Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Steve Shaw Date: 28 Apr 20 - 03:56 PM Well, viruses contain protein and nucleic acid, they can reproduce and they are subject to natural selection. Debating as to whether they are alive or not is a bit pointless. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Doug Chadwick Date: 28 Apr 20 - 06:01 PM Debating as to whether they are alive or not is a bit pointless. But do viruses have rights? DC |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 28 Apr 20 - 07:26 PM Meanwhile dogs are getting it too. Besides cats, I mean. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mr Red Date: 29 Apr 20 - 04:14 AM In NZ they are selling home deliveries of drinks called Lock Down She be right, mate. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 29 Apr 20 - 08:20 AM Hmmm... Smokers not at higher risk? https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-smoking-nicotine.html |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 29 Apr 20 - 11:34 AM And now hives. https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/covid-toes-hives-skin-conditions-133004928.html I insist that my starting to get hives again after years is a sympton of stress and inactivity! |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Backwoodsman Date: 29 Apr 20 - 11:41 AM Aren’t hives those things that bees live in? |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mossback Date: 29 Apr 20 - 12:08 PM Nope. Them are skeps. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Backwoodsman Date: 29 Apr 20 - 12:14 PM Nah, skeps are this big steel containers used to dump rubbish in.... |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Rain Dog Date: 29 Apr 20 - 12:19 PM I always thought it was a hive of activity not inactivity. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 29 Apr 20 - 06:15 PM Resdemivir makes progess reducing Covid symptoms by 4 days. Fauci gives it a thumbs up. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mr Red Date: 29 Apr 20 - 06:32 PM 2 things in the Telegrope today. 1) they say experts are predicting the second wave will come in the winter. Sorry NZ, you have it licked, fer now, but............ There is a feeling that summer warmth and humidity will suppress COVID-19. And 'flu & colds (which sometimes are coronaviruses) typically show a seasonal variation. 2) the biggest vaccine manufacturer in the world is starting production on the Oxford Uni version (currently in human trials), switching from mumps etc. The Indian company is privately owned and the billionaire owner is able to make the bet not having sareholders/dividends to concern him. If he wins, he wins big. The Indian market is big enough on its own. Mind you, as I understand the methodology, it takes months to get the first batch. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mr Red Date: 30 Apr 20 - 01:54 AM Wiki on Remdesivir (re COVID-19) |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Senoufou Date: 30 Apr 20 - 04:57 PM I had quite a disturbing email from my sister yesterday. In it she explained she can't speak as her throat is so sore. Her lungs are very painful and she can hardly walk without gasping for breath. She isn't sleeping well and is terribly worried that the virus has damaged her permanently. She first developed it about five weeks ago, and was discharged from the hospital two weeks ago, after having had ventilation and being on a drip. She used to be so active and fit, but she fears her life has become a limited existence of tottering around in a feeble state. I've heard that it can have long-term/permanent effects post-virally. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Steve Shaw Date: 30 Apr 20 - 06:14 PM Well that's difficult to say as the virus has only been around for four or five months. Take this as an optimistic remark. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Senoufou Date: 01 May 20 - 05:47 AM Thanks Steve, I will. As you say, the virus hasn't been around long enough for the after-effects to be scientifically assessed. Anecdotal evidence doesn't carry much weight in my opinion. But being a retired doctor, she can see the gravity of her state, which is sad. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 01 May 20 - 09:59 AM Forces à ta sœur, Senoufou. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Backwoodsman Date: 01 May 20 - 10:36 AM I see Trump is back to claiming the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (which, if i understand correctly, closed abruptly about the time we began to hear about the virus beginning to become serious in China). Curiouser and curiouser... |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Senoufou Date: 01 May 20 - 11:12 AM Merci bcp Mrrzy. J'ai soucis pour elle franchement, elle plonge en désespoire. It is curious Backwoodsman. If that Virology place was so insecurely managed, it should be permanently closed and the 'resident' viruses killed off. But what Trump says gets madder and madder doesn't it? I'm afraid his cheese has completely slid off his cracker! |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mossback Date: 01 May 20 - 02:58 PM Its not "curious" at all. Just President Lying-Sack-Of-Shit desperately trying to shift blame for his serial fuckups to anyone and everyone he can think of. And the brain-dead Trumpist dickheads will believe his conspiracy theory bullshit. Be afraid. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: fat B****rd Date: 01 May 20 - 03:58 PM Sending late best thoughts Eliza. Charlie x |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 01 May 20 - 04:04 PM Understood but Senofou is using the word curious in a most wonderful way as in 'discovery' or seeking discovery. Multiple organ damage may occur but there may be treatments for even that as in stem cell tretments from ones own body. More time is needed. Beware of rhetorical questions Mossback |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Senoufou Date: 01 May 20 - 04:32 PM Thank you so much Charlie, your kind thoughts really help to reassure me. At least my sister is eating properly - she has lots of batch-cooked meals in her freezer which she made long before the virus struck. I see that Korea are now saying people cannot get Covid19 twice after all. That's encouraging isn't it? |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 01 May 20 - 05:28 PM Ooh that would be great. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 01 May 20 - 05:50 PM Fauci has been working for decades to make a flu vaccine for ALL flu by working with the rod protein all flus share. btw the White house has blocked Fauci from testifying in Congress |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Bonzo3legs Date: 01 May 20 - 06:20 PM "promised 100k tests a day by the end of April. On 30th April, 122,347 tests were completed. Promise made. Promise delivered" |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mossback Date: 01 May 20 - 06:29 PM Beware of rhetorical questions Mossback Beware of reality and factual information, Don - you're sliding into Trumpism. Bozo: Bullshit Stated - Bullshit Delivered. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Steve Shaw Date: 01 May 20 - 07:12 PM "On 30th April, 122,347 tests were completed." Not so, Mudcat's Croydon Eye. A third of those tests were sent out by post and no-one knows how many were either received on time or actually carried out. Comment is free but facts are sacred. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Bonzo3legs Date: 02 May 20 - 02:30 AM Well done @MattHancock All the doubters vanquished and the lefties now will have to find another issue to spread doom and gloom #testing |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 02 May 20 - 03:34 AM Many BAME are suffering COVID19 (& rickets) in England (& New York) due to mass economic/CAPITALIST immigration in defiance of EVOLUTION - i.e., darker skin DOES need more sunlight for enough vitaminD to be healthy & we are too far from the equator for them; my poem, from WalkaboutsVerse on "Repatriating" |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Bonzo3legs Date: 02 May 20 - 03:42 AM I'm determined to come out of lockdown with new stuff. I’ve just signed up for an online archeology course |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Senoufou Date: 02 May 20 - 03:50 AM My husband had slight rickets when I first met him; his legs are a bit curved. He hadn't had a good diet from infancy (just white rice and a few vegetables). The sun in his homeland is very strong of course, but it didn't seem to rectify the lack of vitamin D. He takes supplements now, and eats plenty of vitamin D-rich food. Bonzo, archaeology sounds extremely interesting! I agree it's a good idea to profit from the Lockdown and study something. (for me - Crumpetology?) |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Backwoodsman Date: 02 May 20 - 03:57 AM Archaeology eh, Bonz? A very appropriate course to be studied by an Anachronism. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Bonzo3legs Date: 02 May 20 - 04:21 AM Think about the wording!! |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 02 May 20 - 09:29 AM Bame? |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 May 20 - 11:22 AM Don't ask, he'll just send more bad poetry your way. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Doug Chadwick Date: 02 May 20 - 11:33 AM BAME:- Black, Asian, minority ethnic. i.e. non white. DC |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: The Sandman Date: 02 May 20 - 12:18 PM bonzo , i notice your posts are a trifle dogmatic |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 02 May 20 - 12:40 PM Hows this for dogmatic 1. Oh my name it is nothin' My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I's taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that land that I live in Has God on its side. 2. Oh the history books tell it They tell it so well The cavalries charged The Indians fell The cavalries charged The Indians died Oh the country was young With God on its side. 3. Oh the Spanish-American War had its day And the Civil War too Was soon laid away And the names of the heroes I's made to memorize With guns in their hands And God on their side. 4. Oh the First World War, boys It came and it went The reason for fighting I never did get But I learned to accept it Accept it with pride For you don't count the dead When God's on your side. 5. When the Second World War Came to an end We forgave the Germans And then we were friends Though they murdered six million In the ovens they fried The Germans now too Have God on their side. 6. I've learned to hate the Russians All through my whole life If another war comes It's them we must fight To hate them and fear them To run and to hide And accept it all bravely With God on my side. 7. But now we got weapons Of biological dust If fire them we're forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God's on your side. 8. Through isolation days I've heard old war cries between the blues and greys Reds say $ is above lives Some blame it on the yellow You'll have to decide Who rings most hollow had God on his side. 9. So now as I'm coughin' I'm weary as hell The confusion I'm feelin' no tongue can tell I hear myself sayin if God's on our side He'll stop the next war and won't let it hide. Walkabout Don |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Bonzo3legs Date: 03 May 20 - 05:38 AM "bonzo , i notice your posts are a trifle dogmatic" So they are! Our greyhound in her lockdownness decided to dig a hole in the lower level of our garden this morning until I bribed her away with treats!! |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 03 May 20 - 08:27 AM Ah, thanks. Like POC. |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 03 May 20 - 09:09 AM Kids being potty trained are virtually immune to Covid 19 so Trump suggested older people could shit their pants for similar results :^/ |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 04 May 20 - 09:14 AM Happy (silent) hypoxia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/happy-hypoxia-unusual-coronavirus-effect-baffles-doctors |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 04 May 20 - 12:08 PM The coming pandemic -Austrailian documentary version Is highly informative! |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 04 May 20 - 12:10 PM https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/happy-hypoxia-unusual-coronavirus-effect-baffles-doctors good catch Mrrzy |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 04 May 20 - 06:16 PM Also this, which I find encouraging: Hey I can do blickies again! |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 05 May 20 - 06:21 AM 47D11 go team go |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: gillymor Date: 05 May 20 - 08:23 AM Trump's push to prematurely open up could be deadly: NYTimes |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Donuel Date: 05 May 20 - 08:30 AM I heard it will magically disappear in April Is it April yet? |
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic From: Mrrzy Date: 05 May 20 - 09:44 AM Children have been being misdiagnosed, rather than not getting it, as it seems to present differently: Blicky |