Coronavirus - International stories and thoughts

It only spreads by Bald Eagle.

 

And by Blue Dragon and those two cute snakes you were talking about.

 

Also direct snuggles with murder hornets.

 

I forgot about the murder hornets

 

6 new local cases reported in Wuhan on Sunday, and now China plans to test the entire city of 11 million within a 10 day period.

Wuhan plans to virus test 11 million residents

 

If a hospital asks if you want to try a Russian ventilator, say "Nyet".

Russia examines ventilator type sent to U.S. after fires kill six

So, did the manufacturer apologize and issue an immediate recall of all of their ventilators?

"Izt only tree fiye-hers, and hospital nyet burn down. Vee must have at least zixt fiye-hers to conclude manufacture problem."

 

London railway worker dies 14 days after getting spat upon by someone who told her he has coronavirus.

UK railway ticket office worker dies from Covid-19 after being spat on - CNN

I wonder if they got the S.O.B. on video--London has some of the most video cameras watching its citizens of any city in the world.

 

LOL. Try editing YOUR sentences first...both of them.

 

Sweden has been an interesting case to follow. Today they just notched their 4th highest daily deaths at 147. Adjusted to US population it would be ~4500 in a day.

 

What would be your guess as to why Sweden had a higher death rate than its 3 neighbors but has about the same amount of cases relative to the population of the other 3 countries (Denmark, Finland and Norway?)

 

Doctors in Italy see Covid-19 cases in children result in inflammatory disease reactions. Apparently it is similar to something called Kawasaki disease, which has nothing to do with motorcycles.

Doctors in Italy make a link between Covid-19 and rare 'Kawasaki-like' inflammatory disease in children - CNN

 

Herd immunity may take years:

No place on Earth is anywhere close to herd immunity for the coronavirus

As contagious and stealthy as this virus is, I suspect that you will have to get to 80-90% infection rates before you get to herd immunity. When you have one person in an African slaughterhouse responsible for infecting over 500 people, that tells you that one person is capable of infecting hundreds of people under the right circumstances. If 90% of the people he is exposing to the virus already have immunity, he can still infect 50 people. That is crazy-high.

 

German cafe (in Merkel's homestate of Mecklenburg) requires customers to wear pool noodles on their head to enforce social distancing.

German cafe tells customers to wear pool noodles to enforce social distancing - CNN

 

I'm sure you know this but it was a joke. From the article

"It was a perfect gag and of course it was funny, our customers were really into it. But what it did show to us (was) how difficult it is to keep a distance of 1.5 meters (4.9 feet),"

 

Malaysia developed hostility towards foreigner immigrants due to coronavirus spreading, so they kicked out many of their immigrants (from Myanmar), and now have a shortage of 25,000 people to do things like work in rubber glove factories (Malaysia is the world leader in rubber gloves and condoms). Malaysians are unwilling to work these jobs, so deliveries on rubber glove orders have gone from one month to five months.

Coronavirus Is Bringing Out the Worst in Malaysians

Apparently, the author does not understand paragraphs.

 

Nobody even knows how long the antibodies last, or if there is even any "immunity" 6 months or a year down the road.

It's possible there is no such thing as "herd immunity". One can't really know that without an actual understanding of how long an individual immunity is good for. I've seen nothing on that.

 

It was all over CNN today. Scary! 200 kids in the US have it (implied to have gotten it from covid?). What they failed to tell you is this rare disease affects over 3,000 kids (and as many as 20k according to Cdc) in the US alone annually anyway. Oh, and it’s pretty easily curable.

It’s almost as if CNN purposely left out historical context and information on the disease for shock value. Almost. But they are better than that.

 

The same issue is coming to the Maldives. They are shipping out all their "slave" labor from Bangladesh and now the Indian/Sri Lankan are going. My wife and I joke that Maldivians are too "special" to pick up garbage or cook food etc. so this is going to disrupt their way of life a ton. The resorts rely heavily on the Bangladeshi and Indian workers and there is no way the Maldivians can fill those positions. The resorts are going to be hurting.

 

China confirms U.S. accusation that they destroyed samples; claims that they did it for "bio-safety". Apparently, even their Level 4 Biohazard personnel were scared of it.

China confirms US accusations that it destroyed early samples of the novel coronavirus, but says it was done for 'biosafety reasons'