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Hey! My state has joined the eerily bluestatish map of cases of Sars-CoV-2 (US).
I hope she’s okay.
I have a picture of a cruise ship on my refrigerator (which still accepts magnets) that has my sharpie heading on it: THIS IS HELL.
You couldn’t PAY me enough to take a cruise ship voyage. i feel claustrophobic just thinking of it. And the tiny towns that are ruined with the tourism… Ah, yes , money, money, money… but at what cost?
What are the other benefits of this Covid nightmare? I wanted a market correction, for example, but i was hoping it would be a correction of value. I did not wish that value itself would evaporate.
Geez. I almost want to take out a loan- my parents did alright with their cheap mortgages- 4% when mine was 14%. A 2.5% loan… what could go wrong?“Is the USA going to let the homeless die in the street because they cannot pay for a bed in a care home or a hospital?”
Hmmmmm.
Yup.Dr D: Jon Rappoport (Nomorefakenews) has been down on flu statistics for a long time. Ed Curtain has a post that points out that the CDC admits to 3,482 flu deaths [as of the post, which is March 2].
We get sick. Sometimes we get really, really sick. Most of the time we never know what hit us.
By the way, I have seen death by cancer much too often now to care about heart disease at my late stage of life. Give me a heart attack any day.I just need to get this in and then I’ll go back up and read the bits:
Everclear comes in 75.5% and 95% grades of pure ethanol. I carry a tiny spray bottle of it with me in the wintertime- I just spritz the potentially offending surface or my hands (I hate the goo in the purell-type stuff). It takes a bit of time for to evaporate, and the spritzer I use produces an extremely fine mist.
When I get colds, I get ’em bad. They so often “go away” and then drop into my lungs a week later.
Do corticosteroids play any role in the treatment of these viruses?Who gets it? There have to be similarities (oldsters, immunocompromised, infirm) that we think we know of, but the only one they seem to be sharing that merits extreme curiosity is that pre-adolescents seem to be immune[?].
So many people have taken genetic tests- don’t tell me the fancy-folk aren’t looking at the info.
I watched a hearing today on cspan- the only really pertinent question was “how are you going to ensure the uncompensated won’t work when they are ill?” Does any of the $8+ billion deal with that?
What are the commonalities of the victims? We can do this now. We can say “you are the ones who go to the store and drop it off at the house of the stricken”; “you should stay out of the public spaces.”
It’s the year of the knockout rat.
Dr D: do you scare yourself sometimes?On a totally different path, but pertinent, I think, to the virus: can anyone imagine a [mathematical] model without boundaries? I play “Bayesian” bridge, for example- much to the consternation of my fellows- but I think that modeling the virus needs to consider this sort of thing: par[a/i]meters expand; results may vary. Humans are sooooo boundary-obsessed. What does the math look like on the boundaries of a model?
By the way, I usually only get here after a bottle of wine. Villa Cafaggio Chianti Classico 2010, to be exact. Good-night, all.Okay, I have to admit that I buy bottled water sometimes, too- in those really flimsy little bottles that crumple enough to fit in my back pocket. Hunting mushrooms is very thirsty business (I can hardly wait until May!) I reuse them until they leak.
Speaking of leaks, the market-balloon today kept getting pumped up but continued to leak until just before the close, whereupon someone figured out how to patch latex under pressure.
Costco is up 10%.
(For no reason other than that it just popped into my head: Depravity, depravity; reliable as gravity.)
Grammar correction from my post above: Aren’t people getting the virus confused with an EMP?Will someone explain why people are stocking up on bottled water? I just heard it again on Bloomberg, and read about it yesterday happening in Hawaii and at Costco’s around the land. Do they think the water will be turned off for some reason? Isn’t this virus getting confused with an EMP?
“Two Japanese dogs tested positive…” ZH
“Pets belonging to Hongkongers with confirmed coronavirus to be quarantined, says paper” Tass
Awww, man!Cover your eyes, not just your nose and mouth. Wear gloves. Sell your facial recognition technology stock. Heh.
RIM, thanks. Are they all dying of a cytokine storm? Or are some “just” dying of pneumonia that gets out hand?
This new virus almost seems engineered (HIV? Ebola?!)- I would be as suspicious of a vaccine as I am of nCoV itself.
So is this an autoimmune disease? Are all those asymptomatic children (and adults) being set up for an iffy future?
“Let’s call it pure luck” seemed like an odd phrase for the researcher to use.Via the Jerusalem Post (which freezes up my computer) and ZH: Israeli scientists say they will have a vaccine in three weeks, and may be able to roll it out in three months.
I was surprised that Bloomberg TV didn’t mention it- nor anyone on the Washington Journal (cspan) this morning.Paper, journals, pencils, pens;
Puzzles, games and playing cards;
Real books and music stuff,
So roughing it won’t be so rough.On a lighter note (about the picture): Saddle shoes!
I AM MAKING THIS UP :
In what could be a brilliant move for oligarchic presidential candidate Bloomberg, he has decided to redirect some of his incalculable wealth to start manufacturing antibiotics and other medical necessities and paraphernalia here in the United States. Not to be outdone, oligarchic incumbent Trump says he will go forth and do likewise, and his stuff will be beautiful and PERFECT.
One can dream, right?The SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) on rs17822931 can have a GG (guanine/guanine), a GA (guanine/adenosine), or AA (adenosine/adenosine). AA is the one I am interested in. Guanine is found in fish scales and guano. Adenosine is anti arrhythmic (given for heart abnormalities). These two are the “A” and “G” of GATTACA (think the 1997 movie), the other two being cytosine and tyramine. They are the building blocks of DNA. RNA uses cytosine, guanine, adenosine, and uracil.
Koreans have the highest percent of the AA thing.
If you want to say “wow, you have a WILD imagination!”, it won’t be the first time I have heard it.
My apologies to the biochemists out there who recognize my mangled language (or understanding) of these things.
If a common corona virus is mutating to be deadly to (what seems at this time) a particular group of people, it seems to make sense to look at this interesting marker.
If one might want to call me crazy, I get that a lot, too.I am a blue-eyed blond who has dry earwax and doesn’t need deodorant. Yuck factor and TMI aside, this is most likely due to an SNP on an alelle (ABCC11) which is (as far as I can make out of the dizzying chatter of genetics) inactive. I share this with most far east Asians and a good percentage of indigenous Americans. The allele and its effects were discovered in 2001. I have been searching for a connection to susceptibility to nCoV2019 and this genetic factor, for obvious reasons.
In the meantime, I will continue to wear gloves, and will reluctantly give up my light smoking habit. There’s nothing I can do about my advanced age, except to update my will and simplify everything else.
There’s nothing I can do about the coming economic horrors. WTF on the stock market?
Whatever good gods there may be, I hope they are with Julian Assange.ZeroHedge reports an asymptomatic person testing positive in Egypt. It says around a million Chinese live in Africa.
It makes sense that the cougher should wear masks, not the well. The mask doesn’t protect the eyes, which are not just the windows to the soul, they have a direct line to the sinuses, as well.
By the way- where is Dr D? I miss his rather unique style of thinking.
UVc lamps explode viruses, spores, and bacteria. There’s a new version out called far UVc, which is 207 to 222 nm, that supposedly won’t give you skin cancer or cataracts.
I see gloves coming back in style. Yea!Who needs bunkers when a vaccine will do-
When given to the chosen, but not to you?It probably won’t be a vaccine as we know it, because this virus seems to be as slippery as the common cold, and much more rugged. If there were a little gene insertion, though, that conveyed immunity, then this tiny monster could be with us until the last susceptible person expired.
I’m new to posting here, though I have been a reader (and contributor) for quite a while.
