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03-31-2020, 09:11 AM #9751
What else could go wrong?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9438446.html
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03-31-2020, 09:17 AM #9752Registered User
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03-31-2020, 09:23 AM #9753
Some promising data in Washington State. Both confirmed cases and deaths have been decreasing over the last few days.
Data from https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus
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03-31-2020, 09:24 AM #9754
Chinese Rat Flu
Here's what I don't get. They're telling us that the Covid is big droplets that fall out of the air, land on surfaces, we touch the surfaces and get the virus, which can last on some surfaces for several days. We don't need masks because it's not aerosolized so we're not directly breathing it in.Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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03-31-2020, 09:27 AM #9755
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03-31-2020, 09:28 AM #9756
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03-31-2020, 09:29 AM #9757
There appears to be sufficient evidence to conclude the curve in New York City is flattening. The report linked below sets forth the evidence for–and against–this preliminary but potentially important conclusion.
This does not mean that the epidemic has reached its peak in New York City. That will happen when the incidence of new infections clearly drops. Still, the leveling off of the incidence curve is a key early indicator that something favorable is happening. The question for economists, public health practitioners and policy makers is: what’s making the curve flatten?
Alternative theories to flattening:
- Supply Constraints on Testing
- We Need to Break Down the Data by Borough
- We’re Missing All the Asymptomatic Cases
- The Leaky City
- The Rapid Initial Upswing Is an Artifact of Increased Testing
- Heterogeneous Mixing or Super-Spreaders
If the flattening of the curve is real, what's the explanation:
- Social distancing measures reduce transmission
- People voluntarily engage in avoidance behaviors once they understand the risk
- People take action to reduce risk after personally coming in contact with infected individuals
The takeaway: If social distancing policies had been put in place just one week earlier, we might now be fretting about hundreds rather than thousands of newly reported infections daily. When it comes to our response, yesterday is better than today, which is better than tomorrow.
https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery...007022&EXT=pdf
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03-31-2020, 09:33 AM #9758I touched your avatar
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Took me like 10 minutes to figure out how to change this shit
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03-31-2020, 09:49 AM #9759
This may have something to do with you not doing yoga.
I have to disagree with this. There are a lot of things we still manufacture and do it better then they can in China. However, it is mostly high precision items that require highly trained individuals. Also, automobiles.
Labor prices are the primary driver. Average labor wage in China is $3.60. It is $2.60 in Mexico. I am not sure with our current cost of living how we could compete with that...other then making $2,500 washing machines. It is a vicious cycle. If we try and move toward more durable goods and higher quality items, it will cost us more. We either have to lower the cost of living, or change our consumer mentality. Good luck with either of those."We had nice 3 days in your autonomous mountain realm last weekend." - Tom from Austria (the Rax ski guy)
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03-31-2020, 10:03 AM #9760
You don't buy my hypothesis that only a fraction of the population is susceptible? Has this ever been observed with any other virus, or is every virus that can infect humans infect all humans (other than those who have acquired antibodies)? I know it's far fetched, but possible?
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03-31-2020, 10:07 AM #9761
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03-31-2020, 10:09 AM #9762
Maybe, but the SARS-CoV-2 viral entryway is the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, or ACE2 receptor. That's a universal human biological component. The virus has a spike protein that uses the ACE2 receptor to gain entry into the human body. Other viruses use different receptors so perhaps it's the case with other viral strains that there is a subset of susceptibility.
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03-31-2020, 10:10 AM #9763
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03-31-2020, 10:15 AM #9764Registered User
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Yes!
Another plug for TWiV.
“This Week in Virology”
The podcast has got to be some of the most informed reporting and discussion on coronavirus there is.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
All PhDs: two current professors, two emeritus, one science writer.
And you can email them questions.
"Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv"
From an email,
"Powerful laser technology reveals normally invisible saliva droplets that are generated by speech and are able to transmit the virus that causes COVID-19."
This weeks questions included some from professors of medicine, MDs, PhDs, MD PhDs, someone who works for Genentech. Part of their shtick is that the hosts introduce themselves with the local weather. So for his question, Topper in Reno let them know, "32 F/ 0 C, slightly snowing. All the snow is coming after the pandemic closed the ski resorts.”
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03-31-2020, 10:17 AM #9765Funky But Chic
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Also, we're not better at building cars. What on earth would give someone that idea? We're better at building vehicles there's no market for anywhere else in the world, and that's about it. Hell, Ford -Ford!- gave up on building cars. Who's better than the Chinese? GM? Hm. Chrysler??
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03-31-2020, 10:18 AM #9766
^^
Knows his shit ...
Plus ... stop smoking now and you can potentially reduce your immediate risk (and no they didn't look at weed AFAICT)
https://twitter.com/JSheltzer/status...15018627883011
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03-31-2020, 10:21 AM #9767Registered User
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These people predicted it in 2015:
https://microbiology.utmb.edu/facult...-menachery-phd
https://twitter.com/TheMenacheryLab
https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/lisa-gralinski-phd/
https://twitter.com/lisagralinski
“A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence”
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
15 coauthors. Ten from the University of North Carolina, one from the FDA, one from ETH Zurich, one from Harvard, and two from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Their warning in January,
Return of the Coronavirus: 2019-nCoV
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/2/135/htm
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03-31-2020, 10:27 AM #9768
"9,298 new cases in New York State since yesterday
5,686 new cases in New York City
In part this seems to be due to more testing: 18,645 tested yesterday vs. 14K-16K on several recent days
But also, % testing positive is up: 49.8% of tests were positive yesterday"
Saw the above online and I cannot verify the source although this site suggests that 30% of all tested in NY historically are positive.
https://covidtracking.com/data/state/new-york/#history
Still only symptomatic people being tested. Da FUQ!?!?
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03-31-2020, 10:29 AM #9769
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03-31-2020, 10:33 AM #9770
This is pretty much why we should just let Las Vegas rot after all this.
Las Vegas and Coronavirus: Homeless People Placed in a Parking Lot https://nyti.ms/3dLt4Gq
"The casinos are deserted and thousands of hotel rooms are empty. But when Las Vegas, gripped by the coronavirus, needed space for a temporary homeless shelter, officials chose a location that does not have walls, or even a roof: an outdoor parking lot.
The City of Las Vegas and Clark County on Saturday opened the shelter, on the upper floor of a convention center parking lot, after the temporary closure of a 500-person homeless shelter run by Catholic Charities after a homeless man there tested positive for the coronavirus.
Medical students from Touro University, wearing protective gear, have been tasked with screening each homeless person for coronavirus symptoms before they enter the parking area, which has been partly covered with blue mats and closed off by metal barriers. The “shelter” will remain open until Friday, when the Catholic Charities shelter is expected to reopen, according to a joint statement by the city and county."
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03-31-2020, 10:34 AM #9771glocal
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03-31-2020, 10:36 AM #9772
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03-31-2020, 10:36 AM #9773
Kind of sort of not true. The main driver is corporate profits. Period. You still throw down $600 for an arcteryx jacket even thought it’s made for $40 in China. You could still sell it for $600 even it it cost $100 to make. However that brand has been flipped and sold so many times by PE that It’s debt load was ridiculous. Same with washing machines. Whirlpool is made in America and cost the same as ge, which is haeir and now made in China. Margin on ge is probably higher.
We are ok with Nike and under armor giving athletes contracts for tens of millions and executives 10 of millions but seldom are those cost savings passed on to the consumer. Maybe cheap stuff like old navy but many high quality durable goods we waste money on like coolers, reels, skis outerwear etc can be made domestically. Germany is a an example of this
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03-31-2020, 10:41 AM #9774
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03-31-2020, 10:41 AM #9775
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