Which brought up another question of mines: Travel is pretty much discouraged, but what if it is a case of "I'm moving to stay with my relative in another state to wait that out, because I'm not dealing with that". Allowed or no go?
nypost.com
Mask order good!New York State lockdown extended to May 15. Mandatory mask order goes into effect tomorrow at 8 PM.
ArchiveCuomo extends NY coronavirus shutdown to May 15 as deaths pass 12,000
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday extended his statewide shutdown of non-essential functions to May 15, as coronavirus hospitalizations continued to level off — but over 600 new deaths were reported. &…
A bit of googling turned up this
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
With this helpful diagram
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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
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.
It can be a little hard to work through the accent, and it's hardly objective journalism, but I'd gladly trade the US media for these guys.
Indian police officer's hand chopped off in sword attack during coronavirus lockdown (Archive)
Indian police officer's hand chopped off in sword attack during coronavirus lockdown
An Indian policeman's hand was chopped off with a sword and six other officers were severely injured when they were attacked while enforcing coronavirus lockdown measures in northern Punjab state on Sunday morning.www.cnn.com
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1. Wages have stagnated in America since the 70s but cost of living keeps rising. (Archive)
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Everyone please go and watch this video right now:
eight nations alliance (Archive)China (as the Chinese state) renounced all pretenses to sovereignty over Taiwan with the 1895 Shimonoseki peace treaty, years before the Peoples Republic of China or the Chinese Republic were formed.
The time has come to bring back the eight nations alliance to kick China's ass. As Austria-Hungarian empire is no longer around, maybe 2020 superpower India could take its place. Or Taiwan, or Korea (with sufficient guarantees even Kim Jong Un might be interested).
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US explores possibility that coronavirus started in Chinese lab, not a market (Archive)
US explores possibility that coronavirus started in Chinese lab, not a market
US intelligence and national security officials say the United States government is looking into the possibility that the novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory rather than a market, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter who caution it is premature to draw any...
goddamn even cnn is talking about this. sorry if it's been posted already, but I immediately thought of you nerds when I saw this. idk if it really means much for now, but I guess at least this gives us some vindication for going sperg on BLAST analyses a couple months ago when china was acting sketchy as fuck over giving people access to investigation lmao. it could also mean that they've found something interesting, even if it's not provable yet. idk, but it gives me some renewed interest.
though even if they can somehow pinpoint someone at the lab as being patient zero or something (not really sure how they're "taking a hard look at it"), i think it might not actually be possible to prove whether or not it's artificial. it seems like the virus has some evidence of a genetic recombination event, but given how bats frequently carry multiple viruses at the same time, and given that the exchanged bits both occur in bat viruses, such a thing could occur naturally. iirc the bit that appears inserted seemed convenient, but I guess that's how natural selection works.
if we wanted to bring that analysis back, maybe restriction enzymes with similar size and recognition sequence could at least give a hint of putative mechanism? or if it's crispr maybe off-target effects could be identified genome-wide or something? idk i'm more specialized on the computation end, we need to bring that otterly fellow back in here lmao.
Did Xi Jinping deliberately sicken the world ? (Archive)Ya think? Ya think? Ya fucking think? We called this early on.
Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World?
PRC moral turpitude forces us to consider the unthinkable.thediplomat.com
At the relatively large underfocus value (4 μm) used for cryo-tomography, modifications of the images by the contrast transfer function of the microscope are expected. Therefore, to properly interpret these observations, we collected focal pairs of MHV and, for comparison with a pure lipid bilayer, of DOPC (1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) liposomes (see SI Text and Fig. S2). The analysis of these images showed that, in the defocus range examined (1, 2, 4, and 8 μm), the apparent thickness of the envelope does not change. The value for the MHV envelope thickness was confirmed (7.6 ± 0.4 nm, n = 101) and shown to be clearly larger than that of the DOPC lipid bilayers (4.2 ± 0.7 nm, n = 81). Furthermore, the inner peak of the bilaminar profile at 4 μm underfocus resolves in two at ≤2 μm underfocus (Fig. 4C).
This indicates the existence of an additional layer that would confer the virion envelope its remarkable thickness. We propose the inner lamina to be formed by the C-terminal domain of the M protein. Only a major component of the envelope, such as the M protein, could account for this general envelope feature. A topological model for the M protein of MHV has been proposed based on its hydrophobicity profile and on biochemical data (17–19). The protein consists of 3 transmembrane domains contained within its amino-terminal half, followed by a carboxy-terminal domain that is assumed to be located toward the interior of the virus. The carboxy-domain by itself has been found to associate with membranes (20), and most of it is resistant to protease treatment (1, indicating that this part is folded tightly onto the polar surface of the membrane. Assuming a globular conformation for the 9.5-kDa C-terminal domain, and a protein partial specific volume of 0.75 g/cm3, its diameter would be 2.8 nm. This is in good agreement with the thickness of the observed internal layer, which we estimate to be ≈3 nm based on the distance between peaks.
They can't ban travel inside the US. It's not legal and with the exception of the Florida peninsula it's largely impossible to even try.
Reminds me of an argument I had with a goldbug once who was arguing that an iPhone cost $100 in 1990. Looking at one factor alone can lead to some absurd conclusions.
Spend less on candles.
This geordie catches my feelings on the matter . It's the obvious astroturfed insincerity of it all. I feel like a stranger in my own country when I watch TV these days. Who is this shit aimed at? Who can watch this without having a visceral reaction against it?
Yep. My personal opinion based on nothing more than balance of probablities, not proof.Ya think? Ya think? Ya fucking think? We called this early on.
Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World?
PRC moral turpitude forces us to consider the unthinkable.thediplomat.com
