djmcconn
(djmcconn)
December 5, 2020, 2:36am
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Parts of Europe did give 5000 euros to people who “ filled out paperwork”. It was part of their governments response to get out COVID-19 aid to people during this time. It was reported in April in The New York Times. There are no nefarious undertones or requirements involving the first born or voting records. You did not even need to be dead or stupid to be eligible. Telling enough times and little changes or misunderstandings along the way and you could end up with a good false rumor though.
MtnDon
(Don Miller)
December 5, 2020, 2:41am
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NYTimes article
“When Germany shut down public life to halt the spread of the new coronavirus last month, Laurenz Bostedt, a freelance photographer, watched as one contract after another was canceled, until his entire expected income had disappeared.
On Tuesday, 5,000 euros, or about $5,400, landed in his bank account, just three days after he had submitted an application for immediate assistance. The city-state of Berlin had pledged on March 19 that money would be distributed quickly to self-employed people and small- business owners who were unable to cover their basic expenses………”
hank
(hank)
December 5, 2020, 3:40am
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This is a very aggressive virus.
… both Matias and her mother’s friend wore masks inside her car, which had the windows down for extra ventilation.
But shortly after that car ride, Burke’s mother began exhibiting symptoms. She quarantined in her room with her son, Burke told NorthJersey.com , but both contracted the virus.
“We tried to wear masks in the house and did everything we could to keep my father safe,” Burke told the local paper. But one after another, every member of her house fell ill.
djmcconn
(djmcconn)
December 5, 2020, 4:05am
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MtnDon, hank, Northern Harrier. Forgive my ineptitude. I cannot figure out how to link a very interesting article. It is a Nov.30 article in Neuroscience News entitled How Covid-19 Reaches The Brain. I think you guys might enjoy.
David
raccoon
December 5, 2020, 4:21am
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Here ya go:
https://neurosciencenews.com/covid-19-brain-17345/
I did not read the article, I'm just providing the link for djmcconn.
djmcconn
(djmcconn)
December 5, 2020, 4:23am
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Thanks RC! I am an internet compooter idiot. But I sure enjoy virtually hanging out with y’all. David
hank
(hank)
December 5, 2020, 4:57am
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EXCERPT
SARS-CoV-2 enters the brain via nerve cells in the olfactory mucosa, … published in Nature Neuroscience.
For the first time, researchers have been able to produce electron microscope images of intact coronavirus particles inside the olfactory mucosa.
It is now recognized that COVID-19 is not a purely respiratory disease. In addition to affecting the lungs, SARS-CoV-2 can impact the cardiovascular system, the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. More than one in three people with COVID-19 report neurological symptoms such as loss of, or change in, their sense of smell or taste, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, and nausea. In some patients, the disease can even result in stroke or other serious conditions.
Until now, researchers had suspected that these manifestations must be caused by the virus entering and infecting specific cells in the brain. But how does SARS-CoV-2 get there?
This isn’t a first, there are many observations of various kinds of particles being transported from the nasal micosa into the brain.
Take a look at some of these: metal particles nasal brain - Google Search
From the first page of results, this is a good summary:
Aw, Hell, it doesn’t have to be as teenytiny as a virus, either.
A big fat amœba like Nægleria fowleri is pretty easy to catch if you go swimming in infested waters, or sometimes even using a netti pot (ecch).
Get tainted water up your nose, the big fat amorphous blobs dig in, float their way into your brainium.
71k5
(71k5)
December 5, 2020, 6:48am
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FYI
IPAK 2019 Vaxxed/Unvaxxed Study just released.
” IPAK 2019 Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed Study”:https://informedchoicewa.org/education/its-here-the-vaxxed-vs-unvaxxed-study/
That so-called study is not credible, and it’s source is a well-known anti-vaccine organization. No further comment, per administrator request.
https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/aluminum
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144200/
sb56637
December 5, 2020, 2:59pm
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Hi everyone, as mentioned, I definitely don’t want to promote or defend either of the two sides on the vaccine argument, and I’m sure everyone already has their own opinion. But please avoid the subject on this forum.
Joshk
(Joshk)
December 5, 2020, 3:16pm
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It appears what that “IPAK 2019 Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed Study” actually discovered was that parents that skip vaccinations also skip doctors visits.
hank
(hank)
December 5, 2020, 5:57pm
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This page was cited in the NPR article I linked above.
It explains the little dip and rise seen on the charts around Thanksgiving, which caused VP Pence to tell the CDC things were improving .
https://covidtracking.com/blog/daily-covid-19-data-is-about-to-get-weird [Written around Thanksgiving Day]
EXCERPT
all three metrics will flatten out or drop, probably for several days. This decrease will make it look like things are getting better at the national level. Then, in the week following the holiday, our test, case, and death numbers will spike, which will look like a confirmation that Thanksgiving is causing outbreaks to worsen. But neither of these expected movements in the data will necessarily mean anything about the state of the pandemic itself. Holidays, like weekends, cause testing and reporting to go down and then, a few days later, to “catch up.” So the data we see early next week will reflect not only actual increases in cases, test, and deaths, but also the potentially very large backlog from the holiday.
Further down on that long page, this:
… The actual case increases from Thanksgiving exposures—people who got COVID-19 during the holiday weekend—probably won’t start showing up in the data until the second week of December. Succeeding waves of infections from holiday gatherings will roll in for weeks. From what we’ve seen so far, the virus can spread with remarkable speed, but there are delays at every step in tracing and reporting its spread: It takes time to get tested, time to get and report a result, time to trace close contacts—and to start the process over again with a new circle of exposures.
Consider the now infamous Millinocket, Maine wedding superspreading event this summer: The day after the wedding, the “index case” wedding guest developed COVID-19 symptoms, according to reporting from the Los Angeles Times and a CDC report—though this person wouldn’t receive the results of their PCR test until six days after the wedding. Three days later, a worker at a long-term-care facility who hadn’t attended the wedding, but whose child had, began showing symptoms. The test for the LTC worker didn’t come back until 11 days after the wedding, by which time they had worked multiple days in the facility while ill. …
bushmaster
(bushmaster)
December 5, 2020, 6:10pm
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So……we got that to look forward to……