Don’t be a covidiot
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What’s the latest around Asia?
The World Health Organization warned earlier this week that many nations in South and South East Asia were facing an uphill battle against the coronavirus and needed to take more aggressive measures.
Here’s the latest:
- Thailand’s cases rose by a third to 600 sparking fears of an impending crisis. Most new cases are in the capital, Bangkok, which is now virtually shut down. Doctors are warning a lockdown might be needed
- Poorer neighbouring countries like Myanmar and Laos are still claiming to have zero cases - fueling worries about a hidden epidemic that could overwhelm their health systems
- Indonesia is turning an athlete’s village built for the 2008 Asian Games into an emergency hospital that can hold more than 4,000 patients. The world’s fourth most populous country has recorded more than 500 cases but many are believed to be going unrecorded
- South Asia - a region of 1.9bn people which includes countries like Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - has reported fewer than 1,000 total cases but the rate of infection is increasing
- Singapore has banned all short-term visitors from entering or transiting after a spike in imported cases
I mean it’s a pandemic, those are historically less than excellent generally. But those raw numbers are undercounting the number of infected, for obvious reasons.
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If we are still correcting your English it should be sore throat
Sore - pain
Soar - rise up
Sound exactly the same
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Civility above all. Norms must be respected.
(IANAD) I don’t think the the water thing is inaccurate as such - just very misleading.
If the virus is in your esophagus it’s likely that water would move it your stomach and oblivion. If it’s in your nose, mouth, throat then it’s more likely it goes towards the lungs than the stomach.
The Australian Federal Government turns out to not be fucking around:
From Monday at midday*, Australia will become a vastly different place to live as pubs, clubs, restaurants, cinemas and indoor sporting venues across the country shut down indefinitely.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a new raft of unprecedented restrictions on non-essential gatherings in a bid to slow the rapid spread of coronavirus.
More liberal measures rolled out last week fell on deaf ears, with Australians continuing to cram into venues across the country this weekend.
“We don’t now have any confidence that people would refrain from gathering in those ways, in those pubs, clubs and nightclubs,” Mr Morrison said at a press conference in Canberra.
“We have no confidence that will be followed. So unfortunately, because guidelines can’t be followed, then for public health reasons we now need to take further action which shuts those gatherings down.”
As a result, stage one of tough new restrictions will be implemented on Monday, March 23 at noon, covering a wide range of venues that will see them shut down.
And they could stay shut for up to six months.
The Prime Minister said that the measures cover anything deemed a “principal place of socialisation”.
All pubs, registered and licensed clubs, and licensed premises inside hotels and pubs will close, Mr Morrison said.
In those venues, accommodation facilities can continue to operate as normal but with good hygiene and social distancing measures in place.
Entertainment venues such as theatres, cinemas, casinos and nightclubs will also shut their doors to patrons.
Restaurants and cafes will be restricted to providing takeaway only, with dining in now forbidden from midday.
Also subject to the closure order are indoor sporting venues and places of worship.
“Enclosed spaces for funerals and things of that nature will have to follow the strict four square metre rule which will be enforced,” Mr Morrison said.
The historic order could be just a taste of things to come, with the Prime Minister saying authorities would consider further restrictions if necessary.
“The premiers and chief ministers together with myself will be considering stage two restrictions in this area, but what we first want to see is we want to see the public respond to these very serious measures,” he said.
- Note that this is basically “from now”, like I’m reading this for the first time at 10pm Sunday night.
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Yeah finally. And 6 months at least he said. Wondering what the trading halt levels are on the asx for tomorrow.
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Already almost 3k new cases and 50 new deaths in USA #1 and it’s only a few hours into the day. Yesterday was probably the last day we have less than 100 deaths from this here for months. Almost 8k new cases yesterday. Very likely we hit 10k today.
And that is with limited testing almost everywhere. Even though I know what is coming is going to be horrific my mind can’t really fully believe this is happening. My mom came down from out of state for a few days for my wife’s surgery and left a few days ago. When she did she said, with tears in her eyes, “if we never see each other again know I love you very much”. My instinct was to think that was silly overworrying but I knew at that moment she was right, we might never see each other again. We probably have loved ones right now that are alive that we will never see as a result of quarantine + coronavirus. It is terrifying to think about.
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Please don’t let Trump’s attempts to mint some opportunistic propaganda about the Chinese starting the coronavirus epidemic to distract from his own catastrophic mismanagement distract you from the fact that the Chinese government did, in fact, start the coronavirus epidemic. Also, if China is your exemplar of responsible modern totalitarianism, please note that there’s a lot of extra deaths that aren’t attributed to “stress or something,” but rather to ethnic minorities being penned up in a vast network of concentration camps, where it has been plausibly accused that prisoners are sometimes vivisected to harvest their organs for sale.
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Yikes. That’s a disturbing read.
Omari Hardy definitely has a future in politics.
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Iran refuses US offer of aid
Iran’s Supreme Leader has rejected America’s offer of aid to help the country with its battle against coronavirus.
In a televised speech, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US was Iran’s “most evil enemy” and hinted at a conspiracy theory, also voiced by some Chinese officials, that America was responsible for the pandemic.
“I do not know how real this accusation is but when it exists, who in their right mind would trust you to bring them medication?" Mr Khamenei said. "Possibly your medicine is a way to spread the virus more.”
Without offering any evidence, he also alleged that the virus “is specifically built for Iran using the genetic data of Iranians which they have obtained through different means”.
Other Iranian officials have also accused America of hypocrisy for offering aid while refusing to lift heavy sanctions.
Iran has become one of the worst-hit countries in the world since the coronavirus outbreak began, and it has recorded the highest number of cases in the Middle East - more than 21,600. The official death toll has also risen to 1,685. But there are concerns that the actual number of infections and deaths in Iran is higher.
Today, French medical charity MSF said it was establishing a 50-bed emergency centre in Iran’s Isfahan province to assist with relief efforts. Alongside Britain and Germany, France is already contributing a medical aid package to Iran, amid rising political tensions.
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I’m all for doxing people like that.
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Has anyone heard how long after being infected with coronavirus it takes for a test to turn positive?
It’s amazing that months later we don’t have tests… can’t we just do what SK is doing or get the tests from them? I still don’t get it?
I also haven’t read a single “Robert shopped at Walmart on Lincoln Road and he has tested positive for corona”… the government doesn’t seem to be tracing these cases whatsoever beyond workplace.
All you really need to stop this thing was massive testing and quarantines.
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These things take time to develop and Donny was telling us it was all fake as of roughly 10 days ago. So we are literally just now starting to ramp up supplies, tests, etc. and it is way way too late.
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