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IBM's Summit supercomputer identified 77 drug compounds that could stop the coronavirus spike from infecting host cells. This could help scientists create the most effective vaccine

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/fastest-supercomputer-coronavirus-scn-trnd/index.html



   
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Make sure you open your mail then throw out the envelopes/packaging and wash your hands immediately after:

https://www.propublica.org/article/letter-carriers-say-the-postal-service-pressured-them-to-deliver-mail-despite-coronavirus-symptoms-and-often-without-hand-sanitizer



   
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@jessi1978

If this is true, I can't tell you how angry this makes me. No, not that you're posting this, but that our f*ing oligarchy is asking people to sew a medical product because of their epic fails on everything. Is this 1918?? For crap's sake, it's 100+ years later!

 



   
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@laura-f

It's true. I posted it yesterday in the Points of Light forum also. The hashtag on Twitter is #MakeMedicalMasks

 



   
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My homeless man (Smokey Joe) who is really a squatter. He moved into my old  trailer three and a half years ago. He gets quite a few odd jobs.  Anyway, two weeks ago he went to work for an old school friend of mine. He told Joe not to go into the house 'cause his wife had the flu. She died last night. He told me a four year old girl four houses away from the first death also died. Of course we don't know that it was  chorona, but it seems likely.



   
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I think it is fair to say at this point... that many are walking around that have been exposed and are carriers ... most likely the best thing to do is to self isolate as much as possible....and wash,wash,wash and disinfect disinfect disinfect....from anything you touch.. I am here at home alone...yet I wipe down my surfaces  (knobs etc) with wipes ...cause... I have my windows open.... and pollen and who knows what is coming in on the air? Not to sound paranoid.... just an abundance of caution.

I have been hearing these guys ..several nights in a row sleeping with my window open: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_owl/sounds   and get to hear a glorious dawn chorus each morning.

A fair exchange I'd say.



   
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@laura-f

its true. Also I am in NY Cuomo is asking companies that if they can sew they can make mask and gowns. He will be paying them a premium amount and also locate machines to make them. He is a also asking for gloves. This is sad when our local government is doing more then that orange turd. 

 



   
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@journeywithme2.  Don't worry about fresh air.  UV light kills the virus fairly quickly.  As they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant. (that is both a literal and figurative statement)

 



   
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@laura-f

Everyone wanted to bring back the "good old days" and MAGA. I guess they got their wish. We are right back in the 1920s. Disease sweeping the nation, stock market crash, and all the bars are closed by law. 

Maybe next time they'll watch what they ask for

 



   
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@polarberry

Needless to say I had to console her and help her and myself to play and still have fun  just from 10' to15' away! 

I pretended she has turned invisible or was playing hide and seek from me and  we turned it into a game.  I started a big mime walk on the shadow of a tree limb  on the driveway walking on the shadow with one foot in front of the other like a tightrope walker. Forwards then backwards, then forwards then backwards .

She did the same then created her own (no words between us all mime) Pretty soon she was climbing and running and skipping and I copied her .

It was great fun!  We went from her burstng into tears because she wanted to hug and play with her grandma to big smiles of fun as we still found a way to play and instead of hugging we blew 15' kisses down the driveway!  ?

Just another way to turn lemons into lemonade with lots of fun and love ❣

 



   
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