The paper (that I posted elsewhere) used it in combination with hydroxychloroquine. No doubt to treat the bacteria in the lungs. One might imagine a scenario where your body had help with both the virus and the bacteria that it might clear the virus more quickly. You’d have to go back to the politics/covid19 thread for that paper.
Let me guess, Burr was an investor :)
Some products which are used as a biocide or antibacterial are actually just effective surfactants which weaken the outer layer of a microbe and make other agents more effective inactivating it. So, e.g.
is effective vs viruses also, in combination with alcohol, in Bactine, in Lysol, etc.
Tman
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Diesel fuel is a great surfactant on plants when using things like Crossbow or Glyphosphate. I wonder if it’s a surfactant to viruses?
NYT story posted from a non-paywalled site:
The chief executive of Fox News, Suzanne Scott, reacted swiftly to the threat of the coronavirus in late February: She ordered the bright, open new offices disinfected, installed hand sanitizer stations around the office and boldly canceled the company’s major ad sales event.
But her influence doesn’t extend to the most important part of Fox News: its programming in prime time.
There, for two crucial weeks in late February and early March, powerful Fox hosts talked about the “real” story of the coronavirus: It was a Democratic- and media-led plot against President Donald J. Trump. Hosts and guests, speaking to Fox’s predominantly elderly audience, repeatedly played down the threat of what would soon become a deadly pandemic.
The person who could have stopped the flow of misinformation was Scott’s boss, Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of the Fox Corp. But he wasn’t paying much attention. The 48-year-old heir to his family’s media fortune was focused instead on buying a streaming company called Tubi for $440 million, a person who has spoken to him said.
That implies it would have done something different with anyone else in charge. Given Trump’s stance at the time, that seems extremely unlikely.
I seem to remember during the impeachment Fox news was railing against the Dems for tying up the government instead of working on important issues… like this new virus out of China.
Oh how very entertaining.
None
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She should probably take legal action for wrongful termination. How could they fire her for doing as she’s told?
I’ll take it! Anything to make the world seem slightly less insane.
Not sure how Fox news will carry on with one less propaganda spewing bimbo.
ShivaX
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I’m sure they’re getting one of the plastic in back room as we speak.
Ainsley is a fuckwit, maybe she gets her own show where she can lament the lack of manicures while people are dying.
Jeanine going on the air drunk, standard operating procedure.
Edit: although I do have sympathy for her. She is a drunk for certain, but I have no sympathy for those who go on the air to spout their propaganda sober.
Let’s hope this pandemic keeps right on exposing Fox news for the shameless embarrassment it is.
Yeah, sure, they get embarrassed, the rest of us? That propaganda network and their buffoons are getting people killed.
dtolman
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Sometimes bad things do happen to bad people… I have 0 sympathy for someone with the audacity to go on TV and project her failures on ethical, legal, moral, and other matters in life onto everyone else in an unending parade of lies.
Timex
5992
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-worried-about-legal-action-after-misleading-viewers-about-coronavirus
When I’ve been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there’s a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled and actually have died from this. I’ve heard Trish Regan’s being taken off the air is, you know, reflective of this concern that Fox News is in big trouble by downplaying this virus and The New York Times reported days ago that the Murdoch family was privately taking the coronavirus seriously. The Murdochs, of course, own Fox News. So, they were taken personal steps to protect themselves while anchors like Trish Regan and Sean Hannity were telling viewers that it’s a hoax and putting themselves in potentially mortal danger. So I think this is a case where Fox’s coverage, if it actually winds up being proved that people died because of it, this is a new terrain in terms of Fox being possibly held liable for their actions.
That would truly, truly be a shame.
