Wuhan virus 2020

[Jimbuna]

Several European countries register record spikes in new daily cases; bars are shut in four more French cities.

President Donald Trump is ready to return to public duties at the weekend, according to his doctor.

UK output expanded by 2.1% in August, lower than expected and despite government help for restaurants.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce more help for UK jobs and businesses later.

China is joining the international Covax scheme to get vaccines to developing countries.

Nearly 37 million cases have been confirmed globally with more than 1.06 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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Arrests at protests, intensive care doctors turned patients - these certainly weren't the intended effects of the Netherlands self-proclaimed "intelligent" lockdown.
As the number of new coronavirus cases sky-rocketed to almost 6,000 overnight, the figures are surpassing the Dutch government's own predictions.

Madrid and its surrounding region have been in confusion since Thursday, when a court refused to ratify restrictions on movement introduced on 2 October.
Those measures, which sought to prevent all non-essential travel in and out of the capital and nine nearby cities, have been lifted.

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil managed to alleviate the economic impact of the pandemic by introducing monthly emergency payments to more than 67 million people.
A study by the FGV higher education think tank said the monthly handouts - which started at £83 ($107) but have now been cut by half - pushed the number of poor Brazilians to a new low of around 50 million people.
But the handouts are due to expire in December and, unless the government manages to approve the extension of subsidies, 15 million people will be thrown back into poverty, according to FGV.

The Australian government's tax cuts programme affecting millions of people has been backed by parliament.

With about 7.5 million coronavirus cases, the US has the highest number of confirmed infections in the world - about one fifth of the global total despite having only 4% of the population.
After the initial spike in late March, social distancing restrictions gradually brought infections to heel. By May, case numbers had stabilised. But as states peeled back lockdown measures, cases began to rise, reaching a countrywide high in July.

Brussels Premier Rudi Vervoort has tested positive as Belgium today begins new measures to control the spread. The whole Brussels regional government went into self isolation on Wednesday night and a Flemish minister’s office colleague has died of the virus. Belgians can now keep only three close contacts, let four people into their homes at the same time, and cafes have to close at 23:00.

Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold video talks with the mayors of 11 of Germany's biggest cities today – 4,516 new cases have been reported today and 487 more people are in intensive care.

Czech health officials have recorded 5,394 new infections – the third time this week the republic has seen a record number since the pandemic began. More than 100 deaths have been recorded this week and there has been a big jump in hospital admissions. Restaurants and pubs will start closing at 20:00 from tonight, and gyms, swimming pools and zoos are shutting.

[Skybird]

Why the blind hope for a vaccine ending the pandemic and letting us return to a previous "normal" most likely will remain to be more blind than hope.


http://translate.google.com/translat..._12518919.html


How do pandemics end?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources...d-d6fd537aadfe


It will be "over" one day, but nobody should hold his breath that during 2021 it all will be over. Chances are that it won't. And the world will have changed too drastically once it has, there will be no return to the previous "normality". Do what evolution is all about: adapt to the changing new world.

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The UK has recorded 13,864 confirmed coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, 3,676 fewer than yesterday.

It also reported another 87 people died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, the highest total since 14 June.

Separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies show there have now been 58,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

[Mr Quatro]

God is no respecter of persons ... He will let you make a mistake in order to teach you a lesson.

Too many with Covid-19 recently to list, but these ones can be traced to the White House nomination of Barrett for Supreme Court Justice.

Riverside megachurch pastor who attended White House event contracts Covid-19

https://www.politico.com/states/cali...vid-19-1321259

OAKLAND, Calif. — The evangelical pastor of a high-profile California megachurch with links to President Trump announced Monday he's among those who have contracted Covid-19 following the recent White House event for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

Pastor Greg Laurie of Riverside's Harvest Christian Fellowship confirmed on his Facebook page that he tested positive for the virus over the weekend.

A week earlier, he attended the Sept. 26 Prayer March on the National Mall with Vice President Mike Pence and evangelist Franklin Graham. Laurie also was on hand for the White House Rose Garden ceremony for the nomination of Barrett.

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[Skybird]

the pandemci has not just medical and sociological consequences, but political, financial and economic as well. And none of them are any good.

Originally Posted by https://www.wienerzeitung.at/meinung/gastkommentare/2078078-Das-franzoesische-Virus.html

The French virus



Corona has come to stay (most likely), the British are leaving because they no longer want to stay (in the EU), and both of these together will mean that the European Union will change significantly in the coming years: It will with are likely to be shaped much more than before by France and its view of the world. With all due respect for the civilizational achievements of the Grande Nation, this is not particularly good news for the rest of Europe.

France traditionally pays homage to an interventionist, planned economy and rather market-skeptical economic policy, in which the state plays a dominant role in the economic process.

In addition, France thinks little of the conservative fiscal policy that Germany prefers. Just recently a member of the government announced quite openly that France would no longer adhere to the Maastricht debt limits even after overcoming the Corona crisis. This is an open breach of contract, but unlike actual or even alleged breaches of contract by Poland or Hungary, it does not concern anyone. Is it France, an ex-President of the EU Commission once described it with a shrug.

This economic attitude has already been of limited use to the EU; With the departure of the British and the outbreak of the pandemic, it continues to gain in influence. Because with the more free-trade Brits, an effective counterweight to French statism is saying goodbye; and Corona at the same time provided a wonderful pretext to push back the competitive economy with statistical methods and billions of freshly printed money. The British “Economist” recently rightly identified a “frenchification” of the EU: “Today, French ideas are the foundation of the EU's economic policy”.

So now, inspired by Paris, pan-European "industrial strategies" for everything - from battery production to the hydrogen economy - are being formulated in Brussels, protectionist measures to ward off imports and company takeovers, especially against China, or a huge "green deal" on rails brought. At the same time, the EU, not least under the influence and initiative of the French, is developing more and more in the direction of a debt union, which is supposed to secure the financing of this path. The idea that a planning bureaucracy with freshly printed or borrowed money can provide better growth than a market economy and competition has more influence in Brussels today than ever before; Last but not least, it is also thanks to the new faith in the state that has shaken almost all of Europe since the outbreak of the pandemic.

Zeitgeist, Corona and Brexit are amalgamating each other to a Novitschok for economies. The sporting economic growth that will be necessary in order to be able to remove the currently piled up debt towers halfway painlessly will certainly not be stimulated - quite au contraire.

Its deeply worrying that Germany has given up any resitence to the French, and signals to fully comply withg the French state-socialist dream. Because nobody should know it better than then Germans due to their history of diovision and having had two such Frenchised economies already, and second, the French plans will all be "financed" by the Germans in the main.


Europe falls.

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[Platapus]

Update on my Co-worker.


He is out of the hospital for the meninges. Strangely, it only affected the left side of his brain. Does not seem to have any permanent impairment, but since being released from the hospital, he was diagnosed with some sort of deterioration of the heart muscles, which does seem to be permanent. There is a very good chance that it won't get any worse.


He may be coming into the office, for the first time in a few months, next week. But it appears that his work out regime is a thing of the past.



Please continue to wear masks and maintain social distancing. There is a lot more to COVID than just a small chance of dying.

Originally Posted by Platapus

We need to recognize that there is more to COVID-19 than a dichotomous state of dead/alive. I fear that there are too many people who just look at the odds of dying and consider the threat of COVID-19 to be low, and once avoided, there are no further concerns with COVID-19.

A co-worker of mine, my boss actually, was in the hospital for COVID-19. This was a few weeks ago. Messed him up pretty good but he "recovered" and was sent home.

Now he was back in the ER for what we understand to be swelling of the meninges (membranes that contain the brain). This can result in death, paralysis, or brain damage. Even if he "recovers" from this swelling, it may lead to other health issues.

By the way, he just turned 40 this year and is in pretty good physical condition. Old people like me may be the ones dying, but younger people are getting messed up by COVID.

This is why COVID needs to be taken seriously. It is much more than a rolling of the dice to avoid a 1-3% chance of dying. It can start a chain of health issues, some may be long lasting.

Recovery from COVID is a nebulous term. "not dying" is only part of the issue.

Mine is but one story among a million. But we have a good man in a hospital. He probably won't die, but he probably won't fully recover either.

Wear your masks, take the precautions, keep the social distancing.

We can't eliminate the risk, but we can mitigate it and all that is necessary is a little discomfort and inconvenience.

[Jimbuna]

The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say.

The findings from Australia's national science agency suggest SARS-Cov-2 can survive for far longer on surfaces than previously thought.

The virus is most commonly transmitted when people cough, sneeze or talk.

But experts say it can also be spread by particles in the air, as well as on surfaces such as metal and plastic.

Previous laboratory studies have found that SARS-Cov-2 can survive for two to three days on bank notes and glass, and up to six days on plastic and stainless steel, although results vary.

But the latest research from Australian agency CSIRO found the virus was "extremely robust," surviving for 28 days on smooth surfaces such as glass found on mobile phone screens and both plastic and paper banknotes, when kept at 20C (68F), which is about room temperature.

In comparison, the flu virus can survive in the same circumstances for 17 days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54500673

[Skybird]

Under virus-friendly conditions (no UV from light, stable humidity and 20°C), Australian research found the virus can live for longer than previously thought on glass, steel, plastic, paper. Up to 28 days.

It can be expected that under most real-lifeconditions, it does not live that long. Especially the presence of UV (sunlight) I would expect to kill it earlier.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54500673

Some months ago, the virus was desribed to survive in deep-frozen food (-28°C) for one year, maybe longer.


I have made it a habit since months to take a cleenex and some desinfectant spray and quickly wash over every glas, tetrapack and cardbox package I bring home from the supermarket. I am not pedantic about it, but I do it. Fruits and vegetables I clean under hot water and some dishwashing liquid (cracks open the fat-containing hull of this virus which is a hooded virus) , instead of just cold water. Corona virusses are not very resisting and can be relatively easily deactivated, just crack their hulls open by anything that cracks open fats. Specially hygienic soap with desinfectant special ingredients is not needed. Dishwashing liquid is almost ideal, just not so much for the skin.