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Some new information about why covid-19 produces so many different symptoms - it may be a blood vessel disease:

https://elemental.medium.com/coronaviru ... 4032481ab2

deck_luck wrote: ↑

Wed May 27, 2020 8:01 pm

It could be a good paper weight.

or use it for target practice

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-phot ... -237912769

It's probably also a good idea to make it a daily habit to take some immune system booster pills, like time-released vitamin C pills and other pills with selenium and zinc. Don't overdo that, though: overdosing might do more harm than good. Might want to add vitamin D: https://www.medrxiv.org/conte...

i'm off to find some clear alcohol 70% not sure now which would be best Everclear 95% is too strong Just dilute it with distilled water to get to 70%. Here's how to calculate it for isopropyl alcohol - ethanol calculation is probably similar. https://onsenlabs.com/blogs/blog/isopropyl-alcohol-ipa-a...

Well this sucks. Coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 strains:

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Co ... nds-625333

Doctors Face Troubling Question: Are They Treating Coronavirus Correctly?

"This disease has challenged everything that we believed was right six weeks ago."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Dang - missed it - a day too late. Maybe next year....

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/ ... -april-17/

Another bullet? This is encouraging, though very preliminary: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/early-peek-at-data-on-gilead-coronavirus-drug-suggests-patients-are-responding-to-treatment/ More technical detail on the study - note that the full study is on 2400 people in 152 locations: https://cli...

Are ventilators being overused?

https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/are- ... -weigh-in/

Scientists unravel why some people are more susceptible to Covid-19:

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ne ... 318904.ece

Here's a contrarian view that says we are safer now than a month ago (specifically New York City, but generally applicable). Full article here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/100-times-safer-now-early-204833052.html Here's the core of the article: "I started wearing disposable gloves and a mask in e...

This is interesting, too:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03 ... -42575255#

Here's an article with some interesting info on how Covid-19 does its damage. I just ran across this in another forum - I don't know if any of this is right or not, but very interesting. There is some political opinion expressed in the article, but just ignore that if you don't agree with it - the m...

What might have been: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-bush-2005-wait-pandemic-late-prepare/story?id=69979013 " Thus was born the nation's most comprehensive pandemic plan -- a playbook that included diagrams for a global early warning system, funding to develop new, rapid vaccine technology, ...

Damn, that brings back memories of my childhood in the 50's. I can never think about the Lone Ranger without hearing in my mind the William Tell Overture, and can never hear that piece of music without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

FT death rate graph:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ET1FfF2X0AY ... name=large

Another interesting article:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavi ... 9337092b56

The official names are: Disease coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) I just call it the Wu-flu. :) Bureaucracy will kill us all! If you wonder why there have been testing delays in the USA, this is from another forum - a guy who works in ...

Bureaucracy will kill us all! If you wonder why there have been testing delays in the USA, this is from another forum - a guy who works in hospital admin. in Louisiana. I had previously posted some comments from him here - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1775702#p1775702 This is what he...