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I second your prayer.

Money will soon be on the way from the government to keep people afloat financially, along with business and industry. This should help ease that blow.

General question...If the economy was doing so great, why can’t the middle class last a month or even a week without a paycheck?

Because 'people' - at all levels of income - are ridiculously STUPID when it comes to budgeting and peeing away their money. But they are quite adept at pinning their self-induced financial woes on anything else that they can.

General question...If the economy was doing so great, why can’t the middle class last a month or even a week without a paycheck?

I second your prayer.

Money will soon be on the way from the government to keep people afloat financially, along with business and industry. This should help ease that blow.

I am still alive with my Boeing investment at $100 and $89.

Currently at $100.50 per share.

future markets opened at 6pm.

by 6:08pm, it hit its limit breaker at 5%.

tomorrow will be another bloodbath.

Wonder what the issues are. I haven’t seen a clear direction from anyone in government on how this is all going down.

What a cluster.

There is no clear direction, that is the problem.

This is end game. The world ends up different. You can't expect anybody or anything to have the answers.

I still think China let this out. Screw them. Nuke them tonight with a big smile on the face.

I still think China let this out. Screw them. Nuke them tonight with a big smile on the face.

The new coronavirus was not genetically engineered, study shows
New research finds that SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is the result of the natural process of evolution rather than a product of laboratory engineering.

The new study appears in the journal Nature Medicine, and Kristian Andersen, Ph.D., an associate professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, is the first and corresponding author on the paper.

Andersen and colleagues set out to see what they could deduce about the origin of the new coronavirus from analyzing the genomic data available.

As the authors mention in their paper, since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, researchers have been trying to grapple with the origins of the virus that caused it.

Initially, experts linked the virus to the seafood market in Wuhan, China, while later study papers suggested that the virus may have spread to humans from illegally trafficked mammals called pangolins.

To evaluate the origin of the new virus, the researchers compared the “backbone” of SARS-CoV-2 with that of other viruses that commonly affect bats and pangolins.

They did so using the genetic sequencing data that Chinese scientists made available.

Andersen and his team also looked at spike proteins — features that coronaviruses use to bind to the membrane of the human or animal cells that they infect.

Ending the rumors about SARS-CoV-2
More specifically, the authors of the new research looked at two components of spike proteins: the receptor-binding domain (RBD), which latches onto healthy host cells, and the cleavage site, which opens up the virus and allows it to penetrate the host cell.

To bind to human cells, spike proteins need a receptor on human cells called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2).

The scientists found that the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein had evolved to target ACE2 so effectively that it could only have been the result of natural selection and not of genetic engineering.

Furthermore, the molecular structure of the backbone of SARS-CoV-2 supported this finding. If scientists had engineered the new coronavirus purposely as a pathogen, explain the researchers, the starting point would likely have been the backbone of another virus in the coronavirus family.

However, the backbone of SARS-CoV-2 was very different than those of other coronaviruses and was most similar to related viruses in bats and pangolins.

“These two features of the virus — the mutations in the RBD portion of the spike protein and its distinct backbone — rule out laboratory manipulation as a potential origin for SARS-CoV-2,” explains Andersen.

“By comparing the available genome sequence data for known coronavirus strains, we can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes.”

– Kristian Andersen

Josie Golding, Ph.D., who is the epidemics lead at the Wellcome Trust, a research charity based in London, United Kingdom, did not participate in the study but comments on its significance.

She says the findings are “crucially important to bring an evidence-based view to the rumors that have been circulating about the origins of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) causing COVID-19.”

“[The authors] conclude that the virus is the product of natural evolution,” Goulding adds, “ending any speculation about deliberate genetic engineering.”

Two possible origin scenarios
Furthermore, the researchers explain that their results have implications for two possible scenarios that could explain how the virus originated.

One scenario, they say, is that the virus evolved to become pathogenic in an animal and then jumped to humans. This would be in line with how other coronaviruses, such as SARS and MERS, originated.

For the new coronavirus, the authors suggest that bats are the most likely carrier, as SARS-CoV-2 is very similar to a bat coronavirus. Other experts have supported this theory, too.

Andersen and colleagues also suggest that it is likely that another intermediate animal host transmitted the virus from bats to humans.

This hypothesis also explains why the virus spread so fast — it suggests that the two distinctive features of SARS-CoV-2’s spike proteins would have made it able to wreak havoc before entering humans.

In this scenario, the probability of future outbreaks is higher, as the pathogenic strain of the virus would still be circulating in animals and could jump back into humans at any point.

In the second scenario, the virus is nonpathogenic in animals but jumped into humans and evolved into a disease-causing strain there. This scenario supports the theory that places pangolins at the start of the outbreak because the spike proteins of some coronaviruses from pangolins have a very similar RBD structure to that of SARS-CoV-2.

However, the authors caution that it is impossible to tell which scenario is more likely to be true at this point.

Public HealthRespiratoryFlu / Cold / SARS
Written by Ana Sandoiu on March 20, 2020 - Fact checked by Isabel Godfrey

a link to science and fact

You've been chanting this mantra for weeks now. You need to stop.

My best friend of over 40 years is a retired Air Force Colonel. Hi new gig post service: he's the head of pharmacy at the Dayton VA. He's spent a lifetime in science and medicine. Has advanced study in infectious diseases and epidemiology. Has sat on numerous panels and has testified as an expert on Captiol Hill.

I asked him outright, last week, when this thing began ravaging these shores. His response: "Science isn't good enough to engineer something this efficient. Science will be just barely good enough to catch up with it. And then, another one will come along."

Then, I find this, earlier today:

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If you persist in this line, you run the risk of becoming the Poster Boy for Feelings over Facts. There has been a current of anti-science, anti-intellect, anti-expertise going back 4 decades in this country. Conspiracy theories like these are the most glaring example of that movement, and the dangerous effects it can have on otherwise smart, centered individuals.

My best friend wouldn't lie to me. The experts in the field know that they are the last line of defense in battles such as these, and that we will only succeed if truth and facts trump fear and mistrust. Please remember that epidemiologists from every country are working on this- sharing data results, latest advances, etc. They want us to know what's up... and that means giving out good info that's verifiable.

Sorry, my friend. I think you should find a couple people with credentials and ask them yourself. Folks like My Boy. From what I know of your background, I'm certain you know folks who know folks. You could prob do it with a couple phone calls. Don't take my word for it- find out for yourself.

But this belief of yours that this is an act of war is not only unverified with facts, it's also irresponsible and dangerous.
Bro- you're ready to unlock the Nuclear Football based on nothing at all. Look at yourself.

I'm sorry to see this in you, man. It's a real surprise, after almost 20 years.

Wonder what the issues are. I haven’t seen a clear direction from anyone in government on how this is all going down.

What a cluster.

future markets opened at 6pm.

by 6:08pm, it hit its limit breaker at 5%.

tomorrow will be another bloodbath.

Swish,
A Democratic source told Igor Bobic that the bill would permit the Treasury secretary to withhold the names of corporate recipients for up to six months.

There is absolutely no reason for this - except to allow shady backroom deals.

That’s freaking despicable.

1000 point turnaround!
Toe Dipping paying off!

I’m glad the Dems stood up to this corporate monsters and their ghouls.

God the GOP will bend over backward for these trash ass corporations but won’t do the same for individual Americans.

Those trash ass corporations should’ve saved instead of buying back stocks.

They won’t pay workers a living wage but want money from those same workers to bail them out over trash financial decisions.

2008 all over again.