not clean air or water
"I can’t spend it to make up some of the difference that we’re seeing from our economy stalling and people not out shopping and participating in adding some sales tax revenue to our state budget or to our local city and local government budgets as well."
Well it sounds like South Dakotians are more concerned with their health than their Governor is. And since she didn’t place the state in “stay at home” mode then I assume that the employees can’t file for unemployment, but can the small businesses apply for SBA loans? And speaking of the SBA I guess I’m glad that Linda McMahon got out before the hard work had to be done.
Kobach to Mikey K. et tu Mikey? Et tu?
Whatever you say, Joe Lopines.
Joel’s gonna opine about that misunderstanding!
The Public Health Agency of Sweden is now forecasting that within two months (and yes, Sweden is in the northern hemisphere) over half of the population of Stockholm County will be or will have been infected with the coronavirus. Aside from Cuomo’s important revelations this morning, you see very few American officials planning accordingly. Indeed, rather than planning on a third of the US population getting the virus over the next couple months, you heard mostly about how things will slow down this summer and not a summer wave or summer tsunami.
I at first read this as the name already being gobbled up, which works quite well, given the subject matter.
hydroxychloroquine, it’s what plants crave
I thought the Swedish government was claiming that Stockholm would soon have herd immunity. Is having half of the population infected supposed to be part of that? As of midnight EDT, Sweden is at 200 deaths per million population, compared to 152 per million in the United States. And it’s only got 1659 cases per million, about 1/6 of 1% and aren’t increasing very fast (click on “yesterday” instead of “now”). So I don’t see herd immunity any time soon. Those numbers are from Worldometers: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
This is a common misconception. Our immune system is designed to fight BACTERIAL infection, it is of little use against a virus.
In truth, we don’t get infected by a virus. It doesn’t consume us, though it spreads itself like a flash mob of squatters in various parts of our anatomy. Still, this spread doesn’t destroy cells, it merely serves as a nagging nuisance to the hosting cell who follows the virus’ demand to replicate while still continuing to to it’s day job.
A virus doesn’t infect, it intrudes. And how long it stays is really a function of how long our bodies provide a welcoming environment to replicate. Our bodies do not differentiate between intrusion and infection. The first response to something amiss is fever. When that doesn’t do the trick in short order, the immune system sends out suicidal scouts which attack either an infective bacteria or viral intruder and, through their “valiant” death code of the encounter is sent to immune system central command.
The immune system monitors the deleterious in the blood stream to determine whether and what additional measures must be taken. When it comes to the common cold, the response is along the lines of “ugh! These clowns again. Alright everyone! I need maximum mucosa production in the sinuses and lower bronchial cavity so that these motherf**kers think they’ve hit the Hotel California.”
The immune system isn’t fighting the virus, it’s basically making the environment inhospitable; the replication orders cease as the viral load just can’t seem to go out and replicate. A viral traffic jam that demoralizes and lets the little fuckers experience rush hour in Manhattan. Eventually, with the replication stopped, you shed the load you have as you cough and sneeze in the days ahead.
But our immune system can misread a viral intrusion. An early instance of this phenomena is when a child gets chicken pox. A young body with little exposure to bacterial infections is primed to go all out when an infection is perceived. When this zoster virus hits, the young conscripts of the immune system go to deacon 2 and cause a host of undesired symptoms. In essence, they start to destroy the body in order to save it.
This is actually beneficial to our survival. Our immune system learns the hard way early on that it needs to take measured steps when responding. Much later in life when shingles emerge, you basically have an immune system that lost all corporate memory of the zoster virus and treats it as something new.
Viruses are not deadly. How our body responds to them is where the risk lies. Cytokines storming and targeting vital cells in the mistaken aim of fighting infection (when it’s merely a viral intrusion) are what does us in. It’s an overblown immune response to something that a sustained fever could eliminate. So the immunosuppressive properties of some drugs could help with COVID-19. It’s theoretically sound practice if you have a proven pharmacology and regime.
If there is anything I want people to recognize from this crisis it is this: fever is your friend fighting on your behalf, don’t fight it unless it is going off the charts, and, anti-viral medications are meaningless for a new “family” of communicable corona virus.
Keep safe
We need a new word for graft . trump and family are attempting to make money, shit loads of money off this virus. This Dr Bright is laying it all out. This takes serious courage considering his name is out there.
Wait, wasn’t this supposed to be over by Easter?
Sweden is a very interesting case. It is the only country that took time out early in the crisis to have a national debate, and the only one to put an epidemiologist on the ground in Wuhan and Hubei in December when the crisis was unfolding. Anders Tegnell, the government epidemiologist in charge believes that there will be “herd immunity”. Other epidemiologists argue that such immunity may be illusory, and our innate immune response is key. In any case, the idea in every Nordic country (and South Korea and Japan, certainly) has been to protect the elderly. What Sweden has discovered is that that is better said than done. In Stockholm, 75% of the people in old folks’ homes test positive for antibodies. Also Sweden is further along the curve than most of the US, probably by at least two weeks. In any case, at no point have the medical resources of the country been swamped as in the US. And there has been an active debate about the consequences of this strategy if it goes tits up. We may not know whether the loose Swedish or tight Norwegian approach was correct for a couple years.
Finally, on those Worldometer numbers. They record confirmed (PCR, I assume) positives. Just saying, but probably the Maldives or Togo may not be testing nearly as much as, say, Switzerland or Germany. And you have countries like Belarus where it is, according to its president, not possible to die from COVID-19, reducing the incentive to accurately report cause of death. Antibody testing suggests that advanced economies that the actual number of infected ranges from 7 to 55 times the number of confirmed cases. Here in California, testing, for whatever reason, has not been done nearly enough so the 50 multiple is probably reasonable. NY has done feral testing and comes up with 21%, which comports with a bit lower multiple, but not much. Sweden could test much more, but has focused on the symptomatic, because again, the belief is that they are the big spreaders of virus, not the asymptomatic. Again, Sweden could be really screwed if they get their assumptions wrong.
There’s a paper even on this subject involving a young woman injecting Clorox® Lemon Fresh Bleach in a “Lyme” fog. Lemon-Lyme?
Acute Kidney Injury Due to Intravenous Bleach Injection
Sweden’s reported death rate is 12%, in the same range as France, Italy, Spain. Denominator is the count of those tested positive.
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OMG. It totally is Dim, running amok with fat stinking billygoat Billy Boy. (Barr)