BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

the WHO never said people were not gaining immunity and that antibody testing is pointless. What they said was that there is no proof of immunity. There's a difference.

I don't think any responsible health organization would downplay the importance of testing, both for the virus itself and for antibodies. You can't begin to understand the scope of a pandemic without reliably being able to track infections.

I question how you are having such difficulty understanding that China implemented policies that directly impacted the transmission rate - sealing people in, creating tracking apps, extensive temperature testing, curfews, etc. These are proven steps a society can take (and in some cases, SHOULD take) in retarding the infection rate of a highly transmissible virus.

You don't understand how checking temperatures at entrances of hotels, apartment buildings, grocery stores, train stations, pretty much any common area where people traverse will lead to less infections?

China is full of shit - their numbers are no doubt cooked. That doesn't mean that everything they are doing is wrong. They are doing exactly what Jay is advocating for the US to do - funneling good science through the magical prism of politics. In China, it leads to a "CPC did it, coming together to defeat the foe is the (Han) Chinese Way!". In the US it leads to people whispering about the real intentions of recommending bleach enemas and marching on city halls to "take our rights back" because Becky can't get her nails done, and wondering why BIG VACCINE is taking so long to come out with a solution that inevitably will give you autism/implant a microchip for use later when they wake you up to be a grunt in the NWO uprising.

There were over 40K people that showed up to a local beach on Friday. The OC Supervisors, in their infinite wisdom, closed down the parking lots but didn't close the beaches down. The initial reports were that the beach goers were all "out of towners" from LA and SD, since those local governments actually did issue orders to close the beach. But that's just people that don't want to accept that there are assholes.

Last edited by uziq (2020-04-28 09:10:09)

An Iranian scientist who has been pleading for weeks to be released from a US immigration jail due to his fragile health has contracted Covid-19, according to his family and attorneys.

Dr Sirous Asgari, a materials science and engineering professor who spoke out in March about the unsanitary and “inhumane” conditions in detention, was placed in an isolation cell this week inside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) jail in Louisiana. His lawyers learned on Tuesday that his Covid-19 test was positive.

He and his family are calling for his release to a medical facility where he can receive proper care.

But Ice told Asgari’s lawyers he would only be released to a hospital if he was struggling to breathe, his attorneys said. Bryan Cox, an Ice spokesman, said there were two confirmed Covid-19 cases at Winn but declined to answer specific questions about Asgari.

“It makes sense to send me to the hospital as soon as possible. I don’t trust them at all,” Asgari said in a phone call with The Guardian Tuesday, amid repeated coughing fits.

Asgari’s story sparked international outrage after he spoke about his fears of Covid-19 spreading inside crowded Ice facilities with substandard cleaning practices and a lack of supplies. The professor, who has a history of respiratory problems, was exonerated in a US sanctions trial last year, but Ice has refused to release him or allow him to return to Iran. Iran’s foreign minister recently called for his release, as have some US lawmakers and human rights groups.

uziq wrote:

projections of deaths in the UK are currently sitting at 45k, which is in the territory of the number killed in the blitz during ww2. by far the biggest civilian casualty number in peacetime.

meanwhile mike pence doesn’t wear a face mask at the mayo clinic. imagine being at one of the world’s best health facilities and not observing basic fucking prevention measures at this point.