Covid-19

Board and Seize said:
I'm having a hard time finding the link, but a couple weeks ago I found something showing the mutation/strains of Corona/COVID-19 and even then there were already 8 distinct strains IIRC.

Slate Star Codex, which I've written about before in my erisology thread, has probably the best info, data, and takes on Corona available on the internet.

Check a few of these posts out to get a sense, then keep an eye on the site - there's a new corona update just about every week:

March 2: CORONAVIRUS: LINKS, SPECULATION, OPEN THREAD
March 19: CORONALINKS 3/19/20
March 23: FACE MASKS: MUCH MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW
March 27: CORONALINKS 3/27/20: WE’RE NUMBER ONE
April 10: CORONALINKS 4/10: SECOND DERIVATIVE

This is a site where it's definitely worth looking through the comments. You'll find thoughts on and links to all kinds of stats, data visualizations, and studies (on any topic, but on these posts it's pretty much all corona, all the time).
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Which explains why people recovered are testing positive again. Multiple strains at work.
 
AWP said:
This is going to change our world much, much more than 9/11.
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Agreed. How often do you think the "in the interest of public safety" card is going to get pulled -- at various levels?! It's being overly dramatic to suggest this a genuine threat to our liberty if we continue down this slippery slope.

Small business is getting hammered and those that aren't going under are drowning themselves in loans.

It will be interesting to see how universities and colleges change. How many students will never return?

Hospitals are getting crushed because they can't perform the profitable procedures that keep them solvant.

Retirement funds are being obliterated.

There's the secondary impacts to kids and their activities as it pertains to social interaction.

There are a lot reasons for us to step back and re-evaluate the current approach.
 
Ooh-Rah said:
Meanwhile, I wonder what next our governor will sign a “executive order” for ... in the spirit is protecting our safety....

Gov. Tim Walz issues executive order providing COVID-19 locations to first responders
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He has gotten so ridiculous with these executive orders; way over stepping.

I love our first responders but I can't get behind this at all. What purpose does it serve? Are they not going to respond to calls at these areas? Why would they take any different precautions then they otherwise would? This is just the latest in a series of terrible ideas.
 
AWP said:
This is going to change our world much, much more than 9/11.
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More like Pearl Harbor, except the bombs have been replaced by a Chicom virus and our populace is the Pacific Fleet.
Ooh-Rah said:
Meanwhile, I wonder what next our governor will sign a “executive order” for ... in the spirit is protecting our safety....

Gov. Tim Walz issues executive order providing COVID-19 locations to first responders
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Blizzard said:
Agreed. How often do you think the "in the interest of public safety" card is going to get pulled -- at various levels?! It's being overly dramatic to suggest this a genuine threat to our liberty if we continue down this slippery slope.

Small business is getting hammered and those that aren't going under are drowning themselves in loans.

It will be interesting to see how universities and colleges change. How many students will never return?

Hospitals are getting crushed because they can't perform the profitable procedures that keep them solvant.

Retirement funds are being obliterated.

There's the secondary impacts to kids and their activities as it pertains to social interaction.

There are a lot reasons for us to step back and re-evaluate the current approach.
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As long as our populace is armed, we can take those who've abused their power to task when this foreign attack is over. Think of it like this. We've been caught in an ambush, any beef can be settled when we assault through or break contact.

After the American populace deals with the shit heads and aristocrats, who've gone drunk with power, we need to rain fire on the Communists that did this to our nation. China did this and they have 1.5 billion reasons to grow past their territory, subjugate us, and take over the world's resources. If you don't believe me, check out events like the Numic Expansion and the waves of human migration into the America's. People and cultures are just like any other critter on earth, we expand, take over resources, subjugate, and/or assimilate existing populations.

As for the people making life hard for you now, the bureaucrats drunk on power, guess who bought and paid for them? Guess which politicians have been selling or sold us out for Chicom cash? This is all China, it's always been China. The sooner the populace wakes up to this the better we will be.
 
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Blizzard said:
He has gotten so ridiculous with these executive orders; way over stepping.

I love our first responders but I can't get behind this at all. What purpose does it serve? Are they not going to respond to calls at these areas? Why would they take any different precautions then they otherwise would? This is just the latest in a series of terrible ideas.
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This is taking a bit out of hand.....we have been doing this for years....just puts an alert on the CAD system to take universal precautions at location. Used a lot during the high point of AIDS/HIV. We had a lot of disturbances between "couples" that would beat the crap out each other and there would be a lot of blood. We are doing it now with the COVID-19 thing, doesn't change the response...just gives PD and Fire a bit of notification. Not sure why it took an executive order from the governor...sounds like just politics.
 
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2/5ths of Fives eyes would disagree regarding the restriction of personal rights & freedom & other measures, particularly the smallest member, as restriction of movement & social distancing looks to work. Brother Pardus posted not so long ago with first hand experience, I’d recommend taking a look at it if you missed it. But then if you’re too focussed on trivial matters instead of survival...

Aussie nurse Yanti has worked in virus outbreaks before. But what she's seeing in the US is 'terrifying'
 

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