April 4, 2020

This whole thing could have been stopped dead in its tracks in China in 2019

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142462796

Thanx to DUer SoCal Dem.

April 3, 2020

Treason questions for Jared and the Trumps.

1) Is Jared and or other members of the Trump clan selling our federal stockpiles to foreign
countries or grifting off of private suppliers who are selling the P.P.E.s and other critically needed
medical equipment to the highest bider? Those supplies should be going to the areas of most need
not to where Jared and or private companies can make the biggest buck.

2) Exactly what are Jared's credentials to overseeing America's response to C-19? Has he
ever worked in a hospital or a medical setting? Does he have experience in supply chain logistics?
Has he taken one college level course in microbiology and or epidemiology and or even basic biology?

3) Are Jared and Donald trying to kill people in blue states by not sending the needed supplies?
Such as ventilators to NYC?

4) Can somebody please tell this is all a really bad dream?

April 3, 2020

Just because we need some light and love

March 31, 2020

Despite these terrible times I think I have found true love, I just got this email

Was that really you in the square a few days ago?

I know this is kinda random, but I think I saw you the other day before seeing your user page on this singles site.

I'm the chick that looks like that (see the attached pictures), I think you will recognize me.

Please respond,
Gwen

And all she wants is my credit card information .... what could go wrong?

March 31, 2020

Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis an actual quote

OK I only watched for 30 seconds. I guess Ron said this today.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, "We have to see how the virus is acting in different communities." OK this is as
well as I remember it.

March 30, 2020

We have now passed Pearl Harbor. So far, 2490 Americans have died of COVID-19.

"The total number of military personnel killed was 2,335, including 2,008 navy personnel, 109 marines,
and 218 army. Added to this were 68 civilians, making the total 2403 people dead."

https://visitpearlharbor.org/faqs/how-many-people-died-at-pearl-harbor-during-the-attack/

March 30, 2020

When things were going bad for the U.K. in WW II they got rid of Chamberlain and put in ...

... Winston Churchill and now we a staring down > 1,000,000 dead because of Trump's
mentally ill corrupt incompetence. Now is the time to get rid of him. I know we don't
have the mechanisms in place to remove him but things have changed so much we need
to do things differently. His presser today should be his last one not only did he call out two
African American reporters as "you people" but he kept talking about generators when the
subject was respirators or maybe it was ventilators.

I have filled out a new will and I am sitting here waiting for the C-19 storm to wash over
me, my family, my friends, and my neighbors. I give myself about a 50/50 chance.

For the love of God we should not be going through w/this shit now.

Or maybe I might be wrong because Trump did say that it would "all go away when the
temperatures warm up in April."

March 29, 2020

He needs removed now. End of story. / Trump, " ... a lot of good things are happening."

I don't know how but Trump has got to go now. Purposely sending defective medical
equipment to CA, short changing of some states of needed medical equipment,
paying no attention to the upcoming pandemic, trying to figure ways so that he
and or his family can make money off this crisis, his insane rants, and all the time
telling us and the governors that we should be grateful as this totally preventable
C-19 storm washes over the nation is just too much.

The House under Schiff can hold an impeachment hearing in the morning, vote in
the afternoon, and then send it to the senate for a vote to remove him the next day.
The man is an insane criminal and he will kill us all if given a chance.

We don't have until November and then January of 2021 to do something that piece of
shit needs gone now.

******

Trump, " ... a lot of good things are happening." https://www.nationalmemo.com/as-virus-toll-soars-trump-says-a-lot-of-good-things-are-happening/


Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to a projection that encompasses the range of the four scenarios. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7* million people could die.

And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the United States could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html

* I figured it at 3,960,000 dead

March 29, 2020

Fox News will kill you

I saw about 5 minutes as I surfed up to the weather channel

Christ on cracker pure lies and bull shit

Trump stopped the C-19 virus by stopping people from China coming here

Some E.R. "fox dr." saying if you listen to me you will never get C-19

C-19 can't really be transmitted in the air

Vaccines are "just about ready"

Mike Pence, we are going to be opening the country back up even sooner

Pence, we are targeting "hot spots" in order to stop C-19

March 28, 2020

Some Hope: How blood from coronavirus survivors might save lives

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00895-8

How blood from coronavirus survivors might save lives

New York City researchers hope antibody-rich plasma can keep people out of intensive care.

Hospitals in New York City are gearing up to use the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 as a possible antidote for the disease. Researchers hope that the century-old approach of infusing patients with the antibody-laden blood of those who have survived an infection will help the metropolis — now the US epicentre of the outbreak — to avoid the fate of Italy, where intensive-care units (ICUs) are so crowded that doctors have turned away patients who need ventilators to breathe.

The efforts follow studies in China that attempted the measure with plasma — the fraction of blood that contains antibodies, but not red blood cells — from people who had recovered from COVID-19. But these studies have reported only preliminary results so far. The convalescent-plasma approach has also seen modest success during past severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Ebola outbreaks — but US researchers are hoping to increase the value of the treatment by selecting donor blood that is packed with antibodies and giving it to the patients who are most likely to benefit.

A key advantage to convalescent plasma is that it’s available immediately, whereas drugs and vaccines take months or years to develop. Infusing blood in this way seems to be relatively safe, provided that it is screened for viruses and other infectious agents. Scientists who have led the charge to use plasma want to deploy it now as a stopgap measure, to keep serious infections at bay and hospitals afloat as a tsunami of cases comes crashing their way.

snip

Arturo Casadevall, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has been fighting to use blood as a COVID-19 treatment since late January, as the disease spread to other countries and no surefire therapy was in sight. Scientists refer to this measure as ‘passive antibody therapy’ because a person receives external antibodies, rather than generating an immune response themselves, as they would following a vaccination.