Coronavirus

[Strontium]

1 minute ago, TK421 said:

Horrible Islamophobia in full flow here.

 

You silly cunt. 

 

You fucking crank. Haven't you got some grieving parents to accuse of murdering their kids instead of bothering me?

[Lario]

2 minutes ago, TK421 said:

Horrible Islamophobia in full flow here.

 

You silly cunt. 

How is that Islamophobic?

 

Are Islamic women not forced to cover their faces in Tehran?

[Numero Veinticinco]

Just now, Lario said:

How is that Islamophobic?

 

Are Islamic women not forced to cover their faces in Tehran?

No. Seems like completely uncalled for comment to me.

[Section_31]

13 minutes ago, Lario said:

How is that Islamophobic?

 

Are Islamic women not forced to cover their faces in Tehran?

Actually no. Iran is reasonably liberal compared to the likes of Saudi Arabia.

[Pureblood]

22 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

You fucking crank. Haven't you got some grieving parents to accuse of murdering their kids instead of bothering me?

Racist cunt. 

[Stickman]

2 hours ago, TK421 said:

Masks mandatory on public transport! 

 

They need to do the same for shops.  But it's a start.

Not sure how they’re going to police it when they’ve got rid of all the guards on trains 

[Lario]

1 hour ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

No. Seems like completely uncalled for comment to me.

 

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

Actually no. Iran is reasonably liberal compared to the likes of Saudi Arabia.

Fair enough. I’m not too up on Middle Eastern (or any) politics. 
 

So it’s factually incorrect, but not Islamophobic?

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Lario said:

 

Fair enough. I’m not too up on Middle Eastern (or any) politics. 
 

So it’s factually incorrect, but not Islamophobic?

Iranophobic 

[Pureblood]

5 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Not sure how they’re going to police it when they’ve got rid of all the guards on trains 

I'll enforce it. 

[Pureblood]

17 minutes ago, Lario said:

 

Fair enough. I’m not too up on Middle Eastern (or any) politics. 
 

So it’s factually incorrect, but not Islamophobic?

Maybe he'd prefer to move to Tel Aviv, where face masks are also compulsory.  But he said Tehran, because he conflates negative connotations of compulsory face coverings (whatever they may be) with Islam. 

 

It's the type of comment Yaxley-Lennon would make.  Thinly disguised racism masquerading as some sort of concern for civil liberties.  

[Jairzinho]

25 minutes ago, Lario said:

 

So it’s factually incorrect, but not Islamophobic?

I mean, when you say things that are factually incorrect, intended negatively, about a large group of people...

 

[Strontium]

Imagine calling someone racist because they said mean things about the Ayatollahs. Just incredible. What a fucking place.

[Pureblood]

Doubling down like a true racist. What a place. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

43 minutes ago, Lario said:

 

Fair enough. I’m not too up on Middle Eastern (or any) politics. 
 

So it’s factually incorrect, but not Islamophobic?

Well, it’s a weird thing for him to pull out of nowhere. I feel like he was having a bit of a troll. Either way it was needlessly spiteful, in my view. 

[Strontium]

48 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Not sure how they’re going to police it when they’ve got rid of all the guards on trains 

 

In Iran, they enforce the dress code with something called the Guidance Patrol, basically a morality police who drive around in vans harassing and arresting women who don't cover up enough.

 

If this forum is anything to go by, we'll have plenty of volunteers for a British version.

[Section_31]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

In Iran, they enforce the dress code with something called the Guidance Patrol, basically a morality police who drive around in vans harassing and arresting women who don't cover up enough.

 

If this forum is anything to go by, we'll have plenty of volunteers for a British version.

Don't authodox Jews do that? Was watching something called unauthodox on Netflix and some bird left her husband and they sent some kind of Jewish terminator after her.

[Strontium]

4 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Don't authodox Jews do that? Was watching something called unauthodox on Netflix and some bird left her husband and they sent some kind of Jewish terminator after her.

 

Probably, they're fucking cunts too.

[Section_31]

Just now, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Probably, they're fucking cunts too.

If you were a member of the Labour party and Kier Starmer refused to condemn you for this post on Channel 4 news, Rachel Riley and Rico would go apeshit.

[Brownie]

The last few pages of this thread are mental.

[Vincent Vega]

Anyone buying that Alok Sharma doesn’t have the virus? All seems very convenient to me considering the grief Rees-Mogg has been getting for forcing the MPs back to Westminster and stopping remote voting, and the fact several of the cabinet would have had to self-isolate for 2 weeks. I bet Sharma won’t be seen for the next two weeks.

[Rico1304]

1 hour ago, TK421 said:

I'll enforce it. 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. 

[Rico1304]

31 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

If you were a member of the Labour party and Kier Starmer refused to condemn you for this post on Channel 4 news, Rachel Riley and Rico would go apeshit.

I can’t be arsed reading back, what am I being accused of now?

[Red Phoenix]

4 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

I can’t be arsed reading back, what am I being accused of now?

You started the Hillary discussion off in the Trump thread, that's all I know.

 

[aRdja]

4 hours ago, TK421 said:

Racist cunt. 

You know what you’ve done here... that twat A Red is going to follow you around for the next year asking to POST THE EVIDENCE!!!!!

[Sugar Ape]

@dave u will be alright. 
 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/bald-men-higher-risk-severe-case-covid-19-research-finds/

 

Bald men may be at higher risk of suffering from severe Covid-19 symptoms, emerging evidence suggests.  

 

The link is so strong that some researchers are suggesting baldness should be considered a risk factor called the "Gabrin sign", after the first US physician to die of Covid-19 in the United States, Dr Frank Gabrin, who was bald. 
 

The lead author of the key study behind the association, Professor Carlos Wambier of Brown University, told The Telegraph: "We really think that baldness is a perfect predictor of severity." 

 

Data since the beginning of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in January has shown that men are more likely to die after getting coronavirus. In the UK, a report this week from Public Health England found that working-age males were twice as likely as females to die after being diagnosed with Covid-19.

 

Until recently, scientists have been at a loss at why this might be, pointing to factors such as lifestyle, smoking, and immune system differences between the sexes. But increasingly they believe it could be because androgens - male sex hormones like testosterone - may play a part not only in hair loss, but also in boosting the ability of coronavirus to attack cells.

 

This raises the possibility that treatments suppressing these hormones, such as those used for baldness as well as diseases like prostate cancer, could be used to slow the virus down, giving patients time to fight it off.  

 

"We think androgens or male hormones are definitely the gateway for the virus to enter our cells," said Professor Wambier. 

 

As well as the trial being discussed using baldness drugs in the US, a separate trial has been launched by Matthew Rettig, an oncologist at UC Los Angeles, in 200 veterans in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York, using prostate cancer drugs. 

 

The trials follow two small studies in Spain led by Professor Wambier, which found that a disproportionately high number of men with male pattern baldness were admitted to hospital with Covid-19.

 

In one study, 79 per cent of the men suffering with Covid-19 in three Madrid hospitals were bald. The study of 122 patients, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, followed an earlier piece of work among 41 patients in Spanish hospitals, which found 71 per cent were bald. The background rate of baldness in white men of a similar age to the patients studied is between 31-53 per cent. A similar correlation was found in the study among the smaller numbers of women with hair loss linked to androgens. 

 

Other scientists said that more work needed to be done, but were excited by the potential link. 

 

"Everybody is chasing a link between androgens …and the outcome of Covid-19,” Howard Soule, executive vice president at the Prostate Cancer Foundation, told Science Magazine. 

 

Prostate cancer specialists are familiar with the role androgens can play in disease because in the prostate, the hormones stimulate an enzyme that boosts cancerous growth. In April, researchers published a paper in the journal Cell which showed that the enzyme TMPRSS2 is also involved in coronavirus infections. 

 

To infect a cell, coronaviruses - including the novel SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19 - use what is called a 'spike' protein that binds to the cell's membrane, a process that is activated by an enzyme. In this case, it appears that TMPRSS2 may be that enzyme. 

 

Scientists do not yet know if the enzyme responds in the same way to androgens in the lungs as it does in the prostate, but other evidence appears to support the potential link.

 

A study from Veneto, Italy, of 9,280 patients found that men with prostate cancer who were on androgen-deprivation therapy - drugs that cut testosterone levels - were only a quarter as likely to contract Covid-19 as men with the disease who were on other treatments. 

 

Karen Stalbow, Head of Policy at Prostate Cancer UK, said: “There have been several recent pieces of research which indicate there may be a link between male hormones and increased risk of Covid-19.

 

This has led some researchers to investigate whether hormone therapies commonly used to treat prostate cancer, such as enzalutamide, could reduce this risk.

 

“However, most of the research so far has been in the lab, and there is conflicting evidence over whether the hormone therapies have the same impact in the lungs as they would in prostate cells. There are now several clinical studies starting which hope to address these issues, but much more evidence is needed before we can know whether these hormone therapies would be an effective treatment for Covid-19.”