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A thread full of good news
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The only quick solution nobody has the stomach for. Send everyone under 60 back to work and back to the bars a restaurants. Keep the most vulnerable quarantined. The first thing that would happen is economic activity would pick up and the stock market would rally. Those who remained fearful would continue to isolate. The total cases curve would not flatten as much but the death rate would be nowhere near Italy, probably closer to the Diamond Princess data.
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In related good news, our local liquor stores are still open, so instead of congregating in the bar, the local drunks stand huddled under the awning of the store drinking from their properly packaged bottles.
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Quote from Jimboboy
I think the US should do a “Manhattan Project” scale allocation of resources. Throw money and people at this for the singular goal of finding a quick solution. Like quick-like. Did I mention quick?
It took the Manhattan project from Dec 41 to Marc 44 to get from ‘we should do this’ to the first nuclear detonation. I dont think that’s gonna work.
Btw. we would lose WW2 would it happen today. The environmental impact statement for a plant like Oak Ridge alone would take 20 years to complete. -
[link=https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/politics/trump-fda-anti-viral-treatments-coronavirus/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2020/…coronavirus/index.html[/link]
This is amazing. From small scale testing to being mentioned in a presidential address within days. Possible solutions are being filtered up and distributed widely in essentially instantaneous fashion.
Given the high profile these possible and promising treatments are being given, it seems likely that widespread testing is underway. The initial paper suggested a substantial decrease of viral load within 6 days.
One imagines that if this can be replicated, we will have substantial data to that effect soon.
Human beings are amazing, and to paraphrase General Patton, we are going to grab this virus by whatever passes for its nose and kick its behind back into oblivion where it belongs.
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Quote from radgrinder
Human beings are amazing, and to paraphrase General Patton, we are going to grab this virus by whatever passes for its nose and KICK ITS BEHIND BACK TO OBLIVION where it belongs.
You mean KUNG FLU style?
…alright lay it one me.
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Quote from radgrinder
An open-label non-randomized clinical trial has some results coming out that a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin may help reduce viral load in people with COVID.
Below is an article that has what seems to be a fairly balanced look at this. One of the good things about this possibility is the relative abundance and inexpensive nature of both medications.
[link=https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927033]https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927033[/link]
Thanks radgrinder! I had to look this up last evening as my wife is on hydroxychloroquine for psoriatic arthritis. I guess I might have to raid her stash lol. I told her to make sure she has a few months worth on hand because if this off-label use pans out, there’s bound to be a shortage.
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Quote from ADHD
The only quick solution nobody has the stomach for. Send everyone under 60 back to work and back to the bars a restaurants. Keep the most vulnerable quarantined. The first thing that would happen is economic activity would pick up and the stock market would rally. Those who remained fearful would continue to isolate. The total cases curve would not flatten as much but the death rate would be nowhere near Italy, probably closer to the Diamond Princess data.
This is pretty obvious, most people like you and me have realized this, why is it untenable when it sorta combines the best of both worlds = save economy, “look out” for old people. -
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Btw. we would lose WW2 would it happen today. The environmental impact statement for a plant like Oak Ridge alone would take 20 years to complete.
Yes, the proof of the decline of the country. No pragmatism or sense. When you have as many crazies in the country as they are loud on Off-Pol you know you’ve got major problems. -
Quote from ADHD
The only quick solution nobody has the stomach for. Send everyone under 60 back to work and back to the bars a restaurants. Keep the most vulnerable quarantined. The first thing that would happen is economic activity would pick up and the stock market would rally. Those who remained fearful would continue to isolate. The total cases curve would not flatten as much but the death rate would be nowhere near Italy, probably closer to the Diamond Princess data.
Follow whats happening in Denmark. It seems that they are doing exactly what you propose. Time will tell if they were right, but it does make a helluva lot sense to me too.
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[link=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-uber-idUSKBN21333U]https://www.reuters.com/a…rus-uber-idUSKBN21333U[/link]
Some good news for the folks with hungry bellies and the people who fill them with good food. Uber Eats is waiving the delivery fees and generally providing breaks for the millions of independent restaurants across the country.
This helps those small businesses make some badly needed cash until we can get back to sitting on their patios and enjoying a nice beer (or your beverage of choice) during a pleasant evening.
Good for Uber for putting aside some immediate profits in the interests of helping people and small businesses. Theyll be repaid in goodwill and from all the Uber rides home when people finally get a chance to go out and hit the town.
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Thumbs up.
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[link=https://thehill.com/policy/technology/488637-irish-health-officials-to-review-3d-printed-ventilator]Irish health officials to review 3D-printed ventilator[/link]
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Not exactly good news but somethings to make us all smile.
[link=https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/fkyffn/best_parody_ive_heard_in_long_time/]https://www.reddit.com/r/…ve_heard_in_long_time/[/link] -
Thanks dergon. Isnt technology and human ingenuity amazing?
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[link=https://wset.com/news/coronavirus/att-verizon-waiving-fees-comcast-offering-free-internet-amid-coronavirus-outbreak]https://wset.com/news/cor…d-coronavirus-outbreak[/link]
Another example of generosity, or possibly enlightened capitalism depending upon how one likes to describe it. Huge telecom companies are typically viewed as the bad guy, and Ive had as many annoying calls with cable and phone companies as anyone.
Good on them for stepping up and doing what they can to keep people under quarantine from going stir crazy or losing touch with their family and friends.
