Coronavirus: COVID-19

Psy-Fi · 08-24-2020, 05:01 PM

Police hunt for 'COVID hug' man who grabbed strangers at Walmart

midnight rain · 08-25-2020, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

haha your dumb

You ain’t wrong

OccultHawk · 08-25-2020, 04:19 AM

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University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19.

Genetic tests revealed that a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d previously been infected with in March, said Dr. Kelvin Kai-Wang To, the microbiologist who led the work.

The man had mild symptoms the first time and none the second time; his more recent infection was detected through screening and testing at the Hong Kong airport.

“It shows that some people do not have lifelong immunity” to the virus if they’ve already had it, To said. “We don’t know how many people can get reinfected. There are probably more out there.”

The paper has been accepted by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases but not yet published, and some independent experts urged caution until full results are available.

Whether people who have had COVID-19 are immune to new infections and for how long are key questions that have implications for vaccine development and decisions about returning to work, school and social activities.

Even if someone can be infected a second time, it’s not known if they have some protection against serious illness, because the immune system generally remembers how to make antibodies against a virus it’s seen before.

Oh man

Lisnaholic · 08-25-2020, 07:21 AM

Yes, I read about that troubling development too, OH.

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If ever a thread was in need of some good news, it's this one, and I think I have a glimmer of hope here for people who, like myself, have been oppressed by the notion that covid-19 will continue almost unstopably in its current fatal course.

May I introduce Dr. J Campbell, who has been posting 30-min updates every day throughout the pandemic. It's turned into a gargantuan effort on his part, but a sustainable one for him because he keeps it as straightforward as his topic allows. The same, rather bare spare room, the same method of laying out his lecture notes for us to see, then the same plod through the science.
TBH, I find his no-frills, no drama approach to be both refreshing and convincing: he reminds me reassuringly of the college lecturers that I used to half-listen to during a drowsy afternoon at school.

Anyway, yesterday, at long last, he had some good news for us, and he also explains,at 9 mins in, how in the long term covid-19 should eventually mutate into a less lethal version of itself:-

Norg · 08-26-2020, 01:53 PM

its getting weaker and weaker because its not a virus its a BIOlogical weapon that weakens over time DUN DUN DUN !!!!!!

OccultHawk · 08-27-2020, 11:53 AM

Hit 180,000 deaths. Still raging too.

**Frownland** · 08-27-2020, 01:00 PM

A friend's longtime gf was u.s. death #176,784 at 28 :/

OccultHawk · 08-27-2020, 01:01 PM

Sorry to hear that. I couple people close to me lost loved ones too.

Lisnaholic · 08-27-2020, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

A friend's longtime gf was u.s. death #176,784 at 28 :/

I'm sorry to hear that too, Frownland. Each death is a tragedy to someone and I think we are all at risk of losing sight of that as these hard-to-visualize numbers are being quoted at us day after day. Twenty-eight is very young to die.

OccultHawk · 08-27-2020, 04:02 PM

Perhaps the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall on the gulf coast hit today but more people will die of covid during the same time frame.

It’s very possible that the spread of covid from hurricane refugees will OVER TIME kill many times as many people has the hurricane directly.

08-25-2020, 07:21 AM	#2794 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	Yes, I read about that troubling development too, OH. __________________________________________________ _______________________ If ever a thread was in need of some good news, it's this one, and I think I have a glimmer of hope here for people who, like myself, have been oppressed by the notion that covid-19 will continue almost unstopably in its current fatal course. May I introduce Dr. J Campbell, who has been posting 30-min updates every day throughout the pandemic. It's turned into a gargantuan effort on his part, but a sustainable one for him because he keeps it as straightforward as his topic allows. The same, rather bare spare room, the same method of laying out his lecture notes for us to see, then the same plod through the science. TBH, I find his no-frills, no drama approach to be both refreshing and convincing: he reminds me reassuringly of the college lecturers that I used to half-listen to during a drowsy afternoon at school. Anyway, yesterday, at long last, he had some good news for us, and he also explains,at 9 mins in, how in the long term covid-19 should eventually mutate into a less lethal version of itself:- __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

08-27-2020, 11:53 AM	#2796 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Hit 180,000 deaths. Still raging too. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

08-27-2020, 01:01 PM	#2798 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Sorry to hear that. I couple people close to me lost loved ones too. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

08-27-2020, 04:02 PM	#2800 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Perhaps the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall on the gulf coast hit today but more people will die of covid during the same time frame. It’s very possible that the spread of covid from hurricane refugees will OVER TIME kill many times as many people has the hurricane directly. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

08-26-2020, 01:53 PM	#2795 (permalink)
Norg Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,357	its getting weaker and weaker because its not a virus its a BIOlogical weapon that weakens over time DUN DUN DUN !!!!!!

08-27-2020, 01:00 PM	#2797 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	A friend's longtime gf was u.s. death #176,784 at 28 :/