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Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:50 am to High C
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So, Swine flu and Bird flu weren’t actually the flu at all?
No they were flus
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:50 am to stout
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Cliff notes?
China done fricked us all because they eat bats and made the virus mad and now its attacking humans.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:51 am to keepitsimple
Dammit! I can never figure out this lookin' sexy thing!
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:51 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Could it just as easily mutate toward something more benign as it could to something more harmful?
Yes and this is what viruses typically but not always do
A virus isnt exactly “alive” but still wants to replicate and move on to another host. If you kill your hosts too quickly cant do that
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 10:52 am
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:51 am to stout
Yall post all day every day about CV but can't take time to read this?
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:51 am to keepitsimple
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Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people.
But it’s still true.
Also, this....
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This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity), took off like a rocket. And this was because humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
Drug used to originally fight malaria showing promise in treating coronavirus, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation says
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:52 am to stout
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Cliff notes?
Our bodies fight the flu better because our bodies recognize it on an RNA level. Not so when viruses jump from animal to human like this one. Also, this virus seems to be good at mutating which may make vaccination trickier
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:52 am to keepitsimple
Interesting, basic explanation. But how much do we really know about how this got started? Did it really make the jump "one day" in December 2019 in the Wuhan market? Maybe, but I have a feeling that there is more to it than this. And did it really start in December?
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:52 am to Darth_Vader
Doctors having no known medicines for it is just another embellishment
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:52 am to keepitsimple
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This was written by an Associate Professor of
Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology
LSU School of Medicine
Who? Why is this anonymous and espouse, verbatim, the government spin on the virus? Fake news.
I'll trust LSUS' esteemed microbiologist, epidemiologist, Amanda Sutherland to explanation of Covid-19 before this gov't backed a-hole.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:53 am to stout
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Cliff notes?
You could just read instead of being a fricking idiot.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:53 am to keepitsimple
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in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human
How could it have been determined how long it took to mutate? Wouldn't that require knowing who "patient zero" is and exactly when they were infected? I'm sure there were thousands of people in that market on a daily basis.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:53 am to Cosmo
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Could it just as easily mutate toward something more benign as it could to something more harmful?
Do you think this may be what happened in China? What (outside of completely fudging numbers) explains their precipitous decline in cases?
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:54 am to SuperflyLSU
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Proceeds to post massive wall of text
You need to get your processor checked if you think that's a massive wall of text.
Thanks OP. Good post.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:54 am to SloaneRanger
What are you getting at? When else is a virus going to jump species besides "one day?"
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:55 am to keepitsimple
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Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO ( World Health Org.) tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu).
But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.
after reading your post, I'm curious about why dogs are immune
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:55 am to More beer please
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Doctors having no known medicines for it is just another embellishment
I find it telling that news of a potentially effective medicine to treat this virus isn’t major news on our national media outlets. I had to link a story from a local news station in Oklahoma. Why isn’t aFox, CNN, MSNBC and the rest not reporting this?
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:56 am to keepitsimple
The poliboard in a nutshell.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:56 am to More beer please
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Doctors having no known medicines for it is just another embellishment
Yeah, I think it was just a scarier way of saying, doctors had to figure out what medicines may be useful for it, as a novel virus.
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