A LEVEL VIRUS FIELD

yo!.. only game in town... innit!

today here in palookaville..

all the go is..

germany winnin the games..

it ain't even half time..

some folks reckon..

we still inna first quarter..

still an all..

maybe we should check out the.

german playbook..

ta see what we can learn..

 

What Germany got right in the fight against coronavirus

While it remains to be seen whether the German authorities have got it right..

or acted too soon in easing the pressure..

it is clear the country has done better than mos..

of its European neighbours in tackling the virus so far.

Germany has one of the lowest case fatality rates in the world..

with 4,869 deaths for 147,593 detected infections..

according to Johns Hopkins University in the US..

That’s a case fatality rate of just over 3 per cent..

compared to around 13 per cent in the UK, France and Italy.


What's more, German scientists..

announced last week they had succeeded..

in bringing the reproduction factor..

the number of people each person with the virus passes the infection to..

under 1 for the first time.

Whatever happens next..

right now Germany is as close to a coronavirus success story as Europe has..

The story of that success comes down to three things..

preparedness..

a decentralised system that lets doctors make the calls..

and a generous slice of luck.

COPY THAT

 

fair play to them..

they done good..

y'all should read the whole article..

an then git yo own teams ta..

adopt as much of this..

as possible.

 

PLAY NICELY NOW

 

 some folks sayin.. 

no fair..

they sayin the games is rigged..

some teams..

havin ta play..

a tougher game..

that the virus..

they have to play with..

is a tougher son of a bitch..

an that it..

don't play fair.

Coronavirus’s ability to mutate has been vastly underestimated, and mutations affect deadliness of strains, Chinese study finds

• The most aggressive strains of Sars-CoV-2 could generate..
•  270 times as much viral load as the least potent type
•  
• New York may have a deadlier strain imported from Europe..
• compared to less deadly viruses elsewhere in the United States

 so..

maybe not a level playin field..

maybe all virus be equal..

but..

some be more equal than others..

 

LET THE BOFFINS BE THE REFEREES

 

track down all mutations..

an ban em from a games..

or give a weighting..

or a handicap..

or whatevva..

 

if they a deadlier strain..

identify and disqualify..

let the people know..

 

lets not fix..

 

THIS WORLD SERIES

 

let's have a fair fight..

and a..

true winner..

SOME TIMES A GREAT PLAN

yo!... goes awry... innit!

palookaville..

in luckdown..

nobody planned..

ta fail..

but..

every body failed ta plan..

GOING TO FAIL : FAIL

it lookin..

more an more..

lak palookaville gonna..

lose the games

ya cain't win if ya..

last outta the gate..

if ya don't gotta..

right kit..

if ya don't gotta..

playbook..

MAKE A NEW PLAN STAN

Mar 24, 2020 Nouriel Roubini

But the best-case scenario assumes several conditions. 

First, the US, Europe, and other heavily affected economies..

would need to roll out widespread COVID-19 testing, tracing, and treatment measures, 

enforced quarantines, and a full-scale lockdown of the type that China has implemented..

 And, because it could take 18 months for a vaccine to be developed..

and produced at scale, antivirals and other therapeutics..

will need to be deployed on a massive scale. 

the palookas are..

gettin restless..

they seen alla movies..

an they..

miss their buddies..

they ain't enuff dead palookas..

in they area..

WHAT, ME WORRY?

palookaville is a big place..

an some folks..

gotta shitty enda the stick..

others..

not so much..

they want luckdown..

ta end..


HEY HEY RONA

they want to go back to work..

an travel, an visit, an hang out..

they think that..

rhona..

is for the birds..

and not for them..

evidence is emerging that..

they may not be onside..


I say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Rona..

Oh, Rona..

I tell you Rona what I wanna do..

I'll build a house next door to you..

Can I see you sometimes?

We can blow kisses through the blinds..

Yeah can I out come out on the front..

And listen to my heart go bumpety bump..

I need you baby that's no lie..

Without your love I'd surely die..

I say hey, Rona..

THE VERY THING THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY WILL MAKE THEM DEAD

yes..

in palookaville..

they have a name for this..

herd immunity..

steve chao - 

 Stop blaming others..

We are where we are because Trump GOP gospel is let old sick people die..

It didn't start with this pandemic..

Plenty of Republican politicians publicly stated old people are burden to society..

should go..

Washington made no preparations, no mask, no ventilator..

because they wanted to cull the herd...

Boris Johnson accidentally gave out the secret..

herd immunity he calls it..

Trump panicked after he saw bodies pile up..

Fearing political consequence he changed tone..

But not really, his policy is still herd immunity..

Witness his push to open up/ease quarantines even while we have 28,000 new cases a day.

 many want ta..

git back onna trail..

Keep rollin', rollin', rollin'
Though the streams are swollen..

Keep them dogies rollin'
Rawhide!

Through rain and wind and weather..

Hell-bent for leather..

Wishin' my gal was by my side..

All the things I'm missin'
Good vittles, love, and kissin'..

Are waiting at the end of my ride.

CHORUS

Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up

Rawhide

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in..

Ride 'em in, let 'em out.

Cut 'em out, ride 'em in..

Rawhide!

Keep movin', movin', movin'

Though they're disapprovin'

Keep them dogies movin'

Rawhide!

Don't try to understand 'em..

Just rope, and throw, and brand 'em..

Soon we'll be living high and wide..

My heart’s calculatin'

My true love will be waitin'

Be waiting at the end of my ride.

CHORUS

Rawhide!

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/rawhidelyrics.html

 SOME ONE ALWAYS HAS A PLAN

but it may not be..

the one we will like..

or the one that will..

make us all better..

or..

keep us all safe


ALLSAFE


Firstly, if you get on top of it really early, you can get it under control.

"It is relatively easy to tackle clusters, to contact trace and isolate,"

says Professor Kenji Shibuya of King's College London.

"The authorities were quite successful in their cluster control approach.

Japan was in the very early phase of the outbreak back then.

It was localised and it was a success story."


"The major lesson to take from Hokkaido is that even if you are successful..

in the containment the first time around..

it's difficult to isolate and maintain the containment for a long period..

Unless you expand the testing capacity..

it's difficult to identify community transmission and hospital transmission."

The long road ahead

The third lesson is..

that this "new reality" is going to go on a lot longer than most people expect.

Hokkaido has now had to re-impose the restrictions..

though Japan's version of a Covid-19 "lockdown"..

is a rather softer than those imposed elsewhere.

Most people are still going to work..

Schools may be closed, but shops and even bars remain open.

Prof Shibuya thinks without tougher measures..

Japan has little hope of controlling..

this so called "second wave" of infections now taking place..

not just in Hokkaido, but across the country.

"The key lesson" he says..

"is even if you are successful in containment locally..

but there is transmission going on in other parts of the country..

as long as people are moving around..

it's difficult to maintain a virus-free status".

Even so, the economy in Hokkaido is already hurting badly.

The island is hugely dependent on tourism..

and Japan has banned travel from the US and Europe and most countries in Asia.

coming up..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/far-right-coronavirus-protests-restrictions

guidelines-governors

DESPERATELY SEEKING SYMPTOMS

yo!... testing times... innit! 

in palookaville today..

the world as we knew..

it has ended

DON'T TEST DON'T TELL

is over..

the cat is now..

well an truly..

outta a bag..

GERMANY 5 ENGLAND 0

in the crazy, dystopian,..

3D chess board..

of the virus games..

it turns out that the previous policy..

DON'T TEST, DON'T TELL

is dead..

and that now is the time..

to take our heads out of the sand..

and seek out..

WTF is going on..

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going..

because you might not get there.

 it would appear that the virus..

does not go away..

if you hide from it..

and that chasing it around..

and walking back the duck..

helps to fight the spread..

NO SPREAD, NO DEAD

what the world needs now..

is..

singing detectives..

detect stuff..

an share it..

the boffin community..

will work better..

with more information..

especially..

if it's good info, timely info, accurate info..

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT, IT CONTAIN IT

We made too many wrong mistakes.

shudda followed singapore..

In Singapore..

one of the first places hit by coronavirus..

detectives are tracking down potential positive cases to try to stay one step ahead of the virus..

How did they do this and is it too late for the rest of the world? 

ONE STEP AHEAD, ONE STEP BEYOND

beyond reckless, beyond stupid..

so far here..

it's the keystone cops..

time ta get real..

maybe we have to go beyond politics, beyond national borders, beyond public vs private..

AIRPLANES GROUNDED

CARS PARKED

RESTAURANTS CLOSED

BEACHES SHUT

SOCKS DOWN

MILLIONS UNEMPLOYED 

CHURCHES EMPTY

GAMES UNPLAYED

OPPORTUNITIES MISSED

JOBS NOT DONE

SIGHTS UNSEEN

PILGRIMAGES NOT UNDERTAKEN

MONEY NOT SPENT

PROFITS NOT MADE

HOLIDAYS NOT HAD

EXPERIENCES UNEXPERIENCED

PEOPLE SICK

FUNERALS FOREGONE

LOVERS FORSAKEN

PROPERTIES UNLISTED

HOUSES NOT SOLD

HOMES NOT BOUGHT

deaths died

lives not lived

coming up..

 then it fell apart

when will there be masks?

the big yellow virus

I won't stand in line for this

 

GET VIRUS DONE

yo!... it's not the economy stupid... innit!

in palookaville today...

evva one in shock...

as...

brexit falls ill... 

and...

is taken to the e.r. ..

fo tests

DON'T TEST DON'T TELL

 evva body know they ain't no tests...

 

EXAMINATIONS CANCELLED 

schools can't test, hospitals can't test...

media examination fails...

TAKE BACK CONTROL

in palookaville people are prayin...

for boris...

come home safe...

you big palooka...

before something happens ta brexit...

while the cats away...

18 HOLES

the other bigger palooka...

is tryin to get a hole in one...

he usin a golf playbook...

hit the ball...

into the long grass...

keep searchin around...

until after the election...

IN PALOOKAVILLE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU FART 

turns out...

after all...

palookaville...

is just a business...

as long as every one is economically active...

all will be fine...

rainy days...

are for wimps

NEW DEAL

how about sick pay...

for all workers?

how about a national health service?

for all patients

how about big pharma...

payin out for some of this?

PRIVATE EQUITY HAS NO PLACE IN HEALTHCARE

sooner or later...

a new deal will be identified...

time ta get ahead a the game

TEST MATCH

yo!... what a game... innit!

palookaville bowled out...

evva one...

stumped...

HOWZAT

despite taking an early bath...

and...

being disqualified...

fo breakin a rules...

an settin a virus loose...

befo evva one else was ready...

china still has the best overall score!

SUPERVISOR

they gotta howzat suits...

anna n95 masks...

anna visors...

anna supervisors

LOST WAGES

Well I've been around the world

And I've been in the Washington Zoo

And in all my travels

As the facts unravel

I've found this to be true

While the poor people sleepin'

With the shade on the light

While the poor people sleepin'

All the stars come out at night

 they got the steely dan t-shirts...

and ventilators they need...

all that money can buy...

OUT FOR A DUCK

turning up without proper kit...

and during...

a maiden over..

the palookaville team...

suffer a batting collapse...

and itta long walk back to a pavillion...

without any kit

 NO WAY TO PLAY A TEST MATCH

don't test don't tell

IT'S THE MUSHROOM TREATMENT STUPID

keep em inna dark

covered inna shit

STAY OFF THE PITCH

spectators...

are asked to watch from home...

or the coronagate hotel...

do not pass go...

 do not collect £ 200 $


GERMANY 5   ENGLAND NIL

On Feb 25, when much of Europe still believed it could avoid the coronavirus crisis, news broke that a 47-year-old man had tested positive in Germany.
As authorities raced to track anyone the sick man had been in contact with, a terrifying picture emerged. He had spent the previous 10 days at carnival celebrations where he could have infected hundreds of people.
But experts now agree Germany did one crucial thing right at that moment. It started testing everyone who had been in contact with the infected man.
Little more than a month later, Germany is now testing around 500,000 of its citizens every week.
Britain, meanwhile, is lagging far behind, with only around 8,000 people tested per day.