W.V.O. Chloroquine

@ekstasis

Writer and not. Researcher. 'Time and tide flow wide.’

Connecticut
Joined June 2008

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  1. As if pangolins needed any more trouble.

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    Feb 1
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    I literally have a barcode tattoo (it was the 90s!) and am living to become an instrument in this collective! Feels like fate!!

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    21 Jan 2019

    “THIS IS FINE.”

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  5. Jan 30
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  6. Jan 29

    Europeans discovered that quinine treats malaria by accident. Peruvians long ago figured out that it’s a muscle relaxant and used it to prevent shivering. Jesuits in the 17th century saw this and just gave it to people with fevers from malaria to stop them shaking.

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  7. Jan 29

    Shout out to chloroquine, an 85 year old antimalarial drug that’s cheap as shit and prevents your cytokines from destroying also your lungs. Well done, chloroquine.

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  8. Jan 29

    Late to this, but David Frum compared Sanders to Vo Nguyen Giap in a column about how Sanders can’t win.

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    Jan 14
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    Jan 29

    social distancing: epidemic monadology

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    Jan 28

    Thinking about that time the mayor of Ankara, Turkey misappropriated public funds to build a 6 meter tall knock-off Zaku and then told people who complained about it to "Respect the robot!".

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  12. Jan 27

    I’m not saying you should worry. There’s very little upside to worrying. What I am saying is that if you have decisions to make about the short-to-medium term that depend on, say, global supply chains being normal, you might want to pay closer attention.

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  13. Jan 27

    Having spent the weekend absolutely annihilating my brain with information about our novel coronavirus, this is the best thing I’ve read.

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    Jan 26

    After falling on hard times, Guan Yu moved back to his hometown but still tried to do his best to help.

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    In the 13th century a schoolboy named Onfim, perhaps bored during class, started doodling on his birch bark. He drew himself as a warrior & as "A WILD BEAST" and scribbled a greeting to his friend Daniel. These are his drawings, unearthed by archaeologists near Novgorod, Russia

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    Jan 25

    Need -40C for 2 days to kill spruce beetles & stop infestation in the North. Last time we had -40C at our Cache Creek ranch was 1978. Since then we've had plagues of budworms, tussock moths & pine beetles. -30C this yr.,1st time since 2012,

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  17. Jan 25

    There’s plenty of reason to worry, but the good news is WWI didn’t just end, we don’t have WWI era medical practices/infrastructure and antibiotics exist.

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  18. Jan 25

    Note about that fucking “MOTHER OF GOD” 2019nCoV thread: the 1918 Spanish Flu would have been bad regardless, but what made it catastrophic was 1. a constellation of bad luck and bad decisions unlikely to ever be reproduced and 2. now treatable secondary bacterial pneumonia.

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    The viral thread quoted below is missing essential context and contains numerous errors. It does not reflect the latest evidence. Here is a new thread with the facts:

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