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GringoSalado

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  1. Yep. The real thing is hard to beat. slow day at the office.
  2. Upthread there is an article that explains that Pharm mfg went offshore because FDA regulation just couldn't be as onerous/effective (take your pick) in China. edit: so the point is that in some cases regs have driven industries overseas, either directly or indirectly by imposition of more costs etc. I'm not saying fuck the planet or whatever but all those dangerous carcinogens we "banned" are just made in China under even less oversight.
  3. Do you think that a dutiful reading your posts would be more likely to prompt the average sulryer to: a) mask up b) go to the nearest Covid ICU and lick the linoleum c) commit suicide
  4. Well if all you do is hang out at grocery stores then yeah, there is no shutdown.
  5. They wanted to get more people sick (herd immunity). More people got sick. Seems like they succeeded.
  6. https://phys.org/news/2020-04-genetic-barcode-rapidly-revealing-covid-.html Genetic tracing 'barcode' is rapidly revealing COVID-19's journey and evolution opening graph my money quote is the last graph
  7. thought that ^ was interesting (husband is Oncologist...)
  8. Since we're all talking anecdotes 3 emps in my shop were able to get tested in 915, 1 w/ symptoms and the other two because they were riding around in the truck with the first guy. They got the test right away at a local health center, this was about 2 weeks ago (all negative). TBH I don't get the apparent gravity of the testing issue, particularly at this stage. Obviously I'd like to test everyone that sneezes and quarantine the +s, but I think we know that asymptomatic spread is a big issue (by both those who will and those who will not remain asymptomatic). Also let's say we're testing errbody (meaning asymptomatic) and I get tested and am infected by someone else at the clinic, but I (correctly) test negative (let's go to the football game/concert/coronavirus protest!). But now I'm positive and will very soon be shedding the virus. So how often do we retest? One test doesn't really tell you much (I don't have it right this second... Oops now I've got it). Also, isn't the point of the testing what we do w/ the data? In SK they were able to track/notify/control in a way that isn't feasible and wouldn't be as effective here for geographic and murica reasons. So let's assume we could wave a wand and test X number tomorrow (w/ X being whatever number of whatever population/demographic the surl deems need testing). Then what? (obligatory 1. test 2... 3. profit) edit: shit rpspeed beat me to it (MA antibody test story) IMO antibody tests data is more important now
  9. Cite list of people who want a test but can't get one? Absent that how have we shown he misspoke?
  10. ? They're not doing that on this thread. So I don't really know what your point is.
  11. Gus ain't fuckin' around.
  12. Even better: what the fuck else is there to do? Let's pivot to the subject of testing. We haven't covered that.
  13. Okay that was a nice troll job. You had me going there. I tip my hat.
  14. So various govt. officials have commented on it. Politicians. Huh. So has Surly, random Twitterers, the Guardian, NY Times, Fox News, every other fucking news outlet, and me. This isn't the "find a cure or minimize negative outcomes" thread. This is the thread for Covid-19. Including discussions about where it came from, without your weird partisan conspiracy theories about Fox News, the DOD and other Republicans. Jesus.
  15. On page 8, Jan 25 (first and only page I looked at. There were others about the Horseshoe Bats, genome of the virus & etc.) https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/13391-dt-covid-19-no-politics-allowed/&do=findComment&comment=2000797 https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/13391-dt-covid-19-no-politics-allowed/&do=findComment&comment=2000797 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7922379/Chinas-lab-studying-SARS-Ebola-Wuhan-outbreaks-center.html
  16. In addition to ignoring Cable News (I highly recommend it), I also never rely on Facebook for any real information beyond birthdays & etc. (also highly recommended). My info on this theory is all from this thread where it has been noted that 1) bats that carry the virus are not trafficked in the Wet Market, and not found in the region 2) except for inside the Wuhan virology lab That seems like a pretty solid coincidence, and is all I'm going off of. Not Facebook. Not Fox. I only read surl.
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