Paa Langfart
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19 hours ago, stirs said:
People recovered from the virus could hold a lot of keys
The plasma is already being used to help sick victims. Another reason that I'd love to see he test implemented in a hurry which shows if you have already had the virus.
Blood drives could be more important very soon.
Only the blood plasma is being used or being experimentally used as a treatment.
In addition to working at various jobs when i was young, I sold my plasma as a way of making ends meet to get through college. ( I know this must be fake news because all the boomers like me had it so easy way back when ) They take whole blood from you, run it through a centrifuge to seperate the plasma and put the red part back into you so you can give again in just a fraction of the time you normally would if you gave whole blood. I didnt think the needle marks on my arms would ever heal but 40 years later they have.
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1 hour ago, Davidson Deac II said:
IMO, the president and governors should come out and say bluntly that in two weeks, they will reassess the situation. Make no promises one way or the other, but tell people that they will decide to extend based on the situation then.
Of course, people would read into that what they wanted to hear instead of what was actually said, but stupidity can't be helped.
All you need to do is look at the Johns Hopkins covid 19 map expand every day and see that this is not going away any time soon. Anyone who thinks restrictions anywhere in this country will be eased by a semi coherent state governor ( and I mean most likely a minimum of 2 or 3 months ) is fooling themselves. The pos in the white house can say what he wants and his lemmings can follow him over the cliff, but most governors are smarter than him and will do as science and health authorities say is the best course of action to take.
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4 hours ago, jfra78 said:
Not touching your face is hard for anyone. My hands get real dirty at work and I cant stand to wear gloves, so over the years I have learned to use my forearm or back of my hand to touch my face. If i cant get to it the way i use the inside of my shirt.
It's extra tough in pollen season. My nose itches a lot . Ssure it's the same for a lot of folks.
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11 minutes ago, SpeedOFLight said:
I reached out to my nurse today. I just had a crazy back surgery and I was told to use ibuprofen. I started to hear rumblings about ibuprofen makes it hard for doctors to treat this virus and makes it hard to recover. The nurse stated that there has been a lot of misinformation about ibuprofen. Therasn’t been any word from the CDC regarding this. She also mentioned that there has been no data to support these claims. I honestly am not sure. Just spreading info I learned from one of our medical providers. Be safe y’all
Last I heard from Dr Fauci on this is that he has seen no evidence of this.
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4 hours ago, Harbingers said:
Both drugs that have shown success in Japan and elsewhere are not FDA approved. Thanks FDA.
They also do not work in the most serious cases - like the ones where they failed to test to find out you had it, because they didn't have the tests or said you didn't qualify for a test, and the virus multiplies in your body because you aren't getting the drugs that might have helped earlier in the disease progression.
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33 minutes ago, Pantha-kun said:
Immediately lost my job due to coronavirus shutting down all schools. Doubt most companies are hiring right now.
So.. I'm going to trucking school next week. Get paid in school, during training , and get a job automatically if I pass the CDL exam
There are going to be a poo ton of online purchases to truck around the country.
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36 minutes ago, Harbingers said:
the government is asking for construction companies to donate their N95 to hospitals.
Do you have a legit source for this information ?
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Just now, kungfoodude said:
Three of the four were asymptomatic, according to ESPN.
yeah they dont show any symptoms yet - or they could still get sick and die or not.
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The number of NBA players with confirmed cases of the coronavirus rose to seven Tuesday when the Brooklyn Nets announced that four of their players had tested positive.
According to the Nets, only one of the four unidentified players has exhibited symptoms. The Nets have advised all players and members of their traveling party to “remain isolated, closely monitor their health and maintain constant communication” with medical staff, according to a statement.
The four Nets teammates join three other NBA players — Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz, and Christian Wood of the Detroit Pistons — who previously tested positive for the coronavirus. Gobert’s positive test Wednesday led the NBA to suspend its 2019-20 season.
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32 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:
Relax.
Some of us dont have an extra $400 lying around to buy booze.
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Roy Cooper shutting down all bars and restaurants starting at 4pm today.
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14 hours ago, Happy Panther said:
We did put cash in the hands of low income folks. Romney is already pushing for cutting a check to every family. Which is crazy.
Tell me where is this cash ? and why is Romney crazy? There are going to be hundreds of thousands probably millions of low income workers in the coming days, weeks, and months who have no way to pay for ANYTHING due to the loss of their jobs. if there is anything crazy about Romneys idea it is that is not qualified to a certain level of income - for the poor and middle class and that it is not nearly enough. $1000 will not pay a month of mortgage or a months rent in many areas of the country.
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Now is not the time to say hold my beer.
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1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:
Pretty much. The overall traffic is a lot lighter at those hours but also likely a lot more irresponsible.
Will also lighten the load on first respond ers.
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13 minutes ago, philit99 said:
New Jersey has instituted a curfew, no travel between the hours of 8pm-5am. Wow.
Attempting to basically shut down the drunken party crowd. Also why spring break cancelled in Fla.
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Just now, Ja Rhule said:
So employers want their people in next week but all daycares and schools are closed? What a disaster.
what the hell do they do in the summer and during xmas vacation and spring break ?
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Illinois and Ohio announced on Sunday they would close all restaurants and bars in response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic.
"We will be issuing an order closing all bars and restaurants in #Ohio beginning at 9:00 tonight," Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tweeted while noting that establishments would be allowed to continue carryout and delivery services.
"What we can't have is people congregating and seated," he said.
We will be issuing an order closing all bars and restaurants in #Ohio beginning at 9:00 tonight.
— Governor Mike DeWine (@GovMikeDeWine) March 15, 2020https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487684-illinois-ohio-closing-all-bars-restaurants-in-response-to-coronavirus
time for Roy Cooper to step up
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1 hour ago, Happy Panther said:
Agree. This is why we need the federal government to make some more definitive decrees.
Unfortunately the following snippets from a story in Washpo show what an absolute shitshow the fedgovt that is making the decisions is. The woman who wrote here first hand account is a former senior analyst with the RAND Corporation and has written about health systems in post-conflict environments.
QuoteLike thousands of Americans and Europeans scrambling to get to the United States before the travel ban went into effect and flights were canceled, I flew back to the United States from Vienna on Friday. Arriving at Dulles International Airport via London, I encountered a case study in how to spread a pandemic.
I had thought I was lucky to get one of the last seats home. And I was confident, because Dulles had been identified by the administration as one of the handful of U.S. airports equipped to test arriving passengers and admit or quarantine them accordingly, that I would find a rigorous protocol in place upon arrival. Obviously, the administration would not take such a momentous step without solid preparation.
I could not have been more wrong. Upon landing, I spent three hours in a jammed immigration hall trying to decide which analogy fit better: the ignorant Middle Ages during the plague years or the most chaotic airport in the least developed country.
The pictures you may have seen only begin to capture the chaos. There was no attempt to enable social distancing; we were packed closely together. Two giant queues of people — one for U.S. citizens and green-card holders and one for foreign nationals — wound their way through the cavernous hall. I counted and came up with approximately 450 people in each section, for a total of just under a thousand. Many were coughing, sneezing and looking unwell.
When I inched closer to the front, I could see that a scant six immigration desks were in service. Two additional desks to the left had less traffic. These are ordinarily for people in wheelchairs; now, the wheelchairs were mixed in with the rest. When I asked a security guard about the other lines, he told me they were for people with a confirmed corona diagnosis. There was no separation for this group — no plastic sheets, not even a bit of distance. When your line snaked to the left, you were inches away from the infected.
I recently flew to Qatar for a meeting. Immediately upon disembarking, passengers walked past a temperature measuring device to identify those with a fever, so they could be segregated out before entering public areas. Dulles had no such plan. Instead, after the agent examined your passport, he pointed a thermometer device at your forehead. By that time, you would have spent three hours in close contact with hundreds of other people. Even the way the lines were organized, snaking around, might have been designed to ensure that one sick person would expose the maximum number of others.
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29 minutes ago, Happy Panther said:
Heck I got lectured on here by some dipstick yesterday for self quarantining.
Don't know if it was you or someone else posted a pic of the gov of Oklahoma, but that right there is the problem we are facing. Idiots that have been voted into office leading people to their deaths and people too ill informed or too gd stupid to realize it. The thing that pisses me off about it the most is they are basically endangering millions of folks with their bs. When the dust settles from this some day, I hope they are brought up on charges.
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A lot of good information on this site
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I just read that France has 300 plus critical care patients now from corona virus. Half of them are under age 50. let that sink in. It isn't an old people or boomer disease. It infects you whether you are old younger or black or white or Asian or Hispanic. Everyone is at risk and everyone can carry it to someone else - even if you do not get sick yourself. Yall want to willingly kill someone elses folks just cause you dont believe in science or think youre going to be immune?
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Its in Brunswick County - SE North Carolina - somebody that was sick with it flew into ILM and tested positive for the virus. Who knows how many folks on the plane or on the way home they infected.
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2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:
The places where cases are leveling off or decking are places that have taken aggressive measures. IMO, it's not a reason to take this lightly, it's a reason to implement our own aggressive measures.
Governor needs to shut down the public school system now.
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Everyone should read this article on the virus including civic leadership - very good information
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
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Why would he do that when he is probably getting a cut ?