Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Alabama's Governor/Masks Date:   7/15/2020 1:07:32 PM

Alabama's governor just mandated masks in public.  So MM, you will have to stay out of Alabama until 31 July, when the order expires.  

Right now, Alabama's confirmed cases are increasing about 1,000 cases a day and some days have reached 2,000.  The hospitals, while not yet overwhelmed, are full and they are starting to see shortages of PPE again.  I personally believe that the problem is that Ivey flung the doors open too soon - especially the beaches and the bars where a lot of people tend to congregate.  

Yesterday, I was reading an article about a group of epidemilogists who are doing reseach into the origins of the virus.  I bellieve the article said they were going to travel to China as part of their research.  They have never definitiely proved that this jumped from some animal to humans, and even shutting down the "wet" market in China did not prove it.  As we know, the virus has a continuum from mild to severe and a wide variety of symptoms among those that test positive.  So I started asking myself how they way create a vaccine to counter a virus that they don't know the origins of and seems to have a variety of symptoms, and can range from mild, where you don't even know you are sick, to life threatening.  And once you have had it, they don't know if the antibodies will protect you from getting it again or for how long.  Obviously, there is a lot of political pressure for a vaccine and the company that comes up with one will make millions, if not billions of dollars.  And it is being produced en masse, even before it is proved to work.  So the question in my mind is how will they make a vaccine for something that they don't even understand?  

We see various treatments who work on some people, but may be toxic to others.  I think the CDC knows that a vaccine is not likely before they completely understand the virus; I think Trump has been told this, and doesn't want to hear it.  Sorry, I think we are being played.  And I believe scientists over politicians any day.