Headlines

‘It’s a big, big swing’: Trump loses ground with white voters

CDC says it erroneously posted guidance that said coronavirus spreads through the air and travels beyond 6 feet

CCP media chief seems to confirm that they want Biden to win

... NFL BLM LOL: Sunday night football ratings crash by 17%

Ginsburg to lie in repose Wednesday and Thursday

House Democrats to unveil bill to avoid shutdown, fund government through December

Pennsylvania House of Reps prepares federal lawsuit over mail-in voting

Poll: Most Venezuelans want ‘capitalist’ nation

Trump, without evidence, accuses Democrats of fabricating Ginsberg’s dying wish

Coronavirus live updates: Millions in danger of missing stimulus checks, Black doctor’s group to vet vaccines

Uh oh: Biden says ‘200 million people’ will die by the end of his speech

Black Lives Matter deletes manifesto from website


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Reader Contribution

On a Zoom call this morning a classmate had to break out early for another virtual meeting with Dr. Fauci. The following is his promised report of what transpired. We thank Rick for this first-hand info:

Per my promise to share the Fauci call and the college's latest communication to students:

Fauci had personal/professional links with all the half dozen Dartmouth Drs who asked questions ... - Main takeaways (answers to questions):

1. Microbal world will continue to interact with human world so this will not be the last pandemic - it is unusual in that it is demographically broad (unlike HIV), not subtle - and has shut the world down.

2. Masks are critical but rejected by the young who don't take the virus seriously and by politics.

3. Opening schools needs to use national guidelines and experiences but ultimately be based on local situations eg low incidence of virus ok to open, high no, teachers protected like others at high risk eg  masks/face shields ok.

4. All ages seem to get infected at about the same rate - 40% of carriers are asymptomatic - young are now becoming more worrisome as carriers as they are showing a higher load of the virus in their nasal passages than adults. (Grandkids have always been little petri dishes...)

5. There are 165 vaccines in development world wide, 127 are in various stages of testing; the speed with which these are being developed is because of the ability with new technologies to rapidly process, grow and analyze the virus once samples came from China - allowed getting to phase one in 3 months versus 18 months previously; some of the stage 1 tests have produced responses as good as getting the disease, so should get some final results in about 3 months.

Cheers -

Rick

Them vs. Us

- China is frequent source of pandemics, US isn’t (so far)

- China lies about number of COVAD-19 cases and deaths, US doesn't

- China “disappears” whistle blowers, US puts them on TV

- China supresses dissension, Trump allows it in his pressers

- China doesn’t find virus treatment and vaccine, US does

- China invokes martial law to stop virus spread, US requests “social distancing”

- Chinese try to escape the virus by coming to America, Americans aren’t going the other way

Today’s Poser

How is it that we have been suffering pandemics for centuries ... killing millions and millions of people ... yet there are still no effective medical ways of dealing with these viral outbreaks other than hit-or-miss vaccines. Even the economic amelioration strategies seem to be to be inconsistent and frenetic? Have we learned nothing from our history?

Afterthought: Perhaps we should have shut down the world over HIV/AIDS?