Month: April 2020

The mask debate was an intelligence test. If you have any friends who argued that masks don’t work, you can confidently place them on the lower end of the intelligence bell curve.

Excerpt.

Coronavirus Diagnoses In Staff Drop By Half After Boston Hospital Requires Masks For All

New infections diagnosed in Brigham and Women’s employees dropped from 12 or 14 a day to more like eight once they all had to wear masks, and to about six once patients had to wear masks as well.

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/04/23/brigham-and-womens-masks-infections

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Double trouble.

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There are no stupid questions, only people too stupid to ask questions. Which one are you?

“DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much. So I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of if you are totally into that world which I find to be very interesting. So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light and I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you are going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body which you can do either through the skin or in some other way and I think you said you were going to test that too. It sounds interesting.

Right. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number (INAUDIBLE) interesting to check that so that you are going to have to use medical doctors with but it sounds interesting to me so we will see but the whole concept of the light the way it kills it in one minute that’s–that’s pretty powerful.”

Healight, developed at Cedars-Sinai.

Relevant.

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Half-life of SARS-CoV-2 under various conditions.

Beaches are low risk. Indoor air conditioned spaces are high risk.

Move activities outside. Lol, so much for stay at home orders.

From the Science and Technology Directorate at DHS.

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Absolutely no state bailouts. At the very least I’m going to need to see 16% of government employees laid off, 20% pay cuts for all remaining government employees, as well as 20% cuts to pensions for all former government employees. I’m being generous with my offer.

McConnell takes flak after suggesting bankruptcy for states rather than bailouts – The Boston Globe

McConnell’s comments were made during his interview on Hugh Hewitt’s conservative syndicated radio show on Wednesday.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2020/04/23/mcconnell-takes-flak-after-suggesting-bankruptcy-for-states-rather-than-bailouts/D44AH7ZoCltTP9r5G5juKI/story.html

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Initial unemployment claims, another 4 million unemployed.

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That’s been my hypothesis, that New York got the more deadly Wuhan strain by way of Italy, and that California was directly infected earlier from China with a milder strain.

Coronavirus’s ability to mutate ‘has been vastly underestimated’

The most aggressive strains of Sars-CoV-2 could generate 270 times as much viral load as the least potent type.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3080771/coronavirus-mutations-affect-deadliness-strains-chinese-study

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74% are concerned about losing freedoms. I’m shocked. I didn’t realize people still cared about freedoms. There might be hope after all.

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Every country should be stockpiling crude. They’re never going to see an opportunity like this again. It’s basically free energy.

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COVID-19 STRESS TEST – 2020-04-23

Countries over 5,000 cases, inc. Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Included is the 2020-04-13 stress test CFR, as well as the difference.

Previous stress test.

https://www.methylated.net/2020/04/13/covid-19-stress-test-2020-04-13/

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