Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Gov. Cuomo to designate some parks as temporary burial sites as morgues, crematoriums and cemeteries can't keep up with all the dead.
No Brenda that's not accurate. An Island is being discussed as a possible site if it becomes necessary.
T
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
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Blanket apology for what I said about Gov. Cuomo and New York State. I heard something and didn't do any checking on it before posting.
So I humbly apologize.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Gov. Cuomo to designate some parks as temporary burial sites as morgues, crematoriums and cemeteries can't keep up with all the dead.
No Brenda that's not accurate. An Island is being discussed as a possible site if it becomes necessary.
T
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
I do realize that now THG. I have left an apology in the thread for my misstatement.
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Church sign seen in BC. Sign says, "For the Love of God. Do what Dr. Bonnie says."
Dr. Bonnie Henry is the Chief Medical Officer in British Columbia.
ETA: Just realized I made a small typeo in the phrase. But its still funny.
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Only 25 new cases of Covid-19 reported Province wide today. That is down.
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Interesting sidebar to all of this. With surface noises being almost none nil now the seismologists are having a field day listening to Mother Earth. They are hearing more 0.2earthquakes and magma flowing under the earth's crust. They may find more faults as well.
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You know, I really don't understand the impulse people have to get together in large congregations to pray, or the ministers who encourage it - or even insist on it, in these days of social distancing.
They must not know their New Testament:
Matthew 6:5-6: "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men....when thou prayest, enter into thy closet (private room, or inner self) and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...."
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Kiki, I think what the church sign is talking about is people still being idiots about social distancing. I've not heard of any churches here in BC being open on Sunday for services.
Stanley Park in Vancouver is closing the park to cars, so people walking, biking and jogging can social distance more and still enjoy the park. Though Vancouver Park Board has admitted that their officers have handed out 1,600 notices to people who haven't been adhering to the chief medical officer's orders.
Think there are a couple of parks closed but not sure. They are being monitored. Park boards don't want to close them unless they have to.
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The WHO Ignores Taiwan. The World Pays the Price.
Taiwan was more prepared for the coronavirus than any other country, but the WHO puts politics first.
There is an island nation off the southeastern coast of China where public health officials saw the pandemic coming—and took action before China did. Nearly three months after reporting its first confirmed case of Covid-19, this country has only reported 348 positive diagnoses and five deaths. It was one of the earliest countries to be hit and has one of the lowest infection rates.
But you wouldn’t know any of this if you got your information from the World Health Organization. The country is Taiwan, which the WHO refuses to recognize as a sovereign state.
Despite early warnings from Taiwanese officials, the organization kept the island cut off from its global information networks. Now, it may be the rest of the world that’s paying the price.
For nearly half a century, the People’s Republic of China has effectively blocked Taiwan from joining the WHO. Despite never having exercised authority over the island, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially considers Taiwan part of its territory, and forces international organizations—including the United Nations and its agencies like the WHO—to affirm its view.
Last weekend, the absurdity of this geopolitical paradox was laid bare in a news broadcast that quickly went viral. In a Skype interview, journalist Yvonne Tong of Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK asked Dr. Bruce Aylward, a senior WHO official, if the global health body would reconsider Taiwan’s membership.
On Tong’s laptop screen, Aylward’s face twitched. He blinked for several seconds. Then he said he “couldn’t hear the question.” When Tong offered to repeat herself, Aylward cut in: “No, that’s OK, let’s move on to another question then.”
“I’m actually curious to talk about Taiwan as well,” said Tong. Aylward’s face disappeared—he had ended the call.
When Tong called back and repeated her question, Aylward replied, “Well, we’ve already talked about China. And when you look across all the different areas of China, they’ve actually all done quite a good job.” He thanked Tong and ended the call again.
The surreal exchange lasted all of one minute. But for Taiwanese people, it summed up a lifetime of gaslighting. During this outbreak alone, the WHO has kept changing how it refers to this country of nearly 24 million, going from “Taiwan, China,” to “Taipei” to the newer and bizarre “Taipei and its environs.” It also allowed China to report Taiwan’s coronavirus numbers as part of its own total, instead of reporting Taiwan’s numbers alone—a conflation that created headaches for the smaller nation. Some other countries enacted travel restrictions on Taiwan along with China, despite the former’s drastically lower infection rate.
When geopolitics dictate health policy, however, the most serious effects are rarely just economic. The WHO’s distortion of Taiwan’s reality has consequences that should be measured in human lives.
More at www.thenation.com/article/world/taiwan-who-coronavirus-china/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Oh, I understood that. It just reminded me of some megachurch in Texas defying orders to close, because ... idk. I wasn't clear!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Kiki, I think what the church sign is talking about is people still being idiots about social distancing. I've not heard of any churches here in BC being open on Sunday for services.
Stanley Park in Vancouver is closing the park to cars, so people walking, biking and jogging can social distance more and still enjoy the park. Though Vancouver Park Board has admitted that their officers have handed out 1,600 notices to people who haven't been adhering to the chief medical officer's orders.
Think there are a couple of parks closed but not sure. They are being monitored. Park boards don't want to close them unless they have to.
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