news Covid19-Coronavirus updates and news

[Mister Funsky]

Having relatives and friends scattered all over the globe, I am getting an overload of input (some on the record and some off the record).

My intention for this thread is for community members from around the world to post first hand stories and/or links to information sources that, for the most part, should be reliable.

In my community, just outside a major southeastern city, 'assets' have been placed. Only because I have friends in both high and low places have I heard about some of this. At this point it is only some basic medical supplies that should be equally distributed anyway in preparation for a natural emergency (hurricane/wildfire/etc.).

I will start with posting a link to a site with current data that seems to come from an aggregate of sources and hope others will do the same as they come across similar sites/pages.

Because of the 'typhoid Mary' spread-ability of this disease, I feel we may be in for a really large spread globally which will impact the global economy and through extension, retail domain prices.

One thing is for sure...things will get worse before they get better.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa-coronavirus/

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

The Ignorance continues... people have no one to blame but themselves .... to continue the ignorance is going into Full Tard Mode... it all has been an very eye opening experience to say the least

Yes, the ignorance continues. We will continue the ignorance just like you most likely will. I gotta stay on topic, covid is getting to/on peoples heads in more ways than one
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/333660/Curious-coronavirus-hat-spotted-in-Rutland

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,373,523
United States: 599,314
Brazil: 432,785
India: 266,229
Russia: 115,480
United Kingdom: 127,668
France: 107,423
Italy: 123,927
Spain: 79,339
Mexico: 220,159
Poland: 71,609
South Africa: 55,124
Indonesia: 47,967
Netherlands: 17,423
Canada: 24,869
Chile: 27,647
Belgium: 24,664
Philippines: 19,051
Japan : 11,365
Bolivia: 13,451
Papua New Guinea: 136

 

[J Sokol]

When Your Company Is Named Covid, You've Heard All The Jokes

In February 2020, Norm Carson was attending a trade show in Amsterdam, when news about the coronavirus hit.

"We went in that day thinking we'd see some customers, do some training and it'd be a regular day. And then before you knew it, they had announced the name," he says.

That name was COVID-19, and Carson is the CEO of Covid Inc. The Tempe, Ariz.-based company has been around for decades, and its cables and other audiovisual equipment are sold around the world.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/15/994996890/when-your-company-is-named-covid-youve-heard-all-the-jokes

 

[J Sokol]

Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows

Researchers have found just 12 people are responsible for the bulk of the misleading claims and outright lies about COVID-19 vaccines that proliferate on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

"The 'Disinformation Dozen' produce 65% of the shares of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," said Imran Ahmed, chief executive officer of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which identified the accounts.

Now the vaccine rollout is reaching a critical stage in which most adults who want the vaccine have gotten it, but many others are holding out, these 12 influential social media users stand to have an outsize impact on the outcome.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9965...books-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes

 

[CraigD]

When Your Company Is Named Covid, You've Heard All The Jokes

In February 2020, Norm Carson was attending a trade show in Amsterdam, when news about the coronavirus hit.

"We went in that day thinking we'd see some customers, do some training and it'd be a regular day. And then before you knew it, they had announced the name," he says.

That name was COVID-19, and Carson is the CEO of Covid Inc. The Tempe, Ariz.-based company has been around for decades, and its cables and other audiovisual equipment are sold around the world.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/15/994996890/when-your-company-is-named-covid-youve-heard-all-the-jokes

I guess their SEO has taken a hit, as it likely also has for Corona beer and the thrash-metal band Pandemic.

 

[CraigD]

Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows

Researchers have found just 12 people are responsible for the bulk of the misleading claims and outright lies about COVID-19 vaccines that proliferate on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

"The 'Disinformation Dozen' produce 65% of the shares of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms," said Imran Ahmed, chief executive officer of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which identified the accounts.

Now the vaccine rollout is reaching a critical stage in which most adults who want the vaccine have gotten it, but many others are holding out, these 12 influential social media users stand to have an outsize impact on the outcome.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/9965...books-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes

Wow. Just wow!

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,385,526
United States: 599,863
Brazil: 434,852
India: 270,319
Russia: 115,871
United Kingdom: 127,675
France: 107,535
Italy: 124,063
Spain: 79,339
Mexico: 220,380
Poland: 71,664
South Africa: 55,183
Indonesia: 48,093
Netherlands: 17,436
Canada: 24,908
Chile: 27,734
Belgium: 24,686
Philippines: 19,191
Japan : 11,463
Bolivia: 13,451
Papua New Guinea: 136

 

[J Sokol]

How will isolation affect long-term immunity?

Every time you kiss another human being intimately for 10 seconds, more than 80m bacteria are transferred from mouth to mouth. If you’re at a party and double dip your tortilla chip into the salsa three times, around 10,000 bacteria will be transferred from your lips to the dip. Say “hi” to your co-workers as you sit down at your office desk and you’ll also be greeted by over 10m bacteria on its surface.

Disturbing as these figures may seem, many scientists believe that exposure to these microbes helps fine-tune our immune systems – the network of cells and molecules that protect us from diseases. In 1989, epidemiologist David Strachan first proposed the “hygiene hypothesis” – the idea that being too clean causes defects in the immune system, leading to a rise in inflammatory diseases, such as asthma and allergies. While Strachan’s theory is debated and hygiene saves countless lives, decades of data support the idea that exposure to microbes helps the immune system develop.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/16/how-will-isolation-affect-long-term-immunity

 

[Cannuck]

How will isolation affect long-term immunity?
... the idea that being too clean causes defects in the immune system, leading to a rise in inflammatory diseases, such as asthma and allergies. While Strachan’s theory is debated and hygiene saves countless lives, decades of data support the idea that exposure to microbes helps the immune system develop.

The same idea behind the 'boy in the bubble', due to immunodeficiency disorder. Though not empirical, the 'hygiene hypothesis' proposes that babies are often overprotected and not exposed enough to bacteria in their earliest months, may later develop asthma. Consuming local honey helps prevent pollen allegies, non-pasturized honey even better. We need exposure to the environment to boost immunity, but not pollution particulates. The idea of dirty masks come to mind...though bacteria might also be detrimental to the wearer. Change often or sanitize with H2O2.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,395,153
United States: 600,148
Brazil: 435,823
India: 274,411
Russia: 116,211
United Kingdom: 127,679
France: 107,616
Italy: 124,156
Spain: 79,339
Mexico: 220,433
Poland: 71,675
South Africa: 55,210
Indonesia: 48,305
Netherlands: 17,449
Canada: 24,948
Chile: 27,832
Belgium: 24,709
Philippines: 19,262
Japan : 9,259
Bolivia: 13,517
Papua New Guinea: 136

 

[J Sokol]

We need exposure to the environment to boost immunity, but not pollution particulates. The idea of dirty masks come to mind...though bacteria might also be detrimental to the wearer. Change often or sanitize with H2O2.

Yes, I've thought about the dirty masks. There's been so much emphasis on wearing masks, but little has been said about proper sanitization. I'm guessing that a good portion of the masks we've seen walking around have rarely or never been washed.

 

[J Sokol]

United States: 600,148

A sad day.

 

[J Sokol]

Human tissue preserved since World War I yields new clues about 1918 pandemic

On 27 June 1918, two young German soldiers—one age 18, the other 17—died in Berlin from a new influenza strain that had emerged earlier that year. Their lungs ended up in the collection of the Berlin Museum of Medical History, where they rested, fixed in formalin, for 100 years. Now, researchers have managed to sequence large parts of the virus that infected the two men, giving a glimpse into the early days of the most devastating pandemic of the 20th century. The partial genomes hold some tantalizing clues that the infamous flu strain may have adapted to humans between the pandemic’s first and second waves.

The researchers also managed to sequence an entire genome of the pathogen from a young woman who died in Munich at an unknown time in 1918. It is only the third full genome of the virus that caused that pandemic and the first from outside North America, the authors write in a preprint posted on bioRxiv.

“It’s absolutely fantastic work,” says Hendrik Poinar, who runs an ancient DNA lab at McMaster University. “The researchers have made reviving RNA viruses from archival material an achievable goal. Not long ago this was, like much ancient DNA work, a fantasy.”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ld-war-i-yields-new-clues-about-1918-pandemic

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,406,645
United States: 600,535
Brazil: 436,862
India: 278,751
Russia: 116,575
United Kingdom: 127,684
France: 107,812
Italy: 124,296
Spain: 79,432
Mexico: 220,489
Poland: 71,920
South Africa: 55,260
Indonesia: 48,477
Netherlands: 17,456
Canada: 24,983
Chile: 27,934
Belgium: 24,723
Philippines: 19,372
Japan : 11,508
Bolivia: 13,566
Papua New Guinea: 136

 

[Compassion]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1393359714759610373

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 8:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,420,916
United States: 601,330
Brazil: 439,379
India: 283,276
Russia: 116,965
United Kingdom: 127,691
France: 108,040
Italy: 124,497
Spain: 79,502
Mexico: 220,746
Poland: 72,250
South Africa: 55,340
Indonesia: 48,669
Netherlands: 17,473
Canada: 25,018
Chile: 27,965
Belgium: 24,749
Philippines: 19,507
Japan : 11,851
Bolivia: 13,635
Papua New Guinea: 139

 

[Cannuck]

Hundreds of grateful Canadians flock to US border after Tribe in Montana offers COVID vaccines

The Blackfeet Tribe, based in Montana just 150 kilometres south of Lethbridge, Alta., had an abundance of vaccine and decided last month to share it with Canadians rather than let it go to waste. Initially it was just open to First Nations, but the tribe soon decided to offer it to everybody.

Many grateful Albertans, who have been waiting months for vaccine rollout, were given exemptions from having to quarantine for 14 days. They line up in their cars, drive through a loop that takes them just across the border, receive their shots through the window, are monitored for 15 minutes and return home.

Alberta has had the highest active-case rate per 100,000 people of all provinces and territories in Canada for weeks.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...ers-covid-19-vaccinations-albertans-1.6031784

 

[Compassion]

Alberta has had the highest active-case rate per 100,000 people of all provinces and territories in Canada for weeks.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...ers-covid-19-vaccinations-albertans-1.6031784

And a friendly reminder - the man who invented the test being used for "cases" said specifically it does not diagnose infectious diseases.


http://karymullis.net




CANADIAN PARLIAMENT PCR TESTING - TOO HIGH OF A CT (CYCLE THRESHOLD) WILL CAUSE MANY FALSE POSITIVES
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Wgst0VIJViQ1/

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,433,967
United States: 601,958
Brazil: 441,864
India: 287,156
Russia: 117,361
United Kingdom: 127,694
France: 108,181
Italy: 124,497
Spain: 79,568
Mexico: 220,850
Poland: 72,500
South Africa: 55,507
Indonesia: 48,887
Netherlands: 17,488
Canada: 25,066
Chile: 27,997
Belgium: 24,768
Philippines: 19,641
Japan : 11,940
Bolivia: 13,693
Papua New Guinea: 154

 

[J Sokol]

Stench of death pervades rural India as Ganges swells with Covid victims

There was a time before when the Ganges was “swollen with dead bodies”.

In 1918, when the great flu pandemic swept through India and killed an estimated 18 million people, the water of this river – upon which so many lives depended – was filled with the stench of death.

And so it is again. India’s official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic may be just over a quarter of a million, but experts believe the real figure to be up to five times higher, and the bodies that have begun washing up in India’s holiest river have become haunting representations of the uncounted Covid dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...vades-rural-india-ganges-swells-covid-victims

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 8:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,446,863
United States: 602,616
Brazil: 444,391
India: 291,365
Russia: 117,739
United Kingdom: 127,701
France: 108,314
Italy: 124,810
Spain: 79,601
Mexico: 221,080
Poland: 72,691
South Africa: 55,568
Indonesia: 49,073
Netherlands: 17,488
Canada: 25,111
Chile: 28,169
Belgium: 24,794
Philippines: 19,763
Japan : 12,046
Bolivia: 13,780
Papua New Guinea: 154

 

[J Sokol]

They recovered from Covid, only to die of 'black fungus.' What we know about the disease sweeping India

(CNN)In early May, doctors in India began raising the alarm about a rise in mucormycosis -- a rare and potentially deadly infection also known as black fungus.

Many of those being infected are coronavirus patients, or those who have recently recovered from Covid-19, whose immune systems have been weakened by the virus or who have underlying conditions -- most notably diabetes.

In the past few weeks, thousands of black fungus cases have been reported across the country, with hundreds hospitalized and at least 90 dead. Two states have declared it an epidemic, and the central government has made it a notifiable disease.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/india/black-fungus-mucormycosis-covid-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html

Things are looking pretty grim in India these days.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 8:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,459,746
United States: 603,408
Brazil: 446,527
India: 295,525
Russia: 118,125
United Kingdom: 127,710
France: 108,437
Italy: 125,028
Spain: 79,620
Mexico: 221,256
Poland: 72,882
South Africa: 55,719
Indonesia: 49,205
Netherlands: 17,518
Canada: 25,162
Chile: 28,290
Belgium: 24,809
Philippines: 19,946
Japan : 12,152
Bolivia: 13,780
Papua New Guinea: 154

 

[Mister Funsky]

Current Covid19 death numbers as of 9:00 am EST are below, primarily from the source in the original post (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus). If your country of interest is not listed below, simply go to the link above to do a search for relevant information.

Total: 3,470,283
United States: 603,877
Brazil: 448,291
India: 299,296
Russia: 118,482
United Kingdom: 127,716
France: 108,526
Italy: 125,153
Spain: 79,620
Mexico: 221,597
Poland: 72,928
South Africa: 55,772
Indonesia: 49,328
Netherlands: 17,537
Canada: 25,203
Chile: 28,386
Belgium: 24,823
Philippines: 19,951
Japan : 12,236
Bolivia: 13,857
Papua New Guinea: 154

 

[rh2000]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1394802104888221696