Coronavirus thread

[Xenophon]

News from South Korea regarding re-infections:

https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200429007051320

As of Tuesday, a total of 277 people who recovered from COVID-19 have retested positive here, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).

The country's central clinical committee for emerging disease control said there was no live virus present in such cases, positively refuting theories like the virus being reactivated or reinfection.

They said that apparent reinfection cases came because fragments of the virus remained in their bodies and showed up in test kits.

The country currently uses a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for the COVID-19 virus that works by finding the virus's genetic information, or RNA, in a sample taken from a patient.

The experts said this PCR test is so sensitive that it can still pick up parts of the small amount of RNA from a cell even after the person has recovered from COVID-19.

"RNA fragments still can exist in a cell even if the virus is inactivated," they said in a press release. "It is more likely that those who tested positive again picked up virus RNA that has already been inactivated."

Why do the South Koreans want my grandma to die?

[TheReal_ND]

It's no where even close to 2% Not even 1% It's literal flu levels

When has the flu ever resulted in hospitals being overwhelmed? When have we had bodies stacking up fast they they can be buried due to the flu? This is not the flu.

Overwhelmed with what? They are empty and the nurses are busy twerking

[PartyOf5]

The reaction to this is what is causing bodies to stack up, not so much the actual virus.

What reaction do we have with the flu every year? Some of us get a shot, but that only defends against last year's strain, not the new one(s) that pop up each year. Doing nothing else than that for the flu doesn't result in bodies stacking up. With COVID, keeping people apart does not result in bodies stacking up. A counties (or states) response doesn't change what the virus is, only the affect it has on it's population. The virus is much worse than a normal flu. That is why every single country id doing so much to fight it. Unfortunately, not all countries are using the most successful methods.

Saying the virus is not responsible for the deaths does not make sense. The "why does X want my grandma to die" was amusing for a day or two. Now it's just annoying and shows how this is being treated as just another my side-your side argument, with no room for compromise or unbiased evaluation.

Every other country should be asking South Korea for guidance on how to deal with this.

[Fife]

Rutgers prof: 'F*ck each and every Trump supporter'

In a tweet thread on Tuesday, Cooper wrote, "I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd to push [sic] to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID. Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power."

. . .

As Campus Reform previously reported, Cooper said Christian conservatives worship an "asshole" God with “nothing holy, loving, righteous, inclusive, liberatory theologically sound about him.” She also said that Trump's policies are responsible for black female obesity.

[PartyOf5]

It's no where even close to 2% Not even 1% It's literal flu levels

When has the flu ever resulted in hospitals being overwhelmed? When have we had bodies stacking up fast they they can be buried due to the flu? This is not the flu.

Overwhelmed with what? They are empty and the nurses are busy twerking

You're right, EVERY single nurse in the world has nothing to do but make tik tok videos.

I now know people who have died from this. It's only a joke in some places because it hasn't hit them there yet.

Now go ahead and start claiming that I want the economy to die and everyone to be unemployed. Don't even bother to think about how we can start to open things up slowly and safely without doing a full-on opening of the flood gates and risk more New Yorks. I'm all for getting things up and running, but blind rhetoric is not helpful and only leads to the same entrenched bullshit we've had for the past how many years. For once we all have a common enemy and we still can't be civil with each other.

[PartyOf5]

She also said that Trump's policies are responsible for black female obesity.

She's right. I don't recall seeing any obese black women until after Trump got elected.

Another example of not being able to work together to solve a problem.

[TheReal_ND]

I just want to know if the hospital is a good place to get a lap dance

[Speaker to Animals]

Swipe left on all nurses, no exceptions.

[TheReal_ND]

Rutgers prof: 'F*ck each and every Trump supporter'

In a tweet thread on Tuesday, Cooper wrote, "I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd to push [sic] to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID. Not only do white conservatives not care about Black life, but my most cynical negative read of the white supremacists among them is that they welcome this massive winnowing of Black folks in order to slow demographic shifts and shore up political power."

. . .

As Campus Reform previously reported, Cooper said Christian conservatives worship an "asshole" God with “nothing holy, loving, righteous, inclusive, liberatory theologically sound about him.” She also said that Trump's policies are responsible for black female obesity.

If she wants liberation theology she can become a satanist. Or a Presbyterian.

[Speaker to Animals]

I don’t understand why people like her follow whites around everywhere to bitch about them being white. She can move to an African nation with few or no white people if she wants. If it is so bad here because white people are making her fat and trying to kill her with covid, you’d think she’d try to escape to Africa.

Seriously read comments by people like her and compare that to German Jews leading into the Holocaust. She is basically saying black people are at that level of oppression and yet she seems to be doing better than quite a lot of white people in this country.

These people are fucking nuts. They don’t have to invent victim status any longer. There is an actual threat out there.