Coronavirus: 5/9

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1. Ahem, where’s Trump’s projection of 80 or 90 thousand total deaths ?

   • Same place his projection of 15 cases that will go down, the 61,000 dead prediction, the 70,000 prediction, the 74,000 prediction, the 134,000 prediction, and now its 189,000.

     Trump will say anything and try to claim it as his personal victory and he obviously doesn’t care how many die as long as the worker bees die producing wealth for him and his pals.

2. Since when, does the flu attack the vascular system ?

   I notice Anglin has removed his “it’s just the flu, bro” banner and is now giving the sage advice “mask off”. What a winner.

3. If indeed this SARS2-COVID-19 pandemic is the result of sloppy lab procedures, and a gain-of-function strain of a coronavirus escaped, all that would mean is that we are ‘still on the clock’ for the next natural pandemic that breaks out from a zoonotic reservoir, mutational change in an already known bacterium or virus (anti-viral or antibiotic resistant superbug) that spreads easily with a high R naught.

   When this pandemic is in our rear view mirror, the microorganism’s cells will still be dividing as they have for billions of years 24/7/365. As our population continues to spread into areas of the globe that were never inhabited, we will come into contact with another novel virus that we will have no immunity to, and the cycle will all begin again. This is a war that never ends, and time isn’t on our side.

   • I hate to be Thanatos but we really must look at the quantity of people in Asia and South America where the zoonotic will emerge and radically change their population levels. If we don’t a plague will anyway.

   • We could just start firebombing China and exterminate them in a thermonuclear Holocaust. That’s the only way to stop the next zoonotic cross over from bat’s n pangolin.

4. For the record: A virus is not cellular, Rod Serling.

   • Viruses have a membrane that contains RNA. They hijack their host’s cell nucleus to make more copy’s of themselves. Some virus carrying species only act as a reservoir, and new copies of the virus are continuously being produced. During the process of transcription to translation an error could occur causing a mutation.

5. “When this pandemic is in our rear view mirror”

   That’s an optimistic assumption.