Posted on 05/04/2020 3:29:25 AM PDT by RaceBannon
I oppose the damn mask because I feel like I am walking the streets of China all of our citizens running around in masks, aside the fact that I had to put a mask on today in Costco to enter the store I touched my face constantly with that stinking mask on !!!
We can agree on that most definitely! I also agree reality gets complicated. We're going to hopefully get a break for 4 or 5 months - and our state legislatures better be acting quickly to make sure that the wrongs evidenced in the past month aren't repeated come winter. Happy Cinco De Mayo to you and your lovely wife. For the first time ever, there's no parties going on down the hill. Kind of weird.
Saw the excellent video earlier, now am getting “removed for violating community guidelines”
https://twitter.com/mugecevik/status/1257392360960516097
Summary of lessons learned about transmission through contact tracing.
Very, very good!
I’m surprised Texas and not Oregon. It’s like Portland’s antifa dropped off the planet. Maybe they’re gone forever?!
you’re doing better than Calif - Newsom has frittered away a $20 B surplus and, worse, has to borrow $20B to pay the light bill and unemployment payments. If another state wants to adopt him, he’s available.
well darn it all. I was looking for something to watch this evening, but your linked video has already been taken down by youtube. Violating policy or some such.
11:23pm SoCal time. Rats.
It was just a few months ago Newsom was touting what a huge surplus CA. had I called BS then!!!
very good point
thanks, knak very interesting. I wonder when we’ll get details of his murderer. 3 shots sounds seems a lot for a crime of passion, or an attempted robbery. Very messy.
It does sound promising. I’ll go back and look at his tapes for sure. Thanks, justa-hairyape.
LONDON
UK overtakes Italy to record highest coronavirus death toll in Europe
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Tuesday that 29,427 people have died with Covid-19 since the outbreak began, more than in Italy and lower only than the United States. The official figure includes 693 new deaths in the most recent 24-hour period, up to 5 p.m. (12 p.m. ET) Monday.
Italy revised its death count up to 29,315 on Tuesday.
SoCAL - Riverside County
After hours of debate, Riverside County postpones vote to reopen amid coronavirus pandemic
After more than eight hours of debate Tuesday, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted to table its decision on whether to rescind the county’s public health orders and instead opted to wait until Gov. Gavin Newsom provides more guidelines later this week...
...Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who was welcomed to the microphone with cheers from the audience, said the county does not have the resources to enforce “unreasonable orders.”
“From the beginning, I told you I would not enforce the stay-at-home order partly because I trusted our residents’ ability to do the right thing without the fear of being arrested. I knew that they could be trusted to act as responsible adults and I was correct,” he said. “I refuse to make criminals out of business owners, single moms and otherwise healthy individuals who are exercising their constitutional rights.”...
...The latest changes to the Newsom’s four-stage plan to gradually reopen the state expand decision-making at the local level...counties must first submit “containment plans”... Riverside County has some of the strictest public health orders in the state [and] the second-highest number of infections, behind Los Angeles County...
Any other states requiring ‘containment plans’ for county reopenings? Seems like a good idea.
BRUSSELS
U.S. Pushes EU to Back China Inquiry
The Trump administration is pressing the European Union to support an international inquiry into China’s handling of the new coronavirus, including the origins of the pandemic, as Brussels seeks to avoid taking sides in an increasingly bitter battle between Beijing and Washington over responsibility for the crisis.
The U.S. is seeking an international probe into whether Beijing mishandled the contagion in its early stages, resulting in a global pandemic that has killed 250,000 and crippled the global economy.
WSJ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-pushes-eu-to-back-china-inquiry/ar-BB13DO4h?ocid=spartanntp
Can you all believe this crap - Brussels wants to remain “neutral”? This is between the US and China? Are you kidding me? I thought this was between China and 184 other nations? The CCP bought and paid for EU need to get their heads out of their butts and support an in depth investigation.
TESTING
‘The passion is really enormous’: Antibody test maker ramps up production
Severin Schwan, the CEO of Swiss drugmaker Roche, says employees from across the company are coming together to contribute to meeting the aggressive manufacturing targets the company has promised after receiving emergency Food and Drug Administration approval for its COVID-19 antibody test on Sunday.
...The CEO said Roche is staying true to its promises and meeting aggressive production targets. Roche will be able to produce 60 million tests by the end of May, with most analysts expecting Roche to produce up to 100 million tests per month by the end of the year.
TESTING - Israel
Herd Immunity, or Big 2nd Wave? Israel Antibody Testing Hopes to Find Out.
..If antibody tests show that a sizable portion of the population has developed antibodies, that could mean Israel is on its way to “herd immunity” and would be well equipped to withstand further outbreaks.
But if the tests show that only a tiny percentage of the population has been exposed, the country’s health system could still be overwhelmed by the spread of Covid-19, Mr. Bar-Siman-Tov said. He said estimates of the percentage of Israelis with antibodies range widely, from less than 1 percent to upward of 10 percent.
“We want to know the truth,” he said.
The World Health Organization has cautioned that no evidence exists that people who have recovered from Covid-19 or have antibodies to it are protected from another infection.
But Dr. Yair Schindel, a member of a health ministry task force on the virus who pushed for a large survey, said the Israeli study could produce such evidence.
CCP Chicken: wanted for assault, attempted battery, attempted burglary, terroristic behavior and ignoring the social distancing order of the governor.
MESSICO
Exclusive: ‘We’re winning’ - Mexico’s coronavirus czar sees victory in sight
“...Mexico has done the fewest tests per capita to detect the coronavirus among the nations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), or just 0.4 test per 1,000 inhabitants, against an OECD average of 22.9.
However, tests are not imperative for a sound policy, Lopez-Gatell said.
“You don’t need the number of cases. What you need is to understand the data and understand what the mechanics of an epidemic are to make the most appropriate decisions,” he said.
“Some people say: ‘We’re blind, we don’t have information.’ The blind one is the one who wants to go blind,” he said.
“We have sufficient information to make decisions.”
Is Mexico right? that cases don’t matter? But how do you identify the asymptomatics - the most important person to identify?
JAPAN
Japan’s PM pushes his country’s Avigan drug as treatment for coronavirus despite no evidence it works and admitting it has side effects ‘the same as thalidomide’
Avigan is the brand name for favipiravir and has been used in flu outbreaks and the treatment of Ebola. Approved for use in Japan in 2014, favipiravir works by blocking the ability of a virus to replicate inside a cell.
However, it has been shown in animal studies to affect foetal development, meaning it is not given to pregnant women, and some doctors say they would not recommend it for children or adolescents.
And experts are increasingly concerned by Abe’s promotion of the drug. He has backed the drug to the tune of $130 million to treble an existing stockpile and has even offered to provide it to other countries for free...
...There are currently around five clinical trials ongoing in countries including the US, Italy and Japan, where Fujifilm announced it would be testing the drug’s efficacy on a group of 100 patients through until the end of June.
MedCram Lecture
May 5
Dr. Roger Seheult
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 66: ACE-Inhibitors and ARBs - Hypertension Medications with COVID-19
Dr. Seheult discusses three studies regarding the impact of the hypertension medication classes of ACE Inhibitors (such as lisinopril) and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs such as valsartan) on COVID-19 infection and severity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OudhmwulJHY
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