Posted on 04/27/2020 4:18:33 AM PDT by P.O.E.
More US states are beginning to lift lockdown orders even as US leaders say social distancing guidelines will be necessary throughout the summer.
But governors warn that life will not quickly return to normal, and that restrictions will remain in some places to keep the virus from resurging.
On Friday, the US saw its largest single-day spike in cases.
But the infection rate has dropped significantly in several hotspots, including New York, the US epicentre.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Trump tweeted several times yesterday that the cure can not be worse than the disease.
He needs to quit talking about that and start acting on it.
Credit ratings destroyed....
Then you have the morons driving down the road alone in their car with a mask on. Really?
I’m a broken record on this regarding our economic response to this virus:
We are like the guy that jumped off a 20 story building and, as he passes us on the 10th floor, shouts, “so far, so good”.
But the ground is coming up and there is no stopping it. It will leave a mark - even though people are enjoying the wind in their hair now.
Well-written. Those points should be topics for reasoned, informed debate. (that is, non-emotional, non-ad-hominem (if there is such a word)).
People need fresh air & sunshine - I see them out and about (kids playing, families taking walks) with their masks on.
Youtube: 1h12m58s: 20 Apr: Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr. John Ioannidis Update: 4.17.20 | Episode 4
posted by Journeyman Pictures
In this long-awaited follow-up to his interview in late March, Dr. John Ioannidis discusses the results of three preliminary studies, (including his latest, which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate); the worrisome effects of the lockdown; the Swedish approach; the Italian data; the ups and downs of testing; the feasibility of “contact tracing”, and much more.
Watch previous episodes of Perspectives on the Pandemic here (LINKS)
Here are the links to his studies (LINKS)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPqmLoZA4s
AUDIO: 13m02s: 26 Apr: 3AW Australia: Luke Grant: “Effects of the lockdown are worse than the virus”: The real dangers of COVID-19 could still be ahead of us
Is it really better to be safe than sorry? A leading UK pathology professor warns us that the ramifications of a country going into lockdown could cause more damage than Coronavirus.
Professor John Lee is a writer for the UK Spectator, a retired professor of pathology and a former NHS consultant and he joined Luke Grant on Australia Overnight to give some perspective on the further reaching effects of COVID-19.
“The trouble with it is that they (government) have erred on the side of better ‘safe than sorry’… it’s a general principle of medicine, that when you’re giving a treatment to people, first do no harm.”
Professor Lee shines light on the fact that nations have overestimated the dangers of, and underestimated the danger of a population going into lockdown.
“The lockdown has side effects. From the economic side effects, from direct health side effects… people aren’t accessing health care, to health problems that were storing up for the future like people not coming in for their cancer screenings, not presenting themselves early enough when they have got chest pains for heart attacks.”
Professor Lee also touches on the murky origins of Coronavirus and if we may ever have a cure for the deadly disease.
https://www.3aw.com.au/podcast/effects-of-the-lockdown-are-worse-than-the-virus-the-real-dangers-of-covid-19-could-still-be-ahead-of-us/
There are people wearing masks, walking their dogs on back roads in the middle of nowhere.
I don’t even know how to wrap my head around that.
‘He is a hater of Trump...’
Governor Kemp of GA is probably crossing Trump off his Christmas list as well...actions have consequences...
God help us.
it took such a tiny span of time to completely cow the populace and bring down the country.
I feel like I’m trapped in some megalomaniac’s fever dream.
Good analogy.
Didn’t GA start to open back up?
Nebraska here: Most of this was voluntary. Yes eating/bars were closed, schools, salons, etc.. but much of state was open. Gov. Ricketts pretty much said be careful and be safe. For the most part people just carried on.
2020 will be the year of the mask—if you don’t like it feel free to scream and yell and howl at the moon.
Hey, Gov. Evers, crawl out of your hole and get Wisconsin back in business.
‘There are people wearing masks, walking their dogs on back roads in the middle of nowhere.’
on one of the few days we’ve had this month where the weather hasn’t been prohibitive, I went out bicycling and saw an old dude wheeling along on a one speed, completely alone and in a neighborhood with big front lawns far from the street, and he’s trying to breathe through a freaking bandanna...I am waiting for some fat old biddy that gets her jollies watching MSNBC to call the cops on me for no mask when I’m outside, as I refuse to wear one; I will demand to know who ratted on me, I have that right to know...
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