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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

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  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  The term "cautious optimism" best describes the present situation regarding the anti-viral drug Remdesiver. As its manufacturer, Gilead Sciences, is emphasising:

  "The totality of the data need to be analyzed in order to draw any conclusions from the trial. Anecdotal reports, while encouraging, do not provide the statistical power necessary to determine the safety and efficacy profile of remdesivir as a treatment for Covid-19," Gilead said.
  

  Amongst the better news on the COVID-19 front is that this drug is one of a number currently being trialled. Should Remdesiver not live up to promise, the fight to develop an effective COVID-19 treatment is far from over.
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  Rivergang

  you might think the world over-reacted based on false data and wonky models that were just wrong.
  

  Crystal ball gazing definitely tends towards being a black art, rather than a precise science!

  However, in a crisis such as this, one has to start somewhere.

  Declaring that "She'll Be Right, Mate" just because we cannot be 100% sure - and using that as an excuse for doing nothing - is NOT an option.
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  China where it started ,83,000 / USA now <400,000 How come ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  am i missing something here ?

  how is it that where this covid 19 started , in wuhan china, china has only ,reportedly 83,000 for the whole country ?

  whereas in the united states of america the figure is just under 400,000 ?.

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  Who is John Martin?
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  China where it started ,83,000 / USA now <400,000 How come ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  am i missing something here ?

  how is it that where this covid 19 started , in wuhan china, china has only ,reportedly 83,000 for the whole country ?

  whereas in the united states of america the figure is just under 400,000 ?.

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  Head of WHO is an Ethiopean communist.
  

  
  

  What evidence do you have that the Director General of the World Health Organisation is a "communist"?
  Ethiopia abandoned communism nearly 30 years ago, whereas Dr. Tedros Adhanom served as a cabinet minister between the years 2005 and 2016, long after the fall of communism. Furthermore, his political party (known as the TPLF) is the name given to the coalition group which, in May of 1991, overthrew the communist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam.

  Even if Tedros Adhanom was an "Ethiopian communist", that wouldn't necessarily make him kindly disposed towards China. During its time of communist rule (1974 - 1991), Ethiopia was closely allied to the Soviet Union, not China. (Despite both countries having a communist form of government, the USSR was almost as anti-China as the West ever was).

  
  
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  Covid 19 is a chance to dump 1914

  by hoser in

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  as the jws regroup after being in isolation it would be an ideal time to say the last days started in 2014. the territory will be ripe with people whose lives have been turned upside down.

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  After all, what is +/- a hundred years between friends!
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  My D.I.L. Works in a Pharmacy and gets abused by stupid people.

  by smiddy3 in

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  hi friends ,my d.i.l.

  works in a pharmacy and looks after people who needs prescriptions and advice on health care products that patrons need .and the sad thing is with this covid19 virus seems to be bringing out the worst in too many people as more often than not she is getting abused and challenged for wearing what she and her workmates have to keep themselves and the public free from this virus.. there are notices all around the store telling people that they are out of certain items and cant supply them such as hand sanitizers ,face masks ,gloves ,personal disinfectant wipes etc,etc.and she gets abused because she has gloves on ,has a face mask on ,and has hand sanitizer that she can use and the customer says something like you have it why cant i get it ?.

  in an abusive and challenging way and its getting her down.. she is getting tired of trying to tell the public she is their to help them and if she and her co-workers get sick the shop will close and nobody will get the help they need.. also they don`t respect the distance they need to keep from each other they lean over the counter with there hands touching everything trying to get in her face complaining.not only do they not appreciate they should only be in the store to get what they need and then get out ,they just treat it like any other normal day and browse around the shop picking up any and everything then putting it down again and buying items that are not necessary for their day to day existence .. i feel very sorry for her and all of the people doing like minded work , who are suffering under the same stress needlessly by unthinking uncaring people .. i just want to add she is a beautiful young lady who has a lovely caring personality and its a shame that she and others in her profession are subjected to this form of abuse.. note : this is happening in regional victoria australia.

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  The reception area in the Emergency Department of our local hospital has long displayed a prominent warning sign, to the effect that "Physical or Verbal Abuse" of hospital staff will not be tolerated. Likewise, there has always been similar signage at most of the doctor's clinics around the district (long before the COVID-19 virus was ever heard off).

  My brother in law was a long-serving paramedic in the ambulance service, and spoke of how he and other ambulance officers often physically attacked while at work. The problem was so widespread that one of the pre-requisites for being an ambulance officer was described as being both physically robust, together with a definite mental hardness. Although he, in many ways, fitted the bill (particularly as a former rugby union player), the stress finally drove this person to drink. In order to help break his addiction to alcohol, my BIL had to get himself transferred onto less stressful work.

  Why anybody would abuse others who are only trying to help them is completely beyond me!
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  Put the Blame Where it Belongs

  by cofty in

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  Rivergang

  Slightly off-topic, but I can't but have a quiet chuckle as to the irony of it all.

  Our family has south-East Asian connections, and I have been the butt of many a snide remark about what unhygienic b@$t@rd$ us white people are. Now I see it for what that really is, Asians trying to out-do Europeans about being Europeans!
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  What SHOULD have woken you up ?

  by Phizzy in

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  for myself, there is an embarrassingly long list of things that really should really have woken me up, fully.

  it was a long process for me, as a mind controlled born in, things i simply did not agree with, or knew were downright wrong, that built and built, and, eventually i woke up, after 58 bloody years in !.

  but just mainly for fun, what should have woken you up ?.

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  I identify with those who say that the penny should have dropped after the 1975 fiasco. Something about "hope springs eternal", I guess!
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  Guns and ammo selling out fast

  by JimmyYoung in

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  i went to my local walmart today and most of the can goods and frozen foods were sold out.

  i did a web search from where i buy ammo from, lucky gunner, sg ammo, buds and others.

  bulk ammo is sold out just over night.

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  Not at all surprised.

  Around here, at least, there has been panic buying of just about everything - with toilet paper being up near the top of the list. I guess if one is going to die, it might as well be with a clean backside!
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  That's all there ever was to being a Jehovah's Witness

  by Terry in

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  jehovah's witnesses weren't jehovah's witnesses until 1931.until that year the people who had been hard-headed followers of end times false prophecies by william miller and seventh day adventists, more or less settled into following charisma-ballyhoo preaching by folks like "pastor" c.t.

  russell.what was it that attracts these people?

  it is a thin veneer of pious bible interpretation as a means of prepping for the end of the world.yep.

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  Bullshit that sounds smart is addictive.
  

  Very well put! I must remember that line.