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Friday, March 20, 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1858 - #TLPD 2003.20 - GOP CoronaVirus Response Timeline

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #1858 - #TLPD 2003.20  - GOP CoronaVirus Response Timeline


Here's a recap of some things happening in the "hate nation" that's now the "hoax nation."





Oh wait, no, this post is mostly about this hashtag:

#TrumpLiedPeopleDied





Remember, how Trump called the fears of a pandemic a "hoax" comparable to the Impeachment, which he also felt was a "hoax" cooked up by his opponents.

What a tool.





https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/

We're all watching that movie now.
People say Contagion is prescient. We just saw the science. The whole epidemiological community has been warning everybody for the past 10 or 15 years that it wasn't a question of whether we were going to have a pandemic like this. It was simply when. It's really hard to get people to listen. I mean, Trump pushed out the admiral on the National Security Council, who was the only person at that level who's responsible for pandemic defense. With him went his entire downline of employees and staff and relationships. And then Trump removed the [early warning] funding for countries around the world.


































#TrumpMeltdown







Here's what I am worried about:


https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/coronavirus-gov-inslee-will-not-issue-shelter-in-place-order-friday-chief-staff-tells-kiro-7/XIDPHMLVOJAAREQ5YCL75367PU/

We're not sheltering in place yet, but we will. I am concerned, not because I think it's the wrong thing to do (it's not), not that there's much I needed in the outside world (I don't), except food. We do not have enough food "hoarded" for a long term quarantine. Luckily, Safeway delivers... for now.

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/


How will we know when we’re through this?
The world is not going to begin to look normal until three things have happened. One, we figure out whether the distribution of this virus looks like an iceberg, which is one-seventh above the water, or a pyramid, where we see everything. If we're only seeing right now one-seventh of the actual disease because we're not testing enough, and we're just blind to it, then we're in a world of hurt. Two, we have a treatment that works, a vaccine or antiviral. And three, maybe most important, we begin to see large numbers of people—in particular nurses, home health care providers, doctors, policemen, firemen, and teachers who have had the disease—are immune, and we have tested them to know that they are not infectious any longer. And we have a system that identifies them, either a concert wristband or a card with their photograph and some kind of a stamp on it. Then we can be comfortable sending our children back to school, because we know the teacher is not infectious.
And instead of saying "No, you can't visit anybody in nursing home," we have a group of people who are certified that they work with elderly and vulnerable people, and nurses who can go back into the hospitals and dentists who can open your mouth and look in your mouth and not be giving you the virus. When those three things happen, that's when normalcy will return.

And some more news:



https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/03/20/1211230/search-for-coronavirus-vaccine-becomes-a-global-competition

Search for Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes a Global Competition (nytimes.com)








Posted by msmash  from the tussle-continues dept.

A global arms race for a coronavirus vaccine is underway. The New York Times reports:In the three months since the virus began its deadly spread, China, Europe and the United States have all set off at a sprint to become the first to produce a vaccine. But while there is cooperation on many levels -- including among companies that are ordinarily fierce competitors -- hanging over the effort is the shadow of a nationalistic approach that could give the winner the chance to favor its own population and potentially gain the upper hand in dealing with the economic and geostrategic fallout from the crisis. What began as a question of who would get the scientific accolades, the patents and ultimately the revenues from a successful vaccine is suddenly a broader issue of urgent national security. And behind the scramble is a harsh reality: Any new vaccine that proves potent against the coronavirus -- clinical trials are underway in the United States, China and Europe already -- is sure to be in short supply as governments try to ensure that their own people are the first in line.

In China, 1,000 scientists are at work on a vaccine, and the issue has already been militarized: Researchers affiliated with the Academy of Military Medical Sciences have developed what is considered the nation's front-runner candidate for success and is recruiting volunteers for clinical trials. China "will not be slower than other countries," Wang Junzhi, a biological products quality control expert with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said Tuesday at a news conference in Beijing. The effort has taken on propaganda qualities. Already, a widely circulated photograph of Chen Wei, a virologist in the People's Liberation Army, receiving an injection of what was advertised to be the first vaccine, has been exposed as a fake, taken before a trip she made to Wuhan, where the virus began. President Trump has talked in meetings with pharmaceutical executives about making sure a vaccine is produced on American soil, to assure the United States controls its supplies. German government officials said they believed he tried to lure a German company, CureVac, to do its research and production, if it comes to that, in the United States.



https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/03/20/1441243/youtube-now-highlights-authoritative-coronavirus-coverage-on-its-homepage

YouTube Now Highlights 'Authoritative' Coronavirus Coverage On its Homepage (mashable.com)









Posted by msmash  from the something's-better-than-nothing dept.

YouTube has launched a news shelf on its homepage dedicated to coronavirus coverage. From a report:The content will initially be available in 16 countries, and the company says it will expand it to more countries in the future. YouTube announced the news on Twitter without giving any further details, such as the exact list of countries or the list of news outlets that are included in the program.


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- Days ago = 1721 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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