NON_POLITICAL China Coronavirus THREAD

[Kaido]

Here's how you do it:

New Zealand sets sights on coronavirus elimination after 2 weeks of lockdown

New modeling shows there's a real chance of that happening.

www.axios.com

1. New Zealand's leadership took the threat seriously. Their phrasing was "Go hard, and go early".

2. They went into full lockdown mode & banned foreign visitors.

3. There were 367 Covid-19 breaches recorded, 45 prosecutions, and people have been arrested for offenses like obstruction of a person assisting a medical officer, or being in breach of the Civil Defense Emergency Management Act. They are not only taking it seriously with lip service, but with actual enforcement.

4. Their leader sat down in a sweatshirt on Facebook Live & took the time to tell kids that the Easter bunny was still coming, but might be delayed. I think showing her human side is A+ during a crisis, especially one that involves so many children. Over 1.5 billion children are currently out of school.

5. The entire country has recorded exactly one (1) death due to COVID-19.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

The corporate media has y'all well conditioned into groupthink.

Good doggies.

 

[shortylickens]

The corporate media has y'all well conditioned into groupthink.

Good doggies.

Could you be more specific?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Could you be more specific?

Mask, goggles, gloves ... remove so you can see more clearly the indoctrination to sell masks, goggles, gloves, pills, media ad spots ....

Good doggie.

 

[Muse]

Stanford launching antibody detection study, the hypothesis being that California has some herd immunity by virtue of covid-19 circulating in CA since the Fall!

Study investigates if COVID-19 came to Calif. in fall 2019

Researchers at Stanford Medicine are working to find out what proportion of Californians have already had COVID-19. The new study could help policymakers make more informed decisions during the coronavirus pandemic.

www.sfgate.com

 

[CZroe]

Mask, goggles, gloves ... remove so you can see more clearly the indoctrination to sell masks, goggles, gloves, pills, media ad spots ....

Good doggie.

Many mask makers are donating masks. Everyone being compelled to produce masks would probably prefer to have never had to shut down their money-makers.

There is no mask/gloves/goggles kingpin. Corporations are generally making significantly less in this virus outbreak and ensuing economic shutdown, not more. What good is all this "corporate media" steering us toward masks and such if they don't even stand poised with supply?

The media is telling us to make our own masks. Corporations don't make money off of home-made masks.

There is no pill.

Good overly-suspicious doggie.

 

[Muse]

The corporate media has y'all well conditioned into groupthink.

Good doggies.

Nice. Do I get a bone now?

 

[Muse]

Mask, goggles, gloves ... remove so you can see more clearly the indoctrination to sell masks, goggles, gloves, pills, media ad spots ....

Good doggie.

Dood, you're coming off as a fool and a half.

 

[rh71]

300 sounds at most like a weeks worth of food.

We are a family of 4 and don't spend more than 200 a week...

 

[mopardude87]

place above boiling water for 10 mins and or in the oven at 158F for 30 mins. Even tho your sick in the brain, ill share that info with you.


wow cool you hope people get the virus on par with your other idiotic posts about almost fucking each other in line at walmart etc etc. wonder whats wrong with your brain that you have to think like you do.

It's called ranting, also i got issues with organized religion. I saw a good friend suffer from a type of coma resulting from a heart attack where he was in pain and suffering. He was brain dead and of course catholics HAVE to die of natural cases. His family insisted he suffer for nearly 2 weeks. I got other stories but yeah that sets the tone.

You and your congregation are making a call for idk possibly hundreds of people if just a few get the virus then it spreads? 70 usa cases at least so i heard on March 4th turned into what i last saw was 400k? You heard the story about the funeral? One person went sick, a bunch got sick and a few even died. From a funeral not even kidding, think churchs are immune to this?

It's ALL over the news, why simple guidelines are so hard to follow is beyond me. Last i checked 252 cases in my county, its public knowledge yet people just do the same. It's beyond frustrating and sure my rants get a bit out there but you have to see things to understand.

 

[Kaido]

Thank you, COVID-19, to bringing me back to the days of tech support via telephone. Working from home is one thing, but doing support over the phone for 8 hours a day...whew!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Thank you, COVID-19, to bringing me back to the days of tech support via telephone. Working from home is one thing, but doing support over the phone for 8 hours a day...whew!

Oh man I don't miss that.

User running Windows 98, me at work, on XP, trying to recall things from 98. "You should see something that says network neighbourhood, right click on that, now read me what it says".

I always wanted to set up VMs of different OSes but really we just didn't have the resources for that. Our machines barely ran the host OS lol.

 

[echo4747]

Stanford launching antibody detection study, the hypothesis being that California has some herd immunity by virtue of covid-19 circulating in CA since the Fall!

Study investigates if COVID-19 came to Calif. in fall 2019

Researchers at Stanford Medicine are working to find out what proportion of Californians have already had COVID-19. The new study could help policymakers make more informed decisions during the coronavirus pandemic.

www.sfgate.com

Interesting and makes sense.. The results cant come soon enough

 

[Muse]

Interesting and makes sense.. The results cant come soon enough

I am in CA and came down with something in November that took unusually long to recover from. It was far from severe and AFAIK did not entail a fever. However I heard that fever isn't always a symptom of covid-19 infection. I'd love to have an antibody test for this. If positive, I could get out of the house! Dang!!!

 

[rh71]

So all this anti-body testing will directly lead to a cure or what...?

 

[K1052]

So all this anti-body testing will directly lead to a cure or what...?

No but it is useful for other reasons.

1) Scientists can get a real gauge on the outbreak. Have 3% of the population been infected or 15%? Nobody knows.

2) Recovered people who test positive for antibodies should not be a danger to anybody else as they'll have some level of immunity. They can work high risk areas without being in danger or a threat to the non infected.

3) It is relatively easy to scale into many millions of tests over time and will relieve pressure on molecular testing. Also it is much faster than most of those platforms (15 minutes versus hours or days to get PCR results back from overburdened labs). The downside is that it takes a few days for antibodies to be detectable and quality of all the tests coming to market needs to be quantified.

4) Donors for convalescent plasma can be recruited more easily. This is a labor intensive treatment to utilize but will be required for the rest of the year (at least) until antibody drugs and other therapeutics demonstrate efficacy.

 

[Kaido]

Oh man I don't miss that.

User running Windows 98, me at work, on XP, trying to recall things from 98. "You should see something that says network neighbourhood, right click on that, now read me what it says".

I always wanted to set up VMs of different OSes but really we just didn't have the resources for that. Our machines barely ran the host OS lol.

I just spent 15 minutes trying to help a user download Teamviewer on their home machine just to get me connected so that I could see what they were doing lol.

They kept insisting on using the search bar instead of the address bar, but their browser had so many crappy extensions that it had hijacked their search engine & wasn't taking them to where they needed to go. Then walk them through antivirus approval then UAC to run etc. Feels like I'm 19 all over again hahaha

 

[purbeast0]

 

[Mai72]

The corporate media has y'all well conditioned into groupthink.

Good doggies.

Watch this Spanish flu documentary and get back to us. It has nothing to do with corporate media, but has to do with keeping yourself safe from illness. If you don't think COVID-19 is a big threat that is your problem. I'm making the decision to wear a mask just like I would to wear a seat belt. Those decisions are in my control. That is my decision, and not corporate media.

 

[Mai72]

I just spent 15 minutes trying to help a user download Teamviewer on their home machine just to get me connected so that I could see what they were doing lol.

They kept insisting on using the search bar instead of the address bar, but their browser had so many crappy extensions that it had hijacked their search engine & wasn't taking them to where they needed to go. Then walk them through antivirus approval then UAC to run etc. Feels like I'm 19 all over again hahaha

lol, did they have Yahoo as an extension. I haeted when I'd download something and I'd have Yahoo search take over everything.

 

[mrblotto]

I've had to walk/talk 3 customers thru backing up their data (oh, and there's a write-to-USB block policy enabled too), create the Win10 Boot media, install/setup Win10, install all the apps, and restore their data. Everything after the build I can remote in to do, but dang...........taking almost twice as long vs. 'hands on'

Anyhow, I'm still interested on the bail out bill that companies get (if they participate). I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around '....the company must keep 90% of their employees at the time of acceptance...' and I still am wondering if fulroughed employees actually count towards that.....I'm betting they dont. Which means a company can agree to the bailout/whatever, then furlough a bunch of people :/

 

[K1052]

Anyhow, I'm still interested on the bail out bill that companies get (if they participate). I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around '....the company must keep 90% of their employees at the time of acceptance...' and I still am wondering if fulroughed employees actually count towards that.....I'm betting they dont. Which means a company can agree to the bailout/whatever, then furlough a bunch of people :/

I think it's required to recall the furloughed workers and have them on payroll at acceptance of the cash, at least for the loan to qualify for forgiveness. I only skimmed the provisions so I could be mistaken.

 

[brainhulk]

I wonder if swabbing the inside of your nose with povidone iodine (betadine) ointment would block these suckas

Inactivation of SARS coronavirus by means of povidone-iodine, physical conditions and chemical reagents - PubMed

The efficacy of several povidone-iodine (PVP-I) products, a number of other chemical agents and various physical conditions were evaluated for their ability to inactivate the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Treatment of SARS-CoV with PVP-I products for 2 min reduced the...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Treatment of SARS-CoV with PVP-I products for 2 min reduced the virus infectivity from 1.17 x 10(6) TCID(50)/ml to below the detectable level.

 

[CZroe]

I wonder if swabbing the inside of your nose with povidone iodine (betadine) ointment would block these suckas

Inactivation of SARS coronavirus by means of povidone-iodine, physical conditions and chemical reagents - PubMed

The efficacy of several povidone-iodine (PVP-I) products, a number of other chemical agents and various physical conditions were evaluated for their ability to inactivate the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Treatment of SARS-CoV with PVP-I products for 2 min reduced the...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Careful. Iodine is deadly.

 

[paperfist]

Thank you, COVID-19, to bringing me back to the days of tech support via telephone. Working from home is one thing, but doing support over the phone for 8 hours a day...whew!

Anyone using their CD-ROM drives as a coffee cup holder?