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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    Australia's chief health officer says say goodbye to music festivals/concerts for a very long time :(

    Probably at least until a vaccine is produced sometime in the next 12 to 18 months.  Meanwhile, the best we can do are some of the live-from-home shows solo artists are doing.  Not the same a big show with crowds or even a cozy club with a beverage, that's for sure, but I do like some of the stuff people like Neil Young and Steve Wynn and others posted on the "Live Music during the Corona Stay at Home Mandates " thread. 

    In any case, gonna be a long year! Hang in there!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,756
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,561



    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669




    U.S.A.  We're just dying to be in that #1 position.  With a little help from our fearless POTUS...
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,561
    brianlux said:




    U.S.A.  We're just dying to be in that #1 position.  With a little help from our fearless POTUS...
    Don't get comfortable. Sweden coming for ya
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • RideRick
    RideRick Hoorn Posts: 703
    Jason P said:
    I'm in an agricultural area so outside of the school systems, the majority of industry is running and has been running as it falls under essential.  People seem to be adapting to the new rules of conduct at work.  Points of cross contamination at work are identified and a solution is engineered to avoid germ spread.  People go home after work.  No one is socializing.  One case reported in our county to date.
    We have to guess which County? 
    Here in the Netherlands we have five small islands and three of them have none cases reported.
    Thats about 5000 people in small areas.  So we can say now it is safe if you grant no acces to anyone in your county/country/state/village/city if you wish not the meet the China-Virus.
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  • RideRick
    RideRick Hoorn Posts: 703
    brianlux said:




    U.S.A.  We're just dying to be in that #1 position.  With a little help from our fearless POTUS...
    Go Usa Clipart

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  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    edited April 2020
    China is the 5th safest in the world.  Isn't that something.  This sure sounds like leading the safety category to me...



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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    bbiggs said:
    You guys already to reopen the country take a look at the numbers! All over the country dead Americans go ahead open up !

    F that.  Can't freeze the economy forever, but to open the flood gates too soon would be catastrophic.  IL won't be lifting the shelter in place order on April 30; that much is for sure.
    I bet the shitty governor here in MO will try to lift it. Then the mayors will step in again and say no. Which is definitely the right thing to do.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,871
    Now graphics without any sort of background are being shared from the Deep Knowledge Group.

    Anything you can find online is a great source -- feel free to post stuff here without any sort of opinion or interpretation.

    :hushed:
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,871
    bbiggs said:
    China is the 5th safest in the world.  Isn't that something.  This sure sounds like leading the safety category to me...




    We should just avoid commenting on the mass sharing of clips, .gifs, memes and other bs w/o any substance. 
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  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    bbiggs said:
    China is the 5th safest in the world.  Isn't that something.  This sure sounds like leading the safety category to me...




    We should just avoid commenting on the mass sharing of clips, .gifs, memes and other bs w/o any substance. 
    I don't take my information from a venture capital firm.

    Good point. 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,871
    bbiggs said:
    bbiggs said:
    China is the 5th safest in the world.  Isn't that something.  This sure sounds like leading the safety category to me...




    We should just avoid commenting on the mass sharing of clips, .gifs, memes and other bs w/o any substance. 
    I don't take my information from a venture capital firm.

    Good point. 

    Almost all of them are disqualified on a basic scratch and sniff...just easier to let folks like SC live in this territory.  Makes him happy, which is fine.
    We still have Johan God to worship.  ;)
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  • Lerxst1992
    Lerxst1992 Posts: 8,087
    mace1229 said:
    CM189191 said:
    rgambs said:
    rgambs said:


    Bad boy Tegnell on Sweden keeping schools open:

    - No large outbreaks have happened. 
    - The most spread is happening in the homes within families. So not that big risk of having teachers working - if not sick.
    - The spreading of the virus in schools that have occured is by teachers coming in with symptoms, and infecting others colleagues mainly - not kids. But not much of that has occured.
    - Kids might not show symptoms when sick. But there have not been any signs of kids spreading the disease in any large amount. 

    What a fucking moron.
    "We can't tell if kids are sick, but we assume they aren't spreading it anyways."

    Moronic.

    I would think he (and his colleagues) is more educated in the field. than you are. So his statements should by that token be more educated also.

    Thank you.
    You might have a point if he wasn't at odds with common sense and the consensus of the rest of the scientific community of the entire world lol
    So then, lets look at your point --

    You are saying that Anthony Fauci and his Raspy Common Sense Rascals, if they came over here to Sweden would find

    1) Huge outbreaks at schools, that has been somehow missed by the Swedish Public Health Agency?
    2) A huge problem with kids bringing corona back home from school completely vaporizing families and communities, that has been missed by the Swedish Public Health Agency?

    Are you saying that the rest of the scientific community would find all of these cases, that's not been picked up by the PHA?

    On a per capita basis, being 33 times smaller than the US, Sweden has the equivalent of nearly 400,000 cases. Does Sweden have the immigrant communities like we have in the US that enhances spread?
    Wait what?

    Didn't realize we were blaming immigrants now...
    Not “blaming” them. But Even gov Cuomo said that’s why NYC spread so fast. Immigrant communities means more travel. More travel means faster spread. There’s nothing wrong with saying that.  That’s nothing against immigrants and immigrant communities. Just facts.


    Actually, for those who paid attention to member number 6, who mentioned early on in this topic that it’s been really really bad in Elmhurst, just a few miles from his place of employment.

     A little research tells us what would be so unique about Elmhurst? Is it like Sweden at all? Elmhurst happens to have the second largest “Chinatown” in Queens. Not NYC, but Queens alone. How many Chinatowns exist in NYC? How many Little Italys? Members of these communities travel internationally often. To and from the two countries that had large amount of infections early in this crisis. That’s just statement of fact.

    That’s not blaming anyone. It’s trying to understand why the epicenter of this crisis is an hours drive from my hometown. NYC is the gateway to international travel and international immigrant communities in North America, if not the world. 
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,561
    edited April 2020
    More travel?

    In Sweden they talk about it spreading faster in "immigrant communities" because of people living closer, people living more in one apartment, people living "over generations" in the same place (as they also do in Italy). And information not being available in their native language (maybe a smaller problem in the states than in the US) at the getg-o. But haven't heard about it being connected to them travelling more.

    In Sweden the spread got in from THE EDUCATED SHITTY MIDDLECLASS HAVING TO GO TO ITALY TO SKI WHEN GRETA CLEARLY SAID WE SHOULD DROP THE FLYING. Seems the (fewer) cases from both China and Iran were easier to handle. At the beginning.
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    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,332
    More travel?

    In Sweden they talk about it spreading faster in "immigrant communities" because of people living closer, people living more in one apartment, people living "over generations" in the same place (as they also do in Italy). And information not being available in their native language (maybe a smaller problem in the states than in the US) at the getg-o. But haven't heard about it being connected to them travelling more.

    In Sweden the spread got in from THE EDUCATED SHITTY MIDDLECLASS HAVING TO GO TO ITALY TO SKI WHEN GRETA CLEARLY SAID WE SHOULD DROP THE FLYING. Seems the (fewer) cases from both China and Iran were easier to handle. At the beginning.
    is this a joke? I can’t tell with you sometimes. And did you ever step outside with Vito?
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,561
    nicknyr15 said:
    More travel?

    In Sweden they talk about it spreading faster in "immigrant communities" because of people living closer, people living more in one apartment, people living "over generations" in the same place (as they also do in Italy). And information not being available in their native language (maybe a smaller problem in the states than in the US) at the getg-o. But haven't heard about it being connected to them travelling more.

    In Sweden the spread got in from THE EDUCATED SHITTY MIDDLECLASS HAVING TO GO TO ITALY TO SKI WHEN GRETA CLEARLY SAID WE SHOULD DROP THE FLYING. Seems the (fewer) cases from both China and Iran were easier to handle. At the beginning.
    is this a joke? I can’t tell with you sometimes. And did you ever step outside with Vito?
    He hasn't showed up yet.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,143
    https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9

    China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days

    In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations.

    President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data.

    Six days.

    That delay from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak, nor the longest lag, as governments around the world have dragged their feet for weeks and even months in addressing the virus.

    But the delay by the first country to face the new coronavirus came at a critical time — the beginning of the outbreak. China’s attempt to walk a line between alerting the public and avoiding panic set the stage for a pandemic that has infected almost 2 million people and taken more than 126,000 lives.

    “This is tremendous,” said Zuo-Feng Zhang, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “If they took action six days earlier, there would have been much fewer patients and medical facilities would have been sufficient. We might have avoided the collapse of Wuhan’s medical system.”

    Other experts noted that the Chinese government may have waited on warning the public to stave off hysteria, and that it did act quickly in private during that time.

    But the six-day delay by China’s leaders in Beijing came on top of almost two weeks during which the national Center for Disease Control did not register any cases from local officials, internal bulletins obtained by the AP confirm. Yet during that time, from Jan. 5 to Jan. 17, hundreds of patients were appearing in hospitals not just in Wuhan but across the country.

    It’s uncertain whether it was local officials who failed to report cases or national officials who failed to record them. It’s also not clear exactly what officials knew at the time in Wuhan, which only opened back up last week with restrictions after its quarantine.

    But what is clear, experts say, is that China’s rigid controls on information, bureaucratic hurdles and a reluctance to send bad news up the chain of command muffled early warnings. The punishment of eight doctors for “rumor-mongering,” broadcast on national television on Jan. 2, sent a chill through the city’s hospitals.

    “Doctors in Wuhan were afraid,” said Dali Yang, a professor of Chinese politics at the University of Chicago. “It was truly intimidation of an entire profession.”

    Without these internal reports, it took the first case outside China, in Thailand on Jan. 13, to galvanize leaders in Beijing into recognizing the possible pandemic before them. It was only then that they launched a nationwide plan to find cases — distributing CDC-sanctioned test kits, easing the criteria for confirming cases and ordering health officials to screen patients, all without telling the public.

    article continues here https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9

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  • mace1229
    mace1229 Posts: 9,892



    How was this determined? If you look at deaths per capita were much lower. At fatality rate were much lower. Does this look at just total number of cases and that’s all? Because that doesn’t seem like a fair assessment if that’s the case.
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,332
    nicknyr15 said:
    More travel?

    In Sweden they talk about it spreading faster in "immigrant communities" because of people living closer, people living more in one apartment, people living "over generations" in the same place (as they also do in Italy). And information not being available in their native language (maybe a smaller problem in the states than in the US) at the getg-o. But haven't heard about it being connected to them travelling more.

    In Sweden the spread got in from THE EDUCATED SHITTY MIDDLECLASS HAVING TO GO TO ITALY TO SKI WHEN GRETA CLEARLY SAID WE SHOULD DROP THE FLYING. Seems the (fewer) cases from both China and Iran were easier to handle. At the beginning.
    is this a joke? I can’t tell with you sometimes. And did you ever step outside with Vito?
    He hasn't showed up yet.
    Keep me updated. It’ll be more interesting than the +, - song threads. 
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