Progressives (Liberals)

that's what they used to say about smallpox and cholera and the plague. It's just nature.. but we got rid of smallpox and cholera and the plague.

why flu strikes in winter

Why is there a flu season at all? After all, what does a virus living in a host who provides a dependable, cozy incubation chamber of 98°F, care whether it is freezing and snowy outside or warm and sunny? This question has bothered people for a long time, but only recently have we begun to understand the answer.

The flu is highly contagious. Adults are able to spread the virus one day prior to the appearance of symptoms and up to seven days after symptoms begin. The flu is most serious for the elderly, the very young, or people who have a weakened immune system.

A common misconception is that the flu is caused by cold temperatures. In fact, some people have argued that it is not cold temperatures that make the flu more common in the winter. Rather, they attest that the lack of sunlight or the different lifestyles people lead in winter months are the primary contributing factors. Here are the most popular theories about why the flu strikes in winter:

1) During the winter, people spend more time indoors with the windows sealed, so they are more likely to breathe the same air as someone who has the flu and thus contract the virus (3).

2) Days are shorter during the winter, and lack of sunlight leads to low levels of vitamin D and melatonin, both of which require sunlight for their generation. This compromises our immune systems, which in turn decreases ability to fight the virus (3).

3) The influenza virus may survive better in colder, drier climates, and therefore be able to infect more people (3).

For many years, it was impossible to test these hypotheses, since most lab animals do not catch the flu like humans do, and using humans as test subjects for this sort of thing is generally frowned upon.

Around 2007, however, a researcher named Dr. Peter Palese found a peculiar comment in an old paper published after the 1918 flu pandemic. Palese tried infecting a few guinea pigs with influenza, and sure enough, the guinea pigs got sick. Importantly, the virus was transmitted from one guinea pig to another. Now that Palese had a model organism, he was able to begin experiments to get to the bottom of the flu season.

However, Palese’s initial experiment did not explain why the virus was transmitted best at cooler temperatures and low humidity. Palese tested the immune systems of the animals to find out if the immune system functions poorly at low temperatures and low humidity, but he found no difference in innate immunity among the guinea pigs.

....Unfortunately, not much research has been done to explain these contradictory results, so it’s unclear why the flu behaves so differently in disparate environments. This emphasizes the need for continued influenza research. ...we can conclude that, at least in regions that have a winter season, the influenza virus survives longer in cold, dry air, so it has a greater chance of infecting another person. Although other factors probably contribute as well, the main reason we have a flu season may simply be that the influenza virus is happier in cold, dry weather and thus better able to invade our bodies.

The flu season in the U.S. can begin as early as October, but usually does not get into full swing until December. The season generally reaches its peak in February and ends in March.

Will Warmer Weather Stop the Spread of the Coronavirus?

President Donald Trump suggested in February that springtime temperatures could make COVID-19 “miraculously” go away.

There’s precedent for the idea that the COVID-19 outbreak will collapse with the onset of summer.

The common cold is most prevalent in the winter and spring, and influenza is most common during the fall and winter in the U.S., with flu activity peaking between December and February, according to the CDC.

Several new studies provide some hope that the heat might slow the spread of the virus.

Infectious disease experts say the factors that cause other viruses to retreat during the summer months could affect this coronavirus in a similar way...

An analysis by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted online on Mar. 19, found that the transmission of coronavirus had most frequently occurred in regions with colder annual average temperatures, between about 37° and 63° F. The total number of cases in countries with an average temperature above about 64° F is less than 6%, according to the study. Two other recently published studies draw similar conclusions...

Just more lies from Trump, obviously. Like that brilliant reporter asked Trump: "What do you say to people who are afraid?"

Turmp's answer: "I say you're a terrible reporter, that's what I say."

The question was how and why.

It's not only that this about EU-citizens ("pervs" as you call us) but we take humans before America first.

And it has nothing to do with Merkel or the conservatives but with our commitment to our constitution, humanity ... and to the EU treaties

Trump scolds ABC News reporter during tense exchange at White House presser: 'Don't be a cutie pie'

President Trump had some choice words for ABC News White House correspondent Jonathan Karl over the availability of ventilators during Friday's coronavirus press briefing.

Karl asked the president if "everybody who needs a ventilator will get a ventilator" after Trump officially ordered General Motors to make them under the Defense Production Act.

"We've distributed vast numbers of ventilators and we're prepared to do vast numbers. I think we're in great shape. I hope that's the case. I hope that we're going to have leftovers so that we can help other people, other countries," Trump responded.

Karl pressed Trump:"Everyone who needs one will get a ventilator?"

"Look, don't be a cutie pie, okay? You know, 'everyone who needs one,'" the president shot back.... everything I took over was a mess. It was a broken country in so many ways and in so many ways other than this. We had a bad testing system. We had a bad stockpile system. We had nothing in the stockpile system."

He added, "So I wouldn't tell me what, you know, being a wise guy."

I am just posting this for the record. I don't plan to get involved here any further. By and large it's just a complete waste of time. There is no reason to try to "debate" people whose only idea of debate is to attempt to insult, ridicule, and demean anyone who disagrees with their often absurd contentions.

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I am just posting this for the record. I don't plan to get involved here any further. By and large it's just a complete waste of time. There is no reason to try to "debate" people whose only idea of debate is to attempt to insult, ridicule, and demean anyone who disagrees with their often absurd contentions.

Stay calm, those many old folks (and probably some young ones too) were probably ready to go.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Histrionic personality disorder is one of a group of conditions called "Cluster B" or "dramatic" personality disorders. People with these disorders have intense, unstable emotions and distorted self-images. The word histrionic means "dramatic or theatrical."

For people with histrionic personality disorder, their self-esteem depends on the approval of others and does not arise from a true feeling of self-worth. They have an overwhelming desire to be noticed, and often behave dramatically or inappropriately to get attention.

What Are the Symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder?

A person with this disorder might:

Act very dramatically, as though performing before an audience, with exaggerated emotions and expressions, yet appears to lack sincerity.

constantly seek reassurance or approval

Not think before acting

Be excessively sensitive to criticism or disapproval

Be gullible and easily influenced by others

Kinda sounds like Germany, know what I'm sayin?