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  1. triplehorn
    The right VP pick for a Biden candidacy looms large. Female, POC, more progressive, younger...take your pick..could be a winning combo to broadly GOTV.
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    So now Klobs out and endorses Biden
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    3rd case in Oregon not linked to travel just recorded. Pt hospitalized just across state line Walla Walla, WA which is a lot closer to Umatilla Co. in Oregon than any city in OR. Crazy. All considered, that's a pretty damn remote area. It also suggests the folks running the state of WA are getting their shit together fast.
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    Covid-19 could be the near future harbinger of more of this kind of thing becoming global standard in high traffic places: SELF SANITIZING DOOR HANDLE The device uses ultraviolet light to cause a chemical reaction that kills germs. In tests, it was able to kill 99.8% of microbes on the door handle.
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    Good work. In a pinch, you could pull that pseudoephedrine to nuke the corona with a batch of bathtub meth in a writhing fight to the death.
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    fair opportunity for a participant pay raise. in advance, of course.
  7. triplehorn
    Positive ID of it is mushrooming around the world, we’re past contain, so it’s going to run its course. Best efforts should try to draw out the incidence rate as much as possible to lessen the real time burden on the medical infrastructure. Programs for free hand sanitizer and max education about frequent hand washing w soap and water when going place to place, minimize hand shaking, and avoiding hands to face would help slow the rate of spread. But places like nursing homes will have to really step up the door and surface wipe downs.
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    A cholera pandemic is a good example of needing a bottled water supply. Viral upper respiratory bug, not so much, but having water around, like oxygen, is always a good bet.
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    No CR, but I noticed NK isn’t on that list of countries with at least one confirmed case. Who knows if what they claimed was even real. It’s times like these that their abject self isolation from the global community really comes into focus.
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    I mentioned previously making a DIY hand sanitizer using rubbing alcohol and aloe gel. Found out second hand from a school teacher that now bottles of rubbing alcohol are gone from basically everywhere in my OR area code. I’m kind of impressed.
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    That updated worldwide aggregate above is up a bit at a 3.4% case fatality rate. However I'm the camp that thinks this number comes down substantially due to sheer numbers of untested/undetected due to not needing to seek/not seeking medical care. Is it possible there's already been >250,000 undetected cases worldwide since end of December? Seems very likely, and arguably would be a good sign, yet still a case fatality rate many times more deadly than typical influenza.
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    ok, so that's insanely expensive. definitely google DIY recipes for hand sanitizer. You can mix rubbing alcohol with generic aloe gel in a 60% or stronger alcohol concentration. Store/dispense it using any travel size lotion/shampoo container you can get anywhere. There's other recipes if you want something that causes less skin dryness. quick glimpse - Target has a 16oz pure aloe product for $5.
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    Per above, perhaps 1 in 4 SC supporters of Sen Sanders. only half joking.
  14. triplehorn
    That’s precisely what it means.
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    Nursing homes and covid are like bottle rockets in a drought withered forest. Those places probably need the most aggressive protocols imaginable to limit mortality.
  17. triplehorn
    Probably should be cross posted on the markets falling like woah thread:
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    yep, hand washing all day long. Spray is mainly good for when you go out to the store etc.
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    was just at a large grocery store in OR and walgreens and all hand sanitizer and most otc cold meds just vanished overnight. There was still a ton of guaifenesin (mucinex) available, surprisingly. That and tylenol for fever are probably the two main go to otc meds for this thing. For a makeshift hand sanitizer, probably good to get a mini travel spray bottle filled with isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol.
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    Coronavirus is pretty limited in its attack on our system to the respiratory system. It’s the immune inflammatory response in the lungs that can really compound it into not being able to pass air and exchange oxygen to the blood. That damage does put people at risk for secondary bacterial pneumonia and worse, sepsis. the immune system is complex and I’m not familiar with any associations between medical mechanisms to enhance immune function and increased risk for cytokine storm or simply a revved up response to coronavirus. I’m guessing it’s quite different for cancer approaches but could be wrong.
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    It’d be interesting to approach treating annual viral illness like an allergist would using serial desensitization for vulnerable people to limit the immune response to garden variety cold sxs.
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    If there were a way to reduce the risk of the body having a “cytokine storm” response to infection, that would go a long way towards reducing the severity of the worst cases. i don’t know what the determinants are, but conceivably if you’ve had colds this season, maybe the immune capacity for a cytokine storm is somewhat neutralized.
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    It’s not like I can’t look sideways.
  25. triplehorn
    I can imagine scenarios where hospital admission criteria might need to be tightened to save beds and vents for the sickest, and where people who would normally get hospitalized won’t. My sense is that generally docs err on the side of admission under normal circumstances when it’s debatable, but will soon have to re-focus to increase efficiency and optimize allocation of care. There are many nationwide on the frontlines of medicine who will make a big positive difference to adapt going forward.

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