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That's a quote.. it wasn't me doing the shouting.
I've been listening to a few videos by Doctor Vong and this guy talks about the reality of coronavirus. The death rate will increase. Hospitals are at capacity, medical staff are working without proper protective equipment and are falling to the virus. Doctors are dying.
He states percentages of risk factors for people who are obese, have hypertension, are diabetic and have respiratory disease. Those on ventilators have an average stay of 2 weeks. He gives details how the virus attacks the lungs and his explanations (with diagrams) are very clear and easy to understand.
Worth a listen.

I saw this last night 3/30/2020

....At the prestigious Vierk Institute, we of course specialize in the study of severe behavioral syndromes affecting reason and judgment, not to mention understanding, and the inability not to piss up the old kilt, ---such as TD-HD Syndromes. But we have a great infectious disease division as well, responsible for proving, among other things, that wanton unprotected anonymous sex by male homosexuals was the largest initial factor in the rapid spread of HIV-AIDs, as to innocent little Black girls, in sickle cell disease crises, and others, via the fago tainted blood supply. But I digress. Based on our vast experience as medical detectives, while we agree that this recent world problem is of course largely caused by the virus known as Novid 19, there are also strong factors that coincidentally correspond to the recent US presidential primary debates. It seems that so much PANDERing makes many sick, leading to vomiting (EMESIS), especially in those with preexisting conditions. This, we show, lowers the ability of the immune system to fight off these nasty little vuckers. Now that these global health organizations have finally declared that a pandemic exists, as of today, we really think other names apply. We suggest PANDEREMESIS, to better fully reflect the etiology. As with TD-HDS, we are hot on the tails of a cure.

Race to find COVID-19 treatments accelerates
In Section: IN DEPTH
WHO launches megatrial to test repurposed drugs and experimental drug candidates
By Kai Kupferschmidt and Jon Cohen

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

With cases of the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) climbing steeply everywhere from Madrid to Manhattan , overwhelming one hospital after another and pushing the global death toll past 17,000, the sprint to find treatments has dramatically accelerated. Drugs that stop the novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), could save the lives of severely ill patients, protect health care workers and others at high risk of infection, and reduce the time patients spend in hospital beds.

The World Health Organization (WHO) last week announced a major study to compare treatment strategies in a streamlined clinical trial design that doctors around the world can join. Other trials are also underway; all told, at least 12 potential COVID-19 treatments are being tested, including drugs already in use for HIV and malaria, experimental compounds that work against an array of viruses in animal experiments, and antibody-rich plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19. More than one strategy may prove its worth, and effective treatments may work at different stages of infection, says Thomas Gallagher, a coronavirus researcher at Loyola University Chicago’s Health Sciences Campus. “The big challenge may be at the clinical end determining when to use the drugs.”

Researchers want to avoid repeating the mistakes of the 2014–16 West African Ebola epidemic, in which willy-nilly experiments proliferated but randomized clinical trials were set up so late that many ended up not recruiting enough patients. “The lesson is you start trials now,” says Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. “Make it a part of what you’re doing so that you can move rapidly to have the most efficacious interventions come to the front.”

To that end, WHO on 20 March announced the launch of SOLIDARITY, an unprecedented, coordinated push to collect robust scientific data rapidly during a pandemic. The study, which could include many thousands of patients in dozens of countries, has emphasized simplicity so that even hospitals overwhelmed by an onslaught of COVID-19 patients can participate. WHO’s website will randomize patients to local standard care or one of the four drug regimens, using only ones available at the patient’s hospital. Physicians will simply record the day the patient left the hospital or died, the duration of the hospital stay, and whether the patient required oxygen or ventilation. “That’s all,” says Ana Maria Henao Restrepo, a medical officer at WHO’s Department of Immunization Vaccines and Biologicals.

The design is not blinded: Patients will know they received a drug candidate, and that could cause a placebo effect, Henao Restrepo concedes. But it is in the interest of speed, she says. “We are doing this in record time.” The agency hopes to start to enroll patients this week.

Rather than taking years to develop and test compounds from scratch, WHO and others want to repurpose drugs that are already approved for other diseases and have acceptable safety profiles. They’re also looking at experimental drugs that have performed well in animal studies against the other two deadly coronaviruses, which cause SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). And they are focusing on compounds plentiful enough to treat a substantial number of patients.

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Lol first toilet paper then hand soap now Illinois seems to panic closing schools for two weeks and all restaurants and bars (taverns)and the states regulated casinos are also forced to close even Walmart limiting hours 6am to 11pm on 24 hour stores guess I'll crawl back in bed and wait this out

I found this interesting on CNN tonight. They interviewed a couple people who had direct experience with the Corona virus.

This one younger lady, probably in her early 30's...she was diagnosed with it and she said that she had lost her sense of smell and taste. The host commented that she had heard that before as well.

Then they interviewed a few nurses from the elderly home out in Washington State...I think, or maybe Oregon. But anyway, they said that the patients with it, their eyes turned red. One lady (nurse) said, it was like they put red eye liner on.

Anyway...just a few things I have not heard before other than just tonight.

Stay safe all.

... US president Wilson, professor and idea man behind his 14 points for peace Great War armistice, embryo seed for the UN, was reportedly a victim of the 1918 (Spanish) influenza---epidemic in Gay Paris at the time. We think of the flu, as with this current novid 19, as having many physical signs and symptoms. But in some cases, it affects the ability to think, even if no frank severe encephalitis is fully present. President Wilson's usually forceful personality, influential in a somewhat generous treaty proposal with Germany, apparently was in no shape for later argument with French politician Clemenceau (known as the tiger), who wanted a pound of flesh from the German broken, starving and demoralized state. Witnesses say that Wilson was shaky, confused and anything but a match for the French. Sort of like Creepy Joe will be in debates with President Trump. But I digress. When the final plan was signed in Vesailles, some 20 miles away, the already badly beaten Germans were skewered with impossible war debt, humiliating other terms, and almost total demilitarisation. Most historians see a direct connection with the rise of Hitler and Nazism over the following 20 years. Wish I could make this stuff up.

So far, I've seen more than a dozen videos explaining the best way to avoid (any) virus is to frequently wash your hands for at least 20 seconds. Yet, every example has the person opening the faucet, washing then touching the faucet again to shut off the water!

Washing... The most important part of the equation was negated when you touch the faucet you contaminated 20 seconds earlier!

If you don't believe me, try this experiment. Drip something like mustard or ketchup on your fingers and smear it around. Go to the sink and wash. Shut off the water and dry your hands with a towel... inspect the towel. Did some of the mustard from your 'clean hands' make it to the towel?

Paper towels are great as you toss them when you are done. But in a family environment, you've probably got kids and parents sharing the same cloth towel. Pass the virus please...

Somewhere along the way washing the faucet handle/lever should be considered before turning off the water.

Washing your hands... That's the way to do it, if you do it correctly!

NO ALCOHOL BEVERAGES
NO TOBACCO
NO DRUGS

DRINK MILK
HONEY
GARLIC
GINGER

APPLY VICKS OIL OR EUCALYPTUS OIL OR EVERGREEN OIL ON FEET , HEAD CHEST , BACK AND HANDS.