Yeah, my wife. No, I didn't know that before I married her.
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Yeah, my wife. No, I didn't know that before I married her.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...lab-experimented-coronavirus-source-bats.html
If true, this challenges the popular assertion that the coronavirus pandemic was not a laboratory-involved outbreak.
Won’t stop people from asserting it ?
Give her a fist bump for me.
If they made Old Bay-flavored jelly beans, I would simul-eat them with the popcorn flavored ones and die a happy man.
They make novelty flavored jelly beans including vomit and baby wipes, to name just a couple examples. They taste as bad as you think they would.
Now the fun part- if you work with someone who keeps a little bowl of regular jelly beans on their desk, mix a few of them in when that person is watching. Just a few, doesn't have to be a lot.
Now the fun part- if you work with someone who keeps a little bowl of regular jelly beans on their desk, mix a few of them in when that person is watching. Just a few, doesn't have to be a lot.
Influenza affects a much older population, and over a longer period of time, not over what at the peak has been a couple of weeks. The death toll being this low is precisely because we shut down everything. Things are starting to go back to normal, but the hospitals have been very overwhelmed around where I work. We've had nurses, and medics die, that outright never would have died from a flu. Guaranteed more medics and nurses will die from this then firefighters have died on 9/11. Shutting shit down was the right call, I cannot imagine how much worse our workload would be if we didn't.
You spelled 'douche' wrong there bud.
I watched my father die in front of me, coding out, in a hospital, because doctors missed something they probably shouldn't have. I know a thing or two about the infallibility of the practice of medicine. Who has the moral high ground now?
If you're so sure of your analysis being better than that guy's, have you reached out to him and told him you've run his numbers and they don't match up?
mokdaa@uw.edu
There's his e-mail address. Fire away. Please let us know what he says.
He’s being disingenuous when he says he doesn’t know why we flattened the curve. It was because when we overcome our healthcare system with an unflattened curve people that would have been hospitalized and recovered would instead die due to lack of care, exploding the fatality rate.
When that happened, you think people would still be going out to restaurants? There’d be a real freak going on.
His idea of getting the resistant infected first, then working your up, makes real sense. Problem is with when kids get home from school each day.
I had the idea that we send all children off to summer camp for six weeks, to let them get their herd immunity.
What the actual fuck are you talking about?
How would you know who is "resistant"? This thing has killed kids and otherwise healthy adults with no common factor that is yet understood. You're rolling the dice with people's lives if you deliberately expose people to illness, particularly with the knowledge that they have no immunity. This isn't the 19th century, and you will not have my children for your hunger games.
Aggressive testing and tracing to allow us to get at least portions of the economy back online. Continue developing treatments and vaccines. Getting a senior politician to STFU about unproven malaria medications would be nice; it's counterproductive.
Oh, and Happy Easter to you who recognize it. Happy Sunday to the rest.
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Or does that mean I'm part of the Popcorn Mafia? Because if so, I probably should be getting a check, and I'll need to look into that.
First, there isn’t going to be a covid summer camp for kids.
Second, when we open up the economy, it is going to continue its crawl through the population, hopefully slowly, but likely inexorably. Until we get herd immunity or a vaccine.
The question is, how much control over that process do we want to exert? I’m with you 100% on testing and tracing, PPE, etc.
Are you suggesting closed schools until a vaccine?
I don't disagree. However, I think we can and should exert plenty of control by keeping reasonable measures in place (e.g. distance between restaurant tables & bar stools, and in the checkout line, continue encouraging masks, voluntary quarantine, and hand washing). Again- aggressively testing and contact tracing known cases and quarantining hot spots if/when they crop up will go a long way toward minimizing future peaks until some combination of vaccination, treatment, and immunity from previous infection can be achieved.
It's not perfect, but it's better than either a.) Releasing all restraint, or 2.) Remaining locked down for months.
What taxi said. We cannot continue social distancing forever. We cannot stop the spread even with social distancing. Some young/healthy people will die and that’s tragic. They will also be outliers. How many lives have been saved due to the reduction in traffic fatalities due to shelter in place orders? Does that justify extending the orders?
The virus is here. It’s not going away until we get a vaccine or herd immunity. We cannot continue the current social distancing long enough to get a vaccine or herd immunity. With those facts in mind, we need to move forward minimizing loss of life and reopening the economy.