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Day 1 – I Can Do This!! Got enough food and wine to last a month!
Day 2 – Opening my 8th bottle of Wine. I fear wine supplies might not last!
Day 3 – Strawberries: Some have 210 seeds, some have 235 seeds. Who Knew??
Day 4 – 8:00pm. Removed my Day Pajamas and put on my Night Pajamas.
Day 5 – Today, I tried to make Hand Sanitizer. It came out as Jello Shots!!
Day 6 – I get to take the Garbage out. I’m So excited, I can’t decide what to wear.
Day 7 – Laughing way too much at my own jokes!!
Day 8 – Went to a new restaurant called “The Kitchen”. You have to gather all the ingredients and make your own meal. I have No clue how this place is still in business.
Day 9 – I put liquor bottles in every room. Tonight, I’m getting all dressed up and going Bar hopping.
Day 10 – Struck up a conversation with a Spider today. Seems nice. He’s a Web Designer.
Day 11 – Isolation is hard. I swear my fridge just said, “What the hell do you want now?”
Day 12 – I realized why dogs get so excited about something moving outside, going for walks or car rides. I think I just barked at a squirrel.
Day 13 – If you keep a glass of wine in each hand, you can’t accidently touch your face.
Day 14 – Watched the birds fight over a worm. The Cardinals lead the Blue Jays 3–1.
Day 15 – Anybody else feel like they’ve cooked dinner about 395 times this month?
[HindustanTimes] Five army commandos, 5 terrorists killed in LoC 'hand-to-hand' battle
The army began hunting for this batch of terrorists on April 1 when they infiltrated into Kashmir with ground troops reporting footprints near the LoC fence that was covered under snow, said an army officer.
In a dark day for the army's Special Forces (SF), five commandos belonging to an elite unit were killed in action along the Line of Control in Kashmir's Keran sector on Sunday during an intense close-quarter battle with an equal number of terrorist infiltrators who were all eliminated, three officers familiar with the details said on Monday on condition of anonymity.
The bodies of the commandos and the terrorists were found barely two to three metres from each other, said the first officer cited above.
In a statement issued on Monday, the army said all five terrorists were killed in "an intense hand-to-hand battle."
"The Indian Army launched a daring operation at the LoC and engaged Pakistani-supported infiltrators in a close-quarter battle in heavy snow, neutralising the entire infiltrating batch of five. Four soldiers under the command of a junior commissioned officer from one of the most professional Para SF units were heli-dropped near the LoC after information on the infiltrators was received," the army said.
Three of the commandos were killed at the encounter site while two succumbed to their injuries while being airlifted to a military hospital.
The army began hunting for this batch of terrorists on April 1 when they infiltrated into Kashmir with ground troops reporting footprints near the LoC fence that was covered under snow, said the first officer cited above.
The army's search teams made contact with the terrorists and engaged them in firefights four times between April 1 and April 4 before the commandos from 4 Para (SF) were called in to take over the operation and hunt the intruders, he said.
"Based on visuals from unmanned aerial vehicles, the SF troops were staged forward to the nearest battalion headquarters by air as the location was winter cut off (due to heavy snow)," said the second officer cited above.
At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the five commandos began tailing the infiltrators following their footmarks on the snow. Several hours later, the footprints indicated that the infiltrators had gone towards a nallah and were hiding there.
"One of the squads didn’t realise that they were on a cornice. The complete snow block collapsed taking the squad leader and the two scouts down all the way to the nallah where the terrorists were sitting... It led to a close-quarter battle at almost point blank range," the officer said. The two commandos in the other squad rushed to provide support to their comrades who were locked in an intense close-quarter fight with the terrorists. In the ensuing engagement, the five commandos were successful in killing all the infiltrators but at the cost of their own lives.
"Despite the fall, the commandos killed all the terrorists because of their superior training standards," the officer said.
The army on Monday identified the fallen commandos as Subedar Sanjeev Kumar from Himachal Pradesh, Havildar Davendra Singh from Uttarakhand, Paratrooper Bal Krishan from Himachal Pradesh, Paratrooper Amit Kumar from Uttarakhand and Paratrooper Chhatrapal Singh from Rajasthan.
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May the commandos find themselves directly passing through the Pearly Gates or reincarnated as Brahmin warriors, as the case may be, while the jihadis enjoy the interesting pleasures of the Muslim Hell.
[Jpost] After Ali Mohammed Younis, a Hezbollah commander in charge of pursuing spies and collaborators was found killed in southern Lebanon over the weekend, Lebanese and Iranian media began reporting that the Mossad "and its mercenaries" were suspects in the assassination.
Hezbollah sources said Younis was found stabbed to death in his vehicle, Lebanese MTV news reported. He was found south of Nabatiya, Sputnik news reported.
A body was found on Saturday at the same location with stab and bullet wounds, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported. The report included an image that appeared the same as the image published in the Iranian reports about Younis’s death. A suspect has been arrested, NNA reported.
Al-Quds Al-Araby reported that the statement issued by Hezbollah mourning Younis indicated that his death was connected to his work, adding that the death may have also been due to differences between Younis and another group over financial issues.
...not at all the kind of thing that would motivate Mossad...
The Janoubia news website reported that Younis had been working for a while on a "sensitive file." Sources told the website that Younis was on a mission pursuing a target when he was ambushed by three vehicles and killed. Another person traveling with him was injured in the incident and mistakenly believed to be the murderer, according to Janoubia. It is unclear if he is the suspect that NNA reported.
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My impression is that they found two bodies, article isn't clear. Apparently Younis was just stabbed while another body found at the same location was shot and stabbed.
Stabbing is much quieter than shooting, just saying.
[Ynet] - Israel Monday received the first shipment of Avigan, an antiviral drug developed by the Japanese company Toyama Chemical which was found to be effective against the coronavirus, for further testing on patients in the country's hospitals. Avigan is approved for manufacture and sale in Japan as an influenza antiviral. It selectively inhibits the RNA polymerase of the influenza virus, an enzyme required for viral replication once human host cells are infected. COVID-19 also uses this enzyme to replicate and is classified into the same type of single-stranded RNA virus as influenza; hence, it is believed that Avigan may be effective in treating COVID-19.
[Washington Examiner] U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the Russia investigation is putting increased scrutiny on former CIA Director John Brennan, searching for any undue influence he may have had during 2017’s intelligence community assessment of Russian interference.
Durham, selected by Attorney General William Barr last year to lead this inquiry, drove to Washington, D.C., in March to ensure the investigation stayed on track during the coronavirus outbreak. The top Connecticut federal prosecutor is looking into highly sensitive issues, including whether Brennan took politicized actions to pressure the rest of the intelligence community to match his conclusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal.
Officials said Durham has been interviewing CIA officials this year, zeroing in on those at the National Intelligence Council, a center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence which oversaw the collaboration between the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency in putting together the 2017 assessment, and looking at how the work product was finalized.
The 2017 assessment concluded with "high confidence" that Putin "ordered an influence campaign in 2016" and Russia worked to "undermine public faith" in U.S. democracy, "denigrate" former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and "harm her electability and potential presidency," and "developed a clear preference" for Trump. The NSA diverged on one aspect, expressing only "moderate confidence" that Putin actively tried to help Trump win and Clinton lose.
"I wouldn’t call it a discrepancy, I’d call it an honest difference of opinion between three different organizations," former NSA chief Adm. Mike Rogers told the Senate in 2017. "It didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources."
Durham has interviewed Rogers and is also reportedly reviewing Brennan’s handling of a secret source said to be close to the Kremlin. The prosecutor wants to know what role that person's information played in the assessment.
Durham is also scrutinizing Brennan in relation to British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier. In particular, the prosecutor is looking for answers on whether it was used in the 2017 assessment, why former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe insisted upon it being part of the assessment, how allegations from the dossier ended up in the assessment's appendix, and whether Brennan misled about the dossier’s use.
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Durham has to go there so he can issue a report saying there's no there there...
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So far, we've seen nothing so far except some people around Trump prosecuted and convicted of "process" crimes--And it seems these process crimes were made up in the witch hunt.
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The impact of any charges would be buried in the pandemic wall—wall coverage so a delay is reasonable, regardless of partisan advantage. But if Johnnie-boy doesn’t do the perp walk, all bets are off.
[MIL.com] On the heels of new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advocating the use of face masks while in public, the Pentagon has released its own updated policy ordering all personnel under its purview to cover their faces.
As case numbers continue to climb amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, Defense Secretary Mark Esper appeared Sunday on ABC's "This Week," saying a military directive was coming regarding face masks.
Hours later, the Pentagon released its policy directing cloth face coverings for all personnel, including troops, civilians, family members, contractors and all others on Defense Department property in certain situations. The order sidestepped concerns around the nationwide shortage of N95 and surgical masks, telling personnel they will not be issued these in order to leave them available for medical professionals.
Instead, troops and other DoD-affiliated individuals are encouraged to make simple coverings out of clean T-shirts and other household materials, the Pentagon memo says.
"The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness will issue updated force health protection guidance on DoD implementation," it states. "The Military Departments will issue guidance on wear for Service members."
It's not clear when the military services will issue their specific guidance in light of the new directive.
Related: Fired Navy Carrier Captain Has Tested Positive for COVID-19: Report
Face coverings will be mandatory whenever people cannot maintain six feet of social distance in public areas or places of work, the policy, signed by Esper, states. They're encouraged to wear the coverings in all public situations, it adds.
The guidance caveats that the directive must be observed "to the extent practical" and notes that face coverings may need to be pulled down at security checkpoints to verify identification.
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It's the ass-covering and face-saving policies that are wrecking the US military...
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Setting a good example and keeping the troops healthy — a very good idea.
Instead, troops and other DoD-affiliated individuals are encouraged to make simple coverings out of clean T-shirts and other household materials, the Pentagon memo says.
Presumably the sergeants’ wives will pull together sewing groups (each at home with her own machine) to make a bunch of the things for everyone in the unit from donated spare clothing until the DOD issues formal face masks in the appropriate camouflage to match the appropriate uniform.
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NAS WI issued these rules today; have to question the required gear and the top brass expects the troops to build their own. so some guy walks in with women's underwear on his face.... 'hey you said I had to make my own and this was handy...'
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Face coverings will be mandatory whenever people cannot maintain six feet of social distance in public areas or places of work, the policy, signed by Esper, states.
[Armstrong] Dr. Anthony Fauci has a $100 million conflict of interest which is why he was opposing Trump. He is in league with Bill Gates who has pledged $100 million for Fauci to play with. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID, a division of National Institutes of Health, NIH) director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was against using chloroquine, said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, "There’s no magic drug for coronavirus right now," and lectured, "Let me put it into perspective for the viewers .. there has been anecdotal non-proven data that it [chloroquine] works... but when you have an uncontrolled trial you can never definitely say that it works."
I have warned that the CDC takes private money through its foundation. Gates even gave Fauci’s Foundation $13.5 million. I do not believe we can trust Fauci in the least. The CDC should NEVER be allowed to be bought in this way. It is Gates who wants to inject us all with microchips. I seriously do not understand if all his money has simply gone to his head.
Trump should fire Fauci first, and secondly shut down all private donations from anyone, especially Bill Gates.
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^ startup mentality. The companies that have been making vaccines forever have to gamble against money thrown against the wall to see what sticks. I'm not in that business, but I'm willing to bet that people who couldn't get hired at Big Pharma are lining up. And while "the next Jonas Salk" may be among them, he or she is in line with 1 million snake oil salesmen.
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Saw this coming 2 weeks ago. The man is a deep state pharma ringer.
[News24] Preparations to repatriate US and German citizens are under way as the number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases continues to rise in South Africa.
On Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced an increase of confirmed cases from 1 280 to 1 326, with a death toll of three.
The US embassy in South Africa urged its citizens who wished to return home to reach out to it.
This entails filling out a form detailing their location and personal details.
"We want to ensure that if an opportunity to return is presented, we have as complete a database as possible.
"Once specific flight details are confirmed, US citizens need to make their own way to OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, Cape Town International Airport, as well as King Shaka International Airport in Durban," the embassy said.
It is currently not clear how many US citizens are in South Africa.
The US has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world, reaching 160 700 positive cases and more than 3 000 deaths.
[WSJ] The coronavirus pandemic will offer many lessons in what to do better to save more lives and do less economic harm the next time. But there's already one way to ensure future pandemics are less deadly: Reform or defund the World Health Organization (WHO).
Last week Florida Senator Rick Scott called for a Congressional investigation into the United Nations agency's "role in helping Communist China cover up information regarding the threat of the Coronavirus." The rot at WHO goes beyond canoodling with Beijing, but that's a good place to start.
The coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China, sometime in the autumn, perhaps as early as November. It accelerated in December. Caixin Global reported that Chinese labs had sequenced the coronavirus genome by the end of December but were ordered by Chinese officials to destroy samples and not publish their findings. On Dec. 30 Dr. Li Wenliang warned Chinese doctors about the virus, and several days later local authorities accused him of lies that "severely disturbed the social order."
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[AP] As the coronavirus spread across the world and began its reach into the United States, an assortment of Americans from the president on down summoned one notion as they framed the emerging cataclysm.
"The Chinese virus," they called it ‐ or, in a few particularly racist cases, the "kung flu." No matter the terminology of choice, the message was clear: Whatever the ravages of COVID-19 are causing, it’s somewhere else’s fault.
Not someone. Somewhere.
A thick thread of the American experience has always been to hold the rest of the world at arm’s length, whether in economics, technology or cultural exchange. The truth is, this nation has always been a bit of an island, a place where multilingualism, or even holding a passport, is less common than in many other lands.
Now, the notion of a virus that came from a distant "elsewhere" stands to carve deeper grooves into that landscape.
"It’s a continuation of the same kinds of fears that we have had," says Jennifer Sciubba, an international studies professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. "We’ve seen this conversation before."
As the outbreak worsens by the day, the United States, like other nations, is drawing quite literally inward. With little ability to plan and increasing numbers of Americans out of work, that’s a natural reaction. "The coronavirus is killing globalization as we know it," one foreign-affairs journal said.
It’s unlikely that much of the globalization that touches Americans daily ‐ the parts in their iPhones, the cheap consumer goods, the out-of-season fruit in their produce aisles, the ability to communicate around the world virtually ‐ is going anywhere, at least for good.
But a protracted period of coronavirus anxiety and impact will almost certainly redraw ‐ and in many cases reinforce ‐ opinions about the wider world’s role in American lives.
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See my forthcoming book: "America: Doomed Since 1775", published by The Guardian Press.
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"Thecoronavirus is killing globalization as we know it,"
At last! A 'silver lining' to the 'cloud'.
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The usual accusations. What the erudite journalist misses is that in much of Europe a twenty minute drive will take one into a new country — the reason so many more Europeans have passports — and about 20% of Americans speak a second language at home instead of reciting “ Je m’appelle Peter” in school, with another tranche (hey — lookit that: I used a furrin French word in everyday speech!) picking up the riper bits of vocabulary on the street. Ah well, AP has never prided itself on original thinking or deep insight.
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Only Murica bad. Everyone at ZeroHedge says so. It must be true...
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is poking fun at culture racist?
"or, in a few particularly racist cases, the "kung flu.""
question rhetorical, because of course it is, as long as it's a cudgel to beat western culture with.
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Ah, the old bit about passports. Hey, clown, literally millions of Americans never needed a passport in Europe as members of the armed forces protecting the place since 1945.
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"has always been to hold the rest of the world at arm’s length" except for waves and waves of immigrants. No we keep foreign governments at arms length but welcome the folks willing to gamble on moving here.
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ Americans are increasingly taking preventative measures, including staying away from large crowds and avoiding touching their hands to their faces, to confront the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The survey found that 94% of Americans say they are staying away from large groups, up from 68% in mid-March, while 86% say they are avoiding other people as much as possible.
Among other findings in the survey, conducted March 26-29 among American adults:
‐ Americans’ worries about infection with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, have increased dramatically in the past six weeks ‐ including across age groups, race and ethnicity and by political affiliation. But Democrats remain more likely than Republicans to say they are strongly worried, 65% to 31%. Americans under age 45 are more likely than those older to say they are very worried, 54% to 46%. And Latinos are especially likely to express deep concerns, compared with white and black Americans, 64% vs. 47% and 45%, respectively.
‐ Efforts to reduce the risk of infection are pervasive among Americans of all ages, races and ethnicity, educational backgrounds and income levels. Still, some are more likely to have taken drastic actions than others. While Americans across age groups say they are staying away from large groups, older adults are more likely than younger adults to say they are avoiding other people as much as possible, with 92% of those over 60 doing so compared with 78% of those under 30.
‐ Compared with college-educated Americans, those without a degree are somewhat less likely to say they are avoiding other people as much as possible, 90% vs. 83%, and avoiding touching their face, 78% vs. 66%. And Americans in households earning less than $50,000 annually are slightly less likely than those in higher income households to say they are stocking up on food, 57% to 47%.
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Like most diseases, COV-19 seems to affect older citizens more than younger people who have healthier immunes systems. However, one can find cases where relatively younger people succumb to the disease or older people surviving the disease.
Several Israeli ministers have promised the shutdown will be gradually lifted, and the economy gradually restarted, after the Passover holiday break, provided that mass testing of the population gives mostly negative results.
However, new research has shown that the tests may not be reliable.
Israel’s 46th "coronavirus fatality," Rabbi Benzion Kuperstock, a seemingly healthy 63-year-old man, tested negative for coronavirus just four days before he collapsed and died at home. He was re-tested for the virus after his death.
Reports from across the world are emerging that suggest that the tests people are placing so much stock in are not nearly as reliable as we would like to believe. Every test has false-negatives and false positives. Probability theory tells us that, when most of the population is healthy, most people tested positive are actually false positive: cf https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/probability-false-negatives-positives.html
[Bernard B. Karik 40th Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, and NY Times bestselling author] "Fauci is the only guy in the whole fucking world that doesn’t think this stuff works! At what point do we question his motives? It’s against all logic and common sense."
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Lupus treatment that is in very short supply at this time as a result of all this interest. A lady who said she is prescribed this. So short she can't get it.
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Stupid. A vaccine ends this, completely. The various chloroquine treatments are only used after you get it; right now there's little evidence of a protective effect.
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I wouldn't bet the farm on it working, but I wouldn't bet against it either. Too much anecdotal evidence in its favor. If I were in charge, I'd ramp up production as much as I could, but also make sure that those who were already using it for Lupus or whatever wouldn't have to worry about getting more.
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Okay, if anecdotal evidence seems to be that it mostly works is there conflicting anecdotal evidence that it doesn't work and/or makes the patient worse?
Way too much red-tape bureaucratic BS in the discussion. How many tests are being run that will answer all these "concerns"?
Who's running the tests, what are they and when will their be a report of results?
We really can't wait for years to get back to work.
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Shouldn't drug companies worry about what will happen to their profits if a lot of old people - a major part of their market - die off while they rub their hands together and scheme about profits?
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But the theraputic dose I've seen (400 mg/day) is not a high does. It's what I've taken for 13 years.
I'm just one anecdote, of course.
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#12 As many as 4,000 seriously ill coronavirus patients in New York are being treated with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, state health officials say.
Once you seriously ill = have ARDS, too late for hydroxychloroquine.
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^ People who are dying will put anything in their mouth if they think it will prevent that. If the stuff is in such short supply, who's deciding it will be wasted?
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Never noticed any side-effects taking it for sixteen months in RVN.
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The call for the usual "tests" is ridiculous in that it dooms the control group to taking placebos when what they need is *treatment*. There's enough experimentation already done to notice the benefits, and the side effects have been known since the 50s (or longer). Its pedal to the metal time.
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Call me when they go back to FORTRAN and I won't remember that as well
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One of my best friends was a COBOL programmer for Hills Dept. Stores (late 80's - early 90's), then took that to Fidelity Investments for a good stretch. By that time I was a Visual C++ guy, so I've never had that COBOL pleasure.
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Some applications are so vital nobody dares to touch them. At one point the Franch postalbank had an application running on two or three layers of emulations so farid were they from even looking at it.
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Learned that back in 1983 at AT&T in NJ along with Model204. If you haven't heard of that one..reportedly it was used at only 2 places. The DOD and AT&T. Probably still running at both. The problem with compiled code is that if you lose the source and only have the object module running, you can't make changes unless yo have a de-compiler...don't know even if one exists.
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One of the greatest days ever was when Fujitsu updated their compiler on DEC to include perform until loop structure. I immediately rewrote a ton of custom ERP code to remove old school COBOL go to spaghetti loops. Could probably help but tbh it takes ages to learn custom legacy systems; hopefully they have some old timers around that can at least walk ‘newer’ programmers through the system architecture.
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What about ALGOL? When are they going to bring it back?
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Up until 10-15 years ago there were a *lot* of legacy COBOL code out there. And not just accounting software but huge enterprise applications with tens of millions of lines of code. (1)
Nowdays, as someone once said, Java is the new COBOL :) In 10-20 years you grandkid may be saying “Java? You got to be kidding! What’s next? Perl?”
(1) - of course with COBOL it took tens of millions of lines of code...
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I learned FORTRAN IV, then Algol, missed COBOL and SNOBOL. In 1970 I did an independent study course and made and earthwork program for designing single or dual highways, both together and splint. We got in on the early plotters, where we had pens and changes for color. At Berkeley we had a CDC 6400 mainframe computer.
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New-Jersey is probaly willing to pay ze Big, Big Bucks to anyone able to fix their Cobol program.
[Aljazeera] France and Italy have recorded their lowest death toll from the coronavirus in one and two weeks, respectively.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to a hospital for tests after showing persistent symptoms of coronavirus 10 days after testing positive for the virus.
[Breitbart] Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) has vetoed legislation that would mandate state voters to show a photo ID before they vote in the 2020 presidential election, and every election after.
Last week, Beshear announced his veto of mandatory voter ID legislation that ensures all registered voters must prove their identity before they cast a ballot, starting in November. They should prohibit requiring ID to get into the Statehouse/Governor's Office
According to Beshear, requiring voter ID creates "an obstacle" that results "in fewer people voting," though research and data show otherwise. In Alabama, which has a mandatory voter ID law, black American voters came out in droves in 2018 to help elect Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate.
"I am vetoing Senate Bill 2 because the provisions of the law would create an obstacle to the ability of Kentuckians to exercise their right to vote, resulting in fewer people voting and undermining our democracy," Beshear wrote. "Furthermore, no documented evidence of recent voter fraud in the form of impersonation in Kentucky has been presented."
A January poll by the Washington Post and Ipsos asked black Americans 18-years-old and over whether they had experienced voter suppression in the last ten years. About 92 percent said they had not experienced any voter suppression over the last decade.
Beshear’s veto of the legislation is likely to be overturned by the Republican-controlled state House and Senate, as the voter ID requirement was passed out of both by a supermajority.
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If we ever hold congress again, they should pass something stating that any state that doesn't check ID's when voting will not be counted for any part of the federal elections. And any judge issuing an injunction for this will be summarily executed for treason.
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Whoever holds congress, it won't be We The People. It will be the political whore class and they will fuck us over and steal our wallets every time. The Founders baked several solutions of varying degrees of intensity into the existing Constitution.
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Stomach-turning. Couldn't watch to the end. Stopped shortly after the 6-minute mark, after he began fondling the 12 year-old's dark hair and putting both hands on her shoulders.
He's taking advantage of his proximity and authority to grope and rub at precisely that moment when these children are least likely or able to protest. Creepiness and opportunism combined make for a very bad sign.
Whatever he may have been like 30 years ago, the man today is clearly sick.
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Westboro folks are probably hiding in a bunker right now worried someone with the virus will come visiting to spread it, or go out in a blaze of glory or something.
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This Nicholas was risen for to pisse,
And thoghte he wolde amenden al the Iape,
He sholde kisse his ers er that he scape.
And up the windowe dide he hastily,
And out his ers he putteth prively
Over the buttok, to the haunche-bon;
And ther-with spak this clerk, this Absolon,
'Spek, swete brid, I noot nat wher thou art.'
This Nicholas anon leet flee a fart,
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,
That with the strook he was almost y-blent;
And he was redy with his iren hoot,
And Nicholas amidde the ers he smoot.
Of gooth the skin an hande-brede aboute,
The hole culter brende so his toute,
And for the smert he wende for to dye.
As he were wood, for wo he gan to crye--
Help! water! water! help, for goddes herte!'
This works best when declaimed in a broad accent, while sitting in front of the fire with a few flasks of ale and a lot of encouraging laughter.
If you google "coronavirus deaths africa" it will not give you data on deaths for the first few pages. That's the first tell. If they could sell the fear, Africa death rates would be page one front and center and would be repetitious down the page. But i found the data buried.
Majority of cases are from S.Africa. As it sits, 200 coronavirus deaths in Africa so far as of April 2.
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When my sister had a storefront in NYC her landlord told her straight up: "If you didn't go bankrupt at the end of the year your rent is too low." By the same token, audit tax returns and anyone who has money to donate to an NGO gets bumped to a higher rate until they stop doing that.
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[DW] Only 8% of racist attacks on asylum-seeker hostels in Germany from 2015 to 2018 resulted in convictions, according to a new TV documentary. The filmmakers accuse authorities of lax pursuit of 'cocky' far-right suspects. The point of a "documentary" is advancing the agenda. Nobody makes one without a reason
Researchers at southern German regional public broadcasters SWR and BR had requested data from all 16 of Germany's states, or Länder, asking for attack counts and resulting convictions.
Between 2015 and 2018, they found, 2,558 incidents had occurred nationwide, ranging from abusive graffiti near hostels to serious arson and bombing attacks.
Hardly 600 such incidents were, however, publicly noted by Germany's federal Interior Ministry over that period, they asserted.
And, the counts of cases solved and convictions made were even less, according documentary makers led by Anna Tillack and Ann Kluhspies. Of the 2,558 incidents only 18%, or 467 cases, were actually investigated or led to discovery of perpetrators. And, in only 206 cases, or 8%, did fines or jail terms result on conviction, found the documentary team.
Furthermore, glaring regional differences emerged: In Baden-Wurttemberg 64% of its cases actually probed resulted in convictions. In Brandenburg state ‐ outlying Berlin ‐ only 28% ended in perpetrators being convicted.
Many far-right Death Eaters known to authorities also possess arms permits, note the filmmakers, but Germany's domestic interior agencies do not sufficiently notify weapons offices ‐ usually located in city or country administrations.
"The number of right-wing Death Eaters with weapons permits has almost doubled since 2016," observes the documentary team.
[AnNahar] China has sold nearly four billion masks to foreign countries since March, officials said Sunday, as they tried to stem widespread fears over the quality of medical exports.
Despite Chinese cases dwindling, Beijing has encouraged factories to increase production of medical supplies as the pandemic kills over 60,000 globally and parts of the world face a protective equipment shortage.
China has exported 3.86 billion masks, 37.5 million pieces of protective clothing, 16,000 ventilators and 2.84 million COVID-19 testing kits since March 1, customs official Jin Hai said, with orders to more than 50 countries.
She added the country's medical supply exports were valued at 10.2 billion yuan ($1.4 billion).
China has exported 3.86 billion masks, 37.5 million pieces of protective clothing, 16,000 ventilators and 2.84 million COVID-19 testing kits since March 1, customs official Jin Hai said, with orders to more than 50 countries. She added the country's medical supply exports were valued at 10.2 billion yuan ($1.4 billion).
However numerous nations -- including the Netherlands, the Philippines, Croatia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and Spain -- have complained about substandard or faulty medical products shipped from China.
Last week, the Dutch government recalled 600,000 masks out of a Chinese shipment of 1.3 million that did not meet quality standards.
China said the manufacturer "stated clearly that (the masks) are non-surgical."
Spain also rejected thousands of rapid test kits sent by an unauthorized Chinese company after it found that they were unreliable last week.
Chinese officials hit back on Sunday at media reports over defective medical supplies, saying that they "did not reflect the full facts".
"In reality there are various factors, such as China having different standards and different usage habits to other countries. Even improper use can lead to doubts over quality," said Jiang Fan, an official with the Ministry of Commerce.
The comments echoed remarks from Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, who over the past week has repeatedly urged Western media not to "politicize" or "hype up" the issue.
Earlier this week, Beijing tightened regulations for exported coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... medical equipment, requiring products to fulfill both domestic licensing standards and that of their destination countries.
China has also increased its production capacity of COVID-19 testing kits to over 4 million a day, said Zhang Qi, an official with the National Medical Products Administration.
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China has completely different standards for.test kits. They expect them to return negative so they can claim they have eliminated the virus, for example.
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So China created a demand for masks that they're now selling them at a profit. That's like running someone over with your car and then offering to call 911 for only $1,000. Real Samaritans, they are.
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"improper use can lead to doubts over quality," said Jiang Fan, an official with the Ministry of Commerce.
We'll show you "improper use", scumbag. Move closer to that lamppost.
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So. A mask for approximately every other person on the planet. Here, in one of the most prosperous nations on earth, I see almost none of these on people out in the street. I assume it's a safe bet few in the world's numerous and widespread shitholes have them.
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We'll show you "improper use", scumbag. Move closer to that lamppost.
That's not improper use, that's "off label..."
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^ Early Snark O' The Day candidate
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Outsiders host Rowan Dean says Australia should be pulling out of the World Health Organisation "tomorrow" as it has been "actively working against our interests and as a propaganda arm for the Chinese".
The WHO has been criticised for its handing and mixed messaging throughout the coronavirus pandemic which has currently seen over one million infections worldwide.
Mr Dean said the World Health Organisation "is a joke" and "the bloke who is now in charge of it has disgraced himself at every stage".
He said we could have a world body that looks after health, but it shouldn't be the WHO which has been "completely corrupted". "We should be pulling out of that organisation tomorrow and having nothing more to do with them".
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I hope the UN takes a big fuckin hit off this shit, WTF have they done besides kiss Chinas ass over this whole thing? It's well past time for the UN to go the way of the dodo.
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It took you this long to figure that out? I've known that for years.
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The CDC needs to have its house cleaned once this over as well. Every single participant in studies and propaganda regarding sodium and guns needs to go--their ONE JOB is DISEASE and they lost focus on that long ago.
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We've seen during the Wuhan Flu "pandemic" how excessive regulation has been deadly. We need to get rid of ALL worthless or useless regulation, and limit all new regulation to the absolute minimum necessary. Not what Washington thinks is necessary, but what proves to be necessary on the national scene. We also need to get rid of about 4/5 of government agencies. Our government is bloated and excessive, and needs to go on a massive diet.
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#6...yep.concerning sodium it is what is to much or to little...???
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3M China Ltd. manufactures and distributes rubber and plastic products. The Company produces plastic insulating materials, sellotapes, optical films, architectural safety films, automobile decoration films, and other products. 3M China also produces medial equipment, household appliances, office equipment, and other products. FOUNDED 1984
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Hopefully public memory and anger will last a while. There should be consequences for this, and the brand will suffer greatly from the utter globalist mindset of senior management.
For this think adding sticky particulates in the air:
Waiting for a friend from Chevron to post his analysis of aerosols of virus like this one. It's wild.... BTW best thing NYNY could do is park smoky diesel buses on the street filling the air with diesel particulates . Pollen is also good. Inside candles burning is good.
The airborne virus particles have too much surface tension to vaporize and are too small to be stopped by HEPA filters. The clue was stewardesses getting the virus on long distance air trips. The air on planes is too dust free and clean so the virus makes it through the filters.
BTW he is one of the top industry experts on filters and aerosols. Works at the big Chevron plant in Houston. Aerosols and filters including masks are among his specialties.
In order of help least to best:
1) dust
2) burning candles
3) pollen
4) Diesel exhaust without CO.
Then add HEPA filters and facemasks.
Somebody asked what about hospitals - Perhaps they should intake outside air before their filters. The interior air should be mixed with diesel exhaust and purged from the building.
As to store cashiers: If tobacco smoke is sticky - Maybe the checkout people at stores should be smoking cigars?
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I wondered about U-V light too. There seems to be some uncertainty as to whether COV-19 is airborne/windborne. There also seems to be uncertainty about the "viral shedding" mechanism of COV-19.
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I use an ozone generator. I rotate it between rooms. You CAN NOT be in the room when it runs. But ozone kills everything. It is a gas (obviously) and penetrates / disperses like a gas. Besides the upside of killing everything in the air or on exposed surfaces, or even into the mattress of a made bed you don't have to worry about getting all the air in a room through it like you do a filter. Plus it self quenches. Just don't let it be you that is the quencher.
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Just in case it should ever become relevant, Whiskey Mike, does ozone kill bedbugs, too?
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You grandmother or great grandmother would put a pot of water on the stove and set it to simmer. Add cup of vinegar white or apple. When you smell it, it kills it.
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Yes. In very controlled situations, has been used in vivo for pneumonia. And mites found in bedding (and on your face but not a brilliant cure for facial mites as the host suffers). Seriously upsets ants too, the hardy little buggers. They die but most seek new horizons.
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Doing the same Mike but all our units can be dialed down. If you only have an on switch and a timer, that's pretty bad.
We started using Ozone over 20 years ago for mold and virus mitigation. Fantastic and simple. But again they have to be dialed down.
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UV is pretty good at killing everything that requires a microscope(and/or stain) to see it. Reef tankers have been using them in aquariums for years. One speed(of water flow) to kill algae, another to take out parasites and bacteria. It works (UVC, that is) by wrecking DNA, so if you go that route put it in a box. If you can see the light, it is mutating your DNA and you will have poor results as regards personal health.
An Iranian newspaper criticizes #Khamenei’s close associate for disclosing that slain commander #Soleimani paid salaries to fighters of an Iranian proxy group in Syria. https://t.co/wyQKWMGihc
A third person has been detained in an anti-terrorism investigation in #France over a knife attack south of #Lyon that left two people dead, say authorities.https://t.co/gHmfeiY3Hs
A third person has been detained in an anti-terrorism investigation in France over a knife attack south of Lyon that left two people dead, authorities said on Sunday.
The third arrest was made on Saturday night, and that all three of the suspects are Sudanese, the French anti-terror prosecutor’s office said.
Prosecutors didn’t identify the suspect. They said he had no identification documents, but that he is Sudanese and was born in 1987.
Coronavirus: Greece quarantines 2nd migrant camp
[DW] Public health authorities have locked down two migrant camps after residents tested positive for the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... . Rights groups have called on Athens to move migrants colonists from squalid island camps to the mainland.
Greek authorities on Sunday announced that a second migrant camp has been placed under lockdown restrictions after a 53-year-old Afghan migrant tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The Afghan man and his family reside in the Malakasa camp, which lies about 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of Athens. Public health authorities are attempting to trace the chain of transmission, although it could prove difficult with the camp hosting some 1,800 migrants colonists.
Greece last week placed the Ritsona migrant camp in northern Greece under lockdown. Both camps will remain under quarantine for at least 14 days, according to Greece's migration ministry.
More than 110,000 migrants colonists reside in overcrowded camps across the country, including 40,000 who live in squalid conditions on five Greek islands. Many of them arrived in 2015 after fleeing war and extreme poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
New Orleans Death Rate 3 Times Higher Than New York City
[OANN] Experts recently revealed coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... seems to be far deadlier in New Orleans, Louisiana, than anywhere else in the United States. New Orleans has reportedly experienced a COVID-19 death rate three times higher than New York City.
According to the CDC, 78 percent of patients in U.S. intensive care units had underlying conditions, such as obesity or diabetes.
Doctors in Louisiana have said this information is in line with the results they have been seeing in New Orleans cases.
"We think that a lot of the organ dysfunction that we see in this COVID syndrome is the result of excessive systemic inflammation," explained Dr. Kyle Happel. "We know that folks that are obese a lot of times have markers in their blood and, a lot of times, systemic inflammation."
As of Saturday, Louisiana reported more than 12,400 cases of COVID-19, with the corpse count reaching just over 400. The state’s health department has said that 97 percent of those killed by the virus had some form of preexisting condition.
Michigan surpasses 15,000 coronavirus cases, 600 deaths
[FREEP] The number of confirmed coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... cases in Michigan climbed above 15,000, with a total of 617 deaths.
An additional 77 deaths from COVID-19 were reported Sunday along with 1,493 new cases. The state now has 15,718 confirmed cases.
Michigan has the third-highest number of cases and deaths in the nation, behind New York and New Jersey, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
#Austria’s daily growth of #COVID_19#coronavirus infections decreases to a single digit-percentage range from 40 percent three weeks ago as restrictions on people’s movement and the closure of schools and shops take effect, the health ministry says.https://t.co/toF12sALWA
President Trump has touted hydroxychloroquine as a potential life-saver, although there is no widespread scientific evidence to date showing it helps battle COVID-19.
But Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month said healthcare providers in the state would be using the drug in combination with the antibiotic Zithromax, or azithromycin, for some last-ditch cases, based on potentially promising research.
“Time is of the essence,’’ said Albany University Public Health Dean David Holtgrave, who is on the state’s research team, in a statement.
A state Health Department official said the DOH has shipped doses of hydroxychloroquine to 56 hospitals across New York, distributing enough “to treat 4,000 patients to date.”
Patients have received doses as part of four- or 10-day regimens, officials said.
The University of Albany’s School of Public Health is observing the drug’s impact on the patients, and its preliminary study could come back in weeks instead of the usual months, officials said.
A tiger the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, and six other big cats are exhibiting symptoms consistent with the illness, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Sunday afternoon. #Covid_19https://t.co/QlepjsOHGR via @NatGeo
For the third day in a row, the French health ministry also reported the cumulative tally of deaths in nursing homes since the start of the epidemic in early March, which were previously unreported.
This added another 2,028 deaths to the national tally for a total death toll of 7,560, an increase of 1,053 on the cumulative figure reported on Friday.
Previously unreported, nursing home deaths now make up nearly a third of total coronavirus deaths
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It's not gained any traction in the English-language press but multiple reports appeared a week ago in the Swedish-language local press that 40% of the initial 15 deaths in Sweden were Somali-Svensk ie Somali immigrants, who make up 0.6% of Sweden's population.
If my reading of the Swedish press is correct, Somalis also accounted for about 14% of the total infections in Sweden as of the beginning of the last week in March.
Putting these together yields a deaths-per-population rate for the Somali population that is about 100x that of the non-Somali Swedish population.
Do we know how many of the 400 additional deaths since last week were Somali-Swedes? We do know they are overwhelmingly concentrated in Stockholm, which is where the Somali-Swedish population is concentrated. Stockholm accounts 10% of Sweden's population but ca 70% of Saeden's coronavirus fatalities.
Based on anecdotal descriptions of Somali behavior during this crisis, it seems likely that Somali-Swedes continue to have orders of magnitude higher infection and death rates than Swedes overall.
Not to blame anyone or any group - every death is horrible, regardless of nationality or behavior - but we need to get beneath the scary numbers, disaggregate them by locality and neighborhood and every demographic attribute and then try to see the real drivers of the epidemic's spread.
It would seem logical for the Swedes to begin testing everyone in Jarva and the other Stockholm neighborhood's which reportedly contain this and other at-risk populations, and then to take appropriate, targeted measures as needed in those areas.
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But Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month said healthcare providers in the state would be using the drug in combination with the antibiotic Zithromax, or azithromycin, for some last-ditch cases, based on potentially promising research.
Seems a few days late. Hydroxychloroquine is said to be the most effective during the early disease stage and avoids the need for ventilators. Almost like NY Government doesn't want to admit Trump may be right (again).
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About the tigers, wasn't there an article somewhere about the Chinese rounding up "pets" in Wuhan. You have to grow a virus in something be it a cell line or a host. House cats have been used as lab animals before, and this begins to sound like a badB-movie.
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Wells Fargo ($10 Billion Dollars allotted to them) is already out of SBA money for the small business payroll protection program (in only a few hours), leaving a massive number of small businesses in deep dodo.
In Swedish, here's one of many articles that leads with the "6 out of 15" statistic. It also includes a discussion of cultural aspects (cf. paragraph about "kukturella aspekter"), also a quote from a local Swedish Muslim named Jihan Mohamed, and that appears to have been written by someone from the Swedish Muslim community.
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Until we have derailed breakdowns of infection and fatalities by sub-region, neighborhood and ethnicity, we cannot say that Sweden's approach is not the wise approach.
It may well be the case that the spike we are now seeing in Sweden is concentrated in a small number of at-risk demographics groups clustered in a few districts or neighborhoods in central Stockholm.
We don't know for sure because apparently the Swedish authorities do not disaggregate their health stats by ethnicity or race.
But if those press reports from a week ago are correct, then this behavioral + demographic explanation of the trend in Sweden is the most likely one for Sweden's -- really, Stockholm's - recent COVID spike.
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I’m guessing that doctors in NYC are prescribing HCQ to more patients earlier in the disease cycle and that is contributing to the reduced hospitalizations.
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In NY there are probably dozens of different treatment regimes, some using HCQ for mild cases, some using HCQ only for serious cases, some using it for prophylactic, some with zinc some without zinc. Probably a few cases where they are still enlisting patients for clinical trials.
NY is truly the nation's hot spot for the Wu. About 45% of the USA Wu deaths are from NY. LA, MI and NJ together are about 25%
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1 Grecian Formula: Quarantine all of them
2 Snark I read y'day - Michigan shouldn't worry. They'll lose out to Iowa and Wisconsin, then drop out of the Top 20.
3 De Blasio is the one who needs to be ventilated
4. Phillipines - no 9 deaths since the cops shot a guy who refused to wear a mask.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Rating agency Capital Intelligence Ratings on Saturday lowered Bahrain’s long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings to ’BB-’ from ’BB’, a statement from the agency said.
At the same time, the rating agency affirmed the sovereign’s short-term foreign and local currency rating at ’B’. The outlook for all ratings remains negative.
CI expects that the Kingdom’s fiscal and external balances would weaken significantly over the next 12 months due to the impact of lower oil prices and the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
The rating agency also said the current volatility and risk aversion in global financial markets would hamper Bahrain’s capacity to secure the funds needed to cover its large financing needs. The downgrade also takes into account the decline in the country’s net external asset position, large pressures on its modest level of international assets, and limited capacity to withstand a prolonged period of low oil prices.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Governor John Bel Edwards of Louisiana said he wasn't warned that by not canceling Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans it could cause an outbreak
'There was not a single suggestion by anyone – a doctor, a scientist, a political figure – that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras,' he told CNN Sunday morning
Louisiana is the fourth-most affected state in the nation from the coronavirus outbreak with 370 deaths as of Sunday
Edwards, and a few dozen other governors, were briefed by CDC Director Robert Redfield and immunologist Anthony Fauci February 9 of coronavirus threats
Mardi Gras was celebrated February 25 with the traditional 2.5 hour parade down Bourbon Street in New Orleans with thousands attending
The parade and celebrations likely led to the massive outbreak in the state
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/\ Yes, they are geniuses. That's why they huddle in crowded urban areas and sanctuary cities. By the way, not much discussion of sanctuary cities of late is there ?
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Bullshit. Edwards graduated with an engineering degree from West Point. He can do basic math and to think West Point didn't teach him anything about infectious disease spread is beyond belief.
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West Point taught him how to be an engineer, but the Democrats taught him how to be a politician.
As I am learning day after day, it's all about doing the wrong thing, gaining in some way, and then deflecting the blame onto others. This pattern happens again and again.
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He's a democrat. Democrats are not known for their intellect.
Two things pop into my mind.
1) Reagan: "Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
2) They're liberal so they don't have to ever apologize or say they are sorry. They just drop things that aren't working and move onto the next level of stupid.
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January 31, Trump bans foreign nationals from entering US who had recently been in China.
February 2, First death from covid, outside China
February 5, US citizens evacuated from Wuhan.
February 6, death toll in China 563,
February 8, US citizen dies in Wuhan
February 15, Trump declares national emergency
Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and six other House Democrats who chair subcommittees sign letter to president: “We believe your declaration of an emergency shows a reckless disregard for the separation of powers and your own responsibilities under our constitutional system.”
February 24, 2020 Pelosi tours Chinatown, encouraging people that its safe.
February 25, Mardi Gras
February 29, 2020 First US death from covid-19
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Dem powerbrokers see a great future for Bel Edwards. Unlike, Pelousy, Schitt and Occasional Cortex, whose eyes simply show an alarmingly unnatural amount of sclera, Bel Edweirds' eyes are bugging out like Cohaagen, Quaid and Melina on the Martian surface.
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“I tried to think but nothing happens “
—-Curly Howard of the Three Stooges
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I think part of what's happening here is that Governor Edwards (no relation to the more famous and much more fun Edwin Edwards, governor and ex-convict) is providing top cover for LaToya Cantrell, the Mayor of New Orleans, whocse support he will need down the road for reasons that I don't need to spell out. LaToya is a well-meaning soul, and was much better then her opponent in the run-off, but is so far in over her head that Air Force pararesuce jumpers couldn't pull her out.
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This is the HONORABLE WEST POINTER GRADUATE who's been letting the trial lawyers run rampant and drive out the industry I work in since his first election.
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The problem with Mardi Gras in New Orleans is that it isn't attended just by people from Louisiana. People from all over the nation descend on the Crescent City for the event. Then they all carried the coronavirus back to wherever they came from. It's not just the deaths in New Orleans, but deaths all over the nation that can be hanged around the neck of the mayor and the LA Governor.
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[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces killed or maimed nine Talibs after responding to a Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack on a convoy of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... province.
The 201st Silab Corps in a statement said the Talibs attacked the convey of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in Alisheng district on Saturday.
The statement further added that the Afghan forces responded to the attack with the support of the Air Forces who were providing close air support to the convoy.
The security forces killed 4 Lions of Islam and maimed 5 others during the clash, the 201st Silab Corps added.
The anti-government armed Lions of Islam including Taliban have not commented regarding the incident so far.
#Libya: 2 TFSA tested positive for COVID-19,were moved to Mitiga. Another 17 (pre or asymptomatic) tested positive in Ain Zara and were moved to a house TFSA clusters will be bad #Turkey sent TFSA who had close contact w/infected militants in Syria. (Turks are doing the testing.) https://t.co/QqdccJHlLX
[KhaamaPress] The United States reiterated its outrage with the ongoing political chaos in Afghanistan, emphasizing that business can’t be as usual for international donors in the country.
"It can’t be business as usual for international donors in #Afghanistan. International aid requires partnership with an inclusive government and we all must hold Afghan leaders accountable to agree on a governing arrangement," Alice Wells, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia said in a Twitter post.
Alice had earlier strongly reacted to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... ’s move regarding the dismemberment of the Ministry of Finance after the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) warned that the move would harm the country’s development and jeopardize the sustainability of peace if an agreement is reached with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... "Troubling new @USIP report that the Afghan govt is "eviscerating" & "gravely weakening" the Ministry of Finance by "carving out key constituent parts, putting them directly under the presidential palace." The Afghan people need accountable government," she said in a Twitter post.
The U.S. Institute of Peace in a report said the Afghan government is eviscerating the ministry‐carving out key constituent parts, putting them directly under the presidential palace, and gravely weakening one of the country’s most effective institutions. "It’s a move that’s bad for Afghanistan’s governance and financial viability."
"The ministry’s dismemberment began on February 19 when‐amid the ongoing dispute over the results of the presidential election‐President Ashraf Ghani issued a decree instituting major changes in its administrative structure and reporting arrangements," USIP added in its report.
The report also added "Under this order, three core functional areas of the Ministry of Finance (MoF)‐revenue, customs, and treasury and budget‐are to be carved out as independent units, reporting directly to the President’s Office (via the Administrative Affairs Office of the President), completely bypassing the minister of finance and deputy minister."
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ministry of Oil and Minerals, affiliated with the government of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, announced on Sunday the targeting of the pumping station for the Safer oil pipeline in the Sirwah District of western Marib.
The ministry accused the Ansarallah (var. Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... ) forces of carrying out this devastating attack in northern Yemen.
According to the Oil Ministry, "this targeting by the terrorist militia of the oil pumping station represents a criminal, sabotage and catastrophic act on the path of continuous depletion of the state’s capabilities and confirms the fact that the Iranian-backed militia has insulted and tampered with the capabilities and property of the Yemeni people, and it only speaks the language of sabotage and demolition. "
"The militia’s committing this cowardly act and heinous crime is an affirmation of the fact that it is seeking to destroy all the capabilities and progress of the Yemeni people. Hysteria perpetrated continuously and continuously in all regions and governorates of Yemen," they continued.
According to the statement, "The militia seeks from this operation to mix cards and direction and continue its destructive wars against national gains."
In the statement, the ministry appealed to all political forces and components at home and abroad to "quickly intervene, put an end to this terrorist militia, take appropriate measures that ensure the cessation of such hostile and outrageous acts against the Yemeni people, and take possible measures to protect the remaining vital facilities that the Yemeni people possess."
The statement pointed out that "this destructive work would fail the strenuous efforts made to create an attractive investment environment and climate and impede the return of foreign oil companies to the country to resume its activity in the production and export of crude oil."
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[CNN] A Harvard University professor and two other Chinese nationals were federally indicted in three separate cases for allegedly lying to the US about their involvement with China's government, the US attorney for the district of Massachusetts announced Tuesday.
Federal authorities told reporters the cases highlighted the "ongoing threat" posed by China using "nontraditional collectors" like academics and researchers to steal American research and technology.
Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, who is the chair of Harvard's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, is accused of lying about working with several Chinese organizations, where he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese entities, US Attorney Andrew Lelling said at a news conference.
According to court documents, Lieber's research group at Harvard had received over $15 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense, which requires disclosing foreign financial conflicts of interests.
The complaint alleges that Lieber had lied about his affiliation with the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and a contract he had with a Chinese talent recruitment plan to attract high-level scientists to the country.
He was being paid $50,000 per month by the Chinese university and given $1.5 million to establish a nanoscience research lab at WUT, the complaint said.
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Bill "eugenics" Gates Foundation passed money to NIH. Of which NIH sponsored a grant. The grant was awarded to Lieber/Harvard. Lieber sponsored Zheng, a chinese communist party member on a student visa. CCP was caught smuggling classified bio material to China (which I believe will come out as coronaviri).
Fun Fact: Bill Gates father was head of Planned Parenthood
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The head of Harvard's biochemistry department, the NIH, our most politically-influential oligarch .... it's all sickening. Unbelievable, surreal, like a running nightmare.
[KhaamaPress] The Public Uprising forces killed or maimed at least 11 Talibs during a clash in North-eastern Kapisa province of Afghanistan.
The 201st Silab Corps in a statement said a group of Talibs attacked the security posts of the Public Uprising forces in Nawa Jangal area of Tagab district on Friday.
The statement further added that the Public Uprising forces responded to the attack, killing at least 4 bully boyz and wounding others.
The Silab Corps did not disclose further information regarding the clash and it was not clear if the Public Uprising forces also sustained casualties during the clash or not.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
#2
I would offer that the Street's confusion stems from not knowing what direction the post-virus US-China trade situation may take. The sword of Damocles should be hanging over the heads of our box stores.
I suspect all sins will be forgiven once the crisis has ended, but with the Orange Man no one can be certain.
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I'd suggest they never know nada - they're like tribal shamans: dancing in masks and calling on spirits, and getting away with it because there is nothing to compare them with.
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It will bounce up and down in the next few weeks but Trump and various governors will start to relax the lockdown sooner than expected and the voices of confidence will become louder. Smart money's being deployed now.
#5
Just like the scientists during Trinity test who were freaked out..they kept looking at this bright object in the sky and an astronomer finally had to tell them that it was Venus that they were looking at not something strange...(Rhodes-The Making of The Atomic Bomb)
[ToloNews] Ahmad, a commander of NDS special forces, who led the operation to arrest Aslam Farooqi, the leader of the Khorasan branch of ISIS, said the operation was the most complex and precise operation he had carried out in his seven years of duty.
Ahmad, a 26-year-old NDS commander, said he and his subordinates originally intended to arrest an explosives and weapons supplier named Shah Wali who was active in Kandahar, but Ahmad said his (Shah Wali's) arrest opened the way for further successive operations in Kandahar.
"Our operation lasted six days and nights, and we carried out twelve operations and we carried them slowly because they (enemies) had moved to civilian areas," added Ahmad.
Ahmad said that during their second operation in Kandahar, he and his associates found that they were closer to Aslam Farooqi, the leader of the Khorasan branch of ISIS, than ever before, and that they would reach him if they proceeded cautiously.
"An operation was carried out in four or five parts of the city (in one of the southern provinces), and Aslam Farooqi was in one of the districts when we arrested him," Ahmad added.
Abdullah Orakzai, also known as Aslam Farooqi, was a resident of Akhondzadagan village of Orakzai agency, which is located in the tribal areas of Pakistain.
In addition to leading the Khorasan branch of ISIS, Farooqi also carried out responsibilities such as recruiting ISIS in Pakistain and running international communications for the Khorasan branch of ISIS.
After the peace agreement between the United States and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , only two major terrorist attacks took place in Kabul - one was an attack on a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party, in which thirty-two people died, and the other was an attack on the Sikh’s shrine in Kabul, which killed twenty-six people. Both attacks were claimed by ISIS.
"There is a real ISIS that is in contact with Syria and Iraq, and a second ISIS that originally operated under the umbrella of the real ISIS in some provinces and districts. Perhaps the information about this person (Aslam Farooqi), was given to the Afghan cops by another ISIS group," said Khan Agha Rezaie, a parliament member.
"The arrest of Aslam Farooqi is a major achievement for the government and national security forces; it means that ISIS has been defeated in Afghanistan," said Jawed Safai, a member of parliament.
Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadem, Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... , Abdul Haseeb Pashtun-infested Logari and Abu Saeed Bajuri were the ISIS leaders who were killed between 1393 and 1397 (solar years) in government forces operations in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
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[DallasNews] An owner at the North Texas plant is frustrated that his dire warnings went unheeded.
When the history of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... epoch is written, The Watchdog hopes historians don’t neglect to mention Prestige Ameritech and its owner, Mike Bowen. The North Richland Hills company is America’s No. 1 maker of hospital surgical masks.
During this crisis, you’d think the company would be pushing forward on all cylinders, working 24/7 to manufacture the one commodity that Americans and the rest of the world want so badly.
You’d be wrong.
The company is only operating weekday shifts. You drive by nights and weekends and the employee parking lot is empty.
"People are curious why there aren’t any cars in the parking lot," North Richland Hills Mayor Oscar Trevino told me.
And why is that, Mr. Mayor?
"The system got him," the mayor said about Bowen, who is executive vice president of the company. "And he’s unhappy about it."
The story of Bowen’s unhappiness is a cautionary tale about what can happen if Americans searching for cheaper prices send entire industries offshore to countries like Mexico and China.
Everything Bowen has warned about has come true. He warned that allowing another country to serve as our main supplier of personal protection equipment has the potential to become a national security nightmare.
Bowen declined to talk to The Watchdog for this story. He’s busy.
"There is 200 times more demand than there is supply," he told former presidential adviser Steve Bannon on Bannon’s podcast. "My phone is ringing every two minutes. Every one minute I am getting an email."
An examination of his warnings going back more than a dozen years tells the story.
The common theme is that during an outbreak like this, everybody wants to be his customer. But as soon as an outbreak subsides, his customers dump him and run back to China. The reason? His masks may cost a dime each, but a made-in-China mask might go for two cents.
"Last time he geared up and went three shifts a day working his tail off," the mayor recalled. "As soon as the issue died, he didn’t have any sales. He had to pay unemployment for all these people, and he had to gear down."
As Bowen explained to Bannon, "I’ve been preaching this American-made story since 2007. Nobody listened. The whole mass market was only interested in price. I’ve been everywhere trying to get people to listen. I’ve talked to congressmen. I’ve talked to generals. I’ve written the president. I wrote President Obama five or six letters, and he sent me a presidential proclamation suitable for framing."
Bowen wants a guaranteed contract, not a proclamation. It’s tough to win a bid to supply U.S. hospitals through their group purchase agreements that seek the cheapest price when your competitor pays low wages, ignores environmental concerns and is subsidized by a Communist government.
If we want to ensure we have domestic suppliers for critical items, we may need a federal law requiring hospitals to purchase one domestically made item for each cheap foreign made one. Even now, many of those highly touted donations are the result of purchases from China — the rest being boxes found forgotten in supply closets.
Last month, he got another proclamation but no contract to go with it. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida... , R-Florida, named Prestige Ameritech the "Senate Small Business of the Week." The citation notes that the company "has ramped up their daily production to 600,000 masks."
#Lebanon’s commercial banks will work with the central bank to determine a daily exchange rate for dollars under a new FX trading system being launched, the banking association says.https://t.co/tlJknumXNc
Interior Minister Arye Deri said on Sunday that a total lockdown of #Israel during the evening of Passover is planned and will be announced in the next two days. https://t.co/zq2O48Egph
The Iranian regime has blamed the US, Israel, and Jews for the outbreak of #coronavirus in #Iran, despite claims it mishandled the crisis. Read more here.https://t.co/ewqsxTzrqj
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he was 67
he had a prior heart condition
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Had dinner with while I was in Libya
A brilliant man who could enthrall you for hours on just about any subject you name except how to form and run an effective government
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That's why the dems want Trump to get involved in the Lybian conflict, their ppl are losing big even with Turkeys help. Bout time for Erdrogan to take the loss and show him he ain't shit.
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I recall LNA social media said it was 4 - 1 ratio of foreign mercs to Libyans fighting in the conflict.
Spain, Italy, France get 10 - 20% of their petro from GNA controlled oil fields/ports.
Global benchmark #oil prices trade as much as $3 a barrel lower as the market opens for Monday's trading session, reflecting fears of oversupply in the market.#OOTThttps://t.co/u0qiHYCdTh
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Social distancing is white privilege. Gaia leveling the playing field. Those coastal second home owners must be pushed back to the contaminated urban centers for COVED-19 processing.
[MAIL] Ministers fear that the coronavirus pandemic might have been caused by a leak from a Chinese laboratory, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Senior Government sources say that while 'the balance of scientific advice' is still that the deadly virus was first transmitted to humans from a live animal market in Wuhan, a leak from a laboratory in the Chinese city is 'no longer being discounted'.
One member of Cobra, the emergency committee led by Boris Johnson, said last night that while the latest intelligence did not dispute the virus was 'zoonotic' ‐ originating in animals ‐ it did not rule out that the virus first spread to humans after leaking from a Wuhan laboratory.
The member of Cobra, which receives detailed classified briefings from the security services, said: 'There is a credible alternative view [to the zoonotic theory] based on the nature of the virus. Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is that laboratory in Wuhan. It is not discounted.'
Wuhan is home to the Institute of Virology, the most advanced laboratory of its type on the Chinese mainland.
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Old news
Various articles on Rantburg in January and February pointed out things about this monster that were not naturally occurring
And the fact the lady heading the lab had presented a number of papers at symposiums about various research done at the lab that discussed genetic manipulation
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^ Because eventually you roll snake eyes, and because the virus genome matches what's found in bats. Now take yourself back to the 50 cent army you came from.
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^ Because the Chief Research Scientist was specifically studying bat viruses, had been for years. Wrote several papers and attended numerous conference where her work was discussed.
In fact, research into bat viruses was taking place at the ONLY BL-4 facility in China, it JUST HAPPENS to be located a short distance from the wet market that is being blamed for the outbreak.
#Iran’s military did “well” by downing a civilian Ukrainian airliner in January, says Hassan Norouzi, the spokesman for the Iranian parliament's legal and judicial committee, adding that no arrests have been made in relation to the incident.https://t.co/T0P4d9ryjJ
[Axios] The White House coronavirus task force had its biggest fight yet on Saturday, pitting economic adviser Peter Navarro against infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci. At issue: How enthusiastically should the White House tout the prospects of an antimalarial drug to fight COVID-19?
Behind the scenes: This drama erupted into an epic Situation Room showdown. Trump's coronavirus task force gathered in the White House Situation Room on Saturday at about 1:30pm, according to four sources familiar with the conversation. Vice President Mike Pence sat at the head of the table.
Numerous government officials were at the table, including Fauci, coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx, Jared Kushner, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, and Commissioner of Food and Drugs Stephen Hahn.
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Navarro's position is that present treatment by venitlator is ineffective (4 out of 5 people using them die) and the drug combination has plenty of clinical evidence that it is very efficient.
There is no worry about safety.
Fauci wants a traditional controlled test, which will take time, or require a control group condemned to take ineffectual treatment.
There is a way to satisfy both if data is gathered carefully. There is no need that the control group be treated at the same time as those given the drugs are.
There is plenty of data on the thousands who have died in the last month. If this are classified depending on age, sex, level of symptoms on arrival, etc, one can match most of those given treatment now by medicine with a machine chosen randomly selected matched control , where the machine does not know what happened to the control patient as a result of the old treatment.
Comparison between patient now and control patient will differ negligeably from comparison between patient and a contemporary control.
That means Fauci's desire for data for a matched control test of the medicine can be compiled while giving patients only the new treatment. as long as records from the last month are preserved.
So why not use the drugs now?
We are told that safety is not an issue.
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Navarro is right. There is plenty of evidence that this drug is effective, especially if taken at symptom onset. It is given to pregnant women, the group requiring the highest safety standards, so it can be widely prescribed with no risk. This drug won’t cure every patient, but if it makes the disease manageable and significantly reduces hospitalizations, then we can get back to work.
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Fire Fauci. I haven't liked him since he opened his mouth. He's oddly rigid about the whole thing in some kind of Big Pharma way. WTF is he waiting for> The only thing he ever does is explain how the curve works. Hell, I could explain it better than him. Start producing HCQ yesterday. If it works, great. If it doesn't, oh well, it's cheaper than the lives lost to fiddling while Rome burns.
HCQ makes lots of sense. It sneaks Zinc inside the cell and it gums up the replicator mechanism and slows the virus.
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I agree with #6 and #7, plus Fauci, like all bureaucrat and politicians, will not admit hr was wrong. They dig in and double down, until they are forgotten. Trump being an apparent exception.
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I just posted an Armstrong article today entitled "Did Gates purchase the CDC."
#10
Hydroxychloroquine works on malaria by displacing the bacterium from the hemoglobin. It does the same for the virus.
The virus prevents the red cell from carrying oxygen. Yes there are lung Xray changes but this is not NOT Adult Respiratory Syndrome ARDS. the problem is in the BLOOD not the lung.
Mr Fauci is not a clinician , hes a suit and a scientist. Cant take common sense hints .
Thank goodness Mr Navarro insisted.
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Trying to fix a dirty fuel problem by replacing the pump and injectors.... that's what ventilating these patients is. Very marginal help.
The problem is in the BLOOD.
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Chloroquine (a malaria drug) maybe: An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Elon Musk says maybe: An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Presented by: James M. Todaro, MD (Columbia MD, jtodaro2@gmail.com) and Gregory J. Rigano, Esq. (grigano1@jhu.edu)
In consultation with Stanford University School of Medicine, UAB School of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences researchers.
Recent guidelines from South Korea and China report that chloroquine is an effective antiviral therapeutic treatment against Coronavirus Disease 2019. Use of chloroquine (tablets) is showing favorable outcomes in humans infected with Coronavirus including faster time to recovery and shorter hospital stay. US CDC research shows that chloroquine also has strong potential as a prophylactic (preventative) measure against coronavirus in the lab, while we wait for a vaccine to be developed. Chloroquine is an inexpensive, globally available drug that has been in widespread human use since 1945 against malaria, autoimmune and various other conditions.
Chloroquine: C18H26ClN3
Background
The U.S. CDC and World Health Organization have not published treatment measures against Coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”). Medical centers are starting to have issues with traditional protocols. Treatments, and ideally a preventative measure, are needed. South Korea and China have had significantly more exposure and time to analyze diagnostic, treatment and preventative options. The U.S., Europe and the rest of the world can learn from their experience. According to former FDA commissioner, board member of Pfizer and Illumina, Scott Gotlieb MD, the world can learn the most about COVID-19 by paying closest attention to the response of countries that have had significant exposure to COVID-19 before the U.S. and Europe.[1]
As per the U.S. CDC, “Chloroquine (also known as chloroquine phosphate) is an antimalarial medicine… Chloroquine is available in the United States by prescription only… Chloroquine can be prescribed for either prevention or treatment of malaria. Chloroquine can be prescribed to adults and children of all ages. It can also be safely taken by pregnant women and nursing mothers.”[2]
CDC research also shows that “chloroquine can affect virus infection in many ways, and the antiviral effect depends in part on the extent to which the virus utilizes endosomes for entry. Chloroquine has been widely used to treat human diseases, such as malaria, amoebiosis, HIV, and autoimmune diseases, without significant detrimental side effects.”[3]
The treatment guidelines of both South Korea and China against COVID-19 are generally consistent, outlining chloroquine as an effective treatment.
Specifically, according to the Korea Biomedical Review, in February 2020 in South Korea, the COVID-19 Central Clinical Task Force, composed of physicians and experts treating patients agreed upon treatment principles for patients with COVID-19.[4] In China, the General Office of the National Health Commission, General Office of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as a Multi-Center Collaborative Group of Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology and Guangdong Provincial Health Comp and the China National Center for Biotechnology Development have established effective treatment measures based on human studies.[5]
According to their research (reported in Clinical Trials Arena),
“Data from the drug’s [chloroquine] studies showed ‘certain curative effect’ with ‘fairly good efficacy’ … patients treated with chloroquine demonstrated a better drop in fever, improvement of lung CT images, and required a shorter time to recover compared to parallel groups. The percentage of patients with negative viral nucleic acid tests was also higher with the anti-malarial drug… Chloroquine has so far shown no obvious serious adverse reactions in more than 100 participants in the trials… Chloroquine was selected after several screening rounds of thousands of existing drugs. Chloroquine is undergoing further trials in more than ten hospitals in Beijing, Guangdong province and Hunnan province.”[6]
Treatment Guidelines from South Korea[7]
According to the Korea Biomedical Review, the South Korean COVID-19 Central Clinical Task Force guidelines are as follows:
1. If patients are young, healthy, and have mild symptoms without underlying conditions, doctors can observe them without antiviral treatment;
2. If more than 10 days have passed since the onset of the illness and the symptoms are mild, physicians do not have to start an antiviral medication;
3. However, if patients are old or have underlying conditions with serious symptoms, physicians should consider an antiviral treatment. If they decide to use the antiviral therapy, they should start the administration as soon as possible:
… chloroquine 500mg orally per day.
4. As chloroquine is not available in Korea, doctors could consider hydroxychloroquine 400mg orally per day (Hydroxychloroquine is an analog of chloroquine used against malaria, autoimmune disorders, etc. It is widely available as well).
5. The treatment is suitable for 7 – 10 days, which can be shortened or extended depending on clinical progress.
Notably, the guidelines mention other antivirals as further lines of defense, including anti-HIV drugs.
Treatment Guidelines from China[8]
According to China’s Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Plan, 7th Edition, the treatment guidelines are as follows:
1. Treatment for mild cases includes bed rest, supportive treatments, and maintenance of caloric intake. Pay attention to fluid and electrolyte balance and maintain homeostasis. Closely monitor the patient’s vitals and oxygen saturation.
2. As indicated by clinical presentations, monitor the hematology panel, routine urinalysis, CRP, biochemistry (liver enzymes, cardiac enzymes, kidney function), coagulation, arterial blood gas analysis, chest radiography, and so on. Cytokines can be tested, if possible.
3. Administer effective oxygenation measures promptly, including nasal catheter, oxygen mask, and high flow nasal cannula. If conditions allow, a hydrogen-oxygen gas mix (H2/O2: 66.6%/33.3%) may be used for breathing.
4. Antiviral therapies:
… chloroquine phosphate (adult 18-65 years old weighing more than 50kg: 500mg twice daily for 7 days; bodyweight less than 50kg: 500mg twice daily for day 1 and 2, 500mg once daily for day 3 through 7) …
Additionally, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology and the Guangdong Provincial Health and Health Commission issued a report stating “Expert consensus on chloroquine phosphate for new coronavirus pneumonia: … clinical research results show that chloroquine improves the success rate of treatment and shortens the length of patient’s hospital stay.”[9] The report further goes on to cite research from the US CDC from 2005 as well as research from the University of Leuven University in Belgium regarding chloroquine’s effectiveness against SARS coronavirus at the cellular level.[10]
Like the South Korean guidelines, notably, other antivirals (e.g. anti-HIV drugs) are listed as further lines of defense. The most research thus far has been around chloroquine.
Chloroquine as a prophylactic (preventative) measure against COVID-19[11]
According to research by the US CDC, chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS coronavirus, both prophylactically and therapeutically. SARS coronavirus has significant similarities to COVID-19. Specifically, the CDC research was completed in primate cells using chloroquine’s well known function of elevating endosomal pH. The results show that “We have identified chloroquine as an effective antiviral agent for SARS-CoV in cell culture conditions, as evidenced by its inhibitory effect when the drug was added prior to infection or after the initiation and establishment of infection. The fact that chloroquine exerts an antiviral effect during pre- and post-infection conditions suggest that it is likely to have both prophylactic and therapeutic advantages.”
The study shows that chloroquine is effective in preventing SARS-CoV infection in cell culture if the drug is added to the cells 24 h prior to infection.
FIGURE 1
Prophylactic effect of chloroquine. Vero E6 cells pre-treated with chloroquine for 20 hrs. Chloroquine-containing media were removed and the cells were washed with phosphate buffered saline before they were infected with SARS-CoV (0.5 multiplicity of infection) for 1 h in the absence of chloroquine. Virus was then removed and the cells were maintained in Opti-MEM (Invitrogen) for 16–18 h in the absence of chloroquine. SARS-CoV antigens were stained with virus-specific HMAF, followed by FITC-conjugated secondary antibodies. (A) The concentration of chloroquine used is indicated on the top of each panel. (B) SARS-CoV antigen-positive cells at three random locations were captured by using a digital camera, the number of antigen-positive cells was determined, and the average inhibition was calculated. Percent inhibition was obtained by considering the untreated control as 0% inhibition. The vertical bars represent the range of SEM.
In the case of chloroquine treatment prior to infection, the impairment of terminal glycosylation of ACE2 may result in reduced binding affinities between ACE2 and SARS-CoV spike protein and negatively influence the initiation of SARS-CoV infection. The cell surface expression of under-glycosylated ACE2 and its poor affinity to SARS-CoV spike protein may be the primary mechanism by which infection is prevented by drug pretreatment of cells prior to infection.
In addition, the study also shows that chloroquine was very effective even when the drug was added 3–5 h after infection, suggesting an antiviral effect even after the establishment of infection.
Figure 2
Post-infection chloroquine treatment reduces SARS-CoV infection and spread. Vero E6 cells were seeded and infected as described for Fig. 1 except that chloroquine was added only after virus adsorption. Cells were maintained in Opti-MEM (Invitrogen) containing chloroquine for 16–18 h, after which they were processed for immunofluorescence. (A) The concentration of chloroquine is indicated on the top. (B) Percent inhibition and SEM were calculated as in Fig. 1B. (C) The effective dose (ED50) was calculated using commercially available software (Grafit, version 4, Erithacus Software).
When chloroquine is added after infection, it can rapidly raise the pH and subvert on-going fusion events between virus and endosomes, thus inhibiting the infection. When added after the initiation of infection, it likely affects the endosome-mediated fusion, subsequent virus replication, or assembly and release. Specifically, rapid elevation of endosomal pH and abrogation of virus-endosome fusion may be the primary mechanism by which virus infection is prevented under post-treatment conditions.
The US CDC study goes on to conclude that:
“The infectivity of coronaviruses other than SARS-CoV are also affected by chloroquine, as exemplified by the human CoV-229E [15]. The inhibitory effects observed on SARS-CoV infectivity and cell spread occurred in the presence of 1–10 μM chloroquine, which are plasma concentrations achievable during the prophylaxis and treatment of malaria (varying from 1.6–12.5 μM) [26] and hence are well tolerated by patients. Chloroquine, a relatively safe, effective and cheap drug used for treating many human diseases including malaria, amoebiasis and human immunodeficiency virus is effective in inhibiting the infection and spread of SARS CoV in cell culture.”
COVID-19 and Chloroquine: Mechanisms of Action[12]
COVID-19 in a single stranded, positive strain RNA virus with a protein shell and membrane. The genome is of the same sense of the mRNA. It goes through a lifecycle where incoming viral COVID genome has to become double stranded RNA and the new strand becomes the new strand for the new mRNA. There are significant similarities between COVID-19 and SARS coronavirus. Both COVID-19 and SARS-like coronaviruses have machinery for regulating their own replication and production of their proteins. Coronavirus depends on the breakdown of macromolecules such as proteins. Specifically, the virus depends on turning over the host proteins to trigger response for available building blocks to make their own proteins or nucleic acids. They break down due to low PH catalyzed by hydrolysis. Additionally, coronaviruses have non-structural proteins that are not part of the capsid (protein shell of the virus). These non-structural proteins are regulatory proteins that take over the host cell and suppress the immune system of the host (similar to HIV). Coronavirus can create growth factor like mechanisms (e.g. cytokines) to optimize the growth environment in the cell to favor it.
It is this part of the coronavirus’ replicative path that chloroquine inhibits. Notably, because of its nitrogen structure, chloroquine has the unique ability to get into cells and cross endosomal membranes. Once inside, nitrogens in chloroquine (and quinines in general) prevent acidification by absorbing a high amount of hydrogens that simply then interact with nitrogen and then chloroquine becomes positively charged – an ionic interaction which makes it harder for the endosome to become acidified. The result is a buffer that holds it at the higher pH and prevents it from becoming acidic enough to be functional. To summarize, because chloroquine has a multitude of extra nitrogens, once it crosses the membrane and enters an organelle, the organelle is prevented from reaching a lower pH. The organelle’s enzymes cannot work because the donor group will be a hydrogen ion, disabling the hydrolysis required for coronavirus replication. This means that all kinds of events in the cell are incapable of performing optimally, including viral replication.
Chloroquine’s entrance into the organelle likely constipates the whole system. An analogy is that the virus is like a garbage facility which has to break down and burn up the garbage and if it cannot, the garbage piles up and the city becomes paralyzed. This is likely the case for any virus, cancer cells or any other condition that is dependent on turning over the worn out or incorrectly synthesized proteins.
The UK has banned the export of Chloroquine[13]
As of February 26, 2020, the UK government has added chloroquine to the list of medicines that cannot be parallel exported from the UK. Chloroquine was never on this list before. This likely happened because of the growing body of evidence of chloroquine’s effectiveness against coronavirus.
China prioritizes internal use of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) including Chloroquine[14]
In early February, Chongqing Kangle Pharmaceutical was requested by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Consumption Division to promptly increase the manufacturing and production of the active pharmaceutical ingredients chloroquine phosphate despite slowed production during the Chinese New Year.
Key Risks and Tradeoffs
There has been massive de-stabilization of society due to COVID-19.
Mutations[15]
RNA viruses are subject to fairly high mutation rates as RNA based genomes do not copy themselves faithfully, thereby accumulating mutations quickly which can lead to failure of the virus (analogy: unaudited software code will often eventually fail due to a critical error) or can lead to a stronger mutation – which is likely what has happened in 2020 (when coronavirus “jumped” from animal to human; it is doubtful that this has occurred because of the use of chloroquine) as we have have two forms of COVID-19 (“more aggressive” and “less aggressive”). If the replication quality of RNA virus like coronavirus can be destabilized this will likely cause it to self destruct, but there is always the risk that the virus mutates to become more aggressive.
Treating COVID-19 with chloroquine, as is being done in South Korea and China does have the potential to lead to a mutation. The mutation can either be beneficial or harmful to humans. In this particular case, chloroquine is likely being used to destabilize the replication quality of COVID-19, providing significant potential for COVID-19 to self-destruct, which would likely bide more time for health systems worldwide to increase capacity and equipment as well as allow time for the public release of a vaccine. All precaution must be taken into account for the risk of escape where COVID-19 comes out stronger.
Manufacturing
Chloroquine and its analogs has been manufactured and distributed at global scale since approximately 1945. While there has recently been a shortage of N95 protective masks, medical systems can adjust and dramatically increase the supply of chloroquine in the world. Chloroquine tablets and intravenous formulations are generic and easy to produce.
Safety[16]
Chloroquine is a prescription drug. It can have side effects and has contraindications. One often cited side effect is chloroquine retinopathy, which can result in permanent vision loss after high cumulative doses of chloroquine. However, retinal damage is extremely rare in patients with a total dosage under 400g (dosage level only reached after years of treatment). Medical professionals must be consulted before use of chloroquine. Chloroquine tablets are readily available in the U.S. and have never been removed from the market. Intravenous chloroquine was taken off the market in the USA pre-2000 because of the absence of acute malarial infections in the USA – there was no use for the intravenous form. It can easily be brought back to the market.
Formulation Optimizations[17]
Tablet vs. Intravenous
Currently chloroquine is most widely administered in tablet form (chloroquine phosphate. While readily available, the issue is that when the tablet is ingested, it must be processed through the stomach and be taken up by the small intestine, for which then it enters the blood and subsequently the respiratory system. Because of the metabolism, this takes time and there is a loss of chloroquine delivery to the respiratory system (where COVID-19 replicates).
When chloroquine is used intravenously against malaria (chloroquine hydrochloride), it is being mainlined directly into the blood stream so that it is distributing around the body within seconds, likely encountering the virus faster and at a higher concentration in the respiratory system. Intravenous formulations are readily available and should be studied accordingly.
Further research should be carried out using chloroquine in nanoparticles and various fast, slow and sustained released formulations, as well as combinations of chloroquine and other molecules.
Repurposing other FDA approved drugs
As per Steve Schow PhD, Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lead Advisor to Stanford’s SPARK Translational Research Program:
“There are a number of related isoquinoline and quinoline drug family members who might exhibit the same general acid neutralizing effects. In addition certain antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs are known to accumulate in lysosomes via this acid-base process and might be effective here if the doses needed aren’t too high.”[18]
New Molecular Entity: Chloroquine analogs with more nitrogens
The nitrogens in chloroquine and quinines in general prevent acidification by absorbing a high amount of hydrogens that then interact with nitrogen, and,in turn, transfer a positive charge to chloroquine. This ionic interaction makes it harder and harder for the endosome to become acidified, therefore disrupting viral replication. If more nitrogens are added, either by making extra branches of ionizable nitrogens or lengthening one of the chains by putting extra carbons and other nitrogens around it, this may have even greater effect. The key issue will be whether there is a heavy change in bioavailability – will the new molecule be able to enter the cell and reach the right place with similar efficiency.
Conclusion
Chloroquine can both both prevent and treat malaria. Chloroquine can prevent and treat coronavirus in primate cells (Figure 1 and Figure 2). According to South Korean and China human treatment guidelines, chloroquine is effective in treating COVID-19. Given chloroquine’s human safety profile and existence, it can be implemented today in the U.S., Europe and the rest of the world. Medical doctors may be reluctant to prescribe chloroquine to treat COVID-19 since it is not FDA approved for this use. The United States of America and other countries should immediately authorize and indemnify medical doctors for prescribing chloroquine to treat COVID-19. We must explore whether chloroquine can safely serve as a preventative measure prior to infection of COVID-19 to stop further spread of this highly contagious virus.
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The best I could do. I saw the Oxygen/hemoglobin dissociation curve for Covid 19 ,a chat forum , not science . Cant remember where, but I was convinced.
Retired surgeon here. Not a scientist.
But I believe that the authorities are missing the point. Change the fuel filter guys .
Hydroxychloroquine does that.
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Whew! Ok, Mr. Gattey, extra long URLs in #17 made into hot links so that it doesn’t break the ‘Burg. To do this yourself, just type in a bit of text, highlight it, then click on the icon that looks like the Earth sitting on two links of a chain, paste the URL in question into the box that pops up, and click on the OK. Or, in angle brackets, in front of the URL type a href=, close the angle bracket after the URL, type a bit of text to identify it, then within another set of angle brackets type /a.
Other than that, red meat for certain among us. Thank you.
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The blog Small Dead Animals, April 5th, Wuhan Flu, read the comments.
Sorry moderator, I simply dont understand yr posting instructions
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Good summary, this Is a hypothesis I’ve been screaming on social media. I will add on this tidbit for you, part of my hypothesis. When the subunit is poisoned, it changes the exact shape and slope of the dissociation curve and it migrates the curve to the left. Not a typical shift left or right we think of the local factors that affect affinity. Rather the entire curve migrates to the left. The curve forthree cooperative binding sites is quite different from the curve of four. This is demonstrated in this textbook on allosteric enzyme cooperativity:
Looking at the two curves, B and C, you can imagine the hemoglobin curve somewhere in the middle. The exact shape is determined by the overall affinity. Curve a is a hyperbolic curve representing no cooperativity while the curve on the far right demonstrates cooperativity. The hill coefficient represents the degree of cooperativity and for hgb it is 2.7. When you block one of the binding sites, you block the fourth potential site which was the one with the highest afFinity and the biggest contributor to the coefficient of 2.7.
Therefore, the poisoning of the binding site migrates the entire curve to the left and dramatically increase its slope.
Remember the x-axis is Pa02.
From this migrated position you can still shift right or left depending on local factors.
But notice that the PaO2 would have to drop to very low levels before you will see a change in the amount of oxygen bound to the hemoglobin. With one site blocked, and assuming all hemoglobin is affected, the maximum O2 sat would be 75%. It’s doubtful that it’s 100% blocked and of course there is always some shunting going on, especially as the disease progresses. But the steep slope shows the lack of physiological reserve and the potential for respiratory failure, and hypoxemia in end organs, leading to failure and including arrhythmia. You are smiling and laughing on your phone with a side of 72% until you precipitously crash. Because of the steep slope.
This is why I do not recommend anyone in the hospital ambulate and the reason I think we have seen sudden death in some cases. Of course thromboembolism is also happening and on the differential of any sudden death. I think that maximizing PaO2, avoiding exertion, minimize shunt, anticoagulation are key — until we can deactivate the virus or the viral — porphyrin moiety.
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Dr. Fauci is right - it hasn't been proven. But if it is as deadly as he says (and the media keeps saying) then it's time to give it a go. Lives are at stake!
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[SmallDeadAnimals] ... high pressure intubation can actually wind up causing more damage than without, not to mention complications from tracheal scarring and ulcers given the duration of intubation often required… They may still have a use in the immediate future for patients too far to bring back with this newfound knowledge, but moving forward a new treatment protocol needs to be established so we stop treating patients for the wrong disease.
The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that's what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them a report from the front line
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I suggest 24 hour rule - if this is true (which I personally doubt - too many things clash with what I do remember of basic physiology), the released iron in blood should be easily detectable.
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They are going to need the respirator because their chest muscles and diaphragm can't keep up with the effort, along with the effort costing lots of O2. Is there an alternative to using a ventilator (or how it's used) whether or not the virus is binding to the heme groups?
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Some guy in Waxahachie, TX (25 miles south of Dallas) made the news a few days ago, making a 'space helmet' device with hospital connections for air or O2. Local effort, most of the work is done by church volunteers.
Maybe the church connection is why it didn't make the national news.
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I'm with Grom on this one. Should be very straight forward to verify one way or another. In the meantime, I'm willing to believe there is a lot about the virus we still don't know.
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Wouldn't this hypothesis imply that the blood is flooded with massive amounts of virus protein that enters red blood cells disabling oxygen transport?
Wouldn't these proteins in the blood be detectable and wouldn't their presence also imply a massive systemic infection with general organ failure?
Essentially the bloodstream would be massively contaminated with debris of cells killed by the Wuhan virus.
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Zurfi made the remarks in his first televised interview as PM-designate, conducted by state media outlet al-Iraqiya on Sunday night.
"I talked to US ambassador and coalition officials in Iraq about a schedule for coalition troop withdrawal from Iraq," he said. "Half of the US-led coalition troops will withdraw from Iraq by end of 2020, while the other half will leave Iraq after we agree on a schedule by the beginning of next year."
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A contemptuous tin ear and greed for the last penny of profits. For two generations they were told capitalism is a bloody business. Then they were told to be capitalists. Naturally, they complied to their utmost.
[Spectator] China has tried to restore its image after lying to the world about the seriousness of its coronavirus outbreak, but its attempts at humanitarianism have turned out to be as slippery as its wet markets.
After COVID-19 made its way to Italy, decimating the country’s significant elderly population, China told the world it would donate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to help Italy stop its spread. Reports later indicated that China had actually sold, not donated, the PPE to Italy. A senior Trump administration official tells The Spectator that it is much worse than that: China forced Italy to buy back the PPE supply that it gave to China during the initial coronavirus outbreak.
’Before the virus hit Europe, Italy sent tons of PPE to China to help China protect its own population,’ the administration official explained. ’China then has sent Italian PPE back to Italy ‐ some of it, not even all of it ... and charged them for it.’ More @ link.
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[NYTimes] Captain Crozier was fired after a leak of a letter he had emailed to Navy leaders detailing the service's failures in dealing with a coronavirus outbreak on the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt.
Navy Secretary Thomas Modly fired Crozier on Thursday, after a memo he wrote urging Navy leaders to get sailors off the ship faster in Guam due to a coronavirus outbreak leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle, Crozier’s hometown paper.
Modly said Crozier was not fired for raising concerns, but for emailing the memo over an unsecured and unclassified system and cc’ing more than 20 people, including some outside the chain of command, and for not bringing his concerns to his direct superior, who lived on the ship down the hallway from him.
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'His direct superior who lived on the ship down the hall from him.' This joker just gets better all the time. A mighty precious stunt for a man with that kind of responsibility. So far from wondering about his being relieved how the Hell did he get there in the first place.
[DW] The global coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... lockdown is making it hard for Mexican narco mobs to operate. With borders shut and limited air traffic, cartels are turning on each other.
There's nothing you can't find on Mexico City's Tepito Market, locals say. In this maze of alleyways and stalls, you can buy anything from brand-name clothing, to flat-screen televisions, toys, glasses, drones, mobiles and much more. Wares produced in informal workshops are on offer, as are counterfeit consumer goods from China and even illegal drugs and weapons.
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The tunnel runs more than 1.3 kilometers under the border wall between the US and Mexico and is equipped with an elevator. "We never really thought they had the moxie to go that far," one US official said.
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I recall the outrage over the Walmart model. Coming into a small community, extinguishing the local hardware and clothing stores....then closing down if the expected margins were not met. Walmart closures led to people having to drive 15-25 miles to the next town and a Super Walmart, the old hardware and clothing stores were gone.
The Walmart business model appears to mirror that of the Chinese business model, or vice versa. Shocking, no ?
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I know it's surely cost that bastard Soros everything he's spent for decades on trying to destroy borders and sovereignty. And possibly, the incorrigibly careless muslims in every nation, their lives. The chinese it will hurt for years to come, you shall see. And the champions of mob virtue and collective pressure shall probably never do business like they used to again.
Life, in the political world is altered forever now. Without a shot fired, without a legislation, fast-tracked by that oldest, most primal motivator of men. Fear.
This blasted thing, whether escaped from a lab or evolved from demonic strain, is a force of nature that has lain waste to all our diverse enemy and their wiles. It has given our Governments a much needed chance to re-evaluate our imperatives and projected possibilities for other future things like it, that shall have to be now strategized for. This means a lot, both from the public administrative and mass psychological perspectives. And the results can be a more secure social environment for our citizens, more discipline and less buggery by public nuisances like liberals.
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#8 IMO, the most important outcome of Covid-19, is that a lot of (otherwise good people) learned that the Universe doesn't give a damn that they think.
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[Armstrong] Dr. Anthony Fauci has a $100 million conflict of interest which is why he was opposing Trump. He is in league with Bill Gates who has pledged $100 million for Fauci to play with. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID, a division of National Institutes of Health, NIH) director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was against using chloroquine, said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, "There’s no magic drug for coronavirus right now," and lectured, "Let me put it into perspective for the viewers .. there has been anecdotal non-proven data that it [chloroquine] works... but when you have an uncontrolled trial you can never definitely say that it works."
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