Wuhan virus 2020

[Skybird]

Spanish newspaper El Pais gets quoted with reporting that the illegal job market in Spain has collapsed and due to this and Ramadan many illegal migrants now want to flee Spain and get back to Marocco. Smugglers transporting them back and forth have adapted to the now reversed migration movement by offering the tours Spain-Marocco - for 5-10 times as high prices than the trip Marocco-Spain. The demand is there.

"Refugees", anyone...? "Poor" migrants?

I do not speak Spanish, but this is the article they refer to in the German article I have red:
https://elpais.com/espana/2020-04-23...en-patera.html

[Skybird]

A random find I stumbled over in an Austrain blog. It iIllustrates nicely why I hate and dispise rhetorics that go beyond a certain level. Because from this certain level on it is no longer witty or amusing, but simply a lie dressed in truth's clothing.

When Winston Churchill wanted to announce positive news to his compatriots despite terrible losses during the air battle over England, he explained: The increase in the number of our planes shot down by the German Air Force has decreased.For decades, this interpretation has served my family as an example of sophisticated rhetoric in an extreme situation.
[ In March 2020, the Austrian federal government reached into the same bag of tricks when it announced that the increase in corona infections had decreased. So PR technology was known. (...) ]

[Jimbuna]

You couldn't make this stuff up

Fake news has been circulating on social media that the first volunteer in the Oxford vaccine trial has died. This is not true.

I spent several minutes this morning chatting with Elisa Granato via Skype.

She is very much alive and told me she was feeling “absolutely fine”.

Dr Granato, who is a microbiologist, said she was going to "chill and enjoy the nice weather today".

She had a group chat with her family and reassured them in case they saw reports of her death. The rumours seem to have originated on a website that mixes fake and real news reports.

It is written in poor English with lots of grammatical errors, often a clue to disinformation.

The head of the Oxford Vaccine Group, Prof Andrew Pollard, who is leading the trial, said: “This sort of fake news could damage our ability to tackle a pandemic. We can’t let that happen.”

Dr Granato was the first person in Europe to be immunised as part of a coronavirus vaccine trial.

That happened on Thursday afternoon. When I spoke to her this morning she told me that she had just been to her first follow-up appointment at the vaccine centre, where they had taken a blood sample.

Marianna Spring, a specialist reporter covering disinformation, said a number of the posts, which were circulating in several languages, had now been removed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52430713

[mapuc]

This Corona isn't finish with its conquer and its development of what it can do to our body.

The patient’s chart appeared unremarkable at first glance. He took no medications and had no history of chronic conditions. He had been feeling fine, hanging out at home during the lockdown like the rest of the country, when suddenly, he had trouble talking and moving the right side of his body. Imaging showed a large blockage on the left side of his head.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...oung-patients/

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[Skybird]

We know this kind of lies and propaganda getting spread by anti-vaccination activists, since years. Its not just Covid19, but also Measels and many others. I think I read that also Polio-vaccination levels have dropped to dangerous levels.


Often it is religious nutters and extremists campaigning against vaccination. In Africa and Me places like Afghanistan we know examples of vaccinated children even getting massacred, to scare populations away from vaccination events. Its not the rule they go this far, but it has happened. In such areas, oarents agreeing to vaccinate their kids definitely live dangerous and must fear repression and payback.


Social misery and poverty are a fertile grounds for religious fundamentalism and raising the next generaiton of fanatics, relgious and political alike. And so the misery gets actively fostered to get a richer harvest.

[Jimbuna]

Spain has reported its lowest daily death toll since 20 March, with 288 fatalities.

The figure is a steep drop from the 378 deaths recorded on Saturday.

The health ministry said the total number of fatalities now stood at 23,190.

[mapuc]

Same in Denmark.

Since yesterday only 4 people have died This is the lowest since the first Danish person died in March.

Markus

[Skybird]

Munich, yesterday (Saturday)





Riding paragraphs. ^ (German proverb)



What people do not understand is: you need to negotiate not with bureucrats or the police or doctors. you need to negotiate with virusses.

[mapuc]

^ Some of your comments Skybird makes me remember an episode from
"Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman"

Can't remember every scene or what was said in this episode.

In short a person see herself more or less invulnerable.
If this person read the warning on the backside of package of cigaret, s/he lowers this to below 30 %. Meaning others will suffer severe as it says in the warning, but this smoker see it with positive eyes and think S/he have less than 30 chance for getting sick.

Or die in a motorcycle accident.

I'm not a psychologist, but I sure you can boil it down to just that.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

A further 368 people have died with coronavirus across England, Scotland and Wales, according to the latest figures from hospitals.

NHS England said 336 deaths had been recorded, taking the total to 18,420.

In Wales 14 more deaths have been recorded taking the total to 788 while in Scotland there have been 18 more deaths, a total of 1,249.

The figures do not include deaths in care homes or other settings.

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[vienna]

FEMA Reportedly Took The 5 Million Masks Ordered For Veterans To Send To Stockpile --

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fema-...b6805f9ece2bc3

Five million face masks ordered by the Veterans Health Administration to protect staff at the department’s hospitals and clinics were taken by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the Strategic National Stockpile, a top official told The Washington Post.

“I had 5 million masks incoming that disappeared,” said Dr. Richard Stone, the executive in charge of managing the nation’s largest health care system with 1,255 facilities that serve more than 9 million veterans. He told the Post that FEMA instructed vendors with protective equipment ordered by the Veterans Administration to send the shipments instead to the stockpile.

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The short-changing of hospitals caring for the nation’s veterans is similar to FEMA issues at other facilities and states across the nation. Hospital officials and governors have complained that FEMA is snatching equipment ordered by communities — rather than providing much-needed supplies, which officials had been counting on the agency to do.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — a Democrat who President Donald Trump has frequently targeted because of what he calls her “complaints” — revealed last month that vendors with whom her state had contracted for desperately needed medical equipment were told “not to send stuff,” on orders from the Trump administration.

Several hospitals in seven states surveyed by the Los Angeles Times complained that FEMA officials were showing up unannounced and seizing their supplies, leaving them desperately short and uncertain about where to turn for more equipment.

PeaceHealth, a 10-hospital system in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, had a shipment of testing supplies confiscated. “It’s incredibly frustrating,” CEO Richard DeCarlo told the newspaper.

FEMA also seized 500 ventilators ordered by Colorado this month, according to state officials. Trump then restored 100 of them, apparently as an opportunity to give a shout out to GOP Sen. Cory Gardner, who’s in the middle of a tough reelection campaign in the state.

Trump has ordered states to get their own supplies, but once the supplies are in the pipeline, they’re often seized by the federal government.

Trump’s son-in-law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner announced at a coronavirus press briefing early this month that the emergency stores were “our” stockpile — and not the states’. The website for the stockpile, however, pointedly said supplies were for the states. The site was quickly changed after Kushner spoke to conform with what he said.

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[mapuc]

No it's not me I'm healthy.

I have some sad news to give you.

Our government effort to break the infection chain will not be a success
In other words get use to Corona virus-cause we will not be able to erase it.

Not even develop an effective vaccine against it.

If WHO and other expert are correct-we will not develop any immunity against this little devil.

Furthermore-Read the headlines in a Swedish newspaper
Corona is hiding in men's testicler
(which is interesting, 'cause so did Ebola)

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[Jimbuna]