Bumping this because I went back looking for the picture and some others might benefit from it too.
I’ve had a mild cough for a little while now, a mild sore throat as of yesterday, but no noticeable fever. I wanted to see this timeline. It looks like as long as I’m not puking or dealing with a 102+ fever over the next few days, I’m good.
I have nfi what spiking the football means, but people itt are panicking about the likelihood of catching a virus that they’re extremely unlikely to die from and are conjuring up visions of nuclear wars. lol
I guess it gives people something to talk about that’s less threatening than Trump.
So in Germany a senior physician got infected and they took several doctors out of the system who had contact with him. That will stress the health care system even further everywhere if you lose to much medical personal.
I’m not too worried about dying from this, but I’m somewhat worried my parents will die, plus 1-2% of everyone else in my life, plus the impact it will have on the economy, in particular the supply of food and water and other basic necessities that I take for granted.
The discussion itt seems mostly grounded in reality, with a few exceptions.
I have to agree though the with respect to the larger discussion, in the media and elsewhere, this is starting to smell like a standard panic event with some of its telltale signs (e.g., end of world predictions, comparisons to non-analogous events, pop culture connections, zenophobia, and absurd political posturing).
I have no idea how this will end, and this post could look really dumb in 3 months, but I suspect the actual event will not resemble some of the current predictions.
Probably very expensive, as any RNA-based therapudic would be, and I have a lot of questions about efficacy. mRNA breaks down if you just look at it funny. Working with in a lab environment, you have to go to pretty good lengths just to work with it without it degrading right away. Injecting it into the bloodstream, like, seems like it would just guarantee that it gets minced before making it to the relevant cells for identification and processing.
My 79-year old Dad just emailed me to see if I could find any surgical masks out here since apparently he can’t find any in Kansas City. I sent him some off Amazon.