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Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:
Should we start calling the Wu-flu "shai hulud" instead???

When you've been to Arrakis, no pandemic will scare you anyway.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nows estimates that 35 percent of coronavirus infections are asymptomatic.

Here is my question...

If a person tests positive but is asymptomatic, are they contagious and for how long are they contagious?

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Originally posted by sdy:
the case fatality rate of the coronavirus is .4 percent. And that’s just amongst symptomatic cases, which, the CDC estimates, is 65 percent of all cases. This means the CDC estimates that the fatality rate for all infections across all age groups, symptomatic as well as asymptomatic, is approximately .26 percent.

Whoever wrote that article doesn't know how to crunch numbers. It's funny because the Justin Hart video and his Excel sheet shows he doesn't know how to do math.

He basically took 65% of 0.4% and came up with 0.26% as the fatality rate for all cases, symptomatic and asymptomatic. That assumes the fatality rate for asymptomatic cases is 0%. Is it?

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Originally posted by Keystoner:
That assumes the fatality rate for asymptomatic cases is 0%. Is it?

Asymptomatic - Persons who carry a disease and are usually capable of transmitting the disease but, who do not exhibit symptoms of the disease

I would assume if you don't have symptoms, it would be hard for a disease to kill you....?

On a related note, what is the rate of LONG TERM complications from COVID? I am aware that these folks who survive after intubation do not have a return to normal.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
How about panties? Masks. Made out of women's panties.

What? I'm just asking!

Hmmm, maybe that would mean a new business called "barfax", similar to "Carfax", where a person could get a report detailing the history of previously-owned panties - how many owners, how and what kind of miles, reported accidents, service records, etc..

As always RT for breaking news:

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Alyssa Milano goes on defensive after showing off her KNITTED mask (that does NOTHING to stop Covid-19)

https://www.rt.com/usa/489604-...ed-mask-coronavirus/

The image is in response to her mask- Might give members an idea or 2.

And now comes the hand wringing about this Kawasaki-like inflammatory illness in children that is associated with the Wuhan virus. OMG, think of the children, we must keep the schools closed!

They have named ii "MIS-C" for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. Seriously, misc? As in miscellaneous? How long did they have to work to come up with that acronym?

Except at this point the total number of estimated cases is several hundred, with 4 deaths. And "many" (not all) have antibodies for the Wuhan virus.

Truth is, they have no idea what this is, how it is caused, and if it is causally linked to the Wuhan virus or just coincidental. Or maybe it's caused by allergy to hand sanitizer and mask materials...

That zipper in the denim mask would cause sheep to stampede.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
On a related note, what is the rate of LONG TERM complications from COVID? I am aware that these folks who survive after intubation do not have a return to normal.

I think that will be difficult to determine in the long term. Too many confounding variables will occur over the next several decades. Who knows? Maybe some chronic disease we are dealing with now is the result of some childhood illness that we thought nothing of at the time.

Certainly it will take years to determine the consequences. It is something the media has not addressed in any responsible fashion.

We are just shown the happy patient being wheeled out of the hospital to the cheers of the staff. No mention that the patient is going to long term rehabilitation.

It's all an unknown what the long term ramifications are. I can at least say thank God it's not as bad as some original thoughts were. Either way, it is what it is.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Either way, it is what it is.

Far out

"The Hydroxychloroquine must flow"
-President Donald J Trump, United States
Year 2020, Pre-Butlerian Jihad

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Originally posted by fwbulldog:
A muad'dib hand-washing ritual. I like it.

Dry humor.

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the fatality rate for asymptomatic cases is 0%. Is it?

I think the arithmetic is ok

Certainly the death rate for asymptomatic would be zero.


https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...the-country-n2569367

The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.

Until now, we have been ridiculed for thinking the death rate was that low, as opposed to the 3.4% estimate of the World Health Organization, which helped drive the panic and the lockdowns. Now the CDC is agreeing to the lower rate in plain ink.

Dr. John Ionnidis of Stanford University projected a fatality rate of 0.2%

Just had to vent a little, but, while the NBC Nightly News was on in the background (I know, my mistake), the news guy said that many churches were opening whether they had permission or not. “Whether they had permission or not...”. Churches..in the USA. God help us.

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Originally posted by RichardC:

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Originally posted by fwbulldog:
A muad'dib hand-washing ritual. I like it.

Dry humor.

LOL!

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Originally posted by p226gsd:
Just had to vent a little, but, while the NBC Nightly News was on in the background (I know, my mistake), the news guy said that many churches were opening whether they had permission or not. “Whether they had permission or not...”. Churches..in the USA. God help us.

While the churches here could "legally" open this weekend here in NC, a church my cousin attends had sent ole Roy a letter about three weeks ago saying they were going to open the following Sunday no matter what he said. As far as I know nothing was ever done to shut them down and I believe that when so many Pastors and churches files suit the other week, Cooper saw the writing on the wall and led to opening them this weekend.

Disinfected dice: Las Vegas casinos getting ready to roll
May 22, 2020

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak has set a tentative June 4 date for reopening casinos.