"CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus this winter could be worse" by Lena H. Sun Washington Post, April 21, 2020
WASHINGTON — Even as states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that a second wave of the novel coronavirus could be far more deadly because it is likely to coincide with the start of flu season.
‘‘There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,’’ Director Robert Redfield said in an interview, ‘‘and when I’ve said this to others, they kind of put their head back; they don’t understand what I mean.’’
He is the guy who early on said the COVID deaths were being mislabeled as seasonal flu, inadvertently blowing the whistle before the simulated script was completely flipped and even natural deaths due to other causes are now being added to the death totals as COVID-19 caused or related.
It won't be the first time the script has been flipped with the exact opposite of what is claimed by my pre$$ being the truth.
Having two simultaneous respiratory outbreaks would put unimaginable strain on the health care system, he said. The first wave of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has already killed more than 42,000 people across the country. It has overwhelmed some hospitals and revealed gaping shortages in test kits, ventilators, and protective equipment for health care workers.
Overwhelmed them so much so that they can make dance videos and take to the streets in protest.
In a wide-ranging interview, Redfield said federal and state officials need to use the coming months to prepare for what lies ahead. As stay-at-home orders are lifted, officials need to stress the continued importance of social distancing. Officials also need to massively scale up their ability to identify the infected through testing and find everyone they interact with through contact tracing. Doing so prevents new cases from becoming larger outbreaks.
F***ing evil and $ini$ter control freaks!
Asked about the appropriateness of protests against stay-at-home orders and calls on states to be ‘‘liberated’’ from restrictions, Redfield said: ‘‘It’s not helpful.’’
He's from the government, right?
He said he, along with members of the White House coronavirus task force, have been clear about the importance of social distancing ‘‘and the enormous impact that it’s had on this outbreak in our nation.’’
As they stand too close together at podium every day!
Btw, did you see the White House hot mic that claimed the fatality rate is between 0.1 and 0.3 after a study came out in California?
Turns out the reporters who are all part of this projection of mass illusion weren't even worried because they had all been vaccinated (??!!?? How could they have been?).
As part of the White House guidelines released last week for a gradual reopening of the country, testing by CDC teams is already underway in nursing homes in four states for asymptomatic cases. The four states are Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Tennessee, according to a federal health official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plan has not yet been released.
They shouldn't be listening to these people who belong in prison.
The CDC has also drafted detailed guidance for state and local governments on how they can ease mitigation efforts, moving from drastic restrictions such as stay-at-home orders in a phased way to support a safe reopening. Redfield said that guidance will be ‘‘in the public domain shortly.’’
A "phased way," as designed by the Heritage Foundation and AEI and with the help of the pre$$.
CDC has about 500 staff in the states working on a variety of public health issues, and most of them will be pivoting to the COVID-19 response, Redfield said. CDC also plans to hire at least another 650 experts to ‘‘substantially augment’’ public health personnel in the states and assist with contact tracing, among other tasks, he said, but he acknowledged a much larger workforce is needed. Redfield said the agency is talking with state officials about the possibility of using Census Bureau workers, Peace Corps, and AmeriCorps volunteers to build ‘‘an alternative workforce.’’
Former CDC director Tom Frieden has estimated that as many as 300,000 contact tracers would be needed in the United States. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials — which represents state health departments — estimate 100,000 additional contact tracers are needed and call for $3.6 billion in emergency funding from Congress.
What you are looking at right there is what Bill Gates and his genocidal band of sicko $upremci$ts want.
Won;'t it be wonderful to have a job again?
Where the f*** is the tax base to pay for it, no one knows.
In the coming summer months, US health officials need to persuade Americans to think ahead to the fall and the importance of getting flu shots. That way, public health officials can minimize the number of people hospitalized from flu. Getting a flu vaccination, Redfield said, ‘‘may allow there to be a hospital bed available for your mother or grandmother that may get coronavirus.’’
Look at the bull$hit guilt trip that f**k lays on you as he once agains tries to jab you!
EVIL!!!
Luckily, the arrival of the coronavirus in the United States came as the regular flu season was already waning, he said. By itself, a severe influenza season can strain hospitals and clinics.
If the first wave of the coronavirus and flu season had peaked at the same time, he said, ‘‘it could have been really, really, really, really difficult in terms of health capacity.’’
Is that what the model says?
During the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic, the United States experienced its first wave in the spring, followed by a second, larger wave in the fall and winter, during typical ‘‘flu season’’ time for the country.
Yes, that Obama-era $candal didn't bring a $hutdown with it, and more died from the toxic vaccine potion they cooked up and administered -- but that is all down the memory hole now.
Must have been a practice run.
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Now about those unhelpful protesters:
"‘Go to China if you want communism’: Anti-quarantine protester clashes with people in scrubs" by Teo Armus and Jennifer Hassan Washington Post, April 21, 2020
WASHINGTON — They faced each other in a busy intersection in downtown Denver, the din of honking cars blaring around them. The man, wearing turquoise medical scrubs and an N95 mask, stood silent and resolute, blocking traffic in the middle of the road.
Opposite him, an unidentified blonde woman poked her head out of a silver Dodge truck. ‘‘This is a free country. Land of the free,’’ she yelled at him, pulling out a homemade poster displaying those very words. ‘‘Go to China if you want communism. Go to China.’’
That is coming here, but worse. We are going to get it Soviet-style.
Video footage of the confrontation, originally shared to Twitter by a user named Marc Zenn, has since been viewed more than 8 million times. On social media, some said it was made for the history books. Others called for the Pulitzer Prizes to take a look. One tweet simply said, ‘‘This is America.’’
By Monday morning, ‘Go to China’ was trending on Twitter in the United States as many took to the platform to share and discuss the protester’s controversial remarks.
Whatever was going on, it sure fed into the war fever Trump is pushing and needs.
Indeed, many say the faceoff — between a woman in a stars-and-stripes jersey demanding a return to normalcy, and a man in medical garb blocking her path — illustrates a rift between those who want to reopen society despite the pandemic, and those working on the front lines to handle its devastation.
What was he doing out of the hospital during these days of surging cases and deaths?
For four hours on Sunday, a crowd of protesters filled downtown Denver, the site of the viral video. They rode in trucks and vans and on motorcycles and even a horse as they honked and waved ‘‘Don’t Tread on Me’’ flags, according to the Denver Post.
They deserve applause (clap-clap-clap)!
Colorado is under a stay-at-home order until April 26, and Democratic Governor Jared Polis has said he wants to reopen the state in phases. As of early Monday, state officials had reported more than 9,700 cases of the virus in Colorado, including at least 422 fatalities. In total, more than 40,680 people have died of COVID-19 in the United States.
I'm sick of them throwing out their damn numbers from the simulated script.
I'm not saying people haven't died, they have. They do every day. They have in the past, and will in the future. That's life. Why and how they are dying is another question that deserves much more scrutiny from the pre$$, not just rote stenography from lying officialdom. That's how they led us into endless wars.
Images from these incidents have not only stunned those staying at home but also people overseas. Many Britons took to social media Monday to comment on the spreading protests.
Many appeared confused by scenes of people taking to the streets during a period of lockdown and social distancing measures. Some referred to the protests as ‘‘crazy,’’ while others noted, ‘‘Only in America.’’
You guys have never really gotten over being booted out of here and then being denied recolonization, huh?
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Related:
"Britain’s Parliament went back to work Tuesday, and the political authorities had a message for lawmakers: stay away. UK legislators and most parliamentary staff were sent home in late March as part of a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. With more than 17,000 virus deaths in Britain and criticism growing of the government’s response to the pandemic, legislators are returning — at least virtually — to grapple with the crisis. House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle presided over an almost-empty chamber, with space made for a maximum of 50 of the 650 members of Parliament. Red “no sitting” signs affixed to the green Commons benches and black-and-yellow hazard tape on the floor ensured lawmakers remained 2 meters (6.5 feet) apart. A few dozen legislators sat, well-spaced, in the Commons, and agreed on arrangements for lawmakers to ask questions from home using videoconferencing program Zoom, beamed onto screens erected around the wood-paneled chamber."
"The British government came under sustained criticism Wednesday for being slow in ramping up its testing for coronavirus and for failing to deliver enough personal protective equipment to front-line medical workers in hospitals and nursing homes. The political uproar came as a delayed Royal Air Force plane carrying an uncertain amount of medical protective equipment finally arrived Wednesday at Brize Norton in central England. Britain has seen 18,100 people die in hospitals after contracting the virus, with potentially thousands more virus-related deaths of people at home or in elderly care homes. Keir Starmer, the new leader of the opposition Labour Party, told lawmakers Wednesday that a “pattern is emerging” in which the Conservative government has been too slow in putting the country into a virus lockdown, in testing people for the virus, and in getting critical protective gear for medical workers. The questions are coming as Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the country’s most high-profile COVID-19 patient, convalesces at his country retreat following his weeklong stay in a hospital. Johnson has been away from the front line of the crisis for nearly four weeks after he first tested positive. “You can’t have a void of decision-making,’’ former Labour prime minister Tony Blair told ITV television. Blair said he completely sympathizes with Johnson’s plight but said hugely important decisions have to be “taken now,’’ including ramping up testing so Britain can safely exit its coronavirus lockdown, which is scheduled to end on May 7....."
OMG!!
What is that lying war criminal Tony Bliar doing on British television?
Why is he not inside a prison cell?
What is that lying war criminal Tony Bliar doing on British television?
Why is he not inside a prison cell?
Especially since he can no longer fly to Australia (billionaire owner Richard Branson has asked the British government for a loan to prop up Virgin Atlantic. He is reportedly asking for $3.2 billion, and said he was willing to put up the private island where he lives in the British Virgin Islands as collateral for the loan).
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"WHO warns rush to ease virus rules could cause resurgence" by Chris Blakeand Colleen Long Associated Press, April 21, 2020
BANGKOK — The World Health Organization said Tuesday that rushing to ease coronavirus restrictions is likely to lead to a resurgence of the illness, a warning that comes as governments start rolling out plans to get their economies up and running again.
Likely to?
“This is not the time to be lax. Instead, we need to ready ourselves for a new way of living for the foreseeable future,” said Dr. Takeshi Kasai, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific.
These sick f**ks and their evil agenda!
He said governments must remain vigilant to stop the spread of the virus and the lifting of lockdowns and other social distancing measures must be done gradually and strike the right balance between keeping people healthy and allowing economies to function.
There is no "balance" when it comes to liberty and security. When one gives up liberty for security, he/she ends up with neither. The rights of freedom and liberty are not negotiable. You either have them or you do not. We currently do not, and likely never will again.
Despite concerns from health officials, some US states on Monday announced aggressive reopening plans, while Boeing and at least one other US heavy-equipment manufacturer resumed production. Elsewhere around the world, step-by-step reopenings were underway in Europe, where the crisis has begun to ebb in places such as Italy, Spain, and Germany.
See:
"One of the grimmest symbols of the coronavirus outbreak — a morgue set up in a Madrid skating rink — closed on Wednesday as stores and other businesses reopened in places across Europe. With the crisis easing but far from over in Europe, small shops in Berlin reopened, and restrictions were also relaxed in Denmark and Austria. In France, long lines formed outside the few McDonald’s drive-thrus that started serving customers again. Still, many employees and customers were uneasy, suggesting that a return to normal is a long way off. “Of course I’m happy that I can open again and we can keep our heads above water,” said Galina Hooge, who opened her small Berlin toy store for the first time in more than a month, but she worried that some Germans still aren’t taking the outbreak seriously. “Relaxing the rules doesn’t mean that everything is over. It’s not over by a long stretch,” she said. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said “very careful steps” must be taken. “What we want to avoid is falling back into the exponential spread of the virus that we had in the first phase of the pandemic,” he said."
Oh, I wouldn't worry about that.
Australia said Tuesday that it will allow the resumption of nonurgent surgeries from next week as health authorities grow more confident that hospitals there won’t be overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients.
The reopenings come as politicians grow weary of soaring unemployment numbers and the prospect of economic depression. Asian shares followed Wall Street lower on Tuesday after US oil futures plunged below zero because of a worldwide glut as factories, automobiles, and airplanes sit idled.
How the f**k do you think we feel?
Businesses that start operating again in the United States are likely to engender good will with President Trump at a time when his administration is doling out billions in relief to companies. Trump has been agitating to restart the economy, singling out Democratic-led states and egging on protesters complaining that the shutdowns are destroying their livelihoods and trampling their rights.
In several states — most of them Republican-led — governors said they had seen signs that the coronavirus curve was flattening, making it possible to start reopening businesses and public spaces.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced plans to restart his state’s economy before the end of the week. Kemp said gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys, and tattoo parlors could reopen Friday, as long as owners followed strict social distancing and hygiene requirements.
Related:
"President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “disagreed strongly” with the decision by Georgia’s Republican governor to reopen salons, gyms and other nonessential businesses later this week, saying, “It’s just too soon.” Trump’s comments at a daily White House briefing marked an abrupt shift in tone. Just last week, the president urged his supporters on Twitter to protest against statewide closures in three Democratic-led states — at the same time that mostly Republican governors like Brian Kemp were taking steps to lift stay-at-home restrictions. Kemp announced earlier this week that as of Friday, elective medical procedures could resume in Georgia, and that barbershops, nail salons and gyms could reopen with restrictions. Limited in-restaurant dining is scheduled to resume on Monday. On Wednesday, Trump said he told Kemp he had misgivings over the governor’s plan to reopen. He also said that he wouldn’t stand in his way. “I want him to do what he thinks is right,’’ Trump said, ‘‘but I disagree with him on what he’s doing. . . . I think [opening] spas and beauty salons and tattoo parlors and barbershops in phase one . . . it’s just too soon.’’
Wow, a lot can change in a day and that replaced this printed brief:
"An anti-vaccine activist was arrested after she repeatedly refused orders by police to leave a playground that had been closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Sara Brady, who is affiliated with two groups that sponsored a protest at the Statehouse last week against Gov. Brad Little’s stay-at-home order, was at the playground with several other families as part of what some dubbed a “playdate protest.” Video posted by another person shows officers repeatedly asking Brady to leave, telling her the play structures had been closed under an order from the mayor. They said Brady and the rest of the group were welcome to continue playing on grassy areas. Brady, there with her children, repeatedly refused. “Arrest me for being in the park. Do it,” she told the officer, telling another protester to continue recording as she was handcuffed. Brady, 40, was booked and charged with a misdemeanor but posted $300 bond a short time later. She and others gathered later in front of City Hall to protest."
Yeah, the Globe and pre$$ overall would rather we not know about certain protests while they applaud others.
Texas on Monday began a week of slow reopenings, starting off with state parks, while officials said that later in the week, stores would be allowed to offer curbside service. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced that businesses across most of the state would begin reopening as early as next week, although the order did not cover counties with the largest cities, including Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. Both states are led by Republicans.
Republican West Virginia Governor Jim Justice said Monday that he would allow hospitals to begin performing elective procedures if the facilities met an unspecified set of criteria, while Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis said Monday that he would let his statewide stay-at-home order expire next week as long as strict social distancing and other individual protective measures continued, but governors from many other states said they lacked the testing supplies they need and warned they could get hit by a second wave of infections, given how people with no symptoms can still spread the disease.
I'm really getting sick of the same old script being flogged by liars.
“Who in this great state actually believes that they care more about jet skiing than saving the lives of the elderly or the vulnerable?” Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer remarked, referring to restrictions in place in her state. “This action isn’t about our individual right to gather. It’s about our parents’ right to live.”
Wait a minute, we have a caller on the line for you, governor.
Boeing said it was putting about 27,000 people back to work this week building passenger jets at its Seattle-area plants, with virus-slowing precautions in place, including face masks and staggered shifts. Boeing’s shutdown went into effect March 25 after workers tested positive for the virus and an inspector for the company died. Washington was the first state to see a spike in COVID-19 cases and enacted strict shutdown orders that helped tamp down the virus.
The war machine can no longer wait.
Doosan Bobcat, a farm equipment maker and North Dakota’s largest manufacturer, said about 2,200 workers at three factories around the state returned. Company spokeswoman Stacey Breuer said the reopening came after two weeks spent putting in safety measures.
Meanwhile, in South Dakota.
“There is definitely still some concern and do we feel 100 percent safe? Obviously not,” said William Wilkinson, a Bobcat welder and president of a United Steelworkers union local. He said workers there were wearing face masks and keeping their distance from one another.
Worldwide the virus has infected nearly 2.5 million people and caused more than 170,000 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University count. The United States has been the hardest-hit country with more than 787,000 infections and more than 42,000 deaths.
The true figures are believed to be much higher, in part because of limited testing and difficulties in counting the dead.
The fact they they would say such a thing when the opposite is the case and they are looking for any reason at all to jack up the counts is proof of the pre$$'s pure evil.
There have been encouraging signs in places like New York state, where hospitalizations have leveled off. Monday’s death toll, at 478, was the lowest in three weeks, down from a peak of nearly 800.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease specialist, warned on ABC: “Unless we get the virus under control, the real recovery economically is not going to happen.”
But at least you will be able to go see a ball game!
Why has he not been fired yet?
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Meanwhile, the cities remains closed:
"Citing lack of universal testing, Mayor Walsh says there’s no timeline for reopening Boston" by Danny McDonald Globe Staff, April 21, 2020
Mayor Martin J. Walsh said Tuesday there is no timeline for a return to some semblance of economic normalcy in Boston, as key prerequisites to reopening the city, including universal testing for COVID-19, could be months away.
The once proud city of Bo$ton and now Marty's fiefdom is going to turn into a $hithole!
Calling recent announcements about quick reopenings in places like Georgia “dangerous and detrimental,” Walsh said Boston is “still in the process of combating the virus.”
When is he due for reelection?
As of Tuesday, Boston had more than 6,000 coronavirus cases, which included 196 deaths. The city has tried to mitigate the effects of the pandemic through a recommended curfew and suspending construction, among other measures. Walsh has also asked residents to wear masks whenever they are outside.
Walsh’s approach to the pandemic — earlier this week, he publicly upbraided golfers for getting rounds in at city courses during a burst of springlike weather — stands in stark contrast to the outlook found elsewhere in some parts of the United State in recent days.
He sounds like a British viceroy!
Last week in Florida, for instance, Governor Ron DeSantis gave the green light for some beaches and parks to reopen if it can be done safely. Some beaches in North Florida allowed beach-goers.
No explosion of cases, huh?
In Georgia, Governor Brian Kemp earlier this week rolled out plans to reopen the state’s economy, saying many businesses may reopen their doors as early as Friday. Kemp said gyms, hair salons, bowling alleys, and tattoo parlors are among the businesses that may reopen on that day — as long as owners follow strict social-distancing and hygiene requirements.
Trump doesn't agree after he encouraged such behavior -- sort of the way George H.W. Bush called upon Iraqis to rise up and overthrow Saddam before they were crushed by helicopter gunships.
“I think it’s dangerous,” Walsh said of the Georgia decision during a phone interview with the Globe on Tuesday.
Walsh added: “I think if you’re going to start thinking about opening up business, you open up things that are going to impact your economy. I think that some of the amenities aren’t necessarily the first things you open up.”
Any reopening of Boston would have to be done in stages, and determining what sectors will be allowed to open up first will be an important part of the decision-making, according to the mayor. For example, he envisioned allowing the financial and legal sectors to get back to a more normal routine before opening up tourism-related operations. Some office setups would allow for social distancing, he said.
“We’re not going to turn a light on one day and everyone is back to work tomorrow,” Walsh said. “It’s just not going to happen.”
Marty is a field commander for the evil likes of Bill Gates and such!
Details like the cleanliness of the public transit system would also have to be considered, he said. Walsh wants assurances the city would not have to weather a resurgence in coronavirus cases before he starts to reopen sectors of the city.
Even though hardly anyone is riding it and even if they could there is no job to go to.
“We have to make sure we don’t make any mistakes,” he said.
Achieving accurate and nearly universal testing for the virus in the region would help the authorities gauge when it’s safe to lift restrictions, he said. That might be two months away for Boston, he said.
“It could be longer, but I hope it’s shorter,” he added.
You know what?
Why don't you just CLOSE for the YEAR?
Fifteen testing sites are available at Boston hospitals and community health centers.
“We have the ability physically to get these sites up and running pretty quickly in every neighborhood; the issue now is how do we get access to these tests,” Walsh said.
For what?
COVID-19 is a myth!
It's a COVER for NEFARIOUS DEEDS that could not be accomplished otherwise!
According to the mayor, there is still a need locally for medical gowns and masks.
Last week, President Trump gave governors a three-phased road map for beginning to open up the economy.
Yeah, he is so on board with this he is starting to look like the Anti-Christ. He fooled his flock for 3-1/2 years. He's the great shameless audacious bawler who will give way to Pence, but only after he has allowed Bill Gates's Mark of the Beast through inoculation.
Weeks ago, Governor Charlie Baker extended his stay-at-home advisory and closing of nonessential businesses until May 4. On Tuesday, Baker ordered schools to stay closed through end of the school year and for the state’s day-care centers to stay closed until June 29.
Yaaaaaaaay?!
Also Tuesday, Walsh’s office announced that city officials are now serving adults, in addition to children and youth, at six meal sites. Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, Boston has distributed more 461,000 free meals at 65 sites for the school district’s students, according to the authorities.
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Related:
Two men taken into custody after a drug deal in the South End turned violent Monday night
I bet that infuriated Marty.
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"An estimated 320,000 adults in Los Angeles County may have been infected with coronavirus, according to preliminary results of a study that suggests the illness is far more widespread than current testing shows and the death rate is much lower. The study conducted April 10-14 by the county and the University of Southern California estimated that about 4.1 percent of the county’s adult population of 8 million has antibodies to the virus. When adjusted for margin of error, the infection rate ranged from 2.8 percent to 5.6 percent, or about 220,000 to 440,000 adults. The study follows other research that has suggested more people have had coronavirus without symptoms — or without feeling bad enough to seek a test, but it also means that more people have been silent carriers of the virus that has killed nearly 1,200 people in California. At the time the testing was conducted, the county reported nearly 8,000 cases, meaning that the actual number was probably 28 to 55 times higher and the fatality rate was much lower than that based on the number of people tested."
The Globe buried that brief that pairs with what I missed in Chelsea and what was on the WH hot mic!
It's been a colossal scam and drill, folks!
They destroyed your livelihoods and looted your futures based on a LIE!
The Globe then has the temerity to ask if the coronavirus finally taught us how to listen to science?
Well, apparently not when the MIT president(!) is pushing us to "radically rearrange how we live and work in service of the common good."
So what happens?
The New York Times of all people, the lead agenda-pushing liars of AmeriKa, trowel out this steaming pile of swirly stink:
"At least 25,000 more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic over the last month than the official COVID-19 death counts report, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows — providing a clearer, if still incomplete, picture of the toll of the crisis. In the last month, far more people died in these countries than in previous years, The New York Times found. The totals include deaths from COVID-19 and those from other causes, likely including people who could not be treated as hospitals became overwhelmed. These numbers undermine the notion that many people who have died from the virus may soon have died anyway. In Paris, more than twice the usual number of people have died each day, far more than the peak of a bad flu season. In New York City, the number is now four times the normal amount. Of course, mortality data in the middle of a pandemic is not perfect. The disparities between the official death counts and the total rise in deaths most likely reflect limited testing for the virus, rather than intentional undercounting. Officially, about 165,000 people have died worldwide of the coronavirus as of Tuesday, but the total death numbers offer a more complete portrait of the pandemic, experts say, especially because most countries report only those COVID-19 deaths that occur in hospitals. The differences are particularly stark in countries that have been slow to acknowledge the scope of the problem. Istanbul, for example, recorded about 2,100 more deaths than expected from March 9 through April 12 — roughly double the number of coronavirus deaths the Turkish government reported for the entire country in that period. The increase in deaths in mid-March suggests that many people who died had been infected in February, weeks before Turkey officially acknowledged its first case. The Times estimated the excess mortality for each country by comparing the number of people who died from all causes this year with the historical average during the same period."
More like intentional overcounts, NYT -- as they flip the numbers.
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Going to need all your strength to fight off the virus:
"The head of the United Nations food agency warned Tuesday that, as the world is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, it is also “on the brink of a hunger pandemic” that could lead to “multiple famines of biblical proportions” within a few months if immediate action isn’t taken. World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley told the UN Security Council that even before COVID-19 became an issue, he was telling world leaders that “2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.” That’s because of wars in Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere, locust swarms in Africa, frequent natural disasters, and economic crises including in Lebanon, Congo, Sudan, and Ethiopia, he said. Beasley said today 821 million people go to bed hungry every night all over the world, a further 135 million people are facing “crisis levels of hunger or worse,” and a new World Food Program analysis shows that as a result of COVID-19 an additional 130 million people “could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020.” He said in the video briefing that the agency is providing food to nearly 100 million people on any given day, including “about 30 million people who literally depend on us to stay alive.” The agency said the 10 countries with the worst food crises in 2019 were Yemen, Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria, Sudan, Nigeria, and Haiti."
You know what I'm hungry for?
On a much more serious note, what the UN is laying out there is the planned food shortages so as to reduce the surplus population.
They have already begun in Africa:
"South Africa’s president on Tuesday announced an “extraordinary budget” of 500 billion rand ($26 billion) to address the huge socioeconomic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, saying that “our country and the world we live in will never be the same again.’’ President Cyril Ramaphosa in a national address said the “historic” amount is roughly 10 percent of the GDP of sub-Saharan Africa’s most developed country. The top priorities are combating the virus and relieving “hunger and social distress” as millions of South Africans struggle to survive under lockdown, he said. One-tenth of the new special budget will go toward the country’s most vulnerable people over the next six months in one of the world’s most unequal nations. The pandemic has exacerbated inequalities, Ramaphosa said."
Was pretty much the same as it was before, other than a black ruling cla$$ having been added to the wealthy minority whites.
"Lebanese lawmakers convened Tuesday inside a cavernous Beirut theater so that parliament members could observe social distancing measures imposed over the pandemic. Antigovernment demonstrators, meanwhile, also obeyed the health safety measures — driving around the city in their cars to protest the country’s spiraling economic and political crisis. As lawmakers wearing face masks arrived at the theater, known as the UNESCO palace, white uniformed paramedics sprayed them with disinfectant before they entered the gate one at a time. The staggered, three-day session is the first by parliament since Lebanon imposed a lockdown more than a month ago to limit the spread of the virus and after meetings that were scheduled last month were postponed."
They at least let their mothers out of the house for a walk:
