Pandemic 2020

hillbill said:

If it went in, it will come out in the exact opposite move

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You would think, but there is a slightly flat bottom to the bowl that somehow slipped just far enough in the jar to lodge it.

But great news! I put it in a box, and put a paper over the jar, hammered the jar, but it wouldn't break, hit it again a little harder and it still didn't break, but my bowl popped out!!!



My wife bought this faucet that has a sweet little jet spray that fits into the holes of my pipe so I can spray it out pretty good now.

Ill try the oxyclean thing too ty!

Red Cross Statement on Collecting Convalescent Plasma for Treatment of COVID-19
April 24, 2020
“During this uncertain time, the American Red Cross has quickly adapted to meet the extraordinary challenges of this coronavirus pandemic and fulfill our lifesaving mission to alleviate suffering as we confront an emergency unlike any we have faced in a century.

In late March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a new initiative to collect plasma from those who have recovered from this new coronavirus to treat patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections.

Since that time, the Red Cross, FDA and our industry partners have worked around the clock to put this new initiative in place by establishing a process to identify, qualify and collect convalescent plasma safely from recovered COVID-19 individuals, at both Red Cross and local blood collection organizations. To date, the Red Cross has distributed a couple hundred convalescent plasma products and is projected to collect and process hundreds more this week. We are adding resources to qualify and collect from more donors in the weeks to come to help increase collections.

Thousands of potential donors have responded to our call to help patients seriously ill with active COVID-19 infections. However, it is important to note that at this time, less than 10% of these individuals initially meet FDA’s eligibility criteria, of having a verified COVID-19 diagnosis, as well as being symptom free for at least 28 days prior to donation or symptom free for at least 14 days prior to donation and having a negative COVID-19 test result.

The Red Cross is currently requesting and reviewing additional information from individuals who have submitted forms to donate convalescent plasma. However, this is a complex process as we work to ensure each potential donor is appropriately screened and has the proper documentation to verify every convalescent plasma product collected is safe for a patient battling COVID-19.

We are encouraged that FDA approved Ortho Clinical Diagnostic’s COVID-19 Antibody Test through an Emergency Use Authorization last week. The Red Cross is working with our partner, Creative Testing Solutions (CTS), to implement this test for convalescent plasma donations in the near future. This automated test will screen the donated convalescent plasma for the presence of COVID-19 antibodies, allowing the Red Cross to simplify the eligibility process and qualify more potential donors.

Please note that the Red Cross is NOT providing COVID-19 antibody testing for members of the public or routine Red Cross blood, platelet or plasma donors.

The Red Cross is grateful to recovered COVID-19 patients who have stepped up in an effort to help someone in need during this difficult time. We recognize that so many want to provide support during this pandemic and the Red Cross continues to work aggressively to fulfill these emerging needs for patients across the country through our humanitarian mission.

Learn more about this effort at RedCrossBlood.org/plasma4covid.”

Give em the "cure" and a good buzz too, some RIU members plasma could render most folks unconscious! Gee doc I coulda swore I got high on that transfusion, or what was in that stuff!
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Plasma Donations from Recovered COVID-19 Patients
In coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Red Cross is seeking people who are fully recovered from the new coronavirus to sign up to donate plasma to help current COVID-19 patients.
People who have fully recovered from COVID-19 have antibodies in their plasma that can attack the virus. This convalescent plasma is being evaluated as treatment for patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections, or those judged by a healthcare provider to be at high risk of progression to severe or life-threatening disease.
You may qualify to donate plasma for coronavirus patients if you meet specific convalescent plasma and regular blood donation eligibility requirements:


You are at least 17 years old and weigh 110 lbs. Additional weight requirements apply for donors age 18 or younger.



In good health. You generally feel well, even if you're being treated for a chronic condition. View blood donation FAQ’s.



Have a prior, verified diagnosis of COVID-19, but are now symptom free and fully recovered from COVID-19.

If you’re fully recovered from a new coronavirus infection and meet the above criteria, please fill out the Donor Eligibility Form below. A Red Cross representative will follow up with prospective candidates to confirm eligibility.

Top end fuel, alcohol and THC, oh right, antibodies, too. Now, there's no need to shoot bleach. Thanks, science!

The USA lost around 600 people on the worldometer so far today. If convalescent plasma transfusions worked to lower the mortality rates and hospital resource requirements lets say 5 times the death rate to get the plasma transfusion rate. say 3, 000 transfusions a day, that is easily doable. Now how effective are plasma transfusions in treating covid-19 and when are the best times to administer these treatments and to who? These questions are being answered in clinical trials right now.

If this treatment option is effective, and that has yet to be determined, it is also cheap and quick to implement and can dramatically reduce hospital stay times and resources like ventilators. As soon as serological testing becomes available there should be no shortage of plasma volunteers and no reason why this treatment option cannot be used on thousands of people a day, those likely to progress to severe illness, or those who have. Convalescent plasma therapy is cheap and any country with a blood donor network can do it on a large scale.

This is but one treatment option, artificial antibodies are another and then there are drug treatments some of which appear to be very promising. We are still waiting on data and studies, but we will not be waiting for long and are preparing nonetheless. It is possible by the middle of summer to have convalescent plasma and antibody therapy in widespread use and effective drug therapies coming online around then too. These therapies and drugs may also be used in combination to treat even the most severe cases.

What happens to the debate around opening the economy, if treatment options greatly expand the healthcare system capacity and lower mortality rates to seasonal flu levels? If we could achieve low mortality levels while protecting the vulnerable and elderly we could even talk about "herd immunity" in an ethical way.

Here is where things currently stand, we could expand this quite a bit.

56 Facts about Blood

• More than 4.5 million patients need blood transfusions each year in the U.S. and Canada.
• 43,000 pints: amount of donated blood used each day in the U.S. and Canada.
• Someone needs blood every two seconds.
• Only 37 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood – less than 10 percent do annually**.

topcat said:

Top end fuel, alcohol and THC, oh right, antibodies, too. Now, there's no need to shoot bleach. Thanks, science!

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Better living through chemistry, though us old farts might be able to bleed the youth now like some medieval pope! If ya wanna go back to work or college young feller ya gotta pay in blood! No passport without a pint of plasma!

Past generations have paid in blood and young blood is the best!

Draft em and bleed em!

Selective service son, roll up yer sleeve, fill out the form, STFU and thank Jesus we don't make ya get a funny haircut and work out till ya barf. After that the real fun would begin as strange people try to kill yer ass in a strange and unpleasant land!

I said on March 11 (doesn't that seem like an eternity ago?), when I started this fucking miserable thread, that I knew that Trump/COVID-19 would fuck us & to go out & buy a freezer if possible to prepare for Armageddon
When I went out & bought one that day my wife said I was over reacting
Well, all I know is that now I have 6 whole chickens, a multitude of thighs & legs, 2 turkeys, 6 boxes of Bubba Burgers, around 30 pork chops, 3 of each beef & pork tenderloins, shrimp , flounder, cod, 14 NY cut steaks frozen in my basement, & I'm going out tomorrow & get more.
All bullshit aside, this going from bad to worse rapidly.
What the fuck do you do if your food supply is interrupted & you don't have any meat?
And you know that fresh produce is next on the list for shortages.
This should be interesting.

Jimdamick said:

I said on March 11 (doesn't that seem like an eternity ago?), when I started this fucking miserable thread, that I knew that Trump/COVID-19 would fuck us & to go out & buy a freezer if possible to prepare for Armageddon

MSN

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When I went out & bought one that day my wife said I was over reacting
Well, all I know is that now I have 6 whole chickens, a multitude of thighs & legs, 2 turkeys, 6 boxes of Bubba Burgers, around 30 pork chops, 3 of each beef & pork tenderloins, shrimp , flounder, cod, 14 NY cut steaks frozen in my basement, & I'm going out tomorrow & get more.
All bullshit aside, this going from bad to worse rapidly.
What the fuck do you do if your food supply is interrupted & you don't have any meat?
And you know that fresh produce is next on the list for shortages.
This should be interesting.

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Plow under yer lawn James and grow tatties or ya might be down on all fours eating the grass like a fucking sheep by election day MAGA! Potatoes taste better than grass. Hook up the wife to the plow or the lad might be a good choice for busting sod!

Yep an old bicycle frame and a harness for the wife and yer set to homestead. MAGA and 40%+ approve of president Trump's handling of the coronavirus crises... What will you do the next time you see a MAGA hat and have a baseball bat? You'll be plenty strong, plowing is good exercise and you will have lost some weight too!

You would have done much better electing Rob Roy POTUS FFS

Once the trucks stop rolling, you know you're in trouble. Go vegetarian and grow your own. Beans and nuts will provide the protein needed.

Hope, perhaps, if it works and there is reasonable evidence that it does, it's cheap and could be quickly deployed, it could be a highly effective treatment option. More will be known soon as the case studies and clinical trials come in.


America's Blood Centers Partners with BARDA to Expand Collection of Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Patients
PR Newswire

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2020

Community Blood Centers Nationwide Remain at the Forefront of the National Response Efforts to Increase Access to COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma

WASHINGTON, April 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- America's Blood Centers and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are announcing a partnership to further promote collections of COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) from individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 to assist COVID-19 patients in need. This partnership recognizes CCP as a potential therapy for COVID-19 patients and the ongoing efforts of community blood centers to provide CCP to hospitals for treatments.

"The support of BARDA enhances the continued mobilization efforts by community blood centers to meet patient needs during the COVID-19 pandemic," said America's Blood Centers Chief Executive Officer Kate Fry, an organization that represents nearly 50 not-for-profit blood centers throughout the U.S. who collect close to 60 percent of the nation's blood supply. "Members of America's Blood Centers nationwide have provided thousands of shipments of CCP to hospitals and these efforts will only increase as more individuals recover from COVID-19. The opportunity to align the ongoing work of community blood centers to safely increase patient access to CCP is our ultimate goal."

The partnership further demonstrates that America's Blood Centers and its member blood centers are committed to continuing to collaborate with BARDA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and hospital partners to ensure and advance the safe collection and distribution of CCP from individuals who have recovered from COVID-19.

Though COVID-19 currently has no proven treatment, it is possible that convalescent plasma, a component of blood from patients that have recovered from COVID-19 may provide antibodies to fight the virus. Individuals who have had a confirmed case of COVID-19 and have since experienced a full recovery should contact their local blood center to determine their eligibility. Hospitals should also contact their regular blood provider regarding availability and with information about potential donors.

For individuals meeting the above criteria of recovery from COVID-19, the donor center will further evaluate their eligibility for donation which might include additional prescreen blood testing as well as routine donor screening. To be eligible to donate convalescent plasma, donors must meet all regular blood donor requirements.

To find your local blood center to schedule an appointment to donate blood or CCP, please visit: www.AmericasBlood.org. Additional information and donor center locations can also be found at: www.covidplasma.org.

About America's Blood Centers

Founded in 1962, America's Blood Centers is North America's largest network of community-based, independent blood programs. Recognized by the U.S. Congress for its critical work in patient care and disaster preparedness and response, the federation operates more than 600 blood collection sites providing close to 60 percent of the U.S., and a quarter of the Canadian blood supply.

These blood centers serve more than 150 million people and provide blood products and services to more than 3,500 hospitals and healthcare facilities across North America. Each year, our members help save the lives of nearly 3 million patients. America's Blood Centers' U.S. members are licensed and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Our Canadian member is regulated by Health Canada. America's Blood Centers is not affiliated with the American Red Cross. For more information visit www.AmericasBlood.org.



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topcat said:

Once the trucks stop rolling, you know you're in trouble. Go vegetarian and grow your own. Beans and nuts will provide the protein needed.

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If they just redeployed the restaurant food going to waste to food banks it would help a lot. Pay the restaurants to deploy into tents and parking lots for the summer and have drive through soup kitchens, drive through meals, or box lunches. Open air patios and shade awnings will make sidewalk shopping and outdoor markets possible.

topcat said:

Once the trucks stop rolling, you know you're in trouble. Go vegetarian and grow your own. Beans and nuts will provide the protein needed.

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Just find all the survivalist types in yer area and go sniff the vents of their bunkers for the stench of decay. I figure most showed up at the lockdown protests and will soon be dead in their bunkers with a big cache of guns and ammo, perhaps even food too!

Trump refuses to take responsibility for spike in calls to poison control

This is so fucked up.
The demand is there of course, but no way to process or transport or distribute.
Fucking nightmare.

Irish Times opinion writer excoriates the state of affairs in the USA and calls out the grotesque fucking impeached slob that is a cancer to the United States


"The world has loved, hated and envied the US. Now, for the first time, we pity it."


Fintan O’Toole is one of Ireland’s many national treasures, a great writer who stands out in a country where great writing would be almost ordinary were it not so revered.
In today’s Irish Times, O’Toole writes:

The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.

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