Coronavirus

Said what?

You really can’t make this stuff up. I’d start paying membership fees if they could guarantee this sort of commentary once a week. Moon landing denial next?

Global Tally of Known Cases Passes 10 Million

Nearly 500,000 dead...





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The Lancet’s editor: ‘The UK response to coronavirus is the greatest science policy failure for a generation’

Andrew Anthony, The Guardian, 14/06/2020

[...] The Covid-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again is a short polemical book, building on a series of excoriating columns Horton has written in the Lancet over the past few months. He lambasts the management of the virus as “the greatest science policy failure for a generation”, attacks the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) for becoming “the public relations wing of a government that had failed its people”, calls out the medical Royal Colleges, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Medical Association (BMA) and Public Health England (PHE) for not reinforcing the World Health Organization’s public health emergency warning back in February, and damns the UK’s response as “slow, complacent and flat-footed”, revealing a “glaringly unprepared” government and a “broken system of obsequious politico-scientific complicity”. [...]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/14/the-lancets-editor-the-uk-response-to-coronavirus-is-the-greatest-science-policy-failure-for-a-generation

Coronavirus: Swift and dangerous turn in Texas cases, says governor

A load of horse diarrhea. We have been in a steady upward curve from the beginning and have never slowed it down in much of Texas.

I think Mr Trump has indicted himself . His hands off policy these last few time units clearly show that his lack of leadership has been pretty much a contributing factor of the "Spikes" and some continuous rises in infection that have occurred in the states whose governors have confused his boneheaded self-dealing for leadership.

His belittling of "testing" is but one example of his only focus (which is the election).


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Black people are among the most dying. Trump likely doesn't mind.

"They", you mean both the interviewed Lancet editor and the interviewer or what other persons?

This is about the UK response.

Meanwhile as places in the U.S. open up for business, it might be wise to take a look at what is happening in South Africa. The numbers are on the rise again.

www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2020-06-28/south-africas-surge-of-virus-cases-expected-to-rise-rapidly

We live in Orange County. There is a new milestone in LA County.
Largest one day total of 2903 new positive cases! Bringing the total to over 100,000 total in that county!

people think everything's hunky-dory now.

the 'rona hasn't just magically disappeared.

in fact, it's thriving again precisely because people have stopped being careful...

A study from Goldman Sachs found a national face mask policy could protect the economy from a 5% hit due to surging COVID19.



Think anyone in Washington will listen to them?

Serious question. Is anyone in the US really looking at the infection rate and your health system? The US now has 1 454 397 active cases, with infection rates accelerating. The last 5 days has seen the highest number of new infections thus far recorded. Hospitalisation is required in approximately 20% of all cases. The US has a shade under 1 million hospital beds. Simple logic says that if you reach 5 million active cases, your health system simply stops working. Or maybe it's just all a left wing conspiracy.

were in a gridlock because of a major leadership vacuum . Sveral states have yielded to doofus pressure and are now seeing major reinfections creeping up and up. Its really a dangerous time since so many people are exercising their "Constitutional right to be totally stupid" and are thereby infecting others by not keeping distances or are not wearing face shields and are just pushing their luck. Around here we have idiots driving around in pickups with Confederate flags and MAGA stickers and actually picking fights with people who are trying to follow good science.

It looks like the beginning of an "Interesting time"

The real answer is kind of. The US doesn't have one health system, it has 50 major systems and within those dozens of county based systems. Are some of those states looking at the numbers and using them? Yes. There is a thread about Massachusetts for example. Are there states actively ignoring/falsifying the numbers? Yes, Florida for example fired the person in charge of the numbers for not agreeing to fudge them. The current schizophrenia is related to the lack of a central authority and central leadership. You have mayors fighting with governors and statehouses overturning policies coming from county seats.

After weeks of lockdown, sex workers are allowed to offer their services in Austria again as of today. Among other things, the Federal Ministry of Health recommends:
- Physical contact should be limited to what is necessary.
- Kissing and any form of saliva exchange as well as sex positions facing each other should be avoided.
- Disposable or fabric mouth and nose protectors should be worn by both sex workers and clients.
- Masks, towels and mattress covers should be washed hot after each contact.
- Contact is only recommended between two people, group sex is not recommended.

that leaves a lot to the imagination...

Oh oh...