Sometimes you gotta put up that smiley face.

They have found that there are ways to enhance the innate system so that it works more efficiently for all foreign invaders. Viruses, bacteria, protozoa, worms, etc. Eg the use of BCG, a live sort-of-weakened TB bacillus, has been used all around the world to enhance resistance to TB. Surprisingly, it has been found that in those countries where it has been used, the rate of childhood deaths owing to almost all infectious disease had been reduced by about 33%. So too, now, it is known that oral polio vaccine, OPV, which is cheap and is used all over the world, has been found to enhance the innate immune system—especially against double stranded RNA viruses—so that it is more efficient in also preventing or ameliorating many other infectious diseases. Trials using BCG have already begun.
See Science 12 June 2020 by Chumakov, Konstantin.

“We propose the use of OPV to ameliorate or prevent COVID-19. Both poliovirus and coronavirus are positive-double strand RNA viruses; therefore, it is likely that they may induce or be affected by common innate immunity mechanisms. There are multiple important advantages to using OPV: a strong safety record, the existence of more than one serotype that could be used sequentially to prolong protection, low cost, ease of administration, and availability. Over 1 billion doses of OPV are produced and used annually in more than 140 countries.”

What do you make of the discussion of the Herd Immunity Threshold (HIT) here?

But how will herd immunity ever be accomplished? Needs 70+% of the population to have been infected, twenty times more than at present.

Trump made a grave mistake by calling him up. Understandable if one has no clue as to the Director’s job, which is to dispense grant monies….including a multi-million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2013. Imagine that. The US under Fauci financed the Wuhan virus source in communist China, which in 2013 was already rolling in yuan.

Most specialists say that there have been ~130,000 deaths in the U.S. attributed to the virus since January. The fatality rate is considered to be 1 in 400 infected. That means ~50,000,000 over the roughly 180 days, or ~290,000 per day.

So Dr Fauci is predicting a REDUCTION in the second half of 2020 to one third the case rate for the first half of 2020 in the U.S.

That’s interesting. Hope you’re both feeling well!!

As far as I can tell, doctors wear masks in the operating theater in order to protect the patient and keep the field as sterile as possible. It’s not to protect the doctor.

When a patient has a highly infectious disease such as ebola, on the other hand, the medical people wear entirely different gear designed to protect themselves, sort of hazmat suits.

The cloth masks most of us are wearing have neither the characteristics of the doctors’ masks when operating nor the hazmat suits. The only thing I’ve ever read about the cloth ones is that they are about 20 to 30 percent effective in blocking transmission of the virus, and not effective in blocking receiving the virus from others, and that if a person is already infected and wears any type of mask it can have the effect of concentrating the virus load and making their symptoms worse.