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RE: Covid-19 - CRAZY-HORSE - 21-06-2020
our State of Victoria has just started to reinstate restrictions after a spike in C-19 cases
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/australian-state-reinstates-restrictions-after-spike-in-coronavirus-cases/ar-BB15KcyO?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds
also, saw on BBC World News this morning that cases have also spiked in up to 21 U.S States by between 20-50% since they eased restrictions over the last three weeks also.
RE: Covid-19 - CRAZY-HORSE - 23-06-2020
World #1 Men's Tennis Player Novak Djokovic contracts C-19
https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/tennis/djokovic-tests-positive-for-covid-19-statement/ar-BB15S1YK?ocid=spartandhp
RE: Covid-19 - CRAZY-HORSE - 25-06-2020
Victoria opened almost completely opened up a couple of weeks ago
and in the last ten days their infection rate has increased at something like 20-25 cases a day.
the State has gone back into lockdown
the dickheads have gone out binge buying/hoarding toilet paper etc again.
the army has been called in to assist where necessary.
RE: Covid-19 - Jerome - 25-06-2020
What in God's name is this obsession with toilet paper? We are starting to come out of lockdown and it's a major mistake. The so-called 'lifting of restrictions' is all money driven, nothing else. Stupid.
On a related note, a mountaineer suggested Dexamethasone as an alternative treatment. Makes perfect sense. This drug is used by mountaineers when they start suffering from pulmonary edema - a condition where the lungs fill up with fluid because the body cannot get rid of carbon dioxide due to lack of oxygen at high altitudes. Patients on ventilators at hospitals experience the exact same symptoms. Apparently they have found it particularly useful in patients with advanced C-19. Reduces the fatality rate by a third. It has no effect on people with mild symptoms. And here's the real surprise - it only costs 50p a shot. And it's been on the market for the last 60 years...
I am repeating myself here but this thing isn't going to go away in a hurry. What's needed is an effective vaccine. Pure and simple. And they are not that easy to create, engineer or formulate. Can't understand why all the guru's in this field don't get together and share ideas. But of course big business is standing in the way of that. Too much profit to be made to collaborate with other companies. Again - just money driven.
The stupidity of the human race knows no bounds.
Brother Where You Bound.
https://youtu.be/xqVEe5mcmbc
RE: Covid-19 - Ruby - 25-06-2020
Interesting about Dexamethasone – makes sense. SA recently approved its use for critically ill patients and we manufacture it here too. Let the big pharma wars begin. Apologies for being cynical.
Our positive case numbers are climbing at an alarming rate since restrictions were eased on 01 June. Eeeek! A big jump today and our testing isn't great - that's the thing - there are just so many unknowns including the extent of the spread. It’s an inevitability, this spike in numbers – was always going to go that way sooner or later, and I don’t see us back in full lockdown – there will be serious civil unrest. The whole world is a bit directionless – so difficult to manage something that’s both unseen and arbitrary. Even the poster children such as Vietnam are having little resurgences - they seem to be able to manage it though, much better than we can. I just know I don’t want it so will continue to do whatever I reasonably can to avoid the possibility of contamination or of passing it on to someone else unwittingly which seems to happen quite a lot - I've heard some sad stories.
RE: Covid-19 - CRAZY-HORSE - 25-06-2020
^^
Im getting on with my life as normal but am still conscious of not getting too close to people at the Supermarket etc.
like Ruby mentioned,
we are all directionless at the moment (still), every country seems to be doing their own thing so theres a lot of confusion with people wondering 'why cant we do this or that because _____can do it?" etc etc.
we need to be consistent!
RE: Covid-19 - Jerome - 26-06-2020
Infection rates seem to be increasing wherever the lockdown restrictions have been relaxed. This is not good. Everyone here is waiting for Monday when the pubs open up again. I won't be seen in one for love or money. People are nuts. Whenever I have had flu over the last 2 decades it has always been contracted after a visit to the pub. So there is NO way I am going to one for a long, long time. I like my local establishment - some great characters and we have some really interesting conversations but it's just not worth the risk. Oh well - time to find a different amusement. I have always wanted to build one of those ships in a bottle thing - might give it a whirl. Of course it might take quite a while to empty the bottle first...
RE: Covid-19 - CRAZY-HORSE - 26-06-2020
the U.S has recorded its highest 'one day' rise in confirmed cases since April with 40,000 new cases today.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/coronavirus-update-united-states-hits-record-daily-case-number-of-40-000-novak-djokovic-s-coach-tests-positive/ar-BB160IsO?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds
Florida and Texas are reversing previous re-opening restrictions after rises in new infections in the thousands each day this week.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/wellbeing/texas-and-florida-crack-down-on-bars-reversing-coronavirus-reopening/ar-BB160rJE?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds
when this started I remember the media/medical professionals/Governments saying that this was going to be a way of life for at lest twelve months until they can sort out a vaccine and then, only after then would we be able to ease restrictions which would take up to another twelve months to get us back to where we were prior to C-19.
so how come after a couple of months were we re-opening, and after three and a half months is the Western World almost back to the 'old normal'????? I don't get it?!
^^
oh, and by the way Jerome...
I'd have thought youd have had enough empty bottles by now to build an entire Fleet LOL
RE: Covid-19 - Jerome - 27-06-2020
Yes CH, but I will have to wade through the sea of empties in all the various different rooms of the house (there's three floors!) to find the right one...
RE: Covid-19 - CRAZY-HORSE - 28-06-2020
10,000,000 Worldwide cases of C-19
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/global-coronavirus-cases-top-10-million-as-nations-ease-lockdowns/ar-BB1633l9?ocid=spartanntp
also,
BBC World News says the world had reached the 500,000 death milestone, that equates to 5% of people who contract the virus die from it.
they also say its not the amount of people who get the virus its the high death rate associated with it.
when they compared it to Flu death it was quite staggering (see below)
the CDC stats for 2018-19 state 35.5 million cases of influenza were recorded with only 340,000 deaths attributed directly to it.
that equates to a deathrate of only 1%