The COVID-2019 Thread

[harrybarracuda]

Isolating the Sick at Home, Italy Stores Up Family Tragedies

This is the basic premise behind Lockdown. If someone gets infected, it limits their ability to spread it beyond their household.

It's why the UK is insisting on people staying in household groups if they do go out.

"Ripping the infected from their homes" sounds like a rather stupid idea, because we already know people can be infectious well before they show signs of infection - if they show signs at all - which means the household most likely has it already.

So the chinkies must have been "ripping" entire households into their "hospitals".

Has anyone heard of even a single case of anyone showing signs of infection *before* being infectious?

That's not to say that this isn't one of the diseases great unknowns, but it sounds rather unlikely don't you think HooHoo?

[harrybarracuda]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – Medical experts are saying that steps taken in California, specifically the Bay Area, have done more than just flatten the curve, but they warn that the success could be fleeting if people become complacent.

“There is less virus on our community due to shelter in place and and stay home policy,” Dr. Warner Green said.
Virologist Dr. Warner Green with San Francisco’s Gladstone Institute says as a result of early decision making, California and most notably the Bay Area has done more than flatten the curve when it comes to the coronavirus.

“We crushed it and California in general has crushed it,” Green said.

He says California will soon be better positioned than most places in the country to return to work.

“Now we have a second chance to as we re enter society to bring testing to the forefront and identify the infected individuals and their contacts and isolate the infected individual and quarantine the contacts. That’s the way you control the infections,” Green said.

But until there’s a vaccine some things will remain in place, such as wearing masks, social distancing in public and at work, and no mass gatherings.

“The virus won’t relax and we can’t either, we have to maintain and realize this virus is highly infectious and anytime we congregate in ways that used to be quite normal this virus take advantage of that,” Green said.

Those type of crowds were evident Sunday at Dolores Park forcing police and park rangers to remind people of the shelter order’s social distancing guidelines.

“I will say this is hard to do. It’s stressful, it’s tiring but it’s even harder to deal with situations that we have seen elsewhere and we need to commit ourselves to social distancing and public health measures necessary,” Dr. Grant Colfax said.

San Francisco’s Health Director says residents cannot become complacent and other experts agree, if that happens the bay area and state’s successes can quickly turn.

“Let’s not replace cabin fever with COVID fever,” Green said.

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[harrybarracuda]

South Africa banned alcohol sales as part of their lockdown.

And now people are drinking hand sanitiser...


Alcohol ban: Why drinking hand sanitiser may soon land you in jail

[katie23]

In the experiment, droplets from a cough could sometimes reach 12 feet. They used laser to track the droplets - cool!

[harrybarracuda]

Precisely why masks are effective if only to prevent the infected coughing or even breathng the shit everywhere.

[OhOh]

Pompeo an enemy to world peace: Global Times editorial

Source:Global Times Published: 2020/4/26 21:53:40

"US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in recent days has launched a string of violent attacks on China. He accused China of causing enormous losses to the US and the world by "not sharing the information they had" again in an interview with Fox News on April 23, saying the Chinese government will "pay a price for what they did." One day earlier, he blasted China for taking advantage of a pandemic to "bully" neighbors and called on other nations to hold China to account.

Pompeo targeted the Communist Party of China (CPC) in his remarks. He is the senior US official who's the most active in attacking the CPC, which reflects extreme hostility against socialist China and reveals his malicious goal to push the US and China into strategic rivalry.

The White House and the Republican Party have formulated a strategy to win the November presidential election by shifting the blame to China to divert domestic US attention. Pompeo is adding fuel to the blame game by attacking the ruling party of China.

The former top intelligence official is steering the US Department of State into becoming the Central Intelligence Agency. He is playing with fire, making the 21st century an era of major power confrontation and undermining the foundations for peace. Despite being the chief diplomat of the US, he totally betrayed the basic responsibility with which he is entrusted to promote international understanding. He has become the enemy of world peace.

The US, as the world's superpower, has special responsibility for world peace. It's a pity that at a time when the world is facing turbulence and great uncertainties from the novel coronavirus, the position of secretary of state has been occupied by a person of a sinister nature. Pompeo is poisoning US diplomacy with his personal hatred of the Chinese political system, which will worsen the global situation.

It's well-known that China-US relations will have a profound influence on the nature of international relations in the 21st century. Deteriorating China-US relations will erode foundations for world peace and stability. What Pompeo is doing now is undermining such a foundation.

Geopolitics cannot dominate the world anymore. Pompeo and his like are desperately pulling the world backwards. They are unable to handle a diverse and complicated new century and so they attempt to resume the Cold War. They can only "realize their ambition" in polarized confrontation.

We want to tell Pompeo that any attempt to drive a wedge between the CPC and the Chinese people is delusional. It's foolish for him to do so at this time. Under the leadership of the CPC, China quickly controlled the epidemic after the outbreak, while the Chinese people witnessed the US medical system collapsed with a climbing death toll that meant a much higher cost in lives than China. Chinese society and politics come in an era full of unprecedented confidence and the Washington elites have completely failed at their attempts to fool the Chinese.

Most of the public around the world are very aware of the political tricks of politicians like Pompeo. How many people in the world experiencing waves of outbreaks can believe that worsening outbreaks around them are not because of domestic reasons but entirely from China? Some Western politicians and media who follow Washington's appeal to hype China bashing are primarily profit-driven, and how many of them can truly believe their own hyperbole?

Lies may fulfill Pompeo's personal ambition, but they will never accomplish the US dreams to be "great again." Pompeo is not only a figure harmful to world peace, but also should be listed as the worst US secretary of state in its history."

Pompeo an enemy to world peace: Global Times editorial - Global Times

[HuangLao]

The reality and backstories are starting to bring them down.
It's obvious.

It's a broad societal reflection thing.

[harrybarracuda]

Pompeo an enemy to world peace: Global Times editorial

Translation: "Let's make up another story to avoid responsibility for the Wuhan Virus".

[harrybarracuda]

The World Leadership Trophy

Translation: "Let's make up another story to avoid responsibility for the Wuhan Virus".

[harrybarracuda]

Gotta love the seppos. The "Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Diseases" (COVID) Act.

Political pressure is building to punish China for the coronavirus crisis, as leaders file lawsuits against the Chinese government and introduce legislation to let Americans sue the Chinese Communist Party in U.S. court.

U.S. senators this week filed the Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Diseases (COVID) Act, which would allow Americans to sue China in U.S. court and seek damages for the coronavirus’s deadly and economic harm.

“What this would do is give those that have felt harm by COVID-19 — family members that have lost their life, people that have lost their livelihood, have had that adverse impact — they would be able to file a lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party,” Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn said in a Twitter video. “Because they lied, they hid information, they were not transparent, and caused this global pandemic.”

This legislation would build on the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and eliminate sovereign immunity for states that spread biological agents.

Coronavirus punishment: Americans could sue China for damages under proposed bill

[sabang]

^^ Not "let's ramp up tired old Cold War rhetoric again, in a futile effort to deflect attention from our own failure"?

[Little Chuchok]

Translation: "Let's make up another story to avoid responsibility for the Wuhan Virus".

So you are saying that the Chinese were up front about the virus?

[HuangLao]

^^ Not "let's ramp up tired old Cold War rhetoric again, in a futile effort to deflect attention from our own failure"?

Yes.....invented distractions of the wag-the-dog variety.
That's what they do.
And the same old dumbed down circles who buy into it.


The old traditional tried and true boogieman -

[harrybarracuda]

So you are saying that the Chinese were up front about the virus?

How the fuck do you draw that conclusion?

[SKkin]

US-Tyson Foods Honcho, "food supply chain is breaking"

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/...313075355.html

[harrybarracuda]

^^ Not "let's ramp up tired old Cold War rhetoric again, in a futile effort to deflect attention from our own failure"?

You should watch that Netflix special that popped up last night, that talks about how the spread of the virus would have been limited had the chinkies acted earlier.

Just in Chinastan that is.

You might find it an eye opener.

But probably not, because you're a bit dim and, like HoHo, you can't bear to hear your beloved chinkies did bad and just want to blame the seppos for everything.

[harrybarracuda]

US-Tyson Foods Honcho, "food supply chain is breaking"

'The food supply chain is breaking,' Tyson says as plants close | Health | stltoday.com

That's good, maybe some of the fat fucks will lose weight on a veggie diet.

[Little Chuchok]

How the fuck do you draw that conclusion?

Fucking easy.

So Trump is responsibly ?

China has nothing to do with how the USA fcuked up?

[harrybarracuda]

Fucking easy.

So Trump is responsibly ?

China has nothing to do with how the USA fcuked up?

I think you are missing the point.

Both articles are chinky propaganda designed to divert attention away from their cataclysmic fuck up.

Capisce?

[jabir]

Gotta love the seppos. The "Stop China-Originated Viral Infectious Diseases" (COVID) Act.



Coronavirus punishment: Americans could sue China for damages under proposed bill

This could be a smart diversionary tactic, and it might just work.

The US is a litigious society, its leaders know they cocked up something rotten, and when the dust settles local, state and central govs and businesses will become the likely target of tens of millions of various accusations and claims. So, point your citizens at China with a legitimate grievance, knowing nothing could possibly come of it, and breath a sigh of relief as they fire blanks at a stone wall.

[misskit]

US-Tyson Foods Honcho, "food supply chain is breaking"

That worries me less than the drug supply chain breaking. Haven’t seen any shortages in news reports, but I’ve been trying to get one of my mom’s heart medication refilled for two weeks now. CVS just keeps putting the date for the refill out further. Looked it up and found there is indeed a shortage of losartan.

[Loy Toy]

If the American's can proove without any doubt the Chinese done wrong and covered up the onset of the virus then let the world sue the fuckers.

If it's anything like the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" fiasco they should shut the fuck up before even taking legal action.

[sabang]

the spread of the virus would have been limited had the chinkies acted earlier.

It's true. It's also true that other countries stuffed up by not acting sooner and more effectively, even after the chinks had come clean. UK & US towards the top of that list. And then there's WHO. A litany of failure.

[SKkin]

That worries me less than the drug supply chain breaking. Haven’t seen any shortages in news reports, but I’ve been trying to get one of my mom’s heart medication refilled for two weeks now. CVS just keeps putting the date for the refill out further. Looked it up and found there is indeed a shortage of losartan.

Any idea why?

[harrybarracuda]

Any idea why?

Maybe because, like lots of other pharmaceuticals, it originates in Chinastan and they had to shut up shop for so long?

Something else that needs fixing.