so the people at llyods know nothing about science and put their trust in a questionably sourced religious text?
no wonder they got confused about the whole pandemic thing
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I don’t expect you’ll find a shred of superstition or sentimentality at Lloyd’s. Remember, their business is being a marketplace for insurance, not being an actual insurer, so mass crises don’t affect them directly.
Meanwhile, most conventional insurers wind up near bankruptcy any time there is a slightly major event (multi-state flooding, regional hailstorms, major terrorist attack, etc.)
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- Week 1: Hand sanitizers, soaps and disinfectants
- Week 2: Toilet paper
- Weeks 3 and 4: Spiral hams and baking yeast
- Week 5: Hair clippers and hair dye on the rise
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sign-of-the-times-7
Here is a true sign of the times story. In late March the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (part of SEIU) announced that they’d discovered a stockpile of 39 million n95 masks. They proceeded to arrange for different hospitals in the region to purchase allotments from the cache. There were viral pressure campaigns launched against hospitals who didn’t rush forward to purchase. There were even bogus claims that the union had been caught ‘hoarding’ the masks.
What did happen is that the news got FEMA interested in seeing if they could seize the mask motherlode for the federal government – yet another part of the still murky confiscated supplies story. But this time things turned out differently…
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WTF??
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Related to the comment upthread I did not have time to look up a reference for:
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Adding info on the fly, will look for paper tomorrow if I find time: according to a pre-print mentioned by Christian Drosten, testing with very high viral load in macaques (AFAIR) who previously had Covid-19 SC showed immunity. He said this was very encouraging.
Also AFAIR, immune response is very slowly adapting it’s fine-tuning of specific antibodies after an infection. Meaning: we would need to test early cases after a longer intervals to see if they are and stay immune. So not really surprised that we don’t have studies, yet. If we see convincing results, I assume they will be from China.
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My biggest concern was the potential (based on other, related, coronaviruses, so…) for only brief-to-short duration of immunity. Can’t be overemphasized, any data on this virus is, by definition, short term. From patient zero to current is probably less than 6 months, so is there long term immunity? No way to know at this point in time.
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So initial report (this is not a study, there was no control group, there was no attempt to compare to historical outcomes, this was “we gave some folks this stuff, here’s what happened”) on remdesivir pretty much suggest it is not a game changer in severe cases at least. Could it help? Maybe, but this report does not show that.
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Oh for fuck’s sake…
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Experts shmexperts. Pointyheaded eggheads don’t know shit about the real world. They’re just looking to suck up grant money.
Etc.
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What’s odd is that Republicans show high levels of trust for medical professionals, the CDC and the Orange Griftmonkey.
How does that work when much of the information coming from the Griftmonkey is inconsistent with that coming form the other sources?
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FTFY.
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Mr Peabody is not his spirit animal.
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- Week 1: Hand sanitizers, soaps and disinfectants
… - Week 5: Hair clippers and hair dye on the rise
They left out the “things that run on batteries” phase.
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