Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

[nivek]

Matt Hancock urges shops to call the POLICE if people refuse to wear face masks despite top officers branding the £100 fines 'IMPOSSIBLE' to enforce - as retailers warn the rules are the 'last nail in the coffin' for business

Health Secretary Matt Hancock sent out the tough message as the decision to make coverings mandatory, which came after weeks of dithering by ministers, descended into chaos and confusion. Businesses called the plan 'utterly ludicrous' and police said it was ridiculous to expect them to hand out £100 fines to everyone who broke the law in England. The arrangements have exposed deep splits within Boris Johnson's own Cabinet, with Michael Gove having taken to TV studios at the weekend to contradict the PM by insisting masks should not be compulsory.

Mr Gove was pictured in a Pret in London this morning not wearing a mask, in contrast to Mr Johnson who has donned his for a series of photo opportunities. Finally confirming the move - which has already come into effect in Scotland - in the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr Hancock said: 'Should an individual without an exemption refuse to wear a face covering, a shop can refuse them entry and can call the police if people refuse to comply.'

 

[nivek]

US coronavirus related deaths are climbing again today, over 700 confirmed, the final tally will be posted later this evening...

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[AlienView]

I hope no one ever hopes for some alien civilization to come and help the human race overcome our problems. It would hardly seem worth the effort.

How about an AlienView? - A tale from the darkside

Old conspiracy theories that have probably been around for many years state the PTB {powers that be} {ie. The New Wolrd Order, Illumanati, etc.} want to reduce the World's population to make it more manageble - World War III was one possibility but like WWII, it can get out of hand.

So why not create a designer virus that selectively targets older people who are, from their point of view, a drag on the economic system because of increased medical costs, Social Secutity, welfare, etc. By eliminating these older people and other health comprimised people
they actually improve their World power and leave more resouces for the rest of the population and of course 90% still goes into their hands.

Far fetched you say? - But is it really?

There is a video somewhere I saw it on YouTube a few months ago, that shows Bill Gates and others in some elite group, predicting a pandemic, it was made at the end of 2019 just before the Covid19 pandemic began - It is scary to watch because it accurately predicts much of what is happening now!

Now tell me I'm delusional - No group would really try to eliminate part of the World's population, would they? - But not so long ago in Germany......but that is for another post.

 

[AlienView]

Bill Gates predicted pandemic. Hear his advice now.

 

[nivek]

Horrible day, with three states over 130 deaths...

 

[AD1184]

So why not create a designer virus that selectively targets older people who are, from their point of view, a drag on the economic system because of increased medical costs, Social Secutity, welfare, etc. By eliminating these older people and other health comprimised people
they actually improve their World power and leave more resouces for the rest of the population and of course 90% still goes into their hands.

Far fetched you say? - But is it really?

There are some problems with this. The outcome of COVID-19 is not simply death or recovery. Even most old people survive the infection. However, "recovery" is not necessarily complete and is leaving many people with further compromised health and greater healthcare costs. The virus is also compromising the health of many formerly healthy people. The pandemic itself, and our various responses to it, are a major drag on the economic systems of the world which have lead to an unprecedented recession from which it will take many years (or even decades) to recover. We will be permanently years behind the global economic size we would have had if there were no pandemic.

Also, you seem to assume that the powers that be, whoever they are, are relatively young and are not anticipating damaging effects of the virus to themselves. However, the most powerful in society tend to be fairly advanced in age.

If the virus was created and released intentionally to improve economic efficiency, then it is not having anywhere near the desired effect. I do not think that this could be taken to mean that the plan 'backfired', as it should have been fairly predictable that a global pandemic of this nature would have such damaging economic effects. You might instead posit that the virus was released by a group who wished for a reduction in economic activity.

 

[The shadow]

We're losing the war on the coronavirus

 

[AlienView]

If the virus was created and released intentionally to improve economic efficiency, then it is not having anywhere near the desired effect. I do not think that this could be taken to mean that the plan 'backfired', as it should have been fairly predictable that a global pandemic of this nature would have such damaging economic effects. You might instead posit that the virus was released by a group who wished for a reduction in economic activity.

The other conspiratorial view I still consider is the terrorist bio-weapon angle
- The type of people that would crash a plane into the World Trade Center {911} are still out
there- And the more damage they can do the happier they are.

The fact that Bill Gates did warn against and accurately predict a natural, or otherwise, pandemic occurrence as a warning going back 5 years ago and then again in late 2019 is probably the more popular view.

Here is a short one minute video with Gates warning the World:

Gates: Millions could die from bio-terrorism

(18 Feb 2017) Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates issued a strong warning about the dangers of bio-terrorism as he spoke at the Munich Security conference on Saturday. Gates said there was a "reasonable probability" that terrorists could create a synthetic version of a virus that could feasibly kill millions of people. Gates, who runs a foundation with his wife Melinda focusing on public health, said the world should ignore "link between health security and international security" at its peril.

 

[AlienView]

The end of the Pandemic may be near:

Moderna chief scientist on promising new vaccine data


Moderna’s shares soared after the company said its potential vaccine to prevent Covid-19 produced a “robust” immune response in all 45 patients in its early stage human trial, according to newly released data published Tuesday evening in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine. Tal Zaks, Moderna chief medical officer, joins CNBC's Meg Tirrell and "Squawk Box" to discuss.

 

[nivek]

The end of the Pandemic may be near:

Moderna chief scientist on promising new vaccine data


Moderna’s shares soared after the company said its potential vaccine to prevent Covid-19 produced a “robust” immune response in all 45 patients in its early stage human trial, according to newly released data published Tuesday evening in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine. Tal Zaks, Moderna chief medical officer, joins CNBC's Meg Tirrell and "Squawk Box" to discuss.

Yep I posted about that yesterday here in this thread, linked below...We're still a ways off but its promising, more testing is underway, so maybe a year before this comes out 8 months something like that I would assume...

Methods to Combat the COVID-19 Coronavirus

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[nivek]

No fans allowed at Phillies and Eagles games this year.

In what is no doubt a severe blow to the notoriously die-hard Philadelphia sports fans, city officials have ruled that, due to the threat posed by the coronavirus, fans will not be allowed to attend home games for the city's professional baseball and football teams this year, ESPN reported on Tuesday. "There's no way for them to be safe having a crowd there," Philadelphia health commissioner Thomas Farley said, according to ESPN. Philadelphia is the first city to take such measures. A spokesperson for the NFL said the decision will not impact whether fans will be allowed to attend games in other cities. "Decisions on the number of fans at stadiums will be determined on a market-by-market basis," league spokesperson Brian McCarthy said. The decision by city officials came on the same day the city canceled all major public events through Feb. 2021 due to the pandemic.

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[nivek]

The Summer Olympics might be postponed again, as coronavirus cases resurge in Tokyo.

The 2020 Summer Olympics, which had previously been postponed to 2021, are at risk if being postponed again as a fears of a new coronavirus mutation arises. According to Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a prominent Japanese government advisor, the coronavirus could have the ability to mutate into a stronger pathogen. “I think the virus is mutating all the time … it may be a much stronger virus that triggers a second wave,” Kurokawa told Reuters. “The Olympics may be postponed again, but I can’t predict.” Kurokawa then added that the recent spike in cases in the Japanese capital is due to a failure to stick to guidelines and hosting the Olympics could further increase this problem.

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[nivek]

Thousands of people go back into lockdown as the Spanish region of Catalonia announces stricter guidelines.

Just weeks after a nationwide lockdown was lifted, authorities announced a new lockdown in Catalonia due to a surge of coronavirus infections in the area. “The maximum priority of (the Catalan) government is people’s health and life and there cannot be any judicial interference that complicates the collective fight against the pandemic,” Quim Torra’s regional government said in a statement, according to Reuters. The statement, released on Tuesday, urged some 160,000 Catalans to stay home starting Wednesday. Additionally, gatherings of more than 10 people in three neighborhoods of L'Hospitalet, a Barcelona suburb, were prohibited.

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[nivek]

Another horrible day, new infections and deaths are rising, still no real action from our federal government...

 

[nivek]

Florida teachers are updating their WILLS over COVID fears before returning to the classroom as cases in the state top 300,000

Teachers have begun drafting or updating their last wills and testaments as they prepare to return to school in a Florida school district amid coronavirus concerns.

Andrea Clark, a teachers union representative in the St. Johns County School District about 30 miles south of Jacksonville, said teachers have expressed their worries over exposure to the virus as the opening of school approaches on August 10. 'They are so concerned about returning to school that they are updating their wills or making their wills,' Clark said.

Florida has mandated that schools reopen in August, after they were shuttered due to lockdowns aimed at containing the pandemic. Teachers across the state have protested the reopening plan, asking for virtual instruction to continue until the number of cases, now more than 300,000, declines.

'Some teachers have underlying health concerns where they feel fairly certain that if they caught COVID-19, it would be a bad outcome, possibly fatal,' Clark told First Coast News.

Clark, who is also a fifth grade teacher in the district and has two children attending the schools, said that she stopped counting how many teachers were concerned after hearing from almost a dozen of them. St. Johns County Superintendent Tim Forson, aware of the concerns, told the First Coast News that teachers felt they were on the 'frontlines.'

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[nivek]

It’s one thing to reopen Disney World when the COVID virus is raging throughout Florida. Just how many people will be showing up to have a “good time?”

Apparently not many are going to Disney World...

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Not the happiest place on earth: Disney World is still empty just days after Hollywood Studios and Epcot reopened with no characters or live shows as cases continue to spike in Florida

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[nivek]

Wow, that's unbelievable given the situation in Georgia...

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Georgia governor bans cities, counties from mandating masks

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is banning cities and counties from mandating that masks be worn in public to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Kemp's executive order is a revised extension of guidelines put in place during the start of the pandemic, which encouraged, rather than required, residents to wear masks in public. The governor has called implementing such a measure “a bridge too far."

The executive order reads in part: “State, county, or municipal law, order, ordinance, rule, or regulation that requires persons to wear face coverings, masks, face shields, or any other Personal Protective Equipment while in places of public accommodation or on public property are suspended to the extent that they are more restrictive than this Executive Order."

His orders had banned local governments from taking more restrictive steps than the state, but the new set of rules specify that cities and counties can’t require the use face coverings, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"Previous executive orders - and now this order - state no local action can be more or less restrictive than ours," said Candice Broce, Communications Director, and Chief Deputy Executive Counsel for the governor. "We have explained that local mask mandates are unenforceable. The Governor continues to strongly encourage Georgians to wear masks in public."

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson was the first local official to defy Kemp and order masks. Cities like Atlanta, Athens, and Augusta soon followed suit. The mayor had said police would start writing $500 citations to businesses that didn't enforce the law.



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[nivek]

White House vows not to 'let the science stand in the way' of reopening schools as poll shows nearly two-thirds of parents DON'T back Trump's reopening demands

Kayleigh McEnany asserted Thursday that President Donald Trump will not let 'science stand in the way' of his push to reopen schools in the fall in the midst of the coroanvirus pandemic. The White House press secretary claimed during her press briefing that science is on the side of reopening schools amid a massive spike in cases and said the U.S. is the 'outlier' of Western societies in not moving to get students back in the classroom. 'The science is on our side here,' McEnany told reporters gathered in the James S. Brady Briefing Room Thursday afternoon.

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[nivek]

Data map shows 45% of US counties are seeing uncontrollable spread of COVID-19 outbreaks - as latest model predicts 224,000 American deaths by beginning of November

The data map, compiled by spatial analytics company Esri , shows that an 'epidemic trend', or uncontrollable spread, of coronavirus cases is occurring across the Sun Belt states and parts of the Midwest. Of the 3,141 counties across the US, 1,415 are currently experiencing an epidemic outbreak and 1,103 are seeing spreading trends, which is an outbreak that could still be controlled if preventative measures are taken, the data shows.

Currently, the number of infections across the US has surpassed 3.4 million and more than 137,000 Americans have died from the virus. The latest modeling projects the number of COVID-19 deaths in the US to increase further - even as one research team suggests the near-universal use of masks could save 40,000 lives between now and November.

 

[nivek]

Tensions rise over mandatory mask orders.

The nation's top medical experts have been imploring Americans to adopt mask-wearing as an effective way of slowing the spread of COVID-19. Many local governments have been responding by issuing mandatory mask orders. Even Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey grudgingly announced such an order that goes into effect in her state on Thursday. Still, mask-wearing has become a major flashpoint for Americans four months into the pandemic.

In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp issued an order that overturns any local official's order to make mask-wearing mandatory, describing compulsory masking as "a bridge too far," according to NPR. More than 3,000 have died from COVID-19 in Georgia.

In Florida, which many experts have said is becoming the new epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., mandatory masks are an explosive issue and antimask protesters rallied at a restaurant in Windermere this week where they objected to the idea of masks being mandatory. The restaurant owner has defied mask orders. When police showed up to inspect the restaurant, protesters erupted and called for the police to stand down. Watch the video below to see the tense moment.