Covid-19

[xudash]

https://www.medicineuncensored.com/a...ut-of-thin-air
The CBS article doesn't give justice to how bad that study was

Shameful. No words. Well, any of you liberal nut jobs remorseful over this, or are you still enjoying ANTIFA’s constructive expression?

[bobbiemcgee]

Take it and wash it down with bleach. Who cares?

[Lloyd Braun]

Because it fit the desired narrative? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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Can we confirm Dr. Desai and his company (allegedly) extrapolated data to fit a narrative? It’s shameful regardless of reason but I have a difficult time coming to the conclusion that it was a left wing conspiracy job. It seems to me it was not that dissimilar to those buying masks and selling them for profit as he has a company that is likely to profit from this (allegedly) fudged data.

From what I’ve seen in real life HCQ is still being used in the community for this, and hospital treatments have advanced nicely. I don’t think anyone condones falsified data, especially The Lancet and NEJM.

[Muskie in dayton]

Some great news on Covid-19, amidst all the hell our country is going though. Apparently all those people piled on each other at Lake of the Ozarks: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/memorial-day-lake-of-the-ozarks-crowd-reportedly-led-to-no-new-covid-19-cases

There are also multiple reports around the globe suggesting the virus is becoming less virulant.

[GoMuskies]

Good thing, because around here we've been acting like it's becoming less virulent. Not based on any evidence or anything. just because.

[Lloyd Braun]

Although most places have seen a slight rise in cases over the last few weeks, it certainly seems less virulent regionally. Not so much in South America, they are in a battle. Perhaps it mutates for the better over time, as viral load numbers are typically lower than they were 2 months ago.

[boozehound]

Good thing, because around here we've been acting like it's becoming less virulent. Not based on any evidence or anything. just because.

Not just Kansas. Last week we had 20 kids playing tag at a neighbors house. None of the parents felt super great about it, but we also didn't stop them from playing. They are kids and they needed it. This weekend we had a neighbor come over to use the slip-n-slide with our kids. I spent the weekend volunteering at our neighborhood swim club getting it ready to open (hopefully in the next week or two). One guy was wearing a mask. People generally practiced social distancing (kind of), but still.

I was / am taking this pretty seriously, but I also am far less worried about transmission outside in the summer than I am indoors. I'll still avoid indoor gatherings and wear masks when shopping etc. but I'm going with the assumption that the risk of outdoor transmission is reasonably low.

A recent study in the Ozarks seems to support that theory :)

[Masterofreality]

Per Jack Windsor of WMFD, Mansfield, there have been more deaths from flu in the 12 weeks since the Ohio lockdown began than from reported Covid19.
Also, the median age of Covid victims has been 81 years old. The actual average life expectancy in Ohio is 77.5.

Thanks for nothing DeWActon.

By the way. Windsor is a fine follow on Twitter.

[Lloyd Braun]

Per Jack Windsor of WMFD, Mansfield, there have been more deaths from flu in the 12 weeks since the Ohio lockdown began than from reported Covid19.

Do you have a link for this? It would be very interesting as we have not seen the flu since the end of March. So 3 weeks of flu deaths would have to exceed 2200 or whatever we are at now.

[X-man]

Saw my doc today for a routine physical. He thinks that the shutdown was right, but probably "overdone" to err on the side of caution. As he says, covid can't be both more lethal and more contagious than the regular flu. If it's more contagious, there have to be orders of magnitude more cases than are measured. But if that is true, the lethality rate is orders of magnitude less than predicted. On the other hand, if the lethality is anywhere near what was predicted, than there can't be many people out there who were/are sick but not measured. But if that's the case, covid isn't nearly as contagious as predicted. The only way that both predictions could be correct is that both covid incidence and deaths are vastly undercounted...a possibility. But in his view, that isn't nearly as likely as the other alternatives. As we learn more, I am guessing that it will be shown to be very contagious, but not very lethal. Time will tell.

That said, I still support what was done here in Ohio, because we knew so little and were so unprepared for the worst case scenarios. Now is the time to do the careful reopening that we are doing. It could go much faster if we could figure out a way to do MORE TESTING. Knowing who is sick and who is not will go a long way towards getting people to feel safe re-entering the world, and shutting down any nascent spikes that might occur from re-opening.