Look at there leader in a week he’ll call that fake news and deny it being on the agenda
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Maybe, Trump is a total clown.
However, at the very least the US government has the decency to tell their citizens what the plan is.
The Tories run a good PR campaign, and the Labour party has been split for years, do you really think the general public (who are idiots) would vote for someone like Corbyn?
Labour need to get their act together before you can start blaming the public - if they do get their act together and the public still vote Tory, then you can complain.
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Yes, the White House specifically said that coronavirus treatment would be covered by the stimulus package.
There are also state plans for low cost or completely free. A relative who lost his job, was able to enroll for Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield for free in early despite being it past enrollment phase. He's effectively got full coverage, zero deductibles! (which is what Bernie was advocating all along).
Just as I'm typing this, the city is clapping for HCW
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That isn't a bad summary although keeping schools open has been very confusing and has had a horrible impact on teachers. They say schools shouldn't remain closed (which they aren't but want to be) and then threaten defunding for not complying, which they are even if the vast msjority of kids are learning st home (also as per government advice).
What is causing the mixed messages is the government wants to defund public education but it is the private sector (who the PM loves) who don't want to open as their students generally all have Macs, broadband connections and often a non-working parent at home. It is messing with his mind and he doesn't cope with criticism or non-compliance very well (plus he has the empathy of a rock) as we saw with his woeful performance with the bushfires.
The worst outcome of this is that this terrible government may get away with their incompetence. They were handling the economy badly but can now blame Covid-19.
Nice to see a bit of hope on here now and again.
Markets are surging on this news. Hope its legit.
I don’t follow Australian politics at all but Bunnings sounds like Trump?!
I do love Masterchef Australia though and am delighted it’s back and watching it very morning, after I download episode from night before!
fecking hell people are stupid.
Just sent this to someone I know who's a carer. Reply was in the form of emojis :
We're living out an episode of Black Mirror and this just confirms it.
UK government went from herd immunity to total lockdown. Complete nonsense
feck me. Just noticed the mortality rate in Italy is 15%.
They have done 20k tests /million as well, which is pretty decent..
Must be pretty widespread and have a lot lot more undetected cases..
They have done 20k tests /million as well, which is pretty decent..
Must be pretty widespread and have a lot lot more undetected cases..
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I am skeptical of clinical trials showing promising results headlines as thereis no control group in the critical study, but these are unprecedented times so I’ll have a drink to any glimmer of positive news!
Isn't that the plot to Assault on Precinct 13?
Remdesivir was supposed to be the most likely drug with a good outcome since the very beginning. Just that Trump decided that hydroxychloroquine is the real deal.
Staggering! No masks, no social distancing
Shitface is fine. Dickhead, knob and mass murderer are all also acceptable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52316150
Yeah but the US is led by a madman who is thinking of nothing bar how quickly he can get his businesses open again. I wouldn’t use the US as a barometer
Let me just tell you this is not true in the slightest.If you lived here you would know it. I've never seen people break or try to cheat their way around rules as much as you see here.
The roads are total mayhem and people are constantly smoking inside public buildings etc which really grinds me gears and that is just the start of it. It's 100% about enforcement of the law here. If a law is not strictly enforced then it may as well not exist as people would have no respect for it whatsoever.
In the case of the virus, its a mixture of people having memory of past outbreaks and so choosing to take it seriously themselves (wearing masks, social distancing) and the measures against the virus being enforced seriously. Your point about it being easier to lock down is a good one because like you say a couple of blokes at the complex gate can lock down hundreds.
Edit: Apologies I see that you lived in a Chinese city before so its interesting how are experiences are totally different. You must surely have seen the things that I mentioned. Like ignoring rules on smoking indoors and driving like maniacs?
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Bunnings is a DIY store.
Scott Morrison is the PM. He likes the nickname SCOMO but everyone now calls him Scotty From Marketing, which he hates, after his pathetic showing in the bush fires. The only good thing you can say about him is that he isn't as pure evil as Peter Dutton.
That was great mate. Loved it.
told you I don't follow Aussie politics!
Firstly, it‘s an opinion piece. Secondly, even the article admits „there is no evidence that the virus now plaguing the world was engineered; scientists largely agree it came from animals“. Finally, coming from a country that’s losing it‘s credibility in the rest of the world by the hour — talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Still, I wouldn‘t rule out anything shady by any government of any country worldwide.
There is a great deal of evidence that it isn't manufactured I believe.
Evidence that the virus was engineered in a lab? That would be new to me. Care to share?
But each clap kills a handful of possible viruses. I kindly ask everybody to clap closely to their mouths for efficient killing.
Now finger snippers really have something to be afraid about.
That it wasn't manufactured at a lab. Early on various labs looked at the virus and concluded it wasn't manufactured. I don't have the link to hand but it seemed fairly definitive.
They can do as they wish and I am free to point out how silly it is. It’s important to highlight because tokenism is frequently offered up in place of affirmative action which is just infuriating.
There is a lot of anti-Conservative sentiment because they’re a dreadful rabble and in a healthy democracy, governments should be scrutinised and held to account. The action of governments across the globe is a key element of the Covid-19 debate.
Okay, but is it not shady the measures China has taken to not speak about the Wuhan labs? You know, like a normal cicilized country would and should do to get to the bottom of how it originated? Instead China now is washing hands, and have good opportunities to buy up large lums of shares in European companies in a general transparent union like the EU.
They've done unethical experiments - we cant just rule it out. Instead we get no picture about it at all. I of course, like you, also loathe american cover ups and crappy US ruling, but that does not make it OK for China to not shine a light on the issue
And dont dismiss the article as just an opinion piece. It states facts and reports from earlier years over raised concern. Some of it is surely opinion, but the article ALSO says it is not certain that it came from the lab. So it's not like its just a pro American agenda. More like a healthy critical journalist angle. With China, you always need someone to ask serious questions as they operate very much under the radar.
The horses are way out of the barn now. If only they had taken it seriously early back in January and then executed a containment strategy and their measures instead of shaking hands.
So there are only two solutions left:
1) Herd immunity
2) Hyper containment -- you test every single person once every three weeks or a month then isolate or hospitalise them if required.
Both are unrealistic due to costs.
Natural thing left is mitigation. I can only see a whack a mole scenario going forward till past 2021 or early 2022. The vaccine ain't expected to be ready till Mid-2021. But then there is the issue of supplies and the distribution of the vaccine. Not everyone can get vaccinated all the same time. It will be rolled out gradually.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/health/co...-plots-re-opening/ar-BB12LcYF?ocid=spartandhp
So China was not cooking the books then.
So China was not cooking the books then.