Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

Thanks to Shaggy for the explanation. I think I understand better now. The fundamental difference between your approach and ours, I feel, is that ours is divorced from unemployment where as you've tried to utilise your unemployment support systems to cover this gap. The problem with that is that it requires people to become unemployed before the support is injected. Our approach is intended to help people remain employed which seems a much better approach to me. Not saying our system is perfect though.

Yes, that's one of the problems. Another is figuring out who was 'employed' to begin with. With loads of gig workers, and their employers fighting acknowledging them as employees, there are plenty of cracks to slip through.

Of course, the problem with taking over wage payments, as some European countries are doing, is what happens if the job never does come back?

No solution is perfect. The US approach is really good for some, highly deficient to others, and bizarre to a few of us. However, they acted quickly, even if the results didn't necessarily land quickly. Seeing Congress move quickly was a bit of a revelation in itself.

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What we did was allow the self employed to submit three years of tax returns and get 80% of that

I think we ended up doing something like that. It was in the stimulus bill from Congress. Whether states had the leeway to alter the rules, or set the rules, or anything else, I'm not sure. The clear intention was that folks that fell through the standard unemployment insurance cracks would get covered in some fashion, but I didn't dig into the details of it.

During one of the recent protests around the White House Trump was taken down to the security bunker along with his wife and son. According to news reports he didn't like the appearance of that as it was reported in the media. That is also supposedly why he had the police bust up a peaceful protest a the White House to have a photo op in front of that church. He was just speaking on Faux news and he said he only went down there to inspect it. Of course the lying moron is lying, but, Faux news didn't ask "why did you take your wife and son on the inspection?" :rolleyes:

Was going to make some comment about the UK leading in Deaths/1M pop (except for Belgium) at 585. BUT then I noticed that New York is 1,551. So that shut me up.

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why did you take your wife and son on the inspection?

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And a bible? Which you didn't even open, let alone read.

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Was going to make some comment about the UK leading in Deaths/1M pop (except for Belgium) at 585. BUT then I noticed that New York is 1,551. So that shut me up.

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It's not a race either of us want to win. Things are tailing off but they're still at frightening levels.

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That was for the photo op at the church, not the visit to the safe room I doubt he took a bible down there, after all, his name isn't in most of them...Though he may have had his own created so he could get top billing. After all, when asked whether the bible he was holding was HIS bible, he replied that it was A bible.

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Take your victories where you can, they aren't so common these days.

Definitely not a race. My thoughts were more about the situation not making sense. How could our two countries handle this situation so badly. Was it arrogance, lack of leadership, I don't know. Thought we were world leaders. Well, I guess we are but not in a good way.

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My mistake. I misread Tyson's post. I don't feel it changes the narrative though.

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I think both of those. A sense of exceptionalism has definitely played a part both sides of the pond.

I'm watching media coverage of people coming out and cleaning up rioting damage. Just us everyday folks coming out and cleaning up the moron's around us mess. It brings tears to my eyes...

Antifa and a radical seventy-five year old provocateur faking his injury almost got away with their fraud. Luckily we have a president that is not fooled by the fake press

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...antifa-police/

Yeah, if you watch the footage you can see him bleeding heavily from the head. You've got to admire his commitment to the bit.

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I believe it's called "method acting."

-tg

To be fair, Trump is built like a padded weeble, so he may not believe that falling down is possible, let alone harmful.

How Bill Gates monopolized global health
[ ENGLISH ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5k4khfUk8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG91_HY5qew

Google Translate:

【#Research shows that only 0.08% of the new coronavirus from the UK is imported from China and the impact is insignificant#】
Recently, the University of Oxford, the University of Edinburgh and Cog-UK, a joint academic research organization, jointly released a report saying that through the gene sequencing of viruses carried by more than 20,000 new crown infections in the United Kingdom, at least 1356 independent new crown viruses were found to spread. Chain. After tracing these transmission chains, it was found that more than one-third (34%) of the original sources were from Spain, 29% from France, 14% from Italy, and only 0.08% from China, which had negligible impact. The report said that early cases imported from China and other parts of Asia accounted for only a “minimal” portion of all cases imported from outside the UK.

I haven't found the source of this research report, and I cannot confirm whether the above report is true.

Edit:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52993734
https://www.soundhealthandlastingwea...ate-occasions/

Well, it makes sense, really. A virus is most likely to spread from the place you get most visitors from. GB should get the most visits from Europe, so you would expect the bulk of the infections would come from there.

Back in the 90s, the level of genetics ability was such that we could tell a dog from a fox, but not a dog from a wolf, let alone a poodle from a pug. Now, we have reached a point where we can track individual mutations within a strain of virus.

I'm thinking, why did the virus not spread from GB to Spain, but from Spain to GB?

These are like reflections in a ripple tank. Pretty much just as expected.

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I may be misremembering, and I'm not about to go look it up, but didn't Spain rise before GB?

Yes, it rose before GB. It was first Italy, then Spain , then France and all other Eu countries after that

So is this just "right wing crazy" or is there perhaps something to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn5BGHuK1zo

He seems to be dancing around the point: The death rate is still one per person.

It pretty much sounds like he's saying that if you're going to die eventually, why complain if it is from this thing or that thing, or if it is today or tomorrow. There's a point there, but I don't think very many people jump off a cliff because if they don't, they might end up getting cancer next year, or die of a heart attack the year after that. Eventually, though, a fair number of people DO come to that conclusion, usually once they have a fatal diagnosis that they believe in. That was pretty much the plot of Gran Torino. Once Eastwood's character accepted that his death was pretty near, he opted to die in a way that he felt would do some good. He was basically choosing now for this reason vs tomorrow for no reason.

On the other hand, I think we may get to find whether or not the underlying point is correct. With cases rising in states that won't be able to lock down, again, we may find out what happens when the number of cases exceeds the capacity of the facilities. We got right to the edge of that in NYC, but now....we may see.

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I mean, there were more personnel exchanges between GB and China. Why wasn't it the first outbreak in GB? In other words, why weren't outbreak happening in Europe at the same time?

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You believe there were more personnel exchanges between two countries on opposite sides of the globe than between two countries that can almost see each other (had it been France, then they COULD see each other).

Also, what do you mean when you ask why weren't outbreaks happening in Europe at the same time? At the same time as what? Spain IS in Europe, Italy got going before Spain, and they are also part of Europe. In fact, I think that Italy was the first large scale outbreak outside of China that got reported (Iran may have been even earlier, but they weren't reporting). It all seems pretty reasonable, to me, based on what we know. Some super spreader brought the virus from China to Italy, Italy had a major outbreak in the richer north. That made it less likely to be contained, and it duly spread to other parts of Europe.

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Also, what do you mean when you ask why weren't outbreaks happening in Europe at the same time? At the same time as what?

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IMO, the United States and European countries did not take protective measures in the early stage of the outbreak, and their outbreak time and probability should be equal or similar.

If scientists are also superstitious about "super communicators", then they will never find the answer. Scientists' judgment on the new coronavirus is often inconsistent, so that they cannot provide a reliable solution for the government. IMO, there are several reasons for this:
(1) They did not know the true origin of the virus
(2) They did not know when the virus was originally generated
(3) They did not know the exact transmission path of the virus

The cause of the serious epidemic in Italy is the same as that in Wuhan, where rumours and panic caused the collapse of medical resources, which led to a large number of infections to nurses and doctors, and then they further infected a large number of people who came to the hospital for examination.

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(1) They did not know the true origin of the virus
(2) They did not know when the virus was originally generated
(3) They did not know the exact transmission path of the virus

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No thats just not right, there has been a lot of genetic mapping work done by Scientist now where they can trace the mutation patterns and they show that in the UK for instance most transmission cases came from Spain, then Italy then France (we did also have some from other places including China but we have a lot more travel with Spain and Italy and France)

Italy just happened to have travellers who had been to China and where infected first, then there is a lot more Internal EU travel than EU > China travel so once the virus was inside the EU it was spread by EU citizens travelling around from one EU country to another.

I thought of another thing: GB did not participate in the World Military Games held in Wuhan, China in October 2019.

Interesting observations on high fructose, vitamin D, and oxidative stress in COVID-19:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4zfWkvbBaw

So avoid high fructose, exercise, and eat your onions and garlic along with vitamin D and zinc.

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They certainly did NOT take protective measures early. They also didn't test all that early. NYC has shown that the first cases occurred a bit earlier than the first cases were reported. For an event that moved fast over the course of a couple months, a few weeks one way or the other is highly significant. Still, there is not reason to think that the outbreak time and probability would be equal, though similar is a question of splitting hairs: Yeah, so what?

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Superstitious is probably a bad choice of words. For a new virus, the rate of increase in knowledge about how it spreads is impressive. A few incorrect conclusions are likely, and that will make inconsistency. Would you rather they say nothing at all until they are absolutely certain that they have all the answers? If so, even with this pace, they won't be saying anything for a couple more years, yet. Since that's not acceptable, they say what they are seeing. Some of that will prove to be wrong, but people insist on them speaking prematurely, so it is certainly unkind of you to pillory them for getting some things wrong. The whole thing about super spreaders has only appeared in the last few weeks. It shouldn't be a surprise, as this has been seem plenty of times in the past with other diseases, but to call it a superstition? That seems like a rash and unusually harsh judgement. Do you have evidence that super spreaders don't exist?

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I don't see why point #1 is relevant to anybody other than politicians wanting to place/dodge blame.
Point #2 appears to have no greater utility, except that it could be useful for help with #3.
Point #3 is something that has been changing over time. At first, since nobody knew anything at all, people were scrubbing vegetables, not touching toilets, and burning cell towers. As greater and greater understanding of the transmission path is coming out, responses will become increasingly focused. The problem is, that what has emerged is this super spreader idea, which you are dismissing as superstition. So, as point #3 gets answered, will you accept the answer?

The Food and Drug Administration has revoked its emergency use authorization for the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for the treatment of Covid-19.

Hydroxychloroquine was frequently touted by President Donald Trump, and he has claimed to have used it himself.
After reviewing the current research available on the drugs, the FDA determined that the drugs do not meet "the statutory criteria" for emergency use authorization as they are unlikely to be effective in treating Covid-19 based on the latest scientific evidence, the agency noted on its website on Monday.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/polit...rus/index.html

Not long ago the moron in chief sent two million doses to Brazil.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2370RU

What are friends for :rolleyes:

He and Balsanaro are birds of a feather.

Yeah, who can hold their water awaiting President "You ain't black, shoot 'em in the leg" Biden? With his VP Harris, together they'll make sure there is plenty of prison, illegal immigrant, and offshore labor. What a great time to bow to the elite.

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Do you realize your arguments to support Trump always devolve into name calling blurbs like this one or those ridiculous videos you find under rocks? It is because their is no thoughtful intelligent way to defend someone as unfit to be president as Trump.

Pots and kettles.

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Pots and kettles.

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If the shoe fits :p

If the cliche is simple?