A lone Republican Congressman, Rep. Thomas Massie, is calling out the rapacious corporate robbery that is the coronavirus bailout bill:
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Yes - all militaries have to train/condition soldiers to devalue the lives of the adversary so they can commit mass murder on behalf of The State without losing their marbles. I still remember how my surrogate father when I was growing up would casually dehumanize the Viet Cong after serving as a medic in the Vietnam war. The way that soldiers are programmed by the military is a lot like the way an attack dog can be trained with "split personality" to ravage intruders and yet be cuddly as a kitten with the family kids - it's a deeply unnatural and morally bankrupt mentality to inflict upon a human mind.
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Health authorities in the west (and the WHO, for that matter), seem to have abandoned the precautionary principle in this pandemic. They will only change the advice to the public in keeping safe if it is absolutely proven that there could be a greater danger than the current advice accounts for. Rather than just assuming there is, for the sake of public safety. I make the assumption that the research that shows the greatest danger is correct and act accordingly. It may later be shown to be overly cautious, but I am at least less likely to be infected if it is shown later that official advice is too lax.This study suggests the virus is also possibly airborne which could explain why it seems to spread so quickly...
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Coronavirus could be airborne, study suggests
It may be possible for the novel coronavirus to transmit through the air, a new study released over the weekend suggests.
In a joint study by the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska and others, researchers found genetic material from the virus that causes COVID-19 in air samples from both in and outside of confirmed coronavirus patients’ rooms. The findings offer “limited evidence that some potential for airborne transmission exists," researchers said, though they warned that the findings do not confirm airborne spread.
Researchers, looking to better understand viral shedding and how it related to the novel virus, took air and surface samples from 11 patients’ rooms during the initial isolation of 13 people who tested positive for COVID-19. The researchers found virus genetic material on commonly used items such as toilets, but also in air samples, thus indicating that “SARS-CoV-2 is widely disseminated in the environment.” SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Not only was the virus detected within COVID-19 patients’ rooms, “air samplers from hallways outside of rooms where [the] staff was moving in and out of doors were also positive,” they wrote.
“These findings indicate that disease might be spread through both direct (droplet and person-to-person) as well as indirect contact (contaminated objects and airborne transmission) and suggests airborne isolation precautions could be appropriate,” they concluded, noting that the findings also suggest that COVID-19 patients, even those who are only mildly ill, “may create aerosols of virus and contaminate surfaces that may pose a risk for transmission.”
The study’s authors also said that the results underscore the importance of personal protective equipment or PPEs, and the use of negative air pressure rooms for confirmed COVID-19 patients.
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Mass in Poland where people pray for Coronavirus to stop. I am sure they are doing from love for the others, so my respect to them, but for me this is the second most shocking image of the epidemic after that image of the bat in the soup from Wuhan.
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Health authorities in the west (and the WHO, for that matter), seem to have abandoned the precautionary principle in this pandemic. They will only change the advice to the public in keeping safe if it is absolutely proven that there could be a greater danger than the current advice accounts for. Rather than just assuming there is, for the sake of public safety. I make the assumption that the research that shows the greatest danger is correct and act accordingly. It may later be shown to be overly cautious, but I am at least less likely to be infected if it is shown later that official advice is too lax.
It's hard to see this in the daily numbers, because they're still going up. But the rate at which the volume of cases is increasing has been dropping steeply for a week now, and I see no reason to expect that downward trend to change. At this point it looks like we could see the number of active cases in the US to peak by this weekend (or at least sometime next week), and after that I expect the number of active cases to start dropping each day. Here's what the leading indicator - the rate of growth - looks like now. When the blue line reaches the red line, this epidemic will have peaked in the US:America's deadliest day to date: Coronavirus death toll soars to 3,180 - an increase of 605 with a person dying every TWO MINUTES - as 22,000 new infections are recorded and experts say the worst is yet to come
The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed past 3,000 on Monday, making the outbreak more deadly than the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,977, and health experts are warning the worst is yet to come. Total deaths across the United States increased by at least 605 on Monday, reaching a total of 3,180. It meant someone died every two minutes from the deadly disease. There were 22,022 new cases which brings the total to 164,671. The amount the daily deaths increases and will continue to rise until the pandemic hits its peak in America which is still weeks away.
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Thomas you are one of the few I really respect..I hope you are right.It's hard to see this in the daily numbers, because they're still going up. But the rate at which the volume of cases is increasing has been dropping steeply for a week now, and I see no reason to expect that downward trend to change. At this point it looks like we could see the number of active cases in the US to peak by this weekend (or at least sometime next week), and after that I expect the number of active cases to start dropping each day. Here's what the leading indicator - the rate of growth - looks like now. When the blue line reaches the red line, this epidemic will have peaked in the US:
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Cite the original source. Not a meme graphic.
At this point it looks like we could see the number of active cases in the US to peak by this weekend (or at least sometime next week), and after that I expect the number of active cases to start dropping each day.