Posted on 04/25/2020 4:04:53 AM PDT by RaceBannon
China is still blatantly lying about its coronavirus deaths
https://nypost.com/2020/04/26/china-is-still-blatantly-lying-about-its-coronavirus-deaths/
By Post Editorial Board
04/26/2020
And American experts — the best in the world — still can’t to visit.
And China keeps expelling US journalists, too.
2 million chickens will be killed at plants in Delaware, Maryland due to lack of employees
NATIONAL NEWS
2 million chickens will be killed at plants in Delaware, Maryland due to lack of employees
Tags: meat, coronavirus economy
Posted April 26, 2020 10:16 a.m. EDT
2 million chickens will be killed at plants in Delaware, Maryland due to lack of employees
By Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, CNN
...
Two million chickens on several farms in Delaware and Maryland will be “depopulated” — meaning humanely killed — due to a lack of employees at chicken processing plants, according to a statement from Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc.
The reduced employee attendance at the company’s plants is a result of “additional community cases of COVID-19, additional testing, and people practicing the ‘stay home if you’re sick’ social distancing guidance from public health officials,” the statement reads.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/05/buses-blasted-uv-light-rid-coronavirus-12352400/
"That’s cool about the bus sterilizers.NYC could use some of those."
‘Paid for the damn virus that’s killing us’: Giuliani rips Fauci over grants to Wuhan laboratory
No more bodies on the streets. But coronavirus batters Ecuador with disproportionate force
Los Angeles Times | Sunday, April 26, 2020 5:56 p.m.
About an hour ago
QUITO, Ecuador — The grisly scenes of bodies left on the streets of the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil seemed dystopian even in the era of coronavirus.
“This peaceful city received a bomb from the air, like Hiroshima,” Guayaquil Mayor Cynthia Viteri told a TV interviewer last week.
The shocking images that went viral in March and April proved a warning about the virus’ capacity to collapse fragile healthcare and mortuary systems, especially in developing nations. But even as such ghoulish scenes have faded, the specter of Guayaquil — which some refer to as the Latin American Wuhan — looms ominously over a region where infections are not expected to peak until coming weeks in many countries as ill-prepared as Ecuador.
In Brazil, critics have warned that the denialist approach of President Jair Bolsonaro — who has dismissed the virus as a “little flu” — could lead to an apocalyptic outcome.
“I fear that if this grows Brazil could see some cases like those horrific, monstrous images we saw in Guayaquil,” former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told Britain’s the Guardian newspaper.
The prospect of bodies on the streets remains the region’s nightmare scenario.
Claudia López, mayor of Bogotá, the capital of neighboring Colombia, recently told a radio interviewer: “I don’t want Bogotá to become the next Guayaquil.”
But while corpses no longer litter the streets of Guayaquil, life remains far from normal in the steamy coastal business hub of 2.8 million. Infections and deaths mount daily, and Ecuador remains sealed off and in lockdown. Daily life and the economy are paralyzed throughout the South American nation.
The pandemic has hit Ecuador with disproportionate force.
A country of 17.6 million, Ecuador is the 8th most populous nation in Latin America. Yet it stands second only to Brazil in the number of infections and covid-19 deaths in Latin America.
Last I read, Ecuador was using mass cardboard coffins.
You can’t make this up - https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/24/the-cuomo-family-magic-coronavirus-cure/
The quote doesn't even make sense.
1) If 10 million out of 120 million smokers in India die each year, India will run out of smokers fairly quickly. (India's fertility rate is way down compared to 2 generations ago.)
2) There are at least 400 million adult males in India. Even if that 70% is down to 50% (20% died or quit?), which I suppose 18 years later is quite possible, that's still 200 million male smokers.
In any event, your "first suspicion" is likely correct. 12% of the population "protected" in some way would not affect overall fatality numbers greatly.
maybe I should have added a comma after ‘them’ ? ok. I’ll edit. Fair enough.
maybe we should be testing for asymptomatics, starting with single, live alone, and quarantining them, with volunteers as a study group
I don’t know which is worse. Bodies floating in the surf, or bodies on the sidewalks. At least for now cardboard boxes are being used for a little last dignity for a few of the deceased before interrment in the mass graves. Ecuador is very sad.
EcoHealth Alliance
...formed by the merger of The Wildlife Trust and the Consortium for Conservation Medicine in 2010.
It was founded under the name Wildlife Preservation Trust International in 1971 by British naturalist, author, and television personality Gerald Durrell. It then became The Wildlife Trust in 1999.[3] In the fall of 2010, the organization changed its name once again, this time to EcoHealth Alliance.[4]
The rebrand reflected a change in the organization’s focus, moving from solely a conservation nonprofit which focused mainly on the captive breeding of endangered species, to an environmental health organization with its foundation in conservation.[5]
“bat conservation”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoHealth_Alliance
Hudson Yards neighborhood of NYC
Gerald Durrell
Dr. Peter Daszack
Filipinos BBQ (Lechon) the whole hog (after gutting it). But I don’t think they are cooking 300 lb. animals whole - more like 60-120 lbs., I believe.
Maybe someone here has more info...
Dang, it’s too bad the farmers can’t pack ‘em up live a half dozen to a box (would have to be a decent size box!) like shipping chicks (sort of) and send you and me a few boxes. $0.70/lb including box. ‘Course tho’, those are probably full size broilers. But maybe 1/4 or 1/2 grown birds could be sent instead, relieving pressure on the system.
Or just as good or better, IF farms can hang onto “some” birds a bit longer, and hatcheries could focus on more chicks to farm supply stores (which seem to be decimated on chicks in stock @ present) two problems could be relieved, maybe?
There’s probably a hitch in this (aside from finding about a million buyers.)
Santa Monica to Malibu - the rich stay home (on their private balconies overlooking the beaches)
Ventura to Orange - the rest social distance but go to the beach in ‘unseasonably high’ numbers - more than a few from out of county (Calif shelter in place mandates one stays in one’s own county). Umbrellas were not allowed, but the cops were reluctant to enforce the rule.
SINGAPORE
Singapore races to build beds for COVID-19 patients as cases surge
The tiny city-state of 5.7 million people has over 12,000 confirmed infections of the virus that causes COVID-19, one of the most in Asia, due to outbreaks in cramped dormitories housing over 300,000 mainly South Asian workers.
Pulse oximeters: What to know about whether you need one
But you probably don’t need one, experts say
Experts with the American Lung Association and the American Thoracic Society said that for most people, having a pulse oximeter at home wouldn’t be particularly helpful in detecting the virus.
“If the question is, ‘Would it be a good early indicator if somebody has Covid-19 infection?’, I would say probably not,” said Dr. J. Randall Curtis, a professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington.
That’s because low oxygen levels are a relatively late indicator that a person has Covid-19, Curtis said. People who potentially have the illness will likely experience other symptoms, like fever, dry cough, body aches or fatigue, that would prompt them to seek medical attention days before they noticed a drop in their blood oxygen levels.
From twitter...
“my landlord served me quit notice that it’s either I pay my house rent or park out of his house even with this lockdown.
I just sent his contact and details to NCDC that he has symptoms of COVID-19 and has refused to self-isolate.
We shall see who will leave the house first”
Ppeople are people... (from Nigerian)
Well, Sat. came in at 35.4k (2nd highest daily number of new cases so far) and 2065 fatalities (right on the average), but today was MUCH lower at 26,509 new cases and 1157 fatalities. So, we will see, but I sadly expect next week to bounce back up to over 30k daily new cases and 2k+ daily fatalities. “Hope” would be Sunday as a new weekday trend.
France, Italy and Spain
outbreak
France, Italy and Spain prepare to ease coronavirus lockdowns
Giuseppe Conte said manufacturing could restart as soon as 4 May.
The Italian prime minister said schools, however, would not reopen until September. Measures would be announced early this week, he told Italian daily La Repubblica.
(France) Édouard Philippe, said he would present a national exit strategy to parliament on Tuesday, which would then debate and vote on the recommendations.
there’s a chart with all the various EU nations’ exit plans. Italy is one to watch - the PM is being pressured by the CCP to open the north Lombardy region so that the Chinese can return to work
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