Corona Virus Update

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  1. gnoib

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    I call that the irony of our generation. We fought to get the dust and mothballs out, our parents generation. The Pleasant Ville generation
    We took and enjoyed our freedoms, gave the past generations the finger.
    Than turned around and became the most restrictive and conservative generation ever.

    What we did, how we behaved would get any kid today into prison, or at least a arrest.
    The pricipal in our high school runs around with a ruler and measures the width of the fabric on top of the shoulder of the high school girls and sends them home if less than 2 inch.
    If they would have done that with us, we would all have shown up with no shirt at all the next day, boys and girls.
     
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    I went to Long Beach State from 1964-68. Got married (how old fashioned) in 1966 and the one and only wife is at this moment about three feet away.
    They were nowhere near a majority.
    The media were amoral then, too. Anything to keep people tuned in. Marijuana, LSD. "Free love." Women with no bra. OMG. You bet it was all over tv.

    LA had George Putnam anchoring the local news...



    There was the Joe Pyne Show.



    Steppenwolf's song, "Don't Step on the Grass, Sam," was about Mayor Sam Yorty and doper on the Joe Pyne Show. The fraternities at Long Beach State were picking up marijuana in Mexico and selling kilograms of weed for $25.

    Then there was the Vietnam War. Few liked it. There was, "Why are we fighting the war if it isn't to win?" And there was also, "Why are we fighting, period?"

    All hell broke loose from 1964-68. Just like what's happening now. The political and economic system needed reform then and it does now. Young people don't accept how society is rigged against nonwhites, against young people, and against their futures by doing little or nothing about global warming.
    They were floating up and down the West Coast from British Columbia to San Diego.
    They weren't very effective beyond making the Vietnam War problematic for anyone in the White House. They convinced everyone the draft was a bad idea.
     
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    I was still in diapers :p
     
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    What case are you talking about? Griswold v. Connecticut?
    Guaranteed what?

    Democrats are united in a goal of making sure everyone has healthcare. Tens of millions of people just lost their job and healthcare, in the middle of a pandemic.
    Now.
    They did.
     
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    TOTAL CONFIRMED COVID-19 DEATHS (19 JUNE)

    What we have not yet understood - as a people - is that that sort of behaviour can lead one to their ultimate death in a world-wide pandemic as such is upon us.

    Chart USA Total Covid-19 Confirmed Deaths as of 19 June. Still on a positive up-slope shown here!

    As a nation, Wakey-Wakey ... !
     
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    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yet another American PotUS who thought he walked on water.

    Where, ever, do we find them? Why, ever, do we vote these self-consummate dunderheads into the highest office of the land*?

    Stoopid is as stoopid does ...

    *Reagan won fair-and-square his election. Donald Dork squeaked in by means of a defective Electoral College. He LOST THE POPULAR-VOTE by a highly meaningful 2.1% margin!
     
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    The Georgia Department of Public Health reported 1,227 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, June 22.

    [​IMG] © Provided by Savannah WTOC-TV Update on COVID-19
    This brings the state total to 65,928 confirmed cases in the state since the pandemic began. Over 2,648 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported across the state.
     
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  8. Richard Franks

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    There’s been much speculation about if and when a second coronavirus wave will come crashing down on us, and whether it has the potential to be more severe than the first crest.
    After all, that’s what unfolded with past respiratory infections like the 1918 flu pandemic, which had a second wave far more devastating and fatal than the first.
    But epidemiologists — the people who study the patterns and causes of diseases — warn against assuming that COVID-19 will behave like the infectious diseases we’ve seen before. This is a brand-new virus and it’s not clear this pandemic will even see a second wave.
    What’s more likely, several epidemiologists who spoke to HuffPost suggested, is that the first wave will continue to swell, with daily cases and death counts rising and falling in particular areas, until the population eventually achieves herd immunity ― which seems unlikely without a widely available vaccine.
    That said, we’ve never dealt with this specific virus before, so we really don’t know what the pandemic will look like three months from now. “We’re in totally uncharted waters here,” said Anne Rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
    Here’s what the epidemiologists think about a second wave:
    Why do second waves happen?
    Let’s first get into what we know about second waves in general by looking at our old friend influenza. The flu is a seasonal illness. It spreads well in cold, dry air, especially when people huddle together indoors during the winter.
    “We see first and second waves with those because seasonally, they go away,” said Christine Johnson, a University of California, Davis professor of epidemiology and researcher on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT project.
    The flu virus also mutates easily. Each year, we see new variations of the flu, and second and third waves in a given flu season are often caused by strains different from the one behind the first wave. We just saw this in the 2019-2020 flu season: B strains struck first, then A-strain variations came in a second wave.
    But we’re dealing with COVID-19, not the flu — and that’s an important distinction to make. Jennifer Horney, a disaster epidemiologist and founding director of the University of Delaware’s epidemiology program, said that predicting a new virus’s behavior based on other illnesses risks a “false expectations paradox.”
     
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    Recent flu pandemics — like the avian influenza in 2005 and the H1N1 outbreak in 2009 — may have given us the wrong idea about how COVID-19 will play out, Horney said. Those past outbreaks came in multiple waves because of how their flu viruses behaved and were transmitted.
    Epidemiologists are doing their best with past models and adjusting as we learn more about this coronavirus. But ultimately, the COVID-19 virus has its own viral behavior patterns. “Since it’s novel, we don’t know what it’s going to look like yet,” Horney said.
     
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    I sure do miss the days when many young women wore no bra!
     
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    Yes indeed it was a beautiful thing to behold. Mother Nature is wonderful.

    I recall being in Milwaukee when the lasses marched down Wisconsin Ave. pulled off their bra to burn them. Me and other guys in the military enjoyed the show. We cheered them on. America the beautiful.
     
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    If and when a second wave of this Coronavirus AKA COVID-19 comes, Will we be more prepared for it that the first or will we have a rerun of March 2020? We've still have to wash our hands for 20 to 30 seconds, use hand sanitizer as often as possible, Wear face masks when going outside, stay 6 feet from each other and whole lot more. This is not the time ot let up our guard. We've got to take more precaution more than ever. it worked before, it can work again. It has to be and what Trump says is nothing more than balderdash. It has to be if we want to get through this pandemic. The thing to do is to do the right thing.
     
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    President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was serious when he revealed that he had directed his administration to slow coronavirus testing in the United States — shattering the defenses of senior White House aides who argued Trump’s remarks were made in jest.
    “I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear,” Trump told reporters, when pressed on whether his comments at a campaign event Saturday in Tulsa, Okla., were intended as a joke.
    “We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. We test better than anybody in the world. Our tests are the best in the world, and we have the most of them. By having more tests, we find more cases,” he continued.
    Hold it right there! Slowing down the coronavirus testing is no joke and I don't find it funny at all! This is serious! Very Serious! We've got a lot of sick people out there that would not take it as joking. Wake up Trump and smell the coffee here. This is no time to joke around here. Get it?
     
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    You are old.
     
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    Was he kidding? I don't think so.

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    It goes to show you can't believe anything Trump says. He says one thing and means another.
     
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    The problem is that it isn't nearly enough, and it didn't work before.

    You need far more than masks and hand sanitizer. You need a complete lockdown for 21 days, at this point.
     
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    Seven states are reporting new highs for current coronavirus hospitalizations, according to data tracked by The Washington Post — Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — as the number of infections continues to climb across the South and West. More than 800 covid-19 deaths were reported in the United States on Tuesday, the first time fatalities have increased since June 7. Texas and California on Tuesday eclipsed 5,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus over a 24-hour span — records in those states. Arizona, Nevada and Missouri also logged new single-day highs. Overall, 33 states and U.S. territories now have a rolling average of new cases that is higher than last week. Worldwide, there are more than 9 million confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, with more than 2.3 million cases and at least 119,000 deaths reported in the United States.
    Would 28 days do?
    I'll tell you this Andrew Cuomo got the right ideas in which Donald Trump didn't and the rest explains itself.
     
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    No problem here in France. It is summer, some beaches are "opening", but not all.

    Anyway, when they do the "bare swinging-breasts begin". It is a marvelous wonder to behold ...
     
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    Bingo. The Liar-in-Chief.
     
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    Members of the Brazilian parliament decided to confirm suspicions and break into a hospital that claimed to have 5,000 infected & 200 deaths from COVID-19, and found that the hospital had grossly over-represented the cases and its claims. There was in fact not a single person, they report, and the hospital was entirely empty and was obviously still under construction.

    Acting on a tip that something was going wrong at this hospital, five members of the Brazil parliament went to hospitals under encouragement by president Bolsonaro to break in & check to see the number of patients there

    This hospital was not even finished, but claiming it was treating 5000 people with COVID-19 while 200 were already dead. Officials broke in to check the claims and found the hospital is an absolute mess, not finished, and no patients.

    The governor is apparently defrauding the state and the nation along with the citizen taxpayers, and lying about the stats. This is possibly an embezzlement scheme to help bring down the country, and to push vaccines based upon inflated numbers of Covid related deaths.

    What was more shocking still was the decision to open the coffins supposedly awaiting transport to be buried, of coronavirus victims. Opening the coffins, the MP’s were shocked, but not surprised, when they were found to be empty.

    https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/06/e...s-expose-biggest-covid-19-hoax-known-to-date/

    See vid of empty coffins being inspected.
     
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    AAPS Sues the FDA to End Its Arbitrary Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine

    Today, June 2, 2020, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) filed a lawsuit, AAPS v. FDA, against the Food and Drug Administration to end its arbitrary interference with the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which President Trump and other world leaders have taken as a prophylaxis against COVID-19.

    https://aapsonline.org/hcqsuit/


    "1. AAPS brings this action on behalf of its members and their patients to end the irrational interference by the FDA with timely access to hydroxychloroquine ("HCQ"), which has been donated in large quantities to the federal government for prompt distribution. Specifically, AAPS seeks an injunction against the FDA's Emergency Use Authorization dated March 28, 2020 ("EUA"), which prohibits use of the donated HCQ except for already-hospitalized patients for Case 1:20-cv-00493 ECF No. 1 filed 06/02/20 PageID.1 Page 1 of 24

    2. Through a biased, unlawful process described in greater detail below, FDA officials from prior administrations acted contrary to the wishes of President Donald Trump, by arbitrarily limiting use of HCQ from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) "to prescribe to adolescent and adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible."1

    3. Specifically, a Barack Obama-appointed official who is outspokenly critical of President Trump, Rick Bright, personally opposed making HCQ widely available to the public from the federal SNS, and distorted the agency process to arbitrarily and unjustifiably limit access by patients to HCQ received as donations by the federal government for the purpose of making it available promptly to the public.

    4. HCQ has been approved as safe by the FDA for sixty-five (65) years, and is safer than numerous medications that are widely available over the counter ("OTC") without requiring a prescription, including anti-depressants (St John’s Wort), sleeping pills (diphenhydramine), bronchodilators (ephedrine), many pain medications including ibuprofen, acetaminophen (Tylenol), and even aspirin. HCQ is not addictive in any way.

    5. President Donald Trump himself has repeatedly praised HCQ, and he announced on May 18, 2020 that on his own initiative and with his physician's advice and prescription, Trump took a full regimen of HCQ himself as a prophylaxis against COVID-19, as other world leaders have reportedly been doing.

    6. The arbitrary, irrational, and unjustifiable interference by Defendants with the use of HCQ as a prophylaxis interferes with the political process by which the United States selects its president: national political conventions. For nearly two centuries, thousands of delegates attend a national political convention together to nominate their candidate for president and to present their slate to the American public. Continued, irrational interference by Defendants with a safe prophylaxis for COVID-19 has the effect of infringing on the right of the people to hold national political conventions, which have been an essential part of our presidential elections since at least 1832.


    PDF of complaint:
    http://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-6-2-2020.pdf
     
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    It was reported, read about it in FAZ and Spiegel and Sued Deutsche. Seehofer commented it and Merkel, too.
    It is nothing but a opinion of a employee of the Interior and he misused his position to circulate his paper/opinion.
    https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deuts...arum-der-autor-kein-whistleblower-ist,RysQhvc.

    No news of Fake News.

    You need to do better
     
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