COVID-19: USA, Italy & the rest of Europe

[Jamesc]

I got one theory.

The corona is smart.

He gets everyone that does not take it seriously.

[Jamesc]

This idiot also.

He says very hard to get corona and touch all the mikes of the reporters

and then he kenna.

[Jamesc]

20,000 idiots in Bolehland also.

We not scared of the virus.

We not scared of the virus.

And then they kenna.

[Mockngbrd]

32 minutes ago, BabyBlade said:

Slow and steady wins the race? 

But damn I have to say watching the video with the music gave me the chills. God bless the USA and everyone of us.

oh no all the AMDL!

 

[Jamesc]

This idiot also.

He can cure corona and he also kenna.

 

[Jamesc]

15 minutes ago, kobayashiGT said:

haha. won't lah. He is very famous now. got a list of youtube interview with dr. fauci.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fauci

Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, faces a torrent of false claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.

[Ho2786]

AMDK don't shower wan in winter very dirty and smelly wan.

hopefully when summer come they will shower and virus wash away.

don't go near AMDK during winter

their smell one kind wan

bangalee with coconut oil smell better.

Edited March 30, 2020 by Ho2786

[yishunite]

19 minutes ago, Jamesc said:

I got one theory.

The corona is smart.

He gets everyone that does not take it seriously.

Restoring my faith in natural selection at last

[inlinesix]

Just now, Ho2786 said:

AMDK don't shower wan in winter very dirty and smelly wan.

hopefully when summer come they will shower and virus wash away.

don't go near AMDK during winter

their smell one kind wan

It is the same in Beijing.

[Mockngbrd]

13 minutes ago, Ho2786 said:

AMDK don't shower wan in winter very dirty and smelly wan.

hopefully when summer come they will shower and virus wash away.

don't go near AMDK during winter

their smell one kind wan

bangalee with coconut oil smell better.

bangalee love u

[Civic2000]

Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'

https://abcnews.go.com/US/conspiracy-theorists-study-concludes-covid-19-laboratory-construct/story?id=69827832

Some have suggested the virus is actually an engineered biological attack.

Conspiracy theories claiming COVID-19 was engineered in a lab as part of a biological attack on the United States have been gaining traction online in recent weeks, but a new study on the origins of the virus has concluded that the pandemic-causing strain developed naturally.

An analysis of the evidence, according to the findings first published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus "is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," with the researchers concluding "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."

"There’s a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories that went to a pretty high level," Dr. Robert Garry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine and one of the authors of the study, told ABC News, "so we felt it was important to get a team together to examine evidence of this new coronavirus to determine what we could about the origin."

Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, supported the study’s findings, writing on his blog, "This study leaves little room to refute a natural origin for COVID-19."

Researchers concluded that the novel coronavirus is not a human creation because it does not share any "previously used virus backbone." It likely arose, the study said, from a recombination of a virus found in bats and another virus, possibly originating from pangolins, otherwise known as scaly anteaters.

COVID-19 is 96% identical to a coronavirus found in bats, researchers said, but with a certain variation that could explain what has made it so infectious.

"We know from the study of other coronaviruses that they’re able to acquire this [variation] and they can then become more pathogenic," Garry told ABC News. "This is a good explanation as to why this virus is so transmittable and has caused this pandemic."

The mutation in surface proteins, according to Garry, could have triggered the outbreak of the pandemic, but it’s also possible that a less severe version of the illness was circulating through the population for years, perhaps even decades, before escalating to this point.

"We don’t know if those mutations were picked up more recently or a long time ago," Garry told ABC News. "It’s impossible to say if it actually was a mutation that triggered the pandemic, but either way, it would have been a naturally occurring process."

And while many believe the virus originated at a fish market in Wuhan, China, Garry said that is also a misconception.

"Our analyses, and others too, point to an earlier origin than that," Garry said. "There were definitely cases there, but that wasn’t the origin of the virus."

[Ho2786]

20 minutes ago, Mockngbrd said:

bangalee love u

I am a bangalee lover

I eat curry grow up wan.

[Silver_blade]

37 minutes ago, Ho2786 said:

AMDK don't shower wan in winter very dirty and smelly wan.

hopefully when summer come they will shower and virus wash away.

don't go near AMDK during winter

their smell one kind wan

bangalee with coconut oil smell better.

Some do not shower daily throughout the year. Not just in winter. I know many do not wash their hair often...maybe 1-3 times a week.

[Ho2786]

since I never caught a AMDK in the showers before

until today I cannot  verify if AMDK really tua kee.

but I can guarantee you bangalee really tua kee.

 

 

[kobayashiGT]

Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52087002?fbclid=IwAR20kvYvHYfZ-C3K1Ml_nRZKlSc47aP90rSH-T8er4DRNZoD5OUxr2hah18

A breathing aid that can help keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care has been created in under a week.

University College London engineers worked with clinicians at UCLH and Mercedes Formula One to build the device, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator.

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) devices are already used in hospitals but are in short supply.

China and Italy used them to help Covid-19 patients.

Forty of the new devices have been delivered to ULCH and to three other London hospitals. If trials go well, up to 1,000 of the CPAP machines can be produced per day by Mercedes-AMG-HPP, beginning in a week's time.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has already given its approval for their use.

Ventilator consortium

Meanwhile a consortium of UK industrial, technology and engineering businesses in the UK has come together to produce medical ventilators for the NHS.

The "VentilatorChallengeUK" consortium includes Airbus, BAE Systems, Ford, Rolls-Royce and Siemens.

Companies in the consortium have received orders for more than 10,000 ventilators from the government, although MHRA approval is still pending.

Production is due to begin next week.

Dick Elsy, chief executive of High Value Manufacturing Catapult, said: "This consortium brings together some of the most innovative companies in the world.

"They are working together with incredible determination and energy to scale up production of much-needed ventilators and combat a virus that is affecting people in many countries."

 

[Civic2000]

A Spanish actress said that if the number of Spanish corona virus cases exceeds a thousand, she will strip naked  and walk around the streets and she has kept her promise.

Edited March 30, 2020 by Civic2000

[pi3142]

The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration (March 30 2020)

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President Trump, who at one point called the coronavirus pandemic an “invisible enemy” and said it made him a “wartime President,” has in recent days questioned its seriousness, tweeting, “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF.” Trump said repeatedly that he wanted the country to reopen by Easter, April 12th, contradicting the advice of most health officials. (On Sunday, he backed down and extended federal social distancing guidelines for at least another month.) According to the Washington Post, “Conservatives close to Trump and numerous administration officials have been circulating an article by Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution, titled ‘Coronavirus Perspective,’ that plays down the extent of the spread and the threat.”

Epstein, a professor at New York University School of Law, published the article on the Web site of the Hoover Institution, on March 16th. In it, he questioned the World Health Organization’s decision to declare the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, said that “public officials have gone overboard,” and suggested that about five hundred people would die from covid-19 in the U.S. Epstein later updated his estimate to five thousand, saying that the previous number had been an error. So far, there have been more than two thousand coronavirus-related fatalities in America; epidemiologists’ projections of the total deaths range widely, depending on the success of social distancing and the availability of medical resources, but they tend to be much higher than Epstein’s. (On Sunday, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, estimated that there could be between a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand deaths in the U.S.) In a follow-up article, published on March 23rd and titled “Coronavirus Overreaction,” Epstein wrote, “Progressives think they can run everyone’s lives through central planning, but the state of the economy suggests otherwise. Looking at the costs, the public commands have led to a crash in the stock market, and may only save a small fraction of the lives that are at risk.”

Epstein has long been one of the most cited legal scholars in the country, and is known for his libertarian-minded reading of the Constitution, which envisions a restrained federal government that respects private property. He has also been known to engage with controversial subjects; last fall, he published an article on the Hoover Institution Web site that argued, “The professional skeptics are right: there is today no compelling evidence of an impending climate emergency.” Last Wednesday, I spoke by phone with Epstein about his views of the coronavirus pandemic. He was initially wary of talking, and asked to record his own version of the call, which I agreed to. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, Epstein made a number of comments about viruses that have been strongly disputed by medical professionals. We have included factual corrections alongside those statements.

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Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-contrarian-coronavirus-theory-that-informed-the-trump-administration

Scapegoat or failure of expert relied in echo chambers?

Edited March 30, 2020 by pi3142

[mersaylee]

3 hours ago, Jamesc said:

This idiot also. Herd immunity lah.

On the contrary, I think he’s a smart one to self declare kena virus so could legitimately hide at home while his nation goes about his herd immunity vision...