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  2. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Malsua said:

    You do realize that if you are old, ill and have co-morbidities for bunch of things, get the flu and die, it's coded as a flu death?

    I've been asking around, see who knows ANYONE who's died of the flu.   We have 40k+ per year, it ought to be someone?

    I got one.  My co-worker's father.  Death recorded as Flu.      Strange really.  He had late stage 4 pancreatic cancer, copd and dementia.   Coded as Flu.

    So I looked into it a bit more and epidemiologists have been complaining about this FOR YEARS.   It exaggerates the number of flu deaths by a HUGE margin.

    Here's just one article.  You can read about it until the cows come home.  Annual deaths directly attributable to Flu are generally under 1000.  Most deaths are opportunistic pneumonias, that can be triggered by any number of co-morbidities including CHF, hypertension and more.  If they test positive for flu?  Flu death. 

    https://aspe.hhs.gov/cdc-—-influenza-deaths-request-correction-rfc

    Using that same logic...  few die of covid-19.

    They die of....

    Cancer, COPD, asthma, diabetes, heart disease.

    Correct?

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  3. Posted

    Hey. Don’t dismiss Walmart.  If you are a reasonably impressive individual, you can do very well there very quickly.  The grocery side pays more than the general merchandise side.  The benefits are decent to good for full time. And they give quarterly bonuses.

    Even if it is just for the short term...its a decent option that get you going.

    Also, most Harbor Freight stores have positions open.  They are deemed an essential business and a good company as far as employee treatment goes.  Plus, they donated all of their masks and gloves from regional warehouses to local hospitals around the country.

    Retail can be a grind and may require a customer service focus, but if you are not working and worried about money, these are two options that may help you.

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    43 minutes ago, Damjan said:

    Last night i was chatting with my godfather  in Serbia who`s father in law got infected. Both are MD`s. 

    The father in law went to a medical lecture with his staff where the speaker was from Italy and himself and 10 of the staff got infected with corona.  Up until 4 days ago they were all treated with Aluvia (made by Abbott for HIV) and that didnt help any. They got switched to the Hydrochloroquine+Zpack 4 days ago and there s been a considerable change for the better in their condition. They are still under treatment but since the switch in therapy was made their condition and thus prognosis is improving. 

    That’s great news.  There are numerous reports of the use of those two drugs with the same positive result.

    Meanwhile.... Dems are blocking a bill that will help a huge amount of people so they can include ...Ballot Harvesting....Fuel Efficiency rules for airlines.....Collective Bargaining rules for fed employees.....Diversity requirements for hires to the Fed Pandemic teams....and it gets worse if you read the rest of it. Piles of crap that have nothing to do with responding to the economic and health crisis in front of us.  I can’t say in this forum what I think about it.  I probably can’t say it anywhere.  They *$#*@#& disgust me.

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  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, 10X said:

    MD's prescribe off-label all the time.  It can be hard to get insurance to cover off-label prescriptions, and I understand that, but chloroquine is off-patent and cheap.

    To add the novel coronavirus as an indication, they might be able to skip phase 1 clinical trials altogether, since those have already been done, unless they want to change the demographics of the trial, perhaps to include an older population.   Phase 2 trials would take time, but wouldn't have to be large, since the therapeutic index for chloroquine is pretty narrow--they wouldn't be testing a wide range of doses.  Phase 3 would still be phase 3, big, expensive and slow...

    It appears to be the case its already being administered widely under the compassionate care rule/law.

    Renovir is being administered and reports are out that is has cases where it was very effective.

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    1 hour ago, Sniper said:

    It all depends on how fast they re-write the protocol, get the clinical trial data, and get the approvals through the FDA. Right now, it can't be prescribed for Covid.

    You willing to volunteer to be a clinical guinea pig?

    Not how it relates to Covid and side affects yet.

    #2. Yup. 100%. Light the candle capcom.

    #3  we will learn quickly doomsayer.

    Also, the form of chloroquine Bayer donated is chloroquine phosphate which is not yet approved for use in the US.  But the FDA will likely fast track that as their clinical trials yield more information.

  12. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Scorpio64 said:

    Bayer dropped 3 million Chloroquine tablets on the federal government.  There's going to be more clinical data than you can shake a spreadsheet at very soon.

    Indeed.  What the head of the FDA was saying today......but not saying... ..is that people are getting that drug now.....as volunteers under the compassionate care protocol.....and the data is being gathered ....now.

    I understand his reluctance to spell it out.  The FDA’s primary mission is to protect Americans.  But given the need to get ahead of this, bypassing some safety protocols is warranted.  Especially since we already know a remarkable amount about this drug.

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  13. Posted

    Chloroquine is also used for the treatment of lupus, but for a different reason.  This drug is pretty remarkable in terms of how many ways it affect cellular processes in the human body.

    It looks pretty promising as a treatment for corona virus.  I hope they get enough clinical data pretty damn quick.

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    1 minute ago, Sniper said:

    What's your opening bid?

    Hah...  I’m not bidding if that’s what you meant.  I’d sell to someone who was dry,  but I wouldn’t say I have 10k ..extra... rounds.

  18. Posted

    Kind of seems that the Ammo equivalent of a Lemonade Stand would rake in some bucks.  No gouging.  Just fair priced sales.  Got 10,000 extra rounds laying around?  Could bring in $3k or $4k.

  19. Posted

    7 hours ago, Downtownv said:

    What were the Flu stats?

    What were they during Swine flu epidemic?

    What were they during Sars flu epidemic?

     

    How many of these cases will experience nothing more than Cold or flu symptoms?

     

     

    I am telling you we are being Bullshitted .

     

    I worked in Healthcare during those and they were a lot worse, deadly and contagious.

    Stop feeding the lie. Follow the money.

    The response is worse...far worse...than the disease.

    Maybe “the reaction” is a better way to phrase it.

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  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, fishnut said:

    So the hotel I work at just got a delivery of TP today, 1/3 of a tractor trailer worth. The truck showed up with an armed escort! He should have been flying this flag.

    Someone went into the back room of my wife’s store and stole all the toilet paper yesterday. Then took the 4 rolls in the bathrooms.

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    1 hour ago, JackDaWack said:

    I just dont get the whole "the world is ending" hyperbole... 

    Not to sound insensitive..

    Worse case scenario... a bunch of old people die and clog up the healthcare system for a little while. 

    We can quarantine for a little while to help flatten out the infection curve.. but there needs to be a realistic appropriate approach here, 99.99% of americas will be just fine even if the virus spreads.

     

     

    How about quarantining everyone over 65 and those younger with health risk factors?

    If those are the people primarily at risk, protect them.  Steve Hilton asked the same question.  Its a good question. Why are we shutting down the economies of every major country on earth when there appears to be a better way.  The more people who are healthy that get this and become immune...spelled... v-a-c-c-i-n-a-t-e-d .... the fewer there will be to catch and transmit it next time.

    Or, we could just destroy the economy and commit 10s of millions of people to be wards of the state.

    or maybe thats the plan.

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  24. Posted

    Here’s something that doesn’t makes sense to me.

    In Italy, the infection rate for the flu...in a vaccinated society... is about 9% per flu season. Or an -average- of 866,000 per month.

    Why are the Covid-19 numbers so low there relatively speaking to the flu if Covid-19 is significantly more contagious?  25,000 total cases in Italy to date 6 weeks in.

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  25. Posted

    An article about research on Influenza in Italy.  Apparently, when if comes to virus issueS, they do not do well in Italy.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303285

    Highlights

     

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    In the winter seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17, an estimated average of 5,290,000 ILI cases occurred in Italy, corresponding to an incidence of 9%.

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    More than 68,000 deaths attributable to flu epidemics were estimated in the study period.

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    Italy showed a higher influenza attributable excess mortality compared to other European countries. especially in the elderly.

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