Covid-19

[Brill]

That's the first "chill" I've had since this has all begun. No kidney disease, but I do have hypertension and take atenolol.

I have faith the social distancing and self-isolation are trying to slow the spread and buy time in order for scientists and doctors to develop medicine to destroy the virus. The same mindset that put a man on the moon via an abacus will surely figure this out in the modern era. Additionally, I wonder how AI will be used against this pandemic.

 

[Steve1839]

Hey bro,

You go ahead and take my Covid-19 test....really it's okay...no, honestly, I don't mind, you can have mine!

Spoiler: F That...I'll take my chances!

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The PA I had in Alaska incorporated digital rectal exams into his sick call protocol when he suspected troops of malingering...if he were still practicing today, I'm pretty sure this would be part of his regimen...

 

[Ooh-Rah]

 

[ThunderHorse]

Hey bro,

You go ahead and take my Covid-19 test....really it's okay...no, honestly, I don't mind, you can have mine!

Spoiler: F That...I'll take my chances!

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How much worse can it be than having this stuck up your nose?

In fact, if it's just as bad, it will suck!

 

[Blizzard]

Tragedy on the highway...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1243199946590949376

Deliberate act of terror.

 

[Blizzard]

How much worse can it be than having this stuck up your nose?

In fact, if it's just as bad, it will suck!

That is unpleasant. Sometimes they go in smooth (still unpleasant), sometimes they don't (very unpleasant).

 

[ThunderHorse]

US Now has more confirmed cases than China, Cities like New York where people live on top of each other in such density are abnormal. Wuhan which has 3M more people than New York is a normal city in China...if New York is our epicenter...why would we somehow have more cases than China?

 

[Ooh-Rah]

why would we somehow have more cases than China?

Because China is not testing, much less reporting.

 

[LibraryLady]

Because China is not testing, much less reporting.

Or are they testing, but not telling ?



Regardless. You can't trust the information they are providing.

LL

 

[racing_kitty]

Or are they testing, but not telling ?



Regardless. You can't trust the information they are providing.

LL

Whistleblowers from over there have said they aren’t testing. I’ll have to wade through my history later on to find the link.

 

[Dame]

Something to do if sew inclined. ... @LibraryLady

Mask Production

 

[LibraryLady]

Something to do if sew inclined. ... @LibraryLady

Mask Production

I've seen local groups are starting to do this. I think it's a good idea, as some protection is better than nothing, though I'm worried the sheeple will think it's a cure-all.

LL

 

[Dame]

I've seen local groups are starting to do this. I think it's a good idea, as some protection is better than nothing, though I'm worried the sheeple will think it's a cure-all.

A bit of good news: Stockpiles are being found and in many cases, donated.
National Cathedral, Nasdaq, Businesses and Unions Locate Troves of N95 Masks

• The National Cathedral donated 5,000 masks on Wednesday to two Washington hospitals to help doctors, nurses and others fight the coronavirus outbreak, part of a worldwide search that is turning up millions of desperately needed masks, sometimes in unusual places.
• Facebook had donated its “emergency reserve” of 720,000 masks, which were purchased during recent wildfires in California. The company is working on sourcing millions more to donate.
• A health care union called the S.E.I.U.-U.H.W. said it had found a whopping 39 million masks from a private company based in Pennsylvania that distributes medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. The masks were being sold for $5 each to groups like Kaiser Permanente and the Greater New York Hospital Association, the union said, adding that it had no financial interest at stake.
• Goldman Sachs has donated 600,000 N95 masks, “procured in the wake of previous epidemics,” with 400,000 going to hospitals in New York and New Jersey, Leslie Shribman, a spokeswoman for Goldman Sachs, said on Thursday. Abroad, Goldman Sachs is also donating 50,000 N95 masks to Britain’s National Health Service.
• Apple procured 10 million masks to donate to “the medical community in the United States,” its chief executive, Tim Cook, said in a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday, adding that “millions more” would be provided in Europe.
• Pornhub purchased and donated 50,000 surgical masks to New York-area medical professionals and emergency responders, a spokesman for the company said on Thursday.

 

[SaintKP]

cure-all

I have had certain employees(that were spot corrected immediately) that thought wearing gloves for everything would help.

Now let me clarify they would never change gloves if they left the area, they would still touch their grubby hands to their face and hair, and would eat and drink without changing them.

Really gets the blood pressure rising.

ETA: Also shows me who has worked in a hospital versus just thinking having PPE on is a cure all.

 

[racing_kitty]

Not gonna lie, reading “Pornhub donated...” made me snort my coffee. I’m happy they stepped up and did something, don’t get me wrong. It just wasn’t the sentence I expected to read during my wake-up info binge.

 

[Dame]

Not gonna lie, reading “Pornhub donated...” made me snort my coffee. I’m happy they stepped up and did something, don’t get me wrong. It just wasn’t the sentence I expected to read during my wake-up info binge.

Right?! Kind of cracked me up but hey, desperate times and all that.

 

[LibraryLady]

• Pornhub purchased and donated 50,000 surgical masks to New York-area medical professionals and emergency responders, a spokesman for the company said on Thursday.

Wow. What a socially responsible company!

I'm impressed. I think.

LL

 

[ThunderHorse]

Full Study on the genome of the virus. As I mentioned a few pages back with the preliminary study that SARS-COV-2 had been mapped in both bats in Pangolins. The study further finishes the source hypothesis being Pangolins. The genome of SARS-COV-2 in Malayan Pangolins has a mutation that allows transfers to humans which the one in bats does not. However, one of the major food sources of Pangolins remains guano.

It is illegal to import Pangolins into China, but they get into the meat markets everywhere. The meat markets are thoroughly unregulated for the most part it seems with wet markets being the norm in major metropoles. Considering the widespread nature of the Pangolin trade I'd suspect that Chinese Customs officials just DGAF!

Identifying SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins

 

[AWP]

The Chinese are trash. Let's see how they react to the pangolin information.

PornHub is donating masks? That should force any mainstream company to double its mask production/ donation or get off our planet.

Can anyone tell me if someone's making plans to store x amount of N95 masks next to Indy's Arc of the Covenant? Asking for a friend.

China is trash and not reporting the correct stats. If anyone believes China's numbers are correct, please fill your pockets with rocks and walk into the surf zone. Bonus points if you have a backpack filled with bricks.

 

[RackMaster]

And here I was impressed when PornHub made premium free.