Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

My buddy wrote a book: One Last Song, Conversations on Life, Death, and Music.
Jim James wrote the intro.
Under the circumstances, the subject matter is apropos, gotta wait till October to read it though.

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One Last Song Conversations on Life, Death, and Music

An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today's most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hearVarietyBest Music Book of 2020TIME Best Book of Fall 2020 Selection If you could choose the last song you'd hear be
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wokeupnew said:
I am also a fan of more WFH. I would be fine with working from home only if I had a separate office room to work in. Right now I'm sat on my kitchen table with my girlfriend also working remotely across from me. A bigger living space would be nice and if more and more companies making remote work possible it'll be interesting to see what happens with housing in this country. Also we could see a rise in communal co-working spaces because people still want a personal connection. Companies may subsidize a membership to something like that instead for employees to meet in person a couple a days a week/month.
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I am not a fan of work from home precisely because of sharing “workspace” with my wife. My zoom meetings require privacy due to laws. There is also a lot more pressure to do non work tasks and I have to negotiate with my wife about time spent doing Work vs childcare. There are many times where I have to say “but I have to work”. It’s an added stress where before I just put in my nine hours and came home. There is no way I can be as productive as I am when I go into the office.
 
Teeeee said:
So I *might* have let my brain go into a dark place last night. But this is it, isn't it? This is how society descends into those post-apocolyptic like movies we see? The violence over wearing masks and being open or closed is going to escalate to the point of needing armed intervention. Red states and blue states are going to be at each others' throats. Or heck, blue cities and red rural areas. It will descend into a civil war. Other countries will get involved. Supply changes will be disrupted. Vaccines will become commodity.

Or.... we get rid of the idiot in the WH in Nov and slowly start to get back to some sort of acceptance of fact as fact, science as our guiding principal and respect for each other.
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Not until Trump is dead will he cease to be a problem. His cult is going to be sucking from the teet of his Twitter feed even if we manage to boot him from office. His misinformation, dogwhistles and hateful rhetoric isn’t going anywhere.
 
Los Angeles' mayor has ordered that all people must wear masks when going out. This order comes after Los Angeles county rescinded the same order after protests, threats, violence and people refusing to comply.

On Facebook, organized protests at city hall are already being planned to protest the order.
 
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Wisconsin bars reopen after court throws out stay-at-home order -- some with new rules | CNN

After weeks at home, some Wisconsin residents wasted no time in visiting local bars Wednesday night, shortly after the state's Supreme Court overturned the coronavirus stay-at-home order.
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Wisconsin Supreme court struck down Wisconsin Stay At Home late yesterday with a 4-3 vote. The court said the stay at home order ruling it unlawful and unenforceable.


69% of the states population support the stay at home order. 30% are very vocal against it.

Republican legislators brought the lawsuit against the stay at home order and were able to convince the judges the the order was unlawful and unenforceable.

Medical advice from experts, and whether or not the stay at home order was needed / was a good idea or not was not part of the case.

The case was a bout tyranny. One person, such as the governor should not have that much power under the states constitution to order such an order.

Also, Wisconsin's constitution says that if state legislators disagree with any order placed by the governor, a compromise must be reached between the governor and the state legislators who must vote to approve the compromise.

The issue we have here is Wisconsin has a democratic governor now, but republicans hold the majority of seats in the state.

Republican legislators do not agree with the stay at home order what so ever, and no compromise could be reached.

Effective immediately, all businesses can resume operations as normal. They have the ability to open at full force with no guidance or restrictions. Nor does the governor now have the power to issue steps to reopen in a safe phased manner.

Last night bars across the state opened, and people packed them.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
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Wisconsin bars reopen after court throws out stay-at-home order -- some with new rules | CNN

After weeks at home, some Wisconsin residents wasted no time in visiting local bars Wednesday night, shortly after the state's Supreme Court overturned the coronavirus stay-at-home order.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

Wisconsin Supreme court struck down Wisconsin Stay At Home late yesterday with a 4-3 vote. The court said the stay at home order ruling it unlawful and unenforceable.


69% of the states population support the stay at home order. 30% are very vocal against it.

Republican legislators brought the lawsuit against the stay at home order and were able to convince the judges the the order was unlawful and unenforceable.

Medical advice from experts, and whether or not the stay at home order was needed / was a good idea or not was not part of the case.

The case was a bout tyranny. One person, such as the governor should not have that much power under the states constitution to order such an order.

Also, Wisconsin's constitution says that if state legislators disagree with any order placed by the governor, a compromise must be reached between the governor and the state legislators who must vote to approve the compromise.

The issue we have here is Wisconsin has a democratic governor now, but republicans hold the majority of seats in the state.

Republican legislators do not agree with the stay at home order what so ever, and no compromise could be reached.

Effective immediately, all businesses can resume operations as normal. They have the ability to open at full force with no guidance or restrictions. Nor does the governor now have the power to issue steps to reopen in a safe phased manner.

Last night bars across the state opened, and people packed them.
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Luckily local governments can make their own safety guidelines, and here in Milwaukee, bars and restaurants are still to remain closed til the 25th
 
This is a peer-reviewed article in one of top journals in the field followed by an analysis from an expert in another of the top journals.


Science | AAAS

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Highlights from the analysis:

All of the patients carried helper T cells that recognized the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which enables the virus to infiltrate our cells. They also harbored helper T cells that react to other SARS-CoV-2 proteins. And the team detected virus-specific killer T cells in 70% of the subjects, they report today in Cell. “The immune system sees this virus and mounts an effective immune response,” Sette says.
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The teams also asked whether people who haven’t been infected with SARS-CoV-2 also produce cells that combat it. Thiel and colleagues analyzed blood from 68 uninfected people and found that 34% hosted helper T cells that recognized SARS-CoV-2. The La Jolla team detected this crossreactivity in about half of stored blood samples collected between 2015 and 2018, well before the current pandemic began. The researchers think these cells were likely triggered by past infection with one of the four human coronaviruses that cause colds; proteins in these viruses resemble those of SARS-CoV-2.

The results suggest “one reason that a large chunk of the population may be able to deal with the virus is that we may have some small residual immunity from our exposure to common cold viruses,” says viral immunologist Steven Varga of the University of Iowa. However, neither of the studies attempted to establish that people with crossreactivity don’t become as ill from COVID-19.
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To spark production of antibodies, vaccines against the virus need to stimulate helper T cells, Crotty notes. “It is encouraging that we are seeing good helper T cell responses against SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 cases,” he says. The results have other significant implications for vaccine design, says molecular virologist Rachel Graham of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Most vaccines under development aim to elicit an immune response against spike, but the La Jolla group's study determined that T cells reacted to several viral proteins, suggesting that vaccines that sic the immune system on these proteins as well could be more effective. “It is important to not just concentrate on one protein,” Graham says.
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READ: The full draft CDC guidelines on reopening from stay-at-home orders | CNN Politics

Guidelines to reopening the US drafted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were shelved by the Trump administration are far more strict and detailed than the White House's own road map toward a return to normal, a CNN review found.
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Here all 68 pages of the draft by the CDC on the guidelines for reopening.

CNN reports they are much much more strict than the Trump administrations approach.
 
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