lowenz on 27/3/2020 at 20:08
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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/how-sick-will-coronavirus-make-you-answer-may-be-your-genes?rss=1)
It's hard to predict what will pop out from these gene hunts, some researchers say. But there are obvious suspects, such as the gene coding for the cell surface protein angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which the coronavirus uses to enter airway cells. Variations in the ACE2 gene that alter the receptor could make it easier or harder for the virus to get into cells, says immunologist Philip Murphy of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose lab identified a relatively common mutation in another human cell surface protein, CCR5, that makes some people highly resistant to HIV.Of course he's mad and he doesn't understand how science works......
In addition to genetic variants of the ACE2 receptor, scientists want to see whether differences in the human leukocyte antigen genes, which influence the immune system's response to viruses and bacteria, affect disease severity. And some investigators want to follow up a finding, which a Chinese team reported in a preprint: that people with type O blood may be protected from the virus. “We're trying to figure out if those findings are robust,” says Stanford University human geneticist Manuel Rivas, who is contributing to Ganna's initiative.
zombe on 27/3/2020 at 20:13
uh? ... in what universe does that make any sense?
Vae on 27/3/2020 at 20:13
Quote Posted by voodoo47
nope, it's commies, and all commies have one thing in common - they lie all the time. the real number sits anywhere between 10 and 100 times the official value, most likely.
Yes, this is true...communists must continually lie, in order to maintain a centralized authoritarian structure.
...and yes, the real number in China for the Wuhan virus is much higher than officially reported.
lowenz on 27/3/2020 at 20:30
Quote Posted by Vae
officially reported.
You can't say if by error or by will.
Here in Bergamo the death rate is skyrocketed way more than covid-19 related stats CAN suggest/summarize!
'cause the ones died at home are NOT tested after death.
No will by authorities to "lie", only practical limits in an emergence situation!
We don't even have the coffins now! For real!194 deaths today in Bergamo province! 1/5 of the entire Italy
Renzatic on 27/3/2020 at 20:31
Quote Posted by zombe
uh? ... in what universe does that make any sense?
This one, apparently.
Pyrian on 27/3/2020 at 20:53
Any available excuse to do what they wanted to do all along anyway.
Renzatic on 27/3/2020 at 21:00
Pretty much. They'll let no crisis go unexploited.
caffeinatedzombeh on 27/3/2020 at 21:14
Quote Posted by heywood
There was also a 21-year old English girl who died the other day, previously in good health with no known health issues.
Died of a heart attack apparently and had not tested positive. The youngest death in the UK
caused by covid-19 is 28 (younger people with it have died of other causes)
That's not a massively more optimistic number though :/
heywood on 27/3/2020 at 21:59
Quote Posted by demagogue
Somehow Massachusettes being described as Southern and kook conservative, in this context at least, is a fitting sign of how surreal our world is now.
He he. Well, MA may be very blue in the political sense, but it's also blue in the blue chip sense. The Boston area has a lot of big companies, a lot of wealth, a lot of startups, a lot of venture capital, a lot of bright and eager young people who came here for a STEM degree and entered the work force, and a lot of upper middle class professionals with fat retirement accounts. So socially, it's a bit lefty, but economically, it's center-right.
NH's stay-at-home order turned out even looser than MA. In MA, they exempted a long and broad list of business categories. In NH, we gave a blanket exemption for the whole manufacturing sector. In practice they will be about the same. Everybody who can get work done at home will do so as much as possible. Companies expect that people will still come in to perform work that has to be done on company premises or at a job site. While at work, people are expected to maintain social distancing guidelines, sanitize what they touch, etc. But by and large, they don't.
The Governor of MA just announced this afternoon that all travelers entering MA should self-quarantine for 14 days. It's all voluntary, no enforcement. Here in New England where states are small, there's hundreds of thousands of people who cross state borders on a normal weekday to go to work. With no enforcement, I expect that will continue unabated since companies won't voluntarily shut down. So I'm not sure what that order was supposed to do: perhaps dissuade some New Yorkers?
Quote Posted by SubJeff
It's because of a number of factors, but it really boils down to the entire set-up, the entire culture. And it's compounded by Trump being in power. If it were Obama I really think it's be different. Still dreadful, but just not AS dreadful. The mix of your healthcare, your politics and your disparate rules in different states mean the nation can not mount a unified, utilitarian and humanitarian response.
How is that different from Europe though? Perhaps I'm just not seeing it from over here, but I don't see the EU leadership doing a whole lot to coordinate & unify the response across Europe. It seems like all the member states are making their own policy and fending for themselves.
I think we're probably equally fucked, as is most of the world. We didn't stop it when it was small enough to be contained.
Quote Posted by catbarf
Color me surprised- don't you guys still have 'Live Free Or Die' on your license plates as standard-issue? Good to see them taking it seriously, New York is looking more and more like The Division with each passing day.
It's just a slogan. There's really not a big number of libertarian fundamentalists here aside from the free staters who moved here based on a slogan. NH culture is more about being independent and self-reliant. A few bullet points to sum it up:
- local politics > state politics > national politics
- it's my property, don't tell me what I can't do with it
- it's your body, none of my business what you do with it
- government and business should run a tight ship
- religion ain't all that
- get off of my lawn
- not in my backyard
Of course, we're not monolithic, so there's people from both ends of the political spectrum, but that's the gist. Not saying it all fits me, but some of it does.
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Any available excuse to do what they wanted to do all along anyway.
Yep.