@magiamma
will be increased when it comes to this mechanism of viral transmission. Bring on the beans.

Maybe a major antiviral benefit of high levels of garlic consumption would also be an increase in social distancing?

#4
Yes. In a word, yes. Novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 does spread through fecal matter. There was an interview early on with a Stanford teaching doctor where she spoke about this. I am pretty sure I posted the link in one of my earlier essays on this.

Our city has just passed a law requiring all people to wear masks. The streets are a bit less empty this week but still very empty. Only essential businesses are open. We are on the left coast after all. Heh.

Take good care and have a good one.

@UntimelyRippd
I am in Florida. We had all better try not to get downwind of the governor here either.

#4
Georgia and the Lt. Governor of Texas will almost certainly spread SARS-Cov-2.

@magiamma

w/o embedded weed seeds. Dirt always works too.

My transplanted taters are doing well. So, what should I cover them with. Not Euc leaves. Thoughts? More dirt?

#6
Todas esta bien, ojalá.

Rhubarb cake! Well, let them eat rhubarb cake? Sounds yummy.

Did you watch the Michael Moore doc yet? Way too many trees being cut. Wtf?

Here in the the Left Bay things are social distancing along, as it were. Most folks are okay. But the ones that aren't are being assholes. Trying my patience. Glass way half full. Just do not like folks being rude. The city passed a 'rule' (there's a better term, but not an ordinance) that folks must wear masks. So far I have made only one. Need to make more for friends and family asap.

My transplanted taters are doing well. So, what should I cover them with. Not Euc leaves. Thoughts? More dirt?

Be well, take good care and have a good one.

Edit to add - very weird this

no confirmations of newly positive patients infecting others, according to Chinese health officials.

@magiamma
one after another after another. Bam! Bam! Bam!

And some of them are just right on the money, given our current situation (presumably that's not an accident, but was deliberate on the part of the performers).

If you're ever planning to be in South Central Wisconsin in the summer, I cannot be too emphatic in encouraging you to check out APT. (A great way to spend too much money in one day is to take an afternoon tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, and then catch a play in the woods at APT -- they're just a couple of miles apart.)

#7
"There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered."

Thanks, @magiamma

I think if patients know this symptom, they will sense it.

We have a bunch of coronavirus diagnostic dogs now, ready to deploy. Have you seen that? The dogs can pick someone with Covid-19 out of a crowd. But I'm thinking, "what stinks?" It's an invisible virus inside some of your cells. It doesn't have time to stink.

But if infected cells are expressing a protein that causes your blood to clot — that could be something a dog might notice.

#9
Alarmed as COVID patients' blood thickened, New York doctors try new treatments

“It’s very striking how much this disease causes clots to form,” Dr. J Mocco, a Mount Sinai neurosurgeon, said in an interview, describing how some doctors think COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, is more than a lung disease. In some cases, Mocco said, a stroke was a young patient’s first symptom of COVID-19.

As colleagues from various specialties pooled their observations, they developed a new treatment protocol. Patients now receive high doses of a blood-thinning drug even before any evidence of clotting appears.

“Maybe, just maybe, if you prevent the clotting, you can make the disease less severe,” said Dr. David Reich, the hospital president. The new protocol will not be used on certain high-risk patients because blood thinners can lead to bleeding in the brain and other organs.

In the three weeks beginning mid-March, Mocco saw 32 stroke patients with large blood blockages in the brain, double the usual number for that period.

Worth reading the whole thing. Take good care and have a good one.

Thanks, @UntimelyRippd I just read it again. I also saw a partial transcript from an inter-hospital conference call about this. It was dramatic as it started to slowly dawn on various doctors what they had actually seen. They lost patients, which is troubling anyway. But they don't autopsy them. I suspect no one looks under the hood. Too much infection. Too much chaos. The whole thing is disturbing on so many levels. And there's this weird feeling that the virus is somehow 'smart.'

Coincidently, I thought of you yesterday. I ran across a story about this Israeli physicist who says he can predict the precise timeline of a local cover-19 infection from beginning to end. I like his approach but it's not something I can't judge. He does have some major credentials. None of them medical.

This is how it is all over the world. Both in countries where they have taken closure steps, like Italy, and in countries that have not had closures, like Taiwan or Singapore. In such countries, there is an increase until the fourth to sixth week, and immediately thereafter, moderation until during the eighth week, it disappears.

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(If he's right, it could make options trading fun again. )

#9
the phenomenon of "coagulopathy" in Covid-19 (don't know whether it's paywalled for the hoi polloi). One important point: Currently, clinicians aren't certain whether thrombosis and related symptoms are characteristic of the virus itself, or are downstream phenomena caused by other aspects of the disease:

... Collectively, these hemostatic changes indicate some forms of coagulopathy that may predispose to thrombotic events (Central Illustration), although the cause is uncertain.
Nevertheless, it is yet unknown whether these hemostatic changes are a specific effect of SARS-CoV-2 or are a consequence of cytokine storm that precipitates the onset of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), as observed in other viral disease (30-33). Another consideration which has not yet been investigated is that the hemostatic changes seen with COVID-19 infection are related to liver dysfunction (34). A recent study reported 3 cases with severe COVID-19 and cerebral infarction, one associated with bilateral limb ischemia, in the setting of elevated antiphospholipid antibodies. Whether antiphospholipid antibodies play a major role in pathophysiology of thrombosis associated with COVID-19 requires further investigation (35).

@UntimelyRippd But this and comments above have convinced me I am going to have to pay for grocery delivery. This is the nastiest disease I have ever heard of, I think. Blood turning to gel? Worse, the scientists and doctors can't even tell who is going to get a mild or asymptomatic case and who is going to get a severe case. There are patients breaking pretty much every rule they think they know about this disease. 105 year old man recovered, previously healthy young adults die. This has killed my inner Pollyanna for now.

#9
the phenomenon of "coagulopathy" in Covid-19 (don't know whether it's paywalled for the hoi polloi). One important point: Currently, clinicians aren't certain whether thrombosis and related symptoms are characteristic of the virus itself, or are downstream phenomena caused by other aspects of the disease:

... Collectively, these hemostatic changes indicate some forms of coagulopathy that may predispose to thrombotic events (Central Illustration), although the cause is uncertain.
Nevertheless, it is yet unknown whether these hemostatic changes are a specific effect of SARS-CoV-2 or are a consequence of cytokine storm that precipitates the onset of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), as observed in other viral disease (30-33). Another consideration which has not yet been investigated is that the hemostatic changes seen with COVID-19 infection are related to liver dysfunction (34). A recent study reported 3 cases with severe COVID-19 and cerebral infarction, one associated with bilateral limb ischemia, in the setting of elevated antiphospholipid antibodies. Whether antiphospholipid antibodies play a major role in pathophysiology of thrombosis associated with COVID-19 requires further investigation (35).

@CB

against china (now russia, as per barack obomba) continues. but the US congress has opened it's own FBI investigation of 'china as culprit'. and michigan (or is it missouri?) is suing the chinese government for: coronavirus.

yeah, stir in military war games in china, fort dietrick, and we got us whole 'nother ball game, and the WEF's oct, 2019 event 201: hello, bill gates and his quest for digital ID for all citizens of the planet, and a supranational Imperial health and police force.

shhhh; that's conspiratorial thinking.

anyhoo, magi, it seems that the US is counting coron-19 deaths as italy does:

At Tuesday's White House coronavirus press conference, task force member Dr. Deborah Birx said that while some countries are reporting coronavirus fatality numbers differently, in the U.S. you are counted as a victim of the pandemic if you die while testing positive for the virus, even if something else causes your death.

as well as these whistleblowers (i'd been looking for the minnesota senator's name and this pooped up: Whistleblower – How CDC Is Manipulating COVID-19 Death Toll

A Montana based physician has blown the whistle on how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is exaggerating the COVID-19 death toll by manipulating Coronavirus death certificates. Dr. Annie Bukacek, MD, is a longtime Montana physician with over 30 years of experience practicing medicine. Signing death certificates is a routine part of her job.

Similar claims have also been made by Senator Dr. Scott Jensen from Minnesota who said Hospitals are getting paid more to list patients as COVID-19.

as dick cheney would say: 'there are too many Known Unknowns...to know (something or other).

but i've seen indications that all deaths from pneumonia are now being attributed to Covid-19; i suspect it's possible.

#9
Long essay from the Saker:

The AngloZionists are launching a strategic PSYOP against China
April 22, 2020

Maybe the “the Russians did it” narrative is getting stale. Or maybe the leaders of the Empire have finally figured out that China is even more dangerous to the Empire than Russia. But my personal gut feeling is simply that the AngloZionists are freaking out about the “full-spectrum” loss of face they suffered with their massive mishandling (medically and, even more so, politically!) of this pandemic-induced socio-economic crisis and that they now are pointing fingers pretty much at everybody (including each other).
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While there are very few truly intelligent people left in the US government, there are still plenty of “horizontally clever” ones and it did not take them long to find out that this pandemic gave then a golden opportunity to pin all their own failures and mistakes on China. The elements? Simple really:

1. Anti-Chinese propaganda has a long history in the USA and it was really easy to re-kindle it.
2. Most US Americans have a completely irrational reaction to the word “Communist” so it is really easy for any US propaganda outlet to mention the CCP and “lies” in the same sentence and sound credible, irrespective of what else the sentence claims (like, say, factual evidence).
3. The US plutocracy is terrified of the Chinese economic and industrial power, hence the vilification of companies like Huawei or DJI which are declared a national security threat to the USA. Blame everything on the Chinese and the US oligarchs will love it!
4. China and Russia are in a relationship which is even far deeper than an alliance. I call it a “symbiosis” while the Chinese speak of a “Strategic comprehensive partnership of coordination for the new era” while the Russians speak of a “crucial alliance”. The terms don’t really matter here, what matters is that Russia and China are standing together ( that is what they mean by “coordinating”) against the Empire and that the (admittedly few and clumsy) US attempts are breaking this alliance have totally failed.
5. As with any new pandemic, it did take China time to figure out the nature of what was happening and it was extremely easy to accuse China of deliberate obfuscation (while keeping the fact that China did inform the world as early as December 31st is, obviously omitted, as is the presence of a multi-national WHO delegation to investigate this issue. In reality, one might as well accuse China of being TOO open, and allowing various estimates and hypotheses to circulate even before the Chinese government had all the facts established. It is a perfect case of dammed if you do and damned if you don’t.
6. The US political culture is that 99.99% of US Americans will believe literally ANY lie, no matter how self-evidently stupid, about the rest of the world than accepting any unpleasant truth about the USA. So scapegoating another power, especially a Communist one, gets a knee-jerk reaction of approval from the overwhelming majority of US Americans.
7. When the WHO clearly did not buy into the US propaganda, it was a great move for Trump to defund it. Not only did the USA already owe the WHO millions of dollars (50-200, depending on who you ask), so the easy pretext not to pay was to accuse it of being pro-Chinese. It is obvious that Trump has no use for the UN other than as a whipping boy, and this was a prefect way to target it again.
8. As with any scary event, a true tsunami of completely unsubstantiated and outright silly rumors began as soon as it was clear that this was a major event and all the US propaganda machine had to do was to speak in serious tones about some of these rumors and to make it appear that the media was “just reporting” rather than planting stories.
9. China is also a major threat to US interests in Asia, and this pandemic provided a perfect opportunity for the USA to present reports from Taiwan as reports from China (that is an old trick). As for the Taiwanese government, they were more than happy to find yet another pretext to hate on China, nothing new here either.
10. Finally, US economists did not take long to figure out that this pandemic would have devastating effect on the “best economy in the history of the galaxy” so preemptively blaming it all on China is the perfect way for Trump and his Neocon masters to deflect the blame from them.

The stories which were then planted were truly magnificent. Here are a few of my personal favorites

• FBI Says Foreign States Hacked US Research Centers Seeking COVID-19 Breakthroughs (though this article points the finger at Iran, not Russia or China, it sets the “we are under attack” tone very well: notice the plural in “foreign states“).
• US Launches ‘Full-Scale Investigation’ Into Wuhan Lab
• Has a study proven that the coronavirus was a human creation, as claimed by a French Nobel Prize winner in medicine? (excellent move, it gives authority to the argument by quoting a celebrity, nevermind that there are many more credible voices saying that this theory is baloney).

There are many more, I am sure that you have seen them too.
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History will show that we all, our entire planet, did not take this and many other warnings seriously. Ask yourself, what is easier for a politician: to accept that our entire socio-political order is unsustainable and outright dangerous (or “out of balance” to use Garrett’s expression), or to blame it all on the Chinese commies and their “secret biowarfare program”?

I think that the answer is self-evident.

The Saker