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O5. Train of thought / dream theater
...3...Freight train / Jackson..) ball point radio.)
O2.. locomotive breath / Tull
..... the numeric code of PoP.....[ Psalm 9 / trouble
NY o.*...this might hurt / 9 inch nails
......8 days a week / Beatles
7 churches / possessed
.....Gold mine / take 6
5th Dimension / byrds
....4 horsemen / Metallica
Eli's Coming / 3 dog night
Until the end of the world / U 2....[ Mt.28...
First strike is deadly / Testament
0. Saved by zero / the Fixx
X./ Los Angeles.
*...not yet official.
1 hour 48 minutes to lift off
Is it possible that Trump was hinting about something he might know, but it is a hidden technology/medicine?
or
Is it that he was really talking about us injecting Clorox in our bodies? ...or when he was talking about introducing the inside of our bodies to a light.
Of course, those sound like ridiculous ideas....anybody...a 4 year old would know better, which makes me wonder.
Happy Friday all.
All hail our simpleton. I mean "so-called" president conman.
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..."to make something with a lot of money is easy. But to make something out of nothing - now
that is really sum thing.." - Baldassare Forestiere
...z e r o / imagine dragons...[ rev. 12:7
Tell her, NO / zombies.......12:8...but they did not prevail
Here without you / 3 doors down
Nothing compares 2 U / O'Connor
Still hvnt find what lookn 4 / U 2
No woman, No cry / bob & the wail....
..total.) the Garden / zero 7.
A R ] .. nobody knows / Axe
Saved by zero / the Fixx..) ) .. holding on to words
..that teach me...eYe will conquer space around me..
So maybe I'll win..) saved by zero...
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3 0 9 0. Yah sevens.
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The bulldozer song / new sky kids
... dirt / Alice in chains
..Final Separation / bulldozer
Midtown Tunnel Vision // Rainbow
.. beginning to see the Light / vlvt. Underground
Cause of death / Obituary
..Total.} the INTERNET / Hive Mind
A R ] ..the Funeral / band of horses
....regenerated in the grave / bulldozer
Tunnel / 3rd day...... standby....4 more music to wake the dead....
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..we salute you..
...start me UP / rolling Stones
Family affair / sly & family stone
... another brick in the wall pt.2 / p Floyd
This is the One /. stone roses
...rocky Mtn. Way / walsh
Rosetta stoned / Tool
...total.} Rock of Ages / A M Toplady [ 1775.
AR ] why should the Father bother ? / petra
( 2 call us his children....?
...Y should the spirit ..hear it...when we pray...
( it's all because of what the son has done....)
3 0 9 1...[ 3068 & 3467...yahu- yasha / yahusha.
.- 2042. .a mountain
1 0 4 9. House of Rock ) beth-Tsur....Jn.3:17...Psalm 18.
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I've used that phrase often and tonight hpylady_ suggested it on Jim's blog about virus being carried on tiny particles found in air pollution.
The concept of a canary in a coal mine is because miners had died as the levels of colorless odorless carbon monoxide, methane or other gases that proved to be fatal to the miners. They had no means of detecting these hazardous/toxic gasses and found that canaries would quickly sicken when subjected to that kind of environment allowing the miners to escape unharmed.
Using canaries became an 'early-warning' system for the workers deep inside the mines.
It wasn't until years later they carried compressed air breathing systems and carbon monoxide detectors to protect miners.
The birds were no longer needed but the saying is still around...
The idiom/metaphor 'Canary in a coal mine' also relates to other things, such as financial indicators. For example: Mortgage borrowers in this coronavirus pandemic could be the canary in the mine to a foreclosure crisis.
Today from CNN;
In response to:
(CNN)This may be the new normal for quite a while.
The US may have to endure social distancing measures -- such as stay-at-home orders and school closures -- until 2022, researchers projected on Tuesday. That is, unless, a vaccine becomes quickly available.
That's according to researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who published their findings in the journal Science on Tuesday. Those findings directly contradict research being touted by the White House that suggests the pandemic may stop this summer.
The team at the Harvard School of Public Health used what's known about Covid-19 and other coronaviruses to create possible scenarios of the current pandemic.
"Intermittent distancing may be required into 2022 unless critical care capacity is increased substantially or a treatment or vaccine becomes available," they wrote in their report. "Even in the event of apparent elimination, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should be maintained since a resurgence in contagion could be possible as late as 2024."
The Harvard team's projections also indicate that the virus would come roaring back fairly quickly once restrictions were lifted.
"If intermittent distancing is the approach that's chosen, it may be necessary to do it for several years, which is obviously a very long time," Dr. Marc Lipsitch, an author on the study and an epidemiology professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, told reporters.
Another important factor: Whether people become immune to the new coronavirus after they have been infected. That's not yet known.
Potential challenges include finding a reliable test to determine who has antibodies for the coronavirus, establishing the level of immunity conferred by previous infection and how long it lasts, and the capacity of overstretched health systems to carry out reliable, widespread antibody tests in the general population.
There's also the difficult social questions around immunity certificates, which have been floated as a possibility in the UK. Would they create a kind of two-tier society, where those who have them can return to a more normal life, while others remain locked down?
The study researchers say they are aware that such prolonged distancing, even if intermittent, would likely have "profoundly negative economic, social, and educational consequences."
They hope their research will help identify likely trajectories of the epidemic under alternative approaches, identify complementary ways to fight it, and to spur further thinking about ways to get the pandemic under control.
Though coronavirus cases in the US have been soaring, social distancing appears to be effective.
Social distancing is "one of the most powerful weapons" against COVID-19, said Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"If we can just maximize that social distancing, we can limit this virus's ability," he said earlier this month.
States across the country have issued stay-at-home orders, allowing only for essential errands or tasks.
Penalties for breaking the order vary by state. In Maine, the penalty for breaking the order can be up to six months in jail and up to a $1,000 fine.
In Florida, a pastor was arrested last month for continuing to hold large services and is charged with unlawful assembly and violation of public health emergency rules, both second-degree misdemeanors.
This week, states on the East and West coasts announced they are forming their own regional pacts to work together on how to reopen after the stay-at-home orders.
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Massachusetts each plan to name a public health and economic official to a regional working group.
West Coast states of California, Washington and Oregon also announced they are joining forces in a plan to begin incremental release of stay-at-home orders.
From US edition of The Conversation (French science publication) ;
In response to:
A small trial finds that hydroxychloroquine is not effective for treating coronavirus
April 3, 2020 8.40am EDT Updated April 3, 2020 10.10am EDT
On Saturday the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of two antimalarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and a related medication, chloroquine, for emergency use to treat COVID-19. The drugs were touted by President Trump as a “game changer” for COVID-19.
However, a study just published in a French medical journal provides new evidence that hydroxychloroquine does not appear to help the immune system clear the coronavirus from the body. The study comes on the heels of two others - one in France and one in China - that reported some benefits in the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for COVID-19 patients who didn’t have severe symptoms of the virus.
I am a medicinal chemist who has specialized in discovery and development of antiviral drugs for the past 30 years, and I have been actively working on coronaviruses for the past seven. I am among a number of researchers who are concerned that this drug has been given too much of a high priority before there is enough evidence to show it is indeed effective.
There are already other clinical studies that showed it is not effective against COVID-19 as well as several other viruses. And, more importantly, it can have dangerous side effects, as well as giving people false hope. The latter has led to widespread shortages of hydroxychloroquine for patients who need it to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, the indications for which it was originally approved.
The idea that the combination of hydroxychloroquine with an antibiotic drug, azithromycin, was effective against COVID-19 gained more attention after a study published on March 17. This study described a trial of 80 patients carried out by Philippe Gautret in Marseille, France. Although some of their results appeared to be encouraging, it should also be noted that most of their patients only had mild symptoms. Furthermore, 85% of the patients didn’t even have a fever – one of the major telltale symptoms of the virus, thus suggesting that these patients likely would have naturally cleared the virus without any intervention.
In another study, posted on medRxiv, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, Chinese scientists from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, in Wuhan, China, gave hydroxychloroquine to patients with only mild infections who were free of medical issues, similar to the Gautret study. The results showed that the 31 patients who received the drug showed a lessening of their symptoms 24 hours earlier than patients in the control group. In addition, pneumonia symptoms improved in 25 of the 31 patients versus 17 of 31 in the control group. As noted in several of the comments associated with the manuscript, there are issues related to the translation of the paper, thus clouding interpretations of some of the results. The paper also appears to focus more on pneumonia than COVID-19. However, these issues may be cleared up or addressed once the paper finishes the peer-review process.
But two other studies have conflicting results.
A second French group, led by Jean-Michel Molina, has now tested the hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin combination treatment in 11 patients at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, France, and their results were strikingly different.
Like the Marseille study, the Molina trial was also a small pilot study. Molina and colleagues used the same dosing regimen as Gautret. In contrast, however, to the Gautret study, eight of the 11 patients had underlying health conditions, and 10 of 11 had fevers and were quite ill at the time the dosing began.
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