Re: Coronavirus data and events as they come in

[Cramulus]

File under "conspiracy theories which may hold water"

Here's a Reddit thread I've seen being kicked around. Somebody ran a WHOIS on the websites that are organizing these "reopen the country" protests, and found that a lot of them seem to be organized by the same LLC. These things are Astroturf. But who's behind it? Right now, evidence is inconclusive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/comment/fnstpyl

[Cain]

At a guess? His name rhymes with Prad Barscale.

[Faust]

File under "conspiracy theories which may hold water"

Here's a Reddit thread I've seen being kicked around. Somebody ran a WHOIS on the websites that are organizing these "reopen the country" protests, and found that a lot of them seem to be organized by the same LLC. These things are Astroturf. But who's behind it? Right now, evidence is inconclusive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/comment/fnstpyl

Our sales guy in Heuston said the same thing on a call a few minutes ago: All the protest signs were same font, similar colour scheme, all made by one group

[Suu]

Local news laid down the law.

The image that Getty is pushing as "Jax Beach" is not. It looks more like a SoCal beach with sagebrush on the side.

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/jacksonville-beach-reopen-video-live/77-ff8a26bd-34cc-4763-afad-214cff4c131c?fbclid=IwAR2lV92e-SqpWE2eV1sLzWbA4mrq0JEvxrqZaqUKr1-ZSrYErN4eLuxPcu0

[Suu]

File under "conspiracy theories which may hold water"

Here's a Reddit thread I've seen being kicked around. Somebody ran a WHOIS on the websites that are organizing these "reopen the country" protests, and found that a lot of them seem to be organized by the same LLC. These things are Astroturf. But who's behind it? Right now, evidence is inconclusive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/comment/fnstpyl

It's absolutely astroturfing.

[Suu]

Oh, no wonder why the elite are pushing to reopen the economy. Crude is -$37 a barrel. suppliers are literally paying people to take oil off of their hands. When nobody is driving/flying/boating in addition to using less heat as we get into the summer, there's no need for petroleum products.

Dead dinosaur goo barons run the world.

[chaotic neutral observer]

Oh, no wonder why the elite are pushing to reopen the economy. Crude is -$37 a barrel. suppliers are literally paying people to take oil off of their hands. When nobody is driving/flying/boating in addition to using less heat as we get into the summer, there's no need for petroleum products.

Dead dinosaur goo barons run the world.

As with the fossilized peat barons before them, human lives are just part of the price of doing business.

[Cramulus]

Just for fun, here's a Deep Research Dive on the "anti-mask" protests during the Spanish Flu

https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073

[Doktor Howl]

Who could have known that randomly giving people inappropriate drugs might have a downside?

https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2

More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study

[The Wizard Joseph]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlVU8XTLICI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2aHXkNEytEyI_tMBfbqyl9y8uCErSXoQ9Rw1DbcEbjlnqfSzrDc28jFxA

Dr. John Campbell has been breaking down the numbers faithfully and calmly for QUITE some time and is an excellent source of analysis IMO. He's calling bullshit quite a bit these days, and he's not the sort to do so lightly.

[Suu]

Who could have known that randomly giving people inappropriate drugs might have a downside?

https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2

More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study

Here's the actual study on that, for those that like hard science boners and primary sources.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2tC9HVikVBd7xmhOBJI_8rvr31Dm07jsKZyo1Hm73xOIIgUBxFU2K3ou0

[altered]

Who could have known that randomly giving people inappropriate drugs might have a downside?

https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2

More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study

Here's the actual study on that, for those that like hard science boners and primary sources.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2tC9HVikVBd7xmhOBJI_8rvr31Dm07jsKZyo1Hm73xOIIgUBxFU2K3ou0

This is what I want in my life right now. Thanks.

[The Wizard Joseph]

As Oxley, an interventional neurologist, began the procedure to remove the clot, he observed something he had never seen before. On the monitors, the brain typically shows up as a tangle of black squiggles — "like a can of spaghetti," he said — that provide a map of blood vessels. A clot shows up as a blank spot. As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real-time around it.

"This is crazy," he remembers telling his boss.

One month ago, as the country went into lockdown to prepare for the first wave of coronavirus cases, many doctors felt confident that they knew what they were dealing with. Based on early reports, covid-19 appeared to be a standard variety respiratory virus, albeit a very contagious and lethal one with no vaccine and no treatment. But they've since become increasingly convinced that covid-19 attacks not only the lungs, but also the kidneys, heart, intestines, liver and brain.

The clinical shape of the disease, long presumed to be a relatively predictable respiratory infection, is getting less clear by the week. Lately, it seems, by the day. As Carl Zimmer, probably the country's most respected science journalist, asked virologists in a tweet last week, "is there any other virus out there that is this weird in terms of its range of symptoms?"

But for weeks now, front-line doctors have been expressing confusion that so many coronavirus patients were registering lethally low blood-oxygenation levels while still appearing, by almost any vernacular measure, pretty okay.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/we-still-dont-know-how-the-coronavirus-is-killing-us.html?fbclid=IwAR37bpCOh1zitfsNkXRzdLJAsbI6Q5CODGVd1_-2cfuCI97Wjyv7Uj9B6Nk

This motherfucker is by FAR the weirdest, least predictable virus I ever heard of. Some speculation referred to in the article cites EXTREME possible mutation ability. I would not at all be surprised if that proves clinically true after more testing. There ain't gonna be a vaccine "cure". Do not look to it.

[Cain]

I was coming here to post the same article. A very interesting read.

[Cramulus]

yes, interesting and disturbing