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BANANA.MAN
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Tantrika] 1
#26620937 - 04/22/20 08:05 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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lol why are you still writing paragraphs to me. I made a throwaway observation about trump that you didnt even object to. but I used an example you didnt like so you feel the need to make me correct it?
I already said you win. My intent with that post was not to go back and fourth a million times defending my stupid, throw away example. I'm not going to read your 10 point essays.
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: BANANA.MAN]
#26620943 - 04/22/20 08:08 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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BANANA.MAN said: lol why are you still writing paragraphs to me. I made a throwaway observation about trump that you didnt even object to. but I used an example you didnt like so you feel the need to make me correct it?
I already said you win.
I already said it was not a competition, simply a correction
You keep posting, you will keep getting responses how do you think you got yourself into this mess in the first place?
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Niffla]
#26620945 - 04/22/20 08:09 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I like that cat.
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Tantrika] 1
#26620949 - 04/22/20 08:10 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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2 Cats Test Positive For Coronavirus in NYC
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-pet-cats-test-positive-covid-19-n1189841?fbclid=IwAR048DXs8l05fp0u-c-5g-DAhodYni9j1Ik7ziaOH8Al6qMo41hy0PlDnh8
The cats are having mild respiratory symptoms and are expected to make a recovery. Their owner had the virus. There is no proof that cats can spread it to humans.
Seems that when it spreads to cats, it's not so bad for them.
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: HamHead] 1
#26620955 - 04/22/20 08:12 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Underfunded Indigenous communities also face increased risk as the rest of Canada raises restrictions
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Indigenous communities will face elevated risks of COVID-19 infections once provinces and urban centres begin easing lockdown restrictions, says a top official with the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch.
COVID-19 rates in Indigenous communities are currently running below the national percentage. The First Nations infection rate is at 0.01 per cent of the on-reserve population, while the rate is 0.09 per cent for the rest of the country, according to Valerie Gideon, senior assistant deputy minister for the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB).
Gideon said these gains against the virus could be undermined once provinces and cities begin to ease restrictions.
"There will be an increased risk for Indigenous communities if larger urban centres start to reopen schools or reopen businesses," said Gideon.
First Nations across the country have implemented various levels of community lockdowns across the country including blocking access by outsiders, limiting outgoing trips to essential travel and requiring returning community members to self-isolate for 14 days upon their return.
Gideon said these measures have helped keep infection rates low — currently there are 76 COVID-19 cases on-reserve and 14 in the Inuit region of Nunavik, in northern Quebec.
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As lockdown measures begin to ease around them — which is starting to be discussed in some provinces like Quebec, Saskatchewan and British Columbia — communities will be faced with difficult choices.
"Do they follow suit or do they remain more stringent with respect to physical distancing measures because they have higher factors of vulnerability?" said Gideon.
"There are communities that are 20 minutes from an urban centre. Some communities are in the middle of an urban centre. It is impossible for those communities to be completely closed off if cities decide to open up their operations."
Fly-in or more remote First Nations face different variables and pressures when it comes to deciding when they should open up their territories, said Gideon.
"I think we will be involved in those discussions and I think those discussions will be dependent on each of the provinces," said Gideon.
"We will need to look at specific situations."
In Kahnawake, just south of COVID-19 hotspot Montreal which has 9,856 COVID-19 cases, the council passed an official state of emergency on Tuesday.
The Mohawk community, which has recorded at least 13 COVID-19 cases, is closed to outsiders and running only essential services.
Lloyd Phillips, Kahnawake's commissioner of public safety, said in a Facebook live broadcast Wednesday that the community's COVID-19 task force would make its own decisions independent of what Quebec and Montreal do in terms of easing any restrictions.
"What they do on the outside, we analyze it, we see what they are doing, but it will be the Kahnawake COVID-19 task force that decides how that does or does not apply to our community," said Phillips.
"When it comes to issues like schools, it will be up to the Kahnawake task force who will determine if and when those schools will open. We will also decide if and when other governmental organizations will open and things of that nature."
Eabametoong First Nation Chief Harvey Yesno, whose fly-in northern Ontario community about 300 kilometres north of Thunder Bay has recorded one COVID-19 case, said he favours keeping lockdown measures in place beyond provincial timelines.
"We are isolated and remote. We don't have the same support structure. Some of us are on boil water advisories," he said Yesno.
Yesno said his concern about the risk COVID-19 poses to his community, which suffers from overcrowded housing, won't wane until a vaccine is found.
However, he expects pressure soon from community members to loosen restrictions as the issue triggers more discussion in the news.
Some community members have seen a pause in their planned counselling sessions for issues like dealing with grief and residential schools and they want to restart them, even if it means flying to Thunder Bay.
"I am going to be under pressure, too," said Yesno.
"If we open that up, we will have more traffic of people."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/coronavirus-risk-first-nations-lockdowns-1.5541780
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BANANA.MAN
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Tantrika] 1
#26620960 - 04/22/20 08:13 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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BANANA.MAN said: lol why are you still writing paragraphs to me. I made a throwaway observation about trump that you didnt even object to. but I used an example you didnt like so you feel the need to make me correct it?
I already said you win.
I already said it was not a competition, simply a correction
You keep posting, you will keep getting responses how do you think you got yourself into this mess in the first place?
I appreciate your correcting my thoughts but I already said I think Trudeau was a fine example and I'm not interested in reading an essay about why I'm wrong and writing one about why I'm right.
lol, go ahead and keep responding. You said that as if it bothers me.
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: BANANA.MAN]
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Tantrika
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: BANANA.MAN]
#26620968 - 04/22/20 08:16 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Tantrika said:
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BANANA.MAN said: lol why are you still writing paragraphs to me. I made a throwaway observation about trump that you didnt even object to. but I used an example you didnt like so you feel the need to make me correct it?
I already said you win.
I already said it was not a competition, simply a correction
You keep posting, you will keep getting responses how do you think you got yourself into this mess in the first place?
I appreciate your correcting my thoughts but I already said I think Trudeau was a fine example and I'm not interested in reading an essay about why I'm wrong and writing one about why I'm right.
lol, go ahead and keep responding. You said that as if it bothers me.
by all means keep responding to my posts telling me how you're so detatched from this topic
just when the mods come down on both of us, don't try to cry if you feel you got a harsher punishment for not engaging with the thread topic even when the opportunity to tie it to your interests was presented
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: Tantrika] 5
#26620984 - 04/22/20 08:26 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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It’s recently been proven in scientific studies that masterbaiting alone all day everyday at home significantly reduces your chances of being infected by the Corona virus.
Thought it was pertinent to share this vital and life saving update with you guys. Truly game changing info.
No need to thank me
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: MadMuncher] 3
#26620998 - 04/22/20 08:37 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Masterbaiting is for fishermen
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koods said: People have pet theories they cling to religiously and Trump can’t be told he’s wrong.
Why did he say anything to begin with. No doctor would ever had the guts to promote a drug before proper trials.
Isn't it illegal in the state to promote a drug without mentioning the thousands of side-effects?
Who the fuck does Trump answer to and how come so much seems permitted while no other president went as far in his lack of professionalism?
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-small-financial-ties-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-drug-maker-2020-4
Trump has a small holding in a company that makes it. Also this from the article:
"Some of Trump's associates also have financial ties to Sanofi (maker of hydroxychloroquine), according to The Times."
He's getting paid by his buddies to endorse it
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I haven't done a recoveries update in a while
Global recoveries: 696,000
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#26621040 - 04/22/20 09:03 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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I noticed but didn't want to start that conversation again...woo hoo
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: HamHead]
#26621075 - 04/22/20 09:24 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Orthodox Jews donating blood plasma en masse -- Those recoveries Niffla reminds us about going to work and giving back

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Well before the rest of the world was talking about blood plasma and its use in fighting coronavirus, Dr. Shmuel Shoham knew all about it — and where he could probably get a lot of it.
By early March, Shoham, an expert on infectious diseases in transplant patients at Johns Hopkins University, had already realized that convalescent plasma — antibodies spun out of the blood of people who had Covid-19 — could be a key therapy in fighting the disease.
So he called a friend who is an Orthodox Jew — Chaim Lebovits, a shoe wholesaler from Monsey, N.Y. — to ask him if he could encourage others in his community to donate their plasma. Orthodox Jews, Shoham reasoned, hit early and hard by the virus, probably had an abundance of people with just the right antibodies — people who got sick and recovered, or people who had the virus and never even knew it.
“I had no idea that he would drop everything and completely immerse himself in this,” Shoham said. Lebovits “is giving his community members a chance to do something, now that they have this power in their body to make a difference.”
What began as a one-man volunteer effort to connect post-Covid Jews with New York-area hospitals has now become a broad coalition, including major hospitals, Orthodox groups and a range of Orthodox Jews from visibly religious Hasidic communities to the so-called Modern Orthodox who participate more fully in secular life. It’s made Orthodox Jews a major force in donating plasma, which doctors hope to have a major benefit in the fight against the coronavirus.
The effort has also given Orthodox Jews — of whom there are about 700,000 in the New York area — a chance to recast the narrative of coronavirus around their community. Though every major institution of Orthodox life has shut down, there have been holdouts in the Hasidic community, such as schools and ritual baths that remain open, or funerals that have drawn hundreds of mourners. These outliers, as Orthodox Jews call them, have led to negative media attention and claims on social media that Orthodox Jews are spreading the virus and ignoring social distancing rules more than other groups.
Yonoson Rosenblum, in the Orthodox monthly Mishpacha, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the plasma donation effort stood to create a world in which “all the negative news coverage of chareidi” — or ultra-religious — “Jews was suddenly replaced by images of chareidi Covid-19 survivors lining up in multitudes to give potentially life-saving convalescent blood plasma to those still battling the virus.”
Lebovits does not have medical training, but for years has acted as an informal advisor to friends and fellow Hasidic Jews who want help connecting to and speaking with medical professionals about their treatment. That’s how Lebovits met Shoham, as well as Dr. Jeffrey Bander, a Mount Sinai cardiologist who helped Lebovits begin directing Orthodox donors to the hospital’s plasma donation program.
Lebovits began working on getting Jews to donate plasma at the beginning of March. But when his wholesale operation had to close, since it is a nonessential business, he threw himself into creating a network of rabbis, religious organizations, virus researchers, health professionals and hospital administrators to educate the Orthodox about the benefits of plasma donation, test them, take their blood to spin out the antibody-rich plasma and pass it onto hospitals.
So far, Lebovits said, more than 3,000 people — mostly men — have donated plasma at blood banks around the region, and 6,000 more were being tested on Wednesday to see if they have the right antibodies. Lebovits said that he hopes to organize more than 45,000 people from the Orthodox community around New York City to donate plasma. Dr. David Reich, president and chief operating officer of the Mount Sinai hospital system, said that more than half of the donors to their plasma collection efforts have been Orthodox.
“The plasma isn’t just used for frum” — religious — “people or Jewish people, it’s for people in general,” Lebovits said. “We as observant Jews have an obligation to preserve life, and save life, and help as many people as we can.”
The effort has the literal and figurative blessings of the Orthodox establishment. Two respected decisors of Jewish law — Rabbi Yisroel Reisman and Rabbi Reuven Feinstein — have said that Jews are encouraged to donate plasma — and can even drive on Shabbat and holidays in order to do so. The Orthodox Union and Agudath Israel of America, the two largest Orthodox umbrella organizations, are sending messages to the community about the science of plasma and its use in treating Covid-19.
Wealthy Orthodox philanthropists are also involved, according to Serle, in some cases buying machines for blood centers so they can take more donations. He declined to name any of the philanthropists.
Lebovits and his fellow volunteers have been working with health centers in Orthodox hubs to do the testing, to see if people have a sufficient number of antibodies to donate plasma, and then arranging appointments with and transportation to the blood banks that can receive the plasma.
Lebovits said he has sent tests from Orthodox hubs to Mount Sinai and Montefiore network hospitals in New York, as well as to small urgent cares that can send the tests to large labs and to Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic.
Once people are approved to donate, there is the task of finding space at blood donation centers, many of which are at capacity. Mordy Serle, a lawyer from the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn who is helping with the effort, said that New York Blood Center, a nonprofit that supplies blood to hundreds of New York hospitals, tells them at 5 p.m. how many slots they have open for the next day, and Serle finds donors to fill the slots.
The first community to get involved was Young Israel of New Rochelle, the synagogue that was one of the country’s early hotspots after Lawrence Garbuz, a lawyer, contracted and spread the disease to dozens of fellow congregants. Lebovits said that 40 Young Israel congregants donated plasma about three weeks ago.
The latest efforts have seen more than 120 Hasidic Jews from Monsey and New Square, perhaps the most insular Hasidic village in Rockland County, N.Y., take an entire day to travel to Delaware to get hooked up at the nearest blood bank that had the capacity to take them. Nuchem Lebovits, Chaim Lebovits’ 18-year-old son, was among the donors earlier this week; his father posted a picture of him on Twitter.
“Every single open spot within a day’s travel, we’re putting a Jew in,” said Serle
On Sunday, the Mayo Clinic received 1,000 blood samples to test for antibodies from donors in Lakewood, N.J., a major Orthodox hub, to be tested for antibodies, according to Dr. Mike Joyner, who leads the convalescent plasma program at Mayo. The testing was conducted by Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim, a medical assistance provider in Lakewood. Refuah Health Center, a community health provider network based near Monsey, has processed more than 2,000 tests, Lebovits said.
Joyner said he expects to process thousands more tests from Orthodox Jews, and that the community’s contribution to making New York a center of plasma donation could help people across the country recover from the disease faster. He said he wants New York City to become the “Saudi Arabia” of supplying plasma.
Now that cases of the virus are starting to spread rapidly outside New York, Lebovits is trying to rally Orthodox communities around the country. He has already contacted people in Minnesota, Baltimore, Detroit, Montreal and other places to spread the world about the importance of plasma donation.
Lebovits, Serle and others have worked not only through Shabbat and the recent Passover holiday, but also through the kinds of life events that, in a normal world, would merit at least a moment’s pause. Serle said that two weeks ago he got on a conference call with Dr. Joyner, of the Mayo Clinic, 15 minutes after the birth of his daughter — at the urging of his wife.
Last week, on the last day of Passover, Lebovits’ brother Yitzchak died of cancer at 47. Since then, Lebovits has been working through the shivah mourning period.
“He personally asked, when I was with him the last time, that regardless of what happens to him, I should make sure to not stop this effort,” Lebovits said. The project has now been named for Lebovits’ brother.
When this is all over, Lebovits said, he’ll stop and grieve. But not yet.
“I don’t think I have the right to be selfish, when other peoples’ lives are at stake,” he said.
https://forward.com/news/national/444562/coronavirus-convalescent-plasma-orthodox-jews-hasidic/
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I like that cat.
I know that cat!
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: O_Dweeds]
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The CFR in Belgium is now 15%. UK is 13.5%. France 13.3%
These numbers are so divergent from rates in Asia it seems almost inescapable that we are dealing with at least two strains of the virus with significant differences in leathality
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Re: Viral outbreak in China [Re: ZenZone]
#26621169 - 04/22/20 10:35 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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koods said: Masterbaiting is for fishermen
"I'm a masterbaiter" 
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