MacReady Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 How am I the only one around here who gets how poignant and fitting The Thing (1982) is right now? The Thing was released in 1982. June 5th, 1981, HIV first reported. There’s an announcement in January that The Thing is going to get remade, and now this. For anyone who has never seen it, watch it now for some situationally fitting sci fi terror. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramssuperbowl99 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Shanedorf said: Gee, thanks for tossing me the tough questions ! I don't even feel bad about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramssuperbowl99 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 3 hours ago, pwny said: QT prolongation would also play a role in HRV, right? edit: @ramssuperbowl99 I would think so, but don't know for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Brown Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 I see some folks on the ol social media are starting to see stimulus checks. Anyone here that fortunate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_shadows Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 39 minutes ago, Troy Brown said: I see some folks on the ol social media are starting to see stimulus checks. Anyone here that fortunate? Really? I thought they said they weren't even suppose to start sending them out until the 13th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_shadows Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 I figured this whole thing out btw, I know how to beat it. So the virus typically doesn't have serious effects on children right? So all we gotta do is start dissecting children and figure out why it's not effecting them so we can replicate it in adults....problem solved 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 55 minutes ago, Troy Brown said: I see some folks on the ol social media are starting to see stimulus checks. Anyone here that fortunate? Just checked & nada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanedorf Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 hour ago, TVScout said: Have any studies been conducted that checks the infection rates for people who have been taking these drugs since before the pandemic even started? I don't know. But many of the existing drugs were used to treat malaria, fungal infections, parasites and other nasty things that aren't a big problem in the developed world. Its also pretty early on and as we saw with Ivermectin, the dose used to treat those other diseases wasn't high enough to kill virus deep in the lungs so you probably wouldn't see a difference. We may see anecdotal evidence show up in some populations and that will spur additional investigations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 14 minutes ago, rob_shadows said: I figured this whole thing out btw, I know how to beat it. So the virus typically doesn't have serious effects on children right? So all we gotta do is start dissecting children and figure out why it's not effecting them so we can replicate it in adults....problem solved Nah. We kill all the old people and let the children survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramssuperbowl99 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 hour ago, TVScout said: Have any studies been conducted that checks the infection rates for people who have been taking these drugs since before the pandemic even started? Even if the infection rate was lower that could be the result of people who have active infections quarantining themselves earlier or more strictly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanedorf Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 hours ago, pwny said: Anecdotal evidence: I have a fitness band that tracks heart rate, resting heart rate and heart rate variability and a number of other things. It’s got a sizable community and a couple users have gotten COVID-19 and noticed that their RHR increases and HRV decreases significantly 2-3 days before they start showing symptoms. Is that normal when your body is fighting a virus, or is it anecdotal evidence of heart-related stress? I'm not sure. When infected, your body will try multiple tactics to knock it down. I'm guessing heart rate and blood flow are part of the arsenal, but I don't know Fever and chills are your body making it harder on the bacteria/virus to survive by cycling between "too hot" or "too cold" I also don't know the accuracy of fitness monitors to pick up QT prolongation, but they are capturing RHR and HRV In the clinic they use validated ECG instruments that are accurate down to 0 .1 milliseconds and those have 12 separate leads on them placed on your chest, arms, legs to get an accurate picture. And then those results are read by a trained cardiologist. Anything below a 5 millisecond increase is of low concern, between 5-20 ms increase needs further investigation and 20 millisecond or greater increase in QT interval is likley to lead to arrhythmia's. And as ramssuperbowl99 noted earlier - its often dose dependent. Here's a pic: If you mess with the time-to-reload ( QT interval) , it can potentially have dire effects. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywindO2 Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Outpost31 said: How am I the only one around here who gets how poignant and fitting The Thing (1982) is right now? You might actually be the only person that's ever said "am I the only one" when you're actually the only one. Congrats. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacReady Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 5 minutes ago, skywindO2 said: You might actually be the only person that's ever said "am I the only one" when you're actually the only one. Congrats. Touché, but I shouldn’t be. The movie is perfect for the types of paranoia and fear going on right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August4th Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Troy Brown said: I see some folks on the ol social media are starting to see stimulus checks. Anyone here that fortunate? my brother got his Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazgul Posted April 10, 2020 Share Posted April 10, 2020 6 minutes ago, Outpost31 said: Touché, but I shouldn’t be. The movie is perfect for the types of paranoia and fear going on right now. The Thing sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts