Coronavirus:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I can't wait to see what the tune of our conversations are come the holidays.

I'm just wondering what we'll be looking at come Sept.

[robert.]

I can't wait to see what the tune of our conversations are come the holidays.

I'm just wondering what we'll be looking at come Sept.

Flat earthers' say "the virus will be over Nov 4"

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I can't wait to see what the tune of our conversations are come the holidays.

I'm just wondering what we'll be looking at come Sept.

Flat earthers' say "the virus will be over Nov 4"

Well, if they go out and about w/o masks that might true for them.

[robert.]

People started wearing masks in greater numbers now. It appears that the library's stance helped others enforce the issue. That and stores changing their signage from "you must to please do it for our employees" Or all the me me me people went with slim back to Texas and infected everyone there.
Pa has added to the list 4 more states. No up to 18 states . people returning or visiting from there must quarantine for 14 days.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Pa has added to the list 4 more states. No up to 18 states . people returning or visiting from there must quarantine for 14 days.

Interesting - have to see how that affects my commuting to my home there.

[robert.]

you're good. SC. west and south from there. There is talk of making a few pa counties go back to red phase. King wolf withheld federal money from a county that opened early.

[E7]

Call it "population control"....."cleaning up the gene pool"! Somewhere along the way things will have to go on.

[chuck]

Even if you aren't a fan of John Oliver, the last 8 minutes of this segment is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U

scan forward to 14:16 minute mark.

[HONDO74]

Even if you aren't a fan of John Oliver, the last 8 minutes of this segment is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U

scan forward to 14:16 minute mark.

I watched the whole 9 yards........

[E7]

Even if you aren't a fan of John Oliver, the last 8 minutes of this segment is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U

scan forward to 14:16 minute mark.

Thanks! Amazing to find out that Domino's Pizza is the cause of the whole darn thing!

[healey36]

As has nearly everyone, I've had the suspicion that the true infection rates are quite a bit higher than those being reported via the various testing programs. It seems now that's being quantified as possibly being up to ten times greater in some locales (see here for example):

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-says-covid-19-cases-u-s-may-be-10-n1232134

If this is accurate, does that mean the death rate is considerably less than that which has been calculated using the official test results? Seems to me it would be significantly less. I only ask because it seems the odds of me croaking from this would be lessened which, in the big scheme of things, is important, at least to me. Of course it may mean nothing for me, as I'm in the over-60 if-you-catch-it-you're-a-goner age group.

[up148]

Wife of a worker at my kids business tested positive today. The worker and his daughter test negative, but per the company rules, he was sent home for 14 days. Just keeping our fingers crossed, as both our children are there daily and they have kids too.

[chuck]

1% vrs 4% doesn't seem like a big difference. Besides the real issue isn't just life vrs death. A lot of people have survived but with serious health impacts. This is sort of like what the VA and military are going through with modern warfare and modern medicine. Deaths down, seriously wounded way up.

how to contain:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/health/covid-19-three-things-will-stop-it-wellness/index.html

[Rufus T. Firefly]

1% vrs 4% doesn't seem like a big difference. Besides the real issue isn't just life vrs death. A lot of people have survived but with serious health impacts.

There are a number of long-term, maybe forever, complications that are debilitating and very real.

[HONDO74]

Are mutations making it more infectious?
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53325771

The coronavirus that is now threatening the world is subtly different from the one that first emerged in China.

Sars-Cov-2, the official name of the virus that causes the disease Covid-19, and continues to blaze a path of destruction across the globe, is mutating.

But, while scientists have spotted thousands of mutations, or changes to the virus's genetic material, only one has so far been singled out as possibly altering its behaviour.

The crucial questions about this mutation are: does this make the virus more infectious - or lethal - in humans? And could it pose a threat to the success of a future vaccine?

This coronavirus is actually changing very slowly compared with a virus like flu. With relatively low levels of natural immunity in the population, no vaccine and few effective treatments, there's no pressure on it to adapt. So far, it's doing a good job of keeping itself in circulation as it is.

The notable mutation - named D614G and situated within the protein making up the virus's "spike" it uses to break into our cells - appeared sometime after the initial Wuhan outbreak, probably in Italy. It is now seen in as many as 97% of samples around the world.