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that don t require kicking the shit out of in fact if i get near them with my card they work fuck you one outside door that is a total fuckstain 10 15 drop off coffee in the office and go to bathroom to wash hands yes i m thinking about the shuttle bus handles and chairs as well as the door knobs i ve touched getting to and from my office as well as getting my third coffee yes i use soap and get the paper towels ready ahead of time yes i use soap and use the paper towels to turn off the water yes i get more paper towels which is ok my hands are still wet to finish drying my hands and open the door i use my foot to prop the door while i took the paper towels and exit the bathroom 12 00 i don t know if this is the correct time but i wash my hands because i ve been in the lab doing science if i haven t been doing science in the lab i wash my hands anyway because its time and i want lunch 1 00 go into the bathroom and wash my hands i might use the facilities too as i ve had 3 cups of coffee 3 00 leave lab or office and wash hands because its time and whether i realize it or not i ve almost certainly done some things regrind door handles stairs countertops or something lots of hands have touched 5 00 at gym use sanitizer after running laps on track use sanitizer do some weight lifting with pulleys mucho sanitizer 5 45 don t touch face you don t know what you ve been in contact with 7 00 arrive home and wash hands well with soap and water make dinner assume i m safe wash hands and dishes partner will appreciate at least the dishes part and i ll feel good about a full day complete with active knowledge of where my hands have been 9 00 get ready for bed wash hands anyway because as confident as you are you re probably off by a bunch flattenthecurve 0 comments labels personal science teaching how the coronavirus and flu are not the same email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest by the lorax on wednesday march 11 2020 there has been much attention too much in my opinion comparing sars cov 2 with influenza b sars cov 2 and influenza b are the specific names for the viruses in question when we generally short hand coronavirus and flu there are many types of coronaviruses including sars mers and some versions of the common cold although most colds are caused by rhinoviruses there are also multiple types of flu including influenza type a b and c although a and b are the most common from here on out i ll use coronavirus and flu as this is how most people and the media discuss them but realize this is short hand covid 19 is the disease caused by sara cov 2 and is not a pseudonym much like aids is a disease caused by hiv both viruses are rna viruses their genetic material is rna and this is converted into dna after infection into a host cell these viruses force the host cell to use this dna copy to make all the proteins required to make new virus and to make complete rna copies which will then be packaged into new viral particles before killing the host cell and infecting other cells and or hosts both coronavirus and flu cause significant respiratory illness indeed sars is an acronym for severe acute respiratory syndrome these infections make breathing more difficult in large part due to immune responses trying to keep you alive but they also make a patient more prone to getting pneumonia which can also kill you these aspects of infection help explain why the elderly immunosuppressed and young are high risk groups it appears that coronavirus is not particularly lethal in the young however data is still limited in my opinion at first glance it looks like coronavirus and flu are similar this could lead some like an orange baboon to directly compare them if we do compare them directly its easy to conclude that flu is much much worse and its a plot by the universe to be concerned about coronavirus in the us flu infects 10s of millions leading to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and 10s of thousand deaths every year to date world wide coronavirus has infected over 100 000 people and caused about 4000 deaths for non viral comparison sake car crashes kill about 40 thousand people in the us comparable to the flu virus gin deaths are similar in the us your basic orange baboon from here although i realize the image on the left is an infant orangutang and the image on the right is an actual orange baboon since we don t shut down schools concerts etc for the flu and don t seem to care that much about vehicular deaths and definitely aren t willing to do anything about gun deaths what is the concern about coronavirus all about it s because because these comparisons are at best inadequate but more likely abysmal first we need to consider what happens when someone gets sick with either virus maybe nothing both viruses cause symptomatic infections although these patients can readily pass the viruses on to others who may not be so lucky next possibility is you get sick but not so severely that you go to the hospital hopefully you stay home and recover but this being america many people will have to go to work or are otherwise unable to rest because social safety nets are for commies you know like every other developed country on the planet more severe cases lead to hospitalization and of those a subset will leave the hospital in a casket here s one of the first places where coronavirus and flu differ roughly 2 3 of infected individuals will die of coronavirus aka leave in a casket this number will likely change as more information is obtained in other areas of the world because the us is wasting time and energy not testing even likely infected patients however the flu leads to death in roughly 0 1 of patients second lets consider some other critical differences 1 there s a flu vaccine that s right there s a vaccine against influenza but somewhere between jack and shit for sars cov 2 to be fair it s closer to shit than jack shit regardless of what orange baboons say it will be a long time at the earliest before there s a vaccine in fact it may take many years before there s a vaccine we still do not have anything close to a vaccine to hiv and we ve been working on it since the 80s the flu vaccine isn t perfect because it has to be developed before flu season begins so some years its more effective than others if it were developed afterwards it would be too late to be useful hmmmm to be clear even when the vaccine doesn t match well it still provides some protection and reduces mortality and severity shortens length of illness and reduces chance of infection also evolution matters and flu much like other rna viruses i m looking at you sars cov 2 evolves quickly this is why you should get a flu vaccine every year by the time a coronavirus vaccine is developed in the best case scenario most of the planet will already have been exposed ok the savvy among you are already thinking if there s a vaccine but still a shit ton of people die from flu why should i care about coronavirus well most people are not vaccinated for the flu maybe 50 which is well below what is needed for herd immunity however health care workers doctors nurses emts etc are almost uniformly vaccinated against flu thus they are much less likely to miss work because they have the flu which means they are available to care for those who do get sick and require hospitalization 2 we know the flu is coming look there s a reason you need a vaccine every year as above its due to evolution but here s the thing for well over a hundred years we ve known this is coming every single year and as our medical personnel are kind of smart and know this is coming they are prepared besides being vaccinated hospitals and clinics generally have the resources available to handle the influx of respiratory illnesses that will show up during flu season we know thousands of patients are coming in so its factored into the medical care equation don t believe me think this is some kind of plot conceived by the msm ask yourself why do insurance companies the epitome of capitalism in the us prepare for these expenses every year in the us hospitals are generally revenue generating at least for the wealthy so why aren t they prepared for this change in hospital cases every year the short answer is they are prepared they are prepared for flu they are also prepared for other cases like heart attacks and broken bones however they are not prepared for dealing with fundamental changes in the status quo coronavirus is a change in the status quo 3 here s the problem if hospitals plan for x number of beds being occupied even during flu season what happens if more than x number of beds are occupied due to coronavirus what happens to any potential extra patients like grandpa with a heart attack in the us we live in a firm capitalistic society if someone isn t making money then why bother so hospitals don t have a bunch of excess beds for just in case hospitals don t have extra doctors nurses or other staff sitting on the bench for just in case tv medical dramas give a false sense of time frames in regards to infectious disease testing one thing they do give reasonable service to is bed availability if two school buses crash into each other the local hospital cannot compensate with the increased patient load this becomes the plot focus for episode this week in these scenarios patients are triaged and sent to other hospitals or patients left to wait for a team to be available to treat them this is the drama of the episode so what does this mean in the real world in the face of a pandemic 4 if a small percentage of health service professionals emts nurses doctors get sick then everything fails there are a finite number of nurses available to serve at a given hospital there are only so many goalies available on game day 2 in fact if the goalies get injured you are basically fucked yes there was this one game this one year that the team won just saying however the reason this is notable is that most third string goalies never get in and when they do they fail if fewer medical professionals are available more people fail to receive adequate care so these people get worse results furthermore new cases get pushed to the back burner making the problem last longer also grandpa who shows up with a heart attack is part of this queue 5 this leads to the st louis vs philadelphia conundrum not fair to either city during the flu of 1918 problematically called the spanish flu philadelphia took a trump maga approach not doing shit and st louis took a more draconian approach of closing dance halls clubs schools and other gathering areas this this led to the flattening the curve idea that is all over the nets from here the gif is better in my opinion flatten the curve basically the idea is that if exposure and infections are delayed severe cases do not overwhelm the health care infrastructure the bad part of this is infections occur over a longer period of time the good part is that fewer people die to be clear without flattening the curve there s a much greater chance of people dying from coronaviruse but also grandpa dying of a heart attack because the health care system is overwhelmed if doctors nurses and other staff are home sick they are not helping grandpa out and there are not people on the zamboni who can come into the game successfuly we in the us and most other places are not prepared for pandemics it s not our business model however by taking steps to mitigate the potential and almost certain problems we can respond adequately to be clear people will die people will get sick there s no denying that however we can significantly reduce the number who die and get profoundly sick as an academic a skeptic and a realist i doubt we will succeed overall i think we are philadelphia not st louis prove me wrong 0 comments labels politics science thinking who we are older posts home subscribe to posts atom what i ve read 2025 the 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