COVID-19 (artist formerly known as Wuhan strain novel Corona virus)

Legit or nah?

 

The data is probably legit. The real question is what is the “success rate” of similar patients that aren’t given those drugs.

 

92% successful isn’t extraordinarily positive (good)?

 

Trump says he’s seen proof China Flu started in Wuhan Lab, is now mulling $1 Trillion in new tariffs as retribution.

Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...avirus-started-Wuhan-virology-laboratory.html

 

We don't know without a control group.

The study also showed close to a 3% death rate. If we were dumb, we would say HCQ causes a death rate 5x-6x higher than what we've seen in other studies. But we aren't dumb!

Point being, we have little context for the data.

 

This x1000. Without proper control groups and placebo groups, there is no way to know if there is causation and not just correlation. I hope it works, but scientifically, it is just anecdotal at this time. As long as it doesn't cause more harm, there is no harm in giving it. But it might be just as effective as giving them all Cokes to drink.

 

I just cannot believe him. I'm all for economically nuking China right now, but for the right reasons. He has a history of floating crap out there like this "I have guys that tell me...", "I hear these things.." etc.

Very Butchesque. BUT! If it makes him want to put China's nuts in a vice, go for it. I just think it is his warped view of the world and only that. All intelligence and science (that we are aware of) shows it is a natural born killer. I think he WANTS it to be true, therefore it is true.

 

If only 5 to 10 % of infected require hospitalization, doing nothing also is approximately just as successful-- DEPENDING on how they are defining "success." In a vacuum, "92% successful" could mean anything.

 

Obviously I don't know what he was shown, but I do know what he said about it couldn't have been bats because they are 40 miles away is patently bullshit, which makes me have a hard time accepting anything he says on this. Like saying getting bird flu requires living in the proximity of chickens, or only chimpanzee hunters can get AIDS.

 

The first graph made me lol. Gives me an anxiety attack looking at it. Bet TT gets a woody.
https://theconversation.com/we-foun...-and-a-whole-new-way-to-fight-covid-19-136789

 

Ya, that is humbling to look at.

 

I’m unburdened of any substantive concern as to whether China Flu originated in the Wuhan lab or the wet market - as either represents willful negligence on China’s behalf, and they are still ultimately responsible for the fallout from it.

And this assumes that it was accidentally unleashed. If done purposefully, I’ll be hard-pressed to argue that it wasn’t an act of war.

The important part of the linked piece is that Trump clearly blames China for the appropriately named China Flu, and is seeking to make them pay for it. Will be interested to see how his plan plays out.

 

Got to love the Thursday at 4pm notice drop by the IRS saying that any expenses paid by the forgivable PPP loan proceeds will be nondeductible.

 

So, the government bailout money isn’t deductible, meaning, it’s taxable....and you’ve got to pay that taxed portion back to the government....who gave you the bailout?

 

You nailed it.

Grassley is pissed, and suspect it will be changed.

 

The loan forgiveness proceeds are tax free, though, so you're effectively netting right?

 

It's netting, but there isn't a person that will argue that is a complete 180 with that they were trying to accomplish with the act.

 

I quickly scrolled past it.

 

It could be - but if 87% of patients at a similar state also recover - is it extraordinarily positive / good? I'm just saying you need to know what the baseline is - what types of people it is being given to (how sick, other drugs, etc.) in order to make any kind of determination on whether this specifically is good news (of course anyone recovering is good news - just maybe not good news about this drug combo).

 

My favorite is when I’m watching a seminar and the speaker throws up something like that on a PowerPoint slide “As you can clearly see here...”