SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

[Taylor]

23 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Triage tents in Central Park. 
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8165299/Triage-tents-set-Central-Park-coronavirus-patient-overflow-Mount-Sinai-West-Hospital.html

It's cool that Franklin Graham is doing that.

[Chuck]

2 hours ago, mtangelsfan said:

Please child.  Copeland is a prosperity gospel hack.  Nobody I know likes that guy.

Right on, @mtangelsfan. I agree. I don't know a Christian alive that classifies faith teachers like Ken Copeland or the Benny Hinn's of the world as anything but a hack. They don't represent 99.3% of the Christian faith around the globe. They're all about their pocket books first. Their focus is to draw in those searching for God or to fill a void in their life by sensationalism and false promises, by twisting the words out of the bible.

If Jesus made an appearance today he'd probably rebuke those types of tele-evangelists like he did his own Jewish brethren 

Matt: 21:12 "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."

[tdawg87]

Somewhere in Wisconsin there are some pissed off neighbors.

[ten ocho recon scout]

3 hours ago, Tank said:

Great.... now hungry chinamen will flock to wisconsin. Thanks, amigo

[tdawg87]

22 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Great.... now hungry chinamen will flock to wisconsin. Thanks, amigo

At least they won't be infecting In N Out.

[red321]

National stay inside order extended to 4/30. Trump is now stating if only 100-200 thousand die...he’s done a good job. 
 

https://mobile.twitter.com/richardhine/status/1244415609510809601/video/1

 

[Blarg]

Spoiler

Photo nsfw and may be too disturbing for some members.

The 38-year-old registered nurse at a Manhattan hospital was nearing the end of his shift Sunday morning when he stepped toward the building’s ambulance bay.

There, a giant refrigerator truck was sitting, ready to carry away those who had died from complications of COVID-19. He walked up to the truck, opened the latch, and snapped a picture.

Earlier Saturday night, he had sat with a patient and held her hand as she took her last breath. Now, her body lay inside the truck.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamelder/coronavirus-new-york-city-hospital-nurse-covid-19-deaths

 

[tdawg87]

57 minutes ago, red321 said:

National stay inside order extended to 4/30. Trump is now stating if only 100-200 thousand die...he’s done a good job. 
 

https://mobile.twitter.com/richardhine/status/1244415609510809601/video/1

 

He's a narcissistic asshole completely incapable of feeling basic empathy, however the video ends on a "but". I'm curious as to the full context of the quote. 

I kinda get what he's trying to say there. Yes, he's stupid blah blah blah but he's not saying "100-200 thousand deaths is a good thing", he's just stating that comparatively it could be much worse and hopefully it doesn't come anywhere near that, and if it doesn't then it's a "success". He just doesn't know how to formulate a proper sentence. Also it's a 25 second clip that gets cut off before he finishes.

[tdawg87]

3 minutes ago, calscuf said:

You’re a fucking monster.

Shut up, comrade.

[tdawg87]

[Redondo]

FDA OKs emergency authorization of drugs touted by Trump to fight coronavirus

Pharmaceutical companies throughout the world are working around the clock to develop effective coronavirus treatments or a vaccine with no clear breakthroughs.

President Trump has spoken out about the importance of trying new treatments in hopes that we can learn where there's room for optimism and where there is not. He has touted drugs used in malaria cases as a possible response to the coronavirus and now the Food and Drug Administration put in place an emergency use authorization to try these drugs despite clear evidence of their effectiveness.

Politico reported late Sunday that the drugs included hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.

Chloroquine is a drug normally used to prevent or treat malaria caused by mosquito bites in countries where the disease is most common. It usually comes as a tablet that you can take by mouth.

As for the coronavirus, chloroquine and a similar drug, hydroxychloroquine, have shown encouraging signs in small, early tests against the virus, but they have yet to be studied during a controlled clinical trial.

Both are oral prescription drugs that have been used for the treatment of malaria and certain inflammatory conditions since the 1940s.

Politico, citing three officials, reported that the move would allow more manufacturers to produce the drugs.

“Let’s see how it works. It may. It may not,” Trump said at a press conference on Sunday, the report said.

[Redondo]

Rebecca Grant:Coronavirus forces China reboot – rethink relationship, from trade to Olympics

After Americans flatten the curve of coronavirus, it’s time to push back another spike: our increasing economic dependence on China, where the ruling Communist Party cares only about staying in power.

The facts are clear. China is not our friend or ally or even a responsible business partner. Right now, between 30 percent and 40 percent of world national economic output is affected by the coronavirus shutdowns, calculated the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in a report for the G20.

“Once we get clear of this terrible pandemic, it is imperative that we all rethink that relationship,” British politician Iain Duncan Smith told The Daily Mail on Saturday.

China’s President Xi is petrified that after this inferno the U.S. and others will turn their backs on globalization. In a March 26 letter to the G20, Xi pledged to increase active pharmaceutical supplies and implored G20 nations to cut tariffs and keep up the unfettered flow of trade.

Xi’s words don’t match his actions. In the face of this global crisis, China has hunkered down. China has tried to pin the origins of the coronavirus on the U.S. Army and on Italy. These inept, Communist Party responses show China is not ready to act with honesty or compassion. China wants to claim victory in their “peoples war,” as Xi called, it but they don’t want to change anything. Yes, Beijing has sent doctors and face masks.  But the Communist Party’s two-month cover-up attempt cost lives around the world.

Here’s a gut check for you. In less than two years, Beijing plans to open the 2022 Winter Olympics under the motto “Joyful Rendezvous Upon Pure Ice and Snow.” Revolting, isn’t it?

Who wants to celebrate with the Communist Party that waited too long to tell the world the truth about their Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak?

Back in 2015, snow-free Beijing was chosen largely because the world still wanted to believe in China.

It’s time for a total reconsideration of China’s role in the world and specifically, the U.S. economic relationship with China. Decoupling won’t happen all at once, but pharmaceuticals, 5G wireless, agriculture policy and of course imports and exports all need a new look post-coronavirus.

Bringing drug manufacturing back home to the USA is a top priority. China’s push into generic drug manufacturing has made the U.S. – and much of the world – too dependent on China’s unregulated producers for common drugs like ibuprofen, doxycycline and others.

Another must-win is blocking Huawei from world domination of 5G through ridiculous price-cutting. This battle was deemed critical well before coronavirus, and now it simply must be won. The risk of trusting Huawei with data capture and vital communications is just too high.

Brace for bumpy agricultural policy. Farm exports are already in flux. China’s purchases of U.S. soybeans hit a 15-year low during tariff wars in 2019. China still places a 68 percent tariff on imported U.S. pork. The ag policy is very complicated, but American farmers should not be at the mercy of China’s state-run agriculture firms.

The U.S. can also cut back on Chinese imports. In 2019, the top U.S. imports from China were cell phones at $64 billion, computers at $42 billion, followed by toys and sporting goods at $26 billion, with telecommunications equipment and non-wool apparel each at $24 billion. Cell phone imports have doubled since 2011. Fashion, home gadgets, electronics, we all have them, but somehow, we made do with a lot less of this stuff from China 10 years ago, and we should again.

We can do this, folks. Canada and Mexico were America’s top two trade partners in 2019, with China ranked third in total value, which is exports and imports combined. Our neighbors Canada and Mexico really are the most important partners, accounting for a combined 30 percent of U.S. total trade vs. just 13.5 percent for China.

While Washington will have much to consider, its increasingly clear that coronavirus ended globalization as we know it: the phase dating from the day China joined the World Trade Organization on Dec. 11, 2001, until December 2019, when China fumbled its response to the Wuhan virus outbreak.

China has learned little from 18 years of good treatment by major world economies. Not much has changed since 2007, when China blew up one of its own weather satellites on orbit, creating 3,000 pieces of space junk that remain a problem today. Don’t even get me started on China’s illegal air bases in the South China Sea, their new nuclear weapons and their forays into Central and South America.

I’m hoping the 2022 Olympics move to Norway and that before the first downhill ski race, the U.S. and allies have flattened the curve of China’s rise and intrusion into Western economic life.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rebecca-grant-coronavirus-forces-china-reboot-rethink-relationship-from-trade-to-olympics

[the dude abides]

11 hours ago, calscuf said:

Like half of AW believes in this.

Birds of a feather...

[Jason]

6 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

He's a narcissistic asshole completely incapable of feeling basic empathy, however the video ends on a "but". I'm curious as to the full context of the quote. 

I kinda get what he's trying to say there. Yes, he's stupid blah blah blah but he's not saying "100-200 thousand deaths is a good thing", he's just stating that comparatively it could be much worse and hopefully it doesn't come anywhere near that, and if it doesn't then it's a "success". He just doesn't know how to formulate a proper sentence. Also it's a 25 second clip that gets cut off before he finishes.

Getting cut off before you finish is the worst 

[Lhalo]

1 hour ago, Redondo said:

Rebecca Grant:Coronavirus forces China reboot – rethink relationship, from trade to Olympics

After Americans flatten the curve of coronavirus, it’s time to push back another spike: our increasing economic dependence on China, where the ruling Communist Party cares only about staying in power...

Here’s hoping we bring manufacturing back to this country. Especially essential goods such as drugs and medical supplies. Relying on other nations for those products is asinine. 

[the dude abides]

9 hours ago, Chuckster70 said:

Right on, @mtangelsfan. I agree. I don't know a Christian alive that classifies faith teachers like Ken Copeland or the Benny Hinn's of the world as anything but a hack. They don't represent 99.3% of the Christian faith around the globe. They're all about their pocket books first. Their focus is to draw in those searching for God or to fill a void in their life by sensationalism and false promises, by twisting the words out of the bible.

If Jesus made an appearance today he'd probably rebuke those types of tele-evangelists like he did his own Jewish brethren 

Matt: 21:12 "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves."

Is Paula White included with these hacks?

[ten ocho recon scout]

8 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

At least they won't be infecting In N Out.

Poor Nate

[ten ocho recon scout]

26 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

Here’s hoping we bring manufacturing back to this country. Especially essential goods such as drugs and medical supplies. Relying on other nations for those products is asinine. 

Im not super hopeful for it, but if any event was going to force some to rethink profit margins against doing what is right, this is it.

[Lhalo]

1 hour ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Im not super hopeful for it, but if any event was going to force some to rethink profit margins against doing what is right, this is it.

Well the feds are going to have to step in with tariffs and regulations to make it happen. Regulations for foreign imports and deregulation for domestic manufacturing. 

[Chuck]

1 hour ago, the dude abides said:

Is Paula White included with these hacks?

I'm not up to speed on who Paula White is. 

[the dude abides]

9 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

I'm not up to speed on who Paula White is. 

She's the thrice married televangelist / prosperity gospel theologian, former fuck buddy of Benny Hinn, and Trump's Special Advisor to Center for Faith and Opportunities Initiatives.

 

[red321]

On 3/28/2020 at 8:33 PM, Chuckster70 said:

As a WA resident I can tell you that Gov. Inslee is the worst. I don't even know where to start. 

@Chuckster70

Please, do tell, why is he the worst? It certainly looks like competent leadership has had positive results for Washington re: the coronavirus

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/seattle-washington-state-coronavirus-transmission-rate.html

The Seattle area, home of the first known coronavirus case in the United States and the place where the virus claimed 37 of its first 50 victims, is now seeing evidence that strict containment strategies, imposed in the earliest days of the outbreak, are beginning to pay off — at least for now.

Deaths are not rising as fast as they are in other states. Dramatic declines in street traffic show that people are staying home. Hospitals have so far not been overwhelmed. And preliminary statistical models provided to public officials in Washington State suggest that the spread of the virus has slowed in the Seattle area in recent days.

While each infected person was spreading the virus to an average of 2.7 other people earlier in March, that number appears to have dropped, with one projection suggesting that it was now down to 1.4....

....

Officials in Washington State first began to plead with people to keep their distance from one another at the end of February, after discovering that the virus had infected people in the Seattle area with no known exposure or history of foreign travel, followed by an outbreak at a suburban nursing home now linked to dozens of deaths.

Within a week, the county was asking organizations to consider postponing large events and for people to work from home if possible. People over 60 were encouraged to remain indoors. Some of the region’s major employers, including the headquarters campuses of Amazon and Microsoft, responded by encouraging workers to work from home, quieting workplace hubs that would otherwise be bustling during commutes and lunchtime....

....

Mr. Inslee warned at the time how drastically life needed to change, saying it was unacceptable for people to be crammed close together at bars and other settings; the restrictions, he said, were going to be “profoundly disturbing to a lot of the ways that we live our lives.”

That same day, with case numbers also rising in New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio was not yet endorsing such limits. “People should go out and continue to live life, should go out to restaurants,” Mr. de Blasio said.

[Tank]

2 hours ago, the dude abides said:

Is Paula White included with these hacks?

if she isn't, she should be.

[tdawg87]

43 minutes ago, the dude abides said:

She's the thrice married televangelist / prosperity gospel theologian, former fuck buddy of Benny Hinn, and Trump's Special Advisor to Center for Faith and Opportunities Initiatives.

 

I would.

She isn't bad either.

[Taylor]

Most Christians don't like or respect Paula White or Kenneth Copeland, or really any of the prominent "Christian leaders" who are attached at the hip with Trump.