OT: Coronavirus

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I've said since day one that I didnt have faith in our American people to show the self restraint and ability to control the spread of this virus that has helped curb its spread in other countries.  Sadly I am being proven right.  (although I honestly have my doubts that it is really controlled in other places to the extent that they think it is since their is no vaccination for it)

I also think that the early reports from China were skewed and have led to this massive understated affects of this disease,  which has led to the arrogance with which much of the US population has dealt with it.

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@purplefaithful said:

@BigAl99 said:
The contagion has arrived, exponential rate

I'm afraid not enough are getting it...

I just went up to Target for a few things at 7:00 am. Huge line of people (right on top of each other) looking to get in.  I turned around and went home. 

Can I say it again?

Just remove all the warning labels and let things sort themselves out. 

I think not only is our society in decline, but the species.

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https://twitter.com/CBSLA/status/1242634...65857?s=19

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Big Kat's mom in medically induced coma...

https://twitter.com/KarlTowns/status/124...8335456256

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https://twitter.com/FOX29philly/status/1...19329?s=19

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@JimmyinSD said:

I figured the youngest would be getting to be about 2 since you were expecting when we met up at remaining camp.  That has to be a crazy fun house at those ages,  I was going to ask why you didnt have a 1 year old to complete the string of decending ages, but keeping up with the first 4 is likely why.  .

My family is good,  our daughter got married last May,  thank God it wasn't this year,  and her and her hisband are on the front lines of this thing in SD,  so lots of prayers for them needless to say.  Our son finished school last may and moved home but is preparing to move out this spring.

Absolutely on the prayers.

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@Vikergirl said:
https://twitter.com/FOX29philly/status/1...19329?s=19

We're gonna need a lot more stuff like this. 

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FDA says it is expediting the use of a blood plasma treatment as New York begins to roll out new clinical trials

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) plays a critical role in protecting the United States from public health threats including the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. FDA is committed to doing everything we can to provide timely response efforts to this pandemic and facilitate access to investigational drugs for use in patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections.
One investigational treatment being explored for COVID-19 involves the use of convalescent plasma collected from recovered COVID-19 patients. It is possible that convalescent plasma that contains antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) might be effective against the infection. Use of convalescent plasma has been studied in outbreaks of other respiratory infections, including the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic, 2003 SARS-CoV-1 epidemic, and the 2012 MERS-CoV epidemic. Although promising, convalescent plasma has not been shown to be effective in every disease studied. It is therefore important to determine through clinical trials, before routinely administering convalescent plasma to patients with COVID-19, that it is safe and effective to do so. Investigators wishing to study the use of convalescent plasma are encouraged to submit requests to FDA for investigational use under the traditional IND regulatory pathway (21 CFR 312).
Although participation in clinical trials is one way for patients to obtain access to convalescent plasma, these may not be readily available to all patients in potential need. Therefore, given the public health emergency that the expanding COVID-19 outbreak presents, while clinical trials are being conducted, FDA is facilitating access to COVID-19 convalescent plasma for use in patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections through the process of single patient emergency Investigational New Drug Applications (eINDs) for Individual patients under 21 CFR 312.310. This process allows the use of an investigational drug for the treatment of an individual patient by a licensed physician upon FDA authorization. This does not include the use of COVID-19 convalescent plasma for the prevention of infection
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biolo...gency-inds


I'm a bit surprised this doesn't appear to have been discussed or leveraged over in China or Europe - or put into some (even limited) practice. 

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“Covidiot”.
The definition of Covidiot: “Someone who ignores the warnings regarding public health or safety.”
To help us understand how to use the word, Urban Dictionary used ‘covidiot’ in a sentence. 
“Are you seriously going to visit grandma? Dude, don’t be such a covidiot.” 
They also describe covidiot as someone who hoards food and household goods from their neighbors. 
“Did you see that covidiot with 300 rolls of toilet paper in his basket?”

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https://twitter.com/NBCNewYork/status/12...12224?s=19