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  • NBQ002

    And new UK Lockdown coming.

    • It was expected. The bar in the studios here is absolutely rammed today because people are getting their last chance to booze.Nairn
    • and he is 2 hours 15mins late to his own press conference. deciding strategy with Director Cummings as we type.fadein11
    • they still trying to figure out if to get a cool costume for Halloween or go as himselfgrafician
    • But Boris might show in the "incompetent PM" costumegrafician
  • NBQ007

    • So it is or not?Maaku
    • ok Candace, lead the charge!_niko
    • Did this bitch miss the part where China was welding people's doors shut?mathinc
    • Candace should look at a map, China is hardly the only country that has low number of cases by nowyuekit
    • Imagine you’re the mayor of a region in China and you have tell the Chairman your area has a covid case.... no. They’re not telling anyone and it’s all hidden.shapesalad
    • Fight who?pango
    • S Korea 100 cases yesterday, Australia 13, Thailand 12, Singapore 9, New Zealand 1, Taiwan 1. Is all of that made up too?yuekit
    • Japan isn't too bad either at only 700 cases nationwide. USA only has 2.5 times Japan's population and on the same day they report 100,000 cases.yuekit
    • Communism fascist qbn activated ™ must defend evil at all cost (says utopian)Hayoth
    • no i dont believe china stopped it. the virus is not just in the west. its everywhere.
      so... who we fighting?
      pango
    • Australia had ZERO cases yesterday. 25 million people...with a massive 2nd wave 4 months ago. We fixed it because we’re not all selfish cunts. Only some.BusterBoy
    • Fight back what ? the Chinese for giving us the fucking virus ?
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    • @shapesalad Yes all stats are hidden in China, it's a totalitarian country.
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    • racists fucks. your ability to lay blame without taking responsibility is astoundingimbecile
    • You mean 2.5 times dumber?Maaku
    • this post made me delete tik-tok.
      but I'm not gonna throw out anything hardware with a china sticker on it yet.
      uan
    • Cant believe China stopped the virus.api
    • lol tiktokpango
    • 2 weeks? I was in Lockdown for at least 6 weeks and have been wearing a mask in public since January as have 99% of everyone else, that's how you beat it.Alum31
  • Nairn1

    ffs. if we're under megalockdown here in the UK, I can't go to the kebab place I go to on the way home and order and pay for a chicken doner through the window, before having it passed through a barely-opened door at 2330.

    Fucking Coronafucker.

    • You can. Take-Aways still ok. Mystery meat kebabs are still on for you. I’ll stick to my soy sausage and kale latte.shapesalad
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  • grafician0

    "MEDICINE: The International Council of Nurses claims as many nurses have now died from the coronavirus pandemic as died in World War I."

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  • yuekit0

    Fauci gives a grim assessment of the virus situation in USA and predicts over 100,000 cases per day going forward.

    "All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season...you could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/p…

    • Also says Trump is not talking to any of his public health advisors anymoreyuekit
    • Time to buy all the toilet paper againmoldero
  • utopian0

    #Winning

    #MAGA Red Alert

    • Nearly 100,000 new case is one day. More than doubling the amount of new cases from April when things were really really bad.utopian
    • Dr. Anthony Fauci, painted a grim future in a bombshell interview on COVID-19. “We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation!"utopian
    • Trump should be charged with negligent homicide when he's voted out.BusterBoy
    • Those Canadian dots can’t be accurate can they?
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    • They must be totals for each province combined to one dot per province.
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    • Ugh, this is getting so oldtoemaas
    • Must be provincial, nb. Our big centers are closer to the borderGnash
    • Wouldn’t deaths Be the more significant number ?Gnash
    • pushing a 2%AQUTE
    • But Trump said the Rona’s over, no?NBQ00
    • The dots make it look like a zombie horde at the gates of Canadayuekit
    • history books will read the pres. said - from 15 to zero - moronic overburn on the top political circlesneverscared
  • grafician-1

    JUST IN: World Health Organization chief in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus

    • His name isn't Justin
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    • ^lolMaaku
    • lolutopian
    • Used to be an Aussie radio reporter based in Jakarta...his name was Justin Hale.BusterBoy
  • NBQ002

    But Trump said the Rona's over!

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  • NBQ003

    Trump wants to fire Fauci if he stays president. What a dick. Does he not notice that the US has 100K cases a day currently?

    • he and his people are bashit insane. deplorable. Hillary was right. No redemption for the arrogance and stupidity.tank02
    • He has already stopped listening to Fauci. His new adviser has no background in the field and believes in "herd immunity"yuekit
    • And whether or not he wins, tens of millions of Americans will have voted for that.yuekit
    • trump loves people dying its obvious.neverscared
    • They were all in love with dyin' They were doing it in Texas...jaylarson
    • You guys sound like the followers of Hitler. Delusional, making up your own fax to justify your radical beliefsHayoth
    • Facts!Hayoth
    • Agreed.MondoMorphic
    • What fact is made up, Hayoth? The only radical belief is that the coronavirus is under control, and you're the asshole justifying it.monospaced
    • Unless you're flat out denying the science, which would be no surprise. Most Trump radicals are science denying fucktard idiots, hell bent on reversing progressmonospaced
    • I mean, by your logic, the ENTIRE PLANET besides Trump supporter idiots, are like Hitler's followers. Every scientist on the planet is now a radical? Fuck YOU.monospaced
    • Oh, and if you agree with Hayoth, you're also a delusional moron. Congrats.monospaced
    • Fuck Trump
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    • Who is this Hayoth cuck ass bitch? Fuck off, cunt.
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    • Yet another "hit and run" gibberish comment for HayoMook...our beloved village idiot.utopian
    • hayoth hates the ladies and science... the double moron.neverscared
    • I'm kind of retarded, but that hayschmuck bringing up Hitler can eat a fat, hiv positive dick.
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    • babydick, are you Stewie from Family Guy?NBQ00
    • There's always going to be a "Hayoth" on this site. It doesn't shock me anymore. Much like the crazy guy yelling on the street corner.FNP14
    • Don't blame poor Hayoth, he's been on that corner so long that he's sprouted roots. Couldn't leave if he wanted to.garbage
  • whatthefunk0

    The US director of covid response didn’t know a media source called “Russian Times” was actually Russian.

    • Well that's not really what "foreign agent" means in this context. He's saying he didn't know they were an arm of the Russian government's propaganda machine.
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    • Still.... holy fuck who are these people
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    • That's exactly what foreign agent means, they're legit registered and he had no clue, most don't. That's why countries have orgs register - b/c funded by Russiawhatthefunk
    • Yeah right, no I know. Sorry I thought you meant he didn't know they were from Russia.
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  • neverscared1

    An algorithm developed in the US has correctly identified people with Covid-19 by the sound of their coughs.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technol…

    • Alexa, do I have the Rona?palimpsest
    • "And, for once, I don't see a lot of downside in this." Famous last words!
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    • In the future the algorithm will automatically lock you into your "smart" home.Chimp
  • grafician0

    Slovakia tested most of the country in two days.

    "The European country decided to embark on the gargantuan quest to test everyone over the age of 10 after Covid-19 cases started spiking last month. Dubbed operation "Joint responsibility," the program was the first attempt at large-scale blanket testing in Europe.

    Just over 1% of those taking part tested positive, about 38,359 people in total, according to the official website of the program."

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/…

    "Slovakia managed to test more than 3.6 million people -- two thirds of its population -- in just two days."

    • "Those who tested negative no longer have to comply with the strictest restrictions as long as they can prove their negative status with an official certificategrafician
  • jonny_quest_lives1

    That CNN article has to be algorithmically "edited" for easy consumption....

    Much better article on Slovakia testing...

    not one mention of the logistical issues involved as well as staffing

    Slovakia has begun an ambitious project to test everyone over the age of 10 for Covid-19, but the president has said she thinks the idea is "unfeasible".

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-e…

    • "The reported rate of false negative results is as high as 50%, which is why antigen tests are not favored by the FDA as a single test for active infection'jonny_quest_lives
    • The rapid antigen test was conceived as a way to reduce lab capacity for people exhibiting symptoms as it returns a result at the peak of infection.jonny_quest_lives
    • https://www.nature.c…jonny_quest_lives
    • The White House relied on Rapid Antigen testing as a means of screening people for Covid when meeting the President That didn't work out too well if I recall.jonny_quest_lives
  • drgs2

    I'm starting to believe that Covid has a political nature, rather than a biological one. It's the same politics which are extracted from the tears of a crying black transgender baby on twitter; when human life is way overvalued for its own good. Such is the trend of the last decade.

    In the great trinity of Christianity-Capitalism-Science, which normally counterbalance each other, science and humanism have overtaken every level of discourse.

    But sooner or later the pendulum will swing the opposite way...

    (hint: Trump 2020)

    https://off-guardian.org/2020/10…

    At the session, Dr Michael Ryan, the WHO’s Head of Emergencies revealed that they believe roughly 10% of the world has been infected with Sars-Cov-2. This is their “best estimate”, and a huge increase over the number of officially recognised cases (around 35 million).

    Dr. Margaret Harris, a WHO spokeswoman, later confirmed the figure, stating it was based on the average results of all the broad seroprevalence studies done around the world.

    As much as the WHO were attempting to spin this as a bad thing – Dr Ryan even said it means “the vast majority of the world remains at risk.” – it’s actually good news. And confirms, once more, that the virus is nothing like as deadly as everyone predicted.

    The global population is roughly 7.8 billion people, if 10% have been infected that is 780 million cases. The global death toll currently attributed to Sars-Cov-2 infections is 1,061,539.

    That’s an infection fatality rate of roughly or 0.14%. Right in line with seasonal flu and the predictions of many experts from all around the world.

    0.14% is over 24 times LOWER than the WHO’s “provisional figure” of 3.4% back in March. This figure was used in the models which were used to justify lockdowns and other draconian policies.

    In fact, given the over-reporting of alleged Covid deaths, the IFR is likely even lower than 0.14%, and could show Covid to be much less dangerous than flu.

    • Welcome to think as you wish.shapesalad
    • I personally see no evidence to counter the claim it's leaked from a France+USA funded bio lab in Wuhan. Accidentally. Hushed up by the CCP at first.shapesalad
    • But by mid Dec 19, it had spread enough for Taiwan to know about it and spring into action. The Chinese lockdowns, WHO hush ups and inevitableshapesalad
    • spread to the west followed. Deaths mounting as dithering western leaders fumbled over trying to keep china's money flowing in, and seeing whatshapesalad
    • Taiwan were doing and wondering just how bad was this... Finally experts tell their leaders, and some words thrown towards china...shapesalad
    • Now lockdown 2 for most places, and no one talks of the wet market bat fake nonsense. Yes from bats, but after a gain of function gene meddling,shapesalad
    • and leak from a biolab with typical chinese lack of attention to safety procedures.shapesalad
    • All western countries should synchronise announcement of recognising Taiwan as an independent country.shapesalad
    • And hurry up with the Oman Antimony roaster, seeing as we currently rely on China for antimony. Just one of the ways we can rely less on the CCP.shapesalad
    • of course a lot has to do with the measures but there's a social acceptance of the IFR that wont happen globally until after the US elections - world leaders :\kingsteven
    • I posted about this a couple weeks ago but I'm wondering how they arrived at the 10% number. Considering some parts of the world don't seem to have been greatlyyuekit
    • affected such as most of East Asia and the entire continent of Africa.yuekit
    • Human frailty works both ways. Some people are suggestible enough to accept publications like off-guardian, as fact.
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    • One recent study (which highlights one of the pitfalls of using global data to average IFR) https://www.imperial…
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    • ? easy to check
      https://www.who.int/…
      drgs
    • If you read that transcript, seems like they are actually walking back the earlier statementyuekit
    • "The results indicate across all of these 150 studies that, as Mike has said, the vast majority are below 10%"yuekit
    • So now it's below 10%, and only in the areas that did antibody studies...which obviously were the same ones that had outbreaks in the first place.yuekit
    • I think Mike fucked up, and now he's trying to pretend he didn't actually say what he said in the last press conference.yuekit
    • The 0.14% is incorrect. it's 1.4%akiersky
    • @yuekit Alright, touche
      @akiersky https://www.google.c…
      drgs
    • People fight it off and develop immunity without developing antibodies and the serology tests will not detect the trace amounts of antibodies that form immunitykingsteven
    • even in serious cases after a few months. It's fair to assume the amount of people infected>the amount with immunity>the amount immunekingsteven
    • with or without antibodies>amount indicated by serology testing...kingsteven
    • So you can have immunity without developing antibodies? What would actually make you immune in that case?yuekit
    • https://www.bbc.com/…kingsteven
    • < also mentions one I didn't know about... people that have immunity having never been exposed!!kingsteven
    • I had to sit down after reading thisdrgs
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