Coronaviral

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14 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

SAD 

and now

COVID-19 is killing under 40 years olds at a much higher rate than was thought, especially in the USA and some other places

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9 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Wall Street is pressuring key healthcare firms to hike prices over the coronavirus crisis. Audio here of bankers asking drug companies, firms supplying N95 masks & ventilators, to figure out how to profit from the Covid-19 emergency.

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-vaccine-medical-supplies-price-gouging/

 

''Drug companies eschew vaccine development because of the limited profit potential for a one-time treatment''

Hopefully those bankers and CEOs squeezing extra profit out of death will get infected

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Coronavirus: Ex-Arsenal duo Djourou & Song among nine FC Sion players sacked over contract dispute

https://www.goal.com/en/news/coronavirus-ex-arsenal-duo-song-djourou-among-nine-fc-sion/ggckacinkc431207axgdl2p43

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UK: Restriction should continue 'most of a year'

Policies to limit the spread of coronavirus would need to be in place for "at least most of a year" to prevent intensive care units being overwhelmed, according to official scientific advice to the government.

The documents, prepared by the UK's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said alternating between more and less strict measures could "plausibly be effective at keeping the number of critical care cases within capacity".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-51969508

 

 

This appears to have been published 4 days ago:

https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response
SPI-M-O: Consensus view on behavioural and social interventions (16 March 2020)
 

It was agreed that a combination of case isolation, household isolation and social
distancing of vulnerable groups is very unlikely to prevent critical care facilities being
overwhelmed.
2. It was agreed that it is unclear whether or not the addition of general social distancing
measures to case isolation, household isolation and social distancing of vulnerable groups
would curtail the epidemic by reducing the reproduction number to less than 1.
3. It was agreed that the addition of both general social distancing and school closures to
case isolation, household isolation and social distancing of vulnerable groups would be
likely to control the epidemic when kept in place for a long period. SPI-M-O agreed that
this strategy should be followed as soon as practical, at least in the first instance.
4. It was agreed that a policy of alternating between periods of more and less strict social
distancing measures could plausibly be effective at keeping the number of critical care
cases within capacity. These would need to be in place for at least most of a year. Under
such as policy, at least half of the year would be spent under the stricter social distancing
measures.
5. The triggers for measures to be enacted and lifted could be set at a level of UK nations
and regions. The duration of control periods would be less important than the extent to
which contacts are reduced. There would be a 2-3 week delay between measures being
put into place and their impact being felt in ICU.

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That keyworker list is so broad! Be interesting to see how many children we end up with at nursery..not that I'll know for a week..I think.. beautiful cough! Hopefully it is just that!

The whole thing is madness! A month ago it was mehhhh what's happening in China. Now its bam bam its everywhere!

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28 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

That keyworker list is so broad! Be interesting to see how many children we end up with at nursery..not that I'll know for a week..I think.. beautiful cough! Hopefully it is just that!

The whole thing is madness! A month ago it was mehhhh what's happening in China. Now its bam bam its everywhere!

great book to read

Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illness_as_Metaphor

Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenges the victim-blaming in the language often used to describe diseases and those who suffer from them.

Teasing out the similarities between public perspectives on cancer (the paradigmatic disease of the 20th century before the appearance of AIDS), and tuberculosis (the symbolic illness of the 19th century), Sontag shows that both diseases were associated with personal psychological traits. In particular, she says that the metaphors and terms used to describe both syndromes lead to an association between repressed passion and the physical disease itself. She notes the peculiar reversal that "With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer), the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease–because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses."

Sontag says that the clearest and most truthful way of thinking about diseases is without recourse to metaphor. She believed that wrapping disease in metaphors discouraged, silenced, and shamed patients. Other writers have disagreed with her, saying that metaphors and other symbolic language help affected people form meaning out of their experiences.^[1]

^snip

 

^{great online bookstore}

https://www.bookdepository.com/Illness-Metaphor-Susan-Sontag/9780312420130?ref=grid-view&qid=1584716849076&sr=1-1

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100% workforce shutdown in New York State just announced live by the Governor (Andrew Cuomo)

only essential workers are allow to travel to their jobs

the virus is exploding exponentially in NYC, doubling every 3 or so days

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India doing a lockdown test run of sorts on Sunday calling it a public curfew. More and more places deciding to lock down. 

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I don’t think people have fully digested this shocking fact:

Coronavirus was discovered in the U.S. on the SAME DAY it was discovered in South Korea.

They mobilized their entire society and it is now contained.

Trump called it a hoax and it’s now out of control.

 

 

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Pubs clubs and bars etc all closing across the UK from tonight....

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Kudlow March 6 “We don’t want to willy-nilly throw $300-$400b, with a $1k check to every American.”

Mnuchin March 17 “We’re looking at sending checks to Americans immediately”

Trump March 20 "We're not talking about $1k checks, we're talking about much more"

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19 minutes ago, 11Drogba said:

 

brilliant!

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The Antidote EP001 - 6 hours of live techno from Stockholm - streaming now

(our clubs are all closed due to COVID-19)

While scientists try to create an anti-corona virus we will give a dosage of our own anti-corona virus: 6 hours live techno with some of the best underground artists in Stockholm.

 

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stream is up on Facebook, youtube fucking cut it, the cunts

 

I edited the post above to add the stream

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