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Would you choose a lung-wrenching respirator if there were an off-label, known-to-be-safe antimalarial which has proven to be effective, at least in some cases?
I felt so much easier when the chloroquine compounds were suggested: a treatment that defeats the virus in a week or less. Do the clinical trials, of course- but if I go in with The Virus, I want the soft treatment first before I am near-death facing a respirator: I don’t care if it is “approved”.
Easter will still happen. It’s a state of mind, not a thing.Yea!
Okay- so I can’t post anything that looks like an url, and I don’t know how to link, so I’ll just say check out a site called “evolutamente”. It’s Italian, but I got linked to an english version via a Kunstler’s March 23, 2:32pm post.
The articles on covid 19 are wonderfully interesting. They say there are 103 different versions of The Virus.
Now I am going to go and figure out how to link.Seychelles: so what are the people with Lupus doing? A caller on C-span already had been told there wasn’t any for her; then there was but it would be really expensive; then they found her a two-month supply at a slightly elevated price.
Maybe no one in Texas has Lupus.
Edicts. Geez.Whither grace in the curving world
And gifts without encumbrance?
What is the path to a mind at peace
And love without remembrance?Russia:Italy. Things go ’round and ’round.
Back from my constitutional to catch the sun, and I want to edit the ditty above: dump the first apostrophe ess.
…”Of the Past and the Future’s twin towers.”
Better.Economies crashing;
The populace thrashing-
The powerful increase their powers.
A sinister mission:
Controlled demolition
Of the Past’s and the Future’s twin towers.Bosco: Someone on another site suggested we could just use baby wipes instead of TP. We need better Public Service Announcements.
Considering we were having a big uptick in chlamydia, we should even have bunch of azithromycin on hand, right?
Will clarithromycin (helicobacter fighter) also work? We should have stores of that, as well. How about other macrolides? (It’s funny- all these drug words come up with spellchecker. I’ve had to go back to my Harrison’s a couple of time to make sure I was getting them right.)
First named editor of my 14th edition? Anthony S. Fauci.Ah, daffodils! In color! Mine are four inches out of the ground at this time.
So now we have a cure. Are the four congress-types buying back in now? Or just stock in the makers of hydroxychloroquine? As black markets in it arise, will the talking heads make sure people get the message not to overdose and go blind? Deagel wants to know.
I find it interesting that we know about the shenanigans involving the Winnipeg biolab breaches and the Harvard fancy-pants guy. If I were going to be a conspiracy hypothesist, I would suggest that this was necessary for plausible deniability in the event of an accidently on-purpose release of some nasty bug here and there. They stole it (or is it them), and they didn’t know how to handle it/them like WE do. It doesn’t help that the spooks are having secret meetings about it. It doesn’t help at all.
It has been said each new war is fought with new technology. Or is it that new technology entices warmongers to start new wars?I hope they don’t cancel May- I wish I had some cammo so no one could see me as I hunt for my mushrooms- a totally solitary endeavor.
This whole thing is starting to feel like the post-Boston marathon lockdown.
This should tell me if it was content.When you got a virus
When you got a bug,
Making rich folks richer
Is better than a hug.I’m sorry. I can’t help it. I’m one of those poets who hates reading poetry but can’t seem to stop writing it.
Raul Ilargi Meijer:
I look at the daily run on The Virus as installments in a comic book series. I’m frankly addicted to them. It’s something to do during the Great Shutdown.
I went for a long walk yesterday, and the number of people strolling about amazed me. Kids (school’s closed) were doing homework on park benches. Everybody was smiling and cheerful. So far, so good.Wasn’t Boeing “just” reflecting what Lagarde said: “Do you want jobs? Or do you want savings accounts?” Boeing didn’t want savings. I’m sure it had nothing to do with pumping up their share price. Jobs! /s
It was unclear as to why jobs or savings were exclusive of each other.So, not yet, RIM. But it’s early.
Oh, nuts. My link didn’t work.
“people with blood type A most susceptible to corona virus infection…” from “medRxiv” via Tass.My fear, it doth envelop me
‘Til what I fear is all I see.I keep swinging back and forth between “This thing is terrifying” and “We’re in a simulation”.
It could be both or neither, I suppose, but I know that when I think it is terrifying, I’m numb.Oxymoron: I am optimistic. I think people will find that a shared purpose and a sense of community are pretty good substitutions for materialism.
Forced- for a while- to communicate by screen, and prohibited from contact, we will long for the good old days of face to face interactions. They will return.The roller coaster’s headed down.
The world’s all tilt-a-whirl.
They didn’t want to panic you-
Now sit. Now stay!
A squirrel!The voices of the dem candidates last night changed when they talked about The Virus, and I thought: They’re programmed! Just like the people in the press conferences; just like the media folk; just like all the politicians, local to national.
I wondered: do the numbers match the reaction? Would I buy a lottery ticket whose odds were the same as me catching The Virus? Nope.
The Virus is the perfect terrorist (a nod to “Ellis Medavoy”). Anyone can become a victim. Anyone could be the ticking bomb. We are about to have a year with summer beckoning to us, and we are stuck indoors like it’s winter.
The above post at 3:47 is one of Dr. D’s best.
Would the bad guys of the world let loose a bunch of squirrels to distract the watchdogs while the global economy (cough) reconfigured?
Of course they would.
Something ominous is afoot, and it scares me more than SARS-CoV-2.When I’m coming down with a cold I take a bath so hot as to raise my temperature to fever level.
This usually knocks the virus back so far I escape it, or cuts it back to a mere two to four days instead of ten. Fevers are good, unless they get too high.
Iceland. Hot springs. Does The Virus survive?
I wonder if the youngsters who are contracting it are asthmatics on corticosteroids? The only demographics on the stricken are age, gender, and nation. It’s pretty clear that Italy’s bug is not the same as Korea’s (or that Italians are not Koreans).
Raul Ilargi Meijer: You are a treasure. Thank-you. The check is in the mail.Biolabs and Pharma
Sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes CoV
Then comes carnage.
Then come profits in the mega-tonnage.Sorry. It’s an assonance.
Man- I sure wish there was a sarcasm font.
Not that I’d know how to use it.Meanwhile, over at yesterday’s Kunstler, a poster named “Pucker” (March 13, 2020. 6:28pm; 8:41pm) has posted bits from John M. Barry’s
“The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History” (Too long to repost.)
Scary stuff, RNA viruses. No reliable vaccines. No immunity, either.Thought experiment:
Will business deals be more or less satisfactory when face-to-face contact is restricted?
I have known business people who insist on human contact when making deals, but these people are often charming bullshitters and not particularly trusted by those who know them personally. Their charm closes the deal, not the facts or data.
If people must make a deals based on the information before them, and not the personal sway of the handshaker, might more satisfactory deals be more likely?Let’s pretend that you had “the flu” a couple weeks back (and you wisely steered clear of medical facilities). You test because you need to know if you can now visit Grampa. You test to see if you should not visit your friend undergoing chemo. You test to see if you can return to your job in the nursing home. You test because tests are cheap, and will soon be abundant, and even accurate.
Do we get immunity from exposure to this virus? Isn’t one of the horrors of this particular virus that your own immune response is the deadly part?I don’t know. My head spins with all the “information” I have read and heard about this thing. There are at least two strains (maybe five?) “L” is very bad; “S” not as bad. Which is it where you live? Does exposure to “S” give immunity to “L”?
You test because data are fun.
We hope the strain will eventually weaken. The instant cull with an intensive care overload is brutal.I’m listening to the President’s market-boosting chat: a long-wait test is probably worse than useless. It will have to be as instant as possible, with a self-quarantine until the results come in.
My earlier post should have said “Moon of Alabama, Information Clearing House March 12” for the quote.
The same MoA who wrote for FireDogLake?
Also: Yea for Chelsea Manning!I would have added “vanity wars” and “buy back their own stock” to the list of foolish reasons to go into debt, but I suspect those will continue.
Testing is not done to make sure people breath easier (sorry)- it is to assess the situation. Anyone who dies of a respiratory illness should be tested. (I’d even dig up a few of those vaping victims.) Anyone who comes in with severe respiratory illness should be tested. Anyone who goes to a clinic just to get tested because they feel a bit ill is crazy.
It’s the analysis of how many likely have it now that matters. Cluster. Cluster. Boom.
The markets are doing what so many knew was coming. Who couldn’t see that a world where someone went into debt to go on a cruise, or fly to a destination wedding, or buy the latest 600hp vehicle, or even purchase dubious IPOs was a world that was not going to continue?
There are two things going on here. SARS-CoV-2 is a mighty convenient excuse for the other one. They are both deadly serious.“The message from the federal government was blunt. “What they said on that phone call very clearly was cease and desist to Helen Chu,” Dr. Lindquist [the state epidemiologist in Washington] remembered. “Stop testing.””
Moon of Alabama.
My understanding of dangerous people: Psychopaths do not seek approval, as narcissists do. They don’t feel rage or hatred as narcissists do (just try and stop a raging narcissist!), but if the deaths of others (including their own kids) empowers or enriches them, that’s not a problem. Sociopaths are created by circumstance- a kind of synthetic psychopath (think Calley at My Lai in Viet Nam). They tend towards vengeance and payback, and revel in personal triumph. They are extremely dangerous if they have power and situation in their favor. (A nod here to The Last Psychiatrist.)Testing would indicate a need to quarantine now, as Moon of Alabama wants. Demanding that tests not be done means the psychopaths behind this response haven’t got what they want yet. The deaths of pensioners and aged gov’t assistance recipients seems to be part of the goal.
While some fancy voices on the pages of Zerohedge proclaimed cash to be useless, others mentioned the fanciest folk to have been hoarding cash. Considering the graph of the DJIA in the 20s, there was a lot of “up” followed by “bigger down”. I’m pretty sure some came out of the 20s as the most powerful psychopaths in the nation. They didn’t crow, but proceeded to take over the US government.
I see the future of the US as neofeudal- a nation owned by the powerful, rented out to the power-hungry, and worked by the powerless, of which there are far too many in their dystopic dreams.
They will tax you off of that little hundred acre Eden in fly-over country. There will be no havens. Show yourself to be resistant to their hazing (kill someone you love or admire; preform repugnant acts with a private audience, etc.) and they will eliminate you.
Psychopaths collect narcissists and sociopaths, as they make useful knights in their kingdoms.
Psychopaths ARE superior, when material wealth is the marker. They ARE superior, when love doesn’t count.
Taking care of yourself for the sake of the community is an act of love. That’s why they will not test: you must not take care.
Love is the enemy of the psychopath.I am overwhelmed with sadness for Chelsea Manning. Do her judges and jailers tell themselves they are the good guys? Or that they are just doing their jobs?
Coercive incarceration? Geez.A website sells test kits- the fancy ones are $1500 for 150 tests. I didn’t go far enough to find out who can buy them, but 10 bucks a pop is a far cry from the 2000-3000 bucks some have been charged.
I don’t know how to do links. usbio should call it up.So I asked him: isn’t there anywhere where you got something you loved and it was not a reward for something you had done?
He insisted there was not.
I looked at him and asked, “what about us?”
Do you recognize there are things that cascade over us that we had no hand in, and these are the things that shape our lives?Pet My Legs.
(Joe Biden his time in 2020)
I will now try to revert back to the sort of nice person I usually am.
Sort of on topic:
There is a pretty little lake where I live. We have a slip on it, and the water is so clear you can see 15 ft down. It won’t stay that way. A beautifully built, very old 3000-5000 sf mansion on a densely wooded lot is a “tear-down”. The new ones (90% of which have a @&!%ing TURRET or two on them) are 15,000–30,000+ square feet of architectural goo. They are rarely occupied by anyone but the help, with the groundskeepers diligently poisoning and fertilizing the many acres of perfect grass, which covers the murdered roots of 200 year old oaks. The milfoil and algae are doing very, very well, except on their thousand foot shoreline boulder-scaped beaches, which they also poison.
I gotta think they (or rather the LLC “persons” that own them) are not happy right now.
Schadenfreude! It’s what’s for dinner!They will walk away from these monstrosities when things go south. They couldn’t possibly be attached to them. Or they could become sanatoriums…
