SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

It is called the "novel sars-cov-2" which means we are learning about how it works. Those of us used to debugging problems understand there are 'dead ends' that have to be investigated and rejected.

Bob Wilson

 

well, i wouldn't get it from sharyl, that's for sure!

her whole section about the provincetown cluster was completely misleading.

best to stay away from conspiracy websites,

but if you have a link to the cdc, i'm all clicks

 

Local article:

Pete McMartin: Enough — I'm done with all of the COVID-19 skeptics | Vancouver Sun

 

unfortunately, they aren't done with us, and neither is the virus

 

our hospitalizations have been climbing steadily for weeks or months. 30% in our ma hospitals are fully vaccinated.
no details on ages or comorbidities

 

I recently watched a 'viral video' ... a family practice doctor made two claims at a school board meeting:

• masks don't work - a single virus is too small. But he did not realize it is the 'spray' holding the orders of magnitude more virus that the masks mostly blocks and minimizes infections.
• vaccine does not work - one visit to a local hospital will solve that misinformation

I'm sad for but not sympathetic for those fooled by this fraud.

Bob Wilson

 

Agreed but they have to want to learn.

Bob Wilson

 

A bit lesser developed version of this was widely promoted here a year ago as wildfire smoke reached unhealthy levels. A single 20x20 filter taped to the box fan does the job, but noticeably bogs down the fan, creating a theoretical risk of overheating the fan motor. Multiple filters in parallel produce lower static pressure, less fan load, and greater airflow. Air cleaning effectiveness and quickness in a normal room, measured by home hobbyists with the right tools, was impressive.

Substantial news publicity wiped out the local filter supply in under a day. We ran ours continuously for 10 days, until changing weather blew the smoke away. I wanted to continue this idea for cleaner indoor air and reduced dust accumulation, but my ancient box fan is too noisy and too much of an energy hog for this non-emergency application. Instead, several months later, I acquired several very quiet, very energy efficient (but also expensive) bathroom exhaust fans with 110-150 cfm flow ratings. After building airboxes of a fan and one filter each, I've had them running continuously since late December. I don't have an objective measure of the change of indoor dust accumulation rate, but the filters clearly collect a decent amount of it, and strong sunlight streaming through windows reveals very little visible dust floating in the air, vastly less than I see in dad's house.

At these flow rates, the static pressures are well under the fans' specified operating loads. If their claimed flow rates are close to reality, then the air in each zone is getting filtered about 2 to 3 times per hour, depending on area and fan speed setting. This should be an order of magnitude greater than the outdoor air change rate of this house, so ideally I'm getting a 90% reduction compared to outdoor dust levels, in addition to reduction in re-stirred-up indoor dust. With my choice of fans, the noise level is quiet enough for sleeping, and power levels (according to a Kill-A-Watt meter) are 5 to 6 watts each on the medium speed setting.

But for a school room, the box fan's much higher clean air delivery rate is definitely better. Noise isn't really excessive for that use, and the energy consumption is not at all unreasonable for the number of lungs and hours involved in a classroom.

 

My impression too, admittedly from small-sample inference.

Bu I've too often seen that keenness seem to sink away, starting sometime in the early teens ... and sometimes under what seems like active discouragement from nearby non-young persons.

 

Mississippi Health Alert, August 20:

Increased Poison Control Calls due to Ivermectin Ingestion and Potential Toxicity

"• The Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number of calls from
individuals with potential ivermectin exposure taken to treat or prevent COVID-19
infection.
• At least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal
formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.
• 85% of the callers had mild symptoms, but one individual was instructed to seek further
evaluation due to the amount of ivermectin reportedly ingested."


Other news indicates that one hospitalization for this is known, but it wasn't reported directly to the MS Poison Control Center or DoH.

Apparently this drug is used in humans, in much lower doses than these livestock formulations, to control a couple parasitic worms (including the one causing River Blindness), and for external treatment of some external parasites such as head lice. It is not used for any viruses. Overdose symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension (low blood pressure), allergic reactions (itching and hives), dizziness, ataxia (problems with balance), seizures, coma and death.

 

Minnesota’s latest surge is stressing the system.
Very detailed, and flexible data at https://mn.gov/covid19/data/response-prep/response-capacity.jsp
13 ICU beds are available in the Minneapolis/St.Paul metro area (1.9%).
About half of hospitals in Minnesota are above 95% of ICU capacity.

Cases are trending up and our State Fair opens this Thursday.

 

52 States....but "probably" fewer state fairs.
Lotsa fried this and that....
NOT a lot of scolding by the usual suspects.

lather. rinse. repeat.....

@ learning.
I have an immediate family member that traded her dot.gov CAC card for a teacher's desk in a fifth grade classroom.

You may rest VERY well assured that young people WANT to learn!!
Curiosity and Wonder are at peak and haven't been tamped down by the adults in the room....

Her local school follows the current trend of "asking" (forcing) the students to wear masks while not mandating vaccines for the "adults"....although they're near or AT universal compliance for both.
Some teachers, as it turns out, CAN learn 4th grade math.
Not much in the way of blowback from either crowd.
The bigs are employed at will, and the littles have to pay to come through the front door.
One of the larger disagreements I have with my beloved home state of Indiana, is that they do school vouchers which I consider to be an extremely unwise program.
My adopted home state took the minority opinion with caveats for some disabled.

Camels have nostrils that should be covered TOO!


Meanwhile.....
NEA President Becky Pringle on Vaccine and Mask Mandates - The Atlantic
I've listened to no less than two Pringle interviews aired on government funded radio.
^leadership: fail

OUR LOCAL public school districts are individual fiefdoms and employ more or less the same strategery as all of the other states.....meaning that there IS no strategery.
Some are locked down. Some are wide open, and there have been some pretty feisty local school board meetings.
Most are open-ish - and masked....with teacher vaccination rates at NYC +20% but they just mandated shots in the Big Apple - EXPECT union counter-battery!
ALL of the littles....still full of their natural wonder and curiosity (or perhaps boredom!) WANT to be in class, and they seem to understand that "face diapers" are the price of admission.

You can't even get the bigs to agree to disagree.

lather.
rinse.
repeat.

 

a lot of kids may want to learn, but attention spans are not there for typical american system of learning.

plus a lot of add, adhd, psychotic drug prescriptions, troubles at home and etc.

there are lots of difficult barriers to overcome in the education system.
unfortunately, those who are/were able to succeed, don't often understand what difficulties others have.
and if they do, there isn't much they can do about it.

 

people are using this because they can get it at the tractor store or wherever. the same types drank bleach.
ivermectin is being studied for covid, but there's no financial incentive for cheap existing drugs

 

speaking of ineffective drugs, it seems Moderne's cureall has gone from 95 / 100% effective - down to not so much.
Yet the new kid in town is supposed to be the latest and greatest (crossing fingers)
Novavax Is Now the Best COVID-19 Vaccine - The Atlantic
So what's the holdup ... is it being damned as fake news by the competition's stockholders - at least until they can jump ship?
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