Yeah, state of hospitals rn is a scandal, this despite alot of whistleblowers saying what needs to be said. Rate of infection only goes down if testing is thorough, this is something everyone knows now. Will have to get addressed by our new socialist government at some point soon one would hope.
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Yeah, state of hospitals rn is a scandal, this despite alot of whistleblowers saying what needs to be said. Rate of infection only goes down if testing is thorough, this is something everyone knows now. Will have to get addressed by our new socialist government at some point soon one would hope.
IdleRich
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I get that - Trump keeps lying about the test's availability and so on... but presumably they can count deaths without the test, or are they being misattributed and just recorded as random deaths? In which case Trump's attempts to massage the figures is arguably working at this stage.
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I got a friend who had a baby last week here in Portugal, also another friend in Kenya who had a baby about a month back. I was saying that many years from now people will talk about them being born in the time of the great virus... and then I said, at least I hope so, I hope it won't be "the time of the first great virus" or "the small virus before the bad one or whatever".
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The "upside" of this might be that it's put us on alert (properly) about a pandemic, without being as devastating as it could have been. So we're at least more prepared for something much worse.
Strange to think there will inevitably come a day when there's no upside whatsoever and the human race is absolutely done for.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Have you seen this thing about Senator Burr? On the same day in Feb that Trump was telling the world that the virus was a hoax and that it would soon vanish, Republican Burr was telling a load of important businessmen that they knew it was going to be very serious...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...avirus-recording-audio-1918-flu-a9411706.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...avirus-recording-audio-1918-flu-a9411706.html
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Coronavirus: Knottingley food bank closes after raid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51964828
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51964828
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Especially as Boris announced today that the virus will be beaten in the UK within 12 weeks. How can it be so blatant that they say it's done in twelve weeks but need extra powers for two years to deal with it?
Of course we know 12 weeks is a lie but can't they even make their lies consistent?
IdleRich
IdleRich
In Portugal the National State of Emergency is for two weeks... that's the longest it can be put in place for in one go to protect democracy from any party who might seek to use it to increase their powers and erode the checks and balances that would normally be there. This crisis is really allowing new democracies (eg Portugal, established 1974 I assume) to humiliatingly reveal the deficiencies in those such as UK and the US which have always liked to think that they have the best version of the concept.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
gotta take yr laughs where you can these days
Elgin-area strip club tried to operate during coronavirus "but nobody showed up"
Elgin-area strip club tried to operate during coronavirus "but nobody showed up"
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
mayor just held press conference to address Chicago's coronavirus response. much speculation that she would order the city into a shelter in place lockdown.
instead she...issued a "stay at home if you're feeling sick" order with unspecified "consequences" if disobeyed
tbf she also announced various concrete economic measures to help people/business effected, freeze on foreclosures (tho not mortages/rent), etc
but like, what the fuck are we doing here? why are we delaying the inevitable? 4400+ new cases in U.S. today (134 in Illinois). every time I refresh Worldometers it's gone up a couple hundred. deaths still (relatively) low, but that'll change, obviously.
instead she...issued a "stay at home if you're feeling sick" order with unspecified "consequences" if disobeyed
tbf she also announced various concrete economic measures to help people/business effected, freeze on foreclosures (tho not mortages/rent), etc
but like, what the fuck are we doing here? why are we delaying the inevitable? 4400+ new cases in U.S. today (134 in Illinois). every time I refresh Worldometers it's gone up a couple hundred. deaths still (relatively) low, but that'll change, obviously.
You would think, but apparently China splurged a load of money on an early warning system following SARs... but then no one used it for COVID-19 because it did them no favours to stick their neck out and flag what was happening.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soc...-did-chinas-multimillion-dollar-early-warning
Although that said the experience with SARs has obviously made places like Taiwan much better prepared. The Chinese political system presents its own incentives though.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
he's absolutely doing the right thing. as always, it should have been done much sooner, but we can't waste any more time.
I imagine him/his people are seeing New York right now - which is set to be the Lombardy of the U.S. - and thinking we have to do whatever we can to get ahead of that.
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