MIT Paper shows that the NYC subway has been a major point of infection.
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The difficulty though is that for a lot of people, including key workers, that's the only way for them to get to work - especially given many of the will not be able to afford to live in the borough where they work have to commute from outside the centre and hop on the subway for the last leg of it. If they got to the centre and then walked to their destination you could probably add another hour to an already long journey.
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They better get their shit together on cleaning those. I expect they'll introduce some UV? lighting along with a better cleaning regimen. The cars get shipped up here to Elmira for service.
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The conspiracy nuts are too busy burning down phone masts because 5G
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It would have made sense in the beginning, instead of halving services, to have kept a near normal service going thereby thinning out the passenger load and associated risk of infection for those key workers. Unfortunately, any attempt to reinstate the level of service to that end would give the impression that normality has returned with the consequent, and unwanted, increase in passenger numbers. From another era... Attachment 70340 |
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you can see it "spreading" along the freeways here in Michigan -if you look at the county by county map of cases and draw lines connecting the high areas, you've drawn the freeway system. But.... near the freeway system is where most people live..... they all go through Detroit.....
just something I notice when I see this map each day. We're the red 870, right on that freeway linke between Detroit and Chicago :( So easy to draw in the main North-South route too..... Attachment 70341 |
The DC metro has dramatically reduced service and closed some stations. I can see the trains passing when I go for a walk in my neighborhood. I always look for passengers in the windows, and the most I ever saw was 3 on one train. But to be fair, they go by pretty fast and I might miss some heads when I am counting.
I wish they would shut the Metro down entirely and use this time to perform track maintenance. They will be closing sections of the track for a month or two this summer to perform maintenance, and I really don’t understand why they don’t just do it now. |
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A house can be built is 3 or 4 months. But it takes years of work before that house can be built. A similar example. |
NYC once had porta-potties that disinfected themselves after each user.
Maybe we could have taxi cabs that did that? |
so why does it no longer have them?
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They probably would have been more desirable in Philadelphia and San Francisco where finding a bathroom is harder. Meanwhile what is a problem now for truck drivers? Finding a bathroom and finding a place for food - because truck drivers cannot use drive-thrus. |
it was kind of a rhetorical question.... :rolleyes:
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Ivermectin is being studied. This is in common use veterinary medicine in the US and in the third world for people. It would be cheap if found effective.
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"It would be cheap if found effective."
If they decide to use it , it will become $10,000 a dose. I have faith in these pharmaceutical fuckers. I read the PDF and it looks to be effective. |
Yeah, the folks running our world right now have monetized every damn thing.
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Ivormectin? Is that a worming med? I think that might be the drug that a lot of Collie dogs have a sensitivity to. If you have a collie it needs testing to see if it has a particular genetic disposition - if it does, then even a small dose can represent an overdose for them.
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Yeah, it's a de-wormer. We used it on our goats for brain worm. For dogs it's a heartworm med. I vaguely remember something about collies.
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Weird how quiet henry's gotten in the last week. :rolleyes:
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I hope he's OK.
I reject his logic about the virus and the seriousness of our shared situation, but I want him to be safe. |
IIRC, he seems to post in spurts, quiet periods aren't unheard of.
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I have since announced my retirement from conversational posting |
That leaves more conversations with Clodfobble for me.
I'm OK with that. I'm sure it'll be short lived. |
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Pfft--he wishes.
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Hi hq. I'm glad you're ok. Thanks for checking in.
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Here's another wrinkle from New England Journal of Medicine
5 New Yorkers age 33, 37, 39, 44, and 49 suffered large vessel strokes from the Corvid-19 virus. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.105...09787?query=RP Doctors in Wuhan say 5% suffered strokes but the youngest was 55. |
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or 5% of all infections? Because 5% of all infections would be a huge number. |
I don't know but I would guess of hospitalized cases, which would be the serious ones.
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Heard yesterday that my friend and work colleague's mum is in hospital with Covid. Don;t know how bad she is but I suspect its very not good. Her mum isnt elderly, she's only in her early 60s, but has lung problems.
I dont know when Clo last saw her mum face to face before this - she was at the hospital last I heard. I am worried for her, because of her mum, obviously, but I am also worried about Clo herself - her asthma gets quite bad sometimes. |
That's got tragedy written all over it. Dana, I'm sorry to hear about this, please give my best to your friend and her mom. From a safe distance of course, but the distance itself is an additional problem. Sorry. :(
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Sorry D.
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I hope she pulls through, Dana.
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I was talking to a guy in Texas today and he was telling me he was trying to figure out how to access a vent on his roof. When I told him to be careful he said no problem he has medicare if he gets hurt. I reminded him a hospital is the very last place you want to be right now.
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Legit question; When should we know whether Sweden's plan is working? Since folks are turning it into a hammer for their own agendas. I'd like to see a list of the actual measures taken along with the societal factors which make them similar or dissimilar to us. I guess it all hangs on herd immunity...
Maybe the Brits save our ass here. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/mee...icacy-n1198946 Nature magazine is publishing blurbs for short attention span or sensible people who don't want to obsess. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00502-w |
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Yeah, I believe that's what Sweden is attempting? Obviously you'd need a functional healthcare system and an effective way to isolate the old and infirm. Otherwise you get: https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news...-19-pass-away/
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To the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody:
Coronavirus Rhapsody March 19, 2020 by Jonco Lyrics by Dana Jay Bein Is this a sore throat? Is this just allergies? Caught in a lockdown No escape from reality. Don’t touch your eyes Just hand sanitize quicklyyyyy I’m just a poor boy, no job security Because of easy spread, even though washed your hands, laying low I look out the window, the curve doesn’t look flatter to me, to me mama, i just killed a man didn’t stay inside in bed walked by him and now he’s dead mama, life was so much fun but now I’ve caught this unforgiving plague mama, oooooh didn’t mean to make them die if I’m not back to work this time tomorrow carry on, carry on as if people didn’t matter oo late, my time has come sends shivers down my spine body’s aching all the time goodbye everybody, I’ve got the flu gotta leave you all behind and face the truth mama, oooooh I don’t wanna die I sometimes wish I never went out at all I see a little silhouette of a man what a douche, what a douche did he even wash his hands though security is tightening very very frightening me Gotta lay low (gotta lay low) Gotta lay low (gotta lay low) Gotta lay low masturbate Masturbate O O O O I’m just a poor boy, facing mortality HE’S JUST A POOR BOY FACING MORTALITY spare him his life from this monstrosity Touch your face, wash your hands, will you wash your hands? BISMILLAH NO WE WILL NOT WASH OUR HANDS! (WASH YOUR HANDS!) BISMILLAH NO WE WILL NOT WASH OUR HANDS! (WASH YOUR HANDS) BISMILLAH WE WILL NOT WASH YOUR HANDS! (WASH YOUR HANDS!) WASH YOUR HANDS! (never, never, never wash your hands oh oh oh oh oh oh oh) No no no no no Oh mama mia, mia (mama mia wash your hands!) COVID-19 has a sickness put aside for me, for me So you think you can stop me and just shake my hand? So you think we can hang out and not break our plans? Oh baby, can’t do this with me, baby, Just gotta stay home, just gotta stay home with my fever oooooh Curving can get flatter Anyone can see Curving can get flatter Curving can get flatter, you’ll see Just look out your windows…. |
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I suppose some new art will come out of this social isolation thing. As well as some rethinking of classic artwork:
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Problem is obvious. Previous vaccines worked because, first, actual medical processes were first learned. We still do not know how this virus transfers. What in the immune system properly attacks it. Why some, already with antibodies, still get sick again. Or even if the coronavirus, as found in bats, is somehow different after it must first go into some other wild animal before infecting man. A Mers coronavirus, normally found in some bats, must first go through a camel before it infects man. Why? All those vaccines are predicated on speculation. On a hope that the necessary underlying science was understood. So that a vaccine, that requires four or ten years, might arrive in 1.5. At least 3000 coronaviruses have been identified. Plenty more await discovery. Only seven are known to survive in man. Some are more contagious then others. A few cause a cytokine storm that causes death. Many others do not. Why? A measles vaccine will last a lifetime. It appears immunity from Sars (another coronavirus) only lasts 2 years. Mers - 3 years. Many other flues - only six months. Why? Those two have only been known for one or two decades. So not enough time has existed to understand it. What is 'memory' in B and T cells that make possible a recovery from Covid-19? Unknown. What then is a vaccine suppose to target to be successful? What we do know. We still do not know very much. Every solution (especially those hyped by a scumbag president) are best ignored as only wild speculation. In his case, promoted so that he will be reelected. Screw you Covid-19 victims. He cares about them just like Hitler was concerned with Jewish safety. Another currently promoted myth, using emotions, is that smokers are better protected from Covid-19. Then we include facts that are too complicated for tweeters or political extremists. Apparently nicotine tends to bind to a protein called ACE2. This is the protein that is somehow related to cytokine storms. Meaning a Covid-19 victim has less symptoms. But is still infecting others. So the naive claim smoking is protection from Covid-19 only because the person is asymptomatic - but still infecting others. Misinformation from sources such as hearsay, The Don, wild speculation, Fox News, and promoters of the Clorox cure. We have no reason to believe any solution exists in the next 1.5 years. But we sure do have plenty of adults, acting like children, and promoting a solution as almost ready. Because some other stranger told them it was true. Which lies more? Peers or what was read on the internet? |
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Texas has officially begun opening back up, as you may have heard, and we're starting to get emails and phone calls from all the various doctors whose appointments we've missed, explaining how the rescheduling process will work and what the safety guidelines will look like going forward... One interesting thing is that Minifob was scheduled for sinus surgery at the end of May--now looking like sometime mid-summer--and he will now be required to get a COVID-19 test in the days just before the procedure. They asked if I was okay with that, and I said yes, but I was unsure how we were supposed to make that happen. The receptionist claimed they would write the lab order, and we would take it to CPL just like any regular blood test to have it done. This seems... unrealistic to me. Testing capacity is still way beneath the levels needed to even test symptomatic people, let alone random folks with no symptoms. But hey, I could be wrong. I guess we'll find out.
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It looks like a cruise ship convention. In one anchorage is Carnival Pride, Carnival Sunrise, Carnival Elation, Carnival Horizon, Carnival Vista, Carnival Sunshine, with Carnival Pardise apparently heading to port for supplies, Carnival Fantasy resupplying, and Carnival Sensation returning. Carnival Glory is sitting elsewhere at anchor. And Carnival Magic wandering off the Med. Carnival Fascination, Carnival Liberty, and Carnival Dream going who knows where.
Another nearby anchorage has collected Oasis of the Seas, Mariner of the Seas, Anthem of the Seas, Adventure of the Seas, Navigator of the Seas, Empress of the Seas, Symphony of the Seas, Grandeur of the Seas, and Independence of the Seas. With Magesty of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas returning for resupply. And Harmony of the Seas being resupplied. Also anchored far out there in the ocean are Celebrity Summit, Celebrity Sihouette, Celebrity Edge, Celebrity Equinox, Celebrity Infinity, and Celbrity Reflection. Scattered elsewhere are Norwegian Pearl, Norwegian Gem, Norwegian Dawn, Norwegian Getaway, Norwegian Sun, and Norwegian Epic.With Norwegian Escape in port being resupplied. Another anchorage has Msc Meraviglia, Msc Divina, Msc Presziosa, and Msc Seaside. Plenty of Princess line ships (ie Orlando Princess), Disney (ie Disney Magic, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy) and numerous other lines also scatter ships in seas between eastern Fl and in a large ocean between Freeport and Nassua Bahama. A fortune of gigantic ships, once mostly cruising slowly or only drifting in the Gulf Stream, have now conjegated in large groups out in the ocean. Who knew there were that many cruise ships simply off Florida alone? Each ship alone one employeed over 1000 crewmen. Norwegian lines says they may not survive. It is rather hard to believe cruise lines, that carry 3000+ passengers on each ship, would not have major cash flow problems. And being foreign companies, cannot run to a generous US government for liquidity. How much longer can they keep going to US ports to be resupplied when they cannot pay the bills? |
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Yes... and make it snappy.
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Last week Reuters reported we'd reach 74,000 deaths by August according to the often used University of Washington's model.This week. Might bear improvement.
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https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/virgin...f-coronavirus/
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When people say they won't wear a mask, and going to avoid getting sick by drinking or injecting bleach/disinfectant/magic potion, just say OK.
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