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Non-Political Coronavirus Thread

Rafi said:
Interesting. That’s not the case in medicine. Standard medical journals do not charge for publishing. Most now offer an open-access option (for a price) and most charge for color figures, but the majority of medical publishing is at no charge to the authors.

Predatory journals are something else. I get about 5-10 emails per day from them, and the phrasing of their emails is often quite entertaining.
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Probably because the medical field has a lot more money than conservation/wildlife management/ecological statistics/ornithology.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
Well that doesn't help because it isn't a realistic option. That is like saying we have to wait for Santa Claus to show up before we should reopen the economy.
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Except that Santa Claus isn't real and testing and contact tracing are possible with a little bit of effort, so actually a pretty dumb analogy.
 
stugotz said:
The problem is we created an economy where most of the "service" jobs are just to cater to the needs of rich folks. Uber drives rich folks to and from the bars. Restaurants let the rich folks be lazy and not cook for themselves. Live venues are entertainment for those that can afford it. Now that the rich folk don't want to be near other people, all those jobs go away, for now. But they'll come back. 10 course meals will be $800 instead of $400 to afford putting all the servers in hazmat suits and giving the rich separate rooms to eat in. Or that breathalyzer thing.
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Completely disagree with this description. The service jobs don’t cater solely to the needs of “rich” folks at all. Plenty of service jobs include fast food restaurants, chain restaurants, and family owned restaurants. Uber isn’t solely for the rich. Sure some part of society may be excluded from some of these functions but characterizing the service industry as rich serving makes no sense.
 
17 year old girl died after atending a "COVID party" at her church.
https://floridacovidvictims.com/2020/07/05/carsyn-leigh-davis/

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement detailed the last two weeks of Carsyn’s life in a public Medical Examiner’s report.
On June 10, Carysn’s mom, Carole, took Carsyn, a 16-year-old girl who was immuno-compromised with a history of health issues (including cancer), to a “COVID party” at her church, where more than 100 children without masks were in attendance.
Her mom, who is not a doctor, then prescribed her daughter azithromycin, an anti-bacterial drug with no known benefits for fighting COVID-19, for several days. During that “treatment period,” Carsyn developed headaches, sinus pressure and a cough.
A few days later, without taking her to a doctor, her mother would later report that her daughter “looked gray” on June 19, so she put Carsyn on her grandfather’s oxygen machine.
When that still did nothing to combat the cough, the headaches, the sinus infection, the fever, her mother started giving her hydroxychloroquine – a dangerous drug that clinical studies have shown makes a person MORE likely to die of COVID, but was recklessly touted by President Trump for months as a supposed “cure.”
The dangers of using hydroxychloroquine have been known and made public since April.
Carsyn immediately worsened and was finally taken to medical professionals where she admitted to the Pediatric ICU.
When she couldn’t breathe on her own, her mother declined intubation.
The hospital began plasma therapy on June 20-21, but the damage to Carsyn’s cardio-respiratory system was too severe and she was orderd to be intubated on June 22. She died the next day.
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I hope she is being charged with murder. Every part of that story is horrific parenting.
 
I would not want any parent to have to watch their child die. That pos did everything wrong the entire way. What an awful person. She will live with her actions for the rest of her life. I hope her other children get better care going forward.

She should be charged. She should lose whatever license and job that allowed her access to prescription drugs.
 
I know this is the non-political thread but ... if you read that article it says the mom is big time in QAnon and other nut-job conspiracy theories. Obviously the main problem is that the mom is an idiot; however, it looks like the intentional disinformation and falsehoods put out by the POTUS and the media that supports him likely played a role in her decision making. That poor daughter never really had a chance. Hopefully the mom gets a sore throat and drinks a lot of bleach.
 
PhDeac said:
17 year old girl died after atending a "COVID party" at her church.
https://floridacovidvictims.com/2020/07/05/carsyn-leigh-davis/
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Two things:

1. If true, the mom is an idiot and you can't vaccinate from bad parenting.
2. There is quite a bit of creative license taken between the actual medical examiner's report and the write-up from the obviously slanted website that Ph posted. But it's on the internet, so it is all true.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Yep using jersey cotton masks as well.

A NYT article yesterday said that almost 40% of the workforce making under 40k a year lost their job in March (whether short term or permanent). This is going to set the economy back a decade between the quickened gap it creates between the (diminishing in size) upper class and everybody else as well as the fundamental changes it’s going to force upon the service and retail industry.
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Do those simple cotton masks do anything? I'm a little wary of those.
 
What if Covid is actually spread through brain waves ?

Or TV ?
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
Two things:

1. If true, the mom is an idiot and you can't vaccinate from bad parenting.
2. There is quite a bit of creative license taken between the actual medical examiner's report and the write-up from the obviously slanted website that Ph posted. But it's on the internet, so it is all true.
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Some of it is taken from the mom’s social media postings.
 
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