Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Yanno, JACK, if you REALLY want to make a case about how doing nothing about COVID-19 is such a great idea, work on telling us what's great about Brazil.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Yanno, JACK, if you REALLY want to make a case about how doing nothing about COVID-19 is such a great idea, work on telling us what's great about Brazil.
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:not America
take over Hong KongQuote:not America
push the US out of Afghanistan
And let me add a few more to the list out of many.
Syria - not America
Iran - not America
Iraq - not America
Venezuela - not America
And for historic context there's this.
S Vietnam - not America
Added to the list:
Brazil - not America
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Brazil is your ideal, isn't it?
And it should be the very best-case scenario for COVID-19 do-nothing policy.
The population is young, it's highly exposed to contagious diseases which means they have highly-activated immune systems, and they don't have lots of old people in care-homes to drag down the averages.
It's a JACK-do-nothing heaven.
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Coronavirus cases rose by nearly 50 percent last month, led by states that reopened first
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-cases-rose-by-nearly-50-
percent-last-month-led-by-states-that-reopened-first/ar-BB16ehiT?ocid=msedgdhp
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Reports Nearly 50,000 New Cases, Another Single-Day Record
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-live-updates-u-s-reports
-nearly-50-000-new-cases-another-single-day-record/ar-BB16dYtN?ocid=msedgdhp
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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U.S. buys up world stock of key Covid-19 drug remdesivir as the pandemic in the US is spiraling out of control.
The US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, leaving none for the UK, Europe or most of the rest of the world.
Experts and campaigners are alarmed both by the US unilateral action on remdesivir and the wider implications, for instance in the event of a vaccine becoming available. The Trump administration has already shown that it is prepared to outbid and outmanoeuvre all other countries to secure the medical supplies it needs for the US.
“They’ve got access to most of the drug supply [of remdesivir], so there’s nothing for Europe,” said Dr Andrew Hill, senior visiting research fellow at Liverpool University.
Remdesivir, the first drug approved by licensing authorities in the US to treat Covid-19, is made by Gilead and has been shown to help people recover faster from the disease. The first 140,000 doses, supplied to drug trials around the world, have been used up. The Trump administration has now bought more than 500,000 doses, which is all of Gilead’s production for July and 90% of August and September.
“President Trump has struck an amazing deal to ensure Americans have access to the first authorised therapeutic for Covid-19,” said the US health and human services secretary, Alex Azar. “To the extent possible, we want to ensure that any American patient who needs remdesivir can get it. The Trump administration is doing everything in our power to learn more about life-saving therapeutics for Covid-19 and secure access to these options for the American people.”
The drug, which was invented for Ebola but failed to work, is under patent to Gilead, which means no other company in wealthy countries can make it. The cost is around $3,200 per treatment of six doses, according to the US government statement.
The deal was announced as it became clear that the pandemic in the US is spiraling out of control.
More at www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/us-buys-up-world-stock-of-key-
covid-19-drug
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Yanno, JACK, if you REALLY want to make a case about how doing nothing about COVID-19 is such a great idea, work on telling us what's great about Brazil.
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:not America
take over Hong KongQuote:not America
push the US out of Afghanistan
And let me add a few more to the list out of many.
Syria - not America
Iran - not America
Iraq - not America
Venezuela - not America
And for historic context there's this.
S Vietnam - not America
Added to the list:
Brazil - not America
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Brazil is your ideal, isn't it?
And it should be the very best-case scenario for COVID-19 do-nothing policy.
The population is young, it's highly exposed to contagious diseases which means they have highly-activated immune systems, and they don't have lots of old people in care-homes to drag down the averages.
It's a JACK-do-nothing heaven.
So Kiki's not-America logic only works when it suits her agenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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U.S. COVID-19 death toll may be 28 percent higher than officially thought
www.newsweek.com/u-s-coronavirus-death-toll-may-higher-officially-thou
ght-1514911
The researchers estimated the number of undocumented COVID-19 fatalities by counting what are known as "excess deaths." This is a common way for experts to measure the impact of a new infectious pathogen, such as a pandemic flu, when there is a lack of comprehensive testing, according to the team.
They did this by calculating a baseline number of expected deaths in the U.S. between March 1 and May 30 in years prior to 2020. They then subtracted the expected number of deaths each week from the documented deaths between March 1 to May 30, 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic had hit.
Daniel M. Weinberger, associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, and colleagues included 48 states and the District of Columbia in the study, but excluded North Carolina and Connecticut due to issues with data.
The data accessed on June 12, 2020 revealed approximately 781,000 people died in the U.S. between March 1 to May 30, 2020, including 122,300 excess deaths compared to previous years.
There were 95,235 excess deaths attributed to COVID-19, meaning that 28 percent of the 122,300 excess deaths from any cause have not been attributed to the disease.
The team noted that the National Center for Health Statistics, from where they drew some of the data, could be incomplete due to delays in reporting.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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