carlos21
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Does Carlos need to be in here mate.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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No Carlos, stay out of this thread, there are tetchy people everywhere!
carlos21
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Haha to look after it mate.
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OK you are quoting RT, which isn't exactly credible (on the other hand nothing here is generally credible). However I'll bite. First of all nobody loves oligarchs like the United States does, its pretty much a bipartisan issue. Remember that whole thing that poor people didn't want the rich to pay taxes because they'll be rich someday nonsense? Well even the stupids even don't believe that anymore. So we've all attached ourselves to guys like Bezos, Musk et.al like they were some kind of winning sports team and their success is our success!
2nd our entire public watchdog system/bearucracy (once perhaps the finest in the world) is toothless and inept. Once proud administrations like the IRS, EPA, FAA, SEC and CDC, lets just say today that most on the job are doing their time until a more lucrative private sector job comes along.
So in reality and sadly, Bill Gates who does use his funds for 3rd world health research plus exploring new vaccinations is probably more qualified than most in govt these days (assuming he listens to the people he employs). Sadly he'll probably end up doing better than Fauci, who should be in charge of fixing the incoherent mess that is the CDCs response but is still at the WH spending his days in his Quixotic quest to make a narcissist twit listen to him.
Next three weeks will still be lockdown, just with some possibility of measures being lifted (very slightly, I don't know what they could be - perhaps visits between households?)
End of May would then be measures really starting to be lifted (not all at once) wouldn't it.
End of May would then be measures really starting to be lifted (not all at once) wouldn't it.
carlos21
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Hopefully till the end of September mate.
Yet Governors all over the country did it
Guilty here! Fecking sexy ginger ancestors.
Sake. I should be fuming at you for blaming gingers, but you called us sexy!
I’m so confused.
Yep, have it myself and also a carrier so my children will have it too. My father also has it, cheers da.
Reckon June through to the start of September will see stuff gradually eased back.
Gatherings etc the last to come back.
All depends on the infection rate I suppose.
Sake. I should be fuming at you for blaming gingers, but you called us sexy!
I’m so confused.
I occassionly do ginger mate, I do a roaring red beard, but blonde on top, it’s what you get if you cross a Celt and a Viking, apart from a banging hangover.
* Waits for study confirming ginger bearded blondes are vulnerable to Covid 19 - sake!
Chippies are all still open round here.
Gets hard to think of any restrictions that can be lifted if people can still congregate in a small shop and get a sausage dinner.
We aren’t in lockdown, we never have been. They’ve shut the boozers and restaurants and told some people to work from home. That’s it.
Gets hard to think of any restrictions that can be lifted if people can still congregate in a small shop and get a sausage dinner.
We aren’t in lockdown, we never have been. They’ve shut the boozers and restaurants and told some people to work from home. That’s it.
Researchers at Mount Sinai tested people who signed up to be donors of convalescent plasma, antibodies extracted from blood. The project has enrolled more than 15,000 people so far, according to Dr. Ania Wajnberg, who is leading the effort. The new study is an analysis of results of the first set of donors. Over all, only 3 percent of these participants had been seen in the emergency department or had been hospitalized. The remaining subjects had only mild or moderate symptoms. “To my knowledge, this is the largest group of people described with mild disease,” Dr. Wajnberg said.
The criteria for inclusion became more stringent as the team learned more about the coronavirus. For example, they initially required the potential donors to be free of symptoms for only three days but later extended that to 14 days. The team tested 624 people who had tested positive for the virus and had recovered. At first, just 511 of them had high antibody levels; 42 had low levels; and 71 had none. When 64 of the subjects with weak or no levels were retested more than a week later, however, all but three had at least some antibodies. That suggests the timing of testing for antibodies can greatly affect the results, the researchers said. “We weren’t looking exactly at this, but we had enough to say that 14 days is probably a little too early,” Dr. Wajnberg said.There was even a difference between levels at 20 days versus 24 days, she said, suggesting that the optimal time for an antibody test is well after symptoms begin. “What we’re telling people now is at least three weeks after symptom onset,” Dr. Wajnberg said.
Because tests to diagnose coronavirus infection were unavailable to most people in New York City in March, the researchers included another 719 people in their study who suspected they had Covid-19 based on symptoms and exposure to the virus, but in whom the illness had not been diagnosed. In this group, the researchers found a different picture altogether. The majority of these people — 62 percent — did not seem to have antibodies. Some of them may have been tested too soon after their illness for antibodies to be detectable. But many probably mistook influenza, another viral infection or even allergies for Covid-19, Dr. Wajnberg said. “I think literally everybody in New York thinks they’ve had it,” she said. “People shouldn’t assume the fever they had in January was Covid and they’re immune.”
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