I’m not really posting much anywhere since the first flurry because I don’t have any inside gouge. I’m following the suggestion to post here.
Chinese docs on Weibo were begging for injectable ACE2 inhibitors but those are not available in the US. No real use, normally. The Celestials obvs make it for something but I don’t know what. There are reagent grade samples sold here but I think my daughter or one of her colleagues figured it cost about $12.5K per 500mg dose, two doses per day x 10 days. They sell in micrograms and you administer in grams. “A mite dear” as granny used to say.
So, nothing to ask for.
ACE1 inhibitors for the cytokine storm are an unknown to me. I’ve seen no talk of their use. Those are as common as mud...lisinopril and the like.
There’s a cocktail of old school AIDS antivirals that’s supposed to work against the virus but now we’re fighting supply chain voids and I just assume none will be around. Leronlimab, Abbvie’s alluvia, I think and some ebola antiviral I can't remember the name of. Lisinopril/ACE1 for h5n1 was a possibility because it worked, it’s common as mud and just as cheap, but aids antiretrovirals for someone without aids would be a stretch. Maybe a scrip from a medical marijuana hack with a few gold eagles jingling in your hand. Dunno. But all this stuff is made in India/Thailand/China so a scrip might be useless anyway.
Hand gel works. Bar soap with good method for >20 seconds works. Social distancing works. Buy bar/liquid soap. The gougers are on the purell.
Hand sanitizer is 62-65% ethanol. If you can’t get bulk purell buy 151 rum and dilute
The water %age is an important part of the process I hear. All the Purell looks to be gone on amazon (I wasn’t exhaustive) with that ‘available March 5th’ joke, same as masks, gloves. Pro tip: it’s not going to be available March 5
Maybe on a local shelf.
I know nothing first hand about BAC. Maybe that is what the Chinese are spraying on every surface in the vids? It’s still available on amazon and claims efficacy so ???
The good news is youngsters are currently underrepresented in the Chinese dead. They are catching it but not dying. So there’s that. There are also decent odds this won’t be terribly virulent, will be contained, at least here, blah blah.
That said just be ready for supply chain disruption. China has its hooks into Nigeria via debt/infrastructure and thousands were going back and forth. If Lagos starts to burn it’ll be magnitude 9 on the cable news Richter scale. Investor panic. Payments late on Hamptons vacay homes. Kias on Wall and Broad instead of range rovers.
My daughter keeps telling me that critical meds are short now, any worse and people die. get that 90 days ASAP, even if nothing develops twitter could kill you. Sorry to ramble