Oh, you think these are affordable? Have you forgotten the $10,000 "China Bad" fee? 
TheModerateTankie
joined 5 years ago
I wonder why they don't treat swing voters with this much contempt?
SARS first emerged in 2002, and there have been bigger MERS outbreaks in the past, but MERS has been a potential risk for a new pandemic for a while. If it evolves to evade an immune response for as long as Covid did, we can potentially get a new pandemic. Our societies seem especially bad at understanding pre-symptomatic disease transmission, even after covid.
Saudi Arabia reports 4 new cases of MERS coronavirus
Saudi Arabia has reported four new cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), a coronavirus which first emerged about 12 years ago, according to health officials. Two of them were caused by human-to-human transmission.
According to a statement from the World Health Organization on Thursday, three of the cases were found in Riyadh between April 10 and April 17. The index case, a 56-year-old school teacher, had no clear history of exposure to MERS risk factors.
The teacher first developed symptoms – including a fever, cough, a runny nose and body aches – on March 29. He went to the emergency room of a local hospital on April 4 and was taken to the ICU on April 6, where he died the following day.
“We can do it. We just need the funding and the political will.”
I have mixed feelings about him. I grew up listening to his music and it has been a major influence on me, was amused by him being a loudmouth asshole twerp or his petty beefs with other bamds over the years, and admired his work ethic. According to people who knew him he was a pretty generous person to anyone wanting advice or help with any aspect of the music industry. He understood that the mainstream music industry was a poisonous ripoff and warned everyone he could away from getting involved with it.
His early music is full of dark topics and it seemed clear to me, and from reading interviews, that the intent was to shock and confront people with the darker nature of humanity, with satire and irony. Similar in the vein to something like Hunter S. Thompson. Transgressive, irreverant and confrontational, but the intent was not to promote bigotry, violence, or sex crimes. Anyone familiar with the evolution of 4-chan can see how that approach can turn out. He pretty much owned up to it in recent years with basically "This is what my intent was. I was a privileged white male asshole in a sea of them and was in the wrong. I regret it. I don't expect forgiveness for any of it, and deserve whatever bad feelings people have towards me" Which is better than most, I guess?
I first saw the pedo shit being posted as a response to him calling out Dave Chappelle for being a transphobic asshole, so I assumed it was some obscure shock writing from his younger days taken out of context to sound as bad as possible. Considering who were attacking him for it, I was inclined to be charitable about it.
But I don't know what the fuck was up with him and his long time friendship with Peter Sotos, or the the tour diary where he finds child porn in the porn shops in holland. Even under the most charitable interperetation it is legitimately gross and fucked up. Albini only ever touches the topic of pedophilia in one of his songs, and it's based on an incident that turned out to be fake, and is meant to be disturbing. I've listened to almost everything he's put out, and it's not a running theme in any of his music or writing. So, it's just kind of a 
moment. He's owned up to most of his bullshit, but not that specifically, because it's not really defensible.
Also, he was a 
-stan.
People who think the democrats would "follow the science" when a pandemic emerges are in for a surprise.
We'll be told to wash our hands.
We've had years to upgrade air filtration and ventilation in public buildings and offices and have barely done shit. If we got people to wear n95s in public we could stop most of the damage, but they absolutely will not spend the "political capital" to do so.
If anything, we'll encourage the spread to achieve "herd immunity".
"We developed an assay for testing for H5N1 from wastewater over a year ago. (I wasn't expecting it in milk, but I figured it was going to poke up somewhere.) However, I was just on a call with the CDC and they are advising us NOT to use it. I need a drink."
Molecular virologist Marc Johnson:
Glasser presented her findings to wildlife officials in Uganda, who responded encouragingly, she says, adding hand-sanitising stations at the start of trails.
Every respiratory pathogen that has caused a chimp outbreak in Kibale was present in children living nearby. Then, during Uganda’s most stringent Covid-19 lockdown between March and September 2020, the researchers observed an “extraordinarily clear” drop in infections across the board, Goldberg says, suggesting that schools are indeed a major source of transmission.
Focusing on making children living near great apes healthier, then, could be the best bet for keeping human diseases out of great ape populations. Programmes have already been launched to reduce transmission among local children, teaching handwashing and other hygiene measures.
If you don't support a ceasefire, you support Trump for president.
How long until Biden accuses the students of being Hamas operatives?
fury road is a damn good movie