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Strongly suggest you look at the daily reports from the COVID Tracking Project:It appears case #s are down across the country, but what I want to know is of the current cases how many are people in peril. Have a positive vs being gravely ill are 2 hugely different circumstances. Is it possible it has mutated into a still contagious but lesser dangerous strain?
The core of scientific research and communication is peer review, which this obviously isn't subject to. Anyone can publish anything on Zenodo - I could print this thread to PDF and title it "Coalescion of marine experts' review of existing data related to COVID-19 and US Pandemic Response" and it would be published.Can you explain why you say this? Honestly looking for an expert perspective.
Cute. I'm not an expert by any means, but I'd wager I have the education, training, and experience to understand more of that text than most folks here.Expert?? Good luck with that
Yo. God bless you for taking the time to write all that. I’ve given up on tons of conversations already. And yeah. I agree with you. And that’s all I have to say about that.The core of scientific research and communication is peer review, which this obviously isn't subject to. Anyone can publish anything on Zenodo - I could print this thread to PDF and title it "Coalescion of marine experts' review of existing data related to COVID-19 and US Pandemic Response" and it would be published.
The point about this not being research is this: its not research. She and her colleagues are simply musing about the ways in which this could be accomplished in a lab, whereas actual reviews of the sequence of the virus have clearly shown that effects of manipulation are not present within its genome. People making claims such as this would actually demonstrate the methods involved and the resulting sequence modifications that would yield an identical code absent the markers of manipulations.
In the time frame they specified they could have accomplished many of these tasks independently, if not as a whole, and offered a synthetically derived version of SARS-CoV-2 either in its entirety or in part. Peers would then review the methods and attempt to replicate. It's the underpinning of science. Moreover, you'll note the absolute dearth of references to the claims they make. One of the points key to the central thesis of why this could not be naturally occurring is the the ACE2 inhibitor is not sufficiently conserved between bats and humans, so therefore the spike protein could never have naturally occurred with a high enough affinity to the receptor binding domain for human infection, never mind the fact that this already occurred in our recent history, and has been demonstrated in other coronaviruses in the bat population that emerged prior to SARS. She purports that much of this manipulation can be done with basic restriction enzyme digestion and recombination with EcoR1, shit that I did in high school nearly 20 years ago, and yet this would not be perceptible by the all of the peer-reviewed work that's been published to date? Even the language of the article is frankly laughable compared to the norms of research. I think I lost count of how many times I came across astonishingly, conveniently, and strikingly (and a littany of other adverbs), alongside the big underlined smoking gun.
Bias matters. Look at who wrote it, what they have to gain by it, who published it and what they have to gain by it, and you're left with a bucket of pseudoscience that puts some things in clear language that will serve only to distract and divide, while the meat of it in language that the vast majority of readers will have no fundamental (let alone technical) understanding of, and its primed for a misinformation campaign and soundbites to fly through social media - which not astonishingly, has gone like wildfire.
Cute. I'm not an expert by any means, but I'd wager I have the education, training, and experience to understand more of that text than most folks here.
Thank God, you're not one of them.Sorry Sean but you get no points for being the smartest guy on the message board, even if you did whats that get you.
I must live in a fantasy world as the numbers here are not so staggering.
Hampden County:
- Baystate Franklin Medical Center: 1 patient, 1 ICU
Hampshire County:
- Baystate Medical Center: 24 patients, 2 ICU
- Baystate Noble Hospital: 1 patient
- Baystate Wing Hospital: 2 patients
- Holyoke Hospital: 4 patients
- Mercy Medical Center: 4 patients, 1 ICU
- Cooley Dickinson Hospital: 0
Nice. I'm not, nor do I claim to be. I'd like to point out when people are sharing obvious bullshit. Don't care to know? You do you, boo.Sorry Sean but you get no points for being the smartest guy on the message board, even if you did whats that get you.
*gasp* Do you mean that not every area is impacted in the same way at the same time? No way. Fake news. China Virus is a Faux Virus!I must live in a fantasy world as the numbers here are not so staggering.
Hampden County:
- Baystate Franklin Medical Center: 1 patient, 1 ICU
Hampshire County:
- Baystate Medical Center: 24 patients, 2 ICU
- Baystate Noble Hospital: 1 patient
- Baystate Wing Hospital: 2 patients
- Holyoke Hospital: 4 patients
- Mercy Medical Center: 4 patients, 1 ICU
- Cooley Dickinson Hospital: 0
No, he's actually said he's not. Let's keep it civil and not about personal stuff.and you sell yourself as the smart guy?
This is crazy, they are saying the virus don't last long in water but it's lasting long enough for them to detect it? They are contributing it to people not wiping their ass? How many people not wiping their ass does it take to create enough concentration to show up on tests? I boat on a river and I've wondered about the virus getting into the river because water treatment plants dump treated water into the river.Check this out.
Coronavirus detected in lake water, researchers find. Experts say don't panic.
“It’s highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 can survive in a body of water for very long,” one expert tells Yahoo Life.www.yahoo.com
Apparently not much, saw this a while back and was shocked that they found enough virus from a couple people in a whole dorm’s worth of wastewater.This is crazy, they are saying the virus don't last long in water but it's lasting long enough for them to detect it? They are contributing it to people not wiping their ass? How many people not wiping their ass does it take to create enough concentration to show up on tests? I boat on a river and I've wondered about the virus getting into the river because water treatment plants dump treated water into the river.
The masks help but don't prevent the spread. I look at it this way....if there was something that improved my odds of winning the lottery by 25% would I do it every time I played....no kidding I would!!! So if a mask reduces the chance by 25% that I get or don't spread the virus...I'll do it.I will preface this post by stating that although I don’t like wearing a mask it has become a habit for me to check that I have it on and have a spare with me when I leave the house. Both my parents are registered nurses and I have many medical professionals in my family. I. Short I’m a believer that masks help slow the spread of COVID 19. However, this weekend My wife and I spontaneously stopped at an Indian Casino on the way home from a weekend trip (we had driven by it many times before). While there I took tof how the gambling tables are now set up. Moreover, I could not ignore the body oder of a gambler sitting at least 10’ behind me which begs the questions, if I can smell this guy 10’ away is the mask really protecting me at all? Is it just protecting others from me exposing them if I have the virus? Put another way, if the guy with BO had the virus and I can smell him over 6’ away is the fact that he is wearing a mask (everyone including I was at the time) really protecting anyone around him? Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to continue wearing a mask and advocate that others do the same but my recent experience at the Casino has me scratching my head about Non N95 mask efficacy.
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That dude must have really smelled.I will preface this post by stating that although I don’t like wearing a mask it has become a habit for me to check that I have it on and have a spare with me when I leave the house. Both my parents are registered nurses and I have many medical professionals in my family. I. Short I’m a believer that masks help slow the spread of COVID 19. However, this weekend My wife and I spontaneously stopped at an Indian Casino on the way home from a weekend trip (we had driven by it many times before). While there I took tof how the gambling tables are now set up. Moreover, I could not ignore the body oder of a gambler sitting at least 10’ behind me which begs the questions, if I can smell this guy 10’ away is the mask really protecting me at all? Is it just protecting others from me exposing them if I have the virus? Put another way, if the guy with BO had the virus and I can smell him over 6’ away is the fact that he is wearing a mask (everyone including I was at the time) really protecting anyone around him? Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to continue wearing a mask and advocate that others do the same but my recent experience at the Casino has me scratching my head about Non N95 mask efficacy.
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