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Posted on 4/16/20 at 6:39 pm to CrimsonShadow
"110,000 to be exact" 
Posted on 4/16/20 at 6:52 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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. @Greg_Byrne frantically redrawing construction plans.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 6:58 pm to CrimsonShadow
Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:01 pm to wm72
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With more serious studies beginning to come in for these possible treatments, remdesivir seems to be showing the most promise, from what read. I wonder how it is administered?
IV.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:05 pm to FeralFeral
Yep. IV only. That’s a good start but that won’t do for widespread treatment. We need an oral treatment ideally or an injection would do, but IV is not ideal.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:11 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
The fact that Mt. Sinai, at least, had to develop a way to make what he delivered usable makes this claim by Musk suspect at best.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:42 pm to mre
Seems like Jefferson’s numbers are slowing down while Mobile’s numbers are continuing to climb 
Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:44 pm to 1BamaRTR
I’m wanting everything to open back up and get back to normal, but I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t concerned. You can’t live in fear though. This shite has gotten old
Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:59 pm to Cobrasize
Posted on 4/16/20 at 8:19 pm to 1BamaRTR
So according to them Alabama is terrible yet managed to never get close to overtaxing our health care system and never came close to the predicted number of deaths.
I guess that means their rating system is full of shait or the draconian measures implemented in other places weren’t ever really necessary here to begin with. Wonder which one they would pick?
Also, it is nice that the Mayor of Gulf Shores says the beach can reopen 5/1. Unfortunately for him, that call isn’t his to make. Kay closed all the beaches. If she orders them to remain closed, they will be closed. If she orders them open tomorrow he could close those in the city but the 3 miles of Gulf State Park would be open tomorrow.
I guess that means their rating system is full of shait or the draconian measures implemented in other places weren’t ever really necessary here to begin with. Wonder which one they would pick?
Also, it is nice that the Mayor of Gulf Shores says the beach can reopen 5/1. Unfortunately for him, that call isn’t his to make. Kay closed all the beaches. If she orders them to remain closed, they will be closed. If she orders them open tomorrow he could close those in the city but the 3 miles of Gulf State Park would be open tomorrow.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 8:37 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
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Gulf Shores Mayor says Alabama's beaches can reopen May 1
Hopefully the entire panhandle does this. shite is so incredibly over blown and people just eat up this fear.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:04 pm to Dubosed
I went to pick up some yum-yum sauce from our local hibachi place tonight and saw 3 restaurants that have shut down completely over this.
It sucks.
It sucks.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:22 pm to phil4bama
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Yep. IV only. That’s a good start but that won’t do for widespread treatment. We need an oral treatment ideally or an injection would do, but IV is not ideal.
I read some more about remdesivir and apparently it can be administered via IV or hypodermic syringe injection.
This post was edited on 4/17/20 at 5:34 am
Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:47 pm to phil4bama
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Well I knew it was stupid but we were holding out hope it would still happen. They officially pulled the plug on my daughter’s high school graduation next month. They are exploring virtual graduation options. I am heartbroken for my kid. She’s worked so hard and she’s lost her senior prom and now graduation. TheY deserve better.
Sorry to hear that. I know it's tough since all those events are so important at that age.
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So according to them Alabama is terrible yet managed to never get close to overtaxing our health care system and never came close to the predicted number of deaths.
I think it's really turned out to be "luck of the draw" where you do have some smaller cities like with the Southern Georgia funeral or the small Westchester Co NY town church service where seemingly hundreds of people were infected from just one carrier.
There's no reason to think it unlikely that without closures a nephew traveling from Atlanta to a funeral in Atmore Alabama or an aunt to a wedding in Evergreen spreads it. Then you have 100 folks carrying it all through a rural county where more than just a handful of hospital rooms are an hour away.
I do get the point though that almost all the big outbreaks they have traced in smaller cities were from crowded events like church services, crowded band shows at bar, funerals, spring break parties etc and maybe the limit on gatherings would have sufficed.
This post was edited on 4/17/20 at 8:12 am
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:18 pm to TideSaint
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I went to pick up some yum-yum sauce from our local hibachi place tonight and saw 3 restaurants that have shut down completely over this.
It sucks.
The whole cultural shift in consumer preference for local goods over corporate chains (restaurants, retail, etc.) that has occurred the last 10 years or so is going to be turned on its head as many of the local businesses close due to this BS. It's disheartening to say the least.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:37 pm to TideCPA
Posted on 4/17/20 at 7:09 am to wm72
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I do get the point though that almost all the big outbreaks they have traced in smaller cities were from crowded events like church services, crowded band shows at bar, funerals, spring break parties etc and maybe the limit on gatherings would have sufficed.
This is part of my issue. The second (speaking for Alabama) is the nonsensical way the state closed many if not most small businesses. Big box stores like Wal-mart, Target, etc stay open because people gotta eat. Sure, but they draw thousands each store every day and social distancing rules will absolutely be broken. Oh well, suck it up.
On the other hand, a friend’s wife has a custom clothing and embroidery shop in our little downtown area. It draws in a whopping tens of people a day and there are rarely more than a couple in the store at any time. SHUT THAT ‘RONA SPREADING CESSPOOL DOWN RIGHT NOW!
It’s so unreasonable that it could be called criminal if the government wasn’t the one doing it. Maybe it should be called that anyhow.
Sweden still hasn’t shut their country down. They have encouraged social distancing and taken some other steps like limiting crowd sizes but restaurants and elementary schools are still open. They have a higher death toll than their neighbors that have locked everything down, but they haven’t broken either their health care system or their economy.
Vanity Fair story
This isn’t a one size fits all situation and we are causing great economic harm because our leaders continue to worry more about what the media will say instead of actually leading.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 7:58 am to JustGetItRight
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China's state-run media on Friday reported that the death toll in the city of Wuhan — the initial epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic — was off by almost 1,300 due to lapses in reporting.
The new numbers raised the total number of deaths in the central Chinese city by more than 50 percent to 3,869 and took the national death toll to 4,632.
As so many have believed China was lying.
Posted on 4/17/20 at 8:00 am to TideWarrior
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An experimental antiviral drug being used as part of a study to treat coronavirus patients in Chicago has shown to rapidly dissipate patients' fevers and respiratory symptoms, allowing most to be discharged in under a week, according to a doctor overseeing the study.
First reported by STAT News, 125 patients were given daily infusions of the drug Remdesivir by a University of Chicago Medicine team.
“The best news is that most of our patients have already been discharged, which is great. We’ve only had two patients perish,” Kathleen Mullane, the University of Chicago infectious disease specialist overseeing the study, told STAT.
“Most of our patients are severe and most of them are leaving at six days, so that tells us duration of therapy doesn’t have to be 10 days. We have very few that went out to 10 days, maybe three," she added.
Since I saw this drug being talked about.
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