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Amateur Radio Newsline headlines for Ham Nation. March 18, 2020.

Discussion in 'Amateur Radio News' started by KB7TBT, Mar 17, 2020.

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  1. KB7TBT

    KB7TBT Ham Member QRZ Page

    Amateur Radio Newsline headlines for Ham Nation. March 18, 2020.

     
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  2. W1YW

    W1YW Ham Member QRZ Page

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  3. KM6HBH

    KM6HBH XML Subscriber QRZ Page

    We could help work on cures with our old PC's laying around: https://foldingathome.org/
    David from BayNet club in my area mentioned it. Join team: hamshack, id#239912

    Here is the original quote from David W. on groups.io

    "Non-radio topic here. There is a distributed computing project called Folding@Home that uses spare CPU and GPU cycles on PCs around the world to look at various protein combinations in an effort to cure diseases and find drugs to combat them. Recently, the FAH project started looking at SARS-COV2 aka the pandemic "Corona Virus" that causes COVID-19 illness.

    If you have an NVIDIA GPU, this is even better because the FAH client can use the GPU in addition to the CPU, but any PC will work.

    If you have interest, you can download the Folding@Home client for Windows, Mac, and Linux, allow it to run in the background. Who knows, your spare CPU/GPU cycles might just uncover a drug that prevents or cures COVID-19. More info: www.foldingathome.org"
     
  4. W1YW

    W1YW Ham Member QRZ Page

    The vaccine already exists and is being tested. Please do a search on 'corona' 'vaccine' 'trial'.
     
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  5. KM6HBH

    KM6HBH XML Subscriber QRZ Page

    Hmmm...maybe being a programmer, exists and testing != exists. It = trial.
     
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  6. WO2E

    WO2E Ham Member QRZ Page

    usually it takes more than a year to fully test the results of the vaccine but i assume they have a rush on it because of the toilet paper shortage.
     
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  7. KM6HBH

    KM6HBH XML Subscriber QRZ Page

    So it could be:

    if (tp < 2 && trial = exist)
    cure = good enough
     
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  8. G7DAZ

    G7DAZ Ham Member QRZ Page

    y=ab^x+c

    where y is Cure
    a is toilet paper shortage
    b is anti-bacterial hand sanitizer shortage
    x is panic-buying
    and c is brown smelly stuff hitting the fan !!
     
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  9. MW1CFN

    MW1CFN Ham Member QRZ Page

    You have to laugh (Private Eye is a UK satirical magazine):

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  10. W5MIL

    W5MIL Ham Member QRZ Page

  11. KY5U

    KY5U Ham Member QRZ Page

    Ham friendly formula:

    Screenshot from 2020-03-18 05-29-27.png
     
  12. AA1PR

    AA1PR Ham Member QRZ Page

    I didnt read all the posts, only most of them

    100 deaths nationwide sadly & we are on lock down because of feelings

    more folks die each day from cancer , 1660 to be exact, why are we not worried about this

    tp and hand sanitizer hoarding makes no sense as does societies actions

    the person is smart, society is stupid
     
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  13. KG5THG

    KG5THG Ham Member QRZ Page

    I would also like to know what's up the toilet paper and biscuits. Yep biscuits. The locusts took all the biscuits. Every brand. Every can. Didn't know biscuits were on the duck and cover emergency list.
     
  14. AC0GT

    AC0GT Ham Member QRZ Page

    People are worried about cancer but cancer is not an airborne viral infectious disease.

    This will end soon. Summer weather should slow the spread so that's one end point. We could see enough people infected and recover, bringing a "herd immunity", that's another end point. We should see a vaccine in a few months, that's another end point. We could see existing drugs tested for effectiveness in treating the illness, that's another end point. Ultimately all of those conditions will be met. Summer will buy us time to develop a vaccine and test drugs. We'll see enough people get sick and recover, or get vaccinated, and we see enough people immune that when it comes back then it will not be near the panic that we see now.

    Had we done nothing then the prediction was that infections could have doubled every day. That means one infected at the beginning of the month and one BILLION at the end of the month. With treatment survival rates are very high, if hospitals are overwhelmed with people infected then people don't get treated. Even if the spread is far slower, a doubling every 2 or 3 days, then this could still be a problem with millions infected by the time summer comes. That many people infected with insufficient supplies of ventilators, hospital beds, drugs, and so on could mean thousands of avoidable deaths every day.

    Buckle in folks, it's going to get worse and then it will get better. After that it's going to be little more than a story for your grandkids.
     
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  15. KC9YGN

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    just because it's being tested doesn't mean it's actually going to work.
     
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