WASHINGTON — In late January, as China locked down some provinces to contain the spread of the coronavirus, average internet speeds in the country slowed as people who were stuck inside went online more and clogged the networks. In Hubei Province, the epicenter of infections, mobile broadband speeds fell by more than half.
In mid-February, when the virus hit Italy, Germany and Spain, internet speeds in those countries also began to deteriorate.
And last week, as a wave of stay-at-home orders rolled out across the United States, the average time it took to download videos, emails and documents increased as broadband speeds declined 4.9 percent from the previous week, according to Ookla, a broadband speed testing service. Median download speeds dropped 38 percent in San Jose, Calif., and 24 percent in New York, according to Broadband Now, a consumer broadband research site.
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WNU Editor: I am still good here (Quebec, Canada). But I have friends in Spain and Monaco and they are telling me that it is super slow.
President Donald Trump rejected calls from New York’s governor that the state needed tens of thousands of new ventilators to treat a mass of patients infected with the novel coronavirus, saying he didn’t believe those numbers were accurate.
ReplyDelete“I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night. “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying can we order 30,000 ventilators?”
He added: “Look, it’s a very bad situation. We haven’t seen anything like it, but the end result is we’ve got to get back to work, and I think we can start by opening up certain parts of the country.”
WASHINGTON — The White House had been preparing to reveal on Wednesday a joint venture between General Motors and Ventec Life Systems that would allow for the production of as many as 80,000 desperately needed ventilators to respond to an escalating pandemic when word suddenly came down that the announcement was off.
ReplyDeleteThe decision to cancel the announcement, government officials say, came after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it needed more time to assess whether the estimated cost was prohibitive. That price tag was more than $1 billion, with several hundred million dollars to be paid upfront to General Motors to retool a car parts plant in Kokomo, Ind., where the ventilators would be made with Ventec’s technology.
ReplyDeleteOf the internet is slowing down in France and Monaco, then it must really be slow in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Think of the poor person, who cannot get their free porn, and so has nothing to do but paste articles almost in toto from leftwing rags. Poor thang must be going through withdrawal. A Doctor or nurse would see it except ... Social Distancing.
Talking about the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe many of them are poor and have sex trafficking problems even of minors. You have to wonder about those free pictures.
Maybe all those people are not 18 or older?
"You can search by image on https://images.google.com/"
From Breitbart
ReplyDelete"A migrant couple became angry at a 60-year-old for keeping a one-metre distance from them, screaming at and purposefully breathing on him. After leaving the shop, the migrant man grabbed the 60-year-old and kneed him. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/26/asylum-seekers-migrants-not-respecting-lockdown-measures/ …
Asylum Seekers and Migrants Not Respecting Lockdown Measures
Migrants in Germany and Italy are not respecting measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, with some becoming violent when confronted."
These are the refugees that the Democrats want to force on us.
ReplyDeleteTrump’s failure to grasp the politics of coronavirus is, I’d argue, a microcosm of his entire administration. As with COVID-19, Trump had so many potential advantages at the beginning, after his surprise victory. Imagine if he’d started his presidency with a massive infrastructure spending bill, followed by an immigration compromise that would have funded his wall, beefed up enforcement, but also gave security to the Dreamers. Imagine if his tax bill had been geared to help working families, rather than the superrich, or that he promised to change Obamacare by expanding it. He would have had a chance to be a transformative president.
But to do that, he would have had to have been someone other than himself. He would have to have developed a long-term political strategy, thought structurally about the country first, and seen his base as a building block to reach out to others in building a durable coalition. But as so many of us pointed out, he was and is simply incapable of this. He’s a prisoner of his own psyche, there is nothing he can do to tame it, and he will allow no one to overrule it.
Local radio station is play clips of NYC health commissioner and and governor Cuomo downplaying the corona virus on February 2nd and March 10th, respectively.
ReplyDeleteTheir chastising Trump for over responding did not age well.
About the Dreamers, Trump could get together with Congress and legitimized them. However, Democrats do not want t play ball.
ASSHOLE Demcorats do not want to build the wall.
With a completed wall and low illegal border crossings trump would have the ability to sign legislation to legitimize illegals
Why no wall? Because after this batch is legitimized, the Democrats want to be able to do it again and again for the next century.
I would have to say that poster 1:52 is a lying, mendacious, disingenuous person with bad morals. Said poster "ain't" to bright either.
Said poster "ain't" to bright either.
ReplyDeleteas in ain't too bright?
Poll: Majority approve of Trump’s coronavirus response, but more Americans say he was too slow to act
ReplyDelete58 percent of respondents said the president did not move quickly enough to address the pandemic.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors survey, published Friday, was conducted from March 20 to March 24 and includes data from 213 U.S. cities in 41 states and Puerto Rico, representing a combined population of 42 million. The shortages of essential items and equipment the cities are facing “has reached crisis proportions,” according to the report.
ReplyDelete“Despite their best efforts, most cities do not have and cannot obtain adequate equipment and supplies needed to protect their residents,” the report says. “This is a life-threatening crisis that will continue unless the federal government does everything in its power to help us safeguard our first responders and health care workers — our first line of defense — and the millions of other public servants in our cities whose work today puts them at risk.”
Typo. Spellcheck doesn't catch it. It is not like you are going to read the post for anything
ReplyDeleteother than oppo research, so why should I give a dam about you?
When I have posted the best stuff I could find n the internet to reassure or inform people and not to needle, you were there to shit on it. So the Hell with you.
For example you didn't read up on the vitamin D thing.
" The shortages of essential items"
ReplyDeleteOh my.
Now prove to me and others that they were willing to pay inventory and procurement costs ahead of time.
Also prove that they were not trying to run every manufacturer out of America.
Or as your saviour O'Bunghole said "Those jobs are not coming back"