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Smacks of enhancement to avoid immune response so it can get you by avoiding response and by causing an over response. Tool!
originally posted by: Fowlerstoad
Here is something freaky - researchers in California have identified another apparent gain of function 'feature' of COVID-19, that it can cause infected cells to grow cytoplasmic tentacles which can directly infect adjacent cells in a tissue or organ by injecting them with virions, thus allowing the virus to spread without going into the patient's plasma or blood stream, where antibodies could attack it. This has implications ... giving this virus just another advantage to avoid the host's immune response. This isn't a feature I have ever heard that any other coronavirus has been seen to have before. Link:
www.zerohedge.com...
originally posted by: CrazeeWorld777
We are approaching 10 million cases worldwide with 500k deaths... that's gonna be a 10% mortality rate!
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: tanstaafl
Great post!
The death of an old man is never a tragedy.
The one has nothing to do with the other.
Old people die. Is that tragic?
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: tanstaafl
Great post!
The death of an old man is never a tragedy.
Old people die. Is that tragic?
originally posted by: Rich Z
Please let me know how strongly you support that thought when you get to be 70 years old.
originally posted by: FinallyAwake
Imagine a couple has been very happily married for 50 years, still hold hands every day when out walking,their love stronger than ever.
Then the husband dies of Covid, or natural causes, leaving her on her own for the 1st time in 50 years, utterly scared and inconsolably devistated.
Nah not tragic at all mate 🙄
Why don't you just give up??
You should embrace being wrong sometimes (not necessarily this time) but it helps you learn and not be ignorant.
Meanwhile, China imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people in a province surrounding the capital, Beijing, to contain a new coronavirus cluster as authorities said the outbreak was still “severe and complicated”.
Health officials said on Sunday that Anxin county – about 90 miles (150km) from Beijing – would be “fully enclosed and controlled”, the same strict measures that were imposed at the height of the pandemic in Wuhan earlier this year.
Beijing, which has increased its coronavirus testing efforts, had so far tested about a third of the Chinese capital’s population, a city official said on Sunday, as authorities attempted to control an outbreak stemming from a wholesale market in mid-June.
Cases have also emerged in neighbouring Hebei province in recent weeks.
Coronavirus: Leicester could be first city to go into local lockdown amid 'spike' in COVID-19 cases
The home secretary has confirmed that Leicester could be the first city to go into a local lockdown, over reports of a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Millions more could die in a possible 2nd coronavirus wave, WHO official warns
Millions of people could die if the coronavirus pandemic sees a second wave of infections, a World Health Organization official warned Friday, adding that the deadly outbreak has so far unfolded much like officials at WHO had anticipated.
“The comparison is with the Spanish Flu, which behaved exactly like Covid: it went down in the summer and fiercely resumed in September and October, creating 50 million deaths during the second wave,” Dr Ranieri Guerra, WHO assistant director-general for strategic initiatives told Italy’s Rai TV.
“The pandemic is behaving as we hypothesized,” he added.
originally posted by: tanstaafl
originally posted by: FinallyAwake
Imagine a couple has been very happily married for 50 years, still hold hands every day when out walking,their love stronger than ever.
Then the husband dies of Covid, or natural causes, leaving her on her own for the 1st time in 50 years, utterly scared and inconsolably devistated.
Nah not tragic at all mate 🙄
It is. I didn't say it wasn't tragic.
I said it happens, and there is nothing your or I can do about it.
Why don't you just give up??
It isn't in my DNA.
You should embrace being wrong sometimes (not necessarily this time) but it helps you learn and not be ignorant.
I actually very much enjoy being proven wrong.
But you have to be both right, and able to support your argument with facts and evidence, in order to prove me wrong.
Try again.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: tanstaafl
Has anyone Figured Out Yet that the Reason for why people are Testing Positive is because of the Flu Shot. It has long since been established that people who have a history of receiving regular Flu Vaccinations are likely to Test Positive.
Vaccination coverage with ≥1 dose of flu vaccine was 62.6% among children 6 months through 17 years, an increase of 4.7 percentage points from the 2017–18 flu season and 3.6 percentage points higher than coverage in the 2016–17 season. Flu vaccination coverage among adults ≥18 years was 45.3%, an increase of 8.2 percentage points from the 2017–18 flu season and 2.0 percentage points higher than the 2016–17 season.
originally posted by: sligtlyskeptical
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: tanstaafl
Has anyone Figured Out Yet that the Reason for why people are Testing Positive is because of the Flu Shot. It has long since been established that people who have a history of receiving regular Flu Vaccinations are likely to Test Positive.
No. We are testing at about 8-10% positive. If your theory was correct we would be testing positive in the 40-50% range.
Vaccination coverage with ≥1 dose of flu vaccine was 62.6% among children 6 months through 17 years, an increase of 4.7 percentage points from the 2017–18 flu season and 3.6 percentage points higher than coverage in the 2016–17 season. Flu vaccination coverage among adults ≥18 years was 45.3%, an increase of 8.2 percentage points from the 2017–18 flu season and 2.0 percentage points higher than the 2016–17 season.
www.cdc.gov...