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


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3 hours ago, SectionC3 said:

 Words of wisdom from the man with tiny baby hands. 

I assume that's a euphemism for a claim by you that I have a small member. That's what is called "facts not in evidence" so you need to either withdraw your claim which you would have had to learn by hearsay, or clearly state how you know it to be fact. 

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2 hours ago, MILFHUNTER#518 said:

Don't forget about the disheveled bolshevik from Vermont 

 

...honorable mention to Vermont for also bringing us Howard Dean....bet you thought the "green" in the Green Mountains was broccoli, right??...........

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7 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


There was a guy who wore a KKK hood at an Albertsons (I "think" in California, the video is somewhere on  this forum). He's wearing a required mask, and the store personal asked him to take it off!! (People were triggered.) He took it off, checked out sans mask, and left.

I hope he was simply trying to prove a point, but my goodness, if everyone put on a KKK hood, executioner mask or Trump 2020 mask, this mask requirement would be over but fast.

 

 


Oh, good news! He won't be charged. The Karens are most upset. 

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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department said they have no grounds on which to seek criminal charges against the shopper who said he donned the hood out of "frustration" over having to wear a facial covering in public during the coronavirus crisis.
 

The man claimed the hood was not intended to be a racial statement, the department said.

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2 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


Oh, good news! He won't be charged. The Karens are most upset. 

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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department said they have no grounds on which to seek criminal charges against the shopper who said he donned the hood out of "frustration" over having to wear a facial covering in public during the coronavirus crisis.
 

The man claimed the hood was not intended to be a racial statement, the department said.

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....but you forgot that he could "help himself" to $945 in goods and NOT face arrest as well.......bet it was a Belichick "hoodie" anyhow..........

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5 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


Oh, good news! He won't be charged. The Karens are most upset. 

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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department said they have no grounds on which to seek criminal charges against the shopper who said he donned the hood out of "frustration" over having to wear a facial covering in public during the coronavirus crisis.
 

The man claimed the hood was not intended to be a racial statement, the department said.

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Criminal charges or not and frustrations aside have to admit that was in pretty poor tastes.  

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40 minutes ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

 

 

...not going to prejudge them, but it is hard to understand...I see the daily walkers in my development with their masks on, no less than 10 feet apart........we have an office worker who goes outside for his smoke break (wearing his mask) and as soon as a fellow smoker shows up, he distances by a minimum of 10 feet...at age 35, he is also ultra paranoid because "people of my age have had strokes"......people of HIS age have historically had strokes long before Covid-19.....to each his/her own I guess.............

 

What is wrong with 35 year olds to the point of them having strokes?? 

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7 minutes ago, Magox said:

More really good news.  Typically Tuesdays are bad.

 

 

 

Hopefully tomorrow's results are just as good relatively.  If the Tuesday & Wednesday #'s are down, we're moving in the right direction.

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10 minutes ago, Taro T said:

 

Hopefully tomorrow's results are just as good relatively.  If the Tuesday & Wednesday #'s are down, we're moving in the right direction.

But that won't matter to some people as LA County now moves to 3 more months of lockdown, and Newson says he will declare martial law if he has too.... 

 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/coronavirus-beaches-reopen-los-angeles-county-move-toward-new-normal?fbclid=IwAR2N3xSiekhKeVzCAeKoqhfR9_5Gau2gKFWd7GSM45OP7CZtj4Omr7K0o_A

 

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/newsom-says-that-california-will-enact-martial-law-if-we-feel-the-necessity/

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59 minutes ago, Cinga said:

see, herin lies the problem..you state will Newson says will declare martial law..and article is dated March 19, an explicity says "only likely to be engaged in diaster relief endeavors".

 

And yall criticize the MSM, some of you are playing chess with propaganda and click bait while they play checkers

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23 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

see, herin lies the problem..you state will Newson says will declare martial law..and article is dated March 19, an explicity says "only likely to be engaged in diaster relief endeavors".

 

And yall criticize the MSM, some of you are playing chess with propaganda and click bait while they play checkers

Fair enough on the date issue, though I think the term “martial law” typically elicits a standard response. It would seem in retrospect Newsome’s assertion that he could declare martial law if he wanted to was unnecessary and a bit reckless. 
 

I was struck by the ongoing cl&strrf$ck of the beach situation. The beach is open to certain activities, but “sunbathing” is verboten?  What’s that all about?  

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12 hours ago, Reality Check said:

 

 

 

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Yeah, sorry, this is ludicrous.  Everyone knows that Homeopathy is the only REAL cure.

 

Believers, keep on believing.

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4 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

I assume that's a euphemism for a claim by you that I have a small member. That's what is called "facts not in evidence" so you need to either withdraw your claim which you would have had to learn by hearsay, or clearly state how you know it to be fact. 

We’re not in court.  And you’re the only one who has ever mentioned your “member” in this respect.  So maybe you’ve given us a bit of Freudian circumstantial evidence here. 

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3 hours ago, Taro T said:

 

Hopefully tomorrow's results are just as good relatively.  If the Tuesday & Wednesday #'s are down, we're moving in the right direction.

 

Last week was probably actually a pretty good week. PA dumped a few hundred old deaths into each of several days last week--drove a lot of the numbers.

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2 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

“Social Distancing” Is Snake Oil, Not Science. 

 

There was never good evidence to support its efficacy.

 

 

People live in the most population dense place in the world, in giant apartment buildings with hundreds of people...and they get Covid-19. According to that article, that's evidence that social distancing doesn't work. Nice logic there. 

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1 minute ago, Reality Check said:

 

 

Yeah, let's remember to track how much better France does with deaths vs the rest of the world going forward. If you're right, it should be obvious. I'll keep an eye out while you troll the interwebs finding the next magical cure. Keep posting videos instead of supporting your own argument with, like, words. You're doing god's work.

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1 minute ago, Gene Frenkle said:

 

Yeah, let's remember to track how much better France does with deaths vs the rest of the world going forward. If you're right, it should be obvious. I'll keep an eye out while you troll the interwebs finding the next magical cure. Keep posting videos instead of supporting your own argument with, like, words. You're doing god's work.

 

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3 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

“Social Distancing” Is Snake Oil, Not Science. 

 

There was never good evidence to support its efficacy.

 
 
 
 

Except there is... simple Google search will turn up peer-reviewed studies with actual science.

 

That article was written in 2006 and scientists have been aware of the threat of such a virus for a long time.

 

Strange times we live in.

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6 hours ago, LeGOATski said:

Except there is... simple Google search will turn up peer-reviewed studies with actual science.

 

That article was written in 2006 and scientists have been aware of the threat of such a virus for a long time.

 

Strange times we live in.

 

Twitter science is often perceived as better than actual science. Finding a source to promote a preconceived notions is all that matters. There's an article cited by here that says cloth masks are ineffective in hospital settings for health care workers. Patients aren't wearing them in the study. The HCWs are exposed all day to hundreds of sick people. No tracking of cleaning or changing masks. And that study is extrapolated to justify a belief that masks are useless. The CDC says to wear them. the White House requires them. An article gathering tens of papers noting how effective they are to stem spread gets dismissed.

 

It's a faith that hot and itchy masks make no difference. It is reminiscent of the creationists who revel in finding something that confounds evolutionary biologists and seize on it as evidence that evolution is wrong. It's an anti-science bent.

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It looks like the TB vaccine studies are starting. We discussed this somewhere in the depths of this thread and hopefully the testing shows something promising. The correlative data points (countries that still give TB vaccines show lower spread and mortality) right now could be due to a lot of factors so actual tests will be important to see if the vaccine itself helps or not. 

 

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First hurdle overcome

ThePaul Ehrlich Institute has already approved the phase III clinical trial for VPM1002 against COVID-19. It is being conducted at various German hospitals, including the Hannover Medical School (MHH).

As of the beginning of May, scientists have been testing whether the new tuberculosis vaccine activates the immune system in a non-specific way.

"This should help to alleviate the severe progression of respiratory diseases such as COVID-19," Jacobus Bosch tells DW. He is one of the scientists in the team headed by Professor Christoph Schindler, who is lead author of the study. It focuses on the vaccine's effect as a possible agent against COVID-19.

"The new tuberculosis vaccine VPM 1002 will be tested in Hanover exclusively for its efficacy in the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic situation," says Bosch.

The first nationwide study involves 1,000 test persons. They all work in the medical field and are therefore particularly exposed to a possible infection.

"In a further study, we plan to investigate the efficacy of the improved tuberculosis vaccine VPM1002 in people over the age of 60. The question here is whether VPM1002 can effectively protect this age group, which is currently particularly at risk," the study's director, Schindler, explains.

The second study will involve 2,000 volunteers from all over Germany

 

 

It may prove to be another Covid treatment dead end but it's something to watch. The idea here is not that it will work to keep everyone safe like a Civid-19 specific vaccine, but it may crank up the immune response enough that we respond better and faster to Covid, keeping it more manageable. 

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The Remdesivir studies are also increasing in scope, as scientists look to pair it with other treatments since its effectiveness is incomplete. 

 

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Remdesivir, originally aimed at treating Ebola, has emerged as the go-to Covid-19 treatment. Federal health regulators quickly authorized its emergency use May 1, after it proved effective in a large, rigorously-designed study. Hospitals are lined up for doses.

 

But the drug isn’t a silver bullet. So far at least, it has shown to be only modestly effective in treating a sliver of very sick patients.

Remdesivir’s standard use in Covid-19 treatment “can be misleading because it suggests this is very, very good therapy, but it isn’t,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

 

“It’s standard because it’s better than nothing,” Dr. Fauci said.

 

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

Quick question. How come after these presidential press conferences the reporters tend to take their masks off and completely ignore the social distancing?

 

As of yesterday, everyone in the WH has to wear a mask. 

 

I'm not sure why there wasn't distancing between the people on stage all along but it seems like they are starting to do the right thing. 

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33 minutes ago, shoshin said:

 

The Remdesivir studies are also increasing in scope, as scientists look to pair it with other treatments since its effectiveness is incomplete. 

 

 

 

 

 

As of yesterday, everyone in the WH has to wear a mask. 

 

I'm not sure why there wasn't distancing between the people on stage all along but it seems like they are starting to do the right thing. 

I was REFERENCING the REPORTERS behavior after every press conference, but you already new that. You are a polished PR man. Very good.

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4 minutes ago, shoshin said:

List of countries that have re-instituted lockdowns after reopening:

 

China, Korea, Lebanon, Japan, Iran, Singapore

 

Germany is one to watch. 

 

That's a bad trend. 

where are you getting that info? TV just said Japan looks like back to normal on Friday, and China just retesting everyone in Wuhan after 6 new cases. Such a huge problem now, we as a people cant even be sure what is what anymore. You see/read one thing, i see/read the exact opposite..  and @Deranged Rhino says I told ya so LOL!!!

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