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  • BankwalkerBankwalker Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    My interest in this article is related to quercetin in combination with zinc. Read down and you might be shocked at what viruses this combination has gained trial approval for in the US and other countries. Zinc is sold in most grocery and drug stores. Quercetin can be bought on the internet or herbal vitamin stores.

    What’s the harm if you are someone concerned about covid?

    I’ve been taking vitamin D and zinc, but know it is difficult for the body to absorb zinc

  • dawgnmsdawgnms Posts: 5,277 mod
    edited July 2020

    To put it into perspective you are making a business decision, just like the decision to play sports or open schools is a business decision, teachers that are high risk don't want to up their chance of exposure by being around school age people who may have the virus and are not having symptoms.

    Spending 300.00 per test is a business decision, good on you, but spending that 300.00 to help your 4 employees whom I assume are good employees pay some of the child expenses may be a better decision, do not get me wrong,

     not telling you how to run your business but it is a 2 way street. Me I personally believe people should live their lives how they want free of government interference.

  • BankwalkerBankwalker Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Confounding that signatures hold up so many things. A buddy was supposed to be going to Nevada for about a month to the AF base out there. His trip was delayed because he was waiting on the 3 star general on base to sign off on it. Why in the heck a command general needs to sign for one person to leave town is beyond me. I can’t imagine the paperwork for what you’re doing.

  • YaleDawgYaleDawg Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
  • NomadDawgNomadDawg Posts: 436 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Wait till you find out about pregnancy tests and condoms

    Kidding, just trying to lighten the mood

  • BankwalkerBankwalker Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    He’s a civilian, so he can go wherever he wants. In his case, I suspect his security clearance is probably the reason. He works on weapons systems.

  • dgdawgdgdawg Posts: 242 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    If he need access to the base he needs permission from the base commander. I work at Eglin and they are doing the same thing.

  • Casanova_FlatulenceCasanova_Flatulence Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited July 2020

    To show a fair and balanced approach to this topic I give you this not so optimistic article.

    This is certainly not what I wanted to hear:

    "A study released last month by the Scripps Research Institute concluded that the strains of the virus spreading so quickly in Europe and the U.S. have a mutated S “spike” protein that makes them about ten times as infectious as the strain that was initially identified in Asia. If it seems like the United States is having a tougher time controlling the spread of the coronavirus than Asian countries did in winter and early spring, that’s partially because this version of the virus is tougher to stop from spreading."

    On the positive side, we have this...

    "A vaccine is coming as fast as anyone could hope for, but still probably won’t arrive until late 2020 or early 2021.

    We continue to hear good news from the hunt for a vaccine. The University of Oxford vaccine candidate might be done with human trials by September, and “AstraZeneca has agreed to sell the vaccine on a not-for-profit basis during the crisis if it proves effective and has lined up deals with multiple manufacturers to produce more than 2 billion doses.” A candidate vaccine developed by the federal government and Moderna appears to be safe and to trigger an immune response, and is entering the final stage of testing trials. The Food and Drug Administration has also fast-tracked two experimental vaccines jointly developed by German biotech firm BioNTech and Pfizer, according to CNBC.

    Once the world is on its way to recovery, one final problem will remain: figuring out how to prevent a similar crisis from happening in the future. We must be aware that the conditions that facilitated the virus’s migration from a bat to the still-unidentified Patient Zero in Wuhan will be almost entirely unchanged when the pandemic ends. We don’t know exactly how that migration happened, but illegal animal poaching and smuggling will continue around the globe, the so-called wet markets in China will remain open, and we will still have to take it on faith that most countries conduct their biological research into contagious diseases safely."

  • dawgnmsdawgnms Posts: 5,277 mod

    JACKSON, Miss. (WLOX) - Across the entire state, there were 1,032 new cases of COVID-19 and 24 new deaths reported Friday.

    3rd consecutive day of 1000+ cases and increasing deaths

  • texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Best post I've read in a while. Wish more Americans had this attitude.....

    Of course....many do..... don't want to discount them. But we need more of this.

  • Denmen185Denmen185 Posts: 7,460 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    What happens when the kid goes home to Grandma as Mum is at work! The kids tested in Florida were 1/3 positive of 51k tested!

  • Canedawg2140Canedawg2140 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    What happens when the kid spends ALL DAY at Grandma's because Mum is at work and they don't have school, then goes and plays with his friends that evening in the front yard?

    The same risk, except in one scenario, he/she gets educated.

    If Grandma and the kid are seeing each other regularly, then that risk has already been assumed.

    C'mon, Den. How long do you want to keep kids away from each other? You site stats all the time, and research all the time. It's not hard to find research on development issues with kids - of all ages - that do not socialize, miss discipline, and have no routine.

    I work with kids. I know kids. I have watched kids - from all backgrounds - grow up as they interact with each other. And I have ALREADY seen the toll this has had on teenagers and rites of passage.

    Mum need's to stay away from the grandkids for a while - and when she sees them, it can be outside about 10 feet away, upwind.

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