NON_POLITICAL China Coronavirus THREAD

[brianmanahan]

As much as I disliked going to laundry mats, I never once thought that I'd rather one not be there.

i've never been to one, i just refuse to live anywhere that doesn't have its own washing machine

 

[KMFJD]

proposed new airline seating post covid19

 

[sdifox]

i've never been to one, i just refuse to live anywhere that doesn't have its own washing machine

I go to laundromat when doing thick comforters and pillows. Home machines are not built for that kind of abuse.
Laudromat machines have to be properly anchored to the floor or they'll rip apart.

 

[BudAshes]

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proposed new airline seating post covid19

They should just sedate you and stuff you in the overhead bins.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

proposed new airline seating post covid19

LOL that is first-class level distance broceritops. Not sure what you're smoking.

I would kill just to not have to play the whole stupid "fight for elbow room" game of coach.

 

[Spacehead]

A woman in Erie tested positive & agreed to self isolate. But she didn't... she was seen leaving her house on more than one occasion. So she got arrested & spent a night in jail & now is back home with electronic monitoring so they'll know if she tries to leave again.
On the news they said 27 people she came in contact with have been asked to self isolate.

 

[FelixDeCat]

A woman in Erie tested positive & agreed to self isolate. But she didn't... she was seen leaving her house on more than one occasion. So she got arrested & spent a night in jail & now is back home with electronic monitoring so they'll know if she tries to leave again.
On the news they said 27 people she came in contact with have been asked to self isolate.

SMH

If I was one of those 27 people I would be pissed. Those should have left her in jail.

 

[mrblotto]

A woman in Erie tested positive & agreed to self isolate. But she didn't... she was seen leaving her house on more than one occasion. So she got arrested & spent a night in jail & now is back home with electronic monitoring so they'll know if she tries to leave again.
On the news they said 27 people she came in contact with have been asked to self isolate.

There’s a reason it’s called ‘The Mistake By the Lake’

 

[Red Squirrel]

i've never been to one, i just refuse to live anywhere that doesn't have its own washing machine

Yeah I can't fathom living like that. I don't want shared anything, or having to go somewhere for basic things like laundry. Same with not having a dishwasher. Even if I buy off grid property I'm going to have those appliances.

Only time I go to the laundromat is to wash big things like my sleeping bag and comforter as it does not really fit that well in my top load due to the agitator. I eventually want to get a super capacity front loader so doing things like sleeping bag and comforter won't be as big of an issue.

 

[shortylickens]

Apparently kids all across the country are planning to host virtual proms.
I kinda feel sorry for them. A lot of teenagers actually look forward to prom, for many of them it will be the most fun they ever have in their miserable boring lives.
I'd post links to the news but so many news sites today have multiple pop-ups and I dont wanna support that.

 

[brianmanahan]

Apparently kids all across the country are planning to host virtual proms.
I kinda feel sorry for them. A lot of teenagers actually look forward to prom, for many of them it will be the most fun they ever have in their miserable boring lives.
I'd post links to the news but so many news sites today have multiple pop-ups and I dont wanna support that.

proms are a waste, i don't get why schools pay for those or homecomings

 

[K1052]

A woman in Erie tested positive & agreed to self isolate. But she didn't... she was seen leaving her house on more than one occasion. So she got arrested & spent a night in jail & now is back home with electronic monitoring so they'll know if she tries to leave again.
On the news they said 27 people she came in contact with have been asked to self isolate.

The South Koreans put bluetooth wristbands on people who thought they'd be smart and leave their phones at home to violate isolation orders. You also apparently get in big trouble if public health officials call you and you don't answer the phone.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

proms are a waste, i don't get why schools pay for those or homecomings

When I was in high school, the school didn't pay - they made juniors raise money to pay for the prom. When I was a junior, I refused to sell any of the overpriced junk to raise money for an event I had no intention of attending. The sponsor came to me one day and actually said: "If you don't sell $x amount, your ticket will be $10 more!" I thought to myself - why don't you just charge $10 more per ticket instead of wasting time selling junk? I looked at her and said "Good luck with that - I'm not going."

But I agree with you - I didn't go to either of mine and 30+ years later, no regrets. It's one of those things where I think kids think it's a big deal at the time but once you're an adult, you realize what a waste it was.

 

[K1052]

Pfizer/BioNTech have started dosing in the US with their mRNA vaccine, compressing Phase I/II trials. If safety and efficacy results merit could be available for emergency use in the fall. Think this is the 9th or 10th vaccine to enter clinical trials so far.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1257636168172216322

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Pfizer/BioNTech have started dosing in the US with their mRNA vaccine, compressing Phase I/II trials. If safety and efficacy results merit could be available for emergency use in the fall. Think this is the 9th or 10th vaccine to enter clinical trials so far.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1257636168172216322

How exactly do patents work on vaccines? Especially when a shit ton are doing it all at once?

 

[K1052]

How exactly do patents work on vaccines? Especially when a shit ton are doing it all at once?

They can be patented like anything else. However I doubt anybody is going to do something ultra shitty like do so to jack up the price. The PR hit would be terminal and governments will just copy it anyway and tell the company to fuck right off.

Whoever wins the derby will almost certainly very quickly license production to multiple producers even if they are competitors.

 

[CZroe]

They can be patented like anything else. However I doubt anybody is going to do something ultra shitty like do so to jack up the price. The PR hit would be terminal and governments will just copy it anyway and tell the company to fuck right off.

Whoever wins the derby will almost certainly very quickly license production to multiple producers even if they are competitors.

...except not everything can be patented. It seems that they would have to develop it in a particularly novel way in order to patent it. Patents aren't just some reward for being first.

 

[snoopy7548]

Apparently kids all across the country are planning to host virtual proms.
I kinda feel sorry for them. A lot of teenagers actually look forward to prom, for many of them it will be the most fun they ever have in their miserable boring lives.
I'd post links to the news but so many news sites today have multiple pop-ups and I dont wanna support that.

Buy a blow-up doll, tape a tablet w/ webcam to the face, and there's your date!

I went to my senior prom and I didn't think it was anything special; I wouldn't have cared if I didn't go, but I'm the type of person who always hated those sorts of things. I think I just went because it was expected of me.

Though I am still bitter that the first girl I asked (and had a huge crush on), decided to go with her drop-out ex-boyfriend.

 

[Svnla]

Some Wendy locations are reportedly running out of beef, therefore, no more hamburgers for a while.

Nearly a fifth of Wendy's US restaurants are out of beef, analyst says

Stephens Inc. said its estimate is based on an analysis of online menus for every Wendy's location nationwide.

www.cnbc.com

Kroger also puts a limit on pork, beef, chicken of "2 per customer". I went to Sam's Club a few days ago and the meat section was very much out of stock. Never saw anything as bare like that before as I was a member for many years.

 

[snoopy7548]

Some Wendy locations are reportedly running out of beef, therefore, no more hamburgers for a while.

I wonder if their competition will run this commercial, with maybe a slight edit...

 

[K1052]

This would be phenomenal progress in testing if the sensitivity and specificity are as described.

The revolutionary genetic technique better known for its potential to cure thousands of inherited diseases could also solve the challenge of Covid-19 diagnostic testing, scientists announced on Tuesday. A team headed by biologist Feng Zhang of the McGovern Institute at MIT and the Broad Institute has repurposed the genome-editing tool CRISPR into a test able to quickly detect as few as 100 coronavirus particles in a swab or saliva sample.

Crucially, the technique, dubbed a “one pot” protocol, works in a single test tube and does not require the many specialty chemicals, or reagents, whose shortage has hampered the rollout of widespread Covid-19 testing in the U.S. It takes about an hour to get results, requires minimal handling, and in preliminary studies has been highly accurate, Zhang told STAT. He and his colleagues, led by the McGovern’s Jonathan Gootenberg and Omar Abudayyeh, released the protocol on their STOPCovid.science website.

STOP stands for “Sherlock Testing in One Pot.” It builds on Zhang’s 2017 CRISPR invention, called Sherlock. Like the better-known, genome-editing versions of CRISPR, Sherlock starts with a guide molecule that homes in on a specific stretch of DNA — or RNA, which constitutes the genome of the new coronavirus. An enzyme called AapCas12b, from the bacterium Alicyclobacillus acidophilus, cuts the RNA in a way that generates a fluorescent signal detectable much as home pregnancy tests detect the presence of a pregnancy-related hormone.

For STOP, the scientists targeted their guide molecule at the coronavirus’s N gene, which codes for the nucleocapsid, or shell, that encloses its genome. The PCR testdeveloped by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also targets the N gene.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/05/crispr-covid-19-test-could-be-simple-cheap-at-home-diagnostic/

Apparently all that's needed besides the kit are pipettes and to heat the samples (which they guys who developed it say could even be reliably done with a sous vide).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1257691557160943619

 

[Artorias]

The South Koreans put bluetooth wristbands on people who thought they'd be smart and leave their phones at home to violate isolation orders. You also apparently get in big trouble if public health officials call you and you don't answer the phone.

Slippery fucking slope.

 

[Brainonska511]

This would be phenomenal progress in testing if the sensitivity and specificity are as described.





https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/05/crispr-covid-19-test-could-be-simple-cheap-at-home-diagnostic/

Apparently all that's needed besides the kit are pipettes and to heat the samples (which they guys who developed it say could even be reliably done with a sous vide).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1257691557160943619

Funny that you bring this up. My spouse just watched the seminar on this the other day, as she works in a core facility at a university prepping samples for sequencing

 

[sdifox]

Slippery fucking slope.

Time limit to legislation duh

 

[NuclearNed]

ok, so this happened a few weeks ago, but I"m just now posting it-

My wife ordered vitamin D supplements from our local Walmart. When we went to pick up the order, the girl we met at the sidewalk told us that they were out of them, so she had substituted vitamin B supplements, and then asked if that was ok with us...

One vitamin is just as good as any other, amirite?