Covid-19: We don’t talk about 1-18

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  1. KCFutbol

    KCFutbol Moderator
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    Jun 14, 2001
    Overland Park, KS
    Club:
    Kansas City Wizards
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Had my 6 month teeth cleaning yesterday. Was required to wear a mask to the appointment and had my temperature checked.

    Other than that, it was the same as always.

    Had blood draw at my GP office earlier in the day. Same thing, mask required, temperature taken in the lobby before getting on the elevator.
     
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  2. What is important about the Dutch antibody is the aknowledged fact the Erasmus/Utrecht antibody operates on a part of the virus that hardly mutates, something other antibodies lack as these are locking into parts susceptible to mutations during the reproduction of the virus.
    https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/coronavirus-discussion-thread.2109411/page-12#post-38701563

    Now, even that RBD region has subregions. It’s 168 amino acids long, and that’s a pretty good amount of real estate. There’s a core domain that contains a smaller 60-residue exposed subdomain that loops out – that’s the part that first recognizes the ACE2 human protein. That is the tip of the spear: the receptor-binding loop region poking out of the receptor-binding domain of the Spike protein of the coronavirus. The problem is, if you target that particular region (which at first sounds like something you’d want to do) you run the risk of losing activity due to mutations, because that region is one of the more variable ones in the whole Spike. This 47D11 antibody, though, binds to the core domain of the RBD, which is much less variable, and that core-domain binding mode fits in with the way that it doesn’t seem to interfere with the ACE2 recognition event. And as the authors mention, this opens up the possibility of combining this antibody with another one that binds the exposed loop as a dual-acting therapy.

    The Erasmus/Utrecht antibody can be combined to increase the effectiveness!
     
  3. FormerGermanGuy

    Mar 1, 2001
    Indianapolis
    Club:
    Fulham FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Overall, daily positive cases in Indiana are down from 650ish to 300-400 for the last few days statewide, with single-digit deaths. My county in particular seems to be doing better than others, as we were second-highest in the state at first but have been passed by several since then.

    Went hiking yesterday in one of our state parks. Not many masks in evidence, though my family and I had them handy for the times we had to pass someone on the trail. One interesting thing was that probably half the people we were passing were Amish or Mennonites (judging by the clothes and the German they were speaking), and not a one of them had masks. All kinds of questions popped into my head but I didn't feel comfortable starting a conversation for various reasons.

    I'm still waiting for a day that the positive-to-tested ratio is under 10%. My fear is that we still have about the same rate of infected people running around out there, there are just fewer with symptoms. We only test people who present. So when the restrictions go away, it'll get ugly again.
     
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  4. Link?
     
  5. bostonsoccermdl

    bostonsoccermdl Moderator
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    Apr 3, 2002
    Denver, CO
    The showers after a game were torture due to the scrapes. I won't even get into the rugburns from indoor.
     
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  6. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    All this comes from coronavirus.info
     
  7. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I found this

    https://www.businessinsider.com/swe...20-5?utm_source=yahoo.com&utm_medium=referral
     
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  8. celito

    celito Moderator
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    Palmeiras
    Brazil
    Feb 28, 2005
    USA
    Club:
    Palmeiras Sao Paulo
    Nat'l Team:
    Brazil
    Iran up to 3k new cases a day.
     
  9. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Since the protests, covid-19 posts have gone from 6 ‘pages’ a day to “disappearing like a miracle.”

    Bunker Bitch got what he wanted from the media.
     
  10. KensingtonSC

    KensingtonSC Still Lazy After All These Years

    FC Vaduz / Philadelphia Union
    Jan 7, 2010
    Andalusia, PA
    Club:
    FC Vaduz
    I live on a dead end street that has a creek at the end. On the other side of that creek is a hospital. At the other end of my street is a funeral home that is two doors down from my house. This funeral home also houses a crematory. Every time I look out my kitchen window or go into my yard, I can see the "smoke stacks" of the crematory. For the last 9 weeks, the fires at the crematory have been burning non-stop. I know this because you can see the heat rising from the stacks at any hour of the day or night. Living between these two places all I hear all day is ambulances and medical helicopters, and every time I go to my kitchen window or let the dog out, I see the heat from those stacks. It has been the most depressing time because I know that when the people die at that hospital, they are taken right to the crematory. It's equally depressing when your kids want to play out there in the shadow of those stacks, but they never ask what they're for. When I woke up this morning to let the dog out, the fires were off at the crematory. It was such a tremendous sight. For one day, things calmed down enough to provide a glimmer of hope that I wouldn't have to spend any more days thinking about the deaths of people I'll never know, and how their families may have never gotten to say goodbye. I fear that the reopening that is about to happen in the Philadelphia area is going to spike things, and I'll hear nothing but sirens and see nothing but the heat from the crematory, but it was actually nice, for once, to get a break from the despair.
     
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  11. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
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    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    Kia kaha
     
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  12. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    What he got was being called Bunker Bitch and seeing his poll numbers tumble further. He's the dumbest politician who ever was. Once also the luckiest, but his fortunes looked to have changed.
     
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  13. KensingtonSC

    KensingtonSC Still Lazy After All These Years

    FC Vaduz / Philadelphia Union
    Jan 7, 2010
    Andalusia, PA
    Club:
    FC Vaduz
    As a former casino owner, Trump should know well that people's luck can change on a dime. I mean, he would know that better if he hadn't bankrupted said casinos.
     
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  14. Smurfquake

    Smurfquake Moderator
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    Aug 8, 2000
    San Carlos, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And it's not like the Coronavirus news will be gone forever. When the protests are out of the news cycle, we'll still be at 100000+ deaths with hundreds of new deaths every day.
     
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  15. Funkfoot

    Funkfoot Member+

    May 18, 2002
    New Orleans, LA
    The 'Rona ain't going anywhere.
     
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  16. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    IC: “But Hillary would have had the same problems dealing with a Pandemic!!!”

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/02/emergency-health-aid-coronavirus-297701


    Months after Congress approved $175 billion in emergency aid to health providers, the Trump administration has yet to pay out the majority of the funds — nearly $100 billion — amid a series of setbacks and internal uncertainty over how best to distribute the money.

    The delay has prompted complaints by both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill, and left the nation’s safety net hospitals and clinics with relatively little federal support during a pandemic that’s simultaneously thrust them onto the front lines and decimated their finances.
     
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  17. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
    There Be Dragons Here
    Club:
    Birmingham City FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Trust me, it's still there.
     
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  18. celito

    celito Moderator
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    Palmeiras
    Brazil
    Feb 28, 2005
    USA
    Club:
    Palmeiras Sao Paulo
    Nat'l Team:
    Brazil
    Sweden 2k new cases today ? Highest daily number by far for them. Test result dump ?
     
  19. Boandlkramer

    Boandlkramer Member+

    Apr 9, 2009
    Samma Weltmeister!
    Club:
    FC Bayern München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    I wanted to go to the protests, it I’m high risk, and COVID19 is still a threat to me (and my wife).

    That being said, I’ve donated to organizations that support this.

    But to stay on topic, yes, I think CV19 has been eclipsed in the MSM by current events
     
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  20. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
    My kids sneaked out to go to the protests. I'm the sole caretaker for my elderly mom who lives independently and we can't afford to risk her infection, so it caused us much consternation. I understand their wanting to do something however, so we were upset but not for long.
     
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  21. y-lee-coyote

    y-lee-coyote Member+

    Dec 4, 2012
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    Back when that happened I still remember thinking how in the fooking hell you can do that? In a casino is simple all the math favors the house, it just absolutely boggles the mind.
     
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  22. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The mob keeps taking a bigger & bigger cut because you keep doing stupid shit
     
  23. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If you spend an amount to buy the casino that requires 20,000 customers per week, but you're in a market where you get 10,000 customers per week, you lose.
     
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  24. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
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  25. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
    Anders Tegnell admitting (half-assed) the Swedish experiment didn't work:

    "If we would encounter the same disease, with exactly what we know about it today, I think we would land midway between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world did".




    No wonder Denmark & Norway don't want to open up their borders to them.
     
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  26. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
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    By the way, were the supposed benefits to their economy worth the sacrifice?
     

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