Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)
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The fact that no-one wears goggles (proven benefit, no disadvantages) shows that no-one is actually thinking these things through for themselves...same applies to the absence of any clamour to wear masks in the home, where transmission is most likely
Masks have clearly been introduced only to encourage the people who the government scared to death to emerge from their burrows once more...
Masks have clearly been introduced only to encourage the people who the government scared to death to emerge from their burrows once more...
luka
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Lots of visors, particularly among train staff (legacy of the spitting murder)
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But do you wear sunglasses at home too, to look f-ing cool?
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That's more like it...now I require gloves, gowns, proper masks that seal properly, humidity monitoring to prevent rebreathing particles in an aerosol, electrified face to prevent increased face-touching and loudspeaker system so that interlocutors don't need to approach the muffled voice.
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British Medical Journal discusses the mask matter: https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1435/rapid-responses; https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1442/rapid-responses
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Stats from the New York Times newsletter yesterday.
luka
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these kinds of dilemnas are interesting arent they
'Jacinda Ardern has decried as “dangerous” her detractors’ calls to open New Zealand’s borders – or present a plan for how she will do so – as the country remains largely free of Covid-19 while the virus spreads abroad.
Telling reporters on Tuesday that she had heard “calls for our borders to be opened to the world”, the New Zealand prime minister referred to “a world where the virus is escalating not slowing and not even peaking in some countries yet, where cases exceed 10 million globally and deaths half a million, where countries are extending and returning to lockdown”.
“All of the while, we get to enjoy weekend sport, go to restaurants and bars, our workplaces are open, and we can gather in whatever numbers we like,” she said.'
'Jacinda Ardern has decried as “dangerous” her detractors’ calls to open New Zealand’s borders – or present a plan for how she will do so – as the country remains largely free of Covid-19 while the virus spreads abroad.
Telling reporters on Tuesday that she had heard “calls for our borders to be opened to the world”, the New Zealand prime minister referred to “a world where the virus is escalating not slowing and not even peaking in some countries yet, where cases exceed 10 million globally and deaths half a million, where countries are extending and returning to lockdown”.
“All of the while, we get to enjoy weekend sport, go to restaurants and bars, our workplaces are open, and we can gather in whatever numbers we like,” she said.'
Mr. Tea
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Just when you were getting bored with covid-19:
Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China
Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China
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The evolutionary tree forks in NZ: in a hundred years they will be the only humans who don't recoil from each others' touch.
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If the US mimics bottom-of-the-heap lockdown-fanatics Belgium's death rate, they will have 270,000 dead - more than double.
Mr. Tea
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The Belgian medical authorities have erred on the side of extreme conservatism and have listed all suspected covid-19 deaths as due to covid-19, even in the absence of positive tests, so they'll have counted all their deaths due to the virus and mistakenly counted some other deaths in with the total. Basically the opposite of what the UK government was doing back in April, when it was only counting deaths of patients who'd had a positive diagnosis while in hospital and was therefore massively undercounting.
Given the lack of health coverage for many Americans and the almost unbelievably terrible response to the pandemic from Trump, I strongly suspect that the USA's figures, huge as they are, are a massive under-count.
Mr. Tea
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COVID-19 pandemic in the United States - Wikipedia
The official figure on April 11 was 24,400, so if 9,000 extra deaths occurred, then that's over a third not being reported. Maybe they've fixed it since then to take that into account, but I dunno. But if not, then you can potentially add an extra 50k deaths to the current official toll of about 130k.
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The majority of the publicised excess death figures are from simplistic calculations done in the service of prolonging the fear-mongering (sorry, flogging 'papers). For instance, in the UK, Oxford estimate the excess deaths to be less than half of the FT's estimate (as the former take account of population increases, seasonality and other factors not considered by the latter).
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