The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

[Buffalo Bills Fan]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

Joe Biden Makes a New Promise and It’s Why You Shouldn’t Vote for Him

 

The reasons to not vote for Joe Biden are fairly long. If you’re a conservative Republican, obviously there are policy considerations that make the choice easy. Do you want the former VP and the “foreign policy establishment” to regain power, instituting yet more disastrous decisions overseas? Economically, do you want higher taxes? Is an empowerment of the left-wing’s most radical elements preferable? What about Biden’s support for abortion until birth, an issue that some in the conservative commentariat tend to ignore these days?

 

These are all valid concerns and things that should absolutely be taken into consideration when judging how you will vote. But if the above policy considerations aren’t enough, Biden said something yesterday that adds to the list of reasons to oppose him.

 

 

I’ll note the media’s continued fetish with destroying the economy and your livelihood, which is what would even prompt a question like that to be asked. But it’s Biden’s answer that really stands out. He says “I would shut it down, I would listen to the scientists” without a hint of what that would actually mean.

 

Let me translate it: Biden is once again admitting that he’s not actually going to be President.

 

More at the link:

Biden has a special dislike ad bad for Cuomo and pelosi.   The country doesn't need to shut down. Small business among other things would hurt them. Democrats are crazy and want more control. More taxes. There nut's.

[dubs]

19 minutes ago, Buffalo Bills Fan said:

Biden has a special dislike ad bad for Cuomo and pelosi.   The country doesn't need to shut down. Small business among other things would hurt them. Democrats are crazy and want more control. More taxes. There nut's.

There a very VERY simple concept that is at the heart of every single democrat/liberal/progressive/ socialist/communist idea:

 

What’s good for the country is bad for the democrats. 

 

 

[BillStime]

Completely deranged

 

 

[LB3]

3 hours ago, Magox said:

Gummi Bear has been one of the best Twitter data analysts when it comes to COVID.   His projections here pretty much line up with what I believe.   I think we will hit new lows in deaths by October sometime and continue to go lower after that for a bit.    The question remains is does cross reactive T cell immunity along with 20% covid antibody truly  create herd-like immunity?  Some believe it doesn’t but the actual evidence suggests that it likely does.  And will we see a resurgence of viral infections throughout suburbs and rural parts of the country in the late fall early winter?

 

 

My rural area (NY) is seeing a bit of a mini surge right now. I'm thinking it's because of college kids returning. A large portion coming from downstate. I am currently quarantined because my golf partner tested positive (asymptomatic). I got my results today and I tested negative but need to remain in quarantine. I had tested positive for antibodies a while back but they made me test anyways.

Edited August 22, 2020 by LB3

[SectionC3]

57 minutes ago, LB3 said:

My rural area (NY) is seeing a bit of a mini surge right now. I'm thinking it's because of college kids returning. A large portion coming from downstate. I am currently quarantined because my golf partner tested positive (asymptomatic). I got my results today and I tested negative but need to remain in quarantine. I had tested positive for antibodies a while back but they made me test anyways.

 

College is a problem.  Schools in general are going to be a problem.  We're playing with fire right now, but unfortunately none of the stakeholders in education is doing anything about it (parents want to warehouse kids, K-12 administrators are paid [indirectly] by parents, and colleges want to make it past the tuition refund date before going virtual).  The fact that we have a byzantine, fractured national response hasn't helped either.  Strong measures in one place (such as New York) aren't nearly as effective as they could be if there were like strong measures in other places (FL and AZ bore this out recently).  So it's probably going to follow 1918 and blow up again in the fall.  And it's a shame, because it's terrible for small business and wastes probably millions of years of collective sacrifice and hard work. 

Edited August 22, 2020 by SectionC3

[BillsFanNC]

4 hours ago, Magox said:

Gummi Bear has been one of the best Twitter data analysts when it comes to COVID.   His projections here pretty much line up with what I believe.   I think we will hit new lows in deaths by October sometime and continue to go lower after that for a bit.    The question remains is does cross reactive T cell immunity along with 20% covid antibody truly  create herd-like immunity?  Some believe it doesn’t but the actual evidence suggests that it likely does.  And will we see a resurgence of viral infections throughout suburbs and rural parts of the country in the late fall early winter?

 

 

 

Interesting.  When we get to October and patients present with symptoms the first thing will be to get a rapid flu test, if negative then covid testing. As a former flu researcher, this is going to be a very, very  interesting flu season.

[Magox]

1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

Interesting.  When we get to October and patients present with symptoms the first thing will be to get a rapid flu test, if negative then covid testing. As a former flu researcher, this is going to be a very, very  interesting flu season.

My gut tells me that with the social distancing measures and most likely even higher flu vaccine use that cases will be markedly lower than previous years.

[Buffalo Bills Fan]

19 minutes ago, Magox said:

My gut tells me that with the social distancing measures and most likely even higher flu vaccine use that cases will be markedly lower than previous years.

Right magox. Thought about this couple days ago. We both lots similar thinking lol.

[Foxx]

 

AUSTRALIA PRIME MINISTER PUTS CITIZENS ON NOTICE: ALL WILL LIKELY UNDERGO MANDATORY COVID-19 VACCINATIONS

Edited August 22, 2020 by Foxx

[Buffalo Bills Fan]

1 minute ago, Foxx said:

That's just awful from them. That's going way too far.

[Foxx]

2 minutes ago, Buffalo Bills Fan said:

That's just awful from them. That's going way too far.

it gets better.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywuCRVJVDqs&feature=youtu.be

 

[IDBillzFan]

14 minutes ago, Buffalo Bills Fan said:

That's just awful from them. That's going way too far.

 

And yet I don't think it's too far fetched to think the same could happen here.

 

Especially with BIden in the WH.

[Magox]

Deaths are now below 1000 a day with 7 day moving average.  Over the past couple days the pace of decline in deaths have accelerated. 
 

 

[ziltoid]

5 hours ago, SectionC3 said:

 

College is a problem.  Schools in general are going to be a problem.  We're playing with fire right now, but unfortunately none of the stakeholders in education is doing anything about it (parents want to warehouse kids, K-12 administrators are paid [indirectly] by parents, and colleges want to make it past the tuition refund date before going virtual).  The fact that we have a byzantine, fractured national response hasn't helped either.  Strong measures in one place (such as New York) aren't nearly as effective as they could be if there were like strong measures in other places (FL and AZ bore this out recently).  So it's probably going to follow 1918 and blow up again in the fall.  And it's a shame, because it's terrible for small business and wastes probably millions of years of collective sacrifice and hard work. 

Hope you have your covaids bunker stocked up until Nov. 4th!

[SectionC3]

Just now, BeerLeagueHockey said:

Hope you have your covaids bunker stocked up until Nov. 4th!

Funny.  Go to Phoenix and lick some doorknobs and let us know how it goes.  

[Big Blitz]

 

 

[Big Blitz]

 

[TBBills]

The latest on Crazy Trump, saying that "deep state" is holding back the vaccine until after elections. 

 

This guy is getting mentally worse by the day.

[BillsFanNC]

 

[BillsFanNC]

5 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

Interesting and encouraging data from sequence modeling, but with the appropriate grains of salt.

 

The deletion that we describe indicates that SARS-CoV-2 is undergoing profound genomic changes. It is important to: i) confirm the spreading of this particular viral strain, and potentially of strains with other deletions in the nsp1 protein, both in the population of asymptomatic and pauci-symptomatic subjects, and ii) correlate these changes in nsp1 with potential decreased viral pathogenicity.