COVID-19 The 7th Part: We're Gonna Be Number One Soon!

[bronconick]

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Apparently there's an experimental study at UChicago that's showing some potential. No control group yet to compare and it's not something with a huge stockpile like that nonsense Trump pushed. Been tested against SARS and MERS in animals in the past.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-remdesivir-trial/index.html

 

[mookie1995]

Mookie is going to add that with the Ohio River bordering a couple states here, one would need to include ky for any interstate commerce pact coming together. Boats would have a hard time restricting themselves to the Ohio or Indiana side, hmmm?

Kinda obvious here.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">By including Kentucky, we are telling Iowa and Dakotas things about themselves in a tone that only Upper Midwesterners can hear. <a href="https://t.co/aQvfAdWTSZ">https://t.co/aQvfAdWTSZ</a></p>— Maggie Koerth (@maggiekb1) <a href="https://twitter.com/maggiekb1/status/1250907708116500480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[LTsatch]

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Over 100 deaths in CT yesterday, new hospitalizations down to under 20, which is a good sign. Governor re-affirms the State will remain shut down until May 20.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

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Keep seeing stories posted by conservatives about how China lied and the virus is actually worse. If that’s the case, lockdowns should probably be even more stringent then, no?

It’s this weird dichotomy where we were unprepared for how dangerous it is because of bad statistics and intel, but also that it’s not dangerous enough to warrant stay-at-home measures.

 

[WisconsinWildcard]

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Apparently there's an experimental study at UChicago that's showing some potential. No control group yet to compare and it's not something with a huge stockpile like that nonsense Trump pushed. Been tested against SARS and MERS in animals in the past.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-remdesivir-trial/index.html

We are part of that trial and have enrolled a fair bit of patients. Excited to see the collected results.

 

[aparch]

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Keep seeing stories posted by conservatives about how China lied and the virus is actually worse. If that’s the case, lockdowns should probably be even more stringent then, no?

It’s this weird dichotomy where we were unprepared for how dangerous it is because of bad statistics and intel, but also that it’s not dangerous enough to warrant stay-at-home measures.

Schrödinger's Virus.

 

[Wayuphere]

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I can’t believe some are still crying about their rights being eroded because of shut downs, isolations, etc.

Fact: Your rights end when you endanger my loved ones health or my own. End quickly.....

 

[aparch]

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I'm sure Mookie or Slap could chip in with their local takes on the US response, but I took a quick Google for Australia's take. This... isn't a glowing review of the US handling of things. It IS an opinion piece, but it's a foreign opinion of the US.

This week, the Commander-in-Chief started to look like a man under pressure, responding in the best way he knows how: by picking fights.

At least when it comes to the blame-game, Mr Trump is ahead of the curve.

Highly selective, it featured clips of journalists who "minimised the risks" contrasting against a timeline of the President's most decisive moments and complete with an inspiring sound track.

But Mr Trump's own timeline featured just one entry for the entire crucial month of February.

By the White House's own measure, the only action taken in that month was on February 6: "CDC ships first testing kits".

Even to this day, the US continues to have major shortages of testing kits.

On Tuesday (local time), the President opened fire on the World Health Organisation (WHO).

...

But if the WHO is to blame for America's coronavirus woes, why does every other country on earth seem to be doing so much better than the US?

After all, every country made its own decisions based on the same information from the WHO.

But for the better part of four days, Trump projected an image of a president fighting for ownership of the politically rewarding task of reopening the economy.

His name will even be printed on the bailout cheques being sent to millions of Americans, the first time a president's name has appeared on an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disbursement.

It's quite a turnaround from four weeks ago when he said: "I don't take responsibility at all."

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Whatever happened to <br><br>“I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”<br> —<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>,<br> March 17, 2020<br><br>? <a href="https://t.co/g2EP0lY5i6">https://t.co/g2EP0lY5i6</a></p>— George Conway (@gtconway3d) <a href="https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1251029912573657090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Sweden’s strategy has lead to much higher cases than the other Nordic countries but also much higher fatality rate. Comparing it to Finland for instance was pretty drastic.

Sweden has some demographics that make them really well suited to spread the disease less, but I’m not sure it worked like they wanted

 

[SJHovey]

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Check back in two weeks with how well it's going.

In the last week North Dakota has added 124 cases. In the week before that it added 110. The week before that it added 107. I'll check, but I don't expect a huge change in the state.

As for SD, we'll see to what extent it changes. I think more than a 1000 of the state's 1300 cases come out of that one county. With the plant shut down and the workers isolated, we'll see what effect it has. I expect it will continue to increase only because Smithfield is going to try to get the plant up and running again and knows it can only do that with aggressive and comprehensive testing. Aggressive and comprehensive testing, no matter where you do it, is going to reveal a lot of cases of this virus because it's already everywhere. But I expect SD's death totals to remain relatively low.

 

[rufus]

Keep seeing stories posted by conservatives about how China lied and the virus is actually worse. If that’s the case, lockdowns should probably be even more stringent then, no?

It’s this weird dichotomy where we were unprepared for how dangerous it is because of bad statistics and intel, but also that it’s not dangerous enough to warrant stay-at-home measures.

Jhina lied in early January, but by the end of January, Trump knew all that needed to be known, and still did nothing through all of February and the first two weeks of March.

But somehow, the spread of the virus within the US is all Jhina' s fault. And the WHO. Can't leave them out.

 

[rufus]

In the last week North Dakota has added 124 cases. In the week before that it added 110. The week before that it added 107. I'll check, but I don't expect a huge change in the state.

As for SD, we'll see to what extent it changes. I think more than a 1000 of the state's 1300 cases come out of that one county. With the plant shut down and the workers isolated, we'll see what effect it has. I expect it will continue to increase only because Smithfield is going to try to get the plant up and running again and knows it can only do that with aggressive and comprehensive testing. Aggressive and comprehensive testing, no matter where you do it, is going to reveal a lot of cases of this virus because it's already everywhere. But I expect SD's death totals to remain relatively low.

Fewer than 20,000?

 

[dxmnkd316]

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In the last week North Dakota has added 124 cases. In the week before that it added 110. The week before that it added 107. I'll check, but I don't expect a huge change in the state.

As for SD, we'll see to what extent it changes. I think more than a 1000 of the state's 1300 cases come out of that one county. With the plant shut down and the workers isolated, we'll see what effect it has. I expect it will continue to increase only because Smithfield is going to try to get the plant up and running again and knows it can only do that with aggressive and comprehensive testing. Aggressive and comprehensive testing, no matter where you do it, is going to reveal a lot of cases of this virus because it's already everywhere. But I expect SD's death totals to remain relatively low.

I’m not sure you are aware, but at one point the country only has 15 cases. FIFTEEN! I’m sure it won’t change much.

 

[SJHovey]

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I’m not sure you are aware, but at one point the country only has 15 cases. FIFTEEN! I’m sure it won’t change much.

I wasn't aware of that. For some reason I recalled that we went from 12 cases to 19 cases. As I age my memory isn't what it used to be.

The country as a whole, yeah there will be some changes. But that isn't what I was talking about. North Dakota has had a total of about 400 cases. At some point in time (I'm sure you'll tell me precisely when) the US probably had about 400 cases. But if you think that because the US had 400 cases at some point and North Dakota has 400 cases now, that North Dakota is going to see 650,000+ people infected like we've seen in the US, I'm going to have to doubt you on that one.

North Dakota has 53 counties. Something like 20 of them don't even have a case, and another dozen have had exactly one. The experience in individual states or areas will not be the same as in other individual states or areas, or the country as a whole.

 

[geezer]

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Apparently there's an experimental study at UChicago that's showing some potential. No control group yet to compare and it's not something with a huge stockpile like that nonsense Trump pushed. Been tested against SARS and MERS in animals in the past.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-remdesivir-trial/index.html

I'm pretty sure I read about this treatment showing very promising trials in Japan in March. I should have bought Gilead stock back then.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Mookie is going to add that with the Ohio River bordering a couple states here, one would need to include ky for any interstate commerce pact coming together. Boats would have a hard time restricting themselves to the Ohio or Indiana side, hmmm?

Kinda obvious here.

Since the Ohio flows into the Mississippi at Cairo, you're gonna have to rethink your hypothesis to explain why IA, MO, TN, AR, LA, and MS aren't part of it then.

 

[geezer]

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It drives me nuts when provincial knuckleheads who have never seen a map write of the lower (southern) peninsula as "northern Michigan." It tars actual yoopers with the same brush as these geniuses. North UP, South DOWN

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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It drives me nuts when provincial knuckleheads who have never seen a map write of the lower (southern) peninsula as "northern Michigan." It tars actual yoopers with the same brush as these geniuses. North UP, South DOWN

Muise, a former Marine, said he is unable to purchase firearms and ammunition under Whitmer’s order in violation of his Second Amendment rights, even though the most recent federal guidelines list firearm and ammunition stores as “critical,” according to the lawsuit.

“Due to the panic caused by the pandemic and the unemployment, loss of income, poverty, and uncertainty caused by defendant Whitmer’s executive orders, owning and possessing firearms is critically important at this time,” the lawsuit said.

Brave guy to publicly announce his wang is that small.

 

[state of hockey]

Since the Ohio flows into the Mississippi at Cairo, you're gonna have to rethink your hypothesis to explain why IA, MO, TN, AR, LA, and MS aren't part of it then.

Plus, I was just sharing a tweet I thought was a joke. (I'm not certain after seeing some of her other tweets)

Oh well, it was funny to me, guess this wasn't the place for it.