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My Brilliant Friend (TV series)

Kebunsayur — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 01:35:11 +0800

My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is an Italian- and Neapolitan-language coming-of-age drama television series created by Saverio Costanzo for HBO, RAI and TIMvision. Named after the first of four novels in the Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante, it is set to adapt the entire literary work over four eight-episode seasons.[2] The series is a co-production between Italian production companies Wildside, Fandango, The Apartment, Mowe and international film group Umedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Brilliant_...end_(TV_series)

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My Rating 99/100

Elon Musk best father

Kebunsayur — Wed, 06 May 2020 11:02:06 +0800

Grimes says she and Elon Musk may let their child choose own gender identity.

"I don’t want to gender them in case that’s not how they feel."

https://www.nme.com/news/music/grimes-says-...dentity-2613714

Malaysian berdoa covid Malaysia Menang

Kebunsayur — Tue, 05 May 2020 09:16:16 +0800

Work here or overseas?

Kebunsayur — Mon, 04 May 2020 10:09:35 +0800

I just got a letter from HR...... paycut 20% 16 May to 31 December...............but if I wiling to transfer to south asia division ( India, Bangladesh, Nepal). ( 1st Augut) ......... I will get zero paycut.......overseas free accomodation ( share flat) and USD500 food allowance..... one year 2 return air tickets.

Why Mod no action on Rohinya Racist Post?

Kebunsayur — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:48:58 +0800

Why Mod no action on Rohinya racist Post? ...........So many .....g.g lowyat

Suggest activities after lockdown 28 April 2020

Kebunsayur — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:43:28 +0800

Suggest activities after lockdown 28 April 2020 End.

Thank you.

Bars, Nightclub or Lepak place.

Human trials for UK coronavirus vaccine

Kebunsayur — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:38:34 +0800

Oxford and Imperial College London universities, saying they are "both promising projects" making "rapid progress".

He says the government will be giving £20m to the Oxford team to fund their clinical trials - and they will be trialing a vaccine on people starting this week

https://www.bbc.com/

Covid MCO Days17. I need help

Kebunsayur — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:34:23 +0800

I am now lock at home @ KL Sentra condo 900sqf level 25th floor.

I have not spoken to anyone face to face since 17 days ago. I bought my things once via tesco

Only call my mother and my sister every alternate day. I wish this MCO end so that I can go back to office to work.

If continue like this. I might develop depression. I am now talking to myself.

Countries mandate TB vaccine are seeing fewer die

Kebunsayur — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:23:51 +0800

Countries with mandatory policies to vaccinate against tuberculosis register fewer coronavirus deaths than countries that don’t have those policies, a new study has found.

The preliminary study posted on medRxiv, a site for unpublished medical research, finds a correlation between countries that require citizens to get the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine and those showing fewer number of confirmed cases and deaths from Covid-19. Though only a correlation, clinicians in at least six countries are running trials that involve giving frontline health workers and elderly people the BCG vaccine to see whether it can indeed provide some level of protection against the new coronavirus.

Gonzalo Otazu, assistant professor at the New York Institute of Technology and lead author of the study, started working on the analysis after noticing the low number of cases in Japan. The country had reported some of the earliest confirmed cases of coronavirus outside of China and it hadn’t instituted lockdown measures like so many other countries have done.

Otazu said he knew about studies showing the BCG vaccine provided protection against not just tuberculosis bacteria but also other types of contagions. So his team put together the data on what countries had universal BCG vaccine policies and when they were put in place. They then compared the number of confirmed cases and deaths from Covid-19 to find a strong correlation.

Among high-income countries showing large number of Covid-19 cases, the U.S. and Italy recommend BCG vaccines but only for people who might be at risk, whereas Germany, Spain, France, Iran and the U.K. used to have BCG vaccine policies but ended them years to decades ago. China, where the pandemic began, has a BCG vaccine policy but it wasn’t adhered to very well before 1976, Otazu said. Countries including Japan and South Korea, which have managed to control the disease, have universal BCG vaccine policies. Data on confirmed cases from low-income countries was considered not reliable enough to make a strong judgment.
Caution Urged

With nearly 900,000 cases and 45,000 deaths, the world is struggling to control Covid-19. Any vaccine for the disease is more than a year away from being available and the effectiveness of drugs under trial won’t be known for months to come. That’s why it’s reasonable to look at whether BCG vaccine could provide protection against Covid-19, said Eleanor Fish, professor at the University of Toronto’s immunology department. Otazu’s study is yet to undergo review by peers, a strict criteria for science studies.

“I would read the results of the study with incredible caution,” Fish said.

Otazu, who said he’s already received comments from other experts, is working on a second version of his study that will address some of their concerns. He has also submitted the study for a formal review process with the journal Frontiers in Public Health.

One of the first to conduct the trial of BCG vaccine’s effectiveness against coronavirus is Mihai Netea, an infectious-disease expert at Radboud Universty Medical Center in the Netherlands. Netea’s team has already enrolled 400 health workers in the trial—200 got the BCG vaccine and 200 received a placebo. He doesn’t expect to see any results for at least two months. He’s also about to start a separate trial to study the effectiveness of the BCG vaccine on those older than 60. Other trials are taking place in Australia, Denmark, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.

Scientists are still working to better understand why the BCG vaccine may be effective against not just tuberculosis but other disease microbes. Netea’s decade-long work shows that BCG vaccine sensitizes the immune system in such a way that, whenever any pathogen that relies on the same attack strategy as the tuberculosis bacteria attacks, it is ready to respond in a better way than the immune system of those who haven’t received the vaccine.

“It’s like the BCG vaccine creates bookmarks for the immune system to use later in life,” Netea said.

Even if BCG vaccine is shown to be effective, that’s no reason to stockpile.

“People should not hoard or try to get BCG vaccine like they did toilet paper,” Otazu said. There is a small chance that the BCG vaccine could increase the risk of coronavirus, but scientists won’t know until after the clinical trials.

In any case, the BCG vaccine shouldn’t be the only tool to fight Covid-19.

“No country in the world has managed to control the disease just because the population was protected by BCG,” Otazu said. Social distancing, testing and isolating cases will need to be implemented to manage the spread of the disease.
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—China releases data on asymptomatic coronavirus cases—but doubts remain
—”It’ll never be fast enough”: 5 questions for a ventilator manufacturer
—The stock market had its worst quarter since 1987—and its worst Q1 ever
—How to job hunt during the coronavirus pandemic
—PODCAST: Two health care CEOs on why coronavirus tests and vaccines are the ammunition needed to fight COVID-19
—VIDEO: World leaders and health experts on how to stop the spread of COVID-19

Insurance Question

Kebunsayur — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:32:55 +0800

I have 2 property.

1. Family stay house 600k. Father, mother and brother. Mrta insurance
2. Vacant condo 720k as I am working overseas. Mlta insurance
3. I bought Life insurance with saving 500k

Question A
If I gone due to covin 19 virus. What will happen to my house and condo ? My father need to pay those loan?

Question B
Will my father get Rm500k for the life insurance.

Najib thief. Muhyiddin Traitor.

Kebunsayur — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 08:16:08 +0800

Why Malaysia PM all lack of good quality?

Najib is thief.
Muhyiddin is traitor to voters.
Atok is snake and power crazy

No wonder Malaysia decline in economy, sport, science, social, education and development.

Now I feel ashamed to be a Malaysian. I will mention I am Thai or Singaporean.

Strong Immune System

Kebunsayur — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 10:43:20 +0800

Drink lots of water?
Eat fruits?
Workout 1 hour everyday?

please share.