I’ve been meaning to buy the rubber respirator for grinding and sanding with changeable filters… may not be a horrible idea
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I got one, that’s plan B
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Second research group confirms unusual “mutation” to include HIV like sequences:
Recall, Indian team was forced to retract paper because they claimed such a mutation would be highly suspect.
Latest, confirmed: 82,152 Deceased: 2,798
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unlikely to be fortuitous in nature
I seriously think many of the ones that attacked the good Indian Dr.s have issues that these blokes have a better command of the English language than they do.
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Pretty much confirms what I said, at the beginning, unfortunately.
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“Folks, this coronavirus thing, I want to try to put this in perspective for you. It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus … The coronavirus is the common cold, folks,”
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Hahahah not a good look for Rush. 
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He’s got stage 4 cancer. Maybe he calls that a common cold as well. No cure for a common cold either…
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I will be firing up a 2nd deep freeze this week to store some food in…just in case. (the 1st one is full of my last summer’s Cannabis crop, still awaiting the hash runs) If it really hits the fan, and we are better off staying indoors…I will be making hash sooner than expected this yr.
They might not help…but they surely can’t hurt!
I always have a bunch of N95 Noish approved masks for the wild fire smoke in the Sierra Nevadas…Needless to say…mine are NOT FOR SALE!
If I have to shave my beard…That will say when I am serious about wearing a mask!
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Masks vs respirators—key differences
In its newly published infection prevention and control recommendations for COVID-19, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the use of N95 respirators in a healthcare setting with the suspected novel coronavirus, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended surgical masks for general patient care and respirators for aerosol-generating procedures only.
Face masks have become ubiquitous in China, sold on the street, and worn by almost everyone in public. A new survey, the Premise Coronavirus Awareness Survey, showed that in Taiwan 79.9% of people questioned said they were wearing masks in an effort to protect themselves from COVID-19. A similar percentage was noted in the Philippines.
Bruce Ribner, MD, medical director of the Serious Communicable Diseases Unit at Emory University Hospital, said the two masks serve very different functions. A surgical mask, or procedural mask, is meant to protect the environment from the wearer.
“It’s meant to keep the surgeon’s respiratory issues away from a patient,” Ribner explained. A surgical mask does a good job of trapping large droplets, and some aerosol transmission, he said. Many of the masks being worn in China, though, are not designed for medical use or to any standards and so their effectiveness in trapping droplets is unknown.
A respirator, such as an N95, fits tighter to the face and is meant to help protect the wearer from inhaling infectious droplets in the environment.
“We don’t really know how the coronavirus is being transmitted from person to person, because no one has done the NIOSH studies that simulate the cough big droplets that land 3 to 6 feet away from a person or the little droplets that can travel long distances and in air handling system,” Ribner said. “So we have to use what we know about other coronaviruses and influenza when it comes to this disease.”
What we know, Ribner said, is that multiple modes of transmission are likely at play, including large droplets, small droplets (or aerosols), and contaminated hands.
At Emory, Ribner is responsible for the care of patients treated for Ebola, Lassa fever, and other serious pathogen diseases.
Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, which publishes CIDRAP News, says, “The very unsettling data regarding the number of infected healthcare workers in the Wuhan area and the infection of a Japanese doctor working with those quarantined on the cruise ship and who used standard PPE [personal protective equipment]—except for a surgical mask instead of an N95 respirator—should be a real wake-up call to all of us about how do we really protect against this critical occupational risk.”
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You shall be our canary 
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Surely there must be some other way!
Besides…I can’t fly! LMAO
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Upon admission, our team asked public health officials if this case could be COVID-19. We requested COVID-19 testing by the CDC, since neither Sacramento County nor the California Department of Public Health is doing testing for coronavirus at this time. Since the patient did not fit the existing CDC criteria for COVID-19, a test was not immediately administered. UC Davis Health does not control the testing process…
Of tangential interest:
The head of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases CDC, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, happens to be the sister of FBI’s Rosenstein.
It’s just amazing how interconnected these folk are. The same names keep coming up over and over no matter how disparate the crisis. Along with the same level of face palm.
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Just read that one, and there is yet another report of a “cured” patient catching it again! Had to be mutating, or simply not discouraged by antibodies that might have been created by the patient the first time.
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I’ve read that as well, this is one of the alarming features. Even worse, some research indicates that a second infection can lead to Cytokine storms if the antibody titer falls within a certain range (linked to the reports of cardiac arrests, etc). Basically an out of control immune response. Bad news on top of the bad news.
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I am in the same boat…to shave or not to shave?
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Did that graphic actually come from the CDC? Walrus, Fu Manchu, Villain, … (It’s ok to be villain, I guess).
Not sure whether to laugh or cry 
We are now fully versed on the terminology the next time we visit the barber, at least.
Next up, CDC issues paint by number viral protection kits?
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So many mustaches and so little time.
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