Liberty

"The Italian COVID-19 hospital where no medics have been infected"

Good: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/in-a-reversal-fda-now-fully-approves-kn95-masks-for Bad: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/03/who-says-more-and-more-young-people-are-dying-from-the-coronavirus.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-factories-7-different-vaccines-to-fight-coronavirus-2020-4?r=US&utm_source=reddit.com

Very Orwellian. They changed the National Stockpile description on its website (probably Kushner): This is what it used to say: https://web.archive.org/web/20200401024027/https://www.phe.gov/about/sns/Pages/default.aspx Now it's this: https://www.phe.gov/about/sns/Pages/default.aspx

Some submariners might be the last to know about the pandemic: https://apnews.com/82739c3cf06b8acc415b71fd3c950aa1

https://reason.com/2020/04/03/trump-to-states-with-covid-19-supply-shortages-better-luck-next-time/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2

https://elemental.medium.com/hold-the-line-17231c48ff17

Acquisition by the Real Estate group: https://www.prweb.com/releases/constellation1_acquires_real_estate_tech_pioneer_virtual_properties/prweb16915381.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/jared-kushner-coronavirus.html

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/04/02/2010411/0/en/Constellation-Software-Announces-a-Change-to-its-Board-of-Directors.html

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615353/singapore-is-the-model-for-how-to-handle-the-coronavirus/

You partisans’ answer to any stupid thing done by your guy is you find something stupid done by someone else, as if it cancels out. The buck always stops somewhere else. The CDC and FDA screw thinks up royally, Trump defunds pandemic readiness, has his totally unqualified son-in-law run point on pandemic response, promises things that never happen (five million tests at CVS, etc), gets into fights with governors for petty personal reasons at a time when every hour counts, threatens them with witholding federal help if they criticize him... well, it’s not like he’s in charge of the federal government, right?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html

It is childish to provide a narrative for the thinking of others who are in disagreement with you. I’ll credit him with saving thousands AND with likely killing hundreds of thousands by convincing half the country who listens to him in the early days that it was no big deal, at exactly the time when small actions could’ve alerted the course of things majorly.

How simplistic must one's thinking be to think that because I'd like epidemiological/public health decisions to be made by people who know these fields that I automatically think that organisations like the WHO are perfect and can't be wrong or haven't been politicized (which they shouldn't be, as the US response shouldn't have been turned into a partisan thing by Trump for weeks). I also blame China's politicization of the science, just like in the US. The two can be bad at the same time. Repeating other people's mistakes isn't a good thing, it's bad, and if you held Trump to anything close to the standards that you apply to the things you attack you'd see that.

Meh. Unlikely to be significant. A lot of URI/Sinus infections cause anosmia (taste/smell impact) and not due to brain involvement. Covid-19 binds ACE2 to gain entry in cells. ACE2 as far as I know is primarily expressed in upper respiratory tract and lungs. "neurological symptoms, including confusion, stroke and seizures". You know what else can cause these symptoms? Hypoxia. They're not looking at symptoms, they're predicting this based on the virus itself and where it gets expressed: https://covid.barabasilab.com/2020/03/covid-19-and-network-medicine.html Might be nothing, but I'm glad some people are looking at this too in case it turns out to be something.

Hour-long interview with Chanos (april 2):

Yeah, except it's worse than that in these situation. If the situation had been reversed (by competence), 9 things right and 1 thing wrong might have meant that this had been controlled early (think South Korea) and the result would be VERY different in magnitude. So it's not 9 to 1, but maybe a million-to-one or more in impact.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/02/metro/boston-hospitals-getting-game-changer-machine-that-sterilizes-80000-protective-masks-day/

I'm sure things will be back to normal after the global pandemic.

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