The Good News Thread

[Smitty-48]

As a warrior I always think of logistics so I was prepared for this a week or so in advance of what was coming.

:salutes:

[Speaker to Animals]

Good news: Daralon did not catch the covfefe virus working in the Publix produce section. It's just a case of Hep C he got at the truck stop on I-4 he passes on the way home. It should not be contagious unless you engage in homo activities with him at the truck stop.

[Smitty-48]

OMFG real deal Spring has sprung today

Not a cloud in the sky, sunshine warming it all up at high noon

Yet no humidity and no bugs

[Speaker to Animals]

Still not planting day, though. I have my seedlings sitting out on the garden porch and will move them in around sunset.

[Smitty-48]

Oh fuck yeah

So sunny and warm I've switched to shorts and sandals

First shorts day of the year

Sweet

[SuburbanFarmer]

Still not planting day, though. I have my seedlings sitting out on the garden porch and will move them in around sunset.

We are anxiously awaiting it too. Can’t even till/plow until we dry out.

[Montegriffo]

Well, I prodded drtrech again and he replied this morning.
He's well and being paid to stay at home so apart from the long list of things that need doing that his wife has given him he's happy.

[clubgop]

Still not planting day, though. I have my seedlings sitting out on the garden porch and will move them in around sunset.

We are anxiously awaiting it too. Can’t even till/plow until we dry out.

She is supposed to be wet and then you plow. I know you lack familiarity but damn dude.

[C-Mag]

Potential Good News, we've learned a lot about Coronavirus in the last several days.

The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.
http://web.archive.org/web/202004050614 ... 182386efcb

[Hastur]

Potential Good News, we've learned a lot about Coronavirus in the last several days.

The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.
http://web.archive.org/web/202004050614 ... 182386efcb

Sounds bad man.