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2020-04-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2020-04-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Slow plague day?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:14|| 2020-04-28 10:14|| Front Page Top

#2 MORE evidence smoking may cut the risk of coronavirus: Review of 28 studies shows number of smokers among hospitalised patients is 'lower than expected' as expert admits the mounting findings are 'weird'

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:30|| 2020-04-28 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Amazon, Walgreens and CVS run short of heartburn medicine Pepcid as people stock up after it emerged it was being tested as a treatment for Covid-19

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:31|| 2020-04-28 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Will Covid-19 kill off cash? ATM withdrawals plummet by 60 per cent under lockdown as three quarters of shoppers say they'll switch to contactless or go online in future

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:33|| 2020-04-28 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Secret group of scientists backed by billionaires are working on a 'Manhattan Project' to stop COVID-19

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:35|| 2020-04-28 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I yearn for the day when the MSM can just get back to bashing President Trump. Oh, wait....

Posted by Clem 2020-04-28 10:40|| 2020-04-28 10:40|| Front Page Top

#7 US coronavirus death toll could reach 74,000 by August, according to latest IHME model projections - as health experts warn fatalities will increase if states reopen too early

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:41|| 2020-04-28 10:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Models, shmodels. Who cares?

Posted by Clem 2020-04-28 10:43|| 2020-04-28 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Top immunologist warns that scientists 'don't know the foggiest' yet whether surviving coronavirus protects you from catching it again and says without mass testing 'we're flying blind'

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:47|| 2020-04-28 10:47|| Front Page Top

#10 EXCLUSIVE: 'It's a horror movie.' Nurse working on coronavirus frontline in New York claims the city is 'murdering' COVID-19 patients by putting them on ventilators and causing trauma to the lungs

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:50|| 2020-04-28 10:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Contact tracing reduces the time it takes to isolate infected people by nearly two days and could be the key to controlling the spread of coronavirus, Chinese study claims

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:53|| 2020-04-28 10:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Russia sees a record 6,411 new coronavirus cases and 72 deaths in a day as Putin prepares to announce whether lockdown will continue

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:55|| 2020-04-28 10:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Smithfield Foods shutters its FIFTH plant as fears of meat shortages across US grow amid coronavirus outbreak and farmers warn they may have to EUTHANIZE tens of thousands of pigs

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:56|| 2020-04-28 10:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Who cares?

~~Mathfags~~
Numbers enthusiasts

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-28 10:58|| 2020-04-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Last three weeks the line outside Sam's Club here formed up before the doors opened and extended from the door all the way back to the loading dock. Today no line, some stuff still in short supply or limit 1 or 2 per customer visit. Improvement nonetheless.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-28 11:42|| 2020-04-28 11:42|| Front Page Top

#16 #2 Obviously smokers lung tar masks ACE2.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-28 11:43|| 2020-04-28 11:43|| Front Page Top

#17 When this is all over, there WILL be a cache of Clorox wipes, masks, and hand sanitizer in my attic. Already in the budget.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-28 11:47|| 2020-04-28 11:47|| Front Page Top

#18 No lines at Von's in Santee this AM. Checkers also had no lines. Salads were the only thing in short supply - stocker said the delivery would be in later today

Posted by Frank G 2020-04-28 12:04|| 2020-04-28 12:04|| Front Page Top

#19 I lucked out at Walmart on Sunday. An employee was guarding/distributing packs of toilet paper. Still a hot commodity, but maybe, just maybe, the end in the madness is near.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-28 12:23|| 2020-04-28 12:23|| Front Page Top

#20 Local grocery chain (Tom Thumb) this morning, during senior hours. Fair to good stock of everything, except sanitizing stuff. Several off-brands of TP and a modest supply of Charmin.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-28 12:30|| 2020-04-28 12:30|| Front Page Top

#21 RE: #7. I just happened to check the IHME model this morning. US has had 70% of its projected deaths. NY 90%. Texas 40%, (but it is opening a little).

Figures don't lie, but politicians abuse them.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-28 12:35|| 2020-04-28 12:35|| Front Page Top

#22 Mexico Deports Nearly All Of Its Illegal Migrants Amid Coronavirus Fears, Government Reveals

That needs to be presented to every federal judge with the clear comment - Are the Mexicans racist for doing that? If not, then quit obstructing the enforcement of our own laws.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-28 17:28|| 2020-04-28 17:28|| Front Page Top

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