Posted on 03/19/2020 3:53:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Is there nothing this virus can't do?
Deerfield Testicle Festival On Hold
~Brexit meets Covid-19: Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator with the UK and a key obstructionist when it comes to Britain's attempts to "socially distance" itself from Brussels, has been stricken with coronavirus. So too has the pretender to the thrones of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Karl von Habsburg - as reported by the aptly named Kronen Zeitung. Like M Barnier, Herr von Habsburg is a "pan-European" but has the mitigating excuse of being the rightful Holy Roman Emperor.
~Comparisons of "numbers of cases" are almost as wall-to-wall bollocks as the Deerfield Testicle Festival. That's because those reporting the statistics are either liars (China, Iran) or too incompetent to test sufficient numbers of persons (the money-no-object wankers at America's wretched CDC). Michael Levitt, "an American-British-Israeli biophysicist who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry", adds a further caution:
Stressing that it is almost impossible to make comparisons country to country, because each government is taking a different approach to how they record cases, he said that, "South Korean tests are 10 times more sensitive than in Italy. If Italy measured cases like Korea, there would have been 10 times more cases."
Instead, the best way to evaluate the figures was through the number of deaths reported, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The comments there are particularly biting today.
#1. Cannot read the red-lettered part of the sign.
However, I detect some movie imitation here with Chevy Chase and the eating of bull testicles.
From the link:
“For a few days, there was some modest hope that the death curve might be flattening, albeit at the grim toll of 350 or so per diem. That hope was ended yesterday when the death count resumed its climb upwards”
So I did some math to figure the percent of death increase for each day:
March 1st - 5
March 4th - 28 = 460% increase
March 7th - 36 = 28% increase
March 10th - 168 = 366.67% increase
March 13th - 250 = 48.8% increase
March 16th - 349 = 39.6% increase
March 18th - 475 = 36.1% increase
The comment from the link is wrong. The increases are going down. I am watching for the March 20th numbers.
“Testicle Festival”
Nearly 3,000 deaths in Italy is a tragic thing, if you happen to be one of the statistics, but in a country of 60 million it isn’t all that much. And what that makes 150 deaths in a country of 320 million I can hardly say.
Thanks. It took some balls to put that sign up!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.