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  1. 3 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    I see a LOT of old people.  And I’ve never heard more say ‘they kind of dropped the ball on this one huh?’

    This was the first time I saw cracks.  Not saying it means much but it is the first time any critique of Trump or his admin by more than 1-2 olds I deal with.  

    "they" doesn't mean the same thing to them as it does to you.

    The kindest interpretation of "they" (for them) would be the federal bureaucracy that is stonewalling our fine president from taking real pinpoint action like the go getter he is.  The not so kind versions include conspiracies, the Chinese, DOD,  the black crusaders, Dems, teenage acne, etc. ..basically anybody besides The Pres and anyone else with an R by their name.

    There are no cracks, this is a circling of the wagons and assigning blame to the usual bogeymen.

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  2. So hard to imagine a more conducive covid 19 petri dish than a rock climbing gym.

    Asymptomatic carriers aged 10-30?  Check.

    Bodily fluids all over the place?  Check

    Hard surfaces touched by hands and feet? Check.

    Indoors? Check 

    So those are out for awhile.

    Anybody keeping their game sharp in other ways?

  3. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Short update on international travel: daughter is at the Montreal airport now, waiting on her flight.  She was the only person going through security.  The only one going through customs.   And at least as of a little while ago, the only one at her gate.  A classmate flew to LGA yesterday and was the only passenger on her flight.

    I wonder if they are making them sit in coach.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Player said:

     


    Brisket , you’re genuinely a good egg, and your heart is definitely in the right place.

    But who told you it was your burden to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders?

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    That you recognize this undue stress that you’re suffering from as a psychosis is probably a good thing.

    Continue doing what you can for your fellow man, but don’t forget to take care of yourself too. The oxygen masks have figuratively deployed. Be sure to put yours on before you pass out while trying to help others.

    You’ve got some extra stuff on your plate that many aren’t contending with, so I’m sending good thoughts your way.

    This too shall pass.

     

    ..but would be a lot easier with some toilet paper, am I right?

  5. 1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:

    I didn't challenge that it originated in a wet-market, so I'm not sure what you mean. I agree the wet-markets are a problem and have an increased possibility of allowing new viruses to jump to humans. Again, I really don't know that you and I disagree on anything here. I'm not saying you can't blame China for how it handled everything. Hell, I'm saying you should. I'm just saying calling China the sole cause is misguided. Other countries have similar markets and practices that can allow new viruses to jump to humans. Our country isn't perfect in this regard either. A lot of entities contributed to this getting as bad as it appears to be, not just China. 

    During all of this I have been following Dr. Michael Osterholm of CIDRAP.  The sequencing of this virus,he says, lends itself to a high probability of animal to human jump and is even able to opine on likely suspect animals.  Now that is out of the way.

    CIDRAP is also following some other nastiness out there like Chronic Wasting Disease which presently is found mostly in deer and does not have the capability to jump to humans...yet. 

    God help us if this ever jumps and we are not prepared for it.  But US and A would be ground zero.  So my hope is this crisis, once it settles down, will be a warning about what we need to do in the future, especially when it comes to international cooperation.

    About CWD:

    Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects several cervid species: deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer, and moose. CWD was first identified in 1967 in a captive mule deer living in a Colorado research facility. In 1981, CWD was detected for the first time in a wild cervid. Since these initial detections, CWD has been identified in 26 states and three Canadian provinces. It has also been detected in Finland, Norway, South Korea, and Sweden.

    CWD is believed to be transmitted horizontally (i.e., animal-to-animal contact) through infectious bodily fluids such as saliva, urine, and feces. Once excreted into the environment, CWD prions can persist for years and withstand extremely high levels of disinfectants such as heat, radiation, and formaldehyde. CWD prions also are capable of binding to certain plants, with the ability to be transported while still remaining infectious. CWD is increasing in cervids as more animals come into contact with infectious prions, usually via direct contact with an infected cervid and its bodily fluids, although viable CWD prions in the environment can also infect animals. As more cervids become infected, the frequency of these exposures and subsequent environmental contamination grows. Evidence also suggests that vertical transmission (i.e., parent to offspring) can occur, although its overall impact on the ecology of CWD is not entirely understood at this time.

    Since CWD is now an established wildlife disease in North America, proactive steps, where possible, should be taken to limit transmission of CWD among animals and reduce the potential for human exposure. Although CWD has not yet been found to cause infections in humans, numerous health agencies have taken the stance that people should not be consuming CWD-positive animals. Since 1997, the World Health Organization has recommended that agents of any prion disease should not enter the human food chain. Likewise, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Canada, and multiple provincial and state health and natural resources agencies recommend that people should not consume the meat of an animal found to be positive for CWD.

    Given the typical ten year or longer incubation period of prion-associated conditions, improving public health measures now to prevent human exposure to CWD prions and to further understand the potential risk to humans may reduce the likelihood of an event like bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).  

  6. 48 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    During Cuomo's speech, CNN showed NY State with over 7500 cases?  Whoa.  Worldometer is only reporting 3,086 for NY and a little over 9k for the whole US. 

    Did this thing start exploding overnight?

    Heard on NPR yesterday that there was some kind of backlog of those already tested and that numbers were going to be out of whack even for an exponential curve due to batch reporting...allegedly. 

  7. 1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    I read that study yesterday and I don't think they allowed for any improvement in the ventilator or available beds/icu situations over time, nor did they consider the discovery of proven intermediate mitigating drug cocktails etc.  I'm not saying they should have, but those improvements are going to happen to one degree or another to lessen the worst case scenarios.

    Additionally, the second wave assumptions seem pretty dire considering we will have just been doing this for months already.  Still pretty bad though.

  8. 7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

     

     

     

    No underlying conditiojns, except fucking asthma. I'm sorry, but that's not an "oh by the way" issue as it pertains to this.

     

     

    No shit. There have been startlingly few deaths around the globe for people below 50, and most of them have had some sort of underlying issue. But hey, maybe fucking Dallas is going to roll out the first outliers to blow the numbers up. I'm also sure that forgetting to discuss their scorching meth habit or coke problem, or just a little jogging asthma didn't matter at all. 

     

    We did have the 45 year old guy in Louisiana, too.  Surly sleuths sussed it out that he is possibly struggling with a weight problem (from pics) and  was treated with copious amounts of Ibuprofen initially- a possible no no.

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