Very interesting article, relevant to the discussion in this thread:

The deadly viruses that vanished without trace​

What I want to know is does Covid-19 inducted t-cell production also give some immunity to common flu?

 

What I want to know is does Covid-19 inducted t-cell production also give some immunity to common flu?

Finding a correlation like the one you've mentioned would be very interesting indeed.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...that-u-s-may-be-spared-flu-on-top-of-covid-19

If this is true, what is in the flu shot and why should anyone take it?

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...that-u-s-may-be-spared-flu-on-top-of-covid-19

If this is true, what is in the flu shot and why should anyone take it?

Flu hasn't totally disappeared, but it's way down. For example, he says, consider 3,391 clinical samples that were taken from patients with an acute respiratory illness during a three-week period in the middle of winter in Chile. "Zero were positive for influenza," Aldighieri says, explaining that he'd normally expect to see hundreds test positive for flu.

This is interesting. If zero tested positive for flu but they had COVID-19 that means mask-wearing, hand-washing and social distancing were also most likely not strictly enforced but they still didn't get flu. Maybe isolation is the reason but I'd like to see a real study of the data.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...aced-for-the-worst-the-worst-didnt-happen-why

Just weeks ago, Kenya was girding for the worst. As the country reported hundreds of cases daily, the health minister asked schools to prepare rooms to isolate all the people hospitals wouldn't be able to treat. Cemeteries dug mass graves. But then, just as quickly as the cases rose, they plummeted.

They went from a peak of more than 600 cases a day in August to fewer than 100 the past three days.

The first wave of COVID-19 has seemingly come and gone with fewer than expected deaths — just over 600 — leaving many baffled.
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They drew on testing data, results from a nationwide antibody study and mobility data from Google, which shows the degree to which Kenyans are moving around. They concluded that in major Kenyan cities, the epidemic is already past its first peak.

Not only that, but the scientists found the new coronavirus had raced through Kenya's population just as it did in Europe and in the United States.

"In Nairobi and Mombasa, for example, 30 to 40% of the population have been exposed," he said.

This means the same proportion of people have been infected in Kenya's two biggest cities as have been infected in some of the hardest hit parts of New York City. But not only has the death rate been low, but also, the country's health ministry has repeatedly stated, about 90 percent of Kenyans who have tested positive have proven asymptomatic.
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What no scientist knows is why this pandemic has been so mild in sub-Saharan Africa. They have hypotheses — maybe it's the continent's young population; maybe there is some cross-immunity with some other coronavirus. But, for now, those are just hypotheses.

The Kenyan government, for its part, is rethinking school closures and the country's 6-month-old nightly curfew.

https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/coronavirus.166679/post-1503815

 

https://www.yourvalley.net/stories/europe-scrambles-to-contain-rise-in-coronavirus-cases,189012

BERLIN (AP) — Political pressure grew Monday in Europe for governments to tackle the rising number of coronavirus case without resorting to a spring-style lockdown that would hit the continent's struggling economies.

 

And somethibg useful:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/09/08/bradykinin-and-the-coronavirus

 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200918-the-fiasco-of-the-us-swine-flu-affair-of-1976

“One of the old people, 75-year old Julia Bucci, had winced at the hypodermic needle in her arm, had taken a few feeble steps, then dropped dead on the floor of the health station. Right in front of their eyes.” ... The stories, it would turn out, were false and misleading. But it was just one of many problems that plagued the “swine flu affair of 1976”

 

https://www.aier.org/article/open-l...ll-belgian-authorities-and-all-belgian-media/

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-19-vaccine-in-60000-volunteers-idUSKCN26E1QX

Rival vaccines from Moderna Inc MRNA.O, Pfizer Inc PFE.N and AstraZeneca AZN.L all require two shots separated by several weeks, which make them much more difficult to administer.

“The benefits of a single-shot vaccine are potentially profound in terms of mass immunization campaigns and global pandemic control,” Dr. Dan Barouch, a Harvard vaccine researcher who helped design J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine, said in a telephone interview.

A good reason to wait for a better vaccine.

 

Some more about the test and false positives. The author discusses original article as it relates to UK policies, but these are pretty universal

http://potiphar.jongarvey.co.uk/2020/09/18/all-you-need-to-know-about-covid-testing/

 

Here is another interesting find. I went through few month of data provided by our overlords. They give numbers for active cases and confirmed cases. The data is very strange. Confirmed cases go up by one amount while active cases by another in the same period. It is not possible to fins a definition of what is an active case and what is a confirmed case. There are days where confirmed cases go up but active cases do not?

And on top of everything the provincial party in power decided to call early elections!

If there were any doubts that this was political...

 

A note on plastic face shields:

https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/plastic-face-shields-ineffective-at-stopping-covid-19-study/

Plastic face shields are all but useless when it comes to defeating the spread of the coronavirus, according to a new Japanese study.

 

A note on plastic face shields:

https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/plastic-face-shields-ineffective-at-stopping-covid-19-study/

And they look funny, too.

 

And they look funny, too.

I think I have you beat, the look funny part. I haven’t shaved since Jan 1st, I lost my face, I’m a fur ball.

kv

 

I think I have you beat, the look funny part. I haven’t shaved since Jan 1st, I lost my face, I’m a fur ball.

kv

a fur ball with a plastic face shield? ... wow

 

a fur ball with a plastic face shield? ... wow

Is this like a fetish thing for you? Isn't it called "furries" or something?

 

Is this like a fetish thing for you? Isn't it called "furries" or something?

please don't put that image in my head...

 

please don't put that image in my head...

This brought back disturbing memories of when I learned about existence of furries...

I understand it helps people deal with stress. Maybe with what is going on it will go mainstream

 

You boys must be talkin bout sumthin this poor ole Southern boy ain't know'd bout.