Author Topic: COVID-19 (f/k/a "the Coronavirus") (Read 1129871 times)

Widespread reliable testing. That is going to be a requirement to get back to any sense of normalcy. We need to be able to test everyone. We have tested about 0.3% of the population so far.

Liar. Liar.

It’s closer to .4%. But the other 99.6% can get the test any time they want it.

GooooMarquette · « **Reply #3282 on:** April 05, 2020, 11:47:31 PM »

Quote from: Frenns Liquor Depot on April 05, 2020, 07:30:10 PM

I agree it’s testing, contact tracing and antibody blood testing. Duh I guess. Where is our government on all these items?????

I don’t mean to be flip or dismissive, but it’s not that hard to figure out the path forward. Doing it seems to be elusive.

Dunno where the government is on any of these, but Mayo Clinic is rolling out its antibody testing tomorrow.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/04/01/mayo-clinic-expects-covid19-antibody-test-to-be-ready-monday

MU Fan in Connecticut · « **Reply #3283 on:** April 06, 2020, 08:49:17 AM »

Quote from: MU82 on April 05, 2020, 09:23:22 AM

I wish I could have a good deep dish pizza. Here in Charlotte, it's mostly a pizza wasteland, and certainly devoid of deep dish pizza.

I gave myself a 4-day timeout from this thread. I returned last night to see multiple ultra-partisan, hate-filled, screaming rants by one Scooper -- worse posts than anything I had seen from Scoopers on either side of the aisle in a long, long time.

I agree with you that we should discuss the topic at hand. Here in NC, it's just getting exponentially worse and worse. Every day, more sickness and death than the day before.

It's also getting worse in our neighboring state, Georgia, but the governor there just signed an executive order RE-opening the state's beaches. He did so against the wishes of the mayors of several beach-side towns. This is the same guy who didn't know until a few days ago that asymptomatic people could transmit COVID-19. Ignorance is bliss ... as long as you don't mind people dying.

Deep Dish Pizza???!!!
MU82, you are forgetting your roots!

MU82 · « **Reply #3284 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:23:23 AM »

Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on April 06, 2020, 08:49:17 AM

Deep Dish Pizza???!!!
MU82, you are forgetting your roots!

Not ashamed to admit that Pequod's deep dish is my favorite pizza of all-time ... but I still like a nice New Haven-style too, sir!

Galway Eagle · « **Reply #3285 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:26:05 AM »

Quote from: MU82 on April 06, 2020, 09:23:23 AM

Not ashamed to admit that Pequod's deep dish is my favorite pizza of all-time ... but I still like a nice New Haven-style too, sir!

Did you ever pop up to the original in Morton Grove? I've always been curious how it compares to the one in the city.

MU82 · « **Reply #3286 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:29:01 AM »

Quote from: Galway Eagle on April 06, 2020, 09:26:05 AM

Did you ever pop up to the original in Morton Grove? I've always been curious how it compares to the one in the city.

Ate there once a few years ago, and it was superb, just like the Lincoln Park restaurant. We lived only a couple miles from LP, though, so that's where we went. The last couple of times we had delivery it was a disaster -- took nearly 2 hours. So from now on, we won't get it unless we can dine in. It's fresher that way, anyway.

jesmu84 · « **Reply #3287 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:30:41 AM »

How the unnatural carnal knowledge does a tiger get tested? What are we even doing?

jesmu84 · « **Reply #3288 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:31:08 AM »

Sweden stopped a hydroxychloroquine trial due to significant side effects.

Coleman · « **Reply #3289 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:33:40 AM »

Quote from: Pakuni on April 05, 2020, 05:43:15 PM

Fake News.
Despite the urging of many, including the insurance industry, and his own promise to do so, the president last week reneged and decided not to offer a special Obamacare enrollment for those who now need it.
This means that those who don't already have the coverage are excluded until next year.

Unless they lose their job, have a kid, get married, etc.

Coleman · « **Reply #3290 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:35:39 AM »

Quote from: MU82 on April 06, 2020, 09:23:23 AM

Not ashamed to admit that Pequod's deep dish is my favorite pizza of all-time ... but I still like a nice New Haven-style too, sir!

Looooooove Pequod's

Coleman · « **Reply #3291 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:36:55 AM »

Quote from: Galway Eagle on April 06, 2020, 09:26:05 AM

Did you ever pop up to the original in Morton Grove? I've always been curious how it compares to the one in the city.

Food is the same. Ambiance is night and day. Lincoln Park location is a busy, bustling sports bar atmosphere.

Morton grove is a sleepy little location. I'm sure it gets busy, but it is much smaller, not nearly as loud or as many TVs

pbiflyer · « **Reply #3292 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:37:53 AM »

Quote from: jesmu84 on April 06, 2020, 09:30:41 AM

How the unnatural carnal knowledge does a tiger get tested? What are we even doing?

He wanted one. Anyone that wants one can get one.

MUBurrow · « **Reply #3293 on:** April 06, 2020, 09:59:35 AM »

Quote from: jesmu84 on April 06, 2020, 09:30:41 AM

How the unnatural carnal knowledge does a tiger get tested? What are we even doing?

Honestly from what I can tell, it was because he was coughing and lived in New York (I crap you not).

It seems frivolous, but there are probably a lot of good reasons to test if there was any kind of chance it would come back positive. Animal welfare at zoos is on that list, yes, but so is buildling a knowledge base of interspecies spread and potential hazards of spreading across species with domestic animals and household pets.

GooooMarquette · « **Reply #3294 on:** April 06, 2020, 10:04:05 AM »

Quote from: jesmu84 on April 06, 2020, 09:31:08 AM

Sweden stopped a hydroxychloroquine trial due to significant side effects.

Not terribly surprising...but do you have a link, or do you know what the side effects were? I did a google search and couldn't find anything....

injuryBug · « **Reply #3295 on:** April 06, 2020, 10:05:45 AM »

Quote from: MUBurrow on April 06, 2020, 09:59:35 AM

Honestly from what I can tell, it was because he was coughing and lived in New York (I crap you not).

It seems frivolous, but there are probably a lot of good reasons to test if there was any kind of chance it would come back positive. Animal welfare at zoos is on that list, yes, but so is buildling a knowledge base of interspecies spread and potential hazards of spreading across species with domestic animals and household pets.

And his main handler tested positive. So yes it seems legit it was not one of Joe Exotic's tigers and may prove to help control things down the road

forgetful · « **Reply #3296 on:** April 06, 2020, 10:06:56 AM »

Quote from: MUBurrow on April 06, 2020, 09:59:35 AM

Honestly from what I can tell, it was because he was coughing and lived in New York (I crap you not).

It seems frivolous, but there are probably a lot of good reasons to test if there was any kind of chance it would come back positive. Animal welfare at zoos is on that list, yes, but so is buildling a knowledge base of interspecies spread and potential hazards of spreading across species with domestic animals and household pets.

It was multiple felines all with COVID like symptoms.

It is a big deal.

There is emerging discussion/evidence that COVID has been in humans form months, maybe a year or more. Where it has mutated slowly from a poorly communicative (in humans) disease to be more infectious and dangerous.

Part of that process might be multiple passages between animals and humans. They know that the version circulating in humans has mutations compared to those in bats/pangolins that make it more infectious in humans. We just don't know what reservoir this was circulating in before those mutations occurred.

Won't be surprised if we see China seize on this type of news, as it could mean it didn't start there, but simply the final mutated versions erupted there.

GooooMarquette · « **Reply #3297 on:** April 06, 2020, 10:07:07 AM »

Quote from: jesmu84 on April 06, 2020, 09:30:41 AM

How the unnatural carnal knowledge does a tiger get tested? What are we even doing?

From the Bronx Zoo FB page:

From Dr. Paul Calle, Bronx Zoo chief veterinarian; "The COVID-19 testing that was performed on our Malayan tiger Nadia was performed in a veterinary school laboratory and is not the same test as is used for people. You cannot send human samples to the veterinary laboratory, and you cannot send animal tests to the human laboratories, so there is no competition for testing between these very different situations."

pbiflyer · « **Reply #3298 on:** April 06, 2020, 10:13:36 AM »

Quote from: GooooMarquette on April 06, 2020, 10:04:05 AM

Not terribly surprising...but do you have a link, or do you know what the side effects were? I did a google search and couldn't find anything....

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/carl-40-fick-kramp-och-syn-problem-av-coronamedicin/

How's your Swedish?

forgetful · « **Reply #3299 on:** April 06, 2020, 10:14:34 AM »

Quote from: GooooMarquette on April 06, 2020, 10:07:07 AM

From the Bronx Zoo FB page:

From Dr. Paul Calle, Bronx Zoo chief veterinarian; "The COVID-19 testing that was performed on our Malayan tiger Nadia was performed in a veterinary school laboratory and is not the same test as is used for people. You cannot send human samples to the veterinary laboratory, and you cannot send animal tests to the human laboratories, so there is no competition for testing between these very different situations."

Yes. I know the lab that ran these tests. The tigers were not taking tests away from people. This is what these labs do in cooperation with veterinary doctors.

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Author Topic: COVID-19 (f/k/a "the Coronavirus") (Read 1129871 times)