I'll wait a few days to see if he replies. If not, I'm gonna have to file a dispute with PayPal. Wish him well if he is in a down play. We all struggle and the world as it is, is a tough place.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: drezdn on April 02, 2021, 01:04:16 PM
Anyone know what the DIV pad is for on the whetstone.
Quote from: benny_profane on June 30, 2020, 02:22:37 AMQuote from: davent on June 30, 2020, 01:19:10 AM
'Herd immunity', has it been established there is immunity once having recovered from having Covid-19?
From the CDC website, updated June 28, 2020;
The immune response, including duration of immunity, to SARS-CoV-2 infection is not yet understood. Patients with MERS-CoV are unlikely to be re-infected shortly after they recover, but it is not yet known whether similar immune protection will be observed for patients with COVID-19.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/faq.html
dave
You're right—there is no consensus regarding the adaptive immune response and much that is not yet fully understood. Remember that this is a novel pathogen and there's still much unknown. The cardiovascular impacts are particularly concerning.
I'm glad to see that folks (especially young people) here have an appreciation for the severity of this. With that said, though, the impacts of anxiety are important too. Be responsible and take care of yourself is the best advice. But, this is not over and the warm weather isn't going to make it disappear. The novel nature of the pathogen is more dominant than any environmental factor (i.e., this doesn't have the cyclical seasonal pattern of established infectious diseases because it is new to our innate immune response). However, the decrease in sustained, close indoor contact has a mitigating effect.
On a related note, yes there's a mutation in the virus. No, that doesn't mean anything in particular. Viruses copy themselves as they infect/spread. They're also not very good at it and copy errors are made. From a virus' perspective, it's most beneficial to become less virulent/lethal while becoming more infectious (think common cold rhinoviruses). They want to be able to spread without inconveniencing/killing those it infects. So, as news reports come out about 'mutations'—just as with everything else—that needs to be contextualized and studied before it really means anything.
Small rant: The world absolutely had the opportunity to contain and perhaps eradicate SARS-CoV-2. That we didn't is a massive failure. There is dwindling hope of that now. Even with a vaccine, the (almost certain) necessity of cold-chain supply and the trend of aversion to vaccines in middle- and high-income countries means that that won't be the final answer.