is this good news?
https://www.ibtimes.sg/scientists-find-human-antibody-47d11-that-neutralizes-covid-19-virus-infecting-living-cells-44388
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 May 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link
It provides a promising avenue for further research, which is always a welcome development.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 4 May 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
Especially for researchers
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 4 May 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/frances-patient-zero-died-of-coronavirus-in-december-doctor-says-samples-from-patients-with-flu-like-symptoms-tested-positive/ar-BB13Aj18
Paris doctor confirms COVID-19 presence Dec. 27th, 2019, which is 4 days before the first WHO-reported case in China.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
Quoted in full https://pressthink.org/2020/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan/
The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between and one and three thousand become a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible — by telling the governors they’re in charge without doing what only the federal government can do, by fighting with the press when it shows up to be briefed or to ask questions, by fixing blame for the virus on China or some other foreign element, and by “flooding the zone with shit,” Steve Bannon’s phrase for overwhelming the system with disinformation, distraction, and denial, which boosts what economists call “search costs” for reliable intelligence. Stated another way, the plan is to default on public problem solving, and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default. To succeed this will require one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in U.S. history, the execution of which will, I think, consume the president’s re-election campaign. So much has already been made public that the standard script for a White House cover up (worse than the crime…) won’t apply. Instead, everything will ride on the manufacture of confusion. The press won’t be able to “expose” the plot because it will all happen in stark daylight. The facts will be known, and simultaneously inconceivable. “The plan is to have no plan” is not a strategy, really. Nor would I call it a policy. It has a kind of logic to it, but this is different from saying it has a design— or a designer. Meaning: I do not want to be too conspiratorial about this. To wing it without a plan is merely the best this government can do, given who heads the table. The manufacture of confusion is just the ruins of Trump’s personality meeting the powers of the presidency. There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives.
Stated another way, the plan is to default on public problem solving, and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default. To succeed this will require one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in U.S. history, the execution of which will, I think, consume the president’s re-election campaign. So much has already been made public that the standard script for a White House cover up (worse than the crime…) won’t apply. Instead, everything will ride on the manufacture of confusion. The press won’t be able to “expose” the plot because it will all happen in stark daylight. The facts will be known, and simultaneously inconceivable.
“The plan is to have no plan” is not a strategy, really. Nor would I call it a policy. It has a kind of logic to it, but this is different from saying it has a design— or a designer. Meaning: I do not want to be too conspiratorial about this. To wing it without a plan is merely the best this government can do, given who heads the table. The manufacture of confusion is just the ruins of Trump’s personality meeting the powers of the presidency. There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
Winston, first dog with Covid-19, completely fine.https://boston.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3859903/2020/05/dog2.jpg
― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 06:08 (four years ago) link
Kerala (pop 35 million) was first in India to get COVID. For past 2 days they have no new cases. The Communist controlled state has implemented “test, trace, isolate, support” & delivers free food & support to homes. In fascist controlled Indian states pandemic continues to grow.— a$hok (@broseph_stalin) May 5, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
what happens in the commie nazi states?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
huh, he's actually learned something?
"I used to say 65k and now I’m saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
Trump: That’s one of the reasons we’re successful, if you call losing 80k-90k people successfulBret: That number has changed Mr. President. You said 60Trump: I used to say 65k and now I’m saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly pic.twitter.com/v4FbbygF5Q— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 3, 2020
If u call losing successfulIm a winner
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
things are gonna change, i can feel it
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
if assholes could fly this place would be an airport
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
a deep cut for the true heads:
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-9.14.07-AM.png
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/05/calibration-and-recalibration-and-more-recalibration-ihme-forecasts-by-publication-date/
the IHME model is garbage. we shouldn't have trusted it a month ago, and we shouldn't trust it now.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
Just spent about 48 hours in the hospital due to a low platelet count -- basically, it's when chemo turns you into a bleeder in very frightening fashion. And my count isn't too high now, either. :/
I was given the swab test, am COVID negative.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
ugh, get better Morbs :(
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
morbs <3
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
sounds hard and unpleasant. wish you the best morbs
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
Morbs glad you’re on the other side. Did you get any sleep?
― silby, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
Bon courage, Morbs. <3
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
that sounds shitty, and also i'm glad you tested negative. be well morbs
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
Fuck, that's scary, hope you are ok
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
Yikes — take care, Morbs.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
Did you get any sleep?
That's always a fun morning question from the nurse when they've been waking you up every 2 hours to measure your vital signs.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
(I can't even sleep when I know they're gonna do that.)
I wouldn’t either :(
― silby, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link
I haven’t been woken up in the middle of the night as a patient, but I know from seeing it on the other side how people don’t really get any sleep in a hospital
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
shit Morbs, thinking of you
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
get better dr. m
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
Get well, Morbs!
― DJI, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:16 (four years ago) link
been in enough hospitals to know its a shitty experience made slightly better by the fact you're getting help and the nurses understand it's a shitty experience and try to soften it a bit. glad you've been released, cuz that means the general trend is up, not down. get well(er), morbs.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
actually the reason I was given for my release is "we can't wait/watch for it to happen," and indeed the problem has returned on a so-far-incidental scale.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 05:15 (four years ago) link
Best wishes for better days
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 05:31 (four years ago) link
Best wishes Morbs
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 07:04 (four years ago) link
Take care, man.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 07:57 (four years ago) link
best wishes Morbs
― Ste, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:49 (four years ago) link
oof, best thoughts Dr. M.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link
take it easy morbs, feel better soon
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
thanks all
most amazingly I got a bed w/in 20 minutes of walking into the ER
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
Be well and maintain your crank, Morbsy.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
good wishes morbs :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
Virtual hugs until I can give you a real one, Dr. Morbius!
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
Hope you feel better soon, Morbz
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
sending you good wishes Morbs
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
Good luck Dr. M
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
best wishes dr m
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 7 May 2020 07:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/07/peru-jungle-iquitos-coronavirus-covid-19
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
A hospital in Alsace reports that they had a case of the virus already on 16 November.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
I saw Goody Sibber with the virus in November
I saw Goody Proctor with the virus in August
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
Not sure how credible miscellaneous French doctors are, as a class or individually.
― silby, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link