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This definitely isn't going to be over any time this year, unless we get very lucky and the virus dies off as warmer weather comes. Even then, it will be back in fall when it gets cold again. The public-health effort is to slow down the rate of infection and death enough that the healthcare...

Death rate is deaths divided by cases (meaning positive tests, not hospitalizations), so those numbers would give us a death rate of 2.4% (5,345/227,061). BUT bear in mind only folks with symptoms are getting tested due to the test shortage. Many if not most COV cases are mildish, in that folks...

Animal COVID-19 update: So it is possible for dogs to get COVID-19, but not at all easy, and dogs are at lower risk than you are, but cats and ferrets are very susceptible: "We found that SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks, but efficiently in ferrets and cats. We...

Most outdoor/outhouse shitters are well enough ventilated that airborne virus passed as gas while shitting is going to dissipate fast enough to pose minimal risk, just like virus passed while breathing while shitting. But yes, if you can smell the last user's shit as you approach, and they have...

Lime (the garden kind not the fruit) over the shit is best, sawdust is also good, woodstove/fire ashes, or dirt if nothing else is available. If there are flies, you need to use more of what you are using. A smallish shovelful of lime after every shit should be enough, a 50 lb bag kept dry will...

All good here so far, have not left my property in 2 weeks except to go to the medical weed store once a week, kid's school closed since last week, wife's library ditto. Hunkered down with adequate supplies. Take COV-19 seriously, but do not worry, do not fear (too much). Worry eats up the...

"The Revolution will not be televised...the Revolution will be LIVE!" Was just listening to that the other day, along with "Whitey On The Moon". Some Boomer poetry for you kids, this is the original more minimal 1970 version which i prefer to the orchestrated second version he did:

Some not good news: younger people (under age 55) make up 38% of people sick enough with COV-19 to be hospitalized. Older people are at much higher risk, as are younger people with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, lung disease, and other underlying conditions...

Most respiratory infectious disease (like the new strains of flu that evolve each year and can get us when immune systems are weak in cold weather- thanks evolution!) originates in China and SE Asia. Live animal markets in those areas, along with the characteristic pattern of agriculture in...

Some good news for you kids: death rate for infected people under 29 in Italy (the country that has been hit hardest) is ZERO PERCENT. Many under-29s who are infected show no symptoms, or just a mild cough, but are spreading the plague to every human they get within 6' of. YOU KIDS WILL BE...

It's like watching a slow-motion car crash, and not being sure if you're watching from in the car or not.

Don't we all.

It appears COV-19 very seldom produces serious symptoms or death in infected persons under forty- up to age 40 (with risk of death increasing with age), risk is only about .4% (see chart at first link) from Chinese data so far. So, when/if most of you get infected, you will have a rough week or...

No contradiction. The flu is a serious worldwide event, that has killed 10,000 so far this year. It happens every year. Do you spend every winter in a panic state?

There is not one single example of a "modern virus" that was "leaked out of labs". Stop spreading misinformation. Of course, the COV-19 virus, like the seasonal flu that has killed ten thousand people so far this year, and most other infectious diseases, will mostly kill "the extremely weak...

Not good news: Trump has ordered the most qualified high government official who is a trained epidemiologist (and one of the heroes of the AIDS era- if you know anyone HIV+ who isn't dead, thank him) Dr Anthony Fauci not to speak to the press without political clearance...

Yes, this is some real shit; how real we don't know yet. So far, COV-19 is killing about 2-3% of the infected, many orders of magnitude more than most flus. Spanish Flu may have killed more people from 1918-20 than WW I, and killed about 2-3%. So that would translate to about 250 million killed...