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Of course it helps! Does it help you to understand what words mean when you read something?!?! Geez. Give me a fucking break.

Are "novel coronavirus" and "Covid-19" two names for the virus, or is "novel coronavirus" the virus, and "Covid-19" the disease caused by the virus. I've seen a lot of articles that seem to be implying one is the virus while the other is the disease. I even saw one article that seemed to imply Covid-19 was the lower respiratory disease, and not the illness that might manifest itself in a mild case. Often times though they seem to be used interchangeably. I've tried to find a clear answer but have been unable to do so.

Good point. With the work-from-home rules we are following my wife asked if I could work from someone else's home! 🤪

Couldn't you have just used more women to make up for the difference in strength the men contributed?

While I don't care for spiders they don't really bother me any more than big centipedes or other creepy looking creatures. Many years ago I let my boys both have aquariums with snakes. I was fine looking at them in the tank, and when the boys handled them it was a little creepy but no big deal. Then they talked me into holding their corn snake (see stock image below). It was a bit tense but fine while it was just wrapped around my fingers, but then it looked me in the eye and started moving toward my face. Boom! I couldn't get that thing out of my hand fast enough.

When I unexpectedly see a snake I kind of freak out for a moment. In an instant my heart rate and breathing spike, I can feel the adrenaline surge, and I immediately start looking around for all his snake buddies who must be waiting in ambush. One time my wife was concerned as I stormed into the house cursing a blue streak and locked the door behind me. For the next couple of days every stick, crack in the concrete, or elongated shadow makes me think of snakes. I'll often have bad dreams afterwards. I am fully aware this is irrational but I have no control over it. This near instant reaction I have to snakes makes it feel like it is much more visceral than intellectual.

Yes. All the symptoms can be found with other illnesses.

I think he is using Wild Turkey for a throat spray. 😄

Did you stop reading my post after "Develop a vaccine..."?

c) Develop a vaccine while reducing the rate of infection and increasing the ability to care for those who are sick.

We can also achieve herd immunity with a vaccine. And there is a very good chance the problem will ebb and flow, so we may be (almost) business as usual in a few months (till the next flow).

Very well put. Maybe something as impactful as a pandemic will change our direction.

It's sold out now as the 'panic buyers' bought it all up. Unfortunately it is now on a shelf in their basements behind the 200 rolls of toilet paper and 50# sacks of dried Navy beans.

You need to wipe down the items that might be contaminated once; not continue to keep touching a possibly contaminated item then wash your hands continuously. It's important we use common sense.

If you are home and well, where did the virus on your phone come from? You should wash your hands after they were at risk of being contaminated; touching public doorknobs, shaking hands, using a keypad to enter your PIN, using a shopping cart, caring for a sick person, etc. If you are sitting at home to isolate yourself from the coronavirus, you are not sick, and people are not coming and going, the phone and remote will remain coronavirus-free. No need to obsessively wash your hands.

Actually my wife and I have discussed this. Fortunately for us we can add some distance if only one of us is infected. Our plan is: - The sick person stays in the lower level of our home which has its own bedroom, bathroom, kitchen sink, microwave, television, and door to the outside. - Well person stays upstairs and takes care of all animals and supplies cooked food. - Ill person does their own dishes. - Luckily for us I found a handful of N95 masks in my workshop. - Hope like hell that sick person doesn't need care, otherwise entire plan might go to hell in a handcart (which is an appropriate phrase as its origin comes from hauling the dead off the streets of London in handcarts to protect horses during the plague.)

Science doesn't typically "panic/overreact". While everyone about them is losing their heads, the physicians and scientists just keep moving ahead.

Thank you druS.

Get back to me when whatever you've ingested wears off.

I have my first known (possible) link to COVID-19. My wife works with a woman who was in the office today. The woman has been at home with her college age daughter all weekend. The daughter's college roommate, who she was with all last week, was just tested for COVID-19. No results I've heard yet, but she fell into the category of those who should be tested. Anyone know how often those tested come up negative? Just wondering if the right symptoms and other risk factors are a reliable indicator of infection by the coronavirus, or if the symptoms are too close to the seasonal flu.

Very cool!

You are ASSUMING free will exists. Your example does nothing to PROVE it. You can make the same argument without the parasite even being present by simply saying that by running away from the cat, the rat exhibits free will. The parasite example is an example of the lack of free will, not the other way around. Proof of activity "X" does not simultaneously prove the opposite of activity "X".

So if I make you give me your money at the point of a gun, that is an example of free will? Wouldn't you refusing to give me your money at the risk of being shot, be a better example?

A parasite making the rat do something is not an example of free will on the part of the rat. It's that simple.

I was thinking the same thing as I read the post. At least if the cat had run away while infected with the parasite, or if the cat had stayed while free of the parasite, it would have been an example that might indicate a free will.