Corona Virus #7

rswyan · Mar 31, 2020

Gale Hawkins said:
Thanks for that link. Sweden is a horse of a different color leaving the decisions to the health care team instead to those that seek office.

Case to be made for both approaches, advantages and pitfalls with either I suspect.

Probably will get a good airing out in the not-too-distant future I'd imagine.

k0ua · Mar 31, 2020

Panic buying in a normally well-stocked Gothenburg-supermarket resulting in a toilet paper shortage

Ok, so it is not just Americans, that panic over the toilet paper thing... hmmm

/pine · Mar 31, 2020

IMO...I think that the blame China must face for not being transparent and allowing the spread of the virus...we (The US) should send them a bill that will negate the $1.7 trillion of US debt they are holding...!

Gale Hawkins · Mar 31, 2020

k0ua said:
Here is a little info on 731:

Unit 731: Inside World War II Japan's Sickening Human Experiments Lab

WOW! That was beyond words. There was a lot of info in the readers comments like the link below:

Tuskegee Study - Timeline - CDC - NCHHSTP

shooterdon · Mar 31, 2020

/pine said:
IMO...I think that the blame China must face for not being transparent and allowing the spread of the virus...we (The US) should send them a bill that will negate the $1.7 trillion of US debt they are holding...!

We cannot piss them off until we are ready to produce the items we need. Why do you think Trump is playing nice....for now?

And if we send a bill they will not pay it anyway.

Jstpssng · Mar 31, 2020

dragoneggs said:
The Axis didn't employ biological warfare IIRC.

I was going to point that out but you beat me to it. There also were a lot of sacrifices on the home front during those times, just as we are making now. Is it worth it? All that I know is that dieing from some stupid virus isn't on my list of things I had planned for the year.

IslandTractor · Mar 31, 2020

/pine said:
@Island Tractor...
They are saying that 1 in 4 that test positive do not show any symptoms or extremely mild symptoms...would these patients not have stronger antibodies that could be used to possibly develop a treatment that is more effective than the antibodies left in patients with more severe symptoms...?

Interesting question but unfortunately no...you don't have any antibodies at all for about almost a week or so after initial infection. The body then generates IgM antibody and later, about 2-3 weeks after infection, we generate IgG antibody. The antibodies that can be harvested from recovered patients are IgG antibodies. There are some viral diseases where those convalescent antibodies are quite effective in preventing or even treating bad viral infections. You may recall thirty years ago we used to get "gammaglobulin" shots before going overseas where there might be exposure to hepatitis. Same thing.