FairreLilette
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This judging of the messenger is making some people blind though so I'm glad you said it, Arielle. I see it. Even when Trump was right he was wrong simply because he was Trump. I stated on this forum when I thought Trump was right because I am not a cancel person, i.e., it's a Republican, they are all wrong all of the time. I don't live nor think like that. The thing with evangelicals and Trump is kind of strange because don't they know how corrupt he is? He doesn't seem to fit in with evangelicals is what I'm saying. So, it was an oddity in many ways. However, simply because a piece of writing is right-wing, it's all wrong? Is that how dems are supposed to think and be? I lean dem but kind of opted out of politics for awhile for my health but I don't cancel stuff out. The person that is causing the separation more than Trump was Senator Mitch McConnell in the way he handled the COVID-19 emergency for the American people. McConnell wanted to show he had more power than Trump. But, many say Trump divided us, he did, but, for me, it's the Republican senators that are really causing the separation. I also feel Trump wasn't the right person for the job. I don't want to deal with more Trump-antics. I have an anxiety disorder now because of all of this with Congress and COVID. If anyone read the article I posted, as far as how COVID started, ALL theories are on the table with the scientists investigating this now, including the lab-leak. -
Yeah, I've noticed this too with many posters the wondered what someone was smoking part. But, science aside, this is a good post as I got to thinking about it with Prince Harry speaking out about his issues and how he's being all shot to hell for it and living a dammed if he does/don't life, and the British media still wants to do a smear campaign on him and Meghan with comments like "man up, Harry" or he's pathetic and a coward. I feel he and Meghan have a right to speak about their issues just like anyone else, as one had drug issues and the other was suicidal which I didn't know. I don't want to get into any off topic though I'm just using it as an example. If you go off topic about Harry and Meghan, you do it without me as, again, I'm just using them as an example.
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This article covers a lot. The scientists are hardly alone in calling for more investigation. As the letter noted, the U.S. government, along with 13 other countries, also had called for more inquiry into the origins in a March statement this year. “It is critical for independent experts to have full access to all pertinent human, animal, and environmental data, research, and personnel involved in the early stages of the outbreak relevant to determining how this pandemic emerged,” the statement said. “With all data in hand, the international community may independently assess COVID-19 origins, learn valuable lessons from this pandemic, and prevent future devastating consequences from outbreaks of disease.” https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain-of-function-disagreement/
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I think I have the same one you are describing here. I didn't like the way the ponytail moved by itself in the back of the head. It didn't look real or cute the way flexis do. I wore it once for about five mins as well and I never wore it again. I can't quite remember but I think the ponytail kept moving even when my avatar stopped. For animesh hair, it would need a way to stop and start it or it's like the blob on your head...it leaps and creeps and glides when the avi isn't moving. EDIT: It would probably be super laggy too. I find animesh is very lag intense for me anyhow.
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Flexi gets a thumbs up from me for certain avatars where it looks great. I like the bouncing curls at times like Janet speaking about the Afro styles because it's fun but these avatars I'm speaking of are super low complexity they can wear it without much problem. But, yes, flexi will add to your avi's complexity.
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It's one tool that's there but it's sporadic at best who would use it. People want to protest and I'm not talking about BLM at all. In California, during the second lockdown in November our governor allowed protesting. People in California have protested things other than BLM so I'm speaking after BLM and during our second lockdown. So if people want to have the ability to protest, there aren't going to self-quarantine in masses. A few probably will since it's not enforced. I think it's one tool but definitely not the best tool and that more aggressive and sensible tools should be put in place such as no leisure travel....why because an article just came out this morning that immunocompromised people may not be generating enough antibodies from the vaccines. We need stronger help for people than contact tracing.
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If you believe so, we agree to disagree. People would have to stay home from their job and this is not a good thing. Closing borders to leisure and non-essential travel would be much better as people and families and businesses surviving and jobs should come first.
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I don't know how well contact tracing is working as there is no one watching anyone who is advised they have been exposed to COVID. It's a do-it-yourself kind of self-isolation and people are not abiding by it all that much. I know first hand. I was told I was exposed to someone with COVID; however, Los Angeles County was in serious lockdown and I hadn't been anywhere but the back garden for walks and always stayed far, far away from others who might have been in the garden. I wear long sleeves and open doors and push the elevator button with my sleeve and have been pushing the elevator button with my sleeve for over a year now plus I had a mask. I was never told who or where I might have been "exposed" to someone with COVID. I think during that time I was going to the store about every three weeks and that's it. I have no rl bf at this time so no hugging/kissing and I haven't seen my family since lockdown so no hugging there. If people are supposed to do a do-it-yourself type isolation, they aren't. It's bogus to believe this a marvelous life-saving thing. Closing borders to "leisure" travel and non-essential travel should be in place for at least a year going forward.
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You said you wanted to travel this Summer and that there are quarantines. Never mind. I don't have time for this.
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The quarantine from travel you are suggesting. The quarantine of incoming people probably from the U.K to Los Angeles. The variant started in Africa, then it's the U.K. and then it's in Los Angeles and this is with your quarantine you are suggesting. So, how does that quarantine stop the variants from spreading after travel to a new country?
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You know, if this quarantine were working then why are the variants spreading around? They are not quarantining the variants with quarantine. We had the South African to U.K. variant here in Los Angeles. How? It just appeared out of nowhere?
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And, what about false-negatives and the window for asymptomatic people variable also as all it takes is one person to start it up again if it's a strong enough variant. If people have been vaccinated that's probably a little safer but it's still not fully safe. But people want, want, want....
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People can be asymptomatic carriers at very high rates.
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Oh, I was quite worried so thanks for sharing this. The other part of COVID that is dangerous though is the stress and anxiety. I am having some panic attacks, so I know COVID stress is real. I think they should stop all needless international travel for at least a couple of years or until most of the world's population is vaccinated and we are near herd immunity. Trade import/export can continue by putting the people in PPE and then wiping down the loads of trade that do come on with an antiseptic and letting them sit for awhile before handling. It doesn't seem like it would be all that difficult to have fairly safe trading procedures. I think the world just carries on as a careless society in many ways, however.
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I'm sorry, Arielle, I laughed out loud at this one too. You don't find this a tad hyperbolic? The internet is a crazy place sometimes, but take on the other hand the reporting about the supposed first person with COVID and the info released about this particular person - a 55-year-old male...that is all. Oh yeah sure, that's a lot to go on. Yep, real good news reporting there...alert the media...the first person with COVID is a 55-year-old male.
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The release of information is very sparse on this. About two thirds of the first known cases went to the Wuhan wet market but the earliest few cases they know about there is no information on them, like perhaps one was a poacher and brought some animals to the wet market, or something/anything but there is nothing. Not that I've read, and so I just did a quick Google search right now again because I have to get back to work and read one article and there is nothing about the earliest cases, like what they did, where they went, etc.... https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus spreading across the globe. That case dates back to Nov. 17, 2019, according to the South China Morning Post. That's more than a month earlier than doctors noted cases in Wuhan, China, which is in Hubei province, at the end of December 2019. At the time, authorities suspected the virus stemmed from something sold at a wet market in the city. However, it's now clear that early in what is now a pandemic, some infected people had no connection to the market. That included one of the earliest cases from Dec. 1, 2019 in an individual who had no link to that seafood market, researchers reported Jan. 20 in the journal The Lancet. Scientists now suspect this coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, originated in a bat and somehow hopped to another animal, possibly the pangolin, which then passed it on to humans. The disease is now spreading between people without any animal intermediary.
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This is horrid news. Horrid. It is insanity as I'd think we could continue trade amongst countries by having those people that work in the import business in PPE. But, visits, that is insanity. And, business can teleconference. Oh my God. I'm so sorry to hear this news.
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Oh, no...didn't read it as I thought you were just linking something to back up what you were saying. But, I do know, if you read my previous posts it's only obvious we are experiencing the most international travel known to man ever in the 21st Century. I don't deny the problems there. However, with the WHO, as their protocol to close travel as a last resort, then the WHO's belief and their protocol could kill us all if we keep going like this. It's posted in several links in this thread that the WHO has in their protocol to close down travel as a last resort. Some countries started shutting their borders and dropped the WHO advice from the WHO altogether. I believe Australia declared a pandemic a week before the WHO. I think with breakdowns in ecosystems, the species that once adapted to that ecosystem will either survive in the new broken down ecosystem or become sick.
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What kind of a "lab leak"...as I've not read anything about it. Which link is best for a quick read? I have been wondering about this. I have received the Pneumovax vaccine and it is miraculous to me as I hadn't been sick in a very, very long time from a cold and it may have even helped my chronic fatigue syndrome go into remission as I had been asymptomatic from CFS for quite awhile after receiving the Pneumovax vaccine until January 2020 wherein I suspected it might have been an early form of COVID where I was very sick with a flu-like illness, fever, chills, sweats, etc. A person was discovered in Central California from Wuhan in October of 2019 I believe it was so I think it blew through California much earlier than most other places. California later had a horrible 2nd Wave starting in November of 2020. I have been wondering why more people are not vaccinated with the Pneumovax vaccine?
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The thing with the vaccine, I think, if we get COVID or any mutation of COVID, the vaccine, since we have some immunoresponse built up, the COVID would be more like a cold instead of a deadly disease. It is very important to be vaccinated period as the vaccine can help us, at least, downgrade COVID to more like a cold but it may prevent many, many strains it's just not known yet. Although I heard a little over a week ago there is a new vaccine on the horizon that may prevent us from getting any kind of mutation. Time will tell but meanwhile...vaccinate people! It is your best hope to not have a deadly or long-haul reaction which could affect one for the rest of their lives.
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I wasn't assigning any sinister motives when I said it is the most logical possibility. I think it could been part of our careless society or it was most likely accidental. But, most of those "bats" if they were from the same habitat, it doesn't seem logical it would just suddenly jump from one bat into a human all of a sudden. With my hypothesis earlier, I was eluding to the fact there could have been multiple species in that lab, many species from different environments/habitats. To have intermediate hosts I believe it's been determined one needs species that are co-mingling from differing habitats other than their usual, and my hypothesis was built on intermediate hosts. In short, some of those intermediate hosts are not immune.
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I spoke of my friend who caught a virus in Greece and died at the age of 26 and this was way before coronavirus; it was years and years ago. I was never told more than that but I can gather most Greek's must have had immunity to whatever she caught to which she had no previous immune system response for. I don't know how to put it into medical words. But, in short, Greek's were already immune, her no.
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I think it's a possibility too...as a matter of fact, I think it's the most logical possibility. However, the most brilliant brains will tell you we are all victims of a careless society. If one wants to be an ostrich, one wants to be an ostrich.
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But is it because of globalization and encroachment? I think most of us think part of it is, ie pollution but I really think it is something much more complex than that, I think it's different immunities. We know there has been more international travel now than ever in the 21st Century and especially in and out of Asia where labor is very cheap, workers who will work for pennies a day and meals. Take where I live and find the average salary nearing close to 200 hundred dollars a day in comparison to just how cheap overseas labor is. However, I think what we are finding is that species that aren't used to co-mingling in their own habitat with certain other animals or species but then are co-mingling in these wet markets, are getting sick. Thus, the animals have different immunities. I think people have different immunities also. In short, international travel IS the health hazard then. I have a friend who died at the age of 26 from a virus she caught in Greece while vacationing. International travel has never been thought of as particularly "safe". But, what do most people want once they are out of lockdown according to the polls, a trip. We have a careless society as well and we are all victims of a careless society is the real reason.
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