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April 27, 2020 06:31 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?”

–William Pitt

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    1. Do we really need to dust off and trundle out those "Mr. Yuk is mean, Mr. Yuk is green" commercials from the early 70s because Trumplings are the functional equivalents of infants who've been dropped on their heads a few dozen times?

    2. WTF is this about?

      >>>>>>
      ENGLEWOOD, CO / ACCESSWIRE / April 20, 2020 / Aytu BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ:AYTU) (the “Company”), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing novel products that address significant patient needs announced today that it has signed an exclusive worldwide license from Cedars-Sinai to develop and commercialize the Healight Platform Technology (“Healight”). This medical device technology platform, discovered and developed by scientists at Cedars-Sinai, is being studied as a potential first-in-class treatment for coronavirus and other respiratory infections.

      <<<<<

      Only UVC is capable of quickly destroying viruses but it is very damaging to human tissue. Putting a UVC source down someone’s throat would probably burn them severely. UVA and UVB are also capable of killing viruses, as Bryant and others have shown, but the duration of exposure has to be immensely longer.

      Disclaimer: I have graduate-level scientific training but not in bioscience. I’m just trying to follow the coronavirus treatment technologies and do not ingest disinfectants.

      1. another source says

        The Aytu team is very pleased to be working with Sterling Medical on this important development program and in the fight against coronavirus. Sterling has a stellar reputation as a best-in-class medical device product firm with more than 21 years of experience, over 1,100 projects engineered, with none failing to receive FDA regulatory approval upon submission. Our team is actively engaged with our colleagues at Sterling in an effort to finalize the device development, with hope of enabling human use in the very near future.

        there was a bit better description, too

        Last week, the company announced a licensed exclusive worldwide rights agreement to the Healight technology from Cedars-Sinai for all endotracheal and nasopharyngeal indications. The patent-pending Healight platform has been in development since 2016 by the Medically Associated Science and Technology team at Cedars-Sinai. Following their preclinical findings that Healight may be a safe and effective antiviral and antibacterial treatment, the team engaged Sterling to rapidly develop a novel endotracheal device to help combat coronavirus.

          1. High intensity UV light and high temperatures can kill the Coronavirus strain. But anything hot enough to kill the virus will severely burn a human.

            From my cursory reading, researchers are looking at UV light and high heat as a way to quickly sterilize contaminated surfaces and equipment. CV19 is a particularly hardy strain, though- it can survive  60 degree Celsius (140 degree Fahrenheit) temperatures for < an hour. Our scientifically illiterate President, of course, got this wrong. 

            1. It seems to have been pulled from youtube and the corp website (aytubio.com) but I saw a simulation video of a device being placed deep into a trachea.

              There is still a scattering of reports about the tech transfer and a few comments here & there about impacts on the stock pice (up 44% today).

    2. not enough commentary on the Sad!-ministration and Pestilent Trump … but it's got a solid beat and you can dance to it … I'd give it a solid 88.

      1. "it's got a solid beat and you can dance to it…….."

        Well, of course you can. For those who've forgotten, Lola was a big hit by the Kinks in 1970. 

  4. I have been thinking how the protesters seem to be missing the other half of the equation.  Rights in America also entail Responsibilities.  Your rights end where your responsibilities begin and right now every American is responsible for not infecting a fellow American.  You might recover but I might not and it is irresponsible for you to engage in risky behavior that robs me of my life.  Staying-At-Home for a few more weeks is the most responsible way that we can respect our American brethren and their families.

  6. And here I would have guessed, mirror time? . . . 

    Donald Trump's big coronavirus sacrifice? Lunch.

    President Donald Trump really, really didn't like a recent New York Times story that detailed his daily routine during the coronavirus pandemic — including the fact that he "arrives in the Oval Office these days as late as noon when he is usually in a sour mood after his morning marathon of television."

    President Trump's schedule is so packed amid the coronavirus crisis that he sometimes skips lunch, his aides told The Post — refuting a report that the commander-in-chief spends his days obsessing over TV coverage and eating fries.

    "White House staffers said the president works around the clock and can make five dozen work-related calls a day during the pandemic."

    The piece includes on-the-record comments from newly installed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, in which he frets that his "biggest concern" in the new job is making sure Trump "gets some time to get a quick bite to eat." An unnamed source within the White House is quoted telling the Post of Trump: "There are times when lunch isn't even a thought," the official said. "A lot of time there's either no time for lunch or there is 10 minutes for lunch." There's another unnamed source who provided the Post with Trump's phone calls sheet, attesting to just how busy he is. (It is, of course, possible, that the Post happened upon all this reporting on its own. Possible.)

    https://apple.news/AtqLx28laQ8ybTOHTjlD7

    1. 60 calls, with someone else dialing and having people queued up to talk … at 5 minutes a call, 300 minutes which works out to be … 5 hours.  Yep, a grueling schedule.

      1. “Mitch, Donnie.  We need some good press.  And, I could use another tax cut.  Get back to work!” [click]

        — plus another 4:45 watching Hannity accolades on FOX . . .

        . . . Yup, “5 minutes” sounds about right.

  7. “It’s another globalist conspiracy, I tell you, . . .

    . . . world leaders all across the planet coming together, even some governors and the so-called “medical professionals” in this country, all trying their best to effectively battle Covid-19, . . .

    . . . just to make Donnie Ttump and Jared Kushner and America look bad!”

    Limbaugh, Hannity, Gardner, Buck, Neville, et al

    Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/world/australia/new-zealand-coronavirus.html

  8. Trump's chronic case of diaper rash is getting worse, it seems:

    Over the next seven hours or so, Trump took aim at everything and anyone he could, unleashing a barrage of more than two dozen tweets and retweets that targeted media outlets, high-profile commentators and hosts, and Democrats.

    He also returned once more to the Russia probe and impeachment, promoting a tweet that accused his political adversaries of “three failed coup attempts.” The tweet went on to suggest with no evidence that the president’s opponents could “attempt to steal the election” by making the novel coronavirus’s impact on human lives seem worse than it really is.

    It may also be responsible for his on-going mental confusion

    At one point, the president said reporters who covered him should return their “Noble Prizes,” appearing to confuse the Nobel Prizes with the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. Rather than correct himself, Trump deleted the “Noble” tweets, but then said he meant to use the word “Noble,” as a form of “sarcasm.” Trump went on to retweet commentary ridiculing his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for his syntax.

  10. This is an excellent read: 

    How Business Should Change After the Coronavirus Crisis

    What we mean by that is simple. Families are encouraged to put aside a reserve to pay their mortgages and bills and to feed themselves in case of an emergency. Why don’t corporations do the same? After a 10-year economic expansion that led to record increases in earnings, plus huge corporate tax relief, American corporations should have had substantial cash reserves to sustain them during a short period without revenue. But many did not, and instead were highly leveraged, lacked adequate reserves and lived paycheck to paycheck, so to speak. What happened to that cash? Much of it was returned to shareholders in dividends and stock buybacks.

    At the same time, American corporations weakened the traditional gain-sharing between the workforce and stockholders that characterized the post-World War II era. During that period, when corporate profits went up, workers shared equitably in the gains. Not any more.

    1. Not to worry, Big Business will be just fine — Chuck Grassley ensured that the latest iteration of the economic rescue bill removes what few constraints remained from the 2017 tax cut bill.  In other words, it should be renamed "Ha Ha I'm Rich, and You're Not" Welfare for the Wealthy Bill

      As part of the economic rescue package that became law last month, the federal government is giving away $174 billion in temporary tax breaks overwhelmingly to rich individuals and large companies, according to interviews and government estimates.

      Some of the breaks apply to taxes that have long been in the cross hairs of corporate lobbyists. They undo limitations that were imposed to rein in the giveaways embedded in a $1.5 trillion tax-cut package enacted in 2017. None specifically target businesses or individuals harmed by the coronavirus.

      The bottom line is that, barely two years after congressional Republicans and President Trump lavished America’s wealthiest families and companies with a series of lucrative tax cuts, those same beneficiaries are now receiving a second helping.

      Many of the tax benefits in the stimulus are “just shoveling money to rich people,” said Victor Fleischer, a tax law professor at the University of California, Irvine.

      Even the vultures get a big break

      The tax break “allows private equity to swoop in and scoop up struggling businesses,” said Matthew Rappaport, a tax lawyer who specializes in private equity at Falcon Rappaport & Berkman in New York.

      Tar and Feathering the GOP Senators should be the least we ought to do.

       

       

      1. Is it to much to ask this be the last gasps of the old-white-trickle-down-let-them-eat-cake assholes who are destroying the very underpinnings of this democracy?

            1. The first thing a new president should do is revoke the medal the OD gave to that cretin Limbaugh. Then put the goofy fucker in jail.

              It is Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Doocey, Ingraham, and the rest of the enablers, that are culpable. It is Stephen Miller and his gang of hateful subordinates that are driving us headlong to Make America White Again. It is time to identify the source of the problem…

              It is the 1%..Adelson, Hamm, Dimon, Anschutz, Murdoch, Perelman, and the dozens of billionaires who ARE the Titans of Industry and the Lords of Wall street. All of this is done on their behalf. 

              What Americans are seeing here is the beauty and wonder of the Free Market and unfettered disaster capitalism…but the third world nation they see it happening in is THIS ONE.

              1. And none of this "the country must move on," "we will pardon ________ ." There must be accountability, penalties, consequences for the criminals who have brought our country to this dangerous precipice. 

  11. “It’ll fix itself like a miracle once the weather starts getting warmer . . .”

    Less than an hour after the Small Business Administration on Monday morning started taking requests for another $310 billion in emergency aid for small businesses, its computer system for processing the loan applications crashed.

  12. Nurses in Moscow quit en masse protesting low pay, inadequate PPE, and poor working conditions. Russia is reporting 87,000cases of coronavirus, and this doesn’t include those who became sick or died from pneumonia possibly caused by the virus. 

    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-in-russia-the-latest-news-april-27-a69117

     

    Oligarchs are hoarding the ventilators, according to OCCRP. Corruption and an oligarchy  has kept Putin in power, but it’s also going to kill much of the country’s people. 

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