RNA is really weird though. It passes on things from parent to child based on stuff that happens to the parent.
Also if say 10% of the population died of coronavirus in 600AD - maybe that removes most of the people with a certain gene that’s highly susceptible.
8 hour shifts per bed, crisis solved.
I visited with my aunt and her daughter, both mainline Fox News and religious chain emails. They both tried to give me hugs and when I stepped back, they proceeded to mock me. My aunt is 70 and a lifelong smoker who can barely finish a sentence because her lungs suck now. This virus is definitely going to kill her.
The mood in online Australia (“Woolies” is a supermarket chain).
Those photos are like scenes from zombie apocalypse movies right before a zombie comes running in a bites one person setting off a massive chain reaction and panic, except the zombies in this case are super stealthy.
No, smallpox still killed Euros left and right. Some immunity was conferred by exposure to related things like cowpox. Infant mortality used to be huge from stuff like this.
Some resistance to some disease is genetic (eg sickle cell is related to an adaptation giving more resistance to malaria) but AFAIK any herd immunity now and in the past is from exposure. The closest thing to a genetic component is some antibodies passing from mother to child via placenta and milk.
So Austria is restricting freedom of assembly. Although it should be helpful under current circumstances I am asking myself if thats even possible to just do it with a simple tweet. At least we are still stable democracies at the moment but countries with far less restraint leaders might not even get their rights back. Putin is already cementing his grip on power. I read an article that XI is although using the crisis to tighten his grip further.
Hope you aren’t including US in stable democracies.
Yeah, I think I saw a video of them yesterday as they talked through all that had happened to them. Reminded me of my grandparents. Been through a lot, came out the other side - Good on 'em.
That remains to be seen.
I could also imagine that automatization will get a further boost after this crisis. You just dont want to stop your factories because your workers have to stay home so better to do it without workers. Esp the car manufaturing comes to mind but I think there a lot of options. But you can always dream that UBI is in the mix as well.
Pretty sure the players would have went on strike if it did not shutdown. I assume the players union and league already agreed to shutdown if any player showed positive.
You could track Utah to bring in contact with 19 other teams during a potential infection period and some nba players are in physical contact for significant portions of time.
The selective pressure to have that turn into genetically acquired immunity would have to be tremendous. And one the pressure was off then the advantage would likely dissipate.
Immune system “memory” is acquired by direct exposure to antigens via infection or vaccination in your lifetime. And then it faded with time.
But anytime something is different in the dataset it’s best to recheck the methodology and also dig into what could be the cause. It could be genetic even if it’s not specific exposure. Is high blood sugar or diabetes less prevalent? There is indication that hi sugar levels helps the virus attack the body?
I like your out of the box thinking. We will be studying this disease.
Hopefully next time we will let the doctors and scientist be in charge. Not a shitty “economists”
Don’t think the US can weld fences in cities and have armed gaurds with temp scanners and actual testing everywhere. China is very different. We are Italy. Sorry.
Plus China could easily be fudging their data.
Anecdotal update re: social distancing in NYC.
My wife and I had dinner plans last night with two other couples in Brooklyn–one of her friends is extremely paranoid about anything remotely contagious, so unsurprisingly there was no way in hell we were having dinner, which was fine with us.
On the other hand, one of her other friends asked us both Friday night and last night to come out for drinks (obviously we said no). When I walked to the store yesterday there were just as many people as there usually are out and about. So based on all of that, I think very few youngish professional types are actually self-isolating in NYC, or even taking limited precautions. If it really does spread as easily as we all think, there must be hundreds of thousands of people infected in NYC.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1239125571449339906
Also apparently England is preparing to ask people 70 and older to stay home for up to four months.
Our total case numbers are shit due to the testing fiasco.
Sadly we are going to have to count severe cases and deaths. Those are the curves we watch (and they are lagging indicators) to see until we catch up on testing. I’m hoping that those will be accurate going forward, we likely missed many early on. But those early misses will be rounding errors.
China now quarantining all overseas travelers as imported cases are becoming a real problem there.