Posted on 03/18/2020 10:36:37 AM PDT by Mariner
Day #19 here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3825446/posts?q=1&;page=1
” I’ve never heard trump refer to himself as a ‘war time president’ before.”
Clearly he’s been reading my posts.
It's not science, but wishful thinking backed up by the full force of CREDENTIALS™.
Here's the quote:
They suggested that it cannot be an artificial creation because its structure "differed substantially from those of already known coronaviruses and mostly resembled related viruses found in bats and pangolins".
The researchers suggested that anyone looking to create a new coronavirus and use it as a bioweapon would probably have built it using the backbone of a virus that has already killed humans.
One of the Wuhan researchers published in 2015 about doing genetic engineering on bat coronaviruses to perform "addition of function."
There was a brouhaha back then about making bat coronaviruses transmissible to humans by doing that.
Floridia!
And grown men are such good patients.
TN statistics cluster around Nashville
LOL.
Imagine if we’d had Clinton in the White House.
Maybe that’s why the over the top freak out for 3 years from the D-China crowd.
Yes.
Yes you are!
I knew hubby was sick though. He NEVER lets me drive if he’s along for the ride.
Except that once.
we had been out and about. He handed me the keys and told me to drive home.
My first question was...’do we need to go to the ER?’
I wasn’t joking either.
Some people don't.
Would you volunteer to be one of the ones that don't?
I think it mutated into a more virulent version in the Boston area and from there on it really started kicking butt.
I was laying on the bathroom floor, trying to cool off my back when I had kidney stones. She was stunned when I said I thought I should go to the hospital.
And once I got there, all of the nurses needed to tell me that it was as close to childbirth as a man could get. Like I needed to hear that.
Who knew....Cheers....way ahead on the COVID-19 curve...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=_tqdOwOxY3s&feature=emb_logo
“Reports of younger people are appearing now”
As expected. The early data was heavily skewed by the retirement and rich executive crowd. Also the younger people hold out longer before succumbing.
On the other hand, it has been long enough that if it were going to kill everybody, the younger people would be dying in droves by now in Korea and Iran.
I’d say the early dismissal of this as an old-people’s disease was premature, and that it has an age distribution profile similar to the flu but with a bigger amplitude.
Some people just have to know better than everyone else.
It makes them feel superior.
They are right and the whole rest of the world is what’s wrong. If the rest of the world would just get on board with them, then everything would be fine.
Right? RIGHT??????/
Well... Russians have no love for the Chinese, though they occasionally have use of them... and we know darn well the Russians have had no problem with violating their treaty obligations when it comes to BCW.
“I think it mutated into a more virulent version in the Boston area and from there on it really started kicking butt.”
Mutation of RNA viruses is 10x to 100x more frequent than dna viruses.
They change pretty rapidly. And the more infected hosts there are, the more rapid the mutations.
It’s another principal reason for strident mitigation.
My brother in law had kidneystones. He lost a huge amount of weight due to the pain, and was very underweight. It’s a horrible disease.
We only have to get to 1 or below to see this thing recede. Current
Estimated R is 2.4. At best, according to this study, every 1 degree Celsius increase knocks r factor down by ..0383. As such, if this is right, we would need temperature to increase by 36 degrees Celsius to take it to around 1. That’s the equivalent of approximately going between 32 degrees Fahrenheit to 96 - not unreasonable in places like New York. Couple this with social distancing and other normal prevention measures, which are also taking the r factor down, and it looks like we could have a shot all around the nation of getting to 1 if this study is right. Not great, but it’s a hopeful possibility that is not unreasonable.
It’s a site. Like a work site.
Not sight.
Sorry, man, can’t help you. I live in NH and it would be a loooong drive under these circumstances.
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