I’m shocked we are doing so bad at this
We are an embarrassment to the world
I’m shocked we are doing so bad at this
We are an embarrassment to the world
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
Welp, my wife's mother and step-father both tested positive this morning after running mild fevers overnight. Last saw them June 28. But my sister-in-law lives with them and she baby sat for us last week..... And of course I saw my 65 year old parents yesterday....
This is the kind of thing we all worry about. Hope they come through with just a mild version of COVID.
My in-laws are in their late 80s and up until recently have been scrupulous about self-isolating. But they have started getting careless. One of them reported a fever and headache last night. She goes to the hospital once a month for a gamma globulin infusion. Sometimes that makes her feel sick for a day or two. She went in for it last week. Hopefully, that's all that is going on.
Last edited by nsacpi; 07-13-2020 at 09:56 AM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
The WH surely forced Fauci to downplay the danger back in the spring and he capitulated early reports in order to stay on the team. Now the WH is attacking him when they have wildly wrong been wrong much more.
OO has zero loyalty to anyone if he thinks a knife in their back will help him.
FFF - BB, BB, 2B, HR, 2B, HR, 1B, BB, BB, 1B, BB, BB, HR
Remember when tehteh, our resident expert on virology, tried to explain to all of us morons how herd immunity worked?
Shockingly, it looks like he is probably wrong, and there will be very little natural herd immunity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ohP?li=BBnb7Kz
Oh wait, it's not shocking at all that he's wrong, and he will simply ignore the facts when he moves onto his next bit of pseudo-science babble.
However, it looks like mild cases of covid result in very short lived immunity. This leads people to assume that all the asymptomatic covid infections lead to immune individuals.
That assumption is the linchpin of the herd immunity idea, and if that proves incorrect these folks are going to find some other pseudo-science to hang their hats on.
Usual suspects still proving they don't know anything
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...-term-immunity
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wir...er-t-cells/amp
Keep up crazy and stick to exporting data from baseball sites.
Last edited by thethe; 07-13-2020 at 12:42 PM.
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
Looked it up...
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ho...ronicle/browse
Today: 3 deaths
Yesterday (Sunday): 39 Deaths
11th: 4 deaths
10th: 11 deaths
9th: 5 deaths
8th: 10 deaths
7th: 6 deaths
Of the deaths in paper yesterday, 10 were in the last week, 24 were before last week (some all the way back in June), and 5 are unknown.
ETA... I tried to look at more Sundays to compare numbers, but wouldn't let me go back that far. Each death had a small paragraph... "43 pages" is a total exaggeration
Last edited by msstate7; 07-13-2020 at 01:11 PM.
One of those is almost two months old. The other says such things as -
"That research hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet. And it’s a small study, Farber notes, with plenty of uncertainty; ruling out cross-reactivity entirely is a difficult task. “I think you need really big cohort studies to assess that this is possible,” she says. And in any case, back to that original caveat: Nothing about the results says that a T cell response alone confers immunity to Covid-19. But to Buggert, it demonstrates the importance of looking beyond antibodies alone when investigating potential immunity."
Fact is, we don't KNOW herd immunity is an option. We just don't. Not yet.
The article which was 2 months old is to show that the belief the body can launch an effective immune response without traditional antibodies was in the public space for a duration of the discussion on this forum.
I suppose berd immunity could end up not working but that woild go against effectively all known history so I'm comfortable not jumping into that panic narrative.