Covid-19 update
A second wave of the 1918 Spanish flu was devastating. Be prepared for the same thing with the CV19 virus this fall. It’s the reason I keep posting links to businesses that have stuff you may find you need, from corn meal and wheat flour to kitchen utensils and cookware, which I will continue to do.
From the article: As of Sunday, there were 498,440 confirmed cases in Brazil and at least 28,834 deaths; there are 1,775,125 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., and 103,906 deaths. Worldwide, there were 6,108,525 confirmed cases and 370,247 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Financial Times that he “can’t guarantee” more stay-at-home requirements in the winter or the fall. “We are committed to using the time that we have now to get this nation as over-prepared as possible.” – article
Dr. Fauci indicates that we will have another outbreak in the fall, but we don’t yet have a preventive in the form of a vaccine.
Where we stand now on development of a CV19 vaccine is at the link below:
From the article:
With confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide surpassing 4.3 million and continuing to grow, scientists are pushing forward with efforts to develop vaccines and treatments to slow the pandemic and lessen the disease’s damage.
Some of the earliest treatments will likely be drugs that are already approved for other conditions, or have been tested on other viruses.
“People are looking into whether existing antivirals might work or whether new drugs could be developed to try to tackle the virus,” said Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, a professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy.
As of May 8, three medicationsTrusted Source had received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the anti-viral remdesivir, and a drug used to sedate people on a ventilator.
An EUA allows doctors to use these drugs to treat people with COVID-19 even before the medications have gone through the formal FDA approval process. – article
This is just an update on what news there is so far. It seems odd that just when people are being told ‘Get out in the sunshine again”, many parts of this country erupt into looting and pillaging and destroying businesses.
That might have happened even without the unfortunate and preventable incident in Minneapolis. The timing seems kind of odd. We get shut down for weeks, then are told “go back to normal”, and riots and destruction begin a very short time later. And everything is shut down again because some people simply can’t behave themselves.
There must be a message in this. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
However, the work on a viable vaccine or several vaccines is progressing, and we may have to observe the same precautions toward the end of summer that we’ve been taking since the beginning of March.
We must be patient.
Category: COVID-19
d better start hoarding now for the fall huh?
Should say, Guess I had better
Deja Vu.
Here we go again.
Does this sound familiar?
Watch and listen to Dr. Fauci discussed the Bird Flu and US Preparedness.
BTW, the video is from 21 October 2005.
2005.
15 Years ago.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?189513-1/bird-flu-us-preparedness
Preparing for winter is something sensible people have always done. Sooo, will be particularly diligent about doing so this year. Nothing special – just maybe stashing more dried fruit and other “treats” beyond the basic necessities.
From 20 April 2006.
2006.
14 years ago.
Check out what Dr. Fauci said then:
“Skeptics Warn Bird Flu Fears Are Overblown”
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12358223/ns/health-infectious_diseases/t/skeptics-warn-bird-flu-fears-are-overblown/#.XtZUFVRKiUk
“Doomsday predictions about bird flu seem to be spreading faster than the virus itself. But a small group of skeptics say the bird flu hype is overblown and ultimately harmful to the public’s health.”
“There’s no guarantee bird flu will become a pandemic, and if it does there’s no guarantee it will kill millions of people. The real trouble, these skeptics say, is that bird flu hysteria is sapping money and attention away from more important health threats.”
“I have a bunch of patients coming in here who are more worried about bird flu than they are about heart disease,” said Dr. Marc Siegel, an internist and associate professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. “The fear is out of proportion to the current risk.”
“Even Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health’s infectious disease chief, recently cautioned against overreacting if the virus surfaces in North American birds, as it is expected to do later this year.”
“One migratory bird does not a pandemic make,” Fauci told The Associated Press.”
And another article from 23 May 2006. 2006. 14 years ago. From Birds to Bats. “Skeptics say bird flu threat overblown As the dire predictions of a pandemic mount, skeptics warn of the dangers of overreaction Some don’t buy bird flu threat” https://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Skeptics-say-bird-flu-threat-overblown-1898760.php “For months, the warnings have been relentless: Bird flu could jump species and kill tens of millions of people, a pandemic to rival the 1918 Spanish flu. Economies would collapse and governments risk catastrophe if they don’t put together elaborate contingency plans.” “Not everyone is convinced, however. A small group of skeptics says the warnings are just a lot of hype, scare talk that does more harm than good to the public health. Such doomsday predictions go well beyond good science and siphon money and attention from more important threats, they say.” “It’s a great story, a disease that can wipe out mankind as we know it,” says Dr. Gary Butcher, a University of Florida veterinarian specializing in avian diseases. “Fortunately, the facts are contrary to what’s being reported. This disease is going to fizzle out, be forgotten in the near future and be replaced by another ‘potential worldwide threat.’ ” “That view may have received a boost last week when the United Nations’ chief pandemic flu coordinator confirmed that the flu virus known as H5N1 largely has been contained in the Asian countries where it first hit.” “Public health officials were quick to warn it would be premature to declare victory. Dismissive of those who play down the threat, they argue it would be irresponsible not to plan for a worst-case scenario.” “H5N1, they note, shares many genetic features with the Spanish flu, according to a research team that reconstructed the horrific 1918 virus — except it’s even more lethal. The new virus has killed nearly 57 percent of its 217 confirmed human carriers. The 1918 pandemic paralyzed society, but the resulting 20 million to 50 million deaths represented just 2 percent of those infected.” “In addition to common flu symptoms like fever and cough, those infected with the H5N1 virus can develop viral pneumonia or… Read more »
From 1 April 2006.
2006.
14 years ago:
“The Threat of an Avian Pandemic is Over-Hyped”
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/threat-avian-flu-pandemic-over-hyped/2006-04
Do you ever get the impression that the people who write that stuff have nothing going on in their lives and get a jolt of adrenaline (or something else) out of publishing it?
Considering the size of the world’s population, and how densely cities are populated, I’m glad I no longer live in one. Meantime, stocking the pantry shelves ahead of the cold seasons is just a normal thing to do for most of us.
Oh yeah! There’s a flu pandemic going on! I thought that “protesting” George Floyd had cured the virus. Seems no one on TV cares that people aren’t masked while they are looting Foot Locker to bring down injustice. . . or something.
The Corona Virus has been replaced by the Antifa Virus.
BUT the Antifa Virus can quickly be cured by repeated rapid and voluminous high speed lead injections!
From 22 March 2016.
4 Years Ago.
“Zika Virus: A Pandemic in Progress”
https://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=18734&bhcp=1
“NIAID’s Fauci urges continued global vigilance on Zika, other diseases”:
https://www.fic.nih.gov/News/Pages/2016-niaid-fauci-zika-virus-talk.aspx
“…and be replaced by another ‘potential worldwide threat'”.
Que up Thunderstixx…”WE’RE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!”
We all started dying the minute we were born. We are all gonna die, eventually if not sooner. Some by a bug and others by causes up to and including being shot by a jealous mate, either yours or someone else. When your work in this plane of existence is finished, you will either move on to your just reward ot your just desserts. Until then, I just want to live and let live, without interference, from gubmints, yellow journalists, fear mongers, tax collectors, ne’er do wells, brigands, feather merchants and spapos seagulls.
Everytime I see that big ol’ fat crow, I go from expecting to see a recipe for poached pigeon to flashbacks of an old crow I was once married to. The struggle is real!
KoB..
Spot on!
The ninja family got into a discussion with other intermediate family members about wearing face masks.
The ninja family does not wear face masks until we are ordered to wear them.
An intermediate family member told us that if we love our family, we would wear the masks. That we were being too risky.
The ninja family had to remind those intermediate family members that the ninja family took a HUGE risk when signing up with Uncle Sam and being Boots on the Ground in two recent Conflicts.
Crickets started chirping big time. Had not heard anything more from the intermediate family about the ninja family not wearing face masks.
First it was the Chinese Wuhan Virus, THEN they were hyping about “Murder Hornets”, what’s next? I heard rumor that Sharknados were going to be the threat next month, then mutant flying Piranhas, than an attack of Killer Tomatoes in August! I’m skeptical as hell myself because I had ALL of the symptoms of the Chinese Wuhan Virus back in January, I’m fine now and I can’t find anywhere to get tested for the antibodies!
API:
You crack me up AGAIN!
LOVE IT!
😆😅🤣😂!!!
Thankyuhverymuch!
I’m holding out for the zombies.
The Blob.
Crow?
It’s a Grackle.
(Grin)
Maybe a Brown Cowbird? *ducking quickly with a shit-eating grin*
Naw, it’s a grackle. They’re really quite handsome from the side, but this one stared at me like he was waiting for a large bucket of cracked corn.
That is a great picture.
Thank you. They still show up in the spring. They must have looooonnnng memories. 🙂
Here’s a VERY basic list of what a single adult needs in the pantry for one year:
https://brightspotcdn.byu.edu/b1/4d/75fc449e4ce9843daa701f69faa4/an-approach-to-longer-term-food-storage.SEPT2019.pdf
As that list notes, it is the absolute necessities and can/should be altered for personal preference. It does give those who might not have thought in these terms a place to start. Especially about what can and cannot be stored for many years and in what form that storage should be.
(They left off chocolate, for instance. Some folks would not consider trying to survive a year without chocolate, although it might survive better in the form of cocoa rather than truffles.)
A wise person once said that we are but 3 missed meals away from anarchy. I have never understood why preppers were demonized, granted shows like “Doomsday Preppers” where they tried to find the craziest of the crazies to showcase wasn’t helpful. Why demonize people who just want to make sure their families are taken care of during a disaster?
It seems to me like they were being demonized for making sure they would be independent of others during some big disaster or collapse versus being dependent of good ‘ol Big Daddy Government or some happy-hippie utopian commune!
The population is no longer “naive” to the bug. Thus likely nowhere as bad.
We can shave off 20k more oldsters dying if maniacs don’t again force infected folks into nursing homes, and we focus prevention on the vulnerable and their caregivers, instead focusing on healthy people and “orange man bad”.
26k avoidable fatalities, by some estimates, or about one quarter of all claimed fatalities.
Staring with SHIT Governors like Cuomo who demanded that Nursing Homes accept those with the Chinese Wuhan Virus aka COVID 19.
*OOPS*, “Starting…”
To All:
I posted the above articles, because IMHO, I see a trend going on…especially with Anthony Fauci.
Did numerous old newspaper searches on Fauci, some going back to the 1970s and his discussions about diseases and Pandemic.
The stories all said the same…and what is interesting is that Fauci keeps flip flopping on what he puts out to the public.
Ex: I apologize to you for indirectly hijacking your Post. IMHO, what I am reading over and over and over again on those old articles, that if we don’t do something about those flu, then lots and lots and lots of lives will be lost…
If I am not mistaken, there was a Pandemic in 1959 as well…
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemic.html
I don’t recall in any of those events that our Nation shut down to overcome those pandemics.
Just my two pennies.
Thank You for letting me rant and rave.
ninja, you are correct…again! All of this we’re seeing is simply because the Bitch of Benghazi didn’t get her chance to continue the march of the New World Order. Trump is not their target, per se. WE ARE! He’s just in their way.
Folks you might want to run your vaccine for the Chinesecommunist Originated Virus Infecting Disease of 2019 thru a micron filter, just to insure there isn’t a Hunger Games Tracker Device in it.
Trust no one. The Truth is out there and the proverbial “they” don’t want us great unwashed deplorables to know what it is.
Da Troot? Try this on for size, if you want some kind of conspiracy theory:
Just as we’re all about to go back to near-normal stuff, some cop in Minneapolis does something stupid and a perp dies because of it. The lamestream media makes a “thing” out of it, and before anyone can even unlock the store doors and invite customers to enter, looting and rioting and mayhem break loose all over the place and lockdown is back in place.
There was no rhyme or reason for it. The dead guy was a drug addict and had all sorts of medical problems, and yes, the cop was out of line.
BUT — what was the purpose of stirring the meandering herds of idiots into stampeding the place and destroying what other people had built, just as we’re all about to come out of the living room?
Doesn’t that sound kind of like something Stephen King might turn into a novel? Think about it for a minute.
Frankly, it was the lameass media that started this crap. I know how they work – what kind of attention can we get today and all next week!!!
IMHO the liberal mess media was good ah stirring the idiot mobs into rampaging like striped-assed Apes, and I’m sure Soros paid his herders and handlers to stir it up as well.
Timing is everything, API. That this coincided with ‘okay to go out and enjoy the fresh air’ is too close together to be anything other than suspect. Make a helluva spy plot, e.g., Jason Bourne finds the guy who came up with it and…. whatever!
Just spitballing, but could it be that the experts like Fauci simply don’t lump all pandemics in together, and some are considerably more worrisome than others? While obviously the 1918 influenza dwarfs other ‘recent’ pandemics, our ability to fight influenza has gotten much better, and lesser understood pathogens like a novel coronavirus are a greater concern because we don’t fully understand them or have viable treatment regimens?
To put it differently, if some idiot Islamic fundamentalist starts spouting off threats about the US, we take action, but most peoples lives aren’t disrupted. We understand the threat, and their capabilities. If on the other hand, a spaceship appears over DC and a booming voice starts threatening death and destruction, we’re likely to take severe precautions.. even if, when the aliens step out of that ship, they’re furry rabbits armed with sticks. Unknown dangers deserve a healthy respect until proven otherwise.
Note that I’m not arguing that, in hindsight, the shutdown was necessary. I think that’s a separate discussion than Fauci’s (and many other ID specialists) prior statements in contrast to today’s.
You make a good point, LC.
I think the shutdown did served a purpose, mostly because I worked in a rather crowded office space and the people who didn’t get flu shots would come in to work when they should have stayed home and it was always the same people. Some of us would get sick and some were resistant enough to not get sick.
But when the company started an inhouse flu/pneumonia shots program at a bargain price, those who didn’t get flu shots outside of work refused to get them under the work-sponsored program.
The rest of us didn’t get sick, and the non-vaxxers were told to stay home until they were done with the flu.
Seriously, you could pick up bronchitis from someone on the bus coughing on you on the way home. So yes, I think the shutdown and separation precautions were good idea, even though they put a real burden on some people.
I understand the lethality of the CV19 bug, but unless a vaccine is proven to work, I’ll wait.
You didn’t hijack it.
Those old articles have bearing on all of this.
I kind of suspect Fauci of leaning on his short man syndrome stuff to make himself more important.
We have to wonder, rightfully, just how much is panic-attack writing by the media, and how much of it is overestimating the danger to avoid being sued.
And projecting to the future, 50 years from now historians will wonder “and they ruined their economy over WHAT?”
Yes, that is a very valid point, David. This “bug” that stopped the world could have been handled quite differently.
I keep coming up with the waves of plague that ran through Europe in the Middle Ages, which included everything from small pox (the Pox) to bubonic plague and other diseases that were all bundled under the term “Plague”.
And yet, people survived it, went on with their lives and great things happened.
Been wracking the cranial matter trying to remember where I heard or read something about the vaccine in the past few days, maybe a week ago. Can’t come up with the source, but it seemed credible (at least to me).
Anyway, some doc on some show or some obscure link said that at least 2 or 3 big pharmas are already manufacturing the vaccine in anticipation of it being approved before fall. Gearing up, getting ready to distribute. Sounded pretty good.
I know, I know – somebody said that their third cousin’s hair dresser’s brother knows a guy…
OWB:
You are correct.
Heard the same thing.
Unfortunately, some of us are allergic to Flu shots (yours truly).
Took them for years while in the Army (mandatory). Last one taken 15 years ago…had a BAD reaction, as in need an Epi-Pen reaction.
Have not taken a Flu Vaccine shot since then. And for 15 years, have not come down with the Flu. Only had a headcold one time.
The other ninja family member gets flu shots annually and for some reason, gets more colds than me.
Go figure.
Guess it is how we are structured genetically?
Been the same way. I would (be forced to) get the flu shot while in the Army.
Once out (retired), I got the annual flu shots for a few years, always timed it for the weekend, as I always had a reaction. Nothing too serious, low grade fever, felt like shit. After a few years (about 10-15 years back), I never took the flu shot again, always felt fine, never caught the flu. Even though the wifey is always bugging me, “gotta get the shot, did’ya get the shot?”
Mandatory flu vaccines would kick my ass, too. That is until I mysteriously developed an annual allergy to poultry products. That this allergy manifested itself at the same time as the squadron HMs were administering the vaccine was purely coincidental.
This is something that both the Gates foundation and the ‘Operation Warp Speed’ initiative is doing – it’s absolutely a needed approach, and interesting from the risk/reward aspect. Basically, they look at the economic impact from projections of how many may fall sick and/or die, calculate a cost of that, and then say something like, “Well, given that’ll cost X, we can reduce risk by spending Y (<X) now to mass produce 6 vaccine candidates, each with only a 20% chance of being successful."
I never liked Gates as a businessman, but his work with his foundation is solid, and expediting vaccine delivery is a long overdue strategic necessity for the US.
” there are 1,775,125 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., and 103,906 deaths.”
I’m not trying to be Pollyanna, nor pass myself off as an expert, but I read this morning somewhere that a fairly large sampling of the population in Colorado showed many more people had the virus than the test count showed, and it placed the death rate at 0.23 percent, skewed strongly to the elderly.
So, some math says that if the death count of roughly 104,000 in the US is correct, then the total number of infections is a bit more than 45,000, or about 1/7th or about 14% of the population. Enough for herd immunity to be effective? I dunno, ask Fauci, he’s the brainy guy (sarc!) but….. maybe if the really vulnerable (i.e. old) stay protected we can survive this, at least as well as we survived other pandemics (like the flu before vaccines.)
I haven’t see the Colorado antibody study yet, but they’ve done similar ones in New York, and a large one is going on now in the tri-state area, I believe.
The general result does appear to show something along those lines, though – the last I saw did indicate something like 14% of NY had been exposed, but it’s more pervasive there than in other parts of the country, so a country-wide rate is probably lower. This definitely lowers the mortality rate dramatically, though – I think even CDC is now saying something like 0.3%?
As we get better sampling (more testing, and ideally more accurate tests since some of the antibody tests have horrible rates for false positives!), we’ll get a better sense of how widespread it is. Known deaths divided by known cases is a very inaccurate number right now, due in part to limited testing, and an under-counting of the dead as seen by the uptick in ‘pneumonia’ deaths compared to previous years.
This is all good news, though I’ll point out protecting the elderly has proved difficult, as seen in Sweden.
The numbers further reinforce that the bug was here in early December, possibly mid November. That lines up with what we are learning about China’s experiences.
Also that makes the shutdown -utterly- pointless. It was much too late.
Well, pointless medically.
11B-Mailclerk commented:
“The numbers further reinforce that the bug was here in early December, possibly mid November.”
Let us not forget Times Square on New Years Eve as well as the Super Bowl, various parades around Thanksgiving and Christmas, i.e. Macy’s, etc.etc.
Crowds coming together from all walks of life.
Been happening for years. For some reason, this Virus has been hyped big time.
Why?
Because it is an Election Year?
Asking For A Friend
I think we’re all trapped in a Batman movie, and the Joker is behind COVID-19 and the latest urban unrest. All these billionaires in the world, it’s about damn time one of them stepped up and became Batman.
I’m very disappointed.
SFC D:
😆😅🤣😂👍👍😉😎!!!!
Funny.
We were told that 200 people in a church or on a beach is a threat to life and society, for the foreseeable future, until we get a vaccine,
But 2000 people in the street is nothing to see here.
Or, it was all a bunch of whooie. Hm
11B-Mailclerk:
SPOT ON!
You nailed it!
Thank You!
So, if we go to church
Dressed in black
Wearing a hat, mask, and sunglasses,
Hootin and hollerin “Know Jesus, know Peace!”
We wont get arrested or hassled by cops, right?
Hm.
I’ll just toss this grenade and dash off:
https://spectator.org/lancetgate-pulling-a-fast-one-on-proponents-of-hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine/
?!?daHell I do with my shocked face?!? Connect the dots and follow the money.
My shocked face, too. How do you spell that word again? FRAUD?
More:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/mysterious-company-s-coronavirus-papers-top-medical-journals-may-be-unraveling
BUT… BUT… BUT, IT’S SCIENCE… AND EMPIRIC DATA!!! IT’S ALWAYS RIGHT!!!