Posted on 03/18/2020 8:49:34 PM PDT by rintintin
Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian-American family. Sunday dinners drew an even larger crowd to her home in central New Jersey.
Now, her close-knit clan is united anew by unspeakable grief: Mrs. Fusco, 73, died on Wednesday night after contracting the coronavirus — hours after her son died from the virus and five days after her daughter’s death, a relative said.
Four other children who contracted coronavirus remain hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, the relative, Roseann Paradiso Fodera, said.
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PURE EVIL.
I have heard, but been unable to find the source again to verify, that people with Type A blood are naturally immune to I think it’s cholera? Or maybe Typhoid. One of the two.
So yes, it would be interesting from a medical perspective, to find out more information about genetics, blood type, etc, to see what other factors may play into suseptability this.
The ongoing arguments for it being a hoax and all are really irrelevant.
Maybe it is, although I doubt it considering how fast this thing is spreading and how badly it’s known to affect the lungs.
But the problem is, the situation we have now is what we need to deal with.
Instead of people just running around screaming that it’s a hoax to destroy our economy and enslave us all, we need to figure out how to manage this so that the economy can recover and we don’t lose the freedoms we have.
And if people all become preppers to some degree, then they will be ready to act much more quickly, which means they can self-isolate faster, and there will be far less panic buying.
Because if this is indeed a bioweapon as seems feasible, there are certainly others out there, too. No reason to realistically think that this could not and would not happen again.
It’s not a matter of the government to be ready to handle it, but we the people. If we dealt with it appropriately at the grassroots level, then we wouldn’t need the government to come in and (try to allegedly) save the day.
You are basing this on that crackpot who was on Tucker last night? Don’t.
It may have been a mistake for us to jokingly call it the Wuhan FLu. It’s not a flu it’s a Coronavirus. It could be this is causing some confusion with some. This is at least twice as contagious as “normal flu”.
There actually is. There is a running total of “World Recovered” and it is a summation of the “Recovered by country”.
...and any journalist attacking a politician (especially our president) deserves an axe handle to the face (in Minecraft).
“Some people are old at 50. Most aren’t!!”
True. Some people are old at 30-40.
The six pack is probably significantly safer than the toilet paper if it’s been sitting in the cooler for any time at all.
Why? So we don’t just let an epidemic rip through the country. If you wait and see where you are when there’s no one left to die you will end up with about 20% of the population survive.
If it bleeds it leads.
That was a strange interview. That said, there is a good scientific premise for why chloroquine might at least be helpful.
Most enveloped viruses, like HIV, ‘bud’ from the host cells after replicating in the cell. The leave the cell by going through the cell membrane - taking part of the membrane with them (i.e. their ‘envelope’).
Coronavirus, on the other hand, leaves cells the same way hormones and many other proteins do - via the golgi apparatus and it's vesicles. Chloroquine alters the golgi, and has been shown to inhibit the secretion of some proteins/hormones that use the golgi. Thus, it might inhibit the escape of coronavirus from cells, and thus inhibit the spread of infection to other cells. It makes mechanistic sense.
The guy didn’t bother to say what kind of patients were in the trial. Those on vents? Those with mild symptoms? If they experimented with “asymptomatic” and found no virus in a week I’m not impressed.
Second thing I notice - obesity, possible diabetes, and possible heart disease in the family.
Third thing I notice - pay wall, so I can't read the rest of the article.
Fourth thing - a man in New York with COVID-19 had two heart attacks yesterday and died.
Cause of death listed as COVID-19.
Hmmm...
I’m not saying in any way that this works, and I agree with you entirely. I’m just saying that it does at least make some mechanistic sense and would be reasonable to look at.
And used by another country,China as a biological weapon.
How many of those reported deaths in Italy are chinese?
But thanks for that bit about the mechanism. Interesting. If you recall the Army had trouble with these drugs years ago. Soldiers killing their families and themselves. It can produce severe, sudden psychotic episodes. Let’s hope if this is part of the answer it is only for a very brief time until something better. I wouldn’t say Chloroquine will save us even if it works.
This CCP-flu plague is a little too convenient for Dark State and Communist operatives.
zeestephen is paying attention, and I think it is normal.
The CDC estimates that at least 22,000 Americans died of influenza from October to March.
That's five months. 140 flu fatalities per day.
There have been 144 pediatric flu deaths.
There have been at least 1,000 young adult (age 18-30) flu deaths.
No estimate for healthy adult flu deaths over age 30.
Bottom Line...
Not one person on this thread suggested that we shut down the entire country when flu season started five months ago.
Bottom Line...
Protect the elderly and the infirm.
Do not bankrupt the USA and destroy our standard of living.
Right now I don’t think there is ANY data to conclusively say whether a particular blood group or genes are more or less susceptible. it may be coincidence or it may not be.
Based on the data we can only conclusively say that
1. This hits people older than 60 hard and over 80 very hard
2. the virus spreads fast - faster than influenza
3. people don’t show symptoms for the first week - so they can spread more.
4. children below 10 aren’t getting affected.
EVERYTHING ELSE is uncorroborated. It may be true, it might not be.
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