Corona Virus #6

[pennwalk]

if you have the antibodies for COVID-19 that should lower your risks of getting it again

Having a bunch of people who were immune to the virus who would volunteer to help support health care people would very useful.

Chris

 

[MossRoad]

I saw 18 college age guys playing basketball at a park yesterday afternoon. First thing I noticed was the full contact body foul, knocked down a guy, then the other guy offered his hand and picked him up. Then there were high 5's all around.

On the way home I noticed lots of people playing basketball at a few other parks and rec centers as well.

We're doomed!

:confused3:

 

[daugen]

I just read Starbucks has closed. I was always too cheap to buy coffee there, but there are a gazillion people who would be completely out of kilter if they
didn't get their mocha latte in the morning. Maybe a double whammy now, no job and no latte...

 

[k0ua]

Spain is passing China....is this virus mutating and getting worse? Does it affect different races differently?

YES. Italians constantly hug and kiss each other. And the mayor of Florence started a "hug a Chinese" campaign to spite the US policy of shutting off travel from China. Lots and Lots of Chinese people live in Italy, and when they came back from China after Chinese new year celebrations they brought the virus with them. I don't know how many of them were hugged but apparently enough to get things started.

 

[California]

re hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin:

Often you hear that hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin work together well but the study that claim comes from had only 26 people in it, just six of whom took the azithromycin. Out of the original 26, some had no symptoms to begin with, three dropped out of the study when they went to intensive care, one dropped out due to nausea, and one died.

Anybody know more about this study?

 

[k0ua]

re hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin:

Anybody know more about this study?

I have seen several anecdotal testimonials of lives saved by the therapy.. Still to soon to know if it really works or not, or maybe works for some and not others.. I see India is hoarding its supplies and will no longer ship the drugs overseas. Apparently they believe. But who knows. And we are not going to know for sure until blind tests are completed, and all of that takes time. And time is not something we have a lot of.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

I just read Starbucks has closed.....

Okay, now we are doomed!

 

[shooterdon]

YES. Italians constantly hug and kiss each other. And the mayor of Florence started a "hug a Chinese" campaign to spite the US policy of shutting off travel from China. Lots and Lots of Chinese people live in Italy, and when they came back from China after Chinese new year celebrations they brought the virus with them. I don't know how many of them were hugged but apparently enough to get things started.

Latest number for Toronto Canada...picked Toronto as I was raised there (both my parents Italian) and it has a large Chinese and Italian poplution.

350k Chinese
450K Italians
6mm Total in GTA (Greater Toronto Area)

285 cases...one death from Covid-19

PS: Edited to add...I do not kiss men or ugly women LOL

 

[the old grind]

YES. Italians constantly hug and kiss each other. And the mayor of Florence started a "hug a Chinese" campaign to spite the US policy of shutting off travel from China. Lots and Lots of Chinese people live in Italy, and when they came back from China after Chinese new year celebrations they brought the virus with them. I don't know how many of them were hugged but apparently enough to get things started.

An awful lot of people weren't aware of how the virus became so quickly entrenched in Italy. (folks returning from holiday) Many also aren't mindful that the US has States and populations/densities in them similar to a great many other countries. That makes raw case numbers seem less relevant to guessing* what will happen in a fruit bowl the size of a #7 wash tub. * (still all we can do)

 

[dannoGT]

Up in the Santa Cruz mountains 7 miles from pavement lived a logger off grid... when he passed his widow put his ashes on the front seat of his circa 1950 Powerwagon... surrounded by redwoods.

When I die I have asked my wife to have me buried in my powerwagon..........because I haven't been stuck in a hole yet that it hasn't gotten me out of!!!