I do think one interesting trend here to watch is whether people will begin fleeing cities as they did when the suburbs began establishing themselves. Many governments and progressive-minded individuals have been touting higher housing density - more townhouses, apartments, upzoning areas that have single family homes, etc. This pandemic has highlighted one of the downsides to that type of lifestyle.
My wife and I were shopping for a house about two years ago, moving out of the townhome I bought while I was single. My wife has a bit of a survivalist streak in her and we targeted houses in the unincorporated areas of the county, which have zoning laws that require at least an acre per parcel. There were several reasons for that, but one big one was to avoid the masses in case of a major disaster. We were thinking it’d be an earthquake, guess we were wrong .
My parents live about 75 miles north of NYC - within commute range of the city. They have been wanting to move out closer to us (both my sister and I live out in Seattle). The housing market has been depressed there for years… but has recently been experiencing a surge in buyer interest. They’re looking at bailing and moving west.
Yes, that’s probably the expected case, although of course we won’t know for a couple years. Here’s some more promising results suggesting lasting immunity is likely.
Stay out of matters not your own. This average IQ fool has been sniping at me with his wise guy posts for quite a long time. You most likely did not notice, which is perfectly OK. I noticed but held my fire, not wanting to start anything.
But now I have had it and I will not remain silent any longer. If he wants to take more shots at me he had better anticipate serious return fire. Enough of his crap is enough!!
I think you should cut qcumber98 some slack. I doubt that he meant to cause you such distress. A lot of people enjoy political bantering. Since you do quite openly take a stand on a political position, I think you leave yourself open to that. Which is okay.
I like to read your posts, and I’m sure many other people do also. I appreciate your efforts to share your life experiences, your thoughts, and your perspectives. But that does inherently invite others to comment when they have a different perspective.
We “oldsters” (I include myself in that) are living through a difficult time. It’s like we have a bullseye painted on our back. We already know that Mother Nature takes us out when we get old. But it is so much worse now with the coronavirus primarily taking out our age group. This creates a stress for us old folks that is more than what we expected at this stage of life. The things we hope to accomplish yet in life become more difficult and less certain. We all need to learn to relax a little. I hope life is being kind to you.
Best wishes,
Endeavorer
P.S. You sort of don’t sound like yourself. Did somebody else write your last two posts?
You are off the mark. I have no problem whatsoever with other posters taking issue with my positions and views. It is part of the standard routine here. It is fine and happens all the time.
You are unaware of that poster’s history with me, which is understandable. It goes way back. No other poster here, regardless how much they might disagree with me, has that same history or, frankly insofar as I’m concerned, any history at all!! I took his special brand of crap for as long as I could. I will tolerate it no longer while remaining silent. Period.
Thanks. Things here are better than ever.
Seriously? What are you, some sort of new age wacko? The answer is not just “no”, the answer is “hell no”!!
I will show that HCQ+AZ and HCQ+doxycycline are generally safe for short-term use in the early treatment of most symptomatic high-risk outpatients, where not contraindicated, and that they are effective in preventing hospitalization for the overwhelming majority of such patients. If these combined medications become standard-of-care, they are likely to save an enormous number of lives that would otherwise be lost to this endemic disease.
The politicization by Trump of HCQS has cost lives. He simply lacks the capacity to understand millions of people will go to any length to prove whatever he says wrong.
Even absent Trump, medical politics was already a minefield. The Sharyl Attkisson exposé regarding remdesivir is but one of countless examples. The numbers of supposedly neutral doctors having a financial interest in success of that expensive drug is troubling . . . to say the least.
Money grubbing pharmaceutical companies are today’s cigarette companies.
A good summary of the better understanding we have now of the virus’s origins, or rather that cast doubt on the original proposed origins. No answers, more questions.
New research has deepened, rather than dispelled, the mystery surrounding the origin of the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19. Bats, wildlife markets, possibly pangolins and perhaps laboratories may all have played some role, but the simple story of an animal in a market infected by a bat that then infected several human beings no longer looks credible.
“We were surprised to find that SARS-CoV-2 exhibits low genetic diversity in contrast to SARS-CoV, which harbored considerable genetic diversity in its early-to-mid epidemic phase.” This implies, they argue, that “by the time SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in late 2019, it was already pre-adapted to human transmission to an extent similar to late epidemic SARS-CoV.”
The same study seems to rule out the possibility that infected animals at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan transmitted the virus to several human beings, as some have suggested as a point of origin. The Chinese authorities have now confirmed that no animal samples from the market were infected. This suggests that a single person brought a virus that was already adept at human transmission to the market and infected others.
What about the controversial claim that the virus may have originated in a laboratory? Both Ralph Baric’s team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Shi Zhengli’s team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have been working on SARS-like coronaviruses and testing their ability to infect human cells. They have for some years reported successful experiments in which they created new strains of the virus by manipulating the spike proteins that are now the focus of discovering the origin of SARS-CoV-2, and their research has included inserting furin cleavage sites.
Pulmonary doc treating covid patients had a good Q&A, covering both his experience and his general knowledge about the current state of medical opinions/research on the virus and treatment approaches.
The coronavirus is not a good thing. I’m doing everything I can to avoid contracting it. And I don’t like the idea of it attacking my circulatory system one bit!
Expression of concern: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis
Expression of Concern to alert readers to the fact that serious scientific questions have been brought to our attention. We will update this notice as soon as we have further information.
But they did manage to get the US and France and the WHO to stop all those trials with their bad data analysis.
In addition, New England Journal of Medicine also issued a similar Expression of Concern for another covid article that used the same underlying Surgisphere database as the above HCQ study.
This retrospective study used data drawn from an international database that included electronic health records from 169 hospitals on three continents. Recently, substantive concerns have been raised about the quality of the information in that database. We have asked the authors to provide evidence that the data are reliable. In the interim and for the benefit of our readers, we are publishing this Expression of Concern about the reliability of their conclusions.
Furthermore, that company Surgisphere is apparently quite small and quite sketchy. They claim several awards they didn’t receive and which provably went to others, as well as several other media claims that are at best embellished. Here’s a good review of their data and its (im)plausibility.
No problem. And worth my effort without question to gain access to the information you posted. I didn’t know.
I detest the politicization of medicine. But for the people who did what they did, it was worth going after HCQS just to impugn Trump, even if people died as a result.
Of course the other reason many are attacking HCQS has nothing at all to do with Trump. HCQS is very, very inexpensive. If it works, much more expensive new medicines will not be employed and the pharmaceutical companies and their shareholders (including many doctors) will not become as rich as they desire to be.
Check out the extra links in my previous post. Put in a lot more info. Looks like that database company behind that study is at best… using the “fake it til you make it” VC approach, and at worst are an outright fraud.
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