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Far more people may have been infected by coronavirus in one California county, study estimates (Vikas O.)
“We found that there are many, many unidentified cases of people having Covid infection that were never identified with it with a virus test,” said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University and one of the paper’s authors. “It’s consistent with findings from around the world that this disease, this epidemic is further along than we thought.”
Facebook contacting users to correct misinformation about COVID-19 (Sparky1)
“We’re going to start showing messages in the news feed to people who have liked, reacted or commented on harmful misinformation about COVID-19 that we have since removed,” Rosen said in a statement. “These messages will connect people to COVID-19 myths debunked by WHO, including ones we’ve removed from our platform for leading to imminent physical harm.”
Y’all know what I’m talking about. Evidence we’d never give the time of day if it didn’t work in our favor. The “I remember reading somewhere…”, the “I have a friend who knows someone who…”, YouTube interviews that are impossible to fact-check (but please just trust this person’s top-secret info from an organization they can’t name without the Feds beating down their door), crowdsourced anecdotes, retracted papers, retweeted screenshots of Facebook comments from people whose names and profile pictures are blacked out, the whole shebang.
Activated on March 16, Joint Task Force National Capital Region (JTF-NCR) is chartered to “defend” Washington on land, in the air, and even on its waterfronts. The special task force, the only one of its kind in the country, demonstrates how there are two sides of government preparedness. The public face, and even the day-to-day work of most men and women assigned to JTF-NCR, is the same as it is everywhere else in the country—medical support, delivering supplies, manning health-check stations.
COVID-19 Testing By The Numbers: New Brunswick (Deborah W.)
Each health zone serves different population numbers, therefore; testing numbers per zone will vary and can’t be used as a direct comparison between zones.
The Four Horsemen Hate Silver (GE Christenson)
War: The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries cost lives and trillions of dollars. What have they accomplished, other than transferring assets from governments to corporations? National debt increased over $23 trillion and prices rose, but the “piper must be paid.” Perpetual wars weaken economies, currencies and governments. Fake money will thrive until it fails. That moment of failure could be close.
No, We Are Not “All In This Together”… (thc0655)
Beware anyone promoting the notion that we are “all in this together”; this is the gateway to collectivism and it is a blatant lie. As mentioned, there are establishment elites that plan to gain from this event while the rest of us suffer; they are NOT on our side or in our boat. They will use the pandemic and the simultaneous economic collapse (which they have engineered) to maneuver the public into abandoning their freedoms in the name of collective safety.
The Only Man Who Has A Clue (Rob B.)
I’ve been reading up on this for a while, adding -much- more stuff as I went along (this will be a long essay), and at some point realized that the coronavirus is an issue you can’t leave to epidemiologists and virologists, because there are far too many unknowns for them to create a working model, and without such a model they are lost. These fine people are not good at 10-dimensional chess, even if they like you to think otherwise.
Could Trump Be Criminally Liable for His Deadly Mishandling of Coronavirus? (Sparky1)
While China provided thousands of virus-fighting supplies to countries on three continents, including all 54 African nations, the U.S. was so short it had to ask other countries for help. Publicly, Trump boasted, “We have so many companies making so many products” and “We have millions of masks being done. We have respirators. We have ventilators.” Privately, he called South Korean President Moon Jae-in for supplies, though the call doesn’t appear in the White House call readout.
Fighting Suicide in the Midst of a Pandemic (Sparky1, h/t Km64)
Another example: a friend of mine, a frail, elderly gentleman, deceived a number of us about his reasons for moving to an assisted living home in a nearby town. He wanted out of his apartment, he said, and needed help with the basic tasks of his day. Within three weeks of that move, he asphyxiated himself. His death left all of us saddened and stunned, wondering how we had failed him in his despair.
Feed a Cold, Don’t Starve It (Debbie S.)
To be more precise, we do not feed or starve the bacteria or viruses themselves, but we may be able to modulate the different types of inflammation that these infections cause. “I want to be cautious here not to oversimplify and generalize,” Medzhitov warned. The most accurate and compelling way to put it, then, really: “Fasting has opposite consequences in different types of inflammation.”
Study unravels how our immune system deals with fungal and viral infections (Deborah W.)
Fungal infections are major killers of patients with impaired immunity, such as AIDS patients or transplant recipients, but they usually occur alongside a secondary, viral infection. Although clinicians understand how the immune system responds to each of these types of pathogen, much less is known about what happens when both occur together.
IEA: Renewables Growth Is Stalling (Roger B.)
For the last four years, growth of wind had slowed, but the gap was made up by faster growth from solar. The difference in 2018 was that solar’s exponential growth flattened out. The reason for that lies in China, where the government pared back incentives on solar in order to cut expenditures and cope with grid integration challenges, the IEA said. Still, China added 44 GW of solar last year, the most by far out of any other country and nearly half of the 97 GW global total. But that was down from 53 GW that China installed in 2017.
Dangerous weather pattern developing for one region of US in coming weeks (Sparky1)
The busy nature of severe weather in recent weeks is likely to get busier, according to AccuWeather meteorologists.”Since the 1950s, the year 2011 brought the most EF1 or stronger tornadoes with just under 900, and the year 2004 brought the most tornadoes, including EF0 storms, with more than 1,800,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Jesse Ferrell said.
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