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SongExotic2

SongExotic2

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Just got a text from my little Bolivian buddy. Him and his brother are back at work starting today and 5 permanent staff are there already. So 7 out of the 20 of us are back. Still not heard anything myself, just guesses from other people.

Got a fucken ear infection anyway. Couldn't imagine wearing a mask at the same time. I'd probably fall on my head
 
silentsinger

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Siton YerDong2 said:
Just got a text from my little Bolivian buddy. Him and his brother are back at work starting today and 5 permanent staff are there already. So 7 out of the 20 of us are back. Still not heard anything myself, just guesses from other people.

Got a fucken ear infection anyway. Couldn't imagine wearing a mask at the same time. I'd probably fall on my head[/QUOTE]
Go out the way you came in at least.
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SongExotic2

SongExotic2

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You were born in a bunker in Dortmund. You should fuck off back, Captain Kuntz.
 
ThatOneDude

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Brian Ortega's Goon Hand said:
got another link? the littered it with so much ad-scripts it's not loading for me
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Vincent Racaniello is a professor at Columbia University and has studied viruses for around 40 years.

He’s also the host of This Week In Virology, a podcast where the focus lately has been COVID-19.

“I live, eat, and think, viruses 24/7 pretty much,” Racaniello said.

The podcast has 25 times the listeners it did in January and receives more than 100 emailed questions a day now. Racaniello says many have the same questions or comments.


“A lot of people despair and say, ‘Do I have to stay home until next summer?'" Racaniello said. “The answer is, no, we're going to slowly get out this summer, I think in the fall, we'll go back to school.”

On his podcast, Racaniello dispels common myths, like that the virus was created in a lab.

“We have the sequence of this virus,” Racaniello said. “We know it's a bat virus basically there's just no way anyone could have made this and released it from a lab it's quite clear.”


He also says to not pay much attention to stories about the virus mutating.

“There are no more virulent strains than others. There's no more transmissible. There's just one strain and it seems to be pretty much all the same,” he said.

Success in South Korea
He points to countries like South Korea as successes at living with the virus because of a pandemic plan. They quickly increased testing to be widespread, rapidly multiplied mask production and grew hospital capacity.

“That's really that's been amazing at keeping their numbers down it actually worked and they didn't have to close down their country,” Racaniello said. “I think schools closed, and it was slightly restricted travel, I believe, but people were still able to go to work.”

As states reopen, he emphasizes extensive random testing and face masks.

“The virus is still around, and it can still infect you so you have to be careful when you're going back to work,” Racaniello said. “You have to take precautions still, and then only if we do that, can we limit the spread”


It’s still unclear if those who have already been infected are immune.

“The real question is, what does this mean does this mean you're protected,” Racniello said. “We don't know the answer to that yet. People, when they're infected with a virus, they make antibodies. Some of those antibodies protect you, and the others don't.”

Vaccines, medications
There’s also focus on the vaccine timeline with 60-70 vaccines in development now. Racaniello believes having one available by this fall is very unlikely.

“I could be surprised,” he said. “I wouldn’t be upset as long as it's safe and effective that works for me, but I would say based on my experience, Summer 2021 to happen sooner that'd be great.”

As pharmaceutical companies work on treatments, Racaniello says they could have created drugs after SARS in 2003.

“We knew after SARS that bats in China had SARS-like coronavirus. We didn't know that before, and it would have been pretty straightforward to get a few of those isolated and develop drugs that blocked them,” Racaniello said.

That would've required companies to invest in developing such drugs.

“That's not the way companies work, so you know if somehow we can get around that model, you know even governments have to participate, nonprofits, we could have been ready.”

He says both the public and officials should learn lessons before the next pandemic happens.

“There's no question it's going to happen,” he said. “There is no question. Because we had this one doesn't mean there won't be another, so we need to be ready for it.”
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Filthy

Filthy

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how old is that? they've identified and tracked two strains of SARS-COV2.

Coronavirus Update: Researchers Discover New COVID-19 Strain That May Be More Contagious

also, couldn't find anything on the podcast site about natural vs Lab. Is that in the WFAA interview?

but he makes really good points about relying on profit-incentive for vaccine development...maybe those millions of dollars and years we spent on gain-of-function research in Wuhan could have gone to SARS-vaccine research.
 
ThatOneDude

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Brian Ortega's Goon Hand said:
how old is that? they've identified and tracked two strains of SARS-COV2.

Coronavirus Update: Researchers Discover New COVID-19 Strain That May Be More Contagious

also, couldn't find anything on the podcast site about natural vs Lab. Is that in the WFAA interview?

but he makes really good points about relying on profit-incentive for vaccine development...maybe those millions of dollars and years we spent on gain-of-function research in Wuhan could have gone to SARS-vaccine research.
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It's 1 day old.
 
Filthy

Filthy

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ThatOneDude said:
He seemed to say that wasn't correct, but I could be wrong on that.
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is there more info on his podcast? It bugs me researchers just make assertions, and then point to the framed certificates behind their desk and pictures of themselves in fancy hats.
:)
 
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