Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Quote:No, I judge people for being stupid with ANIMALS. Yanno, being sprayed by wild animals with urine, feces, spit, and blood, all day, every day, in wet markets. And then going home. Because it makes money. Like that.
You judge people for being "stupid" with their pets.
You've obviously never owned a dog before. I love dogs. Cats make shitty pets for lazy people.
Do YOU get down-and-dirty will dog poop, Jack? Get sprayed in the face by dog piss yet?
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:Most animals have lungs that are too small to cause any serious level of infection
Quote:Jo, currently what's making the virus more infectious are 2 things: it has added different molecular 'grappling hooks' on its surface by which to attach to human cells; and because each virus does a better job infecting more cells, more people develop more serious infections with more shed virus per person.
Originally posted by JO753:
A likely reazon the variants are more infectious iz that they are able to survive outside a body longer. That meanz the 6 ft rule bekumzz the 12 ft rule, then 24 then a mile.
It never made much sens to me. Being down wind uv an infected person iz the danjer. And indoorz, forget it!
Breth volume iz a likely factor, but how much airborne virus duz it take?
Suppoze the virus mutates so it can liv indefinitely in the air. You coud catch it from a wisp uv breth from a sparrow a mile away.
Every organism and virus has an infectivity threshold which is how much you need to be exposed to before you become sick. So, obviously different people will fight off the infection differently, and some people's immune systems will do a better job than others. But it's a good estimate that reveals big differences between infectious agents. For example, it takes roughly 6 bacteria of E Coli O157H7 to cause an infection. It takes roughly a 1000 virus particles to be infected by Hepatitis B. It takes roughly a million virus particles to be infected by HIV. While at this point nobody has figured out (yet) how many SARS-CoV-2 virus particles does it take to become sick, there's good evidence with SARS-CoV-2 the dose makes the disease. People exposed to few virus particles become only mildly symptomatic, if they develop symptoms at all. While people exposed to higher numbers of virus particles become sicker.
As for it becoming environmentally resistant ... all viruses degrade over time in the environment. For example, Hanta virus Sin Nombre strain (excreted in deer mice urine and feces, 50% mortality rate, it's the strain found in the US) degrades to non-infectivity in about 3 days under the typical environmental conditions found in homes.
SARS-CoV-2 is a non-encapsulated virus, which means it doesn't have a nice protective lipid (fat) layer around it to keep it from drying out. That's why it's so susceptible to even mild disinfectants, like 60% alcohol ... I digress ... anyway, there are very specific conditions where SARS-CoV-2 can 'survive' longer - though at ever decreasing numbers over time - outside the body. And they are very cool to cold temperatures 32F-40F, 100% relative humidity, and landing on a non-porous non-reactive surface. That keeps them moist and in the same configuration as when they left the body. But since infectiousness depends on 'grappling hook' spike proteins having a particular configuration, and heat, lack of moisture, and interaction with surfaces all will change that configuration (the same way egg white proteins cook in a pan), unprotected, non-encapsulated SARS-CoV-2 is quickly rendered non-infectious over time in all but the most protective conditions.
So, while mentally one can extrapolate infectivity ALMOST infinitely (unless you believe in homeopathy, one needs at least 1 viable virus particle to cause an infection, which is the final endpoint of any infectivity argument), in the real world there are limits to how far virus infectivity can go, based on viral degradation in the environment, and its basic infectivity.
I don't know if I can make this more clear, but I'll try by analogy. If I can only jump 6", I might be able to train myself to jump 1'. And if I theoretically extrapolate that trend, I might extrapolate I'll be able to train myself to jump to the moon. So, obviously, there are real limits to theoretical extrapolation.
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Uh, the dark lung looks more like a lung from a coal miner, city dweller, or smoker, contaminated by ultra-fine carbon (coal/ soot) deposits --- what used to be called "black lung" when it happened in coal miners.
And in reddit, that pix comes under the title "Cancerous Lungs (left) compared to Healthy Lungs (right)"
This pix from science news shows a post-COVID-19 lung removed from a person who had a double lung transplant.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-critically-il
l-patient-double-lung-transplant
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Deaths
465,861
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Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas has died, his congressional office announced in a statement Monday, saying that he had been admitted to the hospital after contracting Covid-19.
"Congressman Ron Wright passed away peacefully at the age of 67 on Feb. 7, 2021. His wife Susan was by his side and he is now in the presence of their Lord and Savior," the statement read. "For the previous two weeks, Ron and Susan had been admitted to Baylor Hospital in Dallas after contracting COVID-19."
His congressional office announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19 on January 21 with the congressman saying at the time in a statement, "I am experiencing minor symptoms, but overall, I feel okay and will continue working for the people of the 6th District from home this week."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/politics/ron-wright-congressman-dies/in
dex.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Man... it's a great thing that we've privatized everyone's health records... I mean, we never really did that and they're hardly private at all, but when the media needs them to remain private we can pretend that a 67 year old congressman who contracted Covid-19 didn't already suffer from a myriad of ailments and we can blame his death squarely on a virus that kills nearly no one.
FEAR!!!!!!!
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A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.
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Quote:In other news from his government paid website, Wright objected to Biden being certified as the winner, objected to Trump being impeached, and introduced an anti-abortion bill on Jan 29, 2021, even while dying. Dear Representative Wright was protecting precious babies. Another Trumptard bites the dust.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Man... it's a great thing that we've privatized everyone's health records... I mean, we never really did that and they're hardly private at all, but when the media needs them to remain private we can pretend that a 67 year old congressman who contracted Covid-19 didn't already suffer from a myriad of ailments and we can blame his death squarely on a virus that kills nearly no one.
FEAR!!!!!!!
https://wright.house.gov/media
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Another Trumptard bites the dust between being elected to Congress and being sworn in:
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies from COVID-19
https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-coronavirus-pandemic-shreveport-b
d0de82f39d856ef262f81fd66dec1d8
Photos posted on social media from campaign events show Letlow sometimes wearing a mask when interacting with potential voters, but other times — including at his victory party, two weeks before his hospitalization — without a face covering as he posed for pictures with supporters.
Hailing from the small town of Start in Richland Parish, Letlow was elected in a December runoff election for the sprawling 5th District U.S. House seat representing central and northeastern regions of the state, including the cities of Monroe and Alexandria. He would have been sworn in next week.
Letlow was going to fill the seat being vacated by his boss, Republican Ralph Abraham. He had been Abraham’s chief of staff and ran with Abraham’s backing for the job.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:In other news from his government paid website, Wright objected to Biden being certified as the winner, objected to Trump being impeached, and introduced an anti-abortion bill on Jan 29, 2021, even while dying. Dear Representative Wright was protecting precious babies. Another Trumptard bites the dust.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Man... it's a great thing that we've privatized everyone's health records... I mean, we never really did that and they're hardly private at all, but when the media needs them to remain private we can pretend that a 67 year old congressman who contracted Covid-19 didn't already suffer from a myriad of ailments and we can blame his death squarely on a virus that kills nearly no one.
FEAR!!!!!!!
https://wright.house.gov/media
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
It doesn't matter what "side" he was on.
Useful death is useful.
P.S. Please stop talking about Trump using the death penalty out of one side of your face while making fun of somebody for protecting innocent babies.
I'm a firm believer the death penalty shouldn't be used. We don't like you pro-abortionists muddying the message, mkay?
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A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.
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Quote:If you want to know how many Trumptards in Congress have caught Covid-19 but did not bite the dust:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
FEAR!!!!!!!
COVID-19 in Congress
https://www.govtrack.us/covid-19
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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