Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[Moe Szyslak]

I was playing video games and drinking beer when my wife read me an article recapping today's "Bring Back Sports Task Force" briefing, and I just kept laughing my ass off.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

There is so much we simply don’t know about COVID-19, e.g. from (published, but not peer reviewed) - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...365v1.full.pdf

see line 221
“About 30% of recovered patients generated very low titers of SARS-CoV-2-
specific Nabs”

and further down -
“These results revealed that a proportion of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 would recover without developing high titers of virus specific NAbs. How these patients recovered without the help of NAbs and whether they were at risk of re-infection of SARS-CoV-2 should be further explored.”

And then there’s this - https://fortune.com/2020/04/09/coron...tivated-virus/

To the bolded ^ , such as difficulty in guidance as to Discontinuation of Isolation –
Physicians really can’t (thru no fault of their own) confidently advise/manage those patients who don’t conveniently fit into the categories described here -
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...-patients.html

Meaning how to advise those (and there are some) who had COVID-19 with symptoms and were directed to care for themselves at home but, despite 30 days and in one case 6 weeks of being symptom free, continuously test positive. Are they still infectious or not?.....so advise to remain self-quarantined or not?

[LordoftheRings]

Originally Posted by chip75

They came back to life?

They weren't tested. One site added them and few hours later deducted them.
This number business is no fun in a pandemic time.
The test kits is a problem.

• https://globalnews.ca/news/6818734/c...aths-probable/

You could have say 50,000 more COVID-19 related deaths on the world but these dead people weren't counted in the total because they weren't tested.

Hundred years ago (1918-1920) after the Spanish Flu pandemic, nobody knows the exact number of deaths related to it...20, 50, 100 million ... we will never know.

Hundred years later (2020) during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) we still don't know how to count the dead people for many reasons ... dead people who have never been tested, dead people @ home outside the hospitals, dead people incinerated (in China), ...dead people not counted for many other reasons.

• https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/o...oblem-n1183756

* People don't come back to life from the dead; only in the movies (zombies).

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

I got my stimulus payment but I almost feel guilty for getting it since I'm still employed and probably will be for the foreseeable future (thank goodness). The money will likely go towards my May rent. Still waiting for my State refund, though. My State will probably claim that they're broke

I'm in the same boat. Both my jobs never stopped working, and while my delivery job dipped some, I've had some OT every day this week again, and my PT night job at FedEx is busier than Christmas time.

So, I just put that bailout money into my Savings, where it can earn some interest, and when things get back to 'normal-ish' standards, I'm just gonna pay off a credit card or two with it.

The only thing I actually spend money on is attending conventions, but I don't see any of them actually happening for a long, long time.

[Penton-Man]

More from Marc et al. - https://science.sciencemag.org/conte...cience.abb5793

[LordoftheRings]

That's nice ... a stimulus check. You can buy masks and a ventilator.

[Waboman]

Distance learning going well here.

[jayman3]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Distance learning going well here.

You need to meet my neighbor. He has a whole setup and been making his personal moonshine for the past month.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by y2jman

I don't know something about besides disable living with parents I draw money social security 3rd of every month

I asked my dad about it few days ago he said wasn't getting it I do have a joint account with my dad btw

Those on Social Security will get their money next Monday, April 20th.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

I'm in the same boat. Both my jobs never stopped working, and while my delivery job dipped some, I've had some OT every day this week again, and my PT night job at FedEx is busier than Christmas time.

So, I just put that bailout money into my Savings, where it can earn some interest, and when things get back to 'normal-ish' standards, I'm just gonna pay off a credit card or two with it.

The only thing I actually spend money on is attending conventions, but I don't see any of them actually happening for a long, long time.

If you have credit card debit and don't need the $1200 to live on, I recommend you pay as much of that debt as you can. Putting the money in saving will net you at most 1.5% interest. You're probably paying between 15 and 18% interest on your CC balances.

[Steedeel]

Three woman (two teenage looking girls and their mother) walked past me and my client today and they were walking side by side taking up most of the path. Slowed down expecting them to break into a single file but nope, just kept walking. Never occurred to any of them to keep 2 metres. There are some very ignorant people.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Distance learning going well here.

If they’re walking daily for a couple of hours to and from their ^ stills, they may be getting fringe benefits –
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394317

also with regards to acquiring some protection from COVID-19
(background, from earlier several pages back - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...k#post17508839 )

[darkness2918]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

It has to get by the senate, and the governor can veto it. Hopefully he will.

You don’t want things to reopen? Personally I can’t wait to go into a store that’s not Target or a Supermarket. The sooner things open the better.

[ctujackbauer]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Distance learning going well here.

Eventually I'll run out of Tiger King coronavirus memes.

[Gieferg]

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by bruceames

Certainly going to stimulate Amazon and the big box store sales. Most everything else non-essential is closed and probably will be for another month or two.

I can wait for some non-essential stores to open to the public again, even if I have to wear a mask.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by InuYashaCrusade

All that should be open is grocery stores, Walmart and Target. Everything else can go to buy online pick up in store with a limited amount of associates.

I'm sure the stockholders in those two companies would love your idea. Unfortunately it isn't fair to those retailers that have been forced to close because they are considered non-essential. Do you really want to see the strong crush the weak? That is what you are proposing.

[y2jman]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Those on Social Security will get their money next Monday, April 20th.

let's just see what happens on that day, but I don't think it will however

[bruceames]

I'm pretty sure many if not most of the non-essential businesses will reopen soon (of course, the timing depending on where you live, anywhere from a few weeks to a few months). The economy just cannot support them staying closed for long. It's going to come down to which of them can maintain social distancing and masks will probably be mandatory as well. That's going to be the new normal, not shuttered businesses for months on end.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

I'm sure the stockholders in those two companies would love your idea. Unfortunately it isn't fair to those retailers that have been forced to close because they are considered non-essential. Do you really want to see the strong crush the weak? That is what you are proposing.

Do you really want to see thousands of more deaths? Because that's whats gonna happen if everywhere reopens too soon.