JohnLocke

The logistics of opening are a nightmare. I don't think there are any real villains here, but those who are insisting we open up should answer these questions. They just haven't thought it through. I'd like to see us open, but it's just not that simple. Opening where it is just teachers babysitting your kid doing online work while trying to teach online themselves is just not a good option, but it appears to be where we are headed.

Well, that's extra horrifying. Thanks for spoiling my day. spider eating a possum, in case you were wondering.

Dr. Fauci throws out the first pitch. An instant classic:

It's good that a guy like Dr. Risch is speaking out; it will have an effect. I'd hope they fast-tract some studies on Ivermectin. Those Broward results were really good.

I'd love to see this turn into something; surprisingly little info out there on it.

Yeah, I don't get why people are so closed minded about this. Good video, thanks. It's not just the fringe medical community on this. Here's a Yale epidemiologist saying widespread use could save tens of thousands of lives in the U.S.: https://www.foxnews.com/media/hydroxychloroquine-could-save-lives-ingraham-yale-professor We need something better, but HCQ is safe, and appears to be the best we've got right now to take on an outpatient basis.

Look, the cops didn't shoot anybody, so everyone is way ahead of the game.

Conversation in Chinese construction company board room: "We can't meet our schedule because we can't get enough cement for the concrete!" "We can meet our schedule and save millions if we use 10% clay in place of cement!!" "That's a great plan...nobody will every know..........unless.........well, we don't have time to worry about that"

I admit to a bias here. I'd like to believe there is a low cost, safe, readily available drug that I can take to help keep me out of the hospital if I get covid. However, I do live in reality, and if HCQ doesn't help, so be it. But I'm tired of people dismissing it based on studies that appear to be designed to fail.

Granted, it failed to show the effectiveness of HCQ, but it did not prove that it doesn't work either. It isn't being reported that more studies are needed to draw conclusions. It is being reported that it HCQ isn't effective. It did NOT show that. You can't design a study that will give you statistically insignificant results, and then claim you have proven something. The last criticism I have of this study is that it didn't go past 14 days. As for Zinc, the claim is that HCQ opens up pathways to the cell, and makes it more effective. A totally different study would be needed to prove or disprove that. That's really the starting point. Not a study that uses HCQ by itself.

Thanks, I get it now. After a quick read through, here's the problems I see with the study. First, already mentioned, no zinc with the hydroxychloriquine. Everyone claiming good results with hydroxychloriquine gives it with zinc, and a very specific form. Second, they started the study with the intent of measuring hospitalizations and deaths. The good news was that the hospitalization rate was much lower than expected, but it was so low that the sample size was too low to give statistically significant results. They calculated they needed a sample size of 6000 people to give valid results but they had fewer than 500. So they switched midstream to the much more subjective measure of overall symptom severity. In those taking hydroxychloriquine, they had 4 hospitalizations and 1 death. In those taking the placebo, they had 10 hospitalizations, (2 of which were not Covid) and 1 death. So taking hydroxychloriquine cut the hospitalization rate in half, but the sample size was too small to have statistical significance. A few tantalizing clues that hydroxychloriquine helped those that need it most-the biggest reduction in symptom severity occurred in those over 50, but that was only 23% of the participants-too few to draw conclusions. I don't see this study disproves the effectiveness of taking hydroxychloriquine early; it just highlights the need for a bigger study with more participants who are at higher risk for hospitalization. The headline could have been "Study shows 50% reduction in hospitalizations for those taking HQC" or "No statistical significance in hospitalization and death rate for those taking HQC" Both would have been technically correct.

Only 63 people took zinc with hydroxychloroquine and 53 took it without. What we don't know is what kind they took. 220 mg Zinc sulfate is what I have seen recommended; I doubt many took that. If I read this right, those that did not take zinc reported increased severity of symptoms by 20%. For a frame of reference that's about the difference between the 18-35 age group vs. the over 50 age group. Vitamin C had an even bigger effect. It's frustrating to me that all of these studies just seem designed to not really test what some doctors are touting. Hydroxychoroquine, zinc, & Vitamin C. It just seems to me that you need to do something before you arrive at the hospital, because at that point, a good number of people are screwed. At the least, I don't see any downside to that regimen.

The doctors that swear by hydroxychloroquine say that it acts in concert with zinc. So why no zinc in this study?

Is that a suggestion or an update. That's Round Rock's plan, but I don't think AISD has announced that.

They have been planning since May at least. The reason it seems like they haven't is just nobody has a solution that includes social distancing and contact tracing that will make anyone happy. We've been repeatedly told by "experts" that the most risk is from being in a crowded indoor space for long periods of time i.e., a classroom. Is it any wonder teachers are worried? Oversimplifying, It just kind of boils down to it's business as usual, or you go virtual. When you try to combine social distancing, contact tracing, daily well checks, and a significant number of teachers who are very concerned about putting themselves at risk, the logistics just get overwhelming, and you realize you will just be opening and closing constantly. Nobody is happy with the schools because there is no good answer. We were told summer and heat would mitigate the effect of the virus. That didn't happen. Will it be worse in the fall/winter? Nobody knows.

Or New York. Named after the Duke of York, who founded a slave trading company. When's the city and state get a new name?

Football used to be a place to escape politics. Now it's gone all cloak room too. Ugg.

I just can't see any scenario where this turns out well. Most people don't really care what buildings are named and such. But caving to a list of demands will set a bad precedent and in and of itself be divisive. It's not that I even care that much about the Eyes of Texas, but most folks like the tradition and are saying to themselves. "When the heck did that become racist". Giving a set % of revenue to BLM will be a non-starter for many folks and will be extremely controversial since the money actually goes to ActBlue which mainly goes to democrat campaigns. Controversy just isn't good for recruiting or programs. I'm all on board for police reform, but I'm sorry this has played out this way.

Thnx, I like a good revenge movie.