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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?
New version will feature an updated Mr. Yuk … in flare orange.
WTF is this about?
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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.
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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.
another source says
there was a bit better description, too
Though I doubt that this was part of Dump's sarcasm, it does amount to "a way to bring the light into the body".
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.
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).
Today's musical number
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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.
"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.
Brilliant. That's the best parody I've seen in a long time.
If we are going to ingest disinfectant, can we get flavors?
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.
On seeing light at the end on the tunnel, remember, . . .
. . . it’s unfounded optimism that’s gotten us this far.
And here I would have guessed, mirror time? . . .
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.
“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.
Trump's chronic case of diaper rash is getting worse, it seems:
It may also be responsible for his on-going mental confusion
I got to wondering today what all this will mean for the census. Delays and problems for lawmakers and possibly needing to run in the old districts again. The Census is asking for a delay on the final report from March to July of next year.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1448002/census-delay-could-put-off-new-voting-districts-primaries.html
Daily Kos had a blog on the Census delay, too: Voting Rights Roundup: Delay in 2020 census data release could heavily disrupt redistricting process
This is an excellent read:
How Business Should Change After the Coronavirus Crisis
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
Even the vultures get a big break
Tar and Feathering the GOP Senators should be the least we ought to do.
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?
It is time to unleash the Forces of good on the ORCs (Old Republican Christians).
It was less than a year ago that *rump bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon Arthur Laffer. Sweet White Prosperity Jesus. Just shoot me.
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.
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.
^^ this, again
thanks MB
Oh, yeah — should . . .
. . . I should probably start flossing more often, . . .
. . . and I should also exercise today.
“It’ll fix itself like a miracle once the weather starts getting warmer . . .”
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.
The nationality of the oligarch doesn't seem to change their behavior:
"Some have brought their own medical equipment — even a ventilator, according to one local doctor"
Where the Very Rich Fly to Hide
Wyoming’s Jackson Hole has become a redoubt against the coronavirus.
Waiting out the pandemic with Dick and Liz Cheney.. There’s a premise for a dark, satiric reality show.
But what happens when all the help is sick, dead or deported, and they have to make their own waffles and wash their own socks?