Official Thread: Coronavirus "COVID-19"

[Munkus]

My work just handed out black bandanas to use as masks.

I have a job at a bank today.


See ya'll in 5-10 years

They should've included cowboy hats to make the outfit really work.

[acroig]

They should've included cowboy hats to make the outfit really work.

, SMH....

[Higgy10]

My work just handed out black bandanas to use as masks.

I have a job at a bank today.


See ya'll in 5-10 years

wtf, im surprised they didnt give you a black vest to go with it

ive got a few spare n95 masks still in the package if you want them

[Lazy8s]

wtf, im surprised they didnt give you a black vest to go with it

ive got a few spare n95 masks still in the package if you want them

Thanks Higgy - I still have a whole package of n-95s. I just thought it was hilarious when we got those.

[Crawdaddy79]

So, something that bothered me in the beginning when stories of young people dying from this thing, was that many of them were dying on the kitchen or living room floor. It didn't make sense... No 911 call, no dying in their sleep... Just dropping dead.

They're finding that the virus causes blood to clot and it ends up causing strokes in people who are otherwise handling the disease well.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/health/strokes-coronavirus-young-adults/index.html

Drink plenty of water, kids. Increased alcohol consumption during this lockdown phase may be contributing to this demographic's death count.

[MaxSt]

Coronavirus updates: Nearly 14% of New Yorkers tested positive for antibody, Cuomo says

That's a LOT!

[Higgy10]

saskatchewan is planning a phased reopening on may 3. There in good shape tho(326 cases, 261 recovered, 4 dead)

still we should all move to nunavut(no cases)

[Greasy]

Coronavirus updates: Nearly 14% of New Yorkers tested positive for antibody, Cuomo says

That's a LOT!

That's nuts! No wonder this spread so fast. People walking around with it, and having no idea.

[shrike126]

That's nuts! No wonder this spread so fast. People walking around with it, and having no idea.

It's hard to judge if this is 3,000 people sampled across all of NYC? Which is roughly 8M people? At a 14% exposure rate that suggests over 1M people in the NYC area have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus?

That's good? I think? If that is an accurate measure, and there isn't something self-selecting about those tested for antibodies.

[koralis]

That's good? I think? If that is an accurate measure, and there isn't something self-selecting about those tested for antibodies.

The more people that are infected and not laid-up/dead the better the news. Eventually that won't be 14%, it'll be 85%.... it's just a matter of time. If the hospitalization rate is low, that's wonderful news. How they chose the people is less important to my mind than the ratio of exposed/hospitalized.

[xCLAVEx]

The more people that are infected and not laid-up/dead the better the news. Eventually that won't be 14%, it'll be 85%.... it's just a matter of time. If the hospitalization rate is low, that's wonderful news. How they chose the people is less important to my mind than the ratio of exposed/hospitalized.

Problem is the virus has already mutated 30 times, they could very likely catch it again. This is going to be a year round virus, the likes of which similar to the common cold (which you can also catch year round) only much more severe.

I hope that out of this whole virus fiasco that businesses finally learn not to make people who are genuinely sick (not just with covid-19) come into work sick and infect everybody else.

[MaxSt]

Quote: "3,000 New Yorkers over two days in 19 counties at 40 locations that included grocery and big-box stores."

The number is even higher in NYC proper, 21.2%:

https://www.6sqft.com/new-york-covid-antibody-test-preliminary-results/

[koralis]

Problem is the virus has already mutated 30 times, they could very likely catch it again. This is going to be a year round virus, the likes of which similar to the common cold (which you can also catch year round) only much more severe.

I've said that since the very beginning, but it doesn't matter a whole lot. If 90% of the people exposed show no symptoms, then it doesn't matter if they get exposed to a new strain that they're still going to shrug off.

Granted a different strain might not get caught/stopped the way they did the first time, but it's promising.

[xCLAVEx]

I've said that since the very beginning, but it doesn't matter a whole lot. If 90% of the people exposed show no symptoms, then it doesn't matter if they get exposed to a new strain that they're still going to shrug off.

Granted a different strain might not get caught/stopped the way they did the first time, but it's promising.

But they didn't show symptoms to the strain they caught, not the new ones that mutated. They could now catch it and show symptoms, similar to how different cold strains affect people differently when you sometimes have mild colds and more severe colds.

Basically, just because they got off easy the first time doesn't mean the next time they catch it they won't get hid hard.

[Crawdaddy79]

I am no microbiologist, but it seems to me that if you're naturally immune to it, you would be positive on the antibody test regardless of whether you've been exposed.

[MaxSt]

I am no microbiologist, but it seems to me that if you're naturally immune to it, you would be positive on the antibody test regardless of whether you've been exposed.

Yet the numbers are very different in different locations.

Much higher in urban areas like NYC.

[shrike126]

I am no microbiologist, but it seems to me that if you're naturally immune to it, you would be positive on the antibody test regardless of whether you've been exposed.

I don't understand how someone would naturally be immune to it. I don't think this is a virus anyone has ever been exposed to before to generate any natural immunity.

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtP-QPv39kg

[bob saget]

Have you guys followed the situation happening in Meridian yesterday? absolutely ludicrous some people...

https://www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/news/citydesk/meridian-woman-arrested-protesting-closure-of-playground-equipment-due-to-covid-19-concerns/article_36c34b1d-9d21-5d5f-854a-d581394c64be.html

full video of what happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2QdPn0CC4I&feature=youtu.be

that evening they gathered outside officer's home

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/g69sul/protesters_gather_outside_of_officers_home/

[globalist]

Have you guys followed the situation happening in Meridian yesterday? absolutely ludicrous some people...

https://www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/news/citydesk/meridian-woman-arrested-protesting-closure-of-playground-equipment-due-to-covid-19-concerns/article_36c34b1d-9d21-5d5f-854a-d581394c64be.html

full video of what happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2QdPn0CC4I&feature=youtu.be

that evening they gathered outside officer's home

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...officers_home/

And this is why we can't have nice things...

[YellowBeard]

Have you guys followed the situation happening in Meridian yesterday? absolutely ludicrous some people...

https://www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/news/citydesk/meridian-woman-arrested-protesting-closure-of-playground-equipment-due-to-covid-19-concerns/article_36c34b1d-9d21-5d5f-854a-d581394c64be.html

full video of what happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2QdPn0CC4I&feature=youtu.be

that evening they gathered outside officer's home

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...officers_home/

Just a reminder that the Bundys were the assholes behind the Malheur Wildlife Refuge takeover a few years ago. And also an armed standoff with BLM years before that.

[Greasy]

God I hate "Karens". What a bunch of dipshits.

[shrike126]

I'm sorry to have to do this. I know I said no P&R content in Off-Topic. But on the off chance that someone we know might hear what [edit: some guy in a position of authority on public health emergencies] said and think it's a plausible cure, no... injecting disinfectant or sunlight will not cure the Covid-19 virus.

Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light ... and then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re gonna test that,” Trump said, addressing Bryan. “And then I see disinfectant, where it knocks it [coronavirus] out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”

Source: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/23/212336...virus-briefing

Also, it was previously suggested that hydroxychloroquine was showing promise as a potential treatment for the disease. This was pushed heavily by [edit: insert cable TV entertainment network here] in the U.S. as well as the [edit: some guy in a position of authority on public health emergencies]. Some studies have since shown that this might be killing people and doing zero to help patients.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...920v1.full.pdf

[edit: some guy in a position of authority on public health emergencies] has also been pushing remdesivir as a potential treatment as well. It remains to be seen if this proves to be a successful treatment, but so far the first real study seems to be proving to be less than promising.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52406261

[Greasy]

Well anyone dumb enough to try any of that can just darwin themselves. Kinda like that liberal couple that took fish tank cleaner, and the media made it out to be all Trumps fault too. Keep the P/R out of OT please.

[Crawdaddy79]

I'm sorry to have to do this. I know I said no P&R content in Off-Topic. But on the off chance that someone we know might hear what the President of the U.S. says and think it's a plausible cure, no... injecting disinfectant or sunlight will not cure the Covid-19 virus.

Most of your post is not P&R. Quoting the president, laying out what you think about the statements generally should be okay.

It's when you get to the point that you shut down all opposing opinions by (in not so many words) saying that anyone who doesn't think the same way that you do must be total idiots. That's when it gets touchy.

News that hopeful cures to the disease are not working out definitely belong in this thread.

[nutcrackr]

I inject sunlight on the daily and haven't got china flu. QED

[kytprice]

Hang on I'm going to go drink some Clorox. Be right back!

[pax]

Hes gonna kill 10 000 rednecks with that stupid **** we already have a few dead from taking fish tank cleaner ffs...

[NWR_Midnight]

I'm sorry to have to do this. I know I said no P&R content in Off-Topic. But on the off chance that someone we know might hear what the President of the U.S. says and think it's a plausible cure, no... injecting disinfectant or sunlight will not cure the Covid-19 virus.



Also, it was previously suggested that hydroxychloroquine was showing promise as a potential treatment for the disease. This was pushed heavily by Fox News in the U.S. as well as the President. Some studies have since shown that this might be killing people and doing zero to help patients.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...920v1.full.pdf

Trump's administration has also been pushing remdesivir as a potential treatment as well. It remains to be seen if this proves to be a successful treatment, but so far the first real study seems to be proving to be less than promising.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52406261

In lab tests it takes 30 minutes at 133 F to kill the virus. It takes 158 F to kill it in 5 minutes. (I am guessing this is only on surfaces) I guess you can lock yourself in your car and it might work... if you live thru it. But hey.. the virus will be dead too!

In an experiment using SARS-CoV-2 in a lab solution, increasing temperature decreased the amount of viable virus that could be detected, according to an April 2 study in the Lancet Microbe. No infectious virus remained after 30 minutes at 56° Celsius (133° Fahrenheit). And just five minutes at 70° C was enough to inactivate the pathogen.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-warm-weather-will-not-slow-covid-19-transmission

[Shapeshifter]

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-23-20-intl/h_1d2d1c2779b624b151a1f72557aabe0d

Don't eat or inject yourself with disinfectant, warns FDA commissioner

"I certainly wouldn't recommend the internal ingestion of a disinfectant," said US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, who is also a member of the White House coronavirus task force.

[SD-[Inc]]

In lab tests it takes 30 minutes at 133 F to kill the virus. It takes 158 F to kill it in 5 minutes. (I am guessing this is only on surfaces) I guess you can lock yourself in your car and it might work... if you live thru it. But hey.. the virus will be dead too!



https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...9-transmission

I am glad it can't live on my CPU core as I don't want any viruses there!

[DeathKnight]

Took a trek out to my local Target this morning. Yes, I wore a mask. They had lots of TP and paper towels, especially big packs.

[Crawdaddy79]

I am glad it can't live on my CPU core as I don't want any viruses there!

You say that, but I constantly have it in mind that while sitting right next to my tower while its folding is killing any virus that I may be expelling.

Fold for Rage3D! https://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=34050718

Took and trek out to my local Target this morning. Yes, I wore a mask. They had lots of TP and paper towels, especially big packs.

I went to Costco on Wednesday. No toilet paper, but had plenty of paper towels. Spent $600+ at that godforsaken place on mostly groceries and household items. No TVs or anything.

[Lazy8s]

Large scale human vaccine trial underway @ Oxford

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEIu62rWTWb2k7wLTjWCplKgqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowyNj6CjDyiPICMKb_xAU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

[Greasy]

Large scale human vaccine trial underway @ Oxford

https://news.google.com/articles/CAI...S&ceid=US%3Aen

Fantastic news!

[shrike126]

So does this mean UK is leading the new vaccine arms race for Covid-19?

London — In the global scramble for a COVID-19 vaccine, a select number of human trials are now under way, but it's scientists from England's University of Oxford who appear most confident that they're onto a cure. Professor Sarah Gilbert heads the Oxford team behind the potential vaccine being developed in partnership with the Jenner Institute. She's said it has an "80% chance" of success, and it could be available for wide use by the public as soon as September.

Human trials of the vaccine began Thursday in Oxford. It will be administered to 510 healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 55.

U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the government is "throwing everything" at efforts in the country to create a COVID-19 vaccine. He's pledged around $25 million in public funding for the Oxford project and an additional $27 million to research initiatives at Imperial College London. He says the U.K. is "at the front of the global effort" to find a vaccine.

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronav...ford-covid-19/

From the article. I'd still caution against getting hopes up that this will work. Vaccines generally take years if not decades to test thoroughly. And a 20% chance (they're guesstimating I'm sure) of failure is HUGE.

But it is nice to see some potential for optimism.

[Greasy]

This is dedication. They lived in the PA factory to make the raw materials to make PPE for 28 days voluntarily working 12 hour shifts. The company paid them for all 24 hours.

https://www.businessinsider.com/workers-lived-in-factory-for-month-raw-ppe-materials-2020-4

[Mahjik]

From the article. I'd still caution against getting hopes up that this will work. Vaccines generally take years if not decades to test thoroughly. And a 20% chance (they're guesstimating I'm sure) of failure is HUGE.

But it is nice to see some potential for optimism.

Even if it turns out to work some, it would be better than what we have today. It's not like we have "real" vaccine today for influenza. i.e. it doesn't stop you from getting influenza, it just helps the body learn how to fight it quicker so it can reduce the effect if you do get it. As far as medicine has come, there is still so much humans can't understand/explain about the human body. Here's to hoping a Star Trek tricorder gets developed in my lifetime to heal me without taking a shot.

[Lazy8s]

So does this mean UK is leading the new vaccine arms race for Covid-19?



From the article. I'd still caution against getting hopes up that this will work. Vaccines generally take years if not decades to test thoroughly. And a 20% chance (they're guesstimating I'm sure) of failure is HUGE.

But it is nice to see some potential for optimism.

It's better than bleach and sunshine

[MasterGoa]

This is dedication. They lived in the PA factory to make the raw materials to make PPE for 28 days voluntarily working 12 hour shifts. The company paid them for all 24 hours.

https://www.businessinsider.com/work...terials-2020-4

Not only dedication, but a strong sense of community and helping your neighbours.

The pandemic has seen thousands of such examples of selflessness across the board.

It is hard to find them through the background noise unfortunately...

[MasterGoa]

BTW did a trial not start in end of March in Seattle?