Does the coronavirus merit investment, or personal, concern or consideration?

Find below six COVID-19 symptom clusters:

  1. Flu-like with no fever: Headache, loss of smell, muscle pains, cough, sore throat, chest pain, no fever.

  2. Flu-like with fever: Headache, loss of smell, cough, sore throat, hoarseness, fever, loss of appetite.

  3. Gastrointestinal: Headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, diarrhea, sore throat, chest pain, no cough.

  4. Severe Level 1, fatigue: Headache, loss of smell, cough, fever, hoarseness, chest pain, fatigue.

  5. Severe Level 2, confusion: Headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, cough, fever, hoarseness, sore throat, chest pain, fatigue, confusion, muscle pain.

  6. Severe Level 3, abdominal and respiratory: Headache, loss of smell, loss of appetite, cough, fever, hoarseness, sore throat, chest pain, fatigue, confusion, muscle pain, shortness of breath, diarrhea, abdominal pain.

Note that not all clusters include fever, but all do include headache.

Here is your reference with more detailed information:

Study: These are the six COVID-19 symptom clusters to watch for

MLB has never pretended to have any sort of “bubble”. It’s the NBA with the headline “bubble”, and the NHL has packed everyone up and sent them to Canada (but multiple sites).

To note, the MLB problem is isolated to the Marlins. The rest of the league is doing “fine”. And I think that was to be expected

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I wonder how Major League Sports are going to survive without folks in the arena or stands to watch. Of course there is watching games on tv, but not much money is made.

Just wondering…

Maybe soccer will become popular? It doesn’t make any money either, but it’s way more exciting than baseball or football :laughing:, and the whole world watches it on the telly.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/National-teacher-union-supports-strikes-over-15439711.php

I’m shocked! Just shocked! :smile:

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Speaking of headline bubble-heads …
Sitting Shiva w/ Strippers :blush:

Well the SF union seems a lot more reasonable than the LA one.

conditions the organization wants met for schools to reopen. It says buildings should reopen only in areas with lower virus rates, and only if schools require masks, update ventilation systems and make changes to space students apart.

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Their demands include implementing a moratorium on private schools, defunding the police, increasing taxes on the wealthy, implementing Medicare for all, and … additional $116 billion in federal education funding

Sounds like the SF teachers are afraid for their safety if they go back to work, not unreasonable given many are older and more at risk for the virus. The LA teachers OTOH appear to be afraid they will lose their job to charter schools and become unemployed, needing free healthcare and no police enforcement to interfere with their new career as looters, er “peaceful protestors”.

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They actually make tons of money off the TV revenue. Its their #1 source of income.

The NBA gets enough from the ESPN & TNT contract alone to pay all the player salaries and then some.

They might make a lot of revenue off ticket sales for the entire season but running stadiums is a very costly thing too so the profit there isn’t as lucrative as just getting paid by ESPN.

Selling merchandise is the other big income earner.

And I’m not worried about them surviving. The teams won’t go bankrupt. Therers always another billionaire who wants to buy one as a luxury play thing status symbol. The teams really aren’ ran as traditional “gotta make cash” businesses in the first place. Of course the rich people who own them don’t want to lose a ton of money but making money really isn’t the whole point. There are teams that lose money annually.

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You actually believe that these are union demands for negotiating a union contract?

Honestly?

I mean sometimes its hard to know when people are just joking. I know Foxnews etc reports lies as if its actual facts but…

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The union has a different document on their site: https://www.utla.net/members/bargaining

Of course, there is a difference between this document on their site and the other document they had prepared/circulated which clearly had a political agenda.

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That one has plenty of agenda too.

  • no standardized testing (makes them look bad)
  • no policing or punishment for people not complying with virus measures (just ask nicely if the kid won’t wear a mask?)
  • structural racism blah blah

I mean LA is a super liberal city, both the people involved in the schools/unions and the government. Why are they so racist in their structures?

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Isn’t it about money and power in the end, regardless of side?

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Oh sure the teachers have an agenda. They don’t want kids to get sick. They don’t want to get sick.

You don’t see anything there about Medicare for all or or defunding the police, though do you??

They’re also not demanding a pony for everyone, or free tacos or that Monday be renamed Hillary Clinton day.

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“I guess you’ve just got a case of the Hillardays…”

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To be fair, the other document the union circulated before did ask for defunding the police, and some other political items. The one on their site doesn’t.

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This small retrospective study out of India found an 80% risk reduction among healthcare workers for getting covid if they took HCQ before exposure, with high significance.

Mind you this isn’t reducing the symptoms - this is getting it at all, or at least a PCR detectable level. Anyone who was exposed got tested.

Groups were about 50 each, 4 HCQers got it while 20 of the non-HCQ group got it. Side effects were mostly GI discomfort (only 1/3 of ppl), nothing serious.

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If I understand it correctly, the people who took HCQ, took it voluntarily, which means knowingly. Doesn’t that make the study invalid?

Unless some of them were given a placebo? :slight_smile:

Agreed. Found the key phrase: “This study is however limited by - small sample size, non randomised …”