Coronavirus

[jalimon]

Nothing against the people of China.

But you got to agree if their leaders keep these market open it does not make fucking sense.

These market were directly responsible to 3 deadly viruses in the last 20 years.

There is something absolutely ironic by the fact that they let people who are probably making about 5$ a day continue their work while we are a billion stuck in our homes which will lead to hundred of trillions dollar lost and millions of life lost (we need to include many life that will be lost because of depression, crimes, anxiety, etc etc).

 

[Cruiser777]

Yes, Covid-19 originated from China but let’s quit all these ‘China Virus’

Maybe we should go what Mr Pampeo had proposed and go with the 'Wuhan Virus' ? As it didn't become a 'Chinese Virus' in reality.

Wuhan is/was the epicenter, Beijing, Shanghai are nearby (Distances in few hundred miles apart) and nothing happened in those or
other cities nearby or in china total ? And yet distances measured in thousands of miles away are getting hit hard.

And all of a sudden they are up and running and cashing in the $$s supplying the West with the needed devices, masks
(Lots of defective ones) etc etc...

 

[EagerBeaver]

Covid-19 being as contagious as it is, if it was in the bodies of certain animals, it was probably only a matter of time before some human had contact with an infected animal. It was eventually going to happen, maybe through a rabid bat carrying the virus, biting someone and then spreading the infection that way. Maybe through random human contact with the infected animal, or its feces. Short of exterminating the bat and pandolin populations from the Earth, how was the eventual spread of the virus going to be stopped?

 

[EagerBeaver]

Democratic National Convention Postponed

This is a sign that the 2020 Presidential election could be postponed, or even cancelled:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/politics/dnc-postponed-coronavirus/index.html

One wonders whether Trump will use the exigent circumstances and the inability to timely and properly vet Presidential candidates as grounds to appoint himself to another term. If an election can not be held on time, he may need to exercise some emergency powers.

 

[cloudsurf]

Corona virus is most likely a hybrid between a bat virus and a pandolin virus. These animals would never meet in their natural habitat since they live on different continents.
Even in a zoo they are kept separated. Only in an Asian wet market would they get within inches of each other.

 

[The Nature Boy]

EB, is it not true that legally Jan 20, 2021 if no election pelosi takes office as POTUS

 

[EagerBeaver]

Doesn't say if the small infant dies of SIDS or in a car wreck, or from abuse at the ads of a care giver .... just that the baby 'tested positive' for china virus .... telling ya, news back in Watergate Days was investigate, confirm, report .... today it is make up, sensationalize, distort and disseminate.

The Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner actually issued a statement today, after the news reports, to say that although the baby tested positive for Covid-19, a cause of death has not yet been determined and will not be determined for several weeks. All that is known is that the 6 week old baby was brought to the hospital unresponsive and could not be revived.

https://abc7chicago.com/health/7-week-old-infant-who-died-at-hospital-had-coronavirus/6070835/

 

[EagerBeaver]

EB, is it not true that legally Jan 20, 2021 if no election pelosi takes office as POTUS

Unless Trump appoints himself to a second term under emergency powers to prevent Pelosi (or whomever the State electors choose) from assuming the POTUS position. But the electors of each state could choose whomever they want as the next President. And Pelosi would need to get her Speaker seat back because there would be a new HOR, so it's not automatic she would even be Speaker of the House in the new House.

 

[OnJustALark]

EB, is it not true that legally Jan 20, 2021 if no election pelosi takes office as POTUS

THANK God ... NOT TRUE .... only place that dingbat self righteous drunk belongs is in an AA meting or in her plastic surgeons chair for one last time ...

Long read, and complicated in the end ... http://www.vox.com/2020/3/21/21188152/trump-cancel-november-election-constitution-coronavirus

 

[EagerBeaver]

OnJustALark,

That is correct- the State electors would have the power to decide who is POTUS, under the 12th amendment. Could be anyone, including Trump, Pelosi, Biden, even Bernie.......that being said, when has the law stopped Trump from doing what he wants to do?

mod: please stay on the subject of the thread

 

[cloudsurf]

What the fuck is happening in Quebec ?
A few days ago everyone was praising Legault and how he was first to do this and that. Praising him for doing such a great job.
Now that Quebec is responsible for half the cases in Canada not a peep from anyone.
Who left the barn door open and let the bats in.

 

[Cruiser777]

What the fuck is happening in Quebec ?

Who left the barn door open and let the bats in.

The folks at the Canada / US border, all the New Yorkers coming in to see our SPs ??? (LOL ???)

But according to the news Quebec is way ahead of testing compare to other places.

 

[jalimon]

But according to the news Quebec is way ahead of testing compare to other places.

Yes and Ontario is last of all Canadian province (by far the most populous province).

Also travel ban and first confinement started as Ontario was about to go on school break. Quebec was just coming back from school break. So many families traveled. So we may end up the worst hit province down the road because of that.

 

[minutemenX]

This article states the obvious: we are at war and need the war plan that shows pass to victory instead of just mitigating measures

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2007263

 

[The Nature Boy]

Is one Montreal facility in particular absorbing all the covid patients, or their scattered?

 

[jalimon]

Is one Montreal facility in particular absorbing all the covid patients, or their scattered?

It was decided a month ago that Jewish General Hospital and Ste-Justine hospital (for kids and teen) would be dedicated. But since Quebec has prepared 11 other hospitals all over the province to receive patients.

 

[The Nature Boy]

@ least no field hospitals have been set up

 

[jalimon]

"What we've been telling people from directives from the CDC for weeks now that if you start feeling bad stay home, those individuals could have been infecting people before they ever felt bad. But we didn't know that until the last 24 hours," From governor Kemp of Georgia.

No wonder it's bad in the US. Even my 10y old kid knew that back in January!

 

[Womaniser]

Donald Trump passed a second Covid test today. It again came out negative.
It's not surprising I supposed. I haven't heard it was tranmissible to pigs

 

[ShyMan]

No wonder it's bad in the US. Even my 10y old kid knew that back in January!

Exactly, Jalimon.

Here's another huge bitter irony for the US:

USA Today is reporting today:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...na-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/


[FONT=&amp]"American companies sold more than $17.5 million worth of face masks, more than $13.6 million in surgical garments and more than $27.2 million in ventilators to China during the first two months of the year [2020], far exceeding that of any other similar period in the past decade, according to the most recent foreign trade data available from the U.S. Census Bureau."

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]“Clearly there was a surge in demand going on in China, and fundamentally this was a free market" decision, said Michelle Connolly, a Duke University economist. “What was in the U.S. was clearly going out, and specifically to China.”

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]"The U.S. exported $11.4 million worth of the breathing machines to China in the first two month of last year compared with $27.2 million in the first two months of this year, just weeks before states and hospitals started begging the federal government to send them more."

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]The U.S. Department of State also donated 17.8 tons of medical equipment to China in February. The mass donation included “masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials.”

"[/FONT][FONT=&amp]As domestic firms kept exporting lifesaving equipment elsewhere, the Trump administration kept putting barriers on similar imports.

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]According to Chad Bown, a senior researcher at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the government continued placing tariffs on Chinese imports of many medical products into the U.S. even as the coronavirus reached our shores.
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[FONT=&amp]The Trump administration announced on March 10 and March 12 that they would relax those tariffs. "[/FONT]