Coronavirus

[EagerBeaver]

The Chinese are very efficient eaters and use entire animals in their cuisine. If you go to an authentic Chinese restaurant you will see chicken feet and pork tripe on the menu. Shark fin soup is a tremendous delicacy. Insects are also eaten, according to my friend who went to the Shanghai Olympics. Grasshoppers and other bugs may be fried, coated with chocolate or yogurt or otherwise candied. When you have to feed 1.4 billion people, you need to be creative.

Marmots are also eaten raw:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/two-cases-bubonic-plague-linked-22308095

 

[Fradi]

EB
I am sure your friend must have told you that real Chinese food is nothing like the Americanized Chinese food you eat all over North America.
I have been to China a few times and even had the misfortune to eat in some Chinese factories cafeteria, and it was a real feat to try and pretend as if you are eating and liking it.
Like you say pickled ducks feet with the webbing, pork tripe that actually still smelled like shit.
Couldn’t wait to get back to the 5 star hotel and have food that I could actually eat.

I won’t say that I didn’t have any decent food , there was a specialty restaurant where they only made dumplings maybe about 200 different varieties and Szechuan restaurant that had some really tasty spicy dishes but this places was full of tourists and I guess catering especially to them.

 

[The Nature Boy]

Surprisingly it’s not 50 slides of section of china

https://travel.usnews.com/gallery/countries_that_eat_bugs

 

[IamNY]

Hmmm...think that NY post article is a bit biased, maybe? Probably....

Cuomo’s secondary review is supposed to be happening concomitantly with FDA and other regulatory boards. So we will have to see if there is a delay in it’s roll out in NY state.

I dont trust Cuomo, but in comparison to Trump, well, there’s no comparison, lol. For him and others to say Trumpy didn’t try and politicize the vaccine roll out is bizarre. Also, the Pfizer vaccine has nothing to do with Trumpy or any government agency like the moderna vaccine. It doesn’t have anything to do with trumpy. Has everything to do with Pfizer. All Trumpys done with the Pfizer vaccine is called the ceo asking him to crank it out by Election Day.

It's not an opinion article that most people on here try to pass off for the truth. Even the new fact checker Twitter didn't take the article down so it's legit.

Who the fuck is Cuomo to do a secondary review of a life saving vaccine? Last time I checked he's the Governor with a law degree, nothing even remotely close to giving him the credentials to stand in the way of saving lives. It's all politics and bullshit. He should just continue to write books about how great he handled the pandemic and step aside to let people live. Unlike how he sent all of those seniors to their deaths at the beginning of this pandemic.

 

[2fast2slow]

Anyone find it odd that the CEO of Pfizer sells 62% of his shares the same day he announces a possible vaccine?

Edit. It was after the 8% stock jump

Pfizer's CEO cashed out $5.6 million of stock after trumpeting its COVID-19 vaccine. That's 30% of his total compensation last year

Albert Bourla earned a total of $18.2 million in salary, bonuses, and long-term stock awards in 2019.

www.businessinsider.com

of course it smells. but apparently 100% legal. It is a way for companies to pay their CEOs.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

^^^^^^^ But if the vaccine works as they claim the share price would go up a lot more, why not wait and pull in a larger profit?

 

[The Nature Boy]

It's not an opinion article that most people on here try to pass off for the truth. Even the new fact checker Twitter didn't take the article down so it's legit.

Who the fuck is Cuomo to do a secondary review of a life saving vaccine? Last time I checked he's the Governor with a law degree, nothing even remotely close to giving him the credentials to stand in the way of saving lives. It's all politics and bullshit. He should just continue to write books about how great he handled the pandemic and step aside to let people live. Unlike how he sent all of those seniors to their deaths at the beginning of this pandemic.

It’s certainly not the truth. NOT A FAN OF CUOMO. But when you have a president doing shady shit to get re-elected (didn’t work btw, lol) a secondary board to make sure stuff is legit and quell the hesitancy of those who might feel vaccine is being pushed out because Trumpys callin all ceos to crank it out by Election Day is not a bad idea. But Trumpys not pres anymore :,-( so maybe Andy C should lighten the fuck up with rhetoric. On the flip side Trumpys to busy wavin to the proud boys via a motorcade as they are marchin today and not telling sleepy joe what he needs to “always be in the know”!

 

[IamNY]

It’s certainly not the truth. NOT A FAN OF CUOMO. But when you have a president doing shady shit to get re-elected (didn’t work btw, lol) a secondary board to make sure stuff is legit and quell the hesitancy of those who might feel vaccine is being pushed out because Trumpys callin all ceos to crank it out by Election Day is not a bad idea. But Trumpys not pres anymore :,-( so maybe Andy C should lighten the fuck up with rhetoric. On the flip side Trumpys to busy wavin to the proud boys via a motorcade as they are marchin today and not telling sleepy joe what he needs to “always be in the know”!

What part of my original post are you in disagreement with other than the source? Trump did rip Cuomo and he did say that NY won't get a vaccine until Cuomo approves it.

The secondary board you speak of is called the FDA, not a governor. The FDA will approve the vaccines use. Even the great Lord Fauci has publicly approved the vaccine. All Trump did was to encourage the drug companies to expedite the completion of the vaccine. Cut through the red tape and make it happen. I'm sure Trump would have preferred that the vaccine was out before election day, but that wasn't the case. So what?

BTW, Trump is still the president. Here's the article again, please try to read it this time:

Trump rips Cuomo, says NY won’t get COVID-19 vaccine until gov OKs it

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday celebrated the recent breakthrough of a successful coronavirus vaccine — but said the people of New York wouldn’t receive it until Gov. Andrew Cuomo got out o…

nypost.com

 

[cloudsurf]

^^^^^^^ But if the vaccine works as they claim the share price would go up a lot more, why not wait and pull in a larger profit?

The vaccine may work as well as claimed, but if the distribution bogs down, then the stock will drop

 

[The Nature Boy]

Why do I like this guy so much??

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1327631514067144708

 

[EagerBeaver]

Get ready for the post-Thanksgiving Day weekend surge!

Physician predicts 'unprecedented surge' in US Covid-19 cases after Thanksgiving | CNN

Coronavirus cases in the US will spike after Thanksgiving, further stressing health care systems and prompting new restrictions, an emergency physician said Saturday, as states continued to report soaring numbers of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

www.cnn.com

 

[No_Church_InThe_Wild]

Anyone find it odd that the CEO of Pfizer sells 62% of his shares the same day he announces a possible vaccine?

Edit. It was after the 8% stock jump

Pfizer's CEO cashed out $5.6 million of stock after trumpeting its COVID-19 vaccine. That's 30% of his total compensation last year

Albert Bourla earned a total of $18.2 million in salary, bonuses, and long-term stock awards in 2019.

www.businessinsider.com

Him selling more than half his stock was obviously big news because that’s a big chunk
Outsiders can only speculate but the only ones who know more are the insiders ... and even they sometimes cannot fully predict how the stock will perform ( many variables) ...the stock price didn’t move that much (8%) with the announcement because the market as usual was already expecting it and the SP reflected that months ago..... having said that he did get to dump it while it made small gains . Maybe he was expecting a bigger jump and when it didn’t materialize he figured it will only go flat for a long time to come or who knows , stock market/manipulation is nothing new in this rigged game but it doesn’t always happen in a way you think it’s going to happen

One things for sure is that if someone already owned this particular stock or was thinking of buying in they now must have some serious doubts of what would be the right move

 

[ssj3]

Also, the Pfizer vaccine has nothing to do with Trumpy or any government agency like the moderna vaccine. It doesn’t have anything to do with trumpy. Has everything to do with Pfizer. All Trumpys done with the Pfizer vaccine is called the ceo asking him to crank it out by Election Day.

Not true TNB, Pfizer is part of Operation Warp Speed..even the spokesperson came out and corrected the misconception after someone else from Pfizer told the press they weren’t. They were guaranteed $1.95B if they developed a safe and effective vaccine on the back end. This gave them the incentive to get into the game and invest hundreds of millions of their own money on R&D.

 

[IamNY]

Quebec Covid -19 case are surging:

Quebec posts new one day record for COVID-19 cases with 1,448 in past 24 hours - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

The province is also reporting 25 additional deaths linked to the novel coronavirus.

globalnews.ca

 

[Womaniser]

Quebec Covid -19 case are surging:

Quebec posts new one day record for COVID-19 cases with 1,448 in past 24 hours - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

The province is also reporting 25 additional deaths linked to the novel coronavirus.

globalnews.ca

The most important things to watch are : the positivity %, the increase in hospitalisations that can overwhelm health care systems.
In USA, all of these are increasing in many states.

 

[EagerBeaver]

A buddy of mine in New York City texted me tonight and told me his luck had run out and he tested positive this morning. He said his symptoms are low grade fever, fatigue, headaches and nausea but his sense of taste and smell are not impacted so far. His wife tested negative, but she must be going bananas because they live together. He said his breathing is OK so far but the doctor told him to get his ass to hospital if he deteriorates. He is at home resting.

This is getting totally out of control! I wonder who is going to be next?

 

[Fradi]

EB,

I hope your buddy recovers fast and his symptoms remain mild.
My buddies mom went in for a routine operation and contracted Covid in the hospital.
The operation was a success but she died from the virus. She was 82 and relatively healthy for her age.
It is now getting to the point when we are all starting to have people or relatives of people we know get seriously sick or die from this shit.

 

[IamNY]

NY, especially NYC has been surging with new Covid cases. But it's not as bad as you would think. As of yesterday it's at 2.2%. It just sucks being part of that 2.2%. The upstate and western region is seeing surges above 5%. The rest of the country is doing much worse than that. Wearing masks, social distancing, washing hands, etc. is really all we have against Covid and it doesn't seem to be working. Lockdowns are coming. I had a minor elective surgery purposely done in September in anticipation of a surge. I read the book "The Great Influenza" about the 1917 pandemic and was convinced that the summer was the calm before the storm. What sucks about my procedure is that there was a slight complication and I need to go under the blade again for literally 10 minutes. So I'm even nervous as shit about that. But as long as the positivity rate stays around 2% it should be fine. If anybody has an elective surgery that they are putting off, your probably better off waiting until the spring if you can.

 

[The Nature Boy]

Stay strong lads, we’ll get through this one. All the best to all’s families.

 

[sene5hos]

I sympathize with you, and I understand you because my mother died in a CHSLD, she only stayed 5 weeks before dying (thank you my God, she didn't suffer very long).
What was sad is that I was the only one in my family who could see her before she left us.

So when I hear people say it's just the flu, and they don't want to follow instructions, it makes me aggressive.