Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Corona Virus Daily Thread #42

Posted on 04/09/2020 9:49:35 AM PDT by Mariner

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 421-440441-460461-480 ... 641-651 next last
To: chris37

At this point, everyone is scared.

Some are just too macho to admit it.


441 posted on 04/09/2020 9:05:08 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 219 | View Replies]

To: mrsmith

They’re drop shipping crop from the other countries right back to China.

Also they were doing the same thing with pigs from the US via their smithfield plants.

‘We’ aren’t the only game in town with ag anymore. Brazil, Argentina, etc all willing to sell to whoever wants to buy.


442 posted on 04/09/2020 9:05:49 PM PDT by Black Agnes
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 440 | View Replies]

To: amorphous

Incidentally - totally unrelated victims, but, vaccines can be dicey stuff - hard to shortcut the testing:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous


443 posted on 04/09/2020 9:06:35 PM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 435 | View Replies]

To: amorphous

Can’t argue with any of that.

We’ll just have to see.


444 posted on 04/09/2020 9:07:48 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 435 | View Replies]

To: Black Agnes

We’re not the “only game in town” but we’re still the biggest,


445 posted on 04/09/2020 9:10:32 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 442 | View Replies]

To: blueplum
"why you don’t want to reuse a non-washable mask:

https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/medical/researchers-found-the-coronavirus-lasted-on-a-surgical-mask-for-7-days-showing-how-crucial-it-is-to-properly-remove-face-coverings-after-wearing-them/ar-BB12eT27 "

This peer-reviewed article has an error in it.

The MSN article notes the following:

"They were surprised to find the novel coronavirus on the outside of a face mask a week later.

"Strikingly, a detectable level of infectious virus could still be present (emphasis added) on the outer layer of a surgical mask on day 7," the researchers wrote."

The actual article:

"Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions"

- see https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30003-3/fulltext

notes as follows:

"Strikingly, a detectable level of infectious virus could still be present (emphasis added) on the outer layer of a surgical mask on day 7 (∼0·1% of the original inoculum)."

However, the peer-reviewed article is incorrect. The research showed that a detectable level of infectious virus was present on the outer layer of a surgical mask on day 7. Please see the Supplementary Appendix, Table B (Mask Outer Layer) column.

-see https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30003-3/attachment/34ed069e-7268-42ae-8627-df3aa869d81b/mmc1.pdf

I'm surprised at the error in their article, as it is one of their principal findings.

446 posted on 04/09/2020 9:10:48 PM PDT by Fury
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 406 | View Replies]

To: Fury

“could”


447 posted on 04/09/2020 9:12:35 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 446 | View Replies]

To: Black Agnes

We have enough drugs available to have lowered the number of deaths far below the projected curve. That’s the indicator that its working, when actual numbers begin to fall below projected numbers. I’m not saying HCQ isn’t working to some degree. I know it really helped my niece. It’s just not working as well as we/I had hoped. It doesn’t appear to be a miracle cure, unfortunately.


448 posted on 04/09/2020 9:12:37 PM PDT by amorphous
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 439 | View Replies]

To: mrsmith
We’ll just have to see.

I agree, again.

449 posted on 04/09/2020 9:13:47 PM PDT by amorphous
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 444 | View Replies]

To: mrsmith
“could”

That's not what their research showed. Their researched showed that a detectable level of infectious virus was present on the outer layer of a surgical mask on day 7 (∼0·1% of the original inoculum).

450 posted on 04/09/2020 9:15:55 PM PDT by Fury
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 447 | View Replies]

To: Paul R.

It would appear so. Some believe the SARS, or maybe it was the MERS vaccine, which many Italians took years ago, may have made them more vulnerable to the CV.


451 posted on 04/09/2020 9:18:52 PM PDT by amorphous
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 443 | View Replies]

To: Black Agnes

True. But, there isn’t remotely enough extra (or even quickly developable) hog production on the planet to make up for China’s shortfall. And, it’s not just China’s shortfall. Other countries have been hit too.


452 posted on 04/09/2020 9:19:09 PM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 442 | View Replies]

To: Mariner

“Detectable and transmissible are not necessarily the same.”

And, as I’ve been (essentially) saying: “Transmissible and infectious are also not necessarily the same”.

In other words if you’re reasonably healthy and pick up a relative handful of virons, your immune system will wipe them out without you ever knowing it. You need a concentration large enough to overwhelm one’s immune system - which I why I don’t worry about it to the extent others may (such as by spraying their mail and their food). I’ll also get near others, providing that I’m upwind.

If the above wasn’t true, the virus would have infected at least half of the country in February, when we had no mitigation to speak of and we were importing sick people from Asia and Italy by the planeload.


453 posted on 04/09/2020 9:19:12 PM PDT by BobL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 342 | View Replies]

To: amorphous

I’ve seen that stated.

I know the poster who said it.

I’ve asked him *repeatedly* to give documentation of such.

I’ve been ignored each time.

*I* can find NO such vaccine was given *anywhere* to *anyone*.

If you have any documentation that such happened, I’d love to see it. A brand/commercial name, company that developed it, etc. Anything.


454 posted on 04/09/2020 9:20:45 PM PDT by Black Agnes
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 451 | View Replies]

To: Paul R.

Just saying that we can’t hold China over an agricultural barrel anymore. It isn’t the 1990’s. Argentina and Brazil are HUGE ag producers now.

And the Chinese own a LOT of acreage there and in a lot of other countries as well.

If they were worried about getting food from the US, they wouldn’t have threatened to hold our antibiotic supply hostage.


455 posted on 04/09/2020 9:22:15 PM PDT by Black Agnes
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 452 | View Replies]

To: All

“Coronavirus kindness: San Francisco YMCA offers free pop-up camps for children of essential workers amid COVID-19 pandemic”

- see https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-kindness-san-francisco-ymca-offers-free-pop-up-camps-for-children-of-essential-workers-amid-covid-19-pandemic/ar-BB12pKwj


456 posted on 04/09/2020 9:22:16 PM PDT by Fury
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 454 | View Replies]

To: amorphous

But, without successful treatmets ,I see no change for us


457 posted on 04/09/2020 9:24:51 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 449 | View Replies]

To: mrsmith
But, without successful treatmets ,I see no change for us

Was talking abut this at work today and what may be required before states that have ordered non-essential workers to stay home

The consensus among our little group was there needed to be wider scale testing and wider scale availability of treatments that can be prescribed by the MD, PA, NP, etc. Not exactly a shocker.

Until then, we concluded we could see 1) temperatures taken prior to entering the building 2) social distancing by means of staggered work times / 25-50% of the staff working at home at any given day 3) recommendation to wear masks / covers 4) closure of selected common areas were people may congregate, etc.

458 posted on 04/09/2020 9:34:01 PM PDT by Fury
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 457 | View Replies]

To: Black Agnes
Wow, that was sometime back when I read that. I remember it was a vaccine the Chinese had developed and that it had proven to be ineffective.

Did some searching but I didn't find anything related to what I read. They do purge the internet of negative articles - and this is the Chinese we're talking about.

I only found this:

Flu Vaccine Increases Coronavirus Risk 36% Says Military Study

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2020/03/11/flu-vaccine-increases-coronavirus-risk/

459 posted on 04/09/2020 9:35:04 PM PDT by amorphous
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 454 | View Replies]

To: mrsmith

I thought the consensus was the models were all wrong, nobody has actually died FROM CV and this was all a hoax to crash the economy? And moreover, it’s not as bad as the flu.

Honest question, when we open up nationwide (which will depend on the governors, not trump), what do you think will happen?


460 posted on 04/09/2020 9:36:24 PM PDT by Black Agnes
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 457 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 421-440441-460461-480 ... 641-651 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson