captainmorgan
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Things are out of control in India, over a billion people to infect and create variants, not good.
Pandemic 2020
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captainmorgan
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A hospital in India yesterday had a major oxygen leak and it killed a bunch of covid patients on ventilators.
captainmorgan
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Organized crime is selling fake covid vaccines around the world, human beings are horrible.
DIY-HP-LED
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Some are, Donald demonstrated that a psychopath can do a lot of damage, but so can others who don't see their victims, are driven and blinded by greed, like these guys and some shareholders, like those who own Newscorp stock.
captainmorgan
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Confirmed cases are always only a fraction of all cases as not every infected person is tested and diagnosed. The question is, how large of a fraction? The IHME model for India suggests that the number of total cases is 29-times higher than the number of confirmed cases. That would be 6.76 million cases a day now.
captainmorgan
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The death toll in India could get unimaginable and produce many bad variants that could restart waves in vaccinated countries.
potroastV2
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I'm gonna keep checking your posts to see when I can peek my head out from under the covers.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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He has a talent for finding the worst news.I'm gonna keep checking your posts to see when I can peek my head out from under the covers.
No one come close.
DIY-HP-LED
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Let's see if I can top @captainmorgan fer being a glum chum. Congratulations America yer growing yer own variants now.He has a talent for finding the worst news.
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New, antibody-resistant coronavirus variant discovered in Texas (sfchronicle.com)
New, antibody-resistant coronavirus variant discovered in Texas
Researchers at Texas A&M University this week reported a new strain of the coronavirus called the BV-1.
The BV-1 variant was found in a saliva sample taken from a student who lives off campus and tested positive for the coronavirus on March 5, the university announced Monday.
Researchers have not found the strain in other individuals but called its genetic make-up “concerning” because it may be resistant to antibodies.
“We do not at present know the full significance of this variant, but it has a combination of mutations similar to other internationally notifiable variants of concern,” Ben Neuman, chief virologist at the university’s Global Health Research Complex, said in a statement.
He added: “This variant combines genetic markers separately associated with rapid spread, severe disease and high resistance to neutralizing antibodies.”
Researchers said the student tested positive for the virus for about a month, “indicating the variant may cause a longer lasting infection than is typical of COVID-19 for adults ages 18-24.”
Scientists said they have alerted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about BV-1, which is named after its origin in the Brazos Valley region of Texas.
captainmorgan
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DIY likes to post the puppy dog and rainbow end of the spectrum, I bring a little balance with the end of the world stuff lol.
V256.420
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He's so cute at times. I want to pet him and give him a belly rub
DIY-HP-LED
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Sometimes the old dog has teeth and takes a bite out of the morons around here who try to kill folks with misinformation and bullshit. In the current situation there ain't a thing in the world wrong with trying to scare the shit out of people and shun them if they won't play ball to save lives. We will see how it goes, but it looks like the hospitals might be full of young people and kids soon, along with the adult fools who put them there. If that happens you will see the social heat turned up on those who refuse the vaccination over bullshit to white hot. It will be awhile before children are immunized and if variants start sickening and even killing them, parents will shun those in their lives who wanna be stupid and put their kids at risk. In Brazil over 1300 infants have died of their variant and the hospitals are full of younger people.He's so cute at times. I want to pet him and give him a belly rub
This pandemic is world wide and an unspeakable tragedy is unfolding in the developing world that might come back to bite us all with new variants. Kudos to @captainmorgan for bringing awareness to this and our ultimate duty to help these people and the whole world to put this pandemic behind us and we will, but it might take a few years and some bucks. Canada will have over 700 million vaccine doses left over when our back orders come through, enough to nearly inoculate the entire continent of South America, much less Brazil and I figure that's where they will be going, if Uncle Sam doesn't get there first.
DIY-HP-LED
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For a reliable update of the global covid situation this fellow has been supplying them since the start, he has a PHD in public health.
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High death numbers in India
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High death numbers in India
CunningCanuk
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I dread checking this thread when he posts. Lol.He has a talent for finding the worst news.
injinji
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Today the wife and I were walking into a store when we realized we had forgot our masks in the car. We've both had both our shots, so we decided to go on in without them. As we were waiting in the checkout I was looking around at the other folks in line. About half had on mask. I whispered to the wife, "these people are going to mistake up for Republicans."
hanimmal
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I think I am just going to go pandemic rules for the rest of my life.
You would have thought by now that with however many tens of millions of people every year that catch the flu that we would have figured out to minimize indoor activities as a society.
But who knows, maybe it is electricity and being able to be indoors with huge amounts of people that is causing this to be a issue. So maybe there are reasons we didn't figure this out a long time ago.
Fogdog
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OK, you take my teenagers then. I've had it with them in my bubble.
They are scheduled for the vaccine in a couple of weeks. Happy, happy, happy.
hanimmal
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https://thebestschools.org/features/best-boarding-schools-in-us/
Grats on getting them vaccinated! That must be a relief.
Fogdog
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8 weeks feels like a long time but just in time for summer. I can start planning camping trips again. In-person schooling can start this summer too. I can go back to working full time. If feels like a weight has been lifted.
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