Coronavirus
- Started
- Last post
- 6,418 Responses
- Morning_star0
You can thank Massive Attack for this particular insight.
UK Freedom Movement was registered at Companies house 2 weeks ago by sole director Jayda Fransen. She’s the deputy leader of Britain First.
- Krassy4
Russia: "hold my
- Krassy
- willy?Nairn
- beerKrassy
- err, *vodkaKrassy
- matryoshka"!********
- kalashnikovmoldero
- grenade********
- journalist out the windowfuturefood
- It Mother Russia, you hold Mother Russia's beer.elahon
- lol@ futurefood!sarahfailin
- ... dirt on trumpBluejam
- Krassy3
Spain, Italy, France and Germany seem to have flattened the curve. Let's hope no second wave and herd immunity is next.
- A study just released in Spain suggests around 5% of the population has antibodies, although varies greatly by region. That's a long way from herd immunity.yuekit
- how was this "study" conducted?Krassy
- was 100% of the population tested for antibodies and 5% have it? or was 6% of the population tested and 5% of those have it? ;-)Krassy
- I'm sure it was more like the second scenario...you can read about it hereyuekit
- https://www.reddit.c…yuekit
- We did a test here for 1000 random people, just around 2% have antibodies. We just stayed all in house...********
- herd immunity will take years :/********
- A lot of experts seem to think 70-90% required for herd immunity although this is debated.yuekit
- But if you take those numbers at face value Spain would have to go through the same epidemic/deaths 13-17 more times to get to immunity.yuekit
- no country will reach herd immunity, a vaccine will come before that (my opinion)Bennn
- @grafician did you, personally, get tested?Krassy
- Maybe before the vaccine, they will get so good treating it that the death rate goes down drastically.yuekit
- Herd immunity can’t happen until people start to herd together, againGnash
- @Krassy nope, it was just in the news, we're coming out of lockdown tomorrow and going into "Alert state" on Monday I think...********
- we're also opening barbershops, museums, no big gatherings tho' and limited travel between cities, but we can go anywhere in the city. 245 new cases...********
- in Spain the past 3 days the amount of deaths have been increasing again, not at an alarming rate but evidently due to the effect of relaxing the lockdownernexbcn
- we are allowed to go out for walks, exercise now and I did it just once and people just simply don't give a fuck, they don't avoid getting closeernexbcn
- I found it way too stressing going out and paying attention to who is coming close fuck this I will take a walk at midnighternexbcn
- Any increase recently can't be due to a change in behaviour three days ago, no?Nairn
- yes Ernesto, here in the Basque Country we're doing it with a bit more of discipline, but now and then, you can see some groups who still don't give a fuck...OBBTKN
- And again... the politicians are giving a sad show, i n c r e d i b l eOBBTKN
- I suspect it's better overall for people to be able to go outside in the sun *and still maintain social distancing* rather than couped up at home for weeksNairn
- The sad fact is, we should probably have everyone 55 and under out and about, and everyone over that incarcerated for the next year. Can't do that though.Nairn
- *fact = not fact; opinion of mine.
haha.Nairn - Not to get all Trump, but I think most people seriously underestimate the mountain of fuck that we're facing economically.Nairn
- Which is to say, I'd suggest there's a good reason to push for expansion of social and economic freedoms so that we push the herd immunity % up.Nairn
- My neighbour here in Madrid was tested, I wasn't though. We both had the virus.Chimp
- In Spain most people can only go out from 8pm which causes a mad rush. The parks in Madrid were also closed until recently.Chimp
- @Chimp hope you're well? is your immune system fighting it?Krassy
- @ernex, aunque en un escenario muy diferente, percibo una similar actitud en el gobierno de Uruguay. Me molesta MUCHO. Más aún pudiendo ver cifras de otros paísmaquito
- There is no such thing as herd immunity. This bug is a total question mark. It’s almost as if it’s goal is that everyone catches itmaquito
- If there's anything less than 100% mortality rate and antibodies stay for any amount of time, then there can be herd immunity. To what degree, is a diff. quest.Nairn
- At the moment it's looking like antibodies linger around for at least 3 months (which is all we can really tell at this stage, given the timeline)Nairn
- OBBTKN5
- why in sweet fuck did she put his name there?
*twitchesNairn - she is only addressing individuals named oscar wildeimbecile
- :D********
- Karencannonball1978
- why in sweet fuck did she put his name there?
- Krassy2
Loud speech can leave coronavirus in air for up to 14 minutes
- Nairn6
LOUD SPEECH CAN LEAVE CORONAVIRUS IN AIR FOR UP TO 14 MINUTES
- Fucking commis chefs.Nairn
- RIP QBNyuekit
- another nail in coffin of the British summer holiday abroad.Fax_Benson
- @yuekit LOLKrassy
- this post gave me Coronaviruscapn_ron
- tone down the all caps or you'll kill us allsarahfailin
- choir practice, anyone?jaylarson
- bis scienceapi
- C C C C C C H H H H H H
A A A A A A A A A A AA A A
Y Y Y Y YY Y YY Y Y N N N N N
N N N A A A A A A A A!utopian - lol these commentssrhadden
- ayport0
Doesn’t ‘flattening the curve’ mean hospitals won’t be overwhelmed? I’m a tad lost as to how it’s be considered a measure for allowing public outings. What am I missing?
- ?Krassy
- nothing, you're completely right
it's just a fuckup in the communication, again.******** - tax revenue! is all that matters to these county officialsimbecile
- Yes. It has mostly to do with hospitals handling the fatal cases.monospaced
- if a hospital can handle, say 100 patients coming into the ER a day, and you send in 10,000 (because 10k people got infected by not social distancing) ...Krassy
- ... then you'll have 9,900 people dying in front of the hospital. Does that make sense?Krassy
- ^ That’s what I was think would happen. It’s strange how this is playing out. Not that I have pandemic experience, but it seems people wouldn’t want to get sickayport
- the dopamine spike of consumerism feels too goodimbecile
- Holy crap at my poor typing skills.ayport
- utopian3
Republican Richard Burr Senator United States Senator from North Carolina steps down as Intelligence chairman amid FBI probe over stock sales.
The North Carolina Republican faced calls to resign after he reportedly warned donors privately of the dire impact of the pandemic in February while selling off up to $1.6 million in stocks.
- Well this shoots a hole in the idea that "no one could have known"yuekit
- He and other people in Congress sold stocks in mid February. Remember it was the end of March before the Trump admin bothered to order medical suppliesyuekit
- It's called Capitalism...look it up!utopian
- The guy who wants to investigate Hunter Biden just got his celphone seized by the FBI. Classic republican!zarkonite
- thanks obama.neverscared
- monospaced0
California has had fewer deaths in total than New York has each day still.
- Breathing a masked sigh of relief in California.shellie
- California is spread out and people live in houses and low apartment buildings; in NY people live in tall buildings in densely populated areas.Krassy
- It could be that California got a milder strain of the virus. Washington, my state, was the first to get hit and had nowhere near the deaths of New York.yuekit
- there's also a theory that CA has developed greater levels of herd immunityKrassy
- New York is a hub for travel from Europe so that may have been a key factor. Also far more dense as you mentioned.yuekit
- It could be that all these minor differences in demographics, density, climate have a big multiplier effect.yuekit
- Kind of like if you try to start a fire in the rain it will fizzle out...but start one in the heat and it can burn a whole forest down.yuekit
- Hold on! I’m not asking as to WHY. I’m not confused. This is a commentary on reactions to the crisis and differently levels of fear.monospaced
- We all know why they are higher in New York. Countless obvious reasons. It’s just an observation because I have immediate family in California.monospaced
- Also Krassy, most of New York is spread out more than California. You’re thinking of nyc and that isn’t the whole state. Just sayin.monospaced
- I feel that there is a slight overreaction in certain California counties when all things are considered. That’s all.monospaced
- @monospaced ah OK OK, we're all on the same page :)Krassy
- lol mono.Fax_Benson
- A couple other factors: a younger and healthier population, more access to the sun and generally warner climate.utopian
- Also it never had a major outbreak to begin with. It saw what happened in NY and was able to respond.monospaced
- Also, in LA county everyone is still wearing masks outside. On walks, running, on bikes. Masks are everywhere.FNP14
- Which underscored my point. California is acting like the virus is rampant when in fact its probably pretty scarce.monospaced
- It's all relative, many countries did weeks-long lockdowns with only a few thousand cases.yuekit
- monospaced0
Oh Wisconsin....hope that fernet shot was worth it last night. We needed a guinea pig state and I guess you have raised your hand...thanks??
- This is going to be very interesting.R_Kercz
- WI resident. I'll keep you posted.aslip
- what happened in Wisconsin?Krassy
- Their supreme court decided that the government is not allowed to extend stay-at-home orders. These morons didn't even consult a single expert...zarkonite
- You watch...they’ll reduce testing so their numbers stay lower and will attribute deaths to global warming.BusterBoy
- NBQ001
- RONA19********
- or RNA19********
- hipsters gonna hipKrassy
- American Apparel?yuekit
- cabRONArobotron3k
- RONA19
- Bluejam5
- https://vignette.wik…********
- Yes Karen...yes it is.BusterBoy
- no but don't be surprised if your life is cancelled insteaddorf
- https://vignette.wik…
- stoplying0
My neighbor who's been out of work for over a year is now trying to start a t-shirt hero campaign. The idea is kids draw/write on a plain white tee and pay my neighbor $15. He keeps a portion of the money, and then will deliver the shirts to a local hospital for nurses and doctors to wear. I applaud his initiative but...
Over the weekend he started manically going door to door in my neighborhood talking a million miles a minute - seeming like he was on speed of some variety. And got some takers, but mostly people were freaked out by him. He approached my wife and I and was such a pain in the ass talking about how therapeutic art can be for kids and being cooped up in the house, blah blah blah. He had a "sample" shirt that he "designed" and I swear it looked like a 5 year old scrawled all over it. Plus he had a chicken scratch pamphlet about quantities that I couldn't read because it was so messy.
Monday my family gets ready for our afternoon walk and he pulls up and aggressively asks my wife "you guys doing the shirts or what???"
Then yesterday he asks me if I can take photos and videos of my boys designing a shirt and use their images on his website. I say no for obvious reasons and then he goes on again about therapeutic, stuck in the house, good for kids. I stop him and tell him he's been coming on really fucking strong and if we decide to do something, we'll come to him. He apologized awkwardly and walked away.
I feel bad and want to help him, but he's obviously on something and who knows how much of the money he's going to keep for himself. So we're going to have the boys design some shirts and I'll take some close ups (no faces) and let him use them on his site.
Being his neighbor, I can't have awkwardness from here on out, so it's a price to pay for peace in the hood.- he's trying to benefit & profit off the crisis. Lame AF!Krassy
- Good on you for telling him he's being too extra...robotron3k
- You did the right thing.webazoot
- You stepped in it now, this is just the beginning. He's going to start increasing his asks to you.zarkonite
- Claiming millions of people simply doing their paid job duties as heroes devalues those who undertake exceptional acts of instinctual, life-threatening bravery********
- ^Krassy
- those who undertake exceptional acts of instinctual, life-threatening bravery are people simply doing their paid job dutiesimbecile
- ^Krassy
- PhanLo5
Cardboard beds that double as a coffin if the patient dies.
- webazoot1
More than a quarter of NHS patients who died in hospitals in England after contracting coronavirus had diabetes, figures show.
Of the 22,332 patients who have died in England's hospitals since March 31, when pre-existing conditions began to be recorded, some 5,873 (26%) had diabetes.
Published on Thursday, it is the first time NHS England has included a breakdown of deaths by pre-existing conditions in its statistics.
- yup, if your system in already tax, C19 comes to collect. there were also reports of vitamin D deficiency of some sort, not getting out or getting sun.robotron3k
- What about the otherinstrmntl
- In NYC 83% of the deaths were retired as well...robotron3k
- sarahfailin-2
Wall Street JournalMexico’s drug cartels are in a war for the hearts and minds of poor Mexicans, providing them with food and supplies as they struggle to survive the economic meltdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Since the coronavirus struck Mexico, a plethora of videos and photographs uploaded to social media have shown what appear to be cartel operatives in about a dozen states handing out food packages marked with the logos of the different criminal groups to lines of Mexicans. In some cases the videos show the food being distributed by heavily armed men, driving in military-style trucks with cartel markings.
Drug traffickers-turned-philanthropis... are just the latest challenge posed by powerful organized crime groups to Mexico’s government and the rule of law. Already, cartels and criminal gangs extort businesses large and small throughout the country, creating an informal parallel tax system and discouraging local and foreign investment.
- interestingly this pic has gone viral saying "daughter of el chapo distributing aid" ...the identity of the woman pictured is not actually known.sarahfailin
- the daughter is giving the aid to the girl in maskzaq
- the daughter is taking the box from the woman on the groundKrassy
- FILE PHOTO: An employee of the clothing brand "El Chapo 701,"********
- wned by Alejandrina Gisselle Guzman, daughter of the convicted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman,********
- hands out a box with food, face masks and hand sanitizers to an elderly woman********
- as part of a campaign to help cash-strapped elderly people during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak,********
- in Guadalajara, Mexico, April 16, 2020. REUTERS/Fernando Carranza********
- ^huh. wonder why WSJ didn't include that info in the photo citation.sarahfailin
- During the crisis in Greece, the nazi fuck-heads - golden dawn - did the same kind of thing. The mafia in Italy, tooGnash
- @sarahfailin because WSJ has different deal with reuters photouan
- MX gov isn't doing anything to help besides locking everyone down, theres no "work from home" in Mexico. regardless of the cartels motives the people need toeatmoldero
- if lock down lasts another 2 months down here, people will have no choice but to start raiding other peoples homes for foodmoldero
- Grocery stores not an option?monospaced
