* *

User

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

May 23, 2026, 05:57:56 AM

Login with username, password and session length

Recent

Stats

Members
  • Total Members: 142
  • Latest: Hal9000
Stats
  • Total Posts: 179524
  • Total Topics: 1495
  • Online Today: 366
  • Online Ever: 4316
  • (October 16, 2025, 04:40:42 PM)
Users Online
Users: 0
Guests: 252
Total: 252

« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 342 343 [344] 345 346 ... 445   Go Down

WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?

  • 6668 Replies
  • 896174 Views

0 Members and 3 Guests are viewing this topic.

*

Somewhere in Mn

  • *****
  • 12704
  • +179/-2614
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5145 on: February 14, 2023, 09:33:15 PM »
Quote from: illiniray on February 14, 2023, 08:49:22 PM
My understanding is still that a cloth mask serves as an effective barrier for respiratory droplets before they dissolve in the atmosphere and become aerosolized. That is consistent with what Fauci said about cloth masks and asymptomatic persons spreading Covid.
I would say that tho the virus is a certain size, the size of the droplet that carries it is the issue. A micro droplet would be considered as aerosol and can remain airborne whereas a droplet would be one that falls to the floor within a few feet due to it's weight.
Imagine what you would expel in normal breathing vs what you would expel in an upper respiratory cough or sneeze.

Viral load is also an issue. Ventilation or being out doors will reduce viral aerosol concentrations, and limited exposure to the virus that ends up delivering a low viral load will be tolerable for most healthy individuals.
Logged
*

IlliniGolf

  • *****
  • 873
  • +34/-689
  • Fuck your feelings !
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5146 on: February 14, 2023, 10:51:52 PM »
Logged
Tempo, Ray, Alum, Smurph, McLassie: Raging FOR the machine since 2020 !!!
*

Somewhere in Mn

  • *****
  • 12704
  • +179/-2614
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5147 on: February 15, 2023, 06:21:18 AM »
The WHO names Jeremy Farrar as it's Chief Scientist in Dec.
Farrar was the head of Wellcome Trust and one of the 1st, or the 1st, people that Fauci contacted after Kristian Andersen informed Fauci that Covid looked 'potentially engineered.'
With the thousands of people working in or with NIAID or the NIH and epidemiologists all across the country, Fauci contacted a guy in Britain to set a response in motion.
Peter Daszak was involved in the original investigational trip to Wuhan, after months of negotiations with WHO, to investigate his own work and the work of his 'well I didn't do it, my colleagues did it' colleagues.
The World Health Organization just dropped plans for further investigations.
« Last Edit: February 15, 2023, 06:31:18 AM by Mn »
Logged
*

ThePAMan

  • *****
  • 31768
  • +609/-2445
  • Because "PussyMan" and "PenisMan" were trademarked
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5148 on: February 24, 2023, 12:06:50 PM »
Logged
Mark Carman: "The Whitlock!...Caleb Williams failed Wayne Whitlock." Been told I need to take my dick out my mouth so maybe I "wont [sic] sound like such a fucking faggot all the time[.]"

Tempo: "PAMan is a pot stirrer and agent provocateur"
*

Judge Judy

  • *****
  • 11923
  • +120/-1810
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5149 on: February 24, 2023, 12:08:13 PM »
Quote from: ThePAMan on February 24, 2023, 12:06:50 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/millions-of-us-workers-are-still-missing-after-the-pandemic-where-did-they-go/ar-AA17SSGZ

None of the alleged experts have an answer. I am sure we can come up with one here.

Trump deported them?! 🤔

*some how, some way Murph will say this and Alum will miraculously come up with links to post…
Logged
Because FOX News told me so…

HQ2 Cesspool March Madness champion 🏆
*

ThePAMan

  • *****
  • 31768
  • +609/-2445
  • Because "PussyMan" and "PenisMan" were trademarked
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5150 on: February 24, 2023, 12:18:12 PM »
Quote from: Judge Judy on February 24, 2023, 12:08:13 PM
Trump deported them?! 🤔

*some how, some way Murph will say this and Alum will miraculously come up with links to post…

Ironically, isn't there an argument that allowing more immigration would help with inflation by lowering low skill wages (which have risen the most post-pandemic)?
Logged
Mark Carman: "The Whitlock!...Caleb Williams failed Wayne Whitlock." Been told I need to take my dick out my mouth so maybe I "wont [sic] sound like such a fucking faggot all the time[.]"

Tempo: "PAMan is a pot stirrer and agent provocateur"
*

ILLove1997

  • *****
  • 6437
  • +80/-2019
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5151 on: February 24, 2023, 02:33:43 PM »
Quote from: ThePAMan on February 24, 2023, 12:18:12 PM
Ironically, isn't there an argument that allowing more immigration would help with inflation by lowering low skill wages (which have risen the most post-pandemic)?

Sure if they don't need to eat or live anywhere or buy anything
Logged
----------------------------------------------------
Inaugural Official HQ2 Tempo AOTC Award Winner
2025 - Pot stirrer of the year
*

illiniray

  • *****
  • 9355
  • +626/-2098
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5152 on: February 24, 2023, 02:58:16 PM »
Quote from: ILLove1997 on February 24, 2023, 02:33:43 PM
Sure if they don't need to eat or live anywhere or buy anything

Their cost of living is low. They eat beans, rice, and chilies; and multiple families can live in the same house. Plus, they supplement their income running drugs and guns.  /s
Logged
“Taking a trip? Where to?”  -“Wherever I end up, I guess. -“Man, I wish I was you." -Well, hang in there.”
*

Judge Judy

  • *****
  • 11923
  • +120/-1810
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5153 on: February 24, 2023, 03:12:05 PM »
Quote from: illiniray on February 24, 2023, 02:58:16 PM
Their cost of living is low. They eat beans, rice, and chilies; and multiple families can live in the same house. Plus, they supplement their income running drugs and guns.  /s

Sounds like just the people we need here!
Logged
Because FOX News told me so…

HQ2 Cesspool March Madness champion 🏆
*

ThePAMan

  • *****
  • 31768
  • +609/-2445
  • Because "PussyMan" and "PenisMan" were trademarked
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5154 on: February 24, 2023, 04:16:45 PM »
Quote from: ILLove1997 on February 24, 2023, 02:33:43 PM
Sure if they don't need to eat or live anywhere or buy anything

Seems like that could be the case, but I have never heard of spending by immigrants as being a driver of inflation. Wouldn't the slowing of wage increases (or even decreasing of wages) lead to price stagnation or decreases which are caused by the need to increase wages in a tight labor market?
Logged
Mark Carman: "The Whitlock!...Caleb Williams failed Wayne Whitlock." Been told I need to take my dick out my mouth so maybe I "wont [sic] sound like such a fucking faggot all the time[.]"

Tempo: "PAMan is a pot stirrer and agent provocateur"
*

IlliniGolf

  • *****
  • 873
  • +34/-689
  • Fuck your feelings !
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5155 on: February 28, 2023, 10:38:47 PM »
It looks like those that dared questioned the lockdown and vaccine mandates and Fauci and the media spin were prettt much at least partly right on Everything !
Logged
Tempo, Ray, Alum, Smurph, McLassie: Raging FOR the machine since 2020 !!!
*

Reacher

  • *****
  • 39860
  • +1068/-1058
  • You should see my passer rating
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5156 on: February 28, 2023, 10:41:53 PM »
Quote from: IlliniGolf on February 28, 2023, 10:38:47 PM
It looks like those that dared questioned the lockdown and vaccine mandates and Fauci and the media spin were prettt much at least partly right on Everything !

That’s the funny thing about conspiracy theories. They’re often “partly right.”
Logged
"He commented more than once that, 'You know, Hitler did some good things, too,'" Kelly recalled to The Times. Kelly said he would usually quash the conversation by saying "nothing (Hitler) did, you could argue, was good," but that Trump would occasionally bring up the topic again.
*

Somewhere in Mn

  • *****
  • 12704
  • +179/-2614
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5157 on: March 02, 2023, 07:55:50 AM »
smdh.
Birx: 'China has not been transparent' but doesn't mention that China requested the NIH to delete data.
'We were successful in vilifying fringe epidemiologists and conspiracy theorists tho'.
'A lab leak is very plausible......'
'I'm a good scientist.'
'I have a nice smile.'

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/02/28/dr_deborah_birx_lab_leak_origin_of_covid_is_very_plausible_a_good_scientist_is_willing_to_question_their_own_assumptions.html
Logged
*

alum74

  • *****
  • 2692
  • +1447/-124
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5158 on: March 02, 2023, 10:12:12 AM »
Quote from: Mn on March 02, 2023, 07:55:50 AM
smdh.
Birx: 'China has not been transparent' but doesn't mention that China requested the NIH to delete data.
'We were successful in vilifying fringe epidemiologists and conspiracy theorists tho'.
'A lab leak is very plausible......'
'I'm a good scientist.'
'I have a nice smile.'

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/02/28/dr_deborah_birx_lab_leak_origin_of_covid_is_very_plausible_a_good_scientist_is_willing_to_question_their_own_assumptions.html

Selling books again, is she?

COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins
https://apnews.com/article/covid-misinformation-china-lab-leak-coronavirus-4a76f8196d7c504f288429d1018d2990


Logged
*

illiniray

  • *****
  • 9355
  • +626/-2098
    • View Profile
Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #5159 on: March 02, 2023, 11:35:12 AM »
I don't recall seeing this two years ago. The author's interpretation ation of gain of function is straightforward and fairly easy to understand.

It is giving an organism a new property or enhancing an existing one. This is done a couple ways. One broad, general way appears to be the same as artificial selection -- natural selection aided by humans. The other is via genetic manipulation -- specifically recombinant DNA.

This is not limited to viruses. Domesticated crops and animals were developed through artificial selection;  GMO foods via genetic manipulation.

The author said GoF research on viruses usually does not mean making them more virulent or infectious.

The author also said Fauci was wrong, but did not lie. I think that is an important point. These days, when people disagree, they tend call one another liars.

https://www.virology.ws/2021/09/09/gain-of-function-explained/
Logged
“Taking a trip? Where to?”  -“Wherever I end up, I guess. -“Man, I wish I was you." -Well, hang in there.”
Pages: 1 ... 342 343 [344] 345 346 ... 445   Go Up
« previous next »