Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Here's a project for @BDutch if he's so inclined. There is a 16-year-old named Sehraz in the ICU at a Dutch hospital. His name and picture make me think he's an immigrant. Many immigrants to Europe have active/latent TB because it is so prevalent in the countries they come from. According to a study, risk for death is 4.5 times greater with a viral and tubercular co-infection, than from either one alone - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424478/

Perhaps @BDutch can be our investigator on the scene and find out if doctors have tested him for TB?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03...outbreak-preceded-by-a-tuberculosis-epidemic/

 

[igorsMistress]

No problem. Just saying. Her death is unfortunate, but it's what we expect because that's the crappy situation we're in - we all die, and those who live as long as she did are blessed to have such a long life. No reason to panic. This whole body count thing the media are fixated on reminds me of the body counts the TV evening news would give every day during the Vietnam war. Like it was a game or something "Yay we're winning because we killed more of them than they killed of us."

Wow. Just...wow. You are a piece of work aren't you?

 

[featherhead007]

Stores here are pretty barren. I have four goat bottle babies and couldn't find whole organic cow's milk for them but now, no milk at all. There was literally no produce, no beans, no rice, no toilet paper, no meat at a handful of stores. I decided to order a bunch of seed potatoes and garden seeds to bulk up my stock but a lot of places are sold out of those too. Can't find seed potatoes anywhere local at least and I live near I feel very big Garden Supply places. I decided do you get to meet bird but all I could get was 5 Rainbow Rangers and 7 random roosters. I've never processed my own meat birds but that will soon change. I'm wondering if I can breed them? Now, all local feed stores out of chicken and goat feed. I'm 20 million times more afraid of fearful hungry people than the coronavirus.

Dammit! I wish I could help your despiration

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

I'm 20 million times more afraid of fearful hungry people than the coronavirus.

Me too

 

[FortCluck]

Trust me folks, it bites to self isolate but you can do it. I have been doing it for two years now all winter due to being immuno-suppressed. You cope. Find something to do and hunker down. Read a book, binge watch tv, do puzzles, etc.

I quilt, crochet, embroider, read, do art, build things. I stay busy in other words and my flock of chickens always need something. They are worse than kids that way.

My husband and I are also HAM radio operators. I told our club members on our regular NET that we do on Saturdays to cowboy up. It was time for us to do what we have been trained to do. Provide emergency communication and exchange valuable community information to emergency services.

To all of you who have served in whatever way whether it be military, health services, law enforcement, or teaching, thank you.

I've been reading a lot on my Kindle. I too isolate in the winter because I'm on rituxan so it's easy for me to catch anything if the wind blows right.

Thank you to all those who serve our country or have served. Especially those of you who are out there helping with this virus and wars that are happening.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Here's a project for @BDutch if he's so inclined. There is a 16-year-old named Sehraz in the ICU at a Dutch hospital. His name and picture make me think he's an immigrant. Many immigrants to Europe have active/latent TB because it is so prevalent in the countries they come from. According to a study, risk for death is 4.5 times greater with a viral and tubercular co-infection, than from either one themselves - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424478/

Perhaps @BDutch can be our investigator on the scene and find out if doctors have tested him for TB?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03...outbreak-preceded-by-a-tuberculosis-epidemic/

He is currently in the intensive care unit of the Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, which I think is in Rotterdam. @BDutch

 

[Shadrach]

Here's a project for @BDutch if he's so inclined. There is a 16-year-old named Sehraz in the ICU at a Dutch hospital. His name and picture make me think he's an immigrant. Many immigrants to Europe have active/latent TB because it is so prevalent in the countries they come from. According to a study, risk for death is 4.5 times greater with a viral and tubercular co-infection, than from either one themselves - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424478/

Perhaps @BDutch can be our investigator on the scene and find out if doctors have tested him for TB?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03...outbreak-preceded-by-a-tuberculosis-epidemic/

Every crank with access to the net has got some theory as to how and why this virus is spreading. Lewrockwell has his own right wing anti immigration agenda at heart in the piece you linked to. The elephant in the room is if the virus outbreak happened in China how is it that non Chinese immigrants have brought it to Italy?
Spain where I live, is likely to equal, or surpass the Italian figures and Spain doesn't get a lot in the way of Chinese immigrants or Italian immigrants come to that.
Reading the various offerings on the internet can be interesting but one should always take some time to see what the writer has written before and what agenda he/she may be promoting.
As an example, would one take this as a credible source?
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...-coronavirus-may-be-a-north-korean-bioweapon/
It seems to me that a great many problems in the world are blamed on immigrants. It's a shame immigrants are not given credit for helping to build and maintain the societies that now wish to blame them for their problems.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Every crank with access to the net has got some theory as to how and why this virus is spreading. Lewrockwell has his own right wing anti immigration agenda at heart in the piece you linked to. The elephant in the room is if the virus outbreak happened in China how is it that non Chinese immigrants have brought it to Italy?
Spain where I live, is likely to equal, or surpass the Italian figures and Spain doesn't get a lot in the way of Chinese immigrants or Italian immigrants come to that.
Reading the various offerings on the internet can be interesting but one should always take some time to see what the writer has written before and what agenda he/she may be promoting.
As an example, would one take this as a credible source?
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...-coronavirus-may-be-a-north-korean-bioweapon/
It seems to me that a great many problems in the world are blamed on immigrants. It's a shame immigrants are not given credit for helping to build and maintain the societies that now wish to blame them for their problems.

Sure, but the guy who wrote the article is not Lew Rockwell. He writes some pretty good stuff and is very diligent to link to all of the scientific references that support what he's saying. Did you bother to read any of them?

 

[sourland]

It seems to me that a great many problems in the world are blamed on immigrants. It's a shame immigrants are not given credit for helping to build and maintain the societies that now wish to blame them for their problems.

Well said, Shad. Here in the US it is a rare individual who does not have a majority of 'immigrant' DNA.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Well said, Shad. Here in the US it is a rare individual who does not have a majority of 'immigrant' DNA.

That's not the problem. Latent TB is.