we are about to learn a really tough lesson from "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"Speaking of upcoming crisis, coronavirus is putting stress on bank debt.
The Looming Bank Collapse
The U.S. financial system could be on the cusp of calamity. This time, we might not be able to save it.www.theatlantic.com
As a retired Air Force contracts attorney, I approve this message: " “I still am a little bit troubled as to why FEMA accepted them. ... They may have stupidly accepted something that was nonconforming.”
That's not the worst. I think Atlantic had one a month or so ago. The guy had his contract, set aside, and then was flying all over the country trying to line up subs. Rented a private jet and stopped in SC to pick up his parents. Insane!
The Progressive
With the focus on corruption. How much money did trump and his cronies make when trump ordered the government to stock up on a drug that does not even work. 64 million doses now owned by the government. How much above market do you suppose we paid for that?
The sad part is, he will continue to suggest that the cupboard was bare when he assumed office and then refer to these 64 million doses as a huge triumph against impossible odds. Only he could have achieved such a feat. Besides, he took it for a week and hasn't contracted Corona. There must be a connection. /s
The study was limited, the team said, because they did not have long-term data on the recovered COVID-19 patients and whether they retained their antibodies. In addition, antibody tests are not necessarily entirely reliable.
You are correct. I went back to the first mid week service in the last 3 months. There were about 70 people there and less than 10 had on mask. One young man (19) came up to me to shake hand and he did't have on a mask and i talked with his father for a few minutes in the parking lot later and he didn't have a mask on and he is the head deacon. I told him that i wasn't going to fuss about mask and that i wore one as much for other peoples protection as my own and he said maybe he should wear one. i did suggest that either the pastor or deacons speak to the young couple who came with their ONE WEEK OLD BABY and no mask on. i'm very frustrated with the lack of leadership in this situation. since last Sunday the orange county (orlando area) is averaging 193 new cases per day. it's very disheartening,
That's about what Texas was today, except Texas has 4X the population
I trust little to nothing out of China. I trust little in the pre-publish publishing side. I'm skeptical of peer reviewed published studies now. It's been an absolute poop show on COVID studies. While some should be obvious, even medical professionals are having a difficult time discerning the good from the bad these days. I'm angry at those publishing pure crap and calling it science because it has been very unhelpful from a credibility standpoint.
Wanted to double back and thank you for this post. The main point above it was to say that for multiple reasons this is very different from the flu.I'm going to tone down the dramatization here a bit. A lot of viruses (herpes, CMV, etc) show these kinds of pathologic features, and multinucleated giant cells (as we call it in the business) are usually a reactive change that we see pretty frequently in areas of inflammation. Here's a nice picture from a COVID-positive lung biopsy. Panel B shows the multinucleated cells. Panel C shows the kind of changes we see in some other viral infections -- it's the big cell that looks like it has two eyes in the center of the panel (similar to the so-called Owl's Eye nuclei of CMV).
And if you want a (somewhat dry) tour of COVID lung pathology, you can watch the video below. The biggest practical issue is, of course, ARDS, which is source-agnostic (meaning lots of things cause it, as it's just a non-specific inflammatory state that impairs oxygen exchange).
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