Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Otterly]

It's like they just think people like Trump because he's offensive, and they didn't get the memmo that the reason people like Trump is that the media was taking offense but he was actually right.

Exactly. He says what a lot of people think. Then the media screech that he’s an orange whateverphobe and evil, and all the people who were quietly thinking ‘well actually he has a point about China/borders/illegals/crime’ and ‘well if they say he is evil then I must be evil too. And I’m not evil, so they’re wrong about that.’ Then the logical conclusion of that is to ignore and distrust the media. You know you’re not a terrible person for thinking that illegal immigration isn’t a great thing, or that offshoring hasn’t been good for your country. When the media And the ruling elite outright tells you you’re bad for thinking those things, Not just they disagree, but that you’re morally bad for it, how does it make you feel and react?
Then they are aghast when trump is elected.

I often wonder how many times a day he hears ‘you cant say that mr president sir...’

People are sick of being told they can’t have opinions or thoughts. Bring on the pushback, I hope it’s fucking epic. When those same elites tell them they need to lockdown, they won’t obey. There is no trust when you feel like that. They’re heading to a point where civil unrest is a possibility

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

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Polish numbers for the last few days. Daily cases/percentage growth on the left, daily number of tests on the right (trailing by a day because the way we get these reports is not too well synchronized, basically the number of tests is for a given day, but half of daily detections are actually cases confirmed the day before in evening and night hours; best not to think about it too much).

It was pretty much like I thought and testing dropped rather sharply because of Easter (private laboratories are closed on holidays and some public healthcare workers probably got some badly needed break too; Easter is important around here). Still, less than 5000 tests when we have a potential daily throughput of 20 thousand is rather pathetic. Didn't bother posting those numbers before because there was no point reporting bunk data. We're getting back to normal now and there's the expected spike in detections, but much less than I was afraid. Still far below 400 daily. The daily peak of 475 has been ten days ago now. It seems like we're past the peak for good and slowly walking off the plateau.

Overall numbers are: 7918 total cases: 6830 unresolved, 774 recovered, 314 dead.

Starting from today we're obligated by law to cover our mouth and nose when in public space (not necessarily with a mask; a scarf or bandana will also do, as would a plague doctor mask I imagine). Some other restrictions are being slowly lifted, most notably forests and parks are accessible again. The decision to close forests from the public was rather pointless and fortunately didn't last long, for parks it was probably a necessity because some city folk would keep congregating there disregarding all safety concerns.

At the same time the minister is talking about the "new normal", that certain restrictions and new habits could stay with us for a year or two and masks will be required until a vaccine is developed. We'll see.

Lmao seems literally noone's listening to the WHO and EU trying to close everything down to help chinese and german economies. Get fucked globalists. If when the number of total deaths comes those 300 don't become 300confirmed and Xwe don't knows then I gotta say Poland has done admirably. Good job. I wish they had finally opened the forests too around here. It's fucking stupid keeping them closed, but oh well. At least our economy's on track. I digress, point is, well done, hope no second wave gets ya.

 

[RodgerDodger]

If what you want is the god damned sequence, ISCIII got it in full. If you want the spike proteins it uses we also got it. Indeed it seems they analized the fucking thing left and right as much as could be expected. Here's some links:

Bioinformatics resources for SARS-CoV-2 | Clinical Bioinformatics Area

This page contains links to bioinformatics resources useful to track the evolution and progression of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as to manage genomics data of the virus. Portals with COVID-19 genomics and epidemiologics information NEXTSTRAIN Nextstrain is an open-source project to harness the...

www.clinbioinfosspa.es

BU-ISCIII/SARS-Cov2_analysis

Documentation for analyzing SARS-Cov2 samples. Contribute to BU-ISCIII/SARS-Cov2_analysis development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/nCov-China/documentos/20200404_ITCoronavirus.pdf

Overall, first of my declaration of bias. From the beginig I said this was likely originated from the BSL4 but not artificial. I still believe so. We know the BSL4 was researching coronaviri, we know it uses bats as research subjects and we know their higiene is fucking abhorrent, so I think that seals the deal for me. As for wether or not it's artificial... Let me actually go through in a bit more detail.

ISCIII sequenced 140 viral samples from all over the fucking planet. Result most obvious is this virus is actually EXTREMELY STABLE FOR ITS KIND. They were identical in well past 99.9% of its genome. Which means that the mutations are really fucking small. This has 2 conclusions.
1-It's not nearly as quick to mutate as the flu, meaning we're probably not gonna have too many new waves if we bomb china before they eat another fucking bat.
2-This was not artificially created by ways that make the genome less stable.
Point 2 is important because most ways of artificially creating a virus make it less stable. So that means either the chinks were ultralucky with the random methods (unlikely) or they were testing a natural viri. As for the non-random methods: could the chinks have inserted a fragment of DNA by recombination?

Well, the stability doesn't necessarily answer that one, for one reason, the virus is a bacteriophage, meaning it infects bacteria. And sadly bacteriophages can add to their genome part of a bacteria's genome without necessarily weakening their own genome's structure. This however tends to only happen on virus with high rate of mutation (everything that changes the dna, be it recombination or mutation happens when it's thermodynamically weak, if the DNA has a strong structure it just stays bound to itself and nothing can fuck with it. Statistically speaking of course DNA always mutates sooner or later) point is, while that is a plausible entry, it only means we should check further.

And have we found any bacterial DNA? no. This virus is a coronavirus through and through, it's SARS-2 beer boogaloo. The mutations it sports are really fucking small and we see no clearcut genes that would indicate artificial insertion, like any selector gene. See, when I add a gene to a virus, I tend to like being able to identify which samples have it. For these we use resistance genes or markers like that. This got none of that, so if it was artificial they added very little DNA without any marker. I'm not gonna say the chinks didn't do that, but I will say no sane researcher would do something that fucking exceptional. Sadly that doesn't discard china.

Overall though. Our only possible hypotheses for artificial virus are:
-They used bacterial insertion to add miniscule mutations perfectly capable of appearing randomly without any marker.
-They used random methods and got so lucky that not only did this not weaken the genetic structure but the mutations wound up making it more stable than normal, while also not being nearly as many as we would expect from the more agressive method.

I'd say this is a normal, natural virus. It's proteins are the usual coronavirus shit, it's DNA has no trace of weird lab shit, Corona-chan ain't got no silicone that bossom is all natural, baby. My proposed origin is SARS, an already horrifying virus, was left to fester in bats until her less potent but way more virulent little sister came crawling out of the bats then some fucking idiot managed to get infected playing with bats.

I agree, but with one caveat. I don’t think it was the BSL4 lab that had the breach. There is a BSL2 lab 200 yards from the wet market that was also doing Coronavirus work with live horseshoe bats. The Wuhan Center for Disease Control lab. Attached to the first hospital to be blessed with Corona-Chan patients. There is a point where it moves out of the realm of “conspiracy theory” and into that of “most probable scenario”.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Honestly you may not really want that. See, you want Trump. What you don't want is your politics to think you want Trump. Over here we got one of those, some blonde argentinian bitch from Vox. Thing is she seems to be convinced that "imitating Trump" just means "Constantly insulting everyone, acting as if you're better than the world and everyone should kiss your feet, and always blaming someone else for every stupid thing you do." it gets annoying really, really fast. It's like they just think people like Trump because he's offensive, and they didn't get the memmo that the reason people like Trump is that the media was taking offense but he was actually right. Nothing gets duller than an unabashed asshole just constantly spewing bullshit hoping people call them out without even being funny about it. Like she can't even get a good reaction out of the journalists, 'cause A3Media got no fucking spine so every intervention by her is just followed by the journalist trying to move on like that was nothing it gets so fucking boring so fucking fast.

Yeah, you're right. We'd try to get Trump and we'd end up with Sargon of Akkad because we live in a fallen world of shit.

Great post. What you describe is exactly the same mistake that Sargon made. And that was on top of being unlikable and unqualified.

As soon as I started to read his post I thought of Sargon. The other weird thing about Sargon is that he was only offensive about things that don't matter. If he'd called out the police covering up Muslim grooming gangs he'd probably still have lost and might even have gone to prison but he'd be seen as someone who trashed his life over something worth doing it for. As it he decided to die on the hill of being allowed to say "I wouldn't even rape you" to Jess Philips. Now I despise Jess Philipps but as even Mark Collett pointed out this is not the hill you want to on. If he'd called out the grooming gang coverup he'd be seen as someone who was a bit of an asshole but was telling the truth. As it is he's just seen as an asshole. You could see that when Tommy got arrested and there was a gagging order. Sargon said 'I'd like to talk about it but I've got a family to worry about'. There was always a shallowness to Sargon's edgelord persona, a sense that when it really came down to he'd retreat to a disingenuous 'It's just a meme, bro. I didn't really mean it' defense. Same with Dankula to be honest. I think people pick up on that pretty quickly.

And not only did he die on the hill, but he also took UKIP with him, though admittedly UKIP would probably have imploded without him. Still, the fact that he was at the very least instrumental in its demise is something the left, including Jess Philips, is very happy about. This is what happens when Internet autists actually try to do real politics.

Also, this

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Exactly. He says what a lot of people think. Then the media screech that he’s an orange whateverphobe and evil, and all the people who were quietly thinking ‘well actually he has a point about China/borders/illegals/crime’ and ‘well if they say he is evil then I must be evil too. And I’m not evil, so they’re wrong about that.’ Then the logical conclusion of that is to ignore and distrust the media. You know you’re not a terrible person for thinking that illegal immigration isn’t a great thing, or that offshoring hasn’t been good for your country. When the media And the ruling elite outright tells you you’re bad for thinking those things, Not just they disagree, but that you’re morally bad for it, how does it make you feel and react?
Then they are aghast when trump is elected.

I often wonder how many times a day he hears ‘you cant say that mr president sir...’

People are sick of being told they can’t have opinions or thoughts. Bring on the pushback, I hope it’s fucking epic. When those same elites tell them they need to lockdown, they won’t obey. There is no trust when you feel like that. They’re heading to a point where civil unrest is a possibility

Thing is, we Brits are actually quite mild mannered. Even when we do " revolutions" they're hilariously quiet and via the ballot box. I think such an act of ministers telling folks whats actually on their mind would be genuinely shocking to a lot of people. Hancock blowing up the way he did earlier is already getting some tongues wagging.

I feel however, we're at a point where the media's now seen as so distrustful that a bit of place putting would do the public psyche a world of good.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

I feel however, we're at a point where the media's now seen as so distrustful that a bit of place putting would do the public psyche a world of good.

Bernie told some journalists to fuck off for him asking stupid questions.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/03/18/sanders_to_reporter_on_campaign_im_dealing_with_a_fucking_global_crisis.html

https://archive.vn/CF40O

REPORTER: Sir, what are you saying to your supporters? There's been all of this flurry today --

BERNIE SANDERS: Well, some of what was said was just untrue. We sent out a statement.

REPORTER: What's your timeframe?

SANDERS: You have to stop with this. I'm dealing with a fucking global crisis. You know? We're dealing with it and you're asking me these questions.

REPORTER: You're running for president so -

SANDERS: Well right now I'm running. Right now I'm trying to do my best to make sure that we don't have an economic meltdown and that people don't die. Is that enough to you? To keep you busy for today?

I mean he's a terrible grifting hypocritical commie, his Medicare For All policy would probably bankrupt the USA if he'd got in and the reporter's question wasn't actually all that silly because he did, in fact, drop out soon after. And I think he voted against the bailout for narrow partisan reasons, but still. You go, Bernie!

 

[pull over dat ass too fat]

If what you want is the god damned sequence, ISCIII got it in full. If you want the spike proteins it uses we also got it. Indeed it seems they analized the fucking thing left and right as much as could be expected. Here's some links:

Bioinformatics resources for SARS-CoV-2 | Clinical Bioinformatics Area

This page contains links to bioinformatics resources useful to track the evolution and progression of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as to manage genomics data of the virus. Portals with COVID-19 genomics and epidemiologics information NEXTSTRAIN Nextstrain is an open-source project to harness the...

www.clinbioinfosspa.es

BU-ISCIII/SARS-Cov2_analysis

Documentation for analyzing SARS-Cov2 samples. Contribute to BU-ISCIII/SARS-Cov2_analysis development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

https://www.mscbs.gob.es/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/nCov-China/documentos/20200404_ITCoronavirus.pdf

Overall, first of my declaration of bias. From the beginig I said this was likely originated from the BSL4 but not artificial. I still believe so. We know the BSL4 was researching coronaviri, we know it uses bats as research subjects and we know their higiene is fucking abhorrent, so I think that seals the deal for me. As for wether or not it's artificial... Let me actually go through in a bit more detail.

ISCIII sequenced 140 viral samples from all over the fucking planet. Result most obvious is this virus is actually EXTREMELY STABLE FOR ITS KIND. They were identical in well past 99.9% of its genome. Which means that the mutations are really fucking small. This has 2 conclusions.
1-It's not nearly as quick to mutate as the flu, meaning we're probably not gonna have too many new waves if we bomb china before they eat another fucking bat.
2-This was not artificially created by ways that make the genome less stable.
Point 2 is important because most ways of artificially creating a virus make it less stable. So that means either the chinks were ultralucky with the random methods (unlikely) or they were testing a natural viri. As for the non-random methods: could the chinks have inserted a fragment of DNA by recombination?

Well, the stability doesn't necessarily answer that one, for one reason, the virus is a bacteriophage, meaning it infects bacteria. And sadly bacteriophages can add to their genome part of a bacteria's genome without necessarily weakening their own genome's structure. This however tends to only happen on virus with high rate of mutation (everything that changes the dna, be it recombination or mutation happens when it's thermodynamically weak, if the DNA has a strong structure it just stays bound to itself and nothing can fuck with it. Statistically speaking of course DNA always mutates sooner or later) point is, while that is a plausible entry, it only means we should check further.

And have we found any bacterial DNA? no. This virus is a coronavirus through and through, it's SARS-2 beer boogaloo. The mutations it sports are really fucking small and we see no clearcut genes that would indicate artificial insertion, like any selector gene. See, when I add a gene to a virus, I tend to like being able to identify which samples have it. For these we use resistance genes or markers like that. This got none of that, so if it was artificial they added very little DNA without any marker. I'm not gonna say the chinks didn't do that, but I will say no sane researcher would do something that fucking exceptional. Sadly that doesn't discard china.

Overall though. Our only possible hypotheses for artificial virus are:
-They used bacterial insertion to add miniscule mutations perfectly capable of appearing randomly without any marker.
-They used random methods and got so lucky that not only did this not weaken the genetic structure but the mutations wound up making it more stable than normal, while also not being nearly as many as we would expect from the more agressive method.

I'd say this is a normal, natural virus. It's proteins are the usual coronavirus shit, it's DNA has no trace of weird lab shit, Corona-chan ain't got no silicone that bossom is all natural, baby. My proposed origin is SARS, an already horrifying virus, was left to fester in bats until her less potent but way more virulent little sister came crawling out of the bats then some fucking idiot managed to get infected playing with bats.

I can't read Spanish so your links aren't useful to me. I was trying to refer to the multiple sequence alignment that I and a couple others did in this thread months ago. There were two different sequences from bat viruses which looked like they had homology, indicating there might have been a genetic recombination event. It's around the ~22kb-23kb region of the sequence originally released by China.

I don't understand what you mean on the stability part. How would cutting at restriction enzyme sites and ligating require instability?

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

So on economic news. They actually past Universal Basic Income, it will start in may, and they have yet to give a solid number but they said they want it to be a number somewhere between a minimum of 500 and a maximum of 900 euros. The way they phrased it it seems to be able to get this you have to literally have no income and it turns out the 1000€=middleclass thing actually changed in 2019 and now middleclass is 1800, with 1000 actually being our minimum salary... I didn't get the memmo 'cause I haven't had a solid job ever so far, so yeah... how did that happen? Honestly what I do know is my bills and I've survived on 500 a month outside of the price of my studies, so I'd say 1000 is excessive for the MINIMUM salary, but I guess they did it taking into account how many familymembers your average worker needs to take care of... I don't know that feels ultraweird. Point is, 500 should be on par with what someone needs to survive and even their upper limit is under the mandatory salary, so it makes sense. But the hit to the economy's gonna be fucking fun if they can't fix it, so, we'll see.

I can't read Spanish so your links aren't useful to me. I was trying to refer to the multiple sequence alignment that I and a couple others did in this thread months ago. There were two different sequences from bat viruses which looked like they had homology, indicating there might have been a genetic recombination event. It's around the ~22kb-23kb region of the sequence originally released by China.

I don't understand what you mean on the stability part. How would cutting at restriction enzyme sites and ligating require instability?

I mean, so long as the DNA stays packed it doesn't matter what you do to it. DNA doesn't always stay packed. But enzyme restriction sites tend to be on the areas that unpack more often. At least on average.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Morgoth muses on 'The Tyranny Of Britain's PR Mind-benders'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feh5TUENx4I

https://archive.vn/YLDrl

It's interesting how similar this is to the hard left critic of capitalism using advertising agencies to create 'false consciousness' in the 90s. He even mentions Baudrillard's Hyperreality.

 

[Stoneheart]

I mean, so long as the DNA stays packed it doesn't matter what you do to it. DNA doesn't always stay packed. But enzyme restriction sites tend to be on the areas that unpack more often. At least on average.

but Corona only has + ssRNA(linear i think) and no DNA. they have no Histons (only Eukaryote have them) and no HLPs.

 

[Aib Ld]

I've been wondering: A tornado outbreak happened last week and there's a couple of people who lost their homes. Where do those people go during a pandemic? I imagine it would be very hard to find a homeless shelter or whatever during this time.

 

[Not Really Here]

I've been wondering: A tornado outbreak happened last week and there's a couple of people who lost their homes. Where do those people go during a pandemic? I imagine it would be very hard to find a homeless shelter or whatever during this time.

Probably a hotel paid for by the Red Cross.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

but Corona only has + ssRNA(linear i think) and no DNA. they have no Histons (only Eukaryote have them) and no HLPs.

Ok nevermind I'm a fucking idiot sometimes.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

You know, a real jerk would sneak around these apartment buildings and go into the basement and start shutting off breakers to see what happens. A Square D key or a generic passkey isn't exactly hard to come by; a wonder bar is even easier to find. And most people have no concept of flipping a breaker to turn the lights back on, let alone possessing the initiative to go into the electrical room to check.

Just saying... if you wanted to spice up your quarantine, Ms. Supremacist.

The super lives in the basement where the breakers and fuses are, I can't even get in to check out the NID box. I'd have to knock that asshole out (which I'm willing to do but I don't want to go to jail and end up in a cell with crack whores and dope fiends coofing on me). The old super would trip the breaker when a tenant got a little too loud or crazy but he left for North Carolina a few years ago.

The force isolation and confinement is getting to people, there was a lot of shouting and things being tossed around because I think some guy got thrown out and he wasn't quiet about it. It's only going to get worse as this shit goes on. I'm all for keeping your distance and wearing a face mask but it's not like folks can buy any at the pharmacy since the sainted medical workers are hogging them all to wear for their Tik Tok dance routines. Rate me MOTI but I am so done with this mayor, governor and their lack of planning and prep to the point we can't even get food and now the clown with titty rings is ordering us to wear masks most of us can't buy because he was too busy huffing his farts in Albany instead of prepping for a pandemic everyone's been warning about for years,

I need a drink I don't care how early it is.

 

[Not Really Here]

The super lives in the basement where the breakers and fuses are, I can't even get in to check out the NID box. I'd have to knock that asshole out (which I'm willing to do but I don't want to go to jail and end up in a cell with crack whores and dope fiends coofing on me). The old super would trip the breaker when a tenant got a little too loud or crazy but he left for North Carolina a few years ago.

The force isolation and confinement is getting to people, there was a lot of shouting and things being tossed around because I think some guy got thrown out and he wasn't quiet about it. It's only going to get worse as this shit goes on. I'm all for keeping your distance and wearing a face mask but it's not like folks can buy any at the pharmacy since the sainted medical workers are hogging them all to wear for their Tik Tok dance routines. Rate me MOTI but I am so done with this mayor, governor and their lack of planning and prep to the point we can't even get food and now the clown with titty rings is ordering us to wear masks most of us can't buy because he was too busy huffing his farts in Albany instead of prepping for a pandemic everyone's been warning about for years,

I need a drink I don't care how early it is.

Pleb, if your name was Cuomo you could prance around the state while infected.

 

[pull over dat ass too fat]

I mean, so long as the DNA stays packed it doesn't matter what you do to it. DNA doesn't always stay packed. But enzyme restriction sites tend to be on the areas that unpack more often. At least on average.

but Corona only has + ssRNA(linear i think) and no DNA. they have no Histons (only Eukaryote have them) and no HLPs.

- reverse transcribe original virus in vitro
- digest with restriction enzyme & ligate with target sequence
- in vitro protein synthesis to obtain viral gene products
I know the restriction enzyme/ligase method of genetic engineering has been achieved successfully on DNA viruses. I don't see why you couldn't just reverse transcribe RNA to DNA, modify, and produce the products for an RNA virus? though not sure how hard it would be to achieve cuts at the places you'd want.

 

[CeleryStalks]

Midwest, USA

The Governors of Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Wisconsin (all D), Indiana and Ohio (both R) have announced they will be working together to coordinate the reopening of our state economies. They stressed that this does not mean that every state will open everything at the same time.

Whitmer, Midwest governors plan 'coordination' on reopening economy

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and six other Midwest governors say they will work "in close coordination" in deciding how to reopen the region's economy

www.detroitnews.com

(archive)

Michigan, USA

One million Michiganders have filed for unemployment, 10% of our total population, and about 25% of our workforce.

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/04/yes-michigan-is-in-a-recession-and-a-quick-recovery-is-unlikely.html

(Archive)

1,500 or so people protested outside our state capitol yesterday, against Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D)'s shutdown orders. Most remained in their cars while driving around. Some got out of their cars to stand closer than six feet together.
The Governor stated, in an interview with MSNBC, that

It wasn’t really about the stay-at-home order at all. It was essentially a political rally, a political statement that flies in the face of all of the science and all of the best practices from the stay-at-home order that was issued.

She also said that some people certainly will have gotten sick from the rally, and that this is the kind of thing that may make it necessary to extend the shutdown longer.
#OperationGridlock
Thread in A&N
Article on Whitmer's Response (archive)
Edit: She said it may be necessary to extend the shutdown, not that it will.

Even the police don't like our lockdown order. Sheriffs of Leelaunau, Benzie, Manistee and Mason counties (four contiguous rural counties on the northwest coast of our Lower Peninsula) have publicly stated they won't strictly enforce the lockdown.
The American Freedom Law Center has helped three Michigan residents file a federal lawsuit against Governor Whitmer's order, on the grounds that it violates the 1st, 2nd, and 14th Amendments.

4 Michigan sheriffs, another lawsuit challenge Whitmer's stay-home order

Northern Michigan sheriffs aren't strictly enforcing the statewide sorder, arguing they're "last line of defense in protecting civil liberties"

www.detroitnews.com

(archive)

Spoiler: Michigan Recap

SHUTDOWNS
Shelter-in-place order and shutdown of everything non-essential from Tuesday March 24 to Monday April 13. Friday, May 1. (archive) (executive order saved on KF) Travel between primary homes and secondary homes is banned. Gardening sections of stores are closed. (archive - extension). Marijuana shops are open. Tobacco shops are closed (archive). K-12 schools suspended for remainder of year, but alternate learning plans will be implemented (archive) (archive).
The Big Three Auto manufacturers (Ford, GM, Chrysler) are closing all factories in the USA, putting well over 150,000 workers out of work. This figure does not include workers at supplier factories, which will also be obliged to close. (archive) (archive) (archive). They will be making a small number of parts for emergency vehicles, and GM will be helping Ventec, a company that makes ventilators (archive - ventilators). Ford will be helping 3M and GE Healthcare to make respirators and ventilators (archive).

ECONOMY AND MISCELLANY
Over 1 million unemployment claims filed = 10% of the total population of the state, nearly 25% of the workforce (Archive - April 16).
Big Brother is watching, and he approves. Massive phone-tracking project reveals Michigan travel down by 45%, compared to 40% nation-wide (website) (news article archive).
Car crashes are down, fatal car crashes are down, and overall death is actually down. (archive - April 12)

FREE STUFF!
Evictions suspended while the state of emergency lasts (archive)
Water will be turned back on for all households while the crisis lasts (archive)

FREEDOM!
Semi-trucks carrying essential supplies can ignore seasonal road weight limits (archive).
Distilleries can make hand sanitizer without a permit (archive).
Pharmacists may prescribe 60 days of emergency medication and may substitute drugs without physicians approval in event of shortages (archive). Various other medical restrictions loosened (archive).
Restaurants can sell food like grocery stores (archive).

HEALTH CARE
Hydroxychloroquine banned by governor's order (archive). Nevermind LOL! Now she's asking the federal government for it and claiming the ban was a typo in the first place. (archive). Detroit-area hospitals are testing the drug's effectiveness as a preventative on first responders and health-care workers (archive).
Up-to-date count of available hospital beds, etc. in the State (the Detroit area is "Section 2, North and South". (government website)
Detroit field hospital admits first 8 Corona patients. It will only be taking the less-serious cases. No one on ventilators.(archive - April 14)
Another field hospital in Detroit scaled back after drop in cases. Original plan was to open with 1,100 beds. Now they are only going to open with 250, planned to open April 20. (archive - April 11)

LAW AND ORDER
All localities given more discretion to release prisoners early (archive). The State prison system is not currently releasing inmates early.
Lansing (the capitol) police are not physically responding to minor crimes such as larceny, property damage, and break-ins to unoccupied buildings, including garages. Other police are adopting similar policies (archive) (archive).
Detroit crime still down (archive - April 12); Muskegon police report crime is up (archive).
Breaking the lockdown is a misdemeanor, punishable by $1500 fines and 90 days jail time. Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) has stated there will not be a "ramp up" of police enforcement (archive). The attorney general has left it to local law enforcement to close businesses, as her hands are full with price-gougers and con artists (archive).
The police cannot, at present, pull drivers over simply for being out during the shutdown (archive). Local police in the rural north and in Detroit suburbs have alike stated they will not be enforcing parts of the order (archive).

DEATH TOLL

Detroit Metro (pop. 3,860,000 total; 1,796/sq. mi.; 694/sq km):*

22,772 confirmed / 1,755 dead
21,912 confirmed / 1,606 dead yesterday
(i.e. 149 new deaths, up 20 from previous day)
Normal Detroit Metro Death Rate: 104 per day.**

Other Michigan (6,120,000; 65/sq. mi.; 25/sq km):

6,491 confirmed / 338 dead
6,147 confirmed / 315 dead yesterday
(i.e. 23 new deaths, down 1 from previous day)
Normal not-Detroit Death Rate: 167 per day**

All Michigan (9,990,000; 103/sq. mi.; 40/sq km):

29,263 confirmed / 2,093 dead
28,059 confirmed / 1,921 dead yesterday
(i.e. 172 new deaths, up 19 from previous day)
Normal Michigan Death Rate: 271 per day.**

Death toll doubled since: April 8.
We have been locked down since: March 24.

Detroit Metro Daily Deaths Last Seven Days:
173 / 89 / 73 / 97 / 130 / 129 / 149 = 840

State Government site, daily - today's archive;
State Gov site, total, includes breakdowns by sex, age, race and ethnicity - today's archive.
*Here defined as the City of Detroit, and Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties, minus state prisoners, who are not counted towards any county's cases, but are kept in a category of their own.
** As of 2018.
Also one Ann Arbor man allegedly killed by his roommate in a Corona-related dispute (archive). The suspect has been released from custody while the investigation continues (archive).

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

but Corona only has + ssRNA(linear i think) and no DNA. they have no Histons (only Eukaryote have them) and no HLPs.

A bit of googling turned up this

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/30316-scientists-in-the-netherlands-reveal-3d-structure-of-coronavirus

https://archive.vn/wip/yaASJ

A study by EU-funded researchers in the Netherlands has uncovered the three-dimensional structure of the coronavirus, a pathogen implicated in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the common cold. Their findings, which were made possible by an imaging technique called cryo-electron tomography, provide valuable new insights into the nature of the virus previously unattainable using conventional, two-dimensional imaging methods. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was funded in part by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship from the EU. Coronaviruses (CoV) are involved in inflammation of both the upper respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts of animals and birds. They are believed to cause many types of colds in humans, have been widely publicised as a factor in SARS and are also behind a number of diseases in farm animals. Understanding the structure of the virus is essential to uncovering ways to treat these types of infection. Scientists in the current study examined the mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), a well-studied virus which is considered to be a 'prototypic' CoV. The decision to study MHV was important because the shape and size of many CoVs change at different stages of the cell's lifecycle; the size and shape of MHV cells, in contrast, are more consistent.

If you ignore the frequent advertisements for the EU and find the study you get this

Cryo-electron tomography of mouse hepatitis virus: Insights into the structure of the coronavirion

Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses containing the largest reported RNA genomes. As a result of their pleomorphic nature, our structural insight into the coronavirion is still rudimentary, and it is based mainly on 2D electron microscopy. Here we report the 3D virion structure of coronaviruses...

www.pnas.org

https://archive.vn/wip/f8CCA

With this helpful diagram

It seems like the RNA isn't just loose inside the viral capsid, it's cleverer than that. The RNA is wrapped around a protein

The current virion model of CoVs, based on morphological and biochemical data, depicts a pleomorphic particle that is roughly spherical but shows variations in size (80–120 nm) and shape (reviewed in refs. 5, 6). The virion contains the ribonucleoprotein (RNP) core, consisting of a genomic RNA that is the largest among all RNA viruses (≈30 kb), in complex with the nucleocapsid (N) protein (≈380–450 aa). The RNP is surrounded by a lipidic envelope. Three viral proteins are anchored in the envelope of all CoVs: the abundant triple-spanning membrane (M) protein (≈230 aa), the envelope (E) protein (≈100 aa; present in only small amounts), and the spike (S) protein (≈1,300 aa), forming trimeric spikes. The spikes are responsible for receptor binding and membrane fusion and extend radially from the envelope, giving the virions a solar image to which coronaviruses owe their name. The M protein appears to be the building brick of the virion and is thought to orchestrate virion assembly via interactions with all viral components, including itself. Virus-like particles devoid of RNP and S can be formed upon co-expression of M and E (7).

I'm tempted to say 'MAYBE IF YOU INJECTED YOURSELF WITH SYNTHETIC VIRAL PARTICLES COMPOSED OF M,E AND S BUT NO RNA YOU'D DEVELOP ANTIBODIES TO S AND BECOME IMMUNE. YOU CAN PROBABLY FIND THE GENETIC SEQUENCES ON THE INTERNET. DO IT FAGGOT' but if I do that @EmuWarsVeteran will point out this is very irresponsible and will probably kill someone. So I'll burn a sockpuppet account posting it on Reddit instead. I'd feel pretty bad if one of the people in this thread died as a result of listening to my half-assed speculation but I don't give a toss about Redditors.

 

[Aria]

Japan declares nationwide state of emergency amid rising number of coronavirus cases - NHK

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1250683000511180800

BNO Newsroom on Twitter: "BREAKING: Japan declares nationwide state o…

archived 16 Apr 2020 08:16:22 UTC

archive.li

 

[Stoneheart]

It seems like the RNA isn't just loose inside the viral capsid, it's cleverer than that. The RNA is wrapped around a protein

that diagram isnt really usefull. i just see the virus envelope but no capsid (the capsid should be inside the envelope)