Quick everyone!
Lets all order thermometers to get ahead of the next shortage!
The people in the libertarian Facebook group are calling it bullshit.
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Corona Virus spreading ... US official says no need to worry
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The people in the libertarian Facebook group are calling it bullshit.
Which Libertarian FB group because I’m not seeing that.
road squawker
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for some reason, I have been thinking of a poem that I memorized back in the 60s.
I still remembered every word
"Chose Something like a Star" by Robert Frost
http://ceadserv1.nku.edu/longa/poems/rf-star.htm
China reports no new domestic cases for first time since start of epidemic.
That just came from NBC.
That just came from NBC.
Jim_S
Gone But Not Forgotten
So we are now starting to get the testing results.
Almost a 2000 case jump overnight.
But we expected this. And it should accelerate.
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tiredretired
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leadarrows
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Welcome to Venezuela.
Bannedjoe
Well-known member
These are going to be as hard to find as TP real soon.
tiredretired
The Old Salt
Thinking the exact same thing Joe.
tiredretired
The Old Salt
Except when the leftists send their brownshirts (here it will be ANTIFA) to confiscate guns a lot of us will be shooting back, not running away like those beaners did.
Of course that is what I would be doing if in fact I still owned guns, which i do not after that boating accident on Lake Champlain in 2012.
Bannedjoe
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Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand
Another long but good one ...
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/im...-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
Another long but good one ...
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/im...-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
Me? I'd shoot mine. I very nearly did when she informed me that she was going in to town on Friday to get us a couple of sandwiches for lunch. We had a long serious talk. It wasn't totally unreasonable but I explained to her that there was no point in taking any unnecessary chances. Even though we have no cases in our county, I don't know how much testing we have been doing either.
Jim, in your case I don't honestly know what I'd do. I don't know what your arrangements are. I suppose it would come down to trying to live two separate lives under one roof. What to do about cooking arrangements would be a major problem.
tiredretired
The Old Salt
You are getting complicated now Joe. That bluetooth shit and smartphone capable. I just want to point and pull the trigger. I know how to do that. :th_lmao::th_lmao:
tiredretired
The Old Salt
Yep, we did the same thing. We are stock, locked and loaded and following POTUS's guidelines of 15 days to flatten the curve. We are going nowhere, working around the house, engaging in our hobbies (I have a tunnel to build for my model railroad) no take out delivered or otherwise.
My wife and I are on the same page. She has asthma.
More interesting info:
PLEASE READ: FROM AN IMMUNOLOGIST
AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SO INFORMATIVE!!!!!
This is exactly what the public should be hearing maybe, just maybe, they can see how bad this is:
Here is a little more information on the virus that may help explain a few things that people don’t understand. This is from an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University.
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Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...
It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.
Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..
H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...
And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.
Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.
#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
I Pray for all Americans ������
PLEASE READ: FROM AN IMMUNOLOGIST
AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SO INFORMATIVE!!!!!
This is exactly what the public should be hearing maybe, just maybe, they can see how bad this is:
Here is a little more information on the virus that may help explain a few things that people don’t understand. This is from an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University.
��
Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...
It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.
Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..
H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...
And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.
Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.
#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
I Pray for all Americans ������
People with certain blood types more vulnerable?
Experts in China have found that people with blood type A are more vulnerable to the strain of coronavirus, whereas people with type O seem to be more resistant. After analysing the blood patterns of more than 2,000 infected patients in China, the researchers found that those with type A blood showed a higher rate of infection and developed more severe symptoms. Those with O type tended to experience more mild symptoms from the disease, also called Sars-CoV-2.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...update-vulnerable-list-diseases-blood-type-uk
Experts in China have found that people with blood type A are more vulnerable to the strain of coronavirus, whereas people with type O seem to be more resistant. After analysing the blood patterns of more than 2,000 infected patients in China, the researchers found that those with type A blood showed a higher rate of infection and developed more severe symptoms. Those with O type tended to experience more mild symptoms from the disease, also called Sars-CoV-2.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...update-vulnerable-list-diseases-blood-type-uk
I have suspected it was going after a genetic marker but blood type would work too.
I'll link my source.
https://systems.jhu.edu/
There is a blog there.
At the bottom of the main page is a cluster map to click on.
tiredretired
The Old Salt
It will. This disease is very nasty to elderly with issues. Horrible. It killed something like 30 people in that nursing home in Washington state.
I'm not sure I would survive it or not, who knows but I sure as hell do not want to find out.
Me neither.
NorthernRedneck
Well-known member
Looks like there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. Researchers have been testing chloroquine on the coronavirus and have already tested patients who previously tested positive. I read earlier in another article that a patient who tested positive was given the drug on Monday and now tests negative for the virus. Hopefully this is good news and we can all get back to normal.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/canada-is-already-using-chloroquine-on-coronavirus-patients
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/canada-is-already-using-chloroquine-on-coronavirus-patients
tiredretired
The Old Salt
Yep, Trump was pushing like hell today to using it here as well. Let's all hope and pray this works out. We need some good news here.