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[Londonrake]

What I found to be a fascinating insight into how genetic scientists have been working on various aspects of the virus:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... new-study/

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[Tim Drayton]

Is this the first ever anti-lockdown protest, in Ohio?

https://twitter.com/hashtag/CivilDisobe ... p%3D205476

[Tim Drayton]

What I found to be a fascinating insight into how genetic scientists have been working on various aspects of the virus:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... new-study/

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I have no technical knowledge in the field, but those who do say that the first step in doing any scientific research into a virus is to isolate it, and this has not yet been done. This means there is little scientific basis to what is being said about the virus and no scientific proof even of a causal relationship between the virus and the disease it is said to cause.

[Tim Drayton]

Well, some did say the lockdown would end up killing more people than it saves.

Cardiac Arrest Deaths at Home in New York City Have Increased By a Startling 800%

http://www.ptca.org/news/2020/0408_INCR ... S_NYC.html

[Londonrake]

Conversely, how many people's lives have been saved by their staying at home? RTAs, straight up accidents, perhaps even the dramatic drop in pollution. What would the overall mortality comparisons be? It's the sort of speculation that can do your head in.

[CrookedRiverGuy]

Is this the first ever anti-lockdown protest, in Ohio?

https://twitter.com/hashtag/CivilDisobe ... p%3D205476

Quite amusing that so many of them cover their faces though

[Tim Drayton]

Interesting. At last some statistical evidence of above-average numbers of deaths.

Deaths in New York City Are More Than Double the Usual Total

https://web.archive.org/web/20200411032 ... -city.html

[Tim Drayton]

Iceland has tested nearly 5% of its population. Unlike most other countries they have been testing people without symptoms.

The study suggests that 50% of coronavirus cases have no symptoms!



https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/europe/iceland-testing-coronavirus-intl/index.html

I'm not surprised...

Mrs. CyprusGrump had all the symptoms while visiting the UK last November. Many others reported 'bad flu symptoms' at the time... I'm convinced she had it...

If it has been 'in the wild' since last November but still has <1million cases and 50,000 deaths world wide it really isn't as deadly/infectious as is being made out...

I, too, contracted a nasty flu-like virus, yet a bit different from the usual flu, here in Cyprus in January. At that time, the news was full of reports about the novel virus in Wuhan, China. I wondered at the time if I could have caught this, but dimissed the idea as there were no reports of it spreading out of China at that time. It does tick all the boxes for COVID-19, though, and I must confess it was pretty nasty although I recuperated without any treatment (at the age of 63). There is a study by Oxford University academics in the field suggesting that the virus had already spread much earlier in the UK: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 20042291v1

[Londonrake]

Ditto in November. Ironically the day after I went to the local pharmacy to ask when they expected to get their consignment of flu vaccines.

I had “the flu” for about a week or so which left me with a persistent dry cough for a few weeks. I’m hoping perhaps that was it. If I’m lucky I shall never find out.

[Get Real!]

One of the biggest emerging problems with the lock-down is haircuts!

Laugh all you want but many of us are starting to need a haircut, so what happens now?

Luckily, I’ve got one of those cheepo hair-clipping sets stored away somewhere, and I told the wife the other day that soon she’s gonna have to perform barber duties and she looked at me funny!

I dread the moment but we don’t have a choice…