International Coronavirus Breaking News, v13: Over 21,000 Healthcare Workers From Around The U.S Heading To N.Y

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Don't drag me into this mate, I'm still on the peak train. There's nothing definite about it having a somewhat higher number for one day.
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Peak train as in it dropped two days in a row last week so it’s on the way down even though it’s up every day since? Lol! Remember those numbers were in the 6/700 range and now we’re talking 900 plus.

please don’t make me dredge up those posts. I will if I have to but rather not.
 
China Is Pushing a ‘Zero’ Myth on COVID-19
Aaron Rhodes


A woman wearing a protective mask walks past a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a street as the country is hit by an outbreak of the coronavirus in Shanghai, China, March 12, 2020.

The regime’s censorship and distortions are a threat to global public health as well as a violation of human rights.

Chinese president Xi Jinping has a new slogan: “Zero” — the goal of reducing to zero the number of cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, aka COVID-19. Reaching zero is crucial to achieving his broader goal of global leadership and domination. Xi must show the world that the totalitarian Chinese political system is vindicated by the defeat of the virus. The truth about COVID-19 inside China is the greatest obstacle to his ambition.

he intoned, should “view their own interests in a broader context” and “refrain from pursuing their own interests at the expense of others.” China has assiduously asserted influence in global institutions, especially United Nations bodies, where Chinese nationals lead four of 15 specialized agencies. In his speech at the special summit of G20 leaders on March 26, Xi showed his determination to build his own image as a world leader.

For him to succeed in his long march through the international community, he needs to have a reputation for success at addressing challenges such as COVID-19. As two veteran China watchers, Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi, pointed out in a recent article in Foreign Affairs, one’s legitimacy as a global leader depends on domestic governance, the provision of global public goods, and the ability and willingness to muster and coordinate a global response to crises. To lead the world response to the pandemic, China must set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

The long-term plan hit a large speed bump with revelations about the regime’s malfeasance in covering up COVID-19, and the Communist Party’s efforts to turn the story around, making itself heroic, are well documented. But the plan could run aground if a second outbreak, which some experts warn is inevitable, occurs in China. In this situation, the regime is turning reflexively to traditional Communist tactics: propaganda and the control of information.

Neutralizing Independent Media
China has expelled reporters for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, sources it cannot control. The regime has clamped down increasingly on independent journalists as its domestic practices have become increasingly inhumane, especially with respect to its repression of religious minorities, including Uighur Muslims, who have been subjected to mass internment.

China ranks low in international measures of press freedom. Last year, in a survey of 180 countries with respect to media independence, media pluralism, and respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, Reporters Without Borders ranked China 177th. In “Control, Halt, Delete: Reporting in China Under Threat of Expulsion,” a new report from the Beijing-based Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC), foreign journalists document practices that Chinese authorities have employed that have severely affected their reporting.

Beijing has delayed and placed restrictions on visas for foreign journalists. While the standard length of a long-term journalist visa, J-1, is one year, many foreign correspondents who have reported critically about the Chinese regime have received curtailed visas. In 2018, five correspondents received curtailed visas. In 2019, at least a dozen received visas for six months or less. Truncated visas require frequent renewal, and Beijing has made that process more arduous not just for the journalists but for their families as well. This practice is called out in the FCCC report.

Three correspondents from Wall Street Journal were expelled on February 19 over an opinion piece critical of Beijing’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak. “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia,” the headline read. In announcing the expulsions, a foreign-ministry spokesman called the article “racist.” It was the first time in more than two decades that journalists holding valid credentials had been ordered to leave China, although since 2013 others have been expelled in effect, through non-renewal of their visas.

Beijing has also established red lines for foreign correspondents. In particular, anything critical of Xi Jinping and his family is forbidden. Last year, Beijing declined to renew the credentials of another Wall Street Journal reporter, who had reported about investigations, in Australia, into the activities of one of Xi’s cousins, who was suspected of involvement in organized crime and money laundering. In the FCCC report, the bureau chief of an English-language news organization is quoted as saying that the Chinese foreign ministry had explicitly told them that they would face the “anger of other arms of the government,” and not just the foreign ministry, if they wrote the “wrong pieces about Xi.”

Criticism of the treatment of the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang has also drawn the ire of the authorities. In 2018, Megha Rajagopalan, the Beijing bureau chief for BuzzFeed News, was unable to renew her visa. During her six years in China, Rajagopalan had reported extensively on human-rights abuses, including the detention of Uighurs and others in Xinjiang province. The Committee to Protect Journalists considers the government’s refusal to renew visas in such cases to be “acts of retribution.”
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020...myth-on-covid-19-and-attacking-press-freedom/
 
I’m glad Sherdog is back. prety much my only online activity, besides youtube and pron.
 
https://globalnews.ca/news/6742260/coronavirus-ontario-hospitals-ventilators-covid-19/

Coronavirus: Up to 3,250 ventilators ready to be deployed in Ontario, officials say

The Ontario government says up to approximately 3,250 ventilators are ready to be deployed across Ontario in response to the coronavirus outbreak...

Officials said up to 3,250 ventilators, which are ready to be deployed, come from a number of sources such as those used day-to-day in hospitals, anesthesia machines that double as ventilators, machines stockpiled during the SARS and H1N1 outbreaks and there’s a request for an allotment out of the federal government’s national emergency stockpile....

As for critical care spaces, there is currently a 68 per cent occupancy of critical care spaces with approximately 400 beds available for care. In all, there are 22,053 adult critical care beds — and 1,321 of those beds have access to ventilation equipment.
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Out of Ontario's 993 confirmed cases as of today, 32 are on ventilators. We should have 4571 ventilators available in the next few weeks (1321 currently available and 3250 incoming).
 
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Bolsonaro is fucking nuts.

He launched a spot called #obrasilnopodeparar which means "Brasil can't stop" and is trying to boycott provinces that declared quarantine. He even called a march against quarantines.

Also he said that Brazilians won't catch the covid because they "swim in sewers and they come out fine". Holy shit that is textual.

Holy shit.
 
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coron...l-after-recovering-from-coronavirus-1.4871067

101-year-old Italian man released from hospital after recovering from coronavirus
Sara Spary, Valentina DiDonato and Sharon Braithwaite

101-year-old Italian man released from hospital after recovering from coronavirus
Sara Spary, Valentina DiDonato and Sharon Braithwaite CNN Published Friday, March 27, 2020 11:59AM EDT

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A 101-year-old man has been released from hospital after recovering from the novel coronavirus, Gloria Lisi, the deputy mayor of the Italian city of Rimini, has said.

The man, who has been named only as "Mr P," was admitted to hospital in Rimini, northeast Italy, last week after testing positive for COVID-19 and left the hospital on Thursday.

Lisi said his "truly extraordinary" recovery gave "hope for the future."

"Mr P made it. The family brought him home yesterday evening. To teach us that even at 101 years the future is not written," she said.

Mr. P was born in 1919, during the Spanish flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed between 30 million and 50 million people worldwide.

Rimini had registered 1,189 cases of coronavirus as of Thursday, according to the Italian Civil Protection Department.

Authorities in 197 countries and territories have reported more than 549,000 novel coronavirus cases worldwide since China reported its first cases in December.

Italy has been particularly badly hit, with more deaths than any other country.

According to figures from Johns Hopkins University, there have been 80,589 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy and 8,215 deaths.
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God damn legend!!
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scoopj said:
Peak train as in it dropped two days in a row last week so it’s on the way down even though it’s up every day since? Lol! Remember those numbers were in the 6/700 range and now we’re talking 900 plus.

please don’t make me dredge up those posts. I will if I have to but rather not.
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Don't let the numbers mislead you, there's a severe lag between lockdowns and drop in deaths. Reminder that death occurs a month or so after the infection happens.
 
Well, I see Sherdog has recovered from the coronavirus (migration). 3 days down and out. I thought this process was going to take only a few hours...

Lessons to be learned from COVID-19 thus far:
. Wash your hands.
. Cough into your elbow.
. Don't touch your face.
. Stay 6 feet from other people.
. Stay at home. (more parking space for the rest of us) o_O
. Don't wear a mask unless you are sick, going to the pharmacy or hospital for a visit.
. Vaccines work. Take the Flu and the up and coming Covid-19 vaccine yearly.
. The Earth is round, not flat. ​
 
Phr3121 said:
Well, I see Sherdog has recovered from the coronavirus (migration). 3 days down and out. I thought this process was going to take only a few hours...

Lessons to be learned from COVID-19 thus far:
. Wash your hands.
. Cough into your elbow.
. Don't touch your face.
. Stay 6 feet from other people.
. Stay at home. (more parking space for the rest of us) o_O
. Don't wear a mask unless you are sick, going to the pharmacy or hospital for a visit.
. Vaccines work. Take the Flu and the up and coming Covid-19 vaccine yearly.
. The Earth is round, not flat. ​
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Why on earth would you only wear a mask if you are sick? I agree with the rest for the most part.
 
Jfrizzle said:
Why on earth would you only wear a mask if you are sick? I agree with the rest for the most part.
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No shit. Every time I have to venture to the store now n95 and surgical gloves on deck. I'm finally starting to see some people wearing masks, but unfortunately just about all are wearing surgical masks. I just dont have the heart to tell them.
 
Wadtucket said:
Don't let the numbers mislead you, there's a severe lag between lockdowns and drop in deaths. Reminder that death occurs a month or so after the infection happens.
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?? People are dying at some points 5 days after initially getting sick
 
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