or even later. with the "flattened curve", hungarian experts expect the local peak to hit us around june, so i am prepared for a long home isolation.
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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...avirus-big-mistake-top-chinese-scientist-says
Hmmmm. I don't trust this top Chinese scientist.
Other names for Trump:
Malignant Muppet
Incompetent Imp
Hmmmm. I don't trust this top Chinese scientist.
Other names for Trump:
Malignant Muppet
Incompetent Imp
Yes it is. But that goes for Spain, Italy and Iran. It will surely start dropping (new cases, since death rate will surely increase in the next week, especially in Italy as they will probably hit 1k daily) but that's not the case in Germany, France and the US. We're yet to see huge numbers there, so peak overall won't flatten if you look at other countries as well.
Making a 5 minute test for COVID is alright but not a necessity, it's a business opportunity for these companies at the moment. What about the treatment? Targeted RNA, antibodies are expensive but need a lot of validation, if they're off target then it's terrible for patients. They need to test all existing drugs and try combinations because they're FDA approved cutting out half the research essentially, this while a vaccine is made.
Oh, wet markets are not helping. But do you even know the hygiene of the factory farming of chicken and beef in the U.S.?
I think people love to fingerpoint in these situations as a way of deflecting responsibility from themselves and their own habits.
It will. To be followed probably by India. And maybe some warm summer seasonality might hand that title over to Brazil mid-year. That's where I am placing my bets.
It's not TB, but it's close enough.
I've always said this: epidemics hold up a mirror to the societies they impact. I was on a conference call on C-19 a month ago. I pretty much posed this question to Dr. Syra Madad, the pathogens expert at NYC Health and Hospitals -- who is also heavily featured on the Netflix doc series "Pandemic" that just came out in January.
First I laid in about the lack of testing in the US, because the US had only performed about 400 tests in total whereas South Korea was doing thousands of tests a day at the time. She gave a kind of political answer saying that the CDC cannot be the bottleneck and they needed to get their tests approved and out to labs all over the country to speed up the testing.
But my main question was the mirror one -- that the US has one of the most expensive and dysfunctional healthcare systems in the world. I essentially quoted this tweet at the time:
But my point was that the US was uniquely setup to screw the pooch on this for the reasons of:
* an expensive health care system that wide swaths of the country cannot afford and thus don't participate in
* a Byzantine patchwork of sick care private insurance systems that lack coordination, lack goals of public health, and are akin to your home having private fire department coverage but your neighbor doesn't and so your whole block goes down in flames
* an employment culture with few work protections so many people have to go to work sick or lose their jobs
* an individualist society that generally cares little about the collective
* a general attitude that nothing bad should ever happen to you, to the extent that citizens feel indignantly aggrieved if they have to wait five more minutes in line at an airport and then post the abomination on social media
This is a dangerous cocktail that is extremely volatile and problematic when confronting a collective threat like this.
Why do people even pay attention to this irrelevant, bitter woman anymore?
Another good rule of thumb in the vortex of lies and b.s. out there right now: put on the skeptic armor anytime someone says something leading with "Game changer!"
Most of the time it's more diaper changer...
I think people love to fingerpoint in these situations as a way of deflecting responsibility from themselves and their own habits.
It will. To be followed probably by India. And maybe some warm summer seasonality might hand that title over to Brazil mid-year. That's where I am placing my bets.
It's not TB, but it's close enough.
I've always said this: epidemics hold up a mirror to the societies they impact. I was on a conference call on C-19 a month ago. I pretty much posed this question to Dr. Syra Madad, the pathogens expert at NYC Health and Hospitals -- who is also heavily featured on the Netflix doc series "Pandemic" that just came out in January.
First I laid in about the lack of testing in the US, because the US had only performed about 400 tests in total whereas South Korea was doing thousands of tests a day at the time. She gave a kind of political answer saying that the CDC cannot be the bottleneck and they needed to get their tests approved and out to labs all over the country to speed up the testing.
But my main question was the mirror one -- that the US has one of the most expensive and dysfunctional healthcare systems in the world. I essentially quoted this tweet at the time:
But my point was that the US was uniquely setup to screw the pooch on this for the reasons of:
* an expensive health care system that wide swaths of the country cannot afford and thus don't participate in
* a Byzantine patchwork of sick care private insurance systems that lack coordination, lack goals of public health, and are akin to your home having private fire department coverage but your neighbor doesn't and so your whole block goes down in flames
* an employment culture with few work protections so many people have to go to work sick or lose their jobs
* an individualist society that generally cares little about the collective
* a general attitude that nothing bad should ever happen to you, to the extent that citizens feel indignantly aggrieved if they have to wait five more minutes in line at an airport and then post the abomination on social media
This is a dangerous cocktail that is extremely volatile and problematic when confronting a collective threat like this.
Why do people even pay attention to this irrelevant, bitter woman anymore?
Another good rule of thumb in the vortex of lies and b.s. out there right now: put on the skeptic armor anytime someone says something leading with "Game changer!"
Most of the time it's more diaper changer...
