2019-nCoV Coronovirus (COVID-19]

Get your facts straight, lode: only mouthcaps are obligatory. Pants in Texas, are you crazy!

Anyway, in seriousness: why you feel it is time? Because people can't handle it anymore or because the curve is flattened/hospitals & healthcare personnel have enough breathing space (again. Not sure how bad it got in Texas. Did they hit the proverbial roof at certain hospitals?).

 

Yeah, it's been on the decline for the past 17 days.

TMA pleased Texas hospitals need reserve only 15% capacity for COVID-19 patients

There will obviously be a spike after we relax stay-at-home, but again, there has never been any strategy but herd immunity once there is community spread.

I do wish the nation had better testing in place before we started this to increase the targeted clamp downs where they are needed.

 

According to CDC reports— 2020 is working out to be the lowest flu death season of the decade.
20,000 flu deaths took place before Covid-19 in January, and then only 4,000 deaths thereafter.
To give you context: 60,000 Americans died of the flu in 2019.

It’s a miracle!

 

That's one thing your country shares with most others.

Isn't the herd immunity strategy uncertain in the first place? Like i also saw it asserted that 'we' (countries like Australia, US and the Netherlands i assume for now) blew our chance on herd immunity by locking down. I say: it's uncertain how viable that chance was. And also, why is it gone now altogether? Because it may spread slower but still to the far majority of people.

 

Coronavirus hype biggest political hoax in history

 

Aurora woman stole and pawned ring, used credit cards of woman who died of COVID-19, prosecutors say
Not unusual..

 

Even the animals are wondering why we don't leave our houses!

 

Because there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and irrational, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph.
Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. ...

 

Fuck me dead, here we are at the end of April, and somewhere like India, their death rate is still a "mystery"

Derrrrr, because it's hot and there aren't many really old people derrrrr

The 'mystery' of India's low Covid-19 death rate

"India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates


The global media reports are a mixture of relief and bafflement.

They talk about the "mystery behind India's lower death rates" from the Covid-19 infection, and say that India is "bucking the coronavirus trend". One talks about the "Indian exception as death rates in major Indian cities are lower compared to global coronavirus hotspots".

Nearly two months after its first recorded case, Covid-19 infections in the world's second-most populous country have passed 27,000, with more than 800 deaths.

One way to understand the death rate is to track how many days it takes for total deaths to double.

In India, this is currently at nine days - there were 825 confirmed deaths on 25 April, compared to about half or so of that number on 16 April.

Experts say that's good news. The doubling time for deaths in New York at the same stage of the pandemic was only two or three days, they say.

Many public health professionals and doctors say India's grinding lockdown, which has lasted more than a month, could have kept infection and deaths in check."

???

 

let the hunger games begin

 

So the WHO and epidimiologists aren't saying so yet. Their field requires precision, where my guy commenting on a purple forum requires a bit less:

But there is certainly immune response or every infected person would die. While there are anecdotal stories about possibility of reinfection, it's not certain yet. SARS-COV-2 will certainly act like a coronavirus, a common cold. You'll become immune to it, but it will mutate rapidly enough where you could become infected again in the same season.

But this second infection should be minor. I believe an immunization is a fantasy at this point.

We need to look into scaling up testing and treatments to increase survival of the sickest patients, reopen slowly so we can clamp down where needed do we don't overwhelm hospital capacity, and be realistic about our chances of getting this thing... Almost certainly.

 

Wuhan lab ‘most likely’ coronavirus source, U.S. government analysis finds

A Wuhan laboratory is the “most likely” source of the COVID-19 outbreak now ravaging the globe, according to a U.S. government analysis that catalogs the evidence and concludes that other explanations for the origin of the coronavirus are less credible.

The document, compiled from open sources and not a finished product, says there is no smoking gun to blame the virus on either the Wuhan Institute of Virology or the Wuhan branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, both located in the city where the first outbreaks were reported.

But “there is circumstantial evidence to suggest such may be the case,” the paper says.

“All other possible places of the virus’s origin have been proven to be highly unlikely,” the document concludes.

 

Wu Ping Cough

 

Looks like people keep reposting it anyway

This was put up 3 hours ago

 

Told y'all that since the beginning. Government created. Now that Aziz is starting to make more sense eh? All we wait for now is every economy to collapse and all a sudden countries will have no option but to trade with them again on a huge scale, no matter how many Facebook users repost the "by nation made products".