Oh dear. The dawg is on a leash and can't get to the shower. Are we sure he even took more than one shower a week before he arrived?scirreeve wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:54 pm Rapey Bob (PDX folks know who he is) was in ICU for a week but he is now still in the hospital but in a COVID ward. I hate that this idiot is tying up a hospital bed. He is bitching about his care - fuck him.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjOBSHtIBVY&ab_ ... robertwest
Snake bites by the jararacuçu (Bothrops jararacussu): clinicopathological studies of 29 proven cases in São Paulo State, BrazilBrazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19.
A study published in the scientific journal Molecules this month found that the molecule produced by the jararacussu pit viper inhibited the virus's ability to multiply in monkey cells by 75 per cent.
"We were able to show this component of snake venom was able to inhibit a very important protein from the virus," said Rafael Guido, a University of Sao Paulo professor and an author of the study.
The molecule is a peptide, or chain of amino acids, that can connect to an enzyme of the coronavirus called PLPro, which is vital to reproduction of the virus, without hurting other cells.
Already known for its antibacterial qualities, the peptide can be synthesised in the laboratory, Guido said in an interview, making the capture or raising of the snakes unnecessary.
"We're wary about people going out to hunt the jararacussu around Brazil, thinking they're going to save the world ... That's not it!" said Giuseppe Puorto, a herpetologist running the Butantan Institute's biological collection in Sao Paulo. "It's not the venom itself that will cure the coronavirus."
Researchers will next evaluate the efficiency of different doses of the molecule and whether it is able to prevent the virus from entering cells in the first place, according to a statement from the State University of Sao Paulo (Unesp), which was also involved in the research.
They hope to test the substance in human cells but gave no timeline.
the jararacussu has rather potent venom, potent enough to kill sixteen people
Just doing my part...so, thank YOU.
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The less sane show NO understanding 
of an individual’s responsibility to the society that they believes owes them everything. 
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/healt ... 6b1dc44938Dallas firefighter dies of COVID-19, first pandemic death for Dallas-Fire Rescue
David Leos recently hit his 40th year with Dallas-Fire Rescue. The landmark came while he was hospitalized.
Leos' wife, Darlene, has been visiting her husband for weeks. According to the family, Leos was unvaccinated. He was also a cancer survivor.
The City of Dallas is now offering more time off for employees who get their shots.
Since the pandemic began, 650 firefighters with Dallas-Fire Rescue have tested positive for COVID-19.
One of the last things Leos told his wife, per the family, was an apology for not getting vaccinated.
"He said he was sorry he never got vaccinated, right before he was put on the ventilator," Jeane Leos said.
https://www.kcra.com/article/caldor-fir ... 2/37464143"We lost a whole strike team of crews yesterday, we lost a finance section chief due to [being] COVID positive, so understand, do not come to this briefing without a mask on," he said. "I understand your views are important and I will always respect that as one of our leaders, but you are here at a briefing. One more COVID firefighter getting sick could take out our actions to protect the community and the people we're here to serve."
Henry Herrera, a public information officer for Cal Fire, said a "strike team" consists of five fire engines — each staffed by three firefighters — plus a strike team leader. He said those 16 firefighters will have to quarantine for two weeks, and did not have information on where the strike team was stationed or their vaccination status...
I think there's two probable reasons behind these numbers. First, the egotism prevalent in physicians (remember the joke about God thinking he's a doctor). Frankly, I think widespread egotism/narcissism is behind this rampant Dunning-Kruger pandemic - all these people believe they know more/are smarter than everyone else, especially experts. And as is typical of Dunning-Kruger idiots, being proved wrong simply makes them double down.LM K wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:20 pmThat's so fucking disturbing.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 4:10 pmThat article is from June.Among the nation's 50 largest hospitals, the percentage of unvaccinated health care workers appears to be even larger, about 1 in 3. Vaccination rates range from a high of 99% at Houston Methodist Hospital, which was the first in the nation to mandate the shots for its workers, to a low between 30% and 40% at some hospitals in Florida.
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19 ... al-workers
The GOP's love for Trump is so well expressed by Alice Cooper, except since they don't break the chain, they kiss and slip Trump the tongue.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 12:41 pm Jeebus, now we don't only have to worry about the unvaxxed covid patients overrunning the ERs, but also these ivermectin idiots. Goddammit.
Alice Cooper continues to be a Good Guy:
Your cruel device
Your blood, like ice
One look, could kill
My pain, your thrill
I wanna love you but I better not touch (don't touch)
I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you but I want it too much (too much)
I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison
You're poison, running through my veins
You're poison
I don't want to break these chains
Boo f'ing hoo. This is also a lie. Yes, her husband works out of town. But she does not have little kids. Her kids are 9, 12, and 14! No 9-year-old goes to day care. They literally haven't ever gone to day care because she has always been a stay-at-home mom. And her mother (my sister) routinely has the kids for one reason or another, lives about a mile from her, and is essentially homebound due to disability, so I can't imagine a situation where she would be unavilable. COVID means that no one who is not essential goes in the hospital. And it has long been the practice that you don't leave your kids unattended in the waiting room for the receptionist to deal with.Apparently children are considered visitors at St. Lukes. God forbid a single parent with no options for daycare or babysitter or parent whose spouse works out of town and no family or friends/same nearby or available needs to see the doctor. WTF!!!!! Their answer is reschedule or cancel, to bad so sad. But it's ok in their book to leave your minor children home alone or in the car alone. They don't care. Was told they don't get paid enough to deal with it either. Seriously?
Ya, that's more or less the reason I originally went to become a Priest, I'm ashamed to say.DejaMoo wrote: ↑Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:07 pm Second, there's a lot of people working in health care now not because helping people is their vocation, not because they love science, but simply because it's a career that pretty much ensures they'll be able to find a job easily - and one that pays decently, too.
