That’s what I thought too, but apparently not all. I saw this piece about a local company that rents out freezer containers. Apparently the breeders wants to skin their minks and freeze the skins, since right now the market price is at rock bottom:
Leaves a lot of questions: I assume this is only for the mink farms which hasn’t been infested with COVID19 yet, anything else would be crazy. Is it usual to freeze mink skins to -25C for storage?
Translation:
||Langå / Risskov: The freezer container company CHS Container from Risskov got busy already the day after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) had ordered all the country’s 17 million mink slaughtered.
The phone started ringing. It was mink breeders who wanted containers out so they could freeze the skins down to better times, says director Søren Holm Poulsen, who has received inquiries that will reach out next week.
He has just brought several containers home from Germany for the purpose. And has already delivered containers to mink breeders in Langå and Tvilum, among others.
The mink breeders fur the mink, scrape the skin free of meat and put the fur in a bag, after which the bag is placed in the container, which is set at minus 25 degrees.
In this way, the skins can last a long time, says Søren Holm Poulsen, who reckons that mink skins are currently at the bottom, in terms of price.
But the hope is that they rise later, and then they can be taken out and sold, he says.||
The Miami Herald reports on a U of Miami study in which autopsies found covid in tissues of victims’ testicles. The sample number is small, but they took pictures.
There have been nine days now since the last new case of COVID-19 in the state of Victoria. As of tomorrow, a new round of relaxed restrictions will occur. Most particularly, the ‘ring of steel’ around Melbourne (where most of the cases were) will be relaxed, and Victorians will be able to travel to and from the city as they will. There’s still some restrictions, but they’ve been loosened, and will apply across Victoria. Story here.
There’s fair odds that Australia will not only have the pandemic contained, but actually eliminated, in the near future. Fingers crossed.
You are 100% correct on that one! If there is one thing that will get these big babies’ attention it’s the possibility of damage to their junk. Nothing hits home like that.
This potential testicular damage should be shouted from the rooftops!
I dunno. Not a guy (obviously), but a rumor along the lines of “COVID is a serious threat to your 'nads” might get a fair amount of traction. I mean, my god, COVID misinformation has been rampant (excuse the expression). If suggestions about injecting bleach as a cure were taken seriously, why not this?
Makes a nice slogan. Extremely low numbers, but one was from a biopsy done on an asymptomatic guy. So you don’t have to get visibly sick for possible damage. (I know - you can’t count to a lower number than one.)
And, yes, so far there’s no sign of permanent damage, just damaged sperm and signs of the virus in tissue. But it’s not like they can do tests of future fertility on the autopsy samples.
Bolding mine for reason of the other article to highlight of this week, in Science, but first let’s summarize - kids seems to clear SARS-CoV2 quickly, before it spreads far, with fewer respiratory symptoms, and a narrower antibody response. Hypotheses (none mutually exclusive) to why kids get off relatively so easy have included a stronger innate response, receptor differences, and the “frequency/recency” of other common cold causing HCoVs in kids compared to most adults.
So to the Science article (bolding also mine) -
So perhaps in the frequency/recency bucket it is more frequency than recency?
TBH, it doesn’t matter how great-- or even real-- the risk is, as long as it’s greater than zero. The idea is to get these macho, “No one can tell me what to do!” guys to wear masks.
