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March 28th, 2020 at 1:45:26 PM permalink
AZDuffman
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Soon available, decontamination unit for your home!



The President is a fink.
March 28th, 2020 at 3:07:24 PM permalink
fleaswatter
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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For all the naysayers and cynics here, and those here who appear to me that they would rather see people infected with the Chinese virus get deathly sick and possibly die, rather than take medications “promoted” by President Trump, I provide you with the following information.

Quote:
Appearing Tuesday on Philadelphia’s AM 990 The Answer Radio, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he would certainly prescribe Chloroquine to coronavirus-stricken patients in the wake of testimonies stating it could treat the deadly disease.

A partial transcript is as follows:

CHRIS STIGALL:If you’re a doctor listening to me right now and a patient with coronavirus feels like they want to try [Chloroquine] and you’re their doctor, you’re not Anthony Fauci the guy running the coronavirus task force, would you say ‘alright, we’ll give it a whirl’?

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: Yeah, of course, particularly if people have no other option. You want to give them hope. In fact, for physicians in this country, these drugs are approved drugs for other reasons. They’re anti-malaria drugs and they’re drugs against certain autoimmune diseases, like lupus. Physicians throughout the country can prescribe that in an off-label way. Which means they can write it for something it was not originally approved for. People do that all the time, and it really is an individual choice between the physician and his or her patient as to whether or not they want to do that.


If you are still a disbeliever, you can hear Dr. Anthony Fauci's actual words at the following link: (the question starts at time 52:14 of the interview, which is near the top of the webpage)

Dr. Anthony Fauci: ‘Of Course’ I Would Prescribe Chloroquine to Coronavirus Patients
Trust me, clicking on the above link will not hurt you. You may actually LEARN something.



And by the way:

Coronavirus cure: French researchers completed new additional study on 80 patients, results show a combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin to be effective in treating COVID-19

Following is the research paper(for the skeptics here, the trials were conducted on HUMANS):

Clinical and microbiological effect of a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in 80 COVID-19 patients with at least a six-day follow up: an observational study.

Wow. look at all the Doctors and medical professionals that contributed to the study.
Let's go Brandon
March 28th, 2020 at 3:32:22 PM permalink
rxwine
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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I've no problem with additional evidence. So you're saying we should go on Trump's word without it. No one can be that foolish.
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
March 28th, 2020 at 4:53:31 PM permalink
Tanko
Member since: Aug 15, 2019
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As of yesterday, doctors in Italy and France are allowed to prescribe the unproven hydroxychloroquine to any Covid-19 patient. Deaths per infections is currently 10.8% in Italy and 7.2% in France.
March 28th, 2020 at 6:37:18 PM permalink
ams288
Member since: Apr 21, 2016
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Florida is on a path to looking like NYC a couple of weeks from now.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/28/florida-coronavirus-cases-are-growing-fast-heres-what-that-means/

The FL governor should have shut the state down a while ago. Unfathomable why he still hasn’t.
“A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman
March 28th, 2020 at 6:40:56 PM permalink
Gandler
Member since: Aug 15, 2019
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Quote: ams288
Florida is on a path to looking like NYC a couple of weeks from now.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/28/florida-coronavirus-cases-are-growing-fast-heres-what-that-means/

The FL governor should have shut the state down a while ago. Unfathomable why he still hasn’t.


Yeah, the South was doing good for a while, but lots of Northerners started to come down here to "quarantine" or whatever and now its spreading. Things should have been shut down already.

GA still does not have a statewide shutdown either, its city by city leaving the burden on local governments (I spent most of the last few days telling businesses that they need to close).

Travel really should have been suspended weeks ago. Its probably too late now to make a difference.
March 29th, 2020 at 3:09:49 PM permalink
Pacomartin
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Flu deaths in the US
2010-2011 37,000
2011-2012 12,000
2012-2013 43,000
2013-2014 38,000
2014-2015 51,000
2015-2016 23,000
2016-2017 38,000
2017-2018* 61,000
2018-2019* 34,157
2019-2020* 24,000 – 62,000

Deaths from Covid-19 are ~2100 to date

I still don't understand the criteria for calling off the quarantine.
March 29th, 2020 at 3:16:02 PM permalink
AZDuffman
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Quote: Pacomartin


I still don't understand the criteria for calling off the quarantine.


That is the danger of the open ended quarantine. Everyone is going to be afraid to break it, damage to the economy be damned. The media will play the first deaths after it is broken to the nines. But at some point you have to move on. You have to carry on.
The President is a fink.
March 29th, 2020 at 3:23:00 PM permalink
Dalex64
Member since: Mar 8, 2014
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Quote: Pacomartin
Flu deaths in the US
2010-2011 37,000
2011-2012 12,000
2012-2013 43,000
2013-2014 38,000
2014-2015 51,000
2015-2016 23,000
2016-2017 38,000
2017-2018* 61,000
2018-2019* 34,157
2019-2020* 24,000 – 62,000

Deaths from Covid-19 are ~2100 to date

I still don't understand the criteria for calling off the quarantine.


Covid infections and deaths are still rising, and many covid infections are unmeasured.

Couldn't future flu rates and deaths be used as a measure of the effectiveness of these various levels of quarantine that we are going through?
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan
March 29th, 2020 at 4:04:47 PM permalink
kenarman
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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Posts: 4508
Quote: Pacomartin
Flu deaths in the US
2010-2011 37,000
2011-2012 12,000
2012-2013 43,000
2013-2014 38,000
2014-2015 51,000
2015-2016 23,000
2016-2017 38,000
2017-2018* 61,000
2018-2019* 34,157
2019-2020* 24,000 – 62,000

Deaths from Covid-19 are ~2100 to date

I still don't understand the criteria for calling off the quarantine.


The same thing I have been wondering from the beginning Paco. They have no end game and anything the feds might want to suggest will be attacked by the dems since it has just become another thing to play politics with and peoples lives be damned.
"but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin