Coronavirus

[Fwiffo]

Utah meeting on masks is canceled when residents without masks pack room

"This is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing," a county commissioner said to boos. "We’re supposed to be physically distancing, wearing masks."

www.nbcnews.com

irony?

 

[Dropbear]

^
GOP Death Cult.

 

[Fwiffo]

^
GOP Death Cult.

Isn't that Mitt "the Liberal republican" Romney country though?

 

[Fwiffo]

Rouhani says 35 million Iranians may contract coronavirus

Iran struggles with a resurgence of COVID-19 as new cases and deaths increase since a two-month low in May.

www.aljazeera.com

“Our estimate is that up to now, 25 million Iranians have been infected with this virus,”

Contradicting your own numbers there Mr. Rouhani

 

[Dropbear]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/18/white-house-testing-budget-cdc-coronavirus/

 

[Fwiffo]

'We're fighting our own state': Southern mayors push back on state coronavirus responses

"The idea that every mayor, every governor, every local official should figure out their own pandemic response and what to do and not to do is crazy," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

If only people heeded the CDC...oh right.

 

[Dropbear]

Contact tracing and quarantining is highly effective ... except in America, where no one trusts their own government.

Contact Tracing during Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020

Contact Tracing during COVID-19 Outbreak

wwwnc.cdc.gov

 

[Dropbear]

No MILFs, No Squirting, No Gang Bangs: How the Porn Industry Is Changing During COVID-19

As porn production resumes in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry is instituting guidelines that may make it look different.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Fwiffo]

Coronavirus: Masks mandatory in France amid fresh outbreaks

Masks must be worn in all enclosed public spaces amid hundreds of active clusters of Covid-19.

www.bbc.com

Yet another country reintroducing masks...

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Coronavirus: Masks mandatory in France amid fresh outbreaks

Masks must be worn in all enclosed public spaces amid hundreds of active clusters of Covid-19.

www.bbc.com

Yet another country reintroducing masks...

It's not going away, I fear the second wave is already bouncing its way back in.

 

[Fwiffo]

Coronavirus: Why are Americans so angry about masks?

How face coverings meant to curb virus spread became grounds for political battle.

www.bbc.com

"Bob Palmgren tried to be polite - at first. He told a customer he had to wear a mask inside his restaurant, RJ's Bob-Be-Que Shack in Mission, Kansas. The customer, a man in his forties in a Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap, had flashed a gun and said that he was exempt from a state-wide mask requirement. He said that he could explain the exemption in the law to Mr Palmgren.

Mr Palmgren, a former marine, told the customer that he was not interested in continuing the conversation. Mr Palmgren was not swayed by the customer's gun, either. 'Coronavirus doesn't care if you have a gun or not," said Mr Palmgren, describing his conversation with the customer. 'I said: 'Now get the hell out of here.'"

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Second wave coming in fast...

 

[Grand Potentate]

Kidneys, Brain, Skin: New Study Highlights the Whole-Body Damage Caused by Covid-19

A recent research paper provides a better picture of the serious damage that covid-19 can cause throughout the body, not just in the lungs. It highlights

gizmodo.com

 

[Fwiffo]

Trump encourages Americans to wear masks, and warns pandemic may "get worse before it gets better"

The president said the coronavirus pandemic "will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better. I don't like saying that, but that's the way it is."

www.cbsnews.com

"'Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact,' Mr. Trump said on Tuesday. He later added that he 'will use it gladly, no problem with it.'"

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Kidneys, Brain, Skin: New Study Highlights the Whole-Body Damage Caused by Covid-19

A recent research paper provides a better picture of the serious damage that covid-19 can cause throughout the body, not just in the lungs. It highlights

gizmodo.com

Frightening isn't it.

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It's been weaponized by both China and to a lesser, but equally as cynical extent by the Democrats.

China deliberately seeded the world with the virus. That's an act of biological war.

 

[Grand Potentate]

China deliberately seeded the world with the virus. That's an act of war.

im sure you'll be the first up on the front lines.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

im sure you'll be the first up on the front lines.

I rephrased that to read: '' It's been weaponized by both China and to a lesser, but equally as cynical extent by the Democrats.''

We're all now on the front line, the disease is seeded and continually seeded or so it seems. Coming back in Australia and elsewhere.

 

[Dropbear]

It's been weaponized by both China and to a lesser, but equally as cynical extent by the Democrats.

China deliberately seeded the world with the virus. That's an act of biological war.

I can't keep track of all the nutty conspiracy theorists. Is that Q Anon or Zero Hedge?

Anyway, back to reality. This might be of interest to a few of you:

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com

 

[Fwiffo]

California surpasses New York in confirmed coronavirus cases

"It's another reminder, if we needed to remind anybody, of the magnitude of impact that this virus continues to have," California's governor said.

www.nbcnews.com

Does that mean New Yorkers will go down to help Californians?

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

I can't keep track of all the nutty conspiracy theorists. Is that Q Anon or Zero Hedge?

Anyway, back to reality. This might be of interest to a few of you:

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com

It's not a conspiracy theory, it's fact: China put Wuhan into quarantine, whilst maintaining international travel from Wuhan. Thus, seeding the world with their virus. I know at the time liberals were busy seeking out recent arrivals from China to kiss and hug to show they're weren't racist. Neglect, willful ignorance or deliberate intention?

 

[Fwiffo]

It's not a conspiracy theory, it's fact: China put Wuhan into quarantine, whilst maintaining international travel from Wuhan. Thus, seeding the world with their virus. I know at the time liberals were busy seeking out recent arrivals from China to kiss and hug to show they're weren't racist. Neglect, willful ignorance or deliberate intention?

Kissing and hugging? Were they? I only remember orientals being told to go home or everyone evacuating a subway car if a slightly yellow person sneezed.

Then as it progressed to Iran and Italy the racism progressed and now everyone has it so it's just recurring waves of anti-Brazilian, anti-Romanian, anti-brown, anti-X prejudices.

 

[Fwiffo]

My father told me about this. The ship with the blue raincoat is from the US. The ship with the red raincoat is from Canada.

Explanation A - The population is higher in the US than in Canada.

Explanation B - Don't know which day this photograph is taken but perhaps government subsidies are keeping most Canadians at (pointless) work and not out sightseeing.

Explanation C - Americans don't give a toss about social distances, queuing, or infections. Canadians are a docile law abiding people who still have HM the Queen as head of state.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Kissing and hugging? Were they? I only remember orientals being told to go home or everyone evacuating a subway car if a slightly yellow person sneezed.

Then as it progressed to Iran and Italy the racism progressed and now everyone has it so it's just recurring waves of anti-Brazilian, anti-Romanian, anti-brown, anti-X prejudices.

There was a Chinese guy from Wuhan in the middle of Milan with a sign saying give him a hug and the mayor of Milan was hugging Chinese people in lifts to show solidarity and prove that he was not racist.

 

[sirloin]

It's not a conspiracy theory, it's fact: China put Wuhan into quarantine, whilst maintaining international travel from Wuhan. Thus, seeding the world with their virus. I know at the time liberals were busy seeking out recent arrivals from China to kiss and hug to show they're weren't racist. Neglect, willful ignorance or deliberate intention?

There was a Chinese guy from Wuhan in the middle of Milan with a sign saying give him a hug and the mayor of Milan was hugging Chinese people in lifts to show solidarity and prove that he was not racist.

Something don't add up here, Commissioner Dreyfus.
Was it the liberals kissing all the chinamen, the chinaman needing a hug, or the socialist mayor of Milan hugging so ever passionately?
Did you hear this, from that youtube man with the round glasses, who evidently knows everything about the China virus, Burisma and Ghislaine Maxwell? Or was it this odd fellow with the long greasy hair, and the hollow chest in a leather jacket, singing you his sweet sweet songs?

 

[Dropbear]

Speaking of Covid19 “seeding”:

‘It Was Like a Time Bomb’: How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus (Published 2020)

An investigation by The New York Times and The Marshall Project reveals how Immigration and Customs Enforcement became a spreader of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Something don't add up here, Commissioner Dreyfus.
Was it the liberals kissing all the chinamen, the chinaman needing a hug, or the socialist mayor of Milan hugging so ever passionately?
Did you hear this, from that youtube man with the round glasses, who evidently knows everything about the China virus, Burisma and Ghislaine Maxwell? Or was it this odd fellow with the long greasy hair, and the hollow chest in a leather jacket, singing you his sweet sweet songs?

Hasn't dated very well, has it...



But I do stand corrected, it was the Mayor of Florence.

Start 3:45:

 

[Dropbear]

^
Any evidence at all that that Chinese dude had been in Wuhan province in the past 14 days?

 

[ballmouse]

Wouldn't Donald Trump be the biggest weapon of COVID? By fumbling around for 4 months, he's essentially maximized it's killing power, particularly on the subset of poor Americans he loves so much.

 

[sirloin]

Any evidence, that the man had active corona?

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

^
Any evidence at all that that Chinese dude had been in Wuhan province in the past 14 days?

Any evidence he wasn't?

Any evidence, that the man had active corona?

Not at the time, he might have got it later, and some commentators allege that he did get it.

If he hadn't got active corona, do you think it was appropriate behavior the end of February/beginning of March to be hugging a stranger? Or was it morally appropriate and correct exactly because he was from China?

Moot points: the issue is that it was inappropriate to be hugging anyone in the street with a potential Medieval plague on the way in.

 

[Dropbear]

Any evidence he wasn't?



Not at the time, he might have got it later, and some commentators allege that he did get it.

If he hadn't got active corona, do you think it was appropriate behavior the end of February/beginning of March to be hugging a stranger? Or was it morally appropriate and correct exactly because he was from China?

Moot points: the issue is that it was inappropriate to be hugging anyone in the street with a potential Medieval plague on the way in.

Well that’s a whole lot of backtracking from your earlier post saying that he was an agent of the PRC government deliberately spreading the virus in a bioterror act of war.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Well that’s a whole lot of backtracking from your earlier post saying that he was an agent of the PRC government deliberately spreading the virus in a bioterror act of war.

No, I never said or implied he was an agent of the CCP.

What I said was that the virus has been weaponized and had been seeded globally by the CCP i.e. locking down Wuhan from the rest of China, whilst keeping international travel open and calling out any nation contemplating travel restrictions from China as racist.

 

[Journeyman]

Meanwhile, in Texas, it appears that hospitals are going to have to start deciding who gets treated and who doesn't:

A Texas hospital is so overrun with coronavirus cases that officials say it will send the patients least likely to survive home to die

Starr County health officials said the county's only hospital doesn't have space and a committee would review which patients are most likely to die.

www.businessinsider.com.au

 

[Fwiffo]

Meanwhile, in Texas, it appears that hospitals are going to have to start deciding who gets treated and who doesn't:

A Texas hospital is so overrun with coronavirus cases that officials say it will send the patients least likely to survive home to die

Starr County health officials said the county's only hospital doesn't have space and a committee would review which patients are most likely to die.

www.businessinsider.com.au

Sounds like France four months ago.

 

[Dropbear]

It’s not public health OR the economy. Neither is it public health OR schools re-opening. We fix public health and the economy and schools will re-open and stay open. But we will have to have a uniform response with military precision. Our current half response won’t work. We can’t put out half the fire. It will rise again.

“Life must go on” is a term only the privileged can afford to use. By making this choice, you are taking it from those most vulnerable.

Social Distancing, Population Density, Temperature, and the Reproduction Number of SARS-CoV-2

This cohort study examines the association of county-level factors with variation in the instantaneous reproduction number of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the United States.

jamanetwork.com

 

[Fwiffo]

Coronavirus: Spain drives fears of European 'second wave'

Its Catalonia region closes its nightlife as other nations eye increases in new infections warily.

www.bbc.com

I have two thoughts around this. When things reopen here I should go all out and take advantage of everything because you know everything will close again.

Or alternatively I should just give up because the thought of a normal life is as transient as a desert mirage.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Coronavirus: Spain drives fears of European 'second wave'

Its Catalonia region closes its nightlife as other nations eye increases in new infections warily.

www.bbc.com

I have two thoughts around this. When things reopen here I should go all out and take advantage of everything because you know everything will close again.

Or alternatively I should just give up because the thought of a normal life is as transient as a desert mirage.

The air bridges are already closing for all but non-essential travel. Those intrepid holidaymakers from the UK are going straight into a 14 day quarantine on their return.

 

[Fwiffo]

Coronavirus: 'No apologies' for Spain travel rule change

The foreign secretary defends the government's "swift decision" but Labour calls it "shambolic".

www.bbc.com

Spain - you have been banned.

 

[Fwiffo]

North Korea locks down city after first suspected coronavirus case, state media says

Kim said it was a "critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country," state media reported.

www.nbcnews.com

Of course the infected person is a defector. Now there's an excuse to kill the person and reduce infections back to zero.