Here’s an illustrated guide from the CDC to fakery, counterfeits and lies from mask manufacturers:
Hat tip to: What do coronavirus variants mean for your masks?
Apparently, some good news! Although preliminary!
The new:
The article:
Plitidepsin has potent preclinical efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 by targeting the host protein eEF1A
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/22/science.abf4058
Meanwhile, here we had the worst day since this all started. More than 300 deaths and above 16.400 cases in one day…
Also, a thing that should be noted, although still under investigation/research.
In a nursing home, some “clients” and carers were vaccinated with the 1st dose.
Meanwhile, they got infected, although all are asymptomatic.
They are now waiting for the 2nd dose, although I’m not sure if they will take it on the scheduled time or if it will be delayed.
No further information on this, but if relevant I’ll update.
Stay safe folks
My mom got her first COVID-19 vaccine shot last night.
Getting the appointment was difficult, but getting the shot and the second appointment were super easy.
I went along with her to "supervise."
Also, my older sister in North Carolina that works at a hospital got her second shot a little while ago.
Omg! This post still over one year.
Wish there will be no more conflict and death on the world.
Wear mask and save life.
Rex how’s the family doing with this surgery?
It’s also more than a little bit controversial. Please drop the subject and delete your post. Thanks in advance.
Pardon me, I didn’t stop to think: that meme had the forbidden “V” word in it.
Or is it Covid that’s controversial? (Covid is the subject of this thread, though.)
My daughter is recuperating well from the surgery, except she (stubbornly) exerted herself too soon and as of yesterday she has a bulge…. maybe a hernia. So she has to go in and get that checked. She was under a lot of pressure from her ex (very recently finalized divorce) to get some of her stuff moved out of the house. We all told her to get help and to not lift anything, but that’s how it goes.
Back to the subject at hand… I recall from last March or April, when the number of Covid deaths was lower than today and when Covid looked nowhere near as serious as Spanish flu, folks said it was too early to use those death numbers because it surely would get worse. And the numbers have gotten worse, all right. It’s been just about one year since Covid came onto our ‘radar’ (so to speak) and, in that time, well over 2.2 million deaths worldwide have now been chalked up to this virus. Breaking out my calculator, about 0.029% of the world’s population has succumbed to it. If we were to guess that this virus will continue to devastate the world at the same rate for 2 more years, we’ll lose 0.088% of the world’s people to Covid.
Looking at the Spanish flu death toll, estimates range from 17 million to 50 million people. Taking the lower number of 17,000,000 for an optimistic comparison, and accounting for lower world population back then (1.6 billion), we see that Spanish flu killed at least 1% of the world’s people. If the upper number of 50M actually died from it, the death toll was 3.1. So, the real number probably lies somewhere between 1 and 3.1%.
If I assume the lower number for Spanish flu deaths, and if I assume that Covid will rampage unabated for 2 more years, then it is plain to me that Covid might actually wind up being almost one-tenth as bad as the worst influenza outbreak in recorded history.
similar report from USA congress, vaccinated members, even with both doses, still catch and test positive for corona. Even if they remain asymptomatic, they continue to be contagious to others.
this article is about one who only had the first dose of the vaccine, when he got infected
this article is about one who had both doses of the vaccine, and still got infected
and here is an article claiming HIV patients are being protected by their medication
“researchers found that people with HIV who were taking tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and emtricitabine (FTC) were far less likely to be hospitalized or placed in the ICU when compared to other HIV-positive people taking different ART medications.”
Any RA sufferers here. I was wondering what your doctors have been telling you about RA medicines and covid? I know they change your immune system which probably could make you more vulnerable to covid? Or maybe they prevent your immune system from going crazy fighting off covid?
Rexlion - interesting numbers. Have you compared the two outbreaks and death tolls in regards to people's ages? The Spanish flu killed mostly young people. Wikipedia has it at 99% of the deaths in the US the first year were people under 65 and half in the 20-40 year old range. That's nothing like what we are currently experiencing.
The only reason to compare COVID-19 to the Spanish flu is to attempt to downplay COVID-19, something Rexlion loves to do.
That’s an interesting observation. I wasn’t aware that Spanish flu was so much more deadly among the younger people than Covid-19 is. Thanks!
It’s a valid comparison. Actually, the reason I made the comparison was because, when some of us said last March and April that Covid was nowhere near as serious as the 1917-‘18 flu outbreak, others shouted it down by saying it was way too early to make the comparison. Well, it’s no longer too early to compare, and our early assessment has proven to be correct. But in the meantime, everyone’s been scared out of their wits. People are utterly traumatized with fear of catching this ’deadly pestilence’ (the one that gives the vast majority of patients mild flu-like symptoms).
My younger sister, which I usually call just "my sister" because we're about the same age, will be getting her first COVID-19 vaccine shot tomorrow.
She's considered a health care worker because she basically babysits an autistic child.
She has some training as a nurse, which I think is required for the job.
So, soon enough, my mom and both of my sisters will be vaccinated. 
(I think it's going to be quite a while before the rest of my family gets vaccinated, though.)
Inappropriate post and likely agin the rules, might want to delete it before you get banished again.
Agreed - that seems to be a prohibited topic.
Interesting use of cute quotation marks—( ‘deadly pestilence’)
So you are mocking the severity of a virus that’s killed 450,000 Americans?
Actually, “Deadly Pestilence” sounds like a kewl teevee-movie.
Or a “Barnaby Jones” ep.
A first hand report here worth reading: