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6 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:No doubt the nail on the head for withdrawal was the recently published report by the HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, a good read
"It is clear Director-General Tedros seriously erred in his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Coupled with a concerning history of covering up outbreaks of cholera in his home country of Ethiopia and repeated delays in declaring a PHEIC in response to the Kivu Ebola epidemic, we believe there is an established pattern of poor decision making and political deference that has weakened the ability of the WHO to fulfill its mandate. We do not expect, nor require, the head of the WHO to be perfect. However, Director-General Tedros has repeatedly defended his decisions, responded to Taiwan’s criticism by accusing their government of supporting racists, 194 and praised the CCP’s deplorable actions in response to the outbreak.
Director-General Tedros should accept responsibility for his detrimental impact on the COVID-19 response and resign. The health of the world cannot afford incompetence and poor management."
Strong words indeed................
No, it may have been published by the House Foreign Affairs Committe, but it was in fact, a minority report of the GOP.
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5 hours ago, rabas said:
Who knew?
April 3, 2020, USA, Medical Express.
Coronavirus may spread through normal breathing: US scientists
From that article:
"But if the virus can be suspended in the ultrafine mist we expel when we exhale, in other words an aerosol, it becomes much harder to prevent its spread, which in turn is an argument in favor of everyone covering their faces."
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4 minutes ago, car720 said:
I think one online class could hold up to a thousand students. How many students in one professor's class.
That may be true for huge lecture classes. But smaller classes are interactive. These are not cheap canned internet courses.
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21 minutes ago, car720 said:
Don't lose sight of the fact that it is the universities themselves that are promoting the wholly online courses. They make a boatload without having to employ staff.
The professors will still be teaching.
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17 minutes ago, Morch said:
Sad that you "can't wait" for something like this to happen only so that you could gloat and score some imaginary points on political "discussions" on here.
But utterly different from those leftists who are rooting for Trump to fail.
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2 minutes ago, yuyiinthesky said:
This must be fake news. I see article after article about a second wave everywhere, recently Bill Gates himself again announced millions of deaths in Africa.
Unless you claim that these are fake news?
But not in China. Or in Europe. In the USA now there plenty. But no so long ago it looked like Covid was on the decline.Let me remind you of which comment of yours I was replying to:
So what has China got to do with the rise of cases in Africa? Is China now claiming sovereignty over that continent?
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13 hours ago, 7fish said:Not just that article, there is a general move throughout the media to replace the word deaths with cases, maybe the number of people dying isn't impressive enough to maintain the fear
There's about a 3 week lag between onset of illness and death. Here's a couple of charts for Texas. The first showing number of new cases, the second showing deaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/texas-coronavirus-cases.html
Note the lag time between cases and deaths.
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4 hours ago, Mama Noodle said:
Kim Jong Un studied in Switzerland and is a tyrannical murderer who didn't change at all.Seems like you got your degree from the statistics dept. at Trump University.
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21 minutes ago, riclag said:There are currently 2k investigations involving the chinese! It has been reported many times that they hold the prestigious distinction of being my countries number one adversary .The Chinese steal intellectual property from America .They are bad actors and dedicated Marxist!
In case you haven't noticed this ideology has been rearing its ugliness in my country, lately!
The Chinese govt. is the adversary. Not Chinese people in general. But thanks for the display of bigotry. Very revealing.
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8 minutes ago, transam said:So be it, but foreign folk should sit in a classroom if in the USA, and not work in McD's...????
You think these people pay big tuition and board fees in order to work at a fast food joint? Really?
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3 minutes ago, transam said:Thought the thread was about folk not sitting in a classroom in the USA. ????
If they're not in the usa then they will have to use the internet. And for some thag means late night hours.
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9 minutes ago, Sheryl said:
However loss of circulating antibodies does nto mean there is no immunity.
The immune response is complex and has many components of which specific antibodies are but one. Even in the absence of specific antibodies, the body's T cells may"remember" the virus and be rpimed to immediately attack it when next encountered.
in fact, it appears that up to 40% of people in some parts of the world already have thsi repsonse, perghaps from prior infection with a different corona virus, which may help explain why some people get it and some don't.
Thanks for the encouragement.
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And now for some discouraging news:
Coronavirus herd immunity may be 'unachievable' after study suggests antibodies disappear after weeks in some people
- A major new study in one of Europe's worst affected countries for the coronavirus finds no evidence of widespread immunity to the virus developing.
- Just 5% of Spaniards were detected to have antibodies to the virus.
- Fourteen percent of people who previously tested positive for antibodies tested negative just weeks later
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-antibodies-study-herd-immunity-unachievable-spain-2020-7
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16 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:Flordia man says "We're in a good place."
Trump says he disagrees with Fauci: "I think we are in a good place. I disagree with him."
“Well, I think we are in a good place. I disagree with him,” Trump told Gray Television’s Greta Van Susteren, according to a transcript of the interview released Tuesday. “Dr. Fauci said don't wear masks and now he says wear them. And he said numerous things. Don't close off China. Don't ban China. I did it anyway. I didn't listen to my experts and I banned China. We would have been in much worse shape.”
Once again, Donald Trump shares with us his grasp of the facts:
More Than 40 Hospital ICUs In Florida Have Hit Maximum Capacity With Zero Beds Available
Despite Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis seeming to downplay the severity of current coronavirus outbreak in his state, the numbers tell a different story; as of Tuesday morning, 43 hospital intensive care units (ICU) in 21 Florida counties have hit capacity and show zero beds available, while another 32 hospitals show ICU bed availability of 10% or less, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).
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1 hour ago, riclag said:
Time and time again Mr. Trump has exposed the radical left and the Washington swamp resistance.
All kinds of activist since 2014 were involved in undermining this project Greenpeace ,The Science & Environmental Health Network and the reverend jackson . Jackson expressed his baiting opinion this way!
"This decision was described by some activists like Jesse Jackson as environmental racism".
Just another setback,stayed tuned
The fact is that rapidly falling prices of renewable energy and storage means that fossil fuel is on its way out.
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4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:I never actually said he is only a figurehead ( it was a comparison in response to a statement ) and I fully understand he has powers invested in the presidency. The problem, IMO, with the presidency in the past many years ( long before Trump for those that need to be informed of that ) is that presidents have been trying to run the country when they should leave it to congress.
The model for a proper president is that of the Irish president.
BTW, the British monarch has powers that she has chosen not to use in many years.
Here's what you did say
"Saying that Trump "runs the country" is like saying the queen of the UK "runs Britain"."
In what significant way does that differ from saying that "he is only a figurehead"?
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4 minutes ago, Curt1591 said:Case in point
You mean if he arrived on the alleged animal, we should believe it actually was a unicorn? Because gullibility is a a good thing?
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Another piece of evidence that there's a secret agent working for the defeat of Donald Trump - and his name is Donald Trump.
Trump’s attacks on mail voting are turning Republicans off absentee ballots
President Trump’s relentless attacks on the security of mail voting are driving suspicion among GOP voters toward absentee ballots — a dynamic alarming Republican strategists, who say it could undercut their own candidates, including Trump himself.
In several primaries this spring, Democratic voters have embraced mail ballots in far larger numbers than Republicans during a campaign season defined by the coronavirus pandemic. And when they urge their supporters to vote by mail, GOP campaigns around the country are hearing from more and more Republican voters who say they do not trust absentee ballots, according to multiple strategists.
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6 minutes ago, DoctorG said:The principal of course is that if you are doing your studies fully online then you can do it in your own country. I do not think it will affect many students and it is not a move that I would agree with.
Because facilities like the library and such are not relevant. And then there's also the matter of time zones. Apparently, the reason that the Trump administration is doing this is to force colleges and universities to reopen more fully.
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36 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:Fair enough. IMO the wet dream of some Dems is that Trump is incapacitated/ dies of Corona.
Given what the polls are showing, I suspect Demorats are rooting for President Trump to stay well, at least until Nov 4.
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8 hours ago, tomacht8 said:
The second part is half correct. If the euro did not exist and Germany had its D mark, Germany could control the value of the D mark via the exchange rate hinge and its monetary policy. Which would be much more advantageous. Just like the UK kept its British pound.
This is untrue. You can only wring so much devaluation out of monetary policy. If a huge surplus of foreign currency flows into your economy, for whatever the reason, be it for interest rates on government bonds or from a trade surplus the value of the currency goes up. This is a very basic exchange rate truism. In fact, it's at the foundation of how exchange rates work.
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10 hours ago, kingdong said:
on your last point just go,es to show what a workers utopia the eu must be.
The Euro has been pretty much of a disaster. It's not the same thing as the EU.
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2 hours ago, yuyiinthesky said:
Why in Brazil, why not in China? Too risky to test in your own country?No. Because in Brazil there are plenty of covid-19 patients to test thanks to the dismal performance of its president. In China, there just aren't enough. China isn't the only country facing that problem:
Coronavirus vaccine developers have a ‘bizarre’ problem. There’s not enough sick people.
June 11, 2020 at 1:51 a.m. GMT+7
The top teams rushing to develop coronavirus vaccines are alerting governments, health officials and shareholders that they may have a big problem: The outbreaks in their countries may be getting too small to quickly determine whether vaccines work.
A leader of the Oxford University group, one of the furthest ahead with human trials, admits the reality is paradoxical, even “bizarre,” but said the declining numbers of new infections this summer could be one of the big hurdles vaccine developers face in the global race to beat down the virus.
Even as new cases are growing worldwide, transmission rates are falling in Britain, China and many of the hardest-hit regions in the United States — the three countries that have experimental vaccines ready to move into large-scale human testing in June, July and August.
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3 hours ago, 7fish said:
As yet an actual image of the virus itself doesn't exist, all the images of the virus are computer generated. We have a cgi virus, that is supposed to be acting according to a computer generated simulation, already retracted by J H University as being wildly inaccurate predicting hugely over exaggerated scenarios which was the basis of the lockdowns. This is what the predictions were for Sweden in a 'do nothing', and 'moderate' action scenario, in red is the 'actual'
Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly ... [+]
CDC/ C.S. GOLDSMITH AND A. TAMIN
U.S. coronavirus cases hit 3 million, stoking fears of overwhelmed hospitals
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Big reason for decline in deaths is the success of the Northeast in combatting covid. Here are the hospitalization figures for the USA
Given the lag time between infection and hospitallization, the levels in the South and the West should rise considerably.
"But even now, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia have seen an uptick in their average daily deaths, according to Covid Exit Strategy, while Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York have experienced a notable decline."
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/6/21314472/covid-19-coronavirus-us-cases-deaths-trends-<deleted>