Posted on 04/30/2020 3:05:32 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Corona Virus Daily Thread #49 COVID-19 4/30/2020
Exactly. If past is prologue, even if they have their suspicions, they won’t tell the public until it is absolutely too late for it to be hidden any longer.
CHINA, Morse Code and STarTrek
COVER UP China’s censors deleted coronavirus posts written in Morse code or KLINGON criticising country’s response to pandemic
On Monday, Chinese police detained two people who contributed to an online archive of censored articles about the coronavirus outbreak, a friend and a family member of one told Reuters...
...Chen Mei, 27, and Cai, who are old friends, were volunteers with a project called Terminus2049, an open-source archive that keeps records of censored articles from Chinese media on Github, a coding platform.
In recent months, the project has been active in making records of articles on the coronavirus outbreak.
The archive was among those that kept in circulation a profile report on a Wuhan doctor and whistleblower, Ai Fen, which went viral.
People translated the report in various forms including into Braille, Morse code and even Klingon - the fictional Star Trek language - in a defiance of the censors...
Cai was held on charges of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble”, on a notice from Chaoyang district police in Beijing, Chen Kun said, an accusation often used against political activists in China.
Chen Kun said he did not know what charges, if any, his brother was held on.
A third person, Cai’s girlfriend, surnamed Tang, was held on similar charges, Chen Kun said
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11532566/china-censors-coronavirus-morse-code-klingon/
RUSSIA
Russia sees record rise in coronavirus cases ‘with 250,000 infected in Moscow alone’
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin claims the infection rate is still the ‘lowest level’ among major global cities
The country has officially acknowledged that some 214,800 people are under medical supervision across its 11 time zones suspected of having caught the virus.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-sees-record-rise-coronavirus-21965328
‘I died and came back’: 12-year-old recovers from virus
Juliet Daly, 12, sits with her parents on the front porch of their family home in Covington, La., Thursday, April 30, 2020. A team of pediatric cardiology specialists found that Juliet had acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM), an uncommon heart condition that tends to present with sudden onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock or life-threatening arrhythmias. A nasal swab confirmed that Juliet was also COVID-19 positive and that she had a second viral infection – adenovirus.
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“Juliet came in as one of the sickest children we’ve taken care of with COVID-19,” said Kleinmahon. The top chamber of her heart was not working correctly with the bottom chamber, and she was developing “multisystem organ failure,” he said.
Her picture and the rest of the story at link:
Walmart will not deliver to my home either. However they will “ship” items I order on line with normally a 2 day arrival time and free if the order totals 35 bucks.
Produce and fresh milk etc. can only be obtained in the store or by curb side pick up.
I actually tried buying enough to cross their 35-buck threshold, but it didn’t do any good.
SUX masks poke fun at unique Sioux City abbreviation, help keep residents safe (Iowa, 5/2/20)
No hard and fast rules for counties to go from red to yellow (Pennsylvania, 5/2/20)
Seems weird. Our local store is only about 12 minutes away. And yet they will ship to us. Fed Ex or USPS.
I do have to use different icons for pickup vs shipping. And when I signed up for pickup the first time, I had to send them a request for help in order to activate it.
“Should You Get an Antibody Test? A user’s guide to the immune system”
- see https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/coronavirus-antibody-test-immunity/611005/
here is part of it..given the year and the way it is described it sounds like a version of the CHapel Hill virus...or perhaps Bat Lady copied it. I used to say she perhaps stole it until I realized Shi ZL on the document was the Bat Lady
“Wrong ace, I was being FACTUAL.”
Then you are a liar. And still trying to wreck the economy for real.
“You have thing completely bass ackward. What is happen now is destroying the economy.”
No, you simply have no grasp of how either the virus or the economy work.
“The elderly and those at risk CAN WORK FORM HOME.”
How does the head chef work from home? The chief of police? The manager of the bank or the box store? The master plumber or electrician? The construction foreman? There are simply too many jobs that require in-person leadership. Those people can’t work from home.
And the people not working from home may not be at much risk themselves, but what about their families? Are they supposed to separate themselves indefinitely?
Marcus AureliusIn reply to k00bz • 8:17p, 5/2/20AG
Anecdotally. Yes. Intubating less. At our facility seems to be less mortality. Seems more that die get cardiac involvement now. Most ICU admits from SNFs, dialysis centers, rehabs etc.
“I am a high risk individual on the front lines treating people with covid and have been since it started. No bunker necessaryq. This is not my first rodeo I have been through other epidemics and pandemics”
Well, as I said, kudos to you, if true. But your insouciance is appalling, in an alleged HC worker, especially.
“you fearbros are in denial. mitigation and lockdown do nothing. This thing has been circulating here since at least January long before any if the current charade started. It has peaked and is declining. fl From a healthcare perspective it has been no worse than H1N1 and we did none of this at that time. It is time to stop the economic and social suicide and open up the country.”
You like to project your fear onto those of us that grasp the threat of this virus, but it is simply that - projection.
All those things you say about the virus - that it has peaked, that it is no worse than H1N1 you can say because of the mitigation efforts. It was predicted you would say those things. However, you are factually incorrect. It may have peaked in NYC, but it is ramping up in many places that didn’t see the lesson of NYC or had large Easter gatherings, etc. And, factually, it is already worse than H1N1 by a factor of 5 and H1N1 had 15 months to do its damage, this is still only a few months in. In the first month of H1N1 after the first US death, 10-15 people died in the US. In the first month after the first US death from CCP-19, 3400 people died in the US. H1N1 is NOT worse by any rational measure. We pegged the H1N1 meter quite a while back. We’re now on the H3N2 (2017 flu, along with H1N1) meter and closing in on its maximum fast. Next we’ll have to jump to the Spanish Flu meter and there you FluBros will get some relief - we won’t hit those numbers, thank God (if I am wrong about that I’ll have bigger things to worry about than your ignorance). At the pace we’re going we will have surpassed every other flu but the Spanish Flu within 10 days. With mitigation.
As for the value of mitigation, saying over and over that it didn’t make a difference contrary to the facts on the ground, is simply stupid. Compare Korea and Italy. Aggressive contact tracing and mass testing in Korea with social distancing and lockdowns when deemed necessary, versus ‘Hug a Chinaman’, no social distancing and no lockdown until it was far too late, then massive and total lockdowns in Italy. Which one worked better? I’ll give you a hint: the one where the HCS didn’t collapse and the death rate (regardless of the official statistic for CCP-19 deaths) didn’t jump to 10 to 16 times normal.
Mitigation works, in the sense that it slows the inevitable spread of the virus while we develop and deploy countermeasures. You CCP agents that want to let it loose to do its damage all at once are actively trying to destroy our HCS and the economy with it. I much prefer to keep our HCS as functional as possible and have the economy limp along until we are ready to take on the virus and its sponsors.
3 new cases in Taiwan, all from inbound travelers, all caught at the airport. No risk to the public. First new cases in the past 7 days.
(oh yea, masks are mandatory there)
https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/t00ad1ccIAMSele96WnJsQ?typeid=158
“These preliminary studies still give me enough confidence to multiply the official number of cases by 20, rather than 10 for an estimate, as I was doing.”
Too much junk in the tests. False positives, picking up other corona virus antibodies, etc.
But 20 is a decent, justifiable high-end number, however I do think it could be much less than that now that testing is more widespread.
“I’m still putting my mental money on an unfinished Frankenvirus that was accidentally released from the lab.”
Me, too.
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