Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[Rideski]

They say the darkest night, happens just before the dawn.

https://youtu.be/bgGOcjbGtJo

sent from Utah.

They say the darkest hour
Is right before the dawn

[happytimefunbox]

You wanna trade for a few days? I have an 8 and a 3 year old, and both my wife and I are working from home. I think I’m starting to get the shakes.

HAHAHAHA Nope!
I did my time in the little kid nuthouse.
I just gotta not kill this one for another month.
Then I can fullfill the dream she has had since she was 12
Which is to never ever have to listen to us ever again.
And giver das boot!

Edit to add-Thanks for the perspective Alias R. This too shall pass....

[DBdude]

Must suck going through life without a sense of humor. Especially in these unprecedented times.

It wasn’t funny


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[riser4]

Once we have the anti body test, can those who are deemed "immune" still act as vectors to transmit the virus?

In a person who's built up antibodies, do those antibodies just guard against reinfection while still allowing the body to host the virus? Or do they actively attack and kill any viral load that is detected?

What's your vector, Victor?

[powdrhound]

Man, living alone sounds better and better these days.

I don’t agree.
We had a wonderful dinner, dancing and a movie, last night, for our 25th anniversary.

[altasnob]

Once we have the anti body test, can those who are deemed "immune" still act as vectors to transmit the virus?

In a person who's built up antibodies, do those antibodies just guard against reinfection while still allowing the body to host the virus? Or do they actively attack and kill any viral load that is detected?

Assuming the anti-body test is accurate (big if), being immune means you cannot pass on the virus. Although how long immunity remains effective is still unknown. Once a person loses their immunity, they would be able to contract and pass on the virus. Others with more expertise can chime in, but this is my understanding.

[Ted Striker]

What's your vector, Victor?

We need testing for clearance, Clarence.

[Casey E]

A brief help for those lucky lads laden with litle kids, with an inkling of spanish. With my time in quarantine in Chile I whipped up a kiddie show from available props and it is now trending amongst 2-6 year olds. Topical, with a few messages buried in there: not respecting quarantine has consequences; animals are our friends, including bats; mother nature can play an unexpected key role in anything. Surely someone will find fault in there somewhere... so far the star actor is murcielago (bat).....

https://youtu.be/1kz9jVaOeDg

[alias_rice]

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Edit to add-Thanks for the perspective Alias R. This too shall pass....

Can I get an ETA on that?

Jokes aside, I’m still employed and no one I know is sick. If my kids driving me crazy is the worst that happens to me this year I’ll post it up as big fuckin win.

[Mofro261]

Once we have the anti body test, can those who are deemed "immune" still act as vectors to transmit the virus?

In a person who's built up antibodies, do those antibodies just guard against reinfection while still allowing the body to host the virus? Or do they actively attack and kill any viral load that is detected?

Antibodies do not guard against a potential infection; infection happens with exposure to the virus. What they do is prevent an infection from becoming a disease by limiting the breadth of viral replication once infection occurs. Without viral replication in the infected person there is an extremely low chance of being a potential spreader since the amount of virus a person has is directly correlated to their ability to spread it. The body makes the antibodies to hone in on antigenic components of the virus, and a certain precent of your total antibodies act as a survellience always on the look out for their cognate antigens. Once they encounter something recognized as foreign, there is a massive ramp up in the response to elimate the infection and prevent the disease.

This is why even when the FLU vaccine is not dialed in correctly to the circulating strains (~60% effective), it can still limit the severity of symptoms/disease.

[AK47bp]

We need testing for clearance, Clarence.

Surely you can’t be serious.


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[XXX-er]

don't call me Shirley

[old goat]

It wasn’t funny


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It was. And smart. And too long for me to read the whole thing but he made a good point--nobody really knows wtf is going on.

[skaredshtles]

They say the darkest hour
Is right before the dawn

My old man used to say:

"Things are always darkest... just before it *really* gets black."

I think he may have been a pessimist.

[skaredshtles]

HAHAHAHA Nope!
I did my time in the little kid nuthouse.
I just gotta not kill this one for another month.
Then I can fullfill the dream she has had since she was 12
Which is to never ever have to listen to us ever again.
And giver das boot!

Edit to add-Thanks for the perspective Alias R. This too shall pass....

My wife has this framed and sitting on our hutch:

[riser4]

Surely you can’t be serious.


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[riser4]

Surely you can’t be serious.


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And yes, testing needs to be part of clearance for society coming out of lockdown. That's one of the things that a competent administration should be putting in place, otherwise this was all for naught and those fuckers still get their goal of making us take it on the chin. Somewhere Stephen Miller is cackling " neener neener" as he dines on a nice medley of dead unaccompanied minor migrant children, dead puppies, and dead kittens.

[huckbucket]

This fucking guy. Key-rist!

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250807416872189952

[Self Jupiter]

^ From that Twitter thread- ‘’Dr Oz must have gone to medical school at Trump University’’

[Mazderati]

This fucking guy. Key-rist!

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250807416872189952

'Only 2-3%' is trending.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

So let's give him the benefit of phrasing: 2-3% of total mortality rate, say the total americans dying = 60,000. That means only 1,800 children are going to die.

Let's imagine any politician up until this point saying, "Hey, only one thousand eight hundred kids are going to die. Those aren't bad numbers.."

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Dr. Oz

[goldenboy]

Can I get an ETA on that?

Jokes aside, I’m still employed and no one I know is sick. If my kids driving me crazy is the worst that happens to me this year I’ll post it up as big fuckin win.

It's crazy how different people's experiences with this are depending on where they live. In my little old town of Crested Butte, I know dozens upon dozens of people that were/are sick, plus 3 deaths. Some of the people that are sick aren't that old and are exceptionally fit and healthy- but they still went to the hospital and they're looking at spending weeks working with respiratory therapists in Denver to try to get their lungs more functional. And who knows how long that damage will stick with them. This thing is nasty for sure.

[iceman]

A brief help for those lucky lads laden with litle kids, with an inkling of spanish. With my time in quarantine in Chile I whipped up a kiddie show from available props and it is now trending amongst 2-6 year olds. Topical, with a few messages buried in there: not respecting quarantine has consequences; animals are our friends, including bats; mother nature can play an unexpected key role in anything. Surely someone will find fault in there somewhere... so far the star actor is murcielago (bat).....

https://youtu.be/1kz9jVaOeDg

Well that's pretty cool. Nice use of your time.

[m2711c]