HEY HEY RONA

yo!... the beat goes on ... innit!

 TempusFugit -

"Numerous comments in this thread about..

who deserves to be “bashed”..

and whose reported data is to be believed..

all of which ignores two essential facts about the Coronavirus narrative..

(1) 

Even the “truthful” data being put out by responsible/credible governments..

tells less than the whole story..

It helps to track trends and build sentiment..

but if you were to take a guess at how many people in, say, the US..

 have been infected up to now you could be out by a factor of five or even 10..

so any extrapolations from reported numbers are at best educated guesses..

As discussion of the origin of the virus or potential treatments has amply demonstrated..

covid-ology is still an imprecise science.

(2)

 The Coronavirus crisis has demonstrated the existence of a yawning leadership gap..

across virtually the entire globe..

Not only in the BRIC countries..

where each leader’s response to the emerging crisis..

has been egregious in its own way..

but also in so-called advanced democracies..

There’s little point rehearsing Trump’s imbecile mishandling of the situation here..

you couldn’t make it up..

yet it is in the process of hardening into an historical fact..

Boris Johnson got it seriously wrong too..

and no amount of bonding with the NHS..

over his recovery from the illness will..

divert attention from that when it comes to the post mortem..

Abe and Macron have lost all credibility with their respective voters at this stage..

Only a select few countries..

South Korea, Austria, Germany..

seem to have got it right..

And however much Trump’s attack on the WHO is to be deplored..

it seems that (a) it’s response in the emerging stages of the disease..

was highly coloured by political considerations..

when it should have been putting the world on red alert..

and (b) the organization charged with ensuring the health of humanity..

did not have a plan in place for how to organize..

a concerted response to an emerging pandemic..

or if it did it has yet to see the light of day..

But the point anyway at this stage..

is surely that everyone on this planet should be focused..

on doing what is necessary..

to get the spread of the disease under control..

so that we can all return to our “normal” lives..

whatever that may mean in the future..

Finger wagging, blaming and bashing are a worthless waste of energy..

There’ll be plenty of time for a reckoning in due course."


PORK SPAMMED

njbr

 

..the state is working with Tyson to test employees at facilities in Columbus Junction and Waterloo..

 

 and to trace their connections to others to identify community spread..

Testing was completed Friday in Columbus Junction..

 

where Tyson officials said..

 

two workers had died following an outbreak where at least 148 workers have been infected..

 

The plant has been closed since April 6 but the company hopes to reopen it next week.

Reynolds said 2,700 tests were sent to the Waterloo plant..

 

and they will be processed at a state laboratory over the weekend..

The outbreak at the Waterloo plant comes amid similar problems..

 

that have forced the closure of meat processing plants across the country..

 

including a pork plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota..

 

where hundreds of workers have tested positive..

 

a beef plant in Greeley, Colorado..

 

where at least two workers have died..

 

and several meat plants in Pennsylvania..

 

where many workers are ill..

On Friday, Tyson announced four workers had died at a poultry plant..

 

in Georgia after being infected with the coronavirus..

Also Friday, there were 19 reported cases of the coronavirus..

 

identified at a large JBS pork plant in Worthington, Minnesota..

 

according to the union that represents most of the 2,000 workers at the facility..

 

State health officials said seven cases have been confirmed and the number is expected to rise..

 

The plant remains open.

marg54

"Your president is going to have blood on his hands..

 

for his thirst to put money and his re election before lives..

 

We can only watch what he is doing with shock and horror from Australia..

 

Our hearts go out to all Americans"

njbr

 

"WSJ...More than 160 South Koreans have tested positive a second time for the coronavirus..

 

a development that suggests the disease..

 

may have a longer shelf life than expected"

njbr

 

TOKYO (AP) — "Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people..

 

as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections..

 

and its emergency medical system collapses.

In one recent case, an ambulance carrying a man with a fever..

 

and difficulty breathing was rejected by 80 hospitals..

 

and forced to search for hours..

 

for a hospital in downtown Tokyo that would treat him..

 

Another feverish man finally reached a hospital..

 

after paramedics unsuccessfully contacted 40 clinics.

The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine..

 

and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine..

 

say many hospital emergency rooms are refusing to treat people..

 

including those suffering strokes, heart attacks and external injuries."