Corona Virus Updates Part 3

a reply to: confiden

Can we start taking bets on if he slips and uses the “P” word?

a reply to: spolvil

I'm a bit confused about the advice sent out in a letter from the school. First it says the school was closed in the morning, and then further down it says to send your child to school as normal?

So it was a temporary closure?

Tudor Grange AcademySolihull

a reply to: Rich Z

Thanks for bringing that back up. It goes in line with what TDawg said way back in the beginning... that there will be waves. Also goes along with what some have speculated .... that there are 2 different viruses happening right now. It could just be the "waves" happening at parallel times. I've been thinking we'll have a better idea of what's going on by the end of March and very beginning of April.

a reply to: Mateo96

Changed my post thank you yeah..dead Rising, they made 2.
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Whatever virus my daughter has looks like it's a class thing. Her teacher said everyone that came back from DC has a cough. 24 hrs after her fever she now has a cough. Looks like we are on our way to strep here.

I think The Government needs to start looking at anger instead of panic. I can see a lot of people becoming very angry if their loved ones get this and take a turn for the worse, even if their loved ones don't die.

They are going to look for people to blame.

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

Read the history of that though. It was a Congressional call, and a new act was authorized. Just because the press chooses to dig it up as if it was all cuts ... doesn't make it so.

Not to mention throwing money at a thing does not mean it's a good thing. Look at education. We've been throwing money at it forever and it doesn't actually get better.

a reply to: ketsuko

We both know it's the headlines that grab peoples attention the details won't matter in a situation like this.

originally posted by: misfit312
a reply to: Oppenheimer67

Ever watch Dead Rising watchtower? My husband asked me to watch with him.

There is a drug called Zombrex, you have to take your injection(from big pharma) at the same time everyday....but you won't become a zombie

I would want to know if I had this virus even if I mistook it for a bad flu.We don't know long term complications yet.

I have come up with many great inventions over the years, only to find they are already invented, and now it seems I am doomed to the same fate should I ever think of becoming an author. Thanks for that! Here's to the death of original thought

Mind you, it would be ignorant to assume anything is ever really original I suppose, especially when you consider infinity in all its guises. But that's another story.

Thank you I will look out for Dead Rising Watchtower, and watch it keenly to see how much it has plagiarised my thoughts. Tin foil hat now firmly on!

a reply to: misfit312

I think Uncle Sam views American Panic as Anger.
I think they should...

originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: ketsuko

We both know it's the headlines that grab peoples attention the details won't matter in a situation like this.

And is it any wonder so many people don't believe the press any more?

It's out of control now. Best to be anti social for a while. Avoid crowded areas for a while at least. Just saw on the news, Australia couldn't cope with an outbreak on a large scale. Very worrying... They are talking of using other infrastructure when the hospitals are full. I live in a small town and even here we have people who have been to China recently. Some people are avoiding them. 😱

originally posted by: burdman30ott6

originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
Sorry if already posted but this looks highly suspicious.
$425M in World Bank catastrophe bonds set to default if coronavirus declared a pandemic by June.

In 2017, the World Bank designed a new way to raise money: Pandemic Emergency Financing bonds. Over $425 million worth of such bonds, which bet against a global outbreak of infectious diseases and will default if WHO declares the coronavirus a pandemic, were sold by the World Bank in its first-ever issuance of catastrophe bonds. In the event of no pandemic, investors would be paid a healthy annualized return. Meanwhile, the World Bank could use the bonds to insure itself against the risk of a global outbreak.

Wash Examiner

$425 Million is chicken scratch to the World Bank. I personally don't believe that meet a threshold they'd be willing to play games over, but I could be wrong.

Agree in the grand scheme of things that is a drop in the bucket but thought the timing of it was a bit odd with WHO holding back. But, yea could be nothing.

a reply to: MissBeck

It is definitely confused. We were on lockdown and childen are showing symptoms..but send your children anyway! I would refuse. My kids go to another local Arden school...but if there was a whiff of this...I would pull them out...

a reply to: NJE777

I think they're going to have to.

It might be wise to designate facilities just for corona virus treatment, and ones for all other treatment if you can. I'd think you'd want to keep the infected patients away from the others as much as you can to avoid having to deal with those other patients also then getting and having to beat corona at the same time as whatever else it is they're going through.

I'm not sure exactly how you triage to keep them apart though.

It's just going to be messy, but having large numbers of infected patients in the same place as people who are potentially not infected is just an invitation to send that virus a steady stream of healthy hosts.

originally posted by: slatesteam
a reply to: Oppenheimer67

If I drop ya $5 via Venmo, can I be a producer?
That plot is almost exactly the worst case scenario that I’ve been thinking of during all this....

haha I started reading that and thought it was going to say

"If I drop ya $5 via Venmo, will you shut the hell up?"

On reading it properly I thought, what the hell is Venmo? Now I have looked I say YES OF COURSE! Everyone can be co-producer, executive, whatever, give me all your money, no one needs it anymore.

I will stop chit chat now, promise.

Back to updates:
"surveillance is becoming more complicated in France"
www.lefigaro.fr...

Which is basically double speak for it is out of control (my opinion)

a reply to: NJE777

I read yesterday that the Australian government expects the situation to be the same as the Spanish Flu if things are severe.

The Spanish flu infected 33% of the popolation......that's about 8,500,000 in todays money....drop in which ever mortailty rate you're comfortable with.

BBC News at 10...Germany on verge of declaring epidemic....chain of infection no longer traceable.

Is Wall Street Behind the Delay in Declaring the Corona Virus a "Pandemic"?

A little known specialized bond created in 2017 by the World Bank may hold the answer as to why U.S. and global health authorities have declined to label the global spread of the novel coronavirus a “pandemic.” Those bonds, now often referred to as “pandemic bonds,” were ostensibly intended to transfer the risk of potential pandemics in low-income nations to financial markets.

It is possible that concerns over using the word “pandemic” could upset global markets and lead to economic turmoil, similar to what happened to the U.S. stock market following the CDC announcement on Tuesday. Though such concerns are valid, there is also evidence that a particular class of bonds issued by the World Bank that are closely related to official declarations of pandemics may also be responsible for having steered WHO and CDC officials away from using this term, even though the consequences of doing so could negatively impact global public health.

Whitney Webb Article

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

Read the history of that though. It was a Congressional call, and a new act was authorized. Just because the press chooses to dig it up as if it was all cuts ... doesn't make it so.

Not to mention throwing money at a thing does not mean it's a good thing. Look at education. We've been throwing money at it forever and it doesn't actually get better.

Exactly. There's so much Trump bashing on twitter over it that I had to stop searching for virus updates, I was getting too annoyed. One lady doctor was particularly vicious. It's sad people can't come together in times like this. The virus isn't political.


Okay, that reply was meant for Hopenotfeariswhatweneed. Sorry, Kets...

Is this normal in the states to have a countdown to a president's address?
Seems serious as we don't do that here unless it's quite an announcement in the UK

a reply to: rom12345

a reply to: texasgirl

It was this thread here that covered the idea, and it was put out in several aspects of the press and several different media outlets like Vanity Fair. So the idea is out there.

But I'll cut and paste Redneck's excellent post that's on the first page of the thread:

It's easy to find reasons to be angry when the goal is to find something to be angry about.

There is one source for the article: Laurie Garrett. Laurie Garrett has a history of writing articles predicting pandemic and epidemic doom and gloom. I guess it's hard to keep up that sort of response if one actually looks into the facts.

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006 was allowed to expire in 2018 by Congress. Donald Trump never had the opportunity to sign the bill, as it died in the Senate. Without funding, it sounds perfectly reasonable to fire (or more properly, lay off) those working in a department that is no longer funded... people expect to be paid. Donald Trump then signed the re-authorization bill, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019, otherwise known as S.1379, on June 24. 2019. This act re-authorizes the previous bill and actually expands it.

Thus far, there are less than 20 cases of the virus in the United States. There have been no related deaths in the United States that I have heard of. I find it interesting that Ms. Garrett praises China for their efforts to contain the virus; the vast bulk of the cases and almost all the deaths resulting from the virus are in China. The coronavirus kills through pneumonia, and the air pollution in China is quite poor and likely is damaging the lungs of the citizens... leaving them more vulnerable to the virus.

But the guy who signed the re-authorization bill to combat the virus, in a country which has experienced no major outbreak, is at fault of course, while the country which has weakened its citizens and tried to keep the outbreak quiet as long as they could is doing an outstanding job and leading the way in pandemic control.

TheRedneck

So, the original act was allowed by Congress to lapse in 2018. Trump never had a chance to do a thing about it.

And when a re-authorization bill came across his desk in 2019, he signed it.

So there isn't a whole lot to get upset over here unless you want to get mad at Congress for not moving quickly enough.