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Supply, demand and a scary mountain of debt: The challenges facing IT as COVID-19 grips the global economy

W.S.Gosset

Re: There's been some interesting reports about antimalarials having some effectiveness

Actually, it's a combination of 2 drugs: 1 standard anti-HIV drug, and 1 previously-standard-now-defunct antimalarial (gathering dust in many warehouses) whose name I can't remember (chloriquinone?)

And yes, in Aussie testing it's wiped the virus in every recipient. But only in a sample of about a dozen so far I think.

So please god maybe news of this will stop the hysteria. The virus itself is only slightly more dangerous than the various flus over the years, the only real oddity being its age-mortality being the inverse of flu. Rat's arse. The HYSTERIA, on the other hand, is likely to do some real damage. (A poignant example: the Fujian hotel being used for quarantine , collapsed. Death count 29 before halted, but hey! not from coronavirus right?!)

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