Long live Stumpy!
This is all true. But unless the global number of cases reaches 0, there will be spread later in places like the EU.Your dead wrong, Vandy. A few years down the line this is how Covid-19 will be written about and portrayed in books and movies:
In countries keeping the coronavirus at bay, experts watch U.S. case numbers with alarm
As coronavirus cases surge in states across the South and West of the United States, health experts in countries with falling case numbers are watching with a growing sense of alarm and disbelief, with many wondering why virus-stricken U.S. states continue to reopen and why the advice of scientists is often ignored.
“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up,” said Siouxsie Wiles, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand — a country that has confirmed only three new cases over the last three weeks and where citizens have now largely returned to their pre-coronavirus routines. “I can’t imagine what it must be like having to go to work knowing it’s unsafe,” Wiles said of the U.S.-wide economic reopening. “It’s hard to see how this ends. There are just going to be more and more people infected, and more and more deaths. It’s heartbreaking.”
Commentators and experts in Europe, where cases have continued to decline, voiced concerns over the state of the U.S. response. A headline on the website of Germany’s public broadcaster read: “Has the U.S. given up its fight against coronavirus?” Switzerland’s conservative Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper concluded, “U.S. increasingly accepts rising covid-19 numbers.”
Whereas the U.S. response to the crisis has at times appeared disconnected from American scientists’ publicly available findings, U.S. researchers’ conclusions informed the actions of foreign governments. “A large portion of [Germany’s] measures that proved effective was based on studies by leading U.S. research institutes,” said Karl Lauterbach, a Harvard-educated epidemiologist who is a member of the German parliament for the Social Democrats, who are part of the coalition government.
Regarding the effectiveness of face masks, Lauterbach added, “we almost entirely relied on U.S. studies.” Germany was among the first major European countries to make face masks mandatory on public transport and in supermarkets.
European researchers dispute that the U.S. government’s reliance on scientists to inform decision-making comes anywhere near the degree to which many European policymakers have relied on researchers. After consulting U.S. research and German studies, for instance, German leaders agreed to make reopening dependent on case numbers, meaning restrictions snap back or reopening gets put on hold if the case numbers in a given region exceed a certain threshold.
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I said some well-respected doctors who say masks may not help. That is a fact.
To add to the conversation that there are so many opinions on the virus that truthfully one could believe either one and have experts to defend that particular belief. I read about Italy seeing a dramatic decrease in cases a month or so back. I'm going to write to a friend who lives in northen Italy.
Coronavirus weakening, may disappear on its own, Italian doctor says
An Italian infectious disease doctor believes the coronavirus has become less dangerous — and could disappear on its own without a vaccine.www.foxnews.com
If you think about it, the Covid "expertise" in here is just as accurate and inaccurate as what we read outside of Gopher Hole. Strangely, when a guy like Veritas would chime in or Dr. Michael Osterholm would speak, my reaction was still the same...
Bolded: fake. That’s you projecting the reality you want to be true. The question is why. Who hurt you in the past? Who beat you out for that job/position? You have a major axe to grind, no doubt about it.
Iowa results probably based on Doyle requiring black players to lift weights together in a phone booth.
To keep the infection numbers and impact at a manageable level until reliable treatments are widely available to bridge the time needed for a vaccine.
#1 died in an unsolved gardening accident. #2 choked on vomit of unknown origin. Love it!
I think a probable near future red flag tipping point is if/when players start getting sick as opposed to the asymptomatic cases so far. Hospitalizations would would potentially be a major red flag.
This is true. If a player gets seriously sick, as opposed to just quarantined with no symptoms, that will probably be that. Hasn’t happened so far and I truly hope it never does.