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On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 3:45 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like the Andromeda Strain to me. Anyone got any squeeze to drink? > > *From:* Cameron Crum > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 8, 2020 2:51 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT masks > > There is an antibody test now available and a lab in town here doing it. > Priority is given to first responders, and it's already a month out. > However, I read an article yesterday that had lots of info on how the virus > acts and they were saying ventilators may be making it worse. Apparently, > the virus latches on to the heme in your hemoglobin in your red cells, > disassociating the toxic oxidative iron ion that attracts the O2. This > prevents O2 from bonding to the red blood cells. To make matters worse, it > is a permanent condition and the only fix is generating or introducing new > red blood cells that can carry oxygen. Your kidneys start producing > erythropoietin which tells your bone marrow to start ramping up production. > That toxic iron now running around overwhelms the epithelial surface of the > lungs which usually takes care of this stuff when it occurs naturally. This > leads to damage and inflammation in the lungs, not pneumonia. So, now your > liver kicks up its iron storage capability but soon gets overwhelmed and > starts releasing ALT which is a cry for help. At that point, it is almost > too late. If you bone marrow can't produce new red cells faster than the > virus attacks them, it's all over. No amount of forcing air into the lungs > will help. Providing pure oxygen like in a hyperbaric chamber may, but > direct blood transfusions with healthy red cells is the best chance as > there are not a lot of hyperbaric chambers around. So, Hydroxychloroquine > works the same way it does on malaria (which by the way attacks hemoglobin > as well), by preventing the virus from attaching to the hemoglobin. It also > lowers the blood pH helping to stop the replication of the virus. If you > can keep your cells carrying oxygen and slow down virus replication, Your > body can probably handle the rest. > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:15 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What everyone tries not to talk about is there’s evidently not that much >> a hospital can do. If you just need IV fluids and oxygen, sure. But if >> you need one of those ventilators, the prognosis is grim. It sounds like >> the survival rate for people who are intubated is somewhere in the 20 to >> 40% range. >> >> >> >> Obviously if the hospitals get overrun, now you get Italy, where the >> mortality fate even for non-Covid cases skyrockets. >> >> >> >> I’m agreeing with you here, but we’re buying time until (a) universal >> testing (b) testing to see who has recovered and has at least temporary >> immunity, (c) new therapies being tested that could be more effective than >> ventilators, and (d) a vaccine. >> >> >> >> BTW, the TV news was just talking about Los Angeles where businesses can >> now refuse to serve people not wearing masks, to protect frontline workers >> in essential businesses. Reporter in the field said he observed people >> talking loudly about people NOT wearing masks. >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Robert >> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 8, 2020 11:46 AM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT masks >> >> >> >> We drove 1.5 hrs to a town with no reported infections ( yeah lot of bs >> that is ) and were shopping is a safeway for 15 minutes, the safeway had >> all the precautions and people wiping stuff down. Then some lady without >> a mask ( this is in California where masks are supposed to be required ) >> started hacking up a lung right by the checkout counters, 1/2 way into her >> bare elbow. It was pretty obvious that this wasn't an ordinary coughing >> fit. We were all decked out in PPE but that drove home decontaminating >> when we got home. But the wife doesn't get it. 8/10's isn't good >> enough. We are going to come down with it somewhere along the line. It's >> certain. Just hope it is after the hospitals are past the worst point so >> that we can get taken care of instead of triaged. So I will stay away and >> hope that I don't get someone else sick... >> >> On 4/7/20 7:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> No, sorry. The redneck and his woman were not wearing masks. >> >> >> >> *From:* Matt Hoppes >> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 7, 2020 8:11 PM >> >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT masks >> >> >> >> Very confused by this story. Other people wearing masks made fun of you >> wearing a mask? >> >> >> On Apr 7, 2020, at 9:43 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Put on gloves and a mask to pick up a few things at the grocery store. >> Walked in and there was a construction worker in a mask, then a soccer >> mom.... then a skinny redneck, with his skinny redneck wife. Started >> clucking like a chicken when he saw me and his wife was taking a video. >> Was not quite calling me a chicken loud enough that I could clearly make >> out exactly what he was doing, but was grandstanding for his skanky >> woman.... >> >> >> >> Funny how fast my natural pugilistic nature of my youth sprung into >> action. I literally had to stop myself from backing him into a display of >> pork and beans with some comments of “you got a problem with me”. Visions >> of a throat punch were clear in my head... >> >> >> >> But I calmed myself, reminded myself that going to jail or the ER or a >> dentist would not be fun this evening, and moved alone. 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