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2020-02-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

24,000++ Dead – The Real China Numbers Are Dramatically Higher

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-06 08:49|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 With people crammed together in unsanitary conditions and little modern medicine available, not really surprising with those numbers.

If the virus really spreads in Western nations I would expect to see much, much, much lower death rates. Bad, but not apocalyptic.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-06 09:39|| 2020-02-06 09:39|| Front Page Top

#2 And Thailand is treating it with AIDS drugs. Which shouldn't work, because it's a completely different family of virus. Something is definitely up.

Posted by Iblis 2020-02-06 09:42|| 2020-02-06 09:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The drugs affect the host, iblis

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-02-06 10:30|| 2020-02-06 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 could be that a first
wave of the virus was especially lethal as it infected Wuhana

as the virus mutated successive waves have been less so

it happens sometimes that the transmissibility and lethality of successive waves of a virus change

this happened with the 2009 h1n1

Posted by lord garth 2020-02-06 10:54|| 2020-02-06 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 The last thing I saw on the subject suggested that the drugs to affect retroviruses were being effective because they were both retroviruses, and didn't rely on closer similarities.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-02-06 11:36|| 2020-02-06 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 "I love what you've done with your genome. It's totally retro!"

Posted by SteveS 2020-02-06 11:43|| 2020-02-06 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 grom - please explain. I don't pretend to understand this stuff, but a quick Google search says that the drugs involved are both protease inhibitors. These inhibit the virus's ability to replicate itself. From what I see, they aren't changing the host at all.

Posted by Iblis 2020-02-06 13:21|| 2020-02-06 13:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Either the WHO should not have pulled the trigger on calling it a pandemic, or the Chinese are lying.

...or c) both.

Occam would vote for c)

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 13:24|| 2020-02-06 13:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry, I was wrong - I thought of something else. It is virus specified protease. But, if it has a similar active site & inhibitor is active site directed, than it may work on different types of viruses. My guess, they tried it because they have it and, what do they've to lose? And it worked. A few months from now, we'll see a paper explaining why it worked.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 13:54|| 2020-02-06 13:54|| Front Page Top

#10 ^Iblis.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 13:54|| 2020-02-06 13:54|| Front Page Top

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