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Virus vaccine trials on BCG look promising but no quick fix

If I bang on about this subject - well, I am in Europe. And the figures just in Europe are a bit astonishing.

Italy (low BCG inoculation) 199 414 cases to date, 26977 deaths
Spain (low BCG inoculation) 229 422 cases to date, 23521 deaths
Portugal (medium BCG inoculation) 24027 cases to date, 928 deaths
Greece (high BCG inoculation) 2534 cases to date, 136 deaths

Not that it proves anything, of course.

Virus vaccine trials on BCG look promising but no quick fix

It would take a fair amount of courage to deliberately volunteer to expose yourself for a trial

Virus vaccine trials on BCG look promising but no quick fix

Mercedes is that another trial? there are already 4000 medical staff in the Murdoch Australian trial - Oz leading the world in this one

RE: Virus vaccines update

Not bypassing your blog Jim but as you hadn't mentioned the multiple and huge trials going on an existing vaccine, and there is such a lot of data, I have raised my own blog. I'm not piggybacking, I had blogged on the same vaccine before.

RE: The Isolation Blog

Oh, it was on youtube but that shows a name as well plus can lead to other youtube videos I have up so I deliberately copied it to Google pics and double-checked but it didn't show ME it would show my name

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thankyouthankyouthankyou

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Hahahahaha Gypsy did a spectacular one a couple years ago which was WAYYYYYYYYYY better but that one did make me laugh.

Now yours -

RE: The Isolation Blog

Commenting to celebrate the wonderful fantastic news we will be allowed out for walks and exercise from early May! Not that I am passionately into walking, I'm not one of nature's pedestrians, but it is the first big crack in our draconian lockdown since mid March.

One - foot - in - front - of - the - other? Well, I'm sure it's like riding a bike, it will come back to me.

Masks must be worn. I hope banana masks will be accepted here too, they look fun and far more sensibly disposable than most.

RE: The anything but Trump blog

There's a serious possibility our lockdown (Spain) may be lifted enough for us to go out soon for a daily walk or exercise

RE: Are You Enjoying Your First “Test Drive” of Socialist America?

It must have been a relief to a hard-pressed government when you all returned your $1200 payment with a curt NO THANK YOU

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Pat, I am a doofus, started to write how politely I too expressed my appreciation of noodle soup, was interrupted, and forgot to finish

I really am starting to worry a bit about my brain.

Oh, clapping time, back shortly!

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Crose, out of the corner, and dancing, please

Merc, I do get taken aback when a younger man, even a stranger, walks through a door ahead of me, and downright annoyed when they leave it to bang in my face I'm also quite surprised when a man doesn't walk on the outside when we're walking along a road. Those were politenesses I grew up with, I have to remind myself they aren't being deliberately rude.

Fargo, on the few occasions it's happened in my life I have to consciously think about not doing what is so absolutely automatic I do remember a friend's absolute mortification when she was on a boating holiday and had flushed (despite the sign) what was guaranteed to be flushable and turned out not to be. She was the only person who could have flushed it so severely embarrassed when the boat's plumbing had to be dredged.

Red, am I going crackers, did you not spend some of your working life in the army? you take care too

Niceguy, you're quite right. It is actually good manners for a man to step first into the elevator (in case the floor gives way ) and to walk down the stairs first, (in case the lady trips in her heels and needs a soft landing )

Prince Philip holds that when a man opens the car door for his wife it is either a new car or a new wife.

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end the restaurant first? enter first.

I knew my brain was melting.

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AI, I think I need to number my examples and remove my questions

Jim, you definitely had a better memory for belts / names / faces than they were used to

CRose, that wouldn't sort any of my examples, I'm editing this blog haha

RE: As a public service

I can't help but think that anyone who would be stupid enough to drink or inject themselves with disinfectant isn't going to be a particular loss to the gene pool. Let them get on with it, Darwin awards all round, and condolences to the family.

I also think the man should be allowed to have public events with as many of his fanatical followers crammed together as want to be there. Yes yes we are our brother's keepers, yes yes ask not for whom the bell tolls, but in the long term, stubborn stupidity is a trait to breed out of the human species, not protect.

RE: 2 People with totally different views on life - Getting together

There are core values which 2 people have to share. If they are indifferent to the things which matter most to you, or the other way round, there's no future. Having different opinions on less important things is good.

I will wait with extreme interest to see if this blog becomes an interesting debate or heads get bitten off.

RE: The Isolation Blog

Talking of isolation - not all see it is something that fits into their lifestyle needs and desires.

Safe mode

Pretty much the final update on this and many thanks to all who contributed suggestions: the morning problem has gone, but the PC hit another wobbly around 8 pm last night I shall just live with it for the time being and take up improving books, or needlework, for the hour when the gremlins are partying in my computer.

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Cheers, Rob, that is a link about W10? and I have a separate set of problems with W10 At least with W7 one CAN switch off updates. What drives me bananas with my W10 laptop is that 90% of the time when I fire it up it locks itself into an update for at LEAST 10 minutes. WTF? To me a laptop is something you carry around with you to have instant quick access to your files and the internet. I suppose only a matter of time before I turn on my phone to make a quick call and it primly informs me to wait while it busies itself with other things.

Lovecanbereal, yes, agreed! and Merc, how on earth did you override??? I have set my laptop so it is supposed to update when I log out, not when I log in. It is also not supposed to do any updates before 4 in the afternoon, when I have finished working for the day. As far as I know, I have set every setting I can re updates and yet - switch on, and the little twirly thing starts to circle and orders me not to switch off until it has strutted its stuff. As a result I hardly ever use it anymore and resent it very much when I do. I remember when computers were designed to meet our needs, not the other way round.

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Red, you and me both on tech stuff enjoy your books and hope you are keeping up the baking I'm finding I'm getting quite experimental with cooking and some results are - let's call them interesting

Oh and I noticed I am going a bit stir-crazy but hey. I'll get used to it.

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I definitely think that comment bears repeating on the Tantric blog

RE: The Isolation Blog

And no, I think the media has raised its own bar higher than anyone could have believed possible, even after seeing how hysterical it could get over mere politics

RE: The Isolation Blog

Z - would you have wanted to tell millions of people they couldn't go on holiday? They did, after the virus was world news, and they had to go home again because their holiday countries didn't want them and they didn't want to stay anyway. Once one infected person (late in 2019) walked into one airport and boarded one plane, this was already in motion. It was a Thing long before it was an Official Thing.

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Merc, fingers tightly crossed!

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I think we need recipes

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Rob, cheers, I'm genuinely impressed by the level of expertise coming up and the helpful advice

I'm going to get through work tomorrow before I try anything, that way I have time before Wednesday to undo any idiot errors I make - and those who say to err is human, to really stuff it up you need a computer, were talking about people like me.

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Molly, including your own starter? did you take a pic before you ate it? My ex husband built a computer from bits and pieces (jigsaw puzzles for computer geeks) and if your bread took that long I applaud your patience

RE: The Isolation Blog

Chancer I had a cold, a slight fever, and a cough which lingered for WEEKS in January. I'm also pretty keen to get an antibody test

RE: The Isolation Blog

Chancer, I just looked that up - copy-paste from healthline.com - both Covid19 and SARS are coronaviruses, I did not know that


Coronaviruses are a very diverse family of viruses. They have a large host range, which includes humans. However, the greatest amount of coronavirus diversity is seen in bats.

Coronaviruses have spiky projections on their surface that look like crowns. Corona means “crown” in Latin — and that’s how this family of viruses got their name.

Most of the time, human coronaviruses cause mild respiratory illnesses like the common cold. In fact, four types of human coronaviruses cause 10 to 30 percent of upper respiratory tract infections in adults.

A new type of coronavirus can emerge when an animal coronavirus develops the ability to transmit a disease to humans. When germs are transmitted from an animal to a human, it’s called zoonotic transmission.

Coronaviruses that make the jump to human hosts can cause serious illness. This can be due to a variety of factors, particularly humans’ lack of immunity to the new virus. Here are some examples of such coronaviruses:

SARS-CoV, the virus that caused SARS, which was first identified in 2003
MERS-CoV, the virus that caused Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which was first identified in 2012
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, which was first identified in 2019

RE: The Isolation Blog

Luke, safe to assume you're not into watersports? No idea if this virus is going to do a SARS and spontaneously vanish, or hang around for years, I half hope to get it now, as soon as possible, and hope for a mild attack and some immunity for the future, because I can't face the thought of lockdown indefinitely, or every winter And also half hope to avoid it forever, of course.