We had a similar dip last sunday. Its simply a delay in reporting. Ny has gone back to having nearly 300 cv deaths today already.
Saw a TMZ headline that the Florida pastor is being sought in regards to his illegal service.
I really don’t think we need chain email nonsense in here.
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VA governor is having a presser right now. Liveblog:
- Stay-at-home order for the state (new)
- He’s also lightly shitting on the federal response
- Calling for a federal testing site in the DMV area given the number of federal employees
- Complaining about the fact that governors are literally bidding against each other for PPE, saying the feds need to figure this shit out
- Said the state is looking for surge hospital capacity
VA cases are currently low, around 400 or so, but those have more than doubled in the last two days and there is a 0.0% chance that those numbers are even accurate. Arlington is moderately dense, and I know of several people who have been sick with COVID symptoms–not all got tested, and I don’t trust all the test results since some came back negative when they clearly had COVID (or the flu is making an unlikely resurgence). I expect numbers will ramp up around here pretty quickly.
The problem is you know a fucker like that can’t wait to get up and start yelling about being oppressed for his faith etc. Probably wants to get arrested, surely good for a 10% bump in tithings or whatever. Book deal, too.
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The UK are putting ‘at risk’ groups on this drug but only those without COVID as need say 6 months treatment at low dose before even likely to be effective. It isn’t being recommended as a magic pill cure.
I read that something like 3/4 of hospitalized NYC patients are on chloroquine
I know they are trying to find out if it works but that needs to be done in a very limited and controlled manner since people with illnesses it actually does help need the medication.
When some twitter dude without a checkmark says there’s a miracle sure for this, we all need to take it with a grain of salt.
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EU’s first dictatorship. Well done Hungary.
Whenever I see shitty Orban news my mind goes back to our ex next door neighbours where we lived before, a really nice Hungarian couple, he a freelance photographer, she a model, who were visibly upset by the Brexit referendum result and left to return to their own country, which bothered me a great deal.
And now they have this shit to deal with.
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Instacart and Amazon Workers are apparently striking today. (One day strike)
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What if pastor gets corona in jail?
India might be the weirdest country in the world. So much going on there.
it’s ‘ventilators, ventilators, ventilators’, not ‘chloroquine’, chloroquine, chloroquine’
It’s the same treatment Chinese doctors have recommended, right? If it’s wrong, which it probably is - let’s figure out why.
IMO there’s a difference between rightly skeptical and instantly dismissive of anything, or at least until the CDC finally gets around to recognizing it.
It seems pretty obvious the CDC has their own agenda for not recognizing things they think will be in short supply. IE - masks. Which is fine for them, but it doesn’t stop us from looking at things.
you can do two things at once
Yeah, I’ve seen several credible sources saying smear transmission isn’t documented and/or isn’t significant.
The bit in this article that was interesting to me was the “droplet” vs. “aerosol” transmission controversy. The distinction being that droplets are larger than aerosols, so precautions/PPE against droplets are not as stringent as for aerosols.
There is some disagreement among experts on this but this case seems to demonstrate that aerosol transmission is possible and perhaps even highly effective.
I was googling for more info on this and found this informative article from 2011 that provides some background for the interested.
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I never claimed otherwise.
Anecdotal evidence most often turns out to be wrong. Lots of quacks out there. Silicone implants and vaccines are just two where someone decides to dress up the anecdotes in false or embellished data.
Take at least two grains of salt. Occasionally someone shouting from the rooftops is actually correct (bacteria cause ulcers), but most things too good to be true-are just that.
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