Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Please stay safe, y'all


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λ the β-Redex Reducer said:
Good thing that they are. Loneliness for elderly can be literal torture. COVID-19 is as much a reason to torture these folks in their last few days as that the flu was. It would be a crime to seperate these folks from their families so that they can spend their last few days alone and miserable.

But it's hard to understand this if you do not deal with elderly yourself. This is not a decision that should be made from an ivory tower.
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I don't speak about that, just take a look at the post right above mine.
 
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I'm not sure presential learning works very well these days.
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It really depends on the teacher. Some can not adapt and become horrible teachers (quality-wise). They feel they lost grip of the class (no visual feedback of a child not understanding, by reading the face of the child and knowing immediately to slowdown, backtrace. Instead we save bandwidth by disabling video); some get locked out of their own zoom, that kind of stuff happens to technophobes. And teachers get depressed too.
Some do adapt, and they are very good at it.
Thas is a manual overhead projector thing. Would a math teacher get those 200 dollar digital overhead projectors from the school board? Of course not! Schools complain even though they save in heating/cooling costs. Cleaning the school is faster.
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Teacher who used a chalkboard in a computer class with no computers, stars at Microsoftâs Education Exchange - Microsoft Stories Asia

By Geoff Spencer, Microsoft Asia Writer UPDATE: A Microsoft spokesman says: “Microsoft is committed to providing a full computer lab with initial support and training to the school and is currently in discussions with the Ministry of Education in Ghana on the most effective way to deliver this.”...
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Some actually wait passively to get the tools from the school in order to teach... which never come because the board is blind, stupid or both.
Others just explain once, and expect the explanation to the "slow learners" to be done by the parents as "answering too many questions" is tedious.

Truth is, teachers have a curriculum to teach (each year the same). And the speed at which they need to teach does not leave much time for other things. By cramming so much stuff, you can not go in-depth. And can not lose focus either.
So in chemistry, where they teach metals with electron orbits and thus it's a small sidestep to teach NPN transistors... well they don't. No time.
Being a PE(*physical education) teacher means you basically get to do aerobics, because you have to use things ALL the kids in class have (usually by saying: next class, have such and such (cushion, paperball wrapped in aluminum, spoon,etc ) ready). And you can't assume anything about the floor could be dangerous marble, or carpet where you can't use tape to mark areas.

And the school blames the government for putting more "important" things in the curriculum, and the books need to get re-printed with the new material, and then you can't buy your books second hand because you miss that new chapter (also applies to a digital copy).
And in order to make this larger curriculum fit in a school year, they need to pluck out things. Like a jenga tower. Ministry of education puts blocks on top, school needs to remove blocks below (but not the new blocks, those are "important", like LGBTQX classes, so they drop Schopenhauer and other well rounded philosophers to make room for it).
In my case they dropped the pre-war. The part where you learn to detect that "uncomfortable" feeling you get just before war breaks out. To learn the signs leading up to conflict... in favor of modern industrialization (sure, sure, also important, but so dated and not applicable to today because the rules changed quickly, very quickly. All that industry collapsed or we got saturated markets, where dynamics is different, not based on growth only)

sorry for the long rant.
 
1. Goto the following website:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide

2. Search for "Homo sapiens chromosome 8,GRCh38.p13 Primary Assembly" (Chromosome 8, DNA sequence)

3. From the found results (in blue), select the first one (starts with the number 1)

4. Top right, "Change region shown" search for the sequence: 63648345 to 63648366 (click on "update view")

5. Scroll down to get the ORIGIN Copy the human DNA sequence and remove all spaces. 1 actccctttg ttgtgttgt

6. Take the covid DNA recognition sequence "ctccctttgttgtgttgt" (1 out of 3 actually) and compare them.
source: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/whoinhouseassays.pdf?sfvrsn=de3a76aa_2
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7. If it's the same, then our common generic code is covid positive, for 1 out of 3 markers. (only if you take the WHO standard, we have different tests now that test other sequences)

the WHO has also a nice timeline (with manual scrollbar!)
www.who.int

Timeline: WHO's COVID-19 response

Use our interactive timeline mapping WHO's COVID-19 response against global case numbers to see how WHO has taken action, using filters for information, science, leadership, advice, response and resourcing.
www.who.int www.who.int
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FBnil said:
1. Goto the following website:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide

2. Search for "Homo sapiens chromosome 8,GRCh38.p13 Primary Assembly" (Chromosome 8, DNA sequence)

3. From the found results (in blue), select the first one (starts with the number 1)

4. Top right, "Change region shown" search for the sequence: 63648345 to 63648366 (click on "update view")

5. Scroll down to get the ORIGIN Copy the human DNA sequence and remove all spaces. 1 actccctttg ttgtgttgt

6. Take the covid DNA recognition sequence "ctccctttgttgtgttgt" (1 out of 3 actually) and compare them.
source: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/whoinhouseassays.pdf?sfvrsn=de3a76aa_2
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7. If it's the same, then our common generic code is covid positive, for 1 out of 3 markers. (only if you take the WHO standard, we have different tests now that test other sequences)

the WHO has also a nice timeline (with manual scrollbar!)
www.who.int

Timeline: WHO's COVID-19 response

Use our interactive timeline mapping WHO's COVID-19 response against global case numbers to see how WHO has taken action, using filters for information, science, leadership, advice, response and resourcing.
www.who.int www.who.int
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Would that not make it slightly awkward if you test true negative...?
 
On Monday the Dutch news published this: https://www.nu.nl/coronavirus/60892...fizer-wijzen-op-90-procent-effectiviteit.html

This vaccine (from Pfizer) is the DNA altering one (mRNA).
Their time estimates shows that the study is not completed:

ClinicalTrials.gov

www.clinicaltrials.gov www.clinicaltrials.gov

Which leaves me to think this is a lobbied (payed) advertisement. Remember: There are many pharmacies competing for a drug. And the winner gets millions. So much money is at stake. Bound to be some dirty strategy to cut off the others.

In Amsterdam, we have:

95 euro - quicktest to see if you have covid
50 euro - quicktest to see if you have had covid
125 euro - both tests "Best option for complete clearness" - But you can only take this one after getting approval by the GGD (Gemeentelijke Gezondheidsdienst = Municipal Health Authority).

If you need to get approval, it means that the Municipality also pays a chunk for each person tested...

ka-ching! (money sound)

Also (back to the pharmaceutical companies): They make their own rules about what a successful test is:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed
And the focus is not preventing the infection (your infection). It's mitigating it's effects.
 
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It's not a DNA altering vaccine as I've heard. It reportedly just contains a fragment of RNA, so it's not an attenuated virus that still has some of the machinery to invade cells and set them up as factories by modifying the internal DNA. But your linked vaccine report as you say isn't complete yet, so I don't think it's the findings that have been reported this week, and I can't be sure that's the same actual vaccine. None of the reports I've read or listened to have given a name to the vaccine beyond Pfizer vaccine.

Assuming the vaccine they're buying in now are the ones they tested in the report I've not been able to find yet, but was reported on the news, I'll be going along to take it as soon as I'm offered it.

Edit: According to the BBC Inside Science podcast I've just listened to, it does invade human cells and uses the internal machinery to produce virus particles. They still said it can't alter your DNA though, and that doesn't quite make sense to me. If it's using the core duplication material, it must splice it's code into the genome that's currently running through that machinery as I understand it. But the human body's pretty good at wiping out infected cells which will wipe out that record of altered DNA so they might be relying on that to preserve your genome, I'm not sure.
 
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Why tax big corporations that make billions evading taxes with the help of banks and the blessing of governments when you can tax the people ?
 
Today I learned about the existence of "long COVID". Apparently debilitating symptoms can last for months after you 'beat' the disease.

Combine that with the fact that you can only gain immunity to the disease for four to six months at a time... Man, it just never lets up.
 
JDTAY said:
Today I learned about the existence of "long COVID". Apparently debilitating symptoms can last for months after you 'beat' the disease.
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Yes. Some (few?) people shows symptoms long after they repeatedly test negative (after testing positive and fighting the disease).
Nobody seems to know whether that's the disease taking longer to heal (and then are you still infectious?) or that the disease
has passed but left sequels (how long ? forever ?). It seems to be somewhat disabling. I guess it's better than dying. :(

Combine that with the fact that you can only gain immunity to the disease for four to six months at a time... Man, it just never lets up.
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Well I'm not sure that's so. I've read it seems the immunity lasts at least 4-6 months, but it might last longer. There are few reinfections
(but they can't tell reinfections apart from one infection that lurked for long, unless the reinfection was by a different strain of the virus,
and they need RNA sequencing to know that, which they don't usually do for everyone, so who knows).

I guess we'll keep learning about COVID-19 for a long time. :(
 
Man, a lot of this "long COVID" stuff has my hypochondria going. There's a lot about skin, but I had a vitamin D deficiency before COVID-19 struck, so the rashes and dead skin and stuff I have now aren't really new.

This thing about "COVID toes" though. I've been having numbness in the toes on my left foot for weeks. I've been afraid to actually go get it checked out though, because of COVID-19. It'd be funny if it turned out I already had it.
 
I called my doctor to see if I had any upcoming appointments in place, but apparently not. I don't really wanna waste his time on numbness in my toes when it could be nothing. I didn't bother scheduling anything.
 
Okay, I called again, and ended up scheduling a phone call with a doctor for later today.

I mean, I felt my toes with my hand just now, and I don't think it's as bad as it has been. Who knows?
 
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I heard of long covid some months ago. As far as I've heard you won't have it if you didn't have bad symptoms from the actual infection before. If you've tested negative for the virus genome then as far as I know you can't shed virus. Shortness of breath and muscle weakness can be ascribed to damage done to your lungs by the virus, which will take time to repair and impede your ability to regrow muscle after enforced rest. Loss of smell could be ascribed to the virus damaging cells in your upper palate which will take some time to regrow. Although people I've known who lost their sense of smell for various reasons lived out their lives with limited smell so I guess it takes a lifetime. Other symptoms like brain fog and headache I've less knowledge about so can't really surmise what's going on there. And hair loss can be due to stress, and I can easily believe suffering from long covid is quite a stressful experience.

I've not read of numbness being a symptom, but I'd suggest that any kind of numbness that can't be explained by restricted blood flow or a sudden shock (dead arm, that kind of thing) isn't normal, so needs to be investigated. But I doubt it's anything to do with covid-19 personally. If it's a different colour to the other foot then it could be acute ischaemia and needs to be investigated rather more urgently however.
 
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Oh man, my neighbor keeps coughing loud enough for me to hear through the walls.

Fortunately, walls are COVID-proof, even if they aren't soundproof. I mean, it's flu season too, so who knows what's going on over there? Maybe he just vapes.
 
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Linux-SWAT said:
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Deutsche Bank Research: Tax Home Workers 'To Help Those Who Cannot' - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Working from home should be taxed to help support workers whose jobs are under threat, a report has suggested. Deutsche Bank Research suggests a tax of 5% of a worker's salary if workers choose to work from home when they are not forced to by the current...
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Why tax big corporations that make billions evading taxes with the help of banks and the blessing of governments when you can tax the people ?
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Right? How about companies pay all workers the agreed upon wage and give extra to people that have to take more risk and work in person.

1 in 5 covid patients end up with mental issues:
www.npr.org

After COVID-19 Diagnosis, Nearly 1 In 5 Are Diagnosed With Mental Disorder

Those recovering from the coronavirus were more likely than other groups of patients to be diagnosed with a mental disorder within three months, according to a new study.
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A couple places in the US have started shutting down again (Oregon and Chicago) more to come soon in my opinion.
 
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