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RE: Why can't govts act in concert for Once? My Corona Rant

in #community5 years ago

No one knows at this point what to do about it. There is no cure as of yet. The only measure that could be taken is containment and preventing more people to get contaminated.

Constant gargling of your throat with some disinfectant (like drinking soda dissolved in water helps) as the virus if you have gotten it into your throat lives there for four days before moving to the lungs where it causes real damage.

It will take several months for pharm companies to come up with the vaccine. The problem is that by this time the pandemic will pass on its own and pharmacological companies won't make any money just like they didn't make money on previous viruses. Only the government can make this order. But where would it get the money to pay for it? It would have to raise taxes. And in the time of no threat would the taxpayers agree to that measure?

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They're not even testing for antibodies. AND it's COV-2 (SARS). According to the official CDC website.

  • CDC is working to develop a new laboratory test to assist with efforts to determine how much of the U.S. population has been exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19.

How does one virus "cause" another virus??

  • The serology test will look for the presence of antibodies, which are specific proteins made in response to infections. Antibodies can be found in the blood and in other tissues of those who are tested after infection.

Nobody has been able to identify (isolate) antibodies specific to COVID-19 yet. This makes all current testing inconclusive.

And, The World Health Organization,

They only claim to be able to identify genetic markers for COV-2 (SARS).