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Worldwide international audience for the college stadium chants via media, just seems like some creative minds would be coming up with something new and different.

You guys are turbl.

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I wish I would have removed my child from the environment when the signs started getting critical at age 15, and placed him into an inpatient program, therapeutic boarding school, or boot camp to help him. He is grown now and doing better, but I wish he could have been spared 10+ years of pain, trial and error. My other son graduated LSU recently and has always been level-headed. Some kids are more prone and susceptible to self-destructive behavior, regardless of the parents good intentions.

Raises hand. From less than a bottle of cab per night to 1.5. Having talk with self. But the relaxation. Home with wife and daughter, senior in high school, grumbling about missing ‘senior year’, and pms’ing. Love them, but this is what started men going away on long hunts for meat.

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LSU School of Medicine



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Thanks. I corrected the OP and included the link to the original article. :cheers:

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You need to get your processor checked if you think that's a massive wall of text.

Thanks OP. Good post.

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:lol: Figured someone would say that. :cheers:

This was passed on from an Associate Professor of
Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology
LSU School of Medicine

Original article link: Written by Tom King

Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...

It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.

Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system.

This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.

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.

Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase.

And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, that’s what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s going to be..

H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.

Fast forward.

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.

At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”

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.

And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus changed itself in such a way that it causes great damage to human lungs.

That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is very slippery. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.

We really have no tools in our shed with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.


And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say what it will do next.

Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now. Stay home as much as you can for now, folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.

it is what it is. until you change your mindset toward what you want

daily mental training is key, absolute best way to have positive results

if you struggle desperately for a year or so, get on zoloft... life changer

whether you think it sucks or it’s great, you’re right. your mind leads your direction. acquire a positive mindset

keep it simple