Kolek planning to go pro
A vaccine will the efficacy of the flu vaccine, combined with better theraputic treatments, will be plenty to get society back to "normal."
Vaccine, not so much. At least not in the sense of inoculating people against getting the virus. Maybe something as effective as a flu shot, but the efficacy of that varies a lot from year to year.
This study is somewhat good news. A lot more of us have this than we can measure (50-80x). Bad news still not enough to make progress on herd immunity. https://thehill.com/homenews/news/493391-california-antibody-testing-suggests-coronavirus-may-be-far-more-widespread
While interesting, these studies (another from Massachusetts, where 1/3 of people test positive), are confusing. With lockdowns in place, where and how are they getting infected. If these results are true, then the idea that this is primarily spread by droplets is wrong. There aren't enough people being exposed to droplets in the air for those levels of infection. The 2nd aspect, both studies used tests that haven't been approved by the FDA. Are these tests even working? And why do these results conflict with approved testing regimes that are seeing that only 10% of symptomatic people are testing positive.
POTUS and CDC - can you hear me?!?
Oh, good God, these people...@WillieGeist: White House economic advisor Stephen Moore says Americans protesting stay-at-home orders are “modern-day Rosa Parks.”“I call these people the modern-day Rosa Parks — they are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties.” @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rallies-against-stay-at-home-orders-grow-as-trump-sides-with-protesters/2020/04/17/1405ba54-7f4e-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html
So the White House is telling us to social distance and protest social distancing at the same time. What a cluster they are.
Florida updates:- Rich residents of an island get their own test for themselves and their workers: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/us/fisher-island-miami-coronavirus-antibody-testing/index.html- Florida beaches will reopen beginning this evening.
Look Lenny, it was met with xenophobia and cries of racism by idiots. You know and I know it. I'm a pretty liberal guy, and I applauded the measure of closing borders because it was the most logical thing to do at the time. But please stop pretending like the criticism of the travel ban was wide spread.And do you honestly think that China intentionally, and maliciously spread this virus around the world?
It was fairly widespread and pushed by members of they party and media that are not portrayed as idiots here usually. Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Vox, New York Times, Buzzfeed, and others did say it was xenophobic.The problem we have come to as a nation is that people who hate Trump will attack whatever he does only because it is him. Good decisions by him are automatically labeled. He has brought that on himself with media attacks, but they want to take him down so badly that their initial response is to attack. Much of the attacks are deserved, but when it becomes the default response we are no better than when he attacks everyone. I can turn on FOX and know most of what I will see is positive coverage of the administration. I can turn on CNN and MSNBC and know probably 95% or higher will be negative. All three are wrong, but it is that predictable to the point it isn’t worth watching.
Sources on Biden, Sanders, and news orgs (not editorial pieces) calling POTUS xenophobic?
So you're done pretending now. That's nice. The first person you should be honest with is yourself.
Joe Biden Feb 1st https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1223727977361338370?s=20"We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering." Biden's twitter statement came out hours after the travel ban put into effect.The New York Times quoted epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm as saying that Trump's decision to restrict travel from China was "more of an emotional or political reaction." on the day of the ban.Vox; "The evidence on travel bans for diseases like coronavirus is clear: They don’t work." Vox also said on January 31st (the day of the travel ban) "Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? No." They later deleted the tweet. https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1243086314330656774/photo/1
I'm not a far left partisan like you are. Do you understand that though we are shrinking, there is a decent number of moderates that are Democrats. We may not be as liberal as you are, but your attacks on anything not in your belief system is what continues to degrade dialogue in this country. Both sides do it. The right and the left.
Back to the topic at hand--the article below is about a German anti-body study and their path to reopening.This quote is amazing.Mr. Hoelscher got the idea for the antibody study in the shower. It was March 19, the day before the state of Bavaria announced its lockdown.“I thought to myself if we’re going into lockdown, we need to start working on an exit strategy now,” he said.The next day, he said he wrote a short pitch to the Bavarian government. Six hours later, he had the green light. It took another three weeks until the test kits had arrived, a new lab was opened and teams of medics started fanning out across the city.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/world/europe/with-broad-random-tests-for-antibodies-germany-seeks-path-out-of-lockdown.html
Uncle Joe will handle COVID-9 just fine now that he doesn't have to worry about Super Thursday anymore, hey?
Interesting that you don't see the irony in pointing out Biden's snafus when your buddy in the White House is a walking talking gaffe machine.