Corona Virus Daily Thread #49 COVID-19 4/30/2020

many | 4/30/2020 | many

[RummyChick]

i cant remember how that discussion went

but

Recent Loss of Vitamin C Biosynthesis Ability in Bats

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206078/

[blueplum]

with what? chopsticks? China translates int’l calls for an investigation into the origin and mismanagement of CCPVirus into being ‘attacked’ by the USA. Typical behavior of individuals with collective IQs of 80.

[Myrddin]

When I started grad school in microbiology at San Diego State University (Fall 1976), the department head had lost a lung to Valley Fever. He insisted that all new student in the department get tested for TB and Valley Fever. I complied. The TB test faded as usual, but the Valley Fever almost wrapped around my arm. Off for a lung X-ray. The amorphous punch-outs from the calcified infection was pretty obvious. As a dirty bike ride in San Diego, it should not have been a big surprise.

The next revelation in my immunology class was the auto-immunity test with latex balls. Everyone else in class rocked their blood and latex balls around for many minutes with no indication. I finally did mine. Rocked the slide 3 times and it locked up into a tight blob. Again, no surprise. I expected rheumatoid arthritis would be part of my future life time. It was showing early signs by age 20 when I started in grad school. C'est la vie!

The annoying nexus between the two is treatment for rheumatoid arthritis is often immuno-suppressive. Not a good idea with Valley Fever lurking in the lungs.

[rolling_stone]

humans cannot produce or store vitamin c remember scurvy on ships in days of old..

[Thud]

It's the lockdown timing. California was locked down earlier than New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area locked down earlier than the rest of the state. This produced the totally unsurprising results that California's infection rate is way lower than New York's, and the Bay Area's infection rate is way lower than LA's.

"It can’t just be sunshine and warmer weather in California"

[Thud]

You should definitely stop buying store bread and meat. That way there will be more for the rest of us.

"What’s your opinion on buying regular shelf bread? I worry about it being contaminated but wanted other’s opinions.

Are y’all buying meat now?"

[rolling_stone]

interesting..valley fever can go dormant and come back years later i am told - scary

i had tb vaccine as a kid as i went overseas..i later tested positive to skin test. its been many years now so dont know if i would still test positive..

[Thud]

IMO the lockdown will end at the end of June no matter what the federal or state governments say. The public will demand it, ignore the governments, return to work, etc., and the governments plain lack the ability to enforce a further shutdown. Some governments will recognize this and get out of the way. Other governments won't and will be run over.

But it will happen and the only question is when.

[Thud]

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