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Coronavirus.. outlook

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djav59

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Trust my friend do you trust yourself ,or do you trust Gov?
While its hard to get a true sense of what is really happening due to distortion simply look around ,and see at lot of these reports are straight up some not people seem to have lost ability to reason if they ever had it to begin with.

Grim find: Bodies of virus victims in Spanish nursing homes

https://apnews.com/urn:publicid:ap.org:8bd9ec1261d19913a301a9bfb8684321

Its not a far cry for this to happen here listen to what Drs. and staff are saying in NY
or listen to Donny your choice.
 
Loc Dog

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Gypsy Nirvana

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Here is what has happened in the last few hours:

US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping held a phone call, during which Xi warned that the US must take ‘substantive actions’ to improve relations, Chinese state media reported. After the call Trump tweeted that the conversation was “very good” and that: “China has been through much & has developed a strong understanding of the Virus. We are working closely together.”

*China will temporarily bar the entry of almost all foreigners and drastically reduce flights to the country as it tries to head off this second wave of infections caused by travellers coming from abroad.

*The US has the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world. Johns Hopkins University suggests the US now has more suspected and confirmed cases of Covid-19 than China, with 85,991 reported in the US and 81,872 in China. Italy is third with 80,589.

The next big wave of US infections is likely headed for Louisiana, where demand for ventilators has already doubled. In New Orleans, the state’s biggest city, Mardi Gras celebrations late last month are believed to have fuelled the outbreak.

*Returning travellers to Australia will be quarantined in hotels and other accommodation for 14 days on arrival, instead of being asked to self-isolate at home. Australia’s federal government is also planning to put the economy into “hibernation”, which may involve asking banks, lenders and landlords to waive some business overheads to help them whether the crisis.

*The UK government has urged homebuyers to avoid moving house during the coronavirus outbreak, as the pandemic brings the country’s property market to a near standstill, Reuters reports.

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe could hit 1.8 million worldwide this year even with swift and stringent measures to stop it, according to a study from Britain’s Imperial College published Thursday.

The global number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has passed 532,000, according to the latest figures on the Johns Hopkins University global dashboard. The latest number of confirmed deaths worldwide was 24,072.

*Mainland China reported its first locally transmitted coronavirus infection in three days, although cases involving travellers from overseas continued to dominate the total number of new cases.

*Argentina declared a six-month rent freeze to help family budgets affected by the nationwide coronavirus lockdown declared last Friday.

*Vietnam will limit domestic flights and stop public gatherings for two weeks from Saturday in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the government said in a statement on Friday.

*South Africa came under a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown on Friday, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus across the continent.

Some 57 million people are to be restricted to their homes during South Africa’s three-week total lockdown which began at midnight.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...ope-global-cases-number-500000-latest-updates
 
Loc Dog

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The best thing the USA can do, is freeze the stock market till this shit is over. Otherwise they will throw trillions at it, which will only help for less than a week.
 
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I'm pretty lucky to be in Australia at the moment it seems.... take care of yourselves everyone....

Even though we have pretty much zero cases in my local area it feels more quiet and tranquil than usual, can't hear any parties or stereos raging in the distance.

Most businesses are going to shut down for a while if they haven't already, and even though people are keeping distance and staying home i can't help but feel there is more of a sense of cooperation and community than usual, kind of a sobering feeling.... but maybe that's just me?
 
GOT_BUD?

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Sorry Mr. D, Swing and a miss!
Mr D said:
From the horses mouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUWZA43UblM


Union Locates Massive Supply of N95 Masks
https://www.seiu-uhw.org/press/union-locates-massive-supply-of-n95-masks/



Is Imperial’s Neil Ferguson, whose modelling gave us the 250,000 deaths projection and led to lockdown, now saying UK deaths 'could be substantially lower' than 20,000 -- and two thirds would have died in the next 6 months anyway?

“Italy got hit very badly because they had a large number of importations from China by Chinese tourists." - Dr. Fauci


With some masks, social distancing, regular and proper hand washing and perhaps body temp checks before entering a place of business their is no reason we can't get back to work and play in the very near future.
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https://www.truthorfiction.com/imperial-college-londons-covid-19-report-explained/

We have received the following response from the lead researcher in this report, Neil Ferguson:

I think it would be helpful if I cleared up some confusion that has emerged in recent days. Some have interpreted my evidence to a UK parliamentary committee as indicating we have substantially revised our assessments of the potential mortality impact of COVID-19. This is not the case. Indeed, if anything, our latest estimates suggest that the virus is more transmissible than previously thought. Our lethality estimates remain unchanged. My evidence to Parliament referred to the numbers of deaths we assess might occur in the UK in the presence of the very intensive social distancing and other public health interventions now in place. Without those interventions, our assessment remains that the UK would see the scale of deaths reported in our study (namely, up to approximately 500 thousand).
[Update, March 26 2020, 4:25 PM Eastern Time] On March 26 2020, the Daily Wire’s Amanda Prestigiacomo published a piece headlined, “Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Revises Model,” which claimed that the primary researcher on Imperial College London’s influential COVID-19 paper was “wrong” and that he had “offered a massive revision” to the globally referenced research.

That claim is patently false.
(On March 24 2020, Prestigiacomo described the report as a “doomsday novel” in a separate effort to downplay its data.)
In “Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Revises Model,” Prestigiacomo cited reporting published by David Adam at NewScientist, as well as several tweets also predicated on Adam’s reporting:

Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massive revision to his model on [March 25 2020] … However, after just one day of ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates, revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured.

We clicked through to Adam’s March 25 2020 article, titled “UK has enough intensive care units for coronavirus, expert predicts.” Adam did not seem to report what Prestigiacomo claimed he did:

Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London gave evidence today to the UK’s parliamentary select committee on science and technology as part of an inquiry into the nation’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.

He said that expected increases in National Health Service capacity and ongoing restrictions to people’s movements make him “reasonably confident” the health service can cope when the predicted peak of the epidemic arrives in two or three weeks. UK deaths from the disease are now unlikely to exceed 20,000, he said, and could be much lower.

In fact, Adam’s reporting seemed to indicate factors cited in the influential Imperial College London report were revised upwards, specifically COVID-19’s rate of reproduction. Moreover, Adam reported that Ferguson — who purportedly “backtracked” on his team’s findings — in fact indicated there was “more evidence to support the more intensive social distancing measures”:

New data from the rest of Europe suggests that the outbreak is running faster than expected, said Ferguson. As a result, epidemiologists have revised their estimate of the reproduction number (R0) of the virus. This measure of how many other people a carrier usually infects is now believed to be just over three, he said, up from 2.5. “That adds more evidence to support the more intensive social distancing measures,” he said.

We contacted Adam to ask whether Prestigiacomo’s piece accurately represented his March 25 2020 article, and he responded quickly. Adam described the Daily Wire’s claims as “dangerous nonsense,” explaining:

[It is] fair to say that the article you linked to and the tweets DO NOT accurately represent my article or indeed Prof Ferguson’s position. To be clear, the revised estimates are because the UK has changed its approach and because it has introduced such stringent social distancing measures. If we hadn’t, then the much higher estimates of deaths would still apply. Essentially, person-to-person transmission SHOULD have massively reduced since the measures were introduced. And because it takes 2-3 week for the worst cases to reach hospital after infection, he’s now saying that the anticipated peak in demand for hospital care will come in 2-3 weeks, and that because the UK is rapidly putting in extra capacity, there should be enough ICU beds.

Other experts on Twitter addressed the harmful inaccuracies in the rapidly spreading “Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Revises Model,” calling it “quite literally fake news”:
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No one is talking about high profile political pedophiles any more either .................


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Jellyfish

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I guess the IndyCar racing people are in on it too, postponing the Indianapolis 500 until August. Oh, and the NCAA- everybody knows the NCAA hates trump, lol.
 
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Mr. J

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Funny that nobody knows anyone who is seriously ill or who has died from this super contagious highly fatal virus. The world has been shut down for a week now and still, nobody here actually knows anyone who has died and nobody has posted a video or picture of the chaos that is supposedly happening. All I've seen is a few pictures of hospital waiting rooms looking like an average day in any big city. Also, apparently people the world over have suddenly stopped dying of anything except for the Corona virus, which has magically become the sole cause of death for everybody everywhere.
 
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Mr. J said:
Funny that nobody knows anyone who is seriously ill or who has died from this super contagious highly fatal virus. The world has been shut down for a week now and still, nobody here actually knows anyone who has died and nobody has posted a video or picture of the chaos that is supposedly happening. All I've seen is a few pictures of hospital waiting rooms looking like an average day in any big city. Also, apparently people the world over have suddenly stopped dying of anything except for the Corona virus, which has magically become the sole cause of death for everybody everywhere.
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Deaths are being recorded every day now in New York City, and CNN has interviewed several relatives of health care workers already felled by this very real and utterly dreadful disease.

Also, to the best of my knowledge, there has never been any attempt by the press to incorrectly ascribe deaths from causes other than Corona virus, to an unrelated condition.
 
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