OT: Coronavirus

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"BarrNone55" said: https://twitter.com/i/status/1250228871892545537

Lotta stars have to align for that kind of timing...but dayum, the earth is due a little good karma right now. 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/health/new-french-study-hydroxychloroquine/index.html

I believe this is a different study from France and not a repeat on the one Jimmy just posted

@"BarrNone55" said: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/health/new-french-study-hydroxychloroquine/index.html

I believe this is a different study from France and not a repeat on the one Jimmy just posted

this is the one that PFaithful posted that appears to have used HCQ by itself and not with the Zpak that I mentioned above.  An expert a few weeks ago said that by themselves they are not effective,  but basically that the HCQ is able to knock down the defenses of the  virus and the Azithromycin is then what does the damage to the virus itself.  The heart concerns will still be a relevant discussion since the HCQ is the trigger there,  but if you have heart or circulatory issues to begin with and you get Covid,  your death rate is significantly greater so I guess you have to decide if you want to die from Covid,  or from the possible side effects of the drug.

these people have no problem with you dying as long as they can buy their lawn fertilizer and get their hair done pic.twitter.com/MJ8mmRwFFd

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 15, 2020

Hair dye isn't going to help

Who knows more on viruses?

@"BarrNone55" said: Who knows more on viruses?

Bill Gates

@BillGates

·15h

Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them. The world needs

@WHO now more than ever.

Frankly I dont know how much the WHO is helping to thwart the Pandemic or not?  How much does Pete Townsend really know about science? 

Cutting funding in the middle of a pandemic? Doesn't feel like the right thing to be doing. Is it putting people at risk? I don't know...Maybe it is, maybe it isn't? 

Rather than attempt to try and fix what might be ailing? Just pull the funds? Regardless, this looks feels and smells like a deflection game.  

Lastly, The WHO, Governors, The Feds, Congress, CDC, HHS, Europe - all need to take a step back and learn from this. It's not going to be the last time a virus crosses from one mammal to another. 

NY and LA mayors stating they may ban concerts or sporting events until 2021.

@"BarrNone55" said: NY and LA mayors stating they may ban concerts or sporting events until 2021.

I saw that. The rest of this year could be very, very different and difficult. (CNN) Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday it "would be very difficult to see" large gatherings like sporting events or concerts resuming in the city before 2021 as the US grapples with mitigating Covid-19.  "It's difficult to imagine us getting together in the thousands anytime soon, so I think we should be prepared for that this year," Garcetti told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room."

"I think we all have never wanted science to work so quickly," he continued. "But until there's either a vaccine, some sort of pharmaceutical intervention, or herd immunity, the science is the science. And public health officials have made very clear we have miles and miles to walk before we can be back in those environments."

Minimally everyone will be wearing a mask. NY just announced it as mandatory in public. Probably the right thing with unknown level of herd immunity and no proven/approved for broad use therapeutics yet. 

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"BarrNone55" said: Who knows more on viruses?

Bill Gates

@BillGates

·15h

Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them. The world needs

@WHO now more than ever.

Frankly I dont know how much the WHO is helping to thwart the Pandemic or not?  How much does Pete Townsend really know about science? 

Cutting funding in the middle of a pandemic? Doesn't feel like the right thing to be doing. Is it putting people at risk? I don't know...Maybe it is, maybe it isn't? 

Rather than attempt to try and fix what might be ailing? Just pull the funds? Regardless, this looks feels and smells like a deflection game.  

Lastly, The WHO, Governors, The Feds, Congress, CDC, HHS, Europe - all need to take a step back and learn from this. It's not going to be the last time a virus crosses from one mammal to another. 

@"BigAl99" said:

@"purplefaithful" said:

Man the picture of Daltrey, creeps me out.  Makes me think of the scary waitress at some remote all-night diner.  

Anti-5G protesters have attacked cell tower sites in Holland, New Zealand and Ireland. https://t.co/ErybHx6mcH

— VICE News (@VICENews) April 14, 2020

4g I can wrap my head around in regards to Coronovirus. 

5g? No way...

GiGi is okay, But Ruthie is still my go to.

More than 639,664 people have tested positive in the US with at least 30,985 deaths linked to the virus, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

About 15% of those deaths -- 4,811 -- were reported Wednesday alone. 

It's unclear whether the latest death toll includes probable cases. Federal health officials have said they'll start including probable cases, which meet clinical criteria for symptoms and evidence of Covid-19 -- but with no lab test confirming the disease.

@"purplefaithful" said:

More than 639,664 people have tested positive in the US with at least 30,985 deaths linked to the virus, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

About 15% of those deaths -- 4,811 -- were reported Wednesday alone. 

It's unclear whether the latest death toll includes probable cases. Federal health officials have said they'll start including probable cases, which meet clinical criteria for symptoms and evidence of Covid-19 -- but with no lab test confirming the disease.

I think the death counts are going to be so skewed from reports that I have read it sounds like unless you get hit by a truck and drug to your death its going to be attributed to Covid.  I dont see what it really matters at this point,  its a bad bug and no matter how many it does or doesnt kill the results are the same.  It needs to be taken seriously and massive efforts need to be taken to produce a anti-virus asap!

JUST IN: Another 5.2 million workers filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week, according to the US Department of Labor, bringing the total number of Americans who have filed initial jobless claims to around 22 million since March 14. https://t.co/4LQg0vl5RX

— CNN Business (@CNNBusiness) April 16, 2020

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"purplefaithful" said:

More than 639,664 people have tested positive in the US with at least 30,985 deaths linked to the virus, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

About 15% of those deaths -- 4,811 -- were reported Wednesday alone. 

It's unclear whether the latest death toll includes probable cases. Federal health officials have said they'll start including probable cases, which meet clinical criteria for symptoms and evidence of Covid-19 -- but with no lab test confirming the disease.

I think the death counts are going to be so skewed from reports that I have read it sounds like unless you get hit by a truck and drug to your death its going to be attributed to Covid.  I dont see what it really matters at this point,  its a bad bug and no matter how many it does or doesnt kill the results are the same.  It needs to be taken seriously and massive efforts need to be taken to produce a anti-virus asap!