Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[old goat]

A family friend's husband died at a nursing facility earlier this month. She was unable to visit him as he died because the facility was on lockdown but they assured her that he did not die from coronavirus. 3 weeks later she opens up the envelope with death certificates and guess what is listed as the cause of death? She then calls the medical director of the facility who continues to claim that he did not die from coronavirus. Who determines cause of death when you are in a nursing facility? This all seems so shady...

The coroner if there was a coroner's autopsy (unlikely) or the physician listed as the patient's personal physician who may or not be the medical director--apparently not in this case. I'd be believe the death certificate over the medical director but it's quite possible no one actually knows--if no testing was done, no one was paying much attention to him.

[Core Shot]

Attachment 326789

Please

Can we send them gin and whiskey?

I will contribute. No need to drink methanol.

[Mofro261]

Oh acetone.
Won't you ever leave me alone?

[Dhelihiker]

https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/cha...e-us/19074499/

Four species jumps in 4 months.

I just hope Taddy Cat stays safe

[KQ]

Not just the workers. These people all live in our communities, shop for groceries. I travel to one of these communities for my 'essential' job. As of today a whopping 1 percent of Black Hawk county has tested positive with extremely limited testing...and I was there...

Yup. The majority of cases in W2 are from Tyson Meats.

[KQ]

They should have kicked Pence's ass out of there. That's inexcusable. What a moran!

My wife just got back from Costco. She said they were handing out masks in line and some people still wouldn't wear them. Some people are truly unredeemable asses.

Costco will require customers to wear masks inside some warehouses

[schuss]

Plug in 60% vaccinated and watch it run and tell me that's immunity.
http://rocs.hu-berlin.de/D3/herd/
It's just stats. Like the birthday paradox.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

[altasnob]

Here's Germany's leading coronavirus expert Christian Drosten on herd immunity:

To achieve herd immunity we need 60-70% of the population to carry antibodies to the virus. The results of antibody tests suggest that in Europe and the US, in general, we are in the low single digits, but the tests are not reliable – all of them have problems with false positives – and herd immunity is also not the whole story. It assumes complete mixing of the population, but there are reasons – in part to do with the social networks people form – why the whole population may not be available for infection at any given time. Networks shift, and new people are exposed to the virus. Such effects can drive waves of infection. Another factor that could impact herd immunity is whether other coronaviruses – those that cause the common cold, for example – offer protection to this one. We don’t know, but it’s possible.

Another part I found interesting:

In Germany, people see that the hospitals are not overwhelmed, and they don’t understand why their shops have to shut. They only look at what’s happening here, not at the situation in, say, New York or Spain. This is the prevention paradox, and for many Germans I’m the evil guy who is crippling the economy. I get death threats.

Hard to find info on Sweden. Found a bit more here: The Swedish Exception?

[bennymac]

Poor Sock-puppet Sean got burned

[wooley12]

A family friend's husband died at a nursing facility earlier this month. She was unable to visit him as he died because the facility was on lockdown but they assured her that he did not die from coronavirus. 3 weeks later she opens up the envelope with death certificates and guess what is listed as the cause of death? She then calls the medical director of the facility who continues to claim that he did not die from coronavirus. Who determines cause of death when you are in a nursing facility? This all seems so shady...

Picture of her nose or it didn't happen.

[iceman]

hm

[LeeLau]

it's not a hoax but you might be crazy.

been going to same grocery store for years and twice a week for past 6 weeks, so I know who the staff is. not one person who works regularly has been missing and most haven't been wearing masks.

over 85% gets no symptoms and is not affected and if you look at the bing corona virus map; it has been everywhere in the lower 48. only reasons to go full hazmat gear is if you are over 60 or have other health issues.

How many of these people have you earmarked for the gas oven ? How many of these people will you attempt to lynch for being "brown monkeys?" ( your words)

[TBS]

May I suggest we do not quote or respond to Teh Scougs?
Deprive him of the attention he so craves
And fewer electrons are inconvenienced
TIA

[Buster Highmen]

May I suggest we do not quote or respond to Teh Scougs?
Better to deprive him of the attention he so craves
And fewer erections are inconvenienced
TIA

fify

[TBS]

That’s wascist!

ETA

[east or bust]

Shit's hitting close to home


Anyone who thinks this virus is a joke or that it's some political stunt can get fucked

[KQ]

Shit's hitting close to home


Anyone who thinks this virus is a joke or that it's some political stunt can get fucked

#justtheflu

[Rideski]

[TBS]

If the dog was on a treadmill would he be able to reach warp speed?

[Bunion 2020]

Another sign of the new normal.

Ad for 10 disposable surgical masks, $ 19.99 on a local channel. The type of ad that ends with, "but for a limited time we will double the order, all you pay is a separate fee".

Fuck.

[Benny Profane]

So, in this movie, the Jews are trying to kill themselves.

https://twitter.com/ReuvenBlau/statu...90725744418816

[Ottime]

Frankly, that's bullshit. The word kook may have been insulting toward that person but it's not something that should be seen in the same vein as 'retard' or the n-word. Why should you bend to meet the demand of someone else's world view of what's an improper word? You caved because it was easier than being yelled at instead of that person being right. I would have stood my ground on that one. The person apparently was, indeed, a kook. If we let people run over us for the use of specific words, as we've done, we won't have any words left.

I don't mean to go off on this but I'm a little sensitive to political correctness run amok. I'd have likely told the kook that she proved my original assertion and let her yell.

You sound like a fucking kook, dude.

[The AD]

Question for the medical experts: We hear over and over that it's not a given that having had the virus confers immunity. If it turns out that it is possible to be reinfected does that more or less say that a vaccine is not possible or at least makes it much more difficult to develop?

I guess I also don't understand why you wouldn't be immune after having had it. Your body was able to fight the virus off, so that implies it created antibodies. Why wouldn't those antibodies fight it off a second time? Is it a question of the virus mutating?

[Tri-Ungulate]

I think some good viral examples are cytomegalovirus (CMV) or varicella (VZV AKA chicken pox). Our bodies fight them off, usually utilizing the adaptive immune response, but they can persist within our bodies and reactivate later.

[The AD]

I think some good viral examples are cytomegalovirus (CMV) or varicella (VZV AKA chicken pox). Our bodies fight them off, usually utilizing the adaptive immune response, but they can persist within our bodies and reactivate later.

Hmm. There is a vaccine for shingles, though, so I suppose that's promising for COVID-19?