The Corona Virus

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Nature reclaims global cities as people stay home

https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/ar...7IkvU#autoplay

The sight of ibex strolling down the beachfront promenade in Israel's city of Eilat recently shocked the locals; as humans retreat to their homes in wake of pandemic, wildlife steps out of the shadows and returns to the habitats it once ruled

[1959_60]

Bloody hell!

We'll all be getting Ibex Pox next....

[outwoodclaret]

Bloody hell!

We'll all be getting Ibex Pox next....

I sense that if the pox goes viral we will be told that we need to develop some form of goat herd immunity.

[1959_60]

It may make us feel more horny

[barrie_burn]

Goats on the loose in Llandudno and with all the now out of date food which shoppers stripped from the Supermarket shelves being dumped the rats will think Christmas arrived early.

[Norder]

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Latest News.

CBS Caught Using Italy Footage to Make New York Conditions Look Worse

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New Regulations on going out/staying in.

"If an officer “considers” — i.e. believes, rightly or wrongly — that you have left home without a reasonable excuse, they can, if they believe it to be necessary, do any of these three things: give you “reasonable instructions”, tell you to go home, or use reasonable force to get you home. And if you ignore or obstruct any of that, you commit an offence — even if you did actually have a reasonable excuse for leaving home and the officer is badly wrong in thinking you didn’t "

Only one winner there, Police State or what ?

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Just act like a sensible human being and you'll be reet.

Trouble is, they have to cater for people who are not sensible human beings as well.

Personally, I have chatted with a few police and they have all been very reasonable.

Police state? Extra powers certainly, but we are facing an emergency and all the emergency services are trying to keep us safe.

I reckon harsher measures will be brought in shortly and we will, in effect, be living in a temporary police state.

[sinkov]

Just act like a sensible human being and you'll be reet.

I would have thought that taking your dog for a walk on deserted moorland is as about as sensible a way to take your excercise in the current circumstances as there is, but Mr Plod in Derbyshire thought otherwise. What we need at this moment is for the police to act like sensible human beings, and I'm sure most of them are, but maybe it's something in the air in that part of the world, Derbyshire is in close proximity to South Yorkshire, whose police are not especially known for their common sense approach either.

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This is in the Jerusalem post. ''To be or not to be??''

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE...vaccine-623172

This assumes that those who have recovered from the disease have developed special anti-virus proteins or antibodies in their plasma, which could therefore help sick patients cope with the disease.
The first patient who recovered from coronavirus donated plasma on Wednesday that will be used to create a “passive vaccine” to treat Israelis who are severely ill with COVID-19, according to Magen David Adom deputy director-general of Blood Services Prof. Eilat Shinar.
This assumes that those who have recovered from the disease have developed special anti-virus proteins or antibodies in their plasma, which could therefore help sick patients cope with the disease.

“When people are exposed to any disease, they develop antibodies,” Shinar explained.

Passive immunization is when you get those pre-formed antibodies. An active vaccine, in contrast, is when you are injected with a dead or weakened version of a virus that tricks your immune system into thinking that you’ve had the disease and your immune system creates antibodies to protect you.
In the first phase, plasma will be frozen and then delivered to hospitals across the country for patients to be treated by transfusion, Shinar said. In the second phase, the goal is to collect enough plasma to prepare antibody (immunoglobulin) concentrate with which patients will be treated later.
Shinar said the Health Ministry is currently in discussion with two companies that can create the immunoglobulin and is writing a protocol for who can receive this treatment.

MDA has been collecting plasma for more than 30 years and thousands of volunteers donate blood this way every day. Plasma with antibodies has previously been used in the treatment of patients with SARS during the outbreak in 2002. In addition, Israel offered a similar treatment to patients with West Nile fever.

Last week, Shinar said, the FDA approved a similar protocol in the US. Earlier this week, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article about plasma being used to treat five COVID-19 patients in China, which said the treatment “very much helped in their recovery,” Shinar said.

Before being able to donate plasma, a patient must wait 14 days from the time he or she was confirmed negative for coronavirus via two separate swab tests - hence the reason the first plasma was donated on April 1. Shinar said that there should be another batch of donors available after Passover, those who were infected over the Purim holiday.
MDA will invite the potential donors to its Pheresis Unit at MDA’s Blood Services Center at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer.

MDA director-general Eli Bin said his organization is at the forefront of the fight against coronavirus in Israel and he hopes that with this new treatment and others being tested in Israel and around the world, “We all hope that together we will overcome this challenge.”