Vint Cerf 'No Longer Contagious' With Covid-19 (twitter.com) 37
DevNull127 writes: Good news — VA Public Health has certified my wife and me as no longer contagious with COVID19," tweeted 76-year-old Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the modern internet.
He added one word. "Recovering!"
It seemed especially appropriate that Cerf shared his news online — and that it drew positive responses from grateful people around the world, including several who use the internet in their daily lives. Cerf's tweet immediately drew positive responses from the Internet Society, as well as the chief operating officer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, YouTube's director of public policy, and a senior director of communications and public affairs at Google. There were also congratulatory posts from a Georgetown professor of technology and law, from Associated Press reporter Frank Bajak, and the executive director of the Global Privacy and Security by Design Centre.
Cerf followed up his news with a re-tweet of Google's "Community Mobility Reports" charting our aggregate movement trends over time, and a tweet of a University of Pittsburgh press release about progress on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
Earlier in the week Cerf also re-tweeted a humorous compilation of clips from the TV show M*A*S*H that illustrated safe practices while social distancing.
He added one word. "Recovering!"
It seemed especially appropriate that Cerf shared his news online — and that it drew positive responses from grateful people around the world, including several who use the internet in their daily lives. Cerf's tweet immediately drew positive responses from the Internet Society, as well as the chief operating officer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, YouTube's director of public policy, and a senior director of communications and public affairs at Google. There were also congratulatory posts from a Georgetown professor of technology and law, from Associated Press reporter Frank Bajak, and the executive director of the Global Privacy and Security by Design Centre.
Cerf followed up his news with a re-tweet of Google's "Community Mobility Reports" charting our aggregate movement trends over time, and a tweet of a University of Pittsburgh press release about progress on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
Earlier in the week Cerf also re-tweeted a humorous compilation of clips from the TV show M*A*S*H that illustrated safe practices while social distancing.
That was fast (Score:2)
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With the backlog of testing right now, it's possible you find out and get counted by the time you're done with it.
Re:That was fast (Score:4, Informative)
M*A*S*H still in production? (Score:1)
There was and maybe still is a recreation team making more M*A*S*H and other classic shows like Cheers able to look like the classic days but referencing current events. The old WSBK-TV38 (Boston Superstation that existed before UPN/MyNetworkTV) used to run such episodes in rerun slots.
How do you get tested for corona? (Score:5, Funny)
You cough on a rich person!
Welcome to the soon to be majority. (Score:1)
If we haven't already, most of us will get COVID-19 and recover. The VAST majority of us will.
So welcome to the soon to be majority of the population, the rest of us will be with you shortly.
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The vast majority of Americans may get COVID-19. Europe is still iffy. The rest of the world not so much. Thanks to testing, quarantines, and contact tracing.
IF you don't get it this season, it's coming back next year. At best a vaccine is over a year away. In the meantime, what do you suggest? We all stay home holding down our couches for a year? If we don't, the majority will get this. So, pick your poison, total economic collapse or most of us getting this virus.
Remember, this stay at home thing is NOT going to prevent us from getting this, it is only going to slow down the process to a rate that the healthcare system can sustain so we don't have droves
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LOL, no. You're just a paranoid hypochondriac nutjob.
Really? You believe that sitting at home on your couch is going to spare you? You are a special kind of crazy if you think that's why authorities are telling us to stay home. The whole point here is to "blunt the curve" not keep folks from getting sick. We are trying to spread out the time the folks are getting sick so we don't overwhelm our healthcare system as badly. But this will run similar to the Spanish flu, which stuck around for a long time and infected a lot of folks over the years..
Remember th
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You believe that sitting at home on your couch is going to spare you? You are a special kind of crazy if you think that's why authorities are telling us to stay home.
No, YOU are the one that is kind of crazy. You think the authorities would destroy the economy just to "blunt the curve" and save a few old people from dying?
COVID-19 is very likely far more lethal than you're thinking it is. And it doesn't just kill the old, there are plenty of cases of young people dying from it. But the authorities aren't going to make these facts well known. Because the authorities don't want to instill mass panic in the population. If everybody knew the gravity of the situation at hand
Re: Welcome to the soon to be majority. (Score:2)
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You believe that sitting at home on your couch is going to spare you? You are a special kind of crazy if you think that's why authorities are telling us to stay home.
No, YOU are the one that is kind of crazy. You think the authorities would destroy the economy just to "blunt the curve" and save a few old people from dying?
COVID-19 is very likely far more lethal than you're thinking it is. And it doesn't just kill the old, there are plenty of cases of young people dying from it. But the authorities aren't going to make these facts well known. Because the authorities don't want to instill mass panic in the population. If everybody knew the gravity of the situation at hand, nobody would be willing to go off to work at those "essential businesses" left remaining. Grocery stores would close from lack of employees. Delivery service drivers would quit working. Doctors and nurses would walk off. And suddenly, without all those people doing their essential jobs, COVID-19 would cause even more death through the second order effects of starvation, lack of supplies, lack of medical care, etc.
To be honest... We are both guessing..
BUT.. Using the publicly available numbers, this is NOT that bad for most of us. Italy has about a 15% mortality rate, but they are an outlier for a number of reasons. The USA is looking to be more like 2% from the known numbers, which is in line with MOST of the modern world.. But all these numbers have one thing in common, they DO NOT count asymptomatic carriers. We have no idea how many people *really* have this.
The problem here is that we only count *confirmed*
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I'm saying that we will survive this and look back and wonder if the economic destruction was worth it.
~bobbied
You're good. The world will still need villainy when it's over.
A Moon Over Malibu (Score:1)
G+ I'm relieved a public figure and notary of the web itself is among the 99% to survive a pandemic with preempted prevention in place to cite M*A*S*H* when the 2-hour final episode Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen, doubled-down on any happy resolution to Alda escaping with his wits intact to "illustrate" what trauma and waste war is-- especially when it's a police action.
In fact, I'm even suspicious, just me mabye, that was t
err... (Score:2)
I thought we don't yet have testing kits or capacity to find immunity. How does this healthcare professional decide that somebody is no longer contagious?
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I thought we don't yet have testing kits or capacity to find immunity. How does this healthcare professional decide that somebody is no longer contagious?
~ Kokuyo
Will SHANGAI BILL be along in an hour or less to advocate medical ethics are a "wash"? Because herd immunity was how to maintain economic FREEDOM over, ahem, others, when airlines were providing a vector for the advance of a pathogen to every nation with a landing strip.
I would take a guess Cerf's confidence to defeat an unkown variable of persistence lay in antibody counts.
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So is the test for antibodies something that can be donne en masse or was he tested because he is a risk patient due to age?
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Re: err... (Score:1)
Great (Score:4, Insightful)
And Thank You! (Score:4, Interesting)
And a sincere "Thank you!" for all that your and your colleagues work [wikipedia.org] has done for humanity.
And to think that only a few days ago, some clown on Slashdot [slashdot.org] was trying to credit "God" [slashdot.org].
I expected a Monty Python clip. (Score:2)
If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I... I am no longer infected.
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They say "I am no longer infected"?
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Don't worry, they'll just fix this one for version 2.0.
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I find it kind of amusing that almost every single person I personally know that was wanting a giant meteor to destroy the planet, is also a prime target of COVID-19.
I need to make a Venn diagram.
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Thankfully Vint Cerf (like other scientists and engineers) will continue pushing humanity forward.
And if anyone is curious: No, I don't like any form of entertainment (movies, fictional books, TV, comic books, etc).
Careful! (Score:2)
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The threat was always that the healthcare system would be overwhelmed. 80% of people who get it beat it on their own. The other 20% need medical intervention, usually just oxygen. Some 2% need critical care. If the entire population gets it at once, you see massive death spikes since the medical system can't cope. (If the anti-malaria treatment works, it would be a boon to reducing that 20%.)
And the deaths will be concentrated on people already with risk factors (the elderly or people already injured).