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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2020 15:40:32 GMT
The main juck that led the fight against the virus here in Eire just got the freedom of dublin. In fairness, he did do a great job. It was a strict lock down, but not china strict.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2020 20:51:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2020 8:59:48 GMT
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31483-5/fulltextCutting to the chase: Interpretation The majority of the Spanish population is seronegative to SARS-CoV-2 infection, even in hotspot areas. Most PCR-confirmed cases have detectable antibodies, but a substantial proportion of people with symptoms compatible with COVID-19 did not have a PCR test and at least a third of infections determined by serology were asymptomatic. These results emphasise the need for maintaining public health measures to avoid a new epidemic wave. *Edit: To clarify the significance: if anyone tries to claim that the spread of the virus in the UK is enabling herd immunity - it isn't, it can't.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2020 21:05:03 GMT
Irish government seems to think the vaccine is only months away. Hope that's fucking true.
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 13, 2020 21:19:03 GMT
a lot of good that'll do us over here. I mean, they've already invented masks and gloves and we still can't seem to get those to the healthcare workers who need them. if they came up with a vaccine tomorrow they'd give one to the President and one to Ivanka and maybe Dr. Strangelove. the rest of us would twist in the wind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2020 21:34:36 GMT
For the US I'd be more worried about distribution especially if an US pharma company comes up with it. From what i gather they dont do anything out of the goodness of their heart. Profit to aid research is their default position i think.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jul 14, 2020 11:23:53 GMT
Even if a vaccine were released tomorrow, half the population of the US would refuse to take it.
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 14, 2020 16:17:16 GMT
God, I hope not half. enough to fuck things up for everybody, certainly. I like the idea of "a non-political coronavirus thread". but I don't think we can do one thing without the other anymore. I never imagined things would get THIS bad.
The Governor of California and the Mayor of L.A. County are both much hated where I live today. the reason they are hated is that yesterday they both announced that they are taking a big step backwards from "re-opening" the President and his supporters see the economy as something completely unrelated to the pandemic. How many boxes of Wheaties are going to fly off the shelf if people are wearing respirators? I don't get it.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jul 15, 2020 2:38:54 GMT
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 15, 2020 3:11:48 GMT
Thanks for posting. I (Heart) optimism. 4 of those I find pretty persuasive. Maybe people are getting used to masks where they wrote that. We aren’t getting used to them here. I’m seeing more, not less, mask based aggression lately. The more the square peg of “normal” is shoved into the round hole of COVID the angrier people are getting. When people are back at their jobs or campuses each day will see less mask wearing than the last. I don’t see people getting used to them. tolerating them? Many are. Many ain’t and they’ll look you in the eye & tell you that they are fine without one. More & more are insisting that they choose to go commando.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jul 15, 2020 4:11:14 GMT
I agree with you, although so far it's not too terrible where I am - just the occasional (maybe more than occasional) random doofus.
I just might be more irritated by the surprising number of people I see who aren't wearing them properly. Wearing it just on your chin isn't helping anyone, genius.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2020 7:38:40 GMT
I'm just staggered by the greed. Surely even most psychopaths wouldn't be that blind to being able to get away with it. From BBC: Hospital owner arrested over fake Covid-19 results A hospital owner in Bangladesh accused of issuing thousands of fake negative virus results has been arrested. Mohammad Shahed allegedly gave fake certificates to patients saying they were virus-free without even testing them, according to an AFP report. Police launched a nine-day manhunt for the 42-year-old, who was eventually caught trying to flee to India, wearing a burqa. "His hospitals carried out 10,500 coronavirus tests, out of which 4,200 were genuine and the rest, 6,300 test reports, were given without conducting tests", Rapid Action Battalion spokesman Colonel Ashique Billah told AFP. Shahed is also accused of charging for the certificates and virus treatments even though he had agreed with the government that his hospitals in the capital, Dhaka, would provide free care.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2020 12:36:30 GMT
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Post by Sneelock on Jul 28, 2020 15:45:18 GMT
I'd like to see a News Show segment on the COVID vaccines being developed that does NOT sound like a promotional video being placed by the companies developing them.
I realize that's probably too much to ask for. Hail Satan.
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Post by rayge on Jul 28, 2020 17:13:08 GMT
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