South Carolina is looking really bad. Now over 70% of hospital bed capacity filled and a new record for positive tests every single day.
https://www.scdhec.gov/news-releases/south-carolina-announces-latest-covid-19-update-june-20-2020
Remember when Anarcho made an ass out of himself a week ago trying to argue the only reason the numbers were going up was more testing? Lol RAIDS.
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Those K-Pop kids saved a lot of lives today.
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Nope.
I liked/unliked bc my SC friend is in denial. Holy shit. How much plainer can it be? This is bad.
lol @ cheering for the coronavirus
So this is a curious thing Iâve just learned about. Some of you have heard that COVID19 is mutating more slowly than expected. It turns out that COVID has instructions for creating a proofreading enzyme called ExoN that keeps bad copies (mutations) from being created. This kind of proofreading system is something that happens with our DNA, but is extremely rare in RNA viruses.
Why does COVID do this? Probably because itâs an unusually complicated virus. Its sequence is~30,000 bases long (i.e. 30,000 lines of code). The flu is ~13,000 bases long, HIV is ~9,000. Longer sequence means a bigger chance of a mistake during copying, so COVID has evolved this ExoN proofreading enzyme.
This is important for two reasons: First, if itâs not mutating quickly, that makes it much easier to develop a vaccine that gives lasting immunity. Itâs hard to create a vaccine for most RNA viruses because theyâre always switching their game up. Also, if we can figure out some kind of drug that suppresses this ExoN proofreading protein, it might cripple the virusâ ability to reproduce itself. The drug remdesivir is supposed to work by targeting this enzyme.
Some links:
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Not that we needed more proof that he wasnât joking, but, here it isâŠ
https://twitter.com/RepAndyKimNJ/status/1274517957901778944?s=19
Given any claim Trump is NOT lying, Iâm gonna want a lot of evidence.
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So youâre saying I should jump back into the stonks market with both feet?
Ohhhhh
So it wasnât a stroke it was covid
In an enclosed area
Well at least he got to do his comedy
Bill Maher will be happy
I think we should be cautious. This is apparently something the sciencebros have known about coronaviruses for a long time (the Nature article I linked to was published in 2013!) but itâs new info for me and maybe some of you. Other coronaviruses in the past like SARS and MERS fizzled out on their own before we really had a chance to fully develop tools to fight them. It could be that this COVID-19 thing forces us to create weapons that stop this ExoN enzyme. Or maybe itâs a dead end.
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Dispatch from a parallel universe:
The state of Victoria is getting something like 20 new cases a day, many of which are community transmission. This is sufficient for the state government there to cancel reopening plans and re-impose some restrictions. No more than 20 people in a single space and no more than 5 visitors to households. Thereâs talk of a harsher lockdown in suburbs where community transmission is taking place.
Nineteen new positive tests were recorded in the past 24 hours. Health Minister Jenny Mikakos announced today that the stateâs infectious total has reached 1836 cases, of which 121 remain active.
The 19 new cases follow rises of 25, 13, 18 and 21 cases over the previous four days.
The rise in coronavirus cases has led the government to extend the state of emergency for four more weeks until July 19. A raft of eased restrictions that were due to come into place on Monday have been axed. Police have been instructed to fine those caught breaking the rules.
âIt is still a very serious situation,â Ms Mikakos said.
âWe have had particularly some concerns around family gatherings, extended family members across many households, visiting each other even when they have been exhibiting mild symptoms and very concerningly even going to work when they had mild symptoms.
âThe persistent rise of COVID-19 cases in Victoria means people must once again cancel social plans and struggling businesses must wait.â
My state of South Australia had planned to reopen its borders to all states on July 20 but that may be put on hold as Victoria tries to get its community transmission problems under control. This has owned a friend of mine for a second time. He had a 6-week family holiday planned to the US leaving late March and cancelled in early March as it became clear how bad things were getting. Now heâs booked another family trip to go skiing in the Australian Alps in Victoria, returning July 21 since the government had declared that borders would be open. Looking like a good chance heâll be cancelling that too.
Can we just get fake gay-married so I can GTFO of this shithole country now?
How does AUS feel about fiancee visits from America right now? Iâm willing to quarantine as long as they want.
Iâm also willing to get fake engaged to a woman if you know a willing participant. Or a platypus or w/e. Iâm not picky.
I saw on Animal Planet that Steve Irwinâs daughter just got married. So I guess sheâs out. Has the wife ever remarried? Whatâs Yahoo Serious up to these days?
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Wait til you see the Kansas Alps.
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Donât know about fiancee actually - spouses and de facto partners count as immediate family.
Legal guardians count as immediate family. Maybe you could adopt me Matt Gaetz style.
Dude you got me interested and I googled and discovered what may be the only 1990s-vintage website left on the internet.Itâs got a very Geocities/MySpace type vibe going on. We got flashing gifs. No lens flare though.
Edit: The copyright says 2003, so not quite 1990s, sadly. I donât think itâs been touched since 2003 though.
This can be the premise of the next season of 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way: guys try to convince their prospective lovers that they actually are gay and into them in exchange for a ticket out of the country,
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Consider yourself adopted. I can say youâre my little brother and our parents died in a tragic blimp accident.
Vintage 90s sites are making a comeback btw.
Wikipedia tells me that there are some hills in Nebraska known as the Bohemian Alps.