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Post by Seabass » Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:07 pm

NineBerry wrote:
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I think the first person might suffer from Tourette.
He was apparently arrested after the flight for drunk and disorderly conduct or something. Also, in the full video, right before the growling, he yelled at Joe Biden. And of course he told an Asian couple they don't belong here.

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Post by Tero » Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:08 pm

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Post by JimC » Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:14 pm

There have been suggestions in many places about a link between poverty and the risk of dying from covid:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-10/ ... /100448564
There were almost four times as many COVID-19 deaths among Australians in the nation's poorest areas than in the wealthiest places, a new report into the health impacts of the first year of the pandemic has found.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report examined ABS data dividing the Australian population into five groups — from least to most advantaged, taking income, education and employment into account.

It compared that data with COVID-19 death statistics from 2020 and found those in the least advantaged group were four times more likely to die than the most advantaged.

When researchers controlled for age, they found Australians in the lowest socio-economic group were still 2.5 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those in the wealthiest areas.

AIHW epidemiology adviser Lynelle Moon said the findings were crucial for health policymakers as they continued to navigate the crisis.

"It's certainly a really important consideration in managing the pandemic, and it's certainly consistent with evidence from other countries," Dr Moon said.

"We know that COVID-19 is very infectious and very severe, but we also know it affects some groups more than others, so that needs to be taken into account in our strategies for managing the virus."
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Post by JimC » Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:27 pm

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-10/ ... /100447842

And, amazingly, none of these covid treatments involve horse de-wormer!
As the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues across parts of Australia, those on the frontline now have a growing arsenal of drugs for treating patients.

In the early days of the pandemic, those who contracted the virus received the then very few options for treating symptoms.

Since then, vaccines for the virus have been developed, and they remain the most important line of defence against the virus.

However, hospitals now also have a number of effective treatments for those experiencing the illness.

Professor Joshua Davis is an infectious diseases specialist working at Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital in New South Wales.

"Probably the most effective one, and most easily available, is the drug called dexamethasone, which is a steroid or anti-inflammatory medicine and that's now routinely given to people who are hospitalised with COVID, if they're bad enough to need oxygen," Professor Davis said.

"There's a number of other drugs, too, that are used, including remdesivir, tocilizumab and others, and all of these have strong evidence from large clinical trials."

While drugs such as remdesivir and dexamethasone — which were developed for fighting other illnesses and effectively "re-purposed" for treating COVID-19 — there are other, newer treatments that are showing promise.

The nation's medical regulator approved sotrovimab in August. It is a monoclonal antibody therapy that mimics the body's immune system and blocks or slows the virus, to stop it replicating in the body.

While the federal government ordered an initial 7,700 doses of the drug, Royal Melbourne Hospital infectious diseases physician Dr Steven Tong is among those now putting it to use.

"Sotrovimab is most useful early on in disease, within the first five days of symptom onset," Dr Tong said.

"It's been shown to reduce someone's risk of hospitalisation if it's given early in the disease course."

With large pockets of the population still unvaccinated, or only partly immunised, experts argue new drugs such, as sotrovimab, will become increasingly important for treating people early on in their illness.

"In ASCOT, we are testing another newish drug, called nafamostat, that's been used in Korea and Japan for other purposes," he said.

"In the test tube, it's been shown to be highly, highly potent against the SARS COV-2 virus, so we're hoping that actually using that in people will also directly target the virus and stop it from replicating, improving people's outcomes."

However, as has been the case with vaccines, supply of new drugs is limited.

Will vaccination become less important? The short answer is no.

Dr Tong stressed that vaccines remained the first line of defence, despite the progress on new treatment options.

"We'd much prefer people not be coming into the hospital, even if we had super-duper treatments for these patients," Dr Tong said.

"What we really want is to prevent people from getting sick, preventing transmission.

"Saying that, there will be some people who don't respond well to the vaccines and, even then, we know vaccines might be 90-95 per cent effective.

"So, regardless of our vaccines, we need better treatments."
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Sep 09, 2021 11:45 pm

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Post by Tero » Fri Sep 10, 2021 1:16 am

Coughing lady gets harassed..and that is all.
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Post by Tero » Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:40 am

"We can't shut down because people need to float down the river in inner tubes while drinking beer."
It's their icone to pick them and the tubes and canoes and people up. In old schol buses. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/us/ozark ... index.html
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Post by Hermit » Fri Sep 10, 2021 7:07 am

Fighting words by Bella Fortuna at Facebook
To vaccine refusers: No, you do not have a “right” to patronize any private business. You do not have a “right” to employment. You do not have a “right” to travel. You do not have a “right” to eat in restaurants. You do not have a “right” to be on private property. You do not have a “right” to social media access. You do not have a “right” to threaten others. You do not have a “right” to spread lies and misinformation. You do not have a right to sicken and kill other people.

Your freedom ends where you infringe on the freedoms of others. Your actions have consequences. If you refuse vaccination for the good of public and personal health, your world will get smaller. The rest of us have lives we want to get on with and you need to get out of the way. You will deserve the ridicule and shunning you get, because you are ridiculous and selfish.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by NineBerry » Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:04 am

Tero wrote:
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Coughing lady gets harassed..and that is all.
https://www.1011now.com/2021/09/09/linc ... r-cougher/
She got fired. There was a report in the local newspaper today because she works for SAP who have their headquarters over here.

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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:27 am

Bet she's sorry now.
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Post by rainbow » Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:15 am

pErvinalia wrote:
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Bet she's sorry now.
Unlikely. She will probably get crowdfunding as a martyr of Deep-State repression.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:11 am

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Post by Tero » Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:37 am

I have one book edited by Fauci
“At the core of Tony’s popularity is that people intuit that this is a man who is speaking the truth and will not let anything stand in the way,” says John Hoffman, the co-director of a new documentary, Fauci. “Tony is the signal amid the noise. People are able to sense that there’s a lot of noise and their ears are trying to find the signal and Tony is the signal.”

A yard sign in support of Anthony Fauci in Rockport, Massachusetts
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The film begins with a split screen: the Fauci of today and the Fauci of four decades ago walking the same journey to his desk. It is a portrait of a man whose career has spanned seven US presidents and been bookended by the two great pandemics of the past century: HIV/Aids and Covid.
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Post by Tero » Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:18 pm

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County cases flattening on two week days. The Tue peak was due to the long weekend.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Seabass » Sat Sep 11, 2021 4:52 am

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