OT 100% NOT the Official Off-Topic/Politics/Corona Thread
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In today's "probably not a big deal but who knows" news, Trump called the Secret Service the "S.S.", and some are angry with him since it resembles the Nazi SS.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/448576/twitter-ss-secret-service/
Proof he knows the actual abbreviation for the USSS because he's used it numerous times in the past.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/448576/twitter-ss-secret-service/
Proof he knows the actual abbreviation for the USSS because he's used it numerous times in the past.
I thought ICE was the new SS? Now you’re telling me that the secret service is the new SS. Can’t keep up with y’all’s outrage.
They should have at least experimented with the name Lady Postbellum.
The youth are so adorable. Ante- is before. Antebellum works out to “before the war” with the war being the civil war as far as American history is concerned. Postbellum is the period after the civil war.
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Means before. Learned that one on a tour of an antebellum place in Louisiana years ago.
Careful, you're likely to be labeled a racist by the virtue signaling 20-somethings on social media for contributing to that place's fund. Good thing you went on that tour back then, it will be toppled before long because of the pain it causes sitting there.
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I mean.....WTF does the A stand for? Lol....... Like we don't know what NWA stands for instead of it being spelled out? Abbreviating it doesn't change it. If you're going to virtue signal, DO IT all the way, don't go half azz in order to save your commercial viability for fear your fans won't know who you are.
A f'ing joke.
Led Zeppelin apologizes to victims of The Hindenburg and will now play Misty Mountain Hop while kneeling.
If they really cared about people they would disband their shitty group and scrub the internet of any evidence of their "music."
What is good for some is not good for others...
Interesting findings. Still early and more needs to be done, but promising if this proves out.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/before...ed-to-fight-it-11591959600?mod=hp_featst_pos3
Researchers piecing together how the body’s immune system responds to the virus that causes Covid-19 are exploring a tantalizing effect: Some people who have never encountered the pathogen before appear to be able to mobilize parts of their immune system to ward it off.
That response suggests that infection with other coronaviruses, such as those responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and even the common cold, may aid the body’s fight against the new invader. Harnessing the biological processes at play could aid the search for a new vaccine, researchers say.
A team of scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California looked at blood samples from 20 people who came down with Covid-19 and subsequently recovered. Most had only mild symptoms.
The team found that when they reintroduced synthesized bits of the virus to the subjects’ blood they mobilized white blood cells known as helper T-cells that coordinate a broad immune response to the infection. A second type of T-cell that seeks out and destroys cells hijacked by the virus was detected in most subjects, the authors wrote in a peer-reviewed paper published in the scientific journal Cell last month.
The finding dispels some of the worries people had that the virus that causes Covid-19 wasn’t capable of triggering a forceful immune response, said Alessandro Sette, a professor of infectious disease and vaccine research at La Jolla and one of the study’s lead authors. The virus has infected at least seven million people world-wide and killed more than 400,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The team also tested the blood drawn from 20 volunteers between 2015 and 2018, long before the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 appeared, and found a similar immune reaction in around half of those subjects when their blood was exposed to the virus.
It isn’t just the team at La Jolla who have noticed this effect. Scientists in Singapore found that some people who came down more than a decade ago with SARS, caused by a closely related coronavirus, were able to muster their T-cells to fight the Covid-19 attacker. Researchers in Germany have also noted the presence of T-cells able to combat the virus in healthy donors, possibly a result of getting a cold.
The emerging theory: Exposure to other coronaviruses earlier in life helps some individuals fight the new invader.
“It’s a consistent finding that some people have reactivity even though they’ve never seen the virus,” said Dr. Sette. “This is a hypothesis and our labs are working hard to try and produce a smoking gun, to really show that this is true.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/before...ed-to-fight-it-11591959600?mod=hp_featst_pos3
Researchers piecing together how the body’s immune system responds to the virus that causes Covid-19 are exploring a tantalizing effect: Some people who have never encountered the pathogen before appear to be able to mobilize parts of their immune system to ward it off.
That response suggests that infection with other coronaviruses, such as those responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and even the common cold, may aid the body’s fight against the new invader. Harnessing the biological processes at play could aid the search for a new vaccine, researchers say.
A team of scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California looked at blood samples from 20 people who came down with Covid-19 and subsequently recovered. Most had only mild symptoms.
The team found that when they reintroduced synthesized bits of the virus to the subjects’ blood they mobilized white blood cells known as helper T-cells that coordinate a broad immune response to the infection. A second type of T-cell that seeks out and destroys cells hijacked by the virus was detected in most subjects, the authors wrote in a peer-reviewed paper published in the scientific journal Cell last month.
The finding dispels some of the worries people had that the virus that causes Covid-19 wasn’t capable of triggering a forceful immune response, said Alessandro Sette, a professor of infectious disease and vaccine research at La Jolla and one of the study’s lead authors. The virus has infected at least seven million people world-wide and killed more than 400,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The team also tested the blood drawn from 20 volunteers between 2015 and 2018, long before the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 appeared, and found a similar immune reaction in around half of those subjects when their blood was exposed to the virus.
It isn’t just the team at La Jolla who have noticed this effect. Scientists in Singapore found that some people who came down more than a decade ago with SARS, caused by a closely related coronavirus, were able to muster their T-cells to fight the Covid-19 attacker. Researchers in Germany have also noted the presence of T-cells able to combat the virus in healthy donors, possibly a result of getting a cold.
The emerging theory: Exposure to other coronaviruses earlier in life helps some individuals fight the new invader.
“It’s a consistent finding that some people have reactivity even though they’ve never seen the virus,” said Dr. Sette. “This is a hypothesis and our labs are working hard to try and produce a smoking gun, to really show that this is true.”
This is why media needs to be held accountable for either their deliberate or accidental disinformation tactics.
I'll take "Things you won't see on CNN" for $500 Alex --
https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article243395651.html
https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article243395651.html
and people worry about Biden being the gaffe machine.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...lack-community-end-result-questionable-2020-6
President Donald Trump claimed in a Fox News interview with Harris Faulkner that he's done more for the Black community than any other president in history, including Abraham Lincoln.
"He did good, although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result —" Trump said of Lincoln before Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner cut him off.
The reporters response: "Well, we are free, Mr. President, so I think he did pretty well," she said, referring to Lincoln."
https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...lack-community-end-result-questionable-2020-6
President Donald Trump claimed in a Fox News interview with Harris Faulkner that he's done more for the Black community than any other president in history, including Abraham Lincoln.
"He did good, although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result —" Trump said of Lincoln before Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner cut him off.
The reporters response: "Well, we are free, Mr. President, so I think he did pretty well," she said, referring to Lincoln."
the 105 kids on their football team certainly didn't know until someone spoke it into existence and they heard about it. Now the SJW's are woke and want it gone. Lol......
I will never defend some of the shit Trump tweet or says, but watch this video especially the 15s-28s mark. Your boy Biden ain't all there...
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4886392/user-clip-biden-gaffe
Folks in cities that defund police are about to go hungry..... Bless their hearts.
https://cdllife.com/2020/truck-driv...LGF5O5RQn9wM_kMfOhXkFbReYeB1VEF-1nBuBw52m1SFA
https://cdllife.com/2020/truck-driv...LGF5O5RQn9wM_kMfOhXkFbReYeB1VEF-1nBuBw52m1SFA
Were the racist bigots in Charlottesville that he openly supported and refused to condemn until he absolutely had to being falsely labeled? Not once were they called thugs and he didn't threaten to unleash the military on them either.
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