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    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

    in Politics and World Events

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    1 hour ago, Crux said:

    It's shocking, XXL. I dread to think how many people were infected in those pics.

     

    IKR!

    Dreadful

    What amazes me is that up until two weeks ago Boris the clown was going along those two medical experts aides "advice" to wait for the peak of the infection, that blocking everything is not a practical solution etc, now they're realising they have been making a mess from the start, if they are realising it

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    Coronavirus outbreak

    Italian mayor flies his student daughters out of ‘unsafe’ England

    Chief of virus-hit Bergamo says slow British response means they will be safer at home

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/italian-mayor-flies-his-student-daughters-out-of-unsafe-england

     


    The mayor of Bergamo, the city hardest hit by Italy’s coronavirus outbreak, has flown his daughters out of the UK because he says the British government’s response to the pandemic has been too slow.

     

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    Giorgio Gori, who has led the city since 2014, said the family had taken the decision because he viewed the UK’s response as so inadequate that his children would be safer at home, “even if we are at the centre of the epidemic”.

    As of Monday night, there were 6,471 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the province of Bergamo.

    Gori told Sky News: “I have two daughters, they are studying in England, one in Taunton in college and the other in Canterbury, she’s doing a master’s.


    “And when I saw what the English government was thinking about this problem, I decided to bring them back, because I think that even if we are at the centre of the epidemic, probably they are more secure here than in England, because I don’t understand why the government didn’t decide in time to protect their citizens.”


    Italy has been under lockdown for almost two weeks as it tries to contain the virus, which had killed 6,077 people as of Monday night. But there were some signs of progress on Monday, with the rate of new infections in Lombardy beginning to slow.

    The situation in Bergamo, a province of 1.2 million people in the Lombardy region, has been particularly intense, with the sheer number of patients and deaths overwhelming hospitals and funeral services.

    The army was deployed last week to transport bodies from Bergamo city to neighbouring provinces after the crematorium became overwhelmed.

    The British death toll reached 335 on Monday, but critics of the government have accused Boris Johnson of acting too slowly and failing to enact measures that would slow the crisis.

    Health secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday that people ignoring advice to stay at home were “very selfish”, adding that the government was willing to take more action if needed.

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    6 hours ago, MadFan said:

    I agree with everything you said except this. Gyms are shut & not everyone has equipment at home, if I couldn't exercise or ever leave the house I'd lose my fucking sanity. :lmao:

    This virus is not airborne, It spreads through exhaled droplets of moisture which can land on surfaces that are touched by others. There's nothing wrong with a solo jog or walk if you keep clear of others.

     

    Totally get what you mean

    Unfortunately, from yesterday, through an even stricter government bill, they have banned solo jogs too now here in Italy, because of a few morons that didn't get the memo and went jogging in groups of three, five and seven. Sad

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    27 minutes ago, PDC717 said:

    Sanders takes everything too far. The man literally believes that an American citizen should only be allowed to have so much money, and make so much money per year. That is the exact opposite of capitalism, a free market and a free society. He’s also already at the life expectancy for an American male, and the election hasn’t even happened yet.

     

    And by the way capitalism isn't at odds with having a national health service that doesn't discriminate or penalize based on income brackets, as many rich, capitalistic European countries with universal healthcare attest to. You can have both at the same time. So I don't get the argument/fuss to begin with

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    5 minutes ago, Andra said:

    @XXL, I adore u!! I know that you are totally right, It's just hard for me to be rational these days...lmao,  I'm totally the type of person who worries in advance and thinks up the worst case scenarios to the point that I mentally exhaust myself.

    But yes, we will survive!❤️🙏

     

    You're right

    We must prepare for the worse

    Always

     

    However this type of situation worsen if we tend to focus too much on the negative, it's like worrying attracts more trouble, if it makes sense :laugh: 😘 That's what I meant

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    23 minutes ago, PDC717 said:

    Sanders takes everything too far. The man literally believes that an American citizen should only be allowed to have so much money, and make so much money per year. That is the exact opposite of capitalism, a free market and a free society. He’s also already at the life expectancy for an American male, and the election hasn’t even happened yet.

     

    Well, take Biden then and you'll have another four years of the same ill-fated soup, i.e. fake illusory growth, artificially low interest rates (that only create more taxpayer debt, the QE shit game has to go, same over here in Europe with the ECB) and money spent on wars with fake justifications in a desperate attempt to maintain the dying US military and currency empire alive, in the wake of an increasingly livelier and richer East, whom American elites don't want Europe to do business with

    Moreover, wars which do not make Americans safer or more prosperous in the least and by reflection the rest of the world. I think a way in the middle is always the best option. You describe Sanders as if he was a Marxist or something

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    1 hour ago, PDC717 said:

    Daily death toll in Italy was still over 600, only dropped about 100 from the day before.

    He's talking about the contagion not the death toll, almost 1000 less positive cases, 25% less than the previous day, and even 💯 less deaths is still welcomed news, no? :laugh:

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    1 minute ago, Andra said:

    Take care @ULIZOS! I hope you will feel better very soon! hugs!!!!

    I've been somatizing and having panic attacks every night tbh, the thought that hospitals over here are full and if for some reason you might need help you have to go to the hospital and risk getting infected is been sending me into full freak out mode.

     

    Andra, I can totally relate to those awful feelings too but keeping our spirits up and not dreading the worse and worrying in advance it's the only thing that's going to protect us emotionally and mentally, aside from social distancing etc

    I'm sure we'll survive ❤️

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    9 hours ago, swimtoshore said:

    He is basically saying - the health of the stock market might just have to take precedence over the health of US citizens and the rest of the world in 15 days (when that starts and ends who the fuck knows). At that time he could choose to end lock-downs and push people back to work and be back to calling it basically just the flu and saying that fewer people will die from it than if the economy is crashed and millions and millions are unemployed and forced into poverty which will 'cause more deaths'. This is based off something Steve Hilton said on The Next Revolution on Fox News (using reporting on an estimated 130,000 preventable deaths in the UK due to 'austerity measures' as his proof point - which is really quite dishonest when in actual fact the study he is citing was specifically addressing the impacts of underfunding of public healthcare. What is especially galling is that Hilton was Chief Strategist to PM David Cameron during the period of time when this underfunding occurred........)

    Everything Trump tweets out can usually be traced back to something said on Faux News

    FUCK THIS EVIL PIECE OF SHIT

     

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    The ignorant moron in his desperate attempts to butter up the American public, making false promises on America's supposed greatness, has yet to grasp that if people die in droves there won't be ANY economy to fiddle with, not the real and much less the financial one

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    3 hours ago, Rebel Saviour said:

    Maybe it's too early to say, but it seems that the contagion is slowing down in Lombardy. Yesterday the numbers of reported deaths and infected people reduced by half, despite being still high. We're hopefully starting to see the effects of the country lockdown.

     

    Yes it is

    Hopefully it goes on this way

    And better and better every day

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    12 hours ago, ULIZOS said:

    So, I'm basically sure I got it, and I'm really fucking annoyed with how there're 3081408103903084098 articles about stupid shit like "coronavirus can last up to 4 - 48 hours on surfaces" but I can't find anything on what to actually do. 

    Since I feel kind of bad, basically like the flu, but not terrible, I THINK I should just stay home? And only go out into the world to find medical help if I can't breathe?

    Anyway, if I die I want to be displayed like this, k? thanks 

     

     

    You'll be fine sweetie 😃

    ❤️❤️

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    2 hours ago, acko said:

    The sad thing is that with no real health care system the US will be hit like a third world country within the richest country in the world.
    So sad for those who are 'poor'.

     

    Exactly

     

    Too bad the US political system is rigged and completely artificial head to toe. It's like the Billboard Charts. And after this goes away, when it goes away, still nobody will care to address this most serious issue of public health care.

    I laugh every time some Americans describe universal health care as a socialist measure. Like, do they actually understand what a socialist society really looks like and feels like? Or worse, a communist one.

    If they think that expecting a minimum of welfare for everybody regardless of income bracket and after you certainly pay your share of taxes is tantamount to "socialism"

    COVID-19 aka Coronavirus

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/opinion/google-covid-trump.html?0p19G=7900

    Google Gives Cover to Trump’s Lies

    If one of the most powerful tech companies can’t call out the president’s dishonesty, who can?

    Mr. Bensinger is a member of the editorial board

     

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    President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been a case study in a management style marked by falsehoods and intimidation. Rather than risk inviting his ire, subordinates and fellow Republicans covered for him as he delayed a coordinated response to the coronavirus and it felled nearly 200 Americans.

    His political allies haven’t been the only ones to fall into line. Just look at the way the president co-opted Google.

    While declaring the national emergency last Friday, President Trump announced that he had enlisted Google to create a broadly available website to help facilitate testing for the virus. He said that 1,700 engineers were working on the site and had “made tremendous progress.”

    It sounded ambitious and promising. If only it were true.

    What followed were attempts by Google to placate the president and a mad scramble to get done what he’d said it was already doing.

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