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April 5, 2020

Trying again

I posted this several weeks ago, wanted to repost to get people's thoughts on this now.

I'm really hoping we learn some valuable lessons from this and somehow manage to substantially change our society for the better.

Can we?

Maybe we as a society come out the other end better off?

I've said this before, but this may really be a once in a multiple generation to have a societal paradigm shift, for the better. It's up to us

When vast swaths of Americans see that the world didn't end when they stepped off the treadmill for a few moments, when businesses realized they can adjust to having a substantial portion of their workforce telecommute, when millions finally see first hand the value of a strong public health policy and infrastructure, and that it's not "socialism" but sound social structure, maybe the scales start falling away from our collective eyes, the spell that the corporate and political class have hoodwinked us into trading our lives for starts to crack, when we experience again for more than a brief weekend what it's like to spend time with our families not on a hurried vacation but at home. Well, maybe we will all realize at once that things don't have to be the way we have allowed them to become. That we can slow it all down and if corporations have to settle for smaller profits, so be it.

Maybe we, those of us that make it, come out the other side with a renewed sense of how things could be. You won't get another chance like this.
April 5, 2020

How's Chris Cuomo doing?

Haven't seen a video of him for a couple days. Last one I saw was about his fever dreams

Did I miss any? TIA

April 5, 2020

Relativity

April 5, 2020

That fuckstain needs to stop speaking for anybody but himself

Who could have ever imagined something like this could happen?

Everyone wants to go back to work.

Nobody wants to keep the country shut down.

Who ever heard of anyone needing 100 million masks?

Nobody even knows what this invisible enemy does.

YES YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE, MANY OF US KNEW. MANY OF US WANT TO KEEP THE COUNTRY SHUT DOWN.

JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!

April 5, 2020

A special case of COVID-19 with long duration of viral shedding for 49 days

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040071v1

Prolonged viral shedding is associated with severe status and poor prognosis of COVID-19 patients. Unexpectedly, here we report a non-severe patient with the longest duration of viral shedding. According to the investigation on the clinical and epidemiological information of this case, we concluded that this type of virus might have a low toxicity and transmissibility, but have a prolonged infective ability and was hardly to be eliminated in the body with regular therapy. However, infusion of plasma from recovered patients showed high efficiency in elimination of this virus. Our findings might shed light on the management of COVID-19.
April 5, 2020

So WTF is going on with testing?

What possible excuse is there for STILL having issues?

Why isn't this pounded incessantly at these stupid pressers?

I just don't get it. Any of it.

April 4, 2020

I wish a reporter would tell Trump that they keep asking questions is because

he gives such shitty non-answers!

Answer the questions with real answers and they'll stop asking them.

April 4, 2020

There it is "I may take it"

The only explanation for him cheerleading hydroxychloroquine is that he already took it. I've thought that for weeks, and just now he said that he *may* take it.

Bullshit. He already took it.

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