on heart disease in general, and covaids has cracked that door open for his interests.

 

Disgusting title to that NYT article. Purposely conflating heart disease, a chronic disease that is far more likely to kill you and your loved ones than any other cause, with myocarditis an acute condition. 

 

500k-600k Americans die from heart disease every single year. 

[ziltoid]

44 minutes ago, Foxx said:

https://twitter.com/Americanlll/status/1295417128594444288

 

 

Well, that guy is now on a watch list.  Wouldn't surprise me if the red flag laws get used on his household.

[Buffalo_Gal]

Journalism is dead. Our media and their panic pr0n hair on fire reporting is responsible for this disinformation. Before this COVID-19 hysteria, I thought the "msm" had little sway over the American public as poll after poll found the "msm" had little credibility. The last five months has me rethinking that stance.
 

 

[Buffalo Bills Fan]

8 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

"The degree of myocarditis was not explained by the severity of the initial illness.

 

Though the study has some flaws, and the generalizability and significance of its findings not fully known, it makes clear that in young patients who had seemingly overcome SARS-CoV-2 it’s fairly common for the heart to be affected."

 

 

 

But noted.  We will be studying its impact on humans for decades.  You're free to shelter in place until then.   

 

interesting tho what they declare confidently they know...and don't know.  In March a virus on this planet for 3 months, we KNEW HCQ was a nope.  Done deal.  Dont even bother.. Despite studies and front line doctors saying it works if given early and as a cocktail of drugs.  

 

Some "flawed" research on potential heart issues........stop the presses, close the colleges, cancel football.  

 

The boston redsox pitcher had myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart . (ACE 2 in the heart as well)

 

Well my niece had myocarditis but different virus consackie b virus. It was a miracle she lived. But anyway's virus can go to the heart (in the world). She was on ecmo for a month, during the time covid19 was bad in Buffalo. Mercy flight to Buffalo hands turning blue and one day my sister was going to say good bye but got lots better. But thankfully doing well. Has a big scar on her neck.   Lots of virus around the world can do harm. And can get to the heart. 

[B-Man]

 

TIME TO END THE LOCKDOWN LUNACY: 

 

J.B. Handley clearly, logically and cogently argues that the science shows we have lost our collective minds over Covid. And that’s hugely significant because we should all “follow the science,” right? Right?

 

Now, Handley wrote this longish post on July 28, so why am I encouraging you to read it today? Well, when you reach the point in his essay where he explains the significance of August 25th, it will all make sense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

THE LOCKDOWNS, THE MASKS, THE GOVERNMENT’S EFFECTIVE TAKE OVER OF EVERY BUSINESS AND DECISION OF WHO SUCCEEDS AND WHO DOESN’T.  I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I CAN’T BREATHE:  

 

New CDC Data On Suicide Shows Americans Can’t Handle Continued Lockdowns.

 

 

 

 

 

[BillStime]

23 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

THE LOCKDOWNS, THE MASKS, THE GOVERNMENT’S EFFECTIVE TAKE OVER OF EVERY BUSINESS AND DECISION OF WHO SUCCEEDS AND WHO DOESN’T.  I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I CAN’T BREATHE:  

 

New CDC Data On Suicide Shows Americans Can’t Handle Continued Lockdowns.

 

 

 

 

 

And you wonder why the Divided States of America is number 1 with infections and deaths.

 

Keep shooting yourselves in the foot Q-Tips.

[shoshin]

 

Economist video interview with Bill Gates. 

 

Highlights:

 

- Change of US admin won't affect Covid outcome.  

- Says the next admin (Trump or Biden) will face the challenge of getting Americans to take the vaccine quickly and get rid of the virus. I see this too. Lots of people just won’t take it, and this thing will be prolonged.

- He is not worried that the vaccines will fail in Phase 3 tests. Says of the 6 candidates, several will work. Fully optimistic about it. There are the left and right anti-vaxxers, but also a new group of people who are afraid of “new vaccines,” that is, most of the people here who responded about vaccines a few months ago. [Gates said you shouldn't be afraid...the software that runs the nanomachines in the new vaccines runs on Windows 3.1 and cannot go more than a few hours without locking up.]

- 4 candidates are very cheap ($2-3/dose) and should make it to developing world, but may not get there quickly because the US isn't leading to help those countries like it has in the past. 

- Phase 3 testing should be done by Q4. 

- timeframe to herd immunity (30% in his view) counting people who have had it + cross-immunity to other coronaviruses + vaccines: In the US, he says sometime 2021 we will be largely over it. 2022 rest of the world.

- key thing is that this has to work well with elderly. Phase I candidates seem to be doing well with older folks (notes that flu vaccines sometimes work poorly for elderly)

- is amazed about the conspiracy stuff...could not have predicted so many people could adopt this conspiracy mindset

 

Chum for the conspiracy nuts. 

Edited August 18, 2020 by shoshin