COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US) (21 Viewers)

[guidomerkinsrules]

So... it probably wasn't the market? So.. where did it come from? Looks like they don't know and want to look at a whole wider area and go back to pull older samples...

Scientists still don’t know the exact origin of the 18/19 pandemic- there’s potentially 3 origin points (maybe more)

Best guess for AIDS is that it jumped from monkeys to humans in 1906 or so

At some point disease origin seems an academic (vs medical) exercise

 

[St. Widge]

So will any of this help fuel the "it's a bioweapon made a lab" crowd?

Everything fuels the "it's a bioweapon made in a lab" crowd. Evidence that it is not is dismissed as Chinese propaganda and all insinuation that it came from a lab is embraced as fact.

 

[superchuck500]

Scientists still don’t know the exact origin of the 18/19 pandemic- there’s potentially 3 origin points (maybe more)

Best guess for AIDS is that it jumped from monkeys to humans in 1906 or so

At some point disease origin seems an academic (vs medical) exercise

Perhaps but in those examples we didn’t have a coordinated worldwide effort for real time viral genome analysis of local samples that are reported and tracked. The knowledge, effort, and tech involved now are dramatically different.

 

[St. Widge]

Best guess for AIDS is that it jumped from monkeys to humans in 1906 or so

I was told by my next door neighbor back in the 1980s that the origin was a man having sex with a monkey. And, no amount of your fancy "science" is going to change my mind.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Perhaps but in those examples we didn’t have a coordinated worldwide effort for real time viral genome analysis of local samples that are reported and tracked. The knowledge, effort, and tech involved now are dramatically different.

True

 

[St. Widge]

So my office opened to Phase 1 today. The good news is that Downtown New Orleans is still very sparsely populated. Few people are around and the garage for my building is probably at the most half full and the building still seems pretty deserted. (Many people who work in this building do not park in the building garage.)

That's the good news. The bad news is that the parking lot of the coffee shop by my house was packed and it looked to be packed inside. It looked more or less like any other day prior to the COVID pandemic. So, apparently it wasn't so much that people wanted to get back to work, they just wanted to go out to dinner and go get overpriced coffee drinks. I can't say I'm surprised.

 

[Rickboy]

Some of this is common sense but some folks here might find this useful.

The risk levels of everyday activities like dining out, going to the gym, and getting a haircut, according to an infectious-disease expert

We spoke with an infectious-disease expert about how likely you are to catch the coronavirus during everyday activities — and which ones to avoid.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[DaveXA]

I was told by my next door neighbor back in the 1980s that the origin was a man having sex with a monkey. And, no amount of your fancy "science" is going to change my mind.

I don't know how my name ended up on that quote, but that isn't mine fyi.

 

[St. Widge]

I don't know how my name ended up on that quote, but that isn't mine fyi.

Sorry. That's weird. I just replied to Guido's post. I'll fix it.

 

[AARPSaint]

Sorry. That's weird. I just replied to Guido's post. I'll fix it.

It's a conspiracy.

 

[St. Widge]

It's a conspiracy.

I did have Chinese food last night.

 

[dtc]

I did have Chinese food last night.

We had Wuhan chicken with a side of crispy Covid-style sushi rice.

Tasted like bats.

 

[bonnjer]

A very early Vaccine Trial, but excellent results.

Moderna reports positive data on early-stage coronavirus vaccine trial, shares surge

Moderna said its early-stage human trial for a coronavirus vaccine produced Covid-19 antibodies in all participants, sending its shares surging.

www.cnbc.com

If that pans out, the Moderna execs are going to be getting some MASSIVE bonuses at the end of the year.

 

[gboudx]

We had Wuhan chicken with a side of crispy Covid-style sushi rice.

Tasted like bats.

The taste of bats is proof you were under the influence of 5G radio waves.

 

[Saint_Ward]

If that pans out, the Moderna execs are going to be getting some MASSIVE bonuses at the end of the year.

Let's hope the scientists/doctors that created it get MASSIVE bonuses at the end of the year, if this pans out.