World Coronavirus News II with Updates

[sneakypete]

This is great coronavirus news @sneakypete

@Once-Ler

Not MY fault YOU can't connect the dots.

[sneakypete]

Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext

We sign this statement in solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China who continue to save lives and protect global health during the challenge of the COVID-19 outbreak. We are all in this together, with our Chinese counterparts in the forefront, against this new viral threat.

The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins. We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. Scientists from multiple countries have published and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),
and they overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife,
as have so many other emerging pathogens.  This is further supported by a letter from the presidents of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and by the scientific communities they represent. Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus. We support the call from the Director-General of WHO to promote scientific evidence and unity over misinformation and conjecture. We want you, the science and health professionals of China, to know that we stand with you in your fight against this virus.

@mrpotatohead

Santa is real,too. Honest! I remember seeing him on my teebee when I was a kid.

[Smokin Joe]

That isn't science. That's politics... Morons.

Right.

The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins.

Huh? From the people who destroyed samples, hid data, tried to cover up the outbreak in Wuhan? Who were even saying the disease wasn't readily transmissible from human to human even after data indicated it was?

Someone cashed a nice check, or is protecting a reputation and keeping other 'news' out of the news.

[Smokin Joe]

@mrpotatohead

Santa is real,too. Honest! I remember seeing him on my teebee when I was a kid.

I'll believe in Santa long before I believe that nonsense.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

@Once-Ler

Not MY fault YOU can't connect the dots.

Some of us were not blessed with your brain.

[Hoodat]

Over the last 21 days, China has reported a total of 24 SARS-2 deaths.  Today, they are reporting 1,290.  Maybe the regular Chicom counter had the day off.

To put it in perspective, over that same 21-day period, they have reported only 752 new cases.  So for 1,290 to die today when there have been only 752 new cases in the past 3 weeks?

[Smokin Joe]

Some of us were not blessed with your brain.

Pity. 

[Smokin Joe]

Over the last 21 days, China has reported a total of 24 SARS-2 deaths.  Today, they are reporting 1,290.  Maybe the regular Chicom counter had the day off.

Maybe they had trouble rounding up enough political prisoners...

[Hoodat]

Maybe they had trouble rounding up enough political prisoners...

Good point.  Coronavirus death combined with high-speed lead poisoning.

[sneakypete]

Some of us were not blessed with your brain.

@Once-Ler

True. I will try to remember it's not your fault.

[sneakypete]

Maybe they had trouble rounding up enough political prisoners...

@Smokin Joe

Naw,it can't be that because it is a whole damn NATION of political prisoners.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries

Official covid-19 death tolls still under-count the true number of fatalities

Apr 16th 2020

AS COVID-19 has spread around the world, people have become grimly familiar with the death tolls that their governments publish each day. These numbers give a better indication of a country’s trajectory than do counts of confirmed cases, which largely measure how many people have been tested. Nonetheless, official covid-19 death tolls still under-count the true number of fatalities that the disease has already caused at that point.

In many places, official daily figures exclude anybody who did not die in hospital or who did not test positive. Often the cause of death takes several days to establish, which creates a lag in the data. And even the most complete covid-19 records will not count people who were killed by other conditions that probably would have been treated successfully, had hospitals not been overwhelmed by a surge of covid-19 cases.

More behind paywall at link

[Formerly Once-Ler]

@Once-Ler

True. I will try to remember it's not your fault.

[Hoodat]

Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/16/tracking-covid-19-excess-deaths-across-countries

Official covid-19 death tolls still under-count the true number of fatalities

Apr 16th 2020

More behind paywall at link

Are you taking over TomSea's job?

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Are you taking over TomSea's job?

@Hoodat Can you still see your posts? 

[Hoodat]

@Hoodat Can you still see your posts? 

I meant his job as 'Most-Negative-News-As-Possible Tsar'.  But yes, I can see my posts.  Freedom is so exhilarating.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

I meant his job as 'Most-Negative-News-As-Possible Tsar'.  But yes, I can see my posts.  Freedom is so exhilarating.

I'm sorry if the bad news triggered you.  Where do you think I should I post the news that conflicts with your world view, but is still available for Briefers who value being informed?

[Hoodat]

Use the Chicken Little thread.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Use the Chicken Little thread.

link please.

[Hoodat]

link please.

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,398666.msg2192660.html#msg2192660

[musiclady]

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,398666.msg2192660.html#msg2192660

Oh, for heaven's sake.... if you don't want to get news about COVID19, just stay off the threads that give that information.

Stop wasting bandwidth with absolute nonsense.

And stop being afraid.  It's not healthy.

[txradioguy]

Oh, for heaven's sake.... if you don't want to get news about COVID19, just stay off the threads that give that information.

Stop wasting bandwidth with absolute nonsense.

And stop being afraid.  It's not healthy.

Why does someone expressing a different opinion based on facts and readily available information upset you so much?

Why do you keep engaging projecting by accusing others of being afraid when clearly its you living in fear?

[Formerly Once-Ler]

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,398666.msg2192660.html#msg2192660

That was pretty funny.   

I'll keep posting here, thanx anyways. 

[musiclady]

Why does someone expressing a different opinion based on facts and readily available information upset you so much?

Why do you keep engaging projecting by accusing others of being afraid when clearly its you living in fear?

Because I’m not afraid.

I just figure that the people trying to stop information from being shared are the ones who are afraid.

Truth is like fresh air.  Suppressing it is unhealthy.

The problem is most certainly not differing opinions.  The problem is calling people “Chicken Little” because they don’t want to see opinions they don’t like.

Now stop projecting, okay?

Thanks. 

[Hoodat]

Because I’m not afraid.

I just figure that the people trying to stop information from being shared are the ones who are afraid.

For the record, I wasn't the one deleting other people's posts because I didn't like what they said.  Just sayin'.