BBC: China pneumonia outbreak: COVID-19 Global Pandemic

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7 hours ago, Destino said:

The media coverage certainly deemphasized their coverage of the corona virus for a few weeks.  They even switched the sentiment of mass gatherings from “irresponsible” to “brave“.  

The media has definitely been bringing it up plenty online and has been gong on about people not wearing masks at social gathering a lot.

 

 That said, overall the media will go along with the public and most of the country has been reopening the past few weeks and moved on from paying attention to the virus, though we’ve seen many people still wearing masks, especially young people.  

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[TradeTheBeal!]

Saturday night in Nashville at Kid Rock’s bar.  Don’t fall for the BLM march/COVID uptick hype.

 

 

[NickyJ]

There are three things that stand out to me from that picture. 1 They're stupid. 2 There are more people wearing their hats backwards than forwards. 3. I repeated myself.

[Renegade7]

Heads up.

 

Don't assume you got COVID just because at some point you were extremely sick in the last 6-7 months like I was.

 

Got my antibody results via text, whatever test that actually was, it came back negative.  Means a couple things, like maybe my body didn't need to make enough antibodies to deal with it or I never got it, I don't know.

 

So default position is I didn't, that makes me feel better then I got it and my antibodies are now gone or too low to matter (the rumors of getting it twice aren't squashed yet).

Edited June 14, 2020 by Renegade7

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[Califan007 The Constipated]

2 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said:

Saturday night in Nashville at Kid Rock’s bar.  Don’t fall for the BLM march/COVID uptick hype.

 

 

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'I have no idea what it is you're trying to say here...

[TradeTheBeal!]

5 minutes ago, Califan007 said:

 

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'I have no idea what it is you're trying to say here...

 

That Tennessee’s numbers are gonna spike and it ain’t all from protest marches...as some (not ESers) have implied.

 

That bar looks like a massive super-spreader event to me.

[Hooper]

I fear things are just getting started. I was hoping cases would plummet during the summer months, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. And once we get to fall? My goodness. 
 

Oddly enough, I was supposed to go to Fiji in August. Before I could cancel the trip, AIr Fiji did it for me — no flights from US are allowed. Now through August for the time being. I suspect all international travel may be off the table for Americans at some point, since it looks like we will continue to be the hot spot. 
 

 

 

Edited June 14, 2020 by Hooper

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[TradeTheBeal!]

Baha Mar in Nassau had announced their reopening for July 15th.  Yesterday, they moved it to October at the earliest.

 

70% of their business is American tourists.  I think that says a lot about how the Bahamas feels about the situation in the US going forward.

[China]

Who needs a nasal swab.  Just get one of these dogs to sniff you:

 

Dogs Trained to Sniff Out COVID-19 Score Near-Perfect in Diagnosis of Human Sweat Samples

 

Does sweat from someone infected with COVID-19 have a unique scent? Researchers in Paris, and elsewhere, believe it does—and we now know dogs can sniff it out.

 

A new study from researchers at the national veterinary school in Alfort, outside Paris trained 8 Belgian Malinois shepherds to identify the smell of COVID-19 in the sweat of infected individuals.

 

The dogs’ overall success rate was near-perfect, correctly guessing an average of 95% of samples. Four dogs successfully identified a positive COVID sweat sample 100% of the time.

 

Many of the countries which have had the greatest success maintaining low numbers of Covid case numbers have done so with widespread use of testing. Using dogs, according to the scientists, would greatly increase the speed at which people could be tested, and they resolved to move forward with subsequent studies in case of resurgent numbers as lockdowns throughout the Northern Hemisphere end.

 

Click on the link for the full article

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[Simmsy]

4 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said:

That bar looks like a massive super-spreader event to me.

Yeah, of herpes.

[China]

The Virus Will Win

 

A second wave of the coronavirus is on the way. When it arrives, we will lack the will to deal with it. Despite all the sacrifices of the past months, the virus is likely to win—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it already has.

 

In absolute terms, the United States has been hit harder than any other country. About a quarter of worldwide deaths have been recorded on these shores. And while the virus is no longer growing at an exponential rate, the threat it poses remains significant: According to a forecasting model by Morgan Stanley, the number of American cases will, if current trends hold, roughly double over the next two months.

 

But neither the impact of mass protests over police brutality nor the effect of the recent reopening of much of the country—including the casinos in Las Vegas—is reflected in the latest numbers. It can take at least 10 days for people to develop symptoms and seek out a test, and for the results to be aggregated and disseminated by public-health authorities.

 

Even so, the disease is slowly starting to recede from the public’s attention. After months of dominating media coverage, COVID-19 has largely disappeared from the front pages of most national newspapers. In recent polls, the number of people who favor “reopening the economy as soon as possible” over “staying home as long as necessary” has increased. And so it is perhaps no surprise that even states where the number of new infections stands at an all-time high are pressing ahead with plans to lift many restrictions on businesses and mass gatherings.

 

When the first wave of COVID-19 was threatening to overwhelm the medical system, back in March, the public’s fear and uncertainty were far more intense than they are now. So was the reason to hope that some magic bullet might rescue us from the worst ravages of the disease.

 

At this point, such hopes look unrealistic. After months of intense research, an effective treatment for COVID-19 still does not exist. A vaccine is, even if we get lucky, many months away from deployment. Because the virus is spreading especially rapidly in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, from Latin America to Africa, heat is clearly no impediment to its dissemination.

 

Perhaps most important, it is now difficult to imagine that anybody could muster the political will to impose a full-scale lockdown for a second time. As one poll in Pennsylvania found, nearly nine out of 10 Republicans trusted “the information you hear about coronavirus from medical experts” back in April. Now just about one in three does. With public opinion more polarized than it was a few months ago, and the presidential election looming, any attempt to deal with a resurgence of the virus is likely to be even more haphazard, contentious, and ineffective than it was the first time around.

 

Click on the link for the full article

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[Califan007 The Constipated]

8 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said:

 

That Tennessee’s numbers are gonna spike and it ain’t all from protest marches...as some (not ESers) have implied.

 

That bar looks like a massive super-spreader event to me.

 

 

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[Hersh]

We are so ****ed. It's a shame so many people just don't give a **** about life. 

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[Mr. Sinister]

2 hours ago, Hersh said:

We are so ****ed. It's a shame so many people just don't give a **** about life. 

 

Back in my ****tier and more cynical days, I used to vehemently disagree with people who had a better outlook on humans overall than I did.

 

I mean there's plenty of places to look if you want pure evil, but the real debilitating ****er is ignorance/indifference, with a smile on one's face.

 

People are awful. They truly are. My cousin died trying to help them, and he was better than I am. The way I see it, we're all on our own.

 

The time for pleading, understanding,  etc is over. If you want to die, then die.

Edited June 15, 2020 by Mr. Sinister

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