Manic of a panic is geopolitical

[storm5510]

Originally Posted by kladner

Regarding your January experience, did you have head or body aches? Crazy-making headaches are frequently reported.
EDIT: From the front page of the Guardian:

Not really. Only a slight headache occasionally. I imagine what I had was influenza.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by storm5510

Not really. Only a slight headache occasionally. I imagine what I had was influenza.

Flu is bad enough. Hope you are well over it.

[kladner]

Editorial from the Lancet. A PDF is attached
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...863-1/fulltext

With more than 600 000 confirmed cases and close to 27 000 deaths, the USA has become the current centre of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Fewer than 3 months have elapsed since the first severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in Washington State was confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Initially appearing slow moving and constrained in contrast to the scale of outbreaks in China and Italy, COVID-19 has given way to a nationwide public health catastrophe. For the first time in US history, a disaster declaration has been put in place for all 50 states and most US territories, and 95% of Americans are at least temporarily under some form of stay at home order. The increasing gravity of the situation in the USA has drawn public health and infectious disease experts, policy makers, and partisans across state and federal government into a fitful clash for control and direction of the COVID-19 response. Putting the USA at odds with the international community and global pandemic strategy efforts, President Trump announced his intention to withdraw funding from WHO (about 22% of its budget). Caught amid the chaos are the American people grappling with the fear of a deadly and poorly understood virus, conflicting messaging around their protection and safety, fear of financial fallout, absence of a cohesive national strategy, and volatile, incompetent leadership.

[storm5510]

Originally Posted by kladner

Flu is bad enough. Hope you are well over it.

Yes, well past it. Thank you.

I have been reading were a lot of state governors want to start easing restrictions in May. They are talking about this as the number of cases, and the death toll, continues to rise. My son works at a local manufacturing facility. He told me his current return-to-work date is May 4. I feel all of this is way too soon. Allowing people to start mixing this soon could cause the infection rate to skyrocket. Then what?

[kriesel]

A 50 minute crash course in Covid19. Check out the comments praising the teaching style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWzbArPgo-o
36 minutes on treatment, from same presenter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdoN_XsHWBI

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by storm5510

Yes, well past it. Thank you.

I have been reading were a lot of state governors want to start easing restrictions in May. They are talking about this as the number of cases, and the death toll, continues to rise. My son works at a local manufacturing facility. He told me his current return-to-work date is May 4. I feel all of this is way too soon. Allowing people to start mixing this soon could cause the infection rate to skyrocket. Then what?

California and Massachusetts sampling of the general populations in small survey areas have indicated about a third of the general public have antibodies already. That figure is far higher than the case count indicated. Some areas have declining case counts and if the current restrictive measures are responsible, that decline will continue for the next 3 weeks. Government will likely be much quicker to slam on the brakes than the first time, if case counts start climbing again. Vaccines that work and are regarded as safe enough to use widely are a year or two away. It's likely we'll have fitful returns to work and stoppages again, and still get herd immunity before vaccines are ready for general use.

[kladner]

Over $1.7 million paid to Fedex to get around the federal blockade.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...-House-unhappy

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/video/4...pe-to-chicago/

The White House issued a sharp rebuke Saturday to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who reportedly spent over $1.7 million on flights bringing medical supplies from China in secret—out of fear the Trump administration would seize the cargo for the federal stockpile.

To put this into perspective, and step back for a second here: Pritzker, who was specifically told by Trump that he was on his own to buy medical supplies in the open market, does so, and the White House is not happy with this because he did this without notifying them, he did it in secret? Why did Pritzker do this in secret? Because many shipments to states were diverted, seized, and confiscated for the federal stockpile, stolen, even though these states paid Millions of Dollars for these essential supplies, just to have them taken away right under their noses in an act of highway robbery.

[Pritzker] said that because “the federal government seems to be interrupting supplies that are being sent elsewhere in the nation” he “wanted to make sure that we received what we ordered,” and also told CNN that he had “given up” on receiving help from the Trump administration.

White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere responded, telling RealClearPolitics that Pritzker, “through ignorance or incompetence or a propensity to politicize everything,” was wrong, and that the administration had been providing Illinois with resources.

[ewmayer]

Delayed clearance of SARS-CoV2 in male compared to female patients: High ACE2 expression in testes suggests possible existence of gender-specific viral reservoirs | medRxiv (preprint, not yet peer reviewed)

Being a habitual wearer of testes, my first thought on reading the headline was ‘nuts!’ Next thing you know, they’re gonna mandate that all men practice social distancing with respect to their ‘nads’ … “but Dr. Fauci, I’m really rather attached to them!”

Is there such a thing as an N95 jockstrap? If not, someone needs to design one, ASAP.

[retina]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Delayed clearance of SARS-CoV2 in male compared to female patients: High ACE2 expression in testes suggests possible existence of gender-specific viral reservoirs | medRxiv (preprint, not yet peer reviewed)

Being a habitual wearer of testes, my first thought on reading the headline was ‘nuts!’ Next thing you know, they’re gonna mandate that all men practice social distancing with respect to their ‘nads’ … “but Dr. Fauci, I’m really rather attached to them!”

Is there such a thing as an N95 jockstrap? If not, someone needs to design one, ASAP.

... expression in testes ...

Suggests to me that the outer covering (the scrotum) isn't what is being talked about there.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Mast fire probe amid 5G coronavirus claims

There have been fires at masts in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside.

A video, allegedly of the blaze in Aigburth, was shared on YouTube and Facebook, claiming a link between the mobile technology and Covid-19.
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Fact-checking charity Full Fact has linked the claims to two flawed theories.

One suggests 5G suppresses the immune system, the other claims the virus is somehow using the network's radio waves to communicate and pick victims, accelerating its spread.

[storm5510]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Delayed clearance of SARS-CoV2 in male compared to female patients: High ACE2 expression in testes suggests possible existence of gender-specific viral reservoirs | medRxiv (preprint, not yet peer reviewed)

Being a habitual wearer of testes, my first thought on reading the headline was ‘nuts!’ Next thing you know, they’re gonna mandate that all men practice social distancing with respect to their ‘nads’ … “but Dr. Fauci, I’m really rather attached to them!”

Is there such a thing as an N95 jockstrap? If not, someone needs to design one, ASAP.

Sorry! This is the best I've seen in a very long time. Every time I get an unexpected sniffle, I wonder if those little buggers are laying dormant somewhere. Now, I know where they are. Perhaps a jockstrap with Uranium stitching might be better.