The Spread of. the Corona Virus

[MyLadiesDaddy]

5 minutes ago, Starrider said:

 

 

Starr

AMEN TO THAT 

[gregp]

Yup

[ScaryMary]

I’m in California and I’m a waitress....

At least one of my restaurants is now closed and the other one is next. 

I’m not sure how this is going to pan out for me but I have to file for unemployment benefits as of today.

Praying for everyone.

[bigwave]

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The Coronavirus Fatality Rate Reported by the Media Is COMPLETELY INACCURATE. The Actual Rate Is LESS THAN THE FLU – MEDIA LYING AGAIN!

The current estimate for the fatality rates on the coronavirus just don’t add up.  The estimates based on current data are completely inaccurate. Current data shows that this virus is much less deadly that even the common flu from the 2019-2020 season.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/breaking-exclusive-the-coronavirus-fatality-rate-reported-by-the-media-is-completely-inaccurate-the-actual-rate-is-less-than-the-flu-media-lying-again/

[umbertino]

5 hours ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

AMEN TO THAT 

 

Agreed

[umbertino]

3 hours ago, ScaryMary said:

I’m in California and I’m a waitress....

At least one of my restaurants is now closed and the other one is next. 

I’m not sure how this is going to pan out for me but I have to file for unemployment benefits as of today.

Praying for everyone.

 

Wishing you the best for everything

[umbertino]

'Life put on hold': what the papers say about the UK coronavirus crisis

 

Sobering plea from prime minister dominates front pages as UK comes to terms with wholesale change to daily life

 

Graham Russell

Tue 17 Mar 2020 04.28 GMT Last modified on Tue 17 Mar 2020 04.37 GMT

 

 

 

Front pages of the UK papers on Tuesday 17 March as Boris Johnson shuts down the nation to avoid the spread of coronavirus

Composite: Various

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/life-put-on-hold-what-the-papers-say-about-the-uk-coronavirus-crisis

 

Well...News Channel here said that Johnson finally started introducing measures  in order to try and curb the CV spread...But he left pubs ( A British tradition) and cinema-theaters open......So one wonders what's the point then......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Come back Monday, OK?' Hundreds of prisoners escape in Brazil amid Covid-19 anger

 

Holiday for minimum security prisoners is cancelled because of outbreak, so many simply run off

 

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Tue 17 Mar 2020 03.20 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/come-back-monday-ok-hundreds-of-prisoners-escape-in-brazil-amid-covid-19-anger

 

Edited March 17, 2020 by umbertino

[umbertino]

'This is like a war': view from Italy's coronavirus frontline

 

Friends and relatives of those killed by Covid-19 tell of the virus’s devastating impact

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Tue 17 Mar 2020 05.00 GMT

 

 

A patient on a stretcher is transported by medical workers wearing protective suits at the Gemelli hospital in Rome

Photograph: Giuseppe Lami/EPA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/this-is-like-a-war-view-from-italys-coronavirus-frontline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coronavirus: France imposes lockdown as EU calls for 30-day travel ban

 

Ursula von der Leyen calls for end to non-essential travel as governments impose measures rarely seen outside wartime

 

Jon Henley and Kim Willsher in Paris and Ashifa Kassam in Madrid

Mon 16 Mar 2020 19.52 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/coronavirus-spain-takes-over-private-healthcare-amid-more-european-lockdowns

 

 

Edited March 17, 2020 by umbertino

[umbertino]

‘It became part of life’: how Haiti curbed cholera

 

When cholera broke out just months after a devastating earthquake, Haiti’s health system was pushed to the brink. The extraordinary rearguard action that followed offers an object lesson in dealing with a public health crisis

 

Jacob Kushner in Mirebalais

Mon 16 Mar 2020 06.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/16/it-became-part-of-life-how-haiti-curbed-cholera

[umbertino]

Italy will be Europe's canary in the coalmine for the post-Covid economy

 

All eyes will be on the southern European state to see if the ECB’s measures will prevent a health emergency becoming an economic one

 

Tue 17 Mar 2020 07.30 GMT Last modified on Tue 17 Mar 2020 12.56 GMT

Marchel Alexandrovich

 

 

 

The Rialto Bridge in Venice is sanitised as a measure against the coronavirus

Photograph: Manuel Silvestri/Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/17/italy-europe-covid-economy-ecb-coronavirus

[umbertino]

 

It's already an economic emergency infact......Our Gov't 2 days ago decided to make a financial maneuver worth 25B Euros (all in debt)

[ScaryMary]

I’m on a Shelter In Place in Contra Costa County in California. 

And I realized I’m an elderly person that needs to be so careful to protect myself.

[ScaryMary]

23 hours ago, umbertino said:

 

Wishing you the best for everything

@umbertino

I am praying you and yours are holding on and doing well.

[boosterbglee]

Be safe ScaryMary!

[umbertino]

6 hours ago, ScaryMary said:

I’m on a Shelter In Place in Contra Costa County in California. 

And I realized I’m an elderly person that needs to be so careful to protect myself.

 

 

Just take care of yourself ( and your beloved) and everything will be fine....

 

 

Best

[umbertino]

6 hours ago, ScaryMary said:

@umbertino

I am praying you and yours are holding on and doing well.

 

 

Very kind of you, SM...It's appreciated

[umbertino]

 

Getting more and more ugly here......

 

Just minutes ago a car was passing in my street and a megaphone was saying  that " all are ordered to stay in their homes and may only go out for groceries, pharmacy or going to work...Trespassers will be punished  with fines and charges"

 

Sounded like a ( bad) horror movie

 

All people  when going out must carry along the so-called auto-certificate to be downloaded online and printed...

Well  just this morning this doc.changed as for wording and since I  don't have a printer  I need to go out and go to a friend who will print it for me...I could get stopped along the way....You must declare under your responsibility  that you are NOT positive to CV and you are not being quarantined...You risk a fine and a a charge in case of false declaration....

 

Yesterday 5 young folks got admitted in the hospital in my hometown even though the deceased are usually all around 75 - 90 old.....

 

About 150 positive cases so far  in my area....

[umbertino]

Coronavirus live news: Spain to close all hotels as tourists advised to leave; worldwide cases pass 200,000

 

Belgium goes into lockdown; EU implements strictest travel ban in history; outbreak reaches every US state. Follow the latest updates

 

 

• Coronavirus latest: at a glance
• Schools in Scotland and Wales to close from Friday
• Tom Hanks has ‘the blahs’ as he and Rita Wilson recover
• Japanese flu drug ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, says China

 

Alexandra Topping(now) and Helen Sullivan (earlier)

Wed 18 Mar 2020 14.22 GMT

 

 

Key events

 

• 5m ago Nigeria limits entry from 13 countries
• 28m ago United States-Canada border shut down
• 40m ago US-Canada border to close to "non-essential" traffic
• 42m ago Cannes Lions festival cancelled in France
• 46m ago Boris Johnson faces British MPs in prime minister's questions – snap verdict
• 46m ago Spanish hotels set to close as British tourists told to return home
• 52m ago Eurovision Song Contest cancelled
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Live feed

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/mar/18/coronavirus-live-news-updates-outbreak-us-states-uk-australia-europe-eu-self-isolation-lockdown-latest-update

 

[umbertino]

Wuhan resident: China “nationalized” coronavirus crisis; the West isn’t doing enough

 

March 18, 2020 12:28 PM CDT By C.J. Atkins

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/wuhan-resident-china-nationalized-coronavirus-crisis-the-west-isnt-doing-enough/

[Jim1cor13]

I find this interesting...timing and all...October 18, 2019. Read carefully...food for thought.

 

http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

 

Event 201

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.

 

Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise

In recent years, the world has seen a growing number of epidemic events, amounting to approximately 200 events annually. These events are increasing, and they are disruptive to health, economies, and society. Managing these events already strains global capacity, even absent a pandemic threat. Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global—a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences. A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.

[Pitcher]

Things that make you go Mmmmm.  Thanks for the post Jim.  I remember this well in Oct.  At the time I thought it was just another humanity project by the Gates Foundation.  

[umbertino]

'A generation has died': Italian province struggles to bury its coronavirus dead

 

Coffins pile up and corpses are sealed off in homes as Bergamo’s funeral firms are overwhelmed

 

Angela Giuffrida in Orvieto and Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

Thu 19 Mar 2020 05.00 GMT

 

 

Funeral workers transport the coffin of a coronavirus victim into a cemetery in Bergamo

Photograph: Flavio Lo Scalzo/Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/generation-has-died-italian-province-struggles-bury-coronavirus-dead

[umbertino]

 

After a week at the end of February and most of March staying closed, Italy's schools and universities were supposed to open again on April 3....

Now it has been stated by the Secretary of Education that there will be necessarily a further lockdown period of another 2 or even 3 weeks or longer.....No date set for sure yet....

[Sage449]

Continued prayers for this entire mess. 

[umbertino]

7 minutes ago, Sage449 said:

Continued prayers for this entire mess. 

 

 

Thanks Sage...It is certainly appreciated....