Global Pandemic Part II: Sequel Escalation

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LJT said:
So how many people do we think are going to try and inject disinfectant or insert some sort of uv light into themselves due to Trump having no concept whatsoever of very basic biology?
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Yes they will do it, and they'll defend him saying it. Just when you think Trump has hit his lowest he goes even lower.
 
MrsSpringsteen said:
Yes they will do it, and they'll defend him saying it. Just when you think Trump has hit his lowest he goes even lower.
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When I just read this, I thought it was a joke! I know trump is a dumbass but he said this? This is beyond dumbass! Maybe he is trying to whips out his own base since I can totally see some of his supporters trying this!
 
How about Chris Cuomo's wife? This is very irresponsible too. He will be on his show talking about what Trump said, and his wife is posting this online.



In a post on her Goop-like wellness blog Purist, Cuomo shared a laundry list of holistic methods she is using to tackle the coronavirus, including a “body charger” borrowed from a friend that sends electrical frequencies through the body, a vitamin drip done by a doctor who makes house calls to the Hamptons and what appears to be billions of milligrams of vitamins.

Yet one method rang decidedly unnatural: bathing in Clorox.


“Both days, I added 1/2 cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” she wrote of her routine.


If you’re thinking, “Um, come again?” you’re not alone. Bleach doesn’t seem like something we should be bathing in, pandemic or otherwise ― right? Right??

She is, it appears, not the only one curious about or engaging in the practice. The Clorox website is clear about where it stands on the matter: No, it is not recommended to bathe in bleach. It details a scenario in which bleach is added to drinking water as treatment ― but that’s 1/8 of a teaspoon ― and to be used only in an emergency. “Using a bleach and water solution for bathing is not approved by the EPA and should not be done,” it states.

A doctor of infectious diseases in New York state who asked not to be named for this story said he didn’t even really know what to say about what he called “not mainstream or evidence-based medicine,” but explained that while bleach is an effective tool for decontaminating surfaces like, say, a bathtub, it is not advised to bathe with, and in fact could cause more harm than good.

“In high concentrations, bleach can be noxious and irritant to your skin,” he said. “If you’ve ever touched concentrated bleach, you know it can be a skin irritant.” days, I added 1/2 cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” she wrote of her routine.
 
One outcome i hope for after we are out of this mess

A return to facts, logic, and reason as a leading force in society.

No more essential oils. Or claiming a spice can cure cancer.

No more balancing chakras.

Less belief in external objects or deities to solve problems.

More to education. More to introspection, meditation, kindness.
 
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1253351877787467779?s=21

We are four months into this pandemic. Six weeks or so of lockdown (for majority of country), 50,000 deaths and will be close to 70k by next weekend.

Yet we have done nothing. Zilch. Nada. We cannot stay locked down forever. It’s just not possible and keep people employed plus their sanity intact.

The only direction forward is for the country to take this virus on the chin and roll the dice on our lungs / life.

Talk of summer temps and humidity lessening the impact seems meh to me. Singapore is pretty hot and humid at this moment and they’re going through another resurgence.
 
LJT said:
So how many people do we think are going to try and inject disinfectant or insert some sort of uv light into themselves due to Trump having no concept whatsoever of very basic biology?
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Well there's certainly a widow in Arizona who is likely to give it a shot and probably end up joining her husband as a result.
 
MrsSpringsteen said:
How about Chris Cuomo's wife? This is very irresponsible too. He will be on his show talking about what Trump said, and his wife is posting this online.



In a post on her Goop-like wellness blog Purist, Cuomo shared a laundry list of holistic methods she is using to tackle the coronavirus, including a “body charger” borrowed from a friend that sends electrical frequencies through the body, a vitamin drip done by a doctor who makes house calls to the Hamptons and what appears to be billions of milligrams of vitamins.

Yet one method rang decidedly unnatural: bathing in Clorox.


“Both days, I added 1/2 cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” she wrote of her routine.


If you’re thinking, “Um, come again?” you’re not alone. Bleach doesn’t seem like something we should be bathing in, pandemic or otherwise ― right? Right??

She is, it appears, not the only one curious about or engaging in the practice. The Clorox website is clear about where it stands on the matter: No, it is not recommended to bathe in bleach. It details a scenario in which bleach is added to drinking water as treatment ― but that’s 1/8 of a teaspoon ― and to be used only in an emergency. “Using a bleach and water solution for bathing is not approved by the EPA and should not be done,” it states.

A doctor of infectious diseases in New York state who asked not to be named for this story said he didn’t even really know what to say about what he called “not mainstream or evidence-based medicine,” but explained that while bleach is an effective tool for decontaminating surfaces like, say, a bathtub, it is not advised to bathe with, and in fact could cause more harm than good.

“In high concentrations, bleach can be noxious and irritant to your skin,” he said. “If you’ve ever touched concentrated bleach, you know it can be a skin irritant.” days, I added 1/2 cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” she wrote of her routine.
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Mind boggling that a seemingly intelligent person can buy into witch doctor like remedies.
 
Dr. Birx screaming inside. If it was me I would have walked up to the podium and refuted him right away. Some things are worth losing your job for, I'm sure she has plenty of money.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1253487743046385670
 
Listening to Cuomo rip McConnell to pieces over blue “maker” states and red “taker” states is warming my heart ❤️
 
in 1995, there were 41,699 deaths from HIV/AIDS in the US. it was the deadliest year for the virus.

we are already 9,000 people past that from COVID, and in just under, what, 2 months?
 
MrsSpringsteen said:
Dr. Birx screaming inside. If it was me I would have walked up to the podium and refuted him right away. Some things are worth losing your job for, I'm sure she has plenty of money.



https://twitter.com/i/status/1253487743046385670
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She is one who thinks by playing his game, she’s doing the right thing by not having an actual idiot take her place.

Many have tried this and flat out failed (most of his cabinet, folks like Rex Tillerson).

I don’t know what I would do, personally. Probably dance the fine line that Fauci does.
 
Controversial idea to speed coronavirus vaccine gains ground

An idea that might seem outlandish at first is gaining some ground as a way to speed development of a coronavirus vaccine: intentionally infecting people with the virus as part of a trial.

The idea, known as a “challenge trial,” would deliberately infect a few hundred young, healthy volunteers, who were first given either the potential vaccine or a placebo. Those picked would be well informed about the risks.

That would allow the effectiveness of a vaccine to be determined faster than a traditional clinical trial, which would require that researchers wait for some of the participants to become infected in the course of their daily lives.


Supporters say the challenge trial could save several months in the search for a vaccine, which is widely seen as critical for people to feel confident again with social gatherings.

A group of 35 House lawmakers, led by Reps. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) and Donna Shalala (D-Fla.), a former secretary of Health and Human Services, wrote to the Food and Drug Administration this week lending their support to the idea.

“Our situation in this pandemic is analogous to war, in which there is a long tradition of volunteers risking their health and lives on dangerous missions for which they understand the risks and are willing to do so in order to help save the lives of others,” they wrote in the letter.

Stanley Plotkin, a renowned vaccinologist who helped invent the rubella vaccine, also endorsed the idea in an article in the journal Vaccine, along with Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University.

They wrote that the vaccine trial process “normally takes months to years, during which [coronavirus] will infect and possibly kill millions. Acceleration of that standard process is necessary.”

Older people have been among the biggest casualties of the coronavirus globally, while younger people have generally shown a higher chance of recovery.

An idea that might seem outlandish at first is gaining some ground as a way to speed development of a coronavirus vaccine: intentionally infecting people with the virus as part of a trial.

The idea, known as a “challenge trial,” would deliberately infect a few hundred young, healthy volunteers, who were first given either the potential vaccine or a placebo. Those picked would be well informed about the risks.

That would allow the effectiveness of a vaccine to be determined faster than a traditional clinical trial, which would require that researchers wait for some of the participants to become infected in the course of their daily lives.


Supporters say the challenge trial could save several months in the search for a vaccine, which is widely seen as critical for people to feel confident again with social gatherings.

A group of 35 House lawmakers, led by Reps. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) and Donna Shalala (D-Fla.), a former secretary of Health and Human Services, wrote to the Food and Drug Administration this week lending their support to the idea.

“Our situation in this pandemic is analogous to war, in which there is a long tradition of volunteers risking their health and lives on dangerous missions for which they understand the risks and are willing to do so in order to help save the lives of others,” they wrote in the letter.

Stanley Plotkin, a renowned vaccinologist who helped invent the rubella vaccine, also endorsed the idea in an article in the journal Vaccine, along with Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University.

They wrote that the vaccine trial process “normally takes months to years, during which [coronavirus] will infect and possibly kill millions. Acceleration of that standard process is necessary.”

Older people have been among the biggest casualties of the coronavirus globally, while younger people have generally shown a higher chance of recovery.

It would be a sharp break from precedent to do a challenge trial for a virus with no known cure that is as deadly as the coronavirus. Even if the volunteers were all young and healthy, that would not entirely reduce the risk of serious illness.

Despite the risks, experts in support of the idea said they had already heard from people willing to volunteer.

A website set up to recruit volunteers, called 1 Day Sooner, says it has already had more than 2,000 people sign up.

“People volunteer for the military, they volunteer to become emergency medical technicians,” said Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard University who co-wrote an article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in support of the idea. “All of those carry medical risks for the benefit of someone else and people do it.”

Foster, the lawmaker who helped lead the supportive letter, said in an interview on Tuesday that he hoped the message from lawmakers would help the FDA realize that there is “understanding from Congress” that somewhat more risks need to be taken to develop a vaccine faster.

“We should move the risk benefit optimization a little in favor of more rapid and riskier vaccine approval,” he said.

If a vaccine can be ready “even a month earlier,” he added, “then there will be tens of thousands of people whose lives have been saved.”
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Irvine511 said:
in 1995, there were 41,699 deaths from HIV/AIDS in the US. it was the deadliest year for the virus.

we are already 9,000 people past that from COVID, and in just under, what, 2 months?
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Overall two months but just one month ago we were hovering around 500 deaths. The exponential growth took over

Add Iowa to list of states easing restrictions, on the same day they had their highest infection case
 
I just assumed that the Chinese would be the first to come up with a vaccine because their government has about zero interest in human rights so they will be willing to cut down on protocol time, testing numbers and so on.
 
anitram said:
I just assumed that the Chinese would be the first to come up with a vaccine because their government has about zero interest in human rights so they will be willing to cut down on protocol time, testing numbers and so on.
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Plus they had several months head start and they may well know every ingredient in the actual virus.
 
Hewson said:
they may well know every ingredient in the actual virus.
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Omg today Trump is saying that he said that about disinfectant and UV light "sarcastically to you reporters, to see what would happen".

Strange that he would possibly even dream of doing such a thing (haha wink wink) considering we are in the middle of a pandemic and our economy has tanked. Even stranger that he had time to concoct such a coverup story.

Gaslighter in chief strikes again
 
The opening of today's briefing will be appointment viewing for sure as he starts off by berating everyone for thinking he was serious (aka stupid).
 
Thankfully I missed the debacle yesterday, it's always a good time for me to go out for my walk (social distancing and wearing a mask).But CNN is replaying portions. At one point Trump said "I'm not a doctor, but I have a huge you know what".

He pointed at his head, not elsewhere. That clip just made my week.
 
MrsSpringsteen said:
Omg today Trump is saying that he said that about disinfectant and UV light "sarcastically to you reporters, to see what would happen".

Strange that he would possibly even dream of doing such a thing (haha wink wink) considering we are in the middle of a pandemic and our economy has tanked. Even stranger that he had time to concoct such a coverup story.

Gaslighter in chief strikes again
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It'll be a miracle if somebody doesn't eventually wind up punching his lights out at one of these press conferences because they're so beyond fed up with his bullshit.

Yet again I say, fuck you, Trump supporters. Fuck every single last one of you.
 
Moonlit_Angel said:
It'll be a miracle if somebody doesn't eventually wind up punching his lights out at one of these press conferences because they're so beyond fed up with his bullshit.

Yet again I say, fuck you, Trump supporters. Fuck every single last one of you.
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A NY Times reporter just said on CNN that he wishes a reporter would ask Trump at the briefing today "what is wrong with you?" Truth, but that wouldn't work out very well.

He was talking about the NY Times article I posted in the election thread, about how Trump spends his days. This reporter said that any CEO would be fired for being that uninvolved and unprepared. That's true too.
 
Gee what a surprise-no questions taken at the briefing. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx weren't even there.

What a complete disaster. Keep Trump out of the damn briefings.
 
Jim Acosta says that his sources tell him that the doctors are very concerned about being seen on camera making faces and or laughing at things Trump says. Being seen as publicly disagreeing with him.

What a pathetic state of affairs in the middle of a pandemic.
 
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