Countries and territories with confirmed new coronavirus cases and deaths (AFP Photo)
AFP: Three billion under lockdown as UN warns virus threatens humanity
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - More than three billion people are living under lockdown measures to stem the spread of the killer coronavirus that the United Nations warned Wednesday is threatening all of humanity.
As the global death toll soared past 20,000 Spain joined Italy in seeing its number of fatalities overtake China, where the virus first emerged just three months ago.
"COVID-19 is threatening the whole of humanity -– and the whole of humanity must fight back," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, launching an appeal for $2 billion to help the world's poor.
"Global action and solidarity are crucial. Individual country responses are not going to be enough."
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WNU Editor: I predicted last week that we would be reaching this number by the end of the month. I was wrong. The spread of the pandemic into the Indian subcontinent has pushed the government to lockdown the country this week. The pandemic is also spreading into the Americas and Africa. Expect even more countries ordering a lockdown in the coming weeks.
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The United States was ranked first with an index value of 83.5 out of 100.
We're #1 ! MAGA
We're #1 ! MAGA
You would not know this listening to Democrat Goobernators.
'I nearly died.' Hollywood stuntman, 40, describes how he collapsed on set of new a war film shooting in China and spent six days in intensive care after contracting coronavirus from eating mystery street meat
- Daily Mail
I considered doing this. I thought it was risky, but I thought I had also done this in Latin America and maybe I was too uptight. I think the jury is no longer out.
New York doctors urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to ban all tobacco products after experts warn smokers and vapers may be more vulnerable to coronavirus infection
We had a vaping crisis before we had a Wuhan flu crisis. I wonder if some the 12 to 40 deaths might be linked to vaping.
I vehemently disagree with the top down fascist approach recommended by the doctors. You insurance agent can tell you what they will agree to. Freedom of association. Freedom to contract. An insurance agent can tell you bugger off and refuse to insure you, but they will have actuarial tables to back them up.
the Trump administration has cumulatively failed, both in taking seriously the specific, repeated intelligence community warnings about a coronavirus outbreak and in vigorously pursuing the nationwide response initiatives commensurate with the predicted threat. The federal government alone has the resources and authorities to lead the relevant public and private stakeholders to confront the foreseeable harms posed by the virus. Unfortunately, Trump officials made a series of judgments (minimizing the hazards of COVID-19) and decisions (refusing to act with the urgency required) that have needlessly made Americans far less safe.
In short, the Trump administration forced a catastrophic strategic surprise onto the American people. But unlike past strategic surprises—Pearl Harbor, the Iranian revolution of 1979, or especially 9/11—the current one was brought about by unprecedented indifference, even willful negligence. Whereas, for example, the 9/11 Commission Report assigned blame for the al Qaeda attacks on the administrations of presidents Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush, the unfolding coronavirus crisis is overwhelmingly the sole responsibility of the current White House.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-approval-rating-poll-c35d87a2-e54b-45af-b8c2-26da8f7ee90e.html
60% of Americans approve of Trump's coronavirus response: poll
https://news.gallup.com/poll/298313/president-trump-job-approval-rating.aspx?utm_source=twitterbutton&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sharing
And it bears repeating - since the low-info fake news warrior is wont to cut/paste every thread full of his google news garbage - a debunking of his sacred cow manure.
Fact checks:
The Trump admin did NOT cut funding for the CDC. Funding for the CDC has increased every year he's been in office.
Trump did NOT get rid of the of the pandemic unit at the NSC, he moved it to another division with a different title. (CI-ICU)
Trump did NOT refuse to accept testing kits from WHO. WHO does not even sell testing kits. We built our own kits like every other country. The test kits were slowed down but that is being fixed - as is in evidence by the increased testing.
Trump has NOT muzzle the scientists. China did. Our scientists are on TV every single day.
Trump did NOT tell governors that they are on their own with ventilator purchases. He said that the feds are backing them up if they can't procure them on their own.
Trump did NOT call Chinese coronavirus a hoax. He called the Left's attempt to politicize the virus against him a hoax. Which they did and are doing.
The American people DO approve of the way the Trump admin is handling the Chinese coronavirus. ABC news poll: 55% approve. Harris poll: 56% approve. Gallup: 60% approve. That would be a majority.
Trump DID say Google was working with them toward creating a virus testing website for all Americans. The press said Google had no plans to do this. That was fake news. Trump rightly called them out.
So typing "MAGA" is to the Parrot
what
The dinner Bell was to Pavlov's dog.
It sets off the Parrot. Full Scream no less.
I believe Parrot would sacrifice its own kids for a few more years of life. I believe that.
1 )In Italy doctors can write down any contributing factor as the cause of death instead of the primary one.
Italy has one of the oldest populations on the planet. Thanks to socialism. They ate their young.
How many of the patients were in the hospital for diabetes, hypertension, or other diseases and caught the Wuhan flu there (nosocomial, Definitely not an Engrish major word.)?
2) Spain is a socialist disaster country that rigged its books to get into the European Union.
3) You believe Chinese statistics? The crematoriums were going pretty good there as seen from space.
4)
And we also discovered evidence from a New York State Health Department important report on why the decision was made to reject purchasing emergency ventilators."
The extra ventilators were not purchased due to funding concerns.
Page 30 of 272 pages.
New York has Wall Street and yet the Democrat governor Cuomo is spending and spending on other priorities like buying votes. He had no time in 2015 or afterwards to stock up. So blame "Orange Man bad"
5) Fun fact 75% chance every year that you are going to get a corona virus and it will cause a cold. Corona virus has always been with us and always will be. Corona is no different than all those so called beneficial bacteria in your gut. Once the defenses are down like when you die, they invade your tissue and start devouring it.
Mario Cuomo's Fault
"The TGP report written by contributor Kristinn Taylor was based on a column published earlier this month by the esteemed former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey (who served under Governor George Pataki), a February report by the New York Times and a 2015 press release by the Cuomo administration.
And we also discovered evidence from a New York State Health Department important report on why the decision was made to reject purchasing emergency ventilators.
The extra ventilators were not purchased due to funding concerns.
Page 30 of 272 pages."
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/stunning-conspiracy-media-attacks-gateway-pundit-after-cuomo-admin-turned-down-purchasing-additional-ventilators-and-focused-on-lotteries-death-panels-instead/
'The Atlantic' Begs Joe Biden Not to Die
Quid Pro Joe just has to have a pulse.
By Treacher --- From Atlantic, the ultimate reduction of expectations:
'Stay Alive, Joe Biden; Democrats need little from the front-runner beyond his corporeal presence.'
The Atlantic: Staffed by people 2 steps below those, who do the toilet bowl challenge.
California 'influencer' says he is in hospital with coronavirus just days after posting a video of himself licking a toilet bowl for a revolting TikTok challenge
Angela Merkel tests negative for coronavirus for a second time but remains in quarantine, as Germany sees a drop in infection rate from 21% to 15% and death rate stays below 0.5%
So der Bubble mädchen is too weak to risk a cold, but strong enough of mind and body to lead a nation ... into ruin.
The WHO Chief was wrong about the 3% death rate.
Imagine that
CHUDS may be immune to the rona!
How do I become a CHUD? Do you have to get bitten or something?
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J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:
Washington state radio station won't air Trump briefings because of ‘false or misleading information’ Find
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Katherine Doherty / Yahoo Finance:
Distressed Debt Balloons to Almost $1 Trillion, Nears 2008 Peak Find
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Politico:
Trump team failed to follow NSC's pandemic playbook Find
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Joey Nolfi / EW.com:
Kathy Griffin slams Trump's coronavirus response while in hospital with ‘unbearably painful’ symptoms Find
2 hours ago
New York Times:
Trump Wants to ‘Reopen America.’ Here's What Happens if We Do. Find
Kathy Griffin is in my thoughts and prayers.
https://ew.com/celebrity/kathy-griffin-coronavirus-slams-trump/
https://twitter.com/kathygriffin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1242894756415332352&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Few.com%2Fcelebrity%2Fkathy-griffin-coronavirus-slams-trump%2F
Kathy Griffin slams Trump's coronavirus response while in hospital with 'unbearably painful' symptoms
After checking into a hospital with "unbearably painful" symptoms, comedian Kathy Griffin has spoken out against Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus outbreak.
In a quote tweet replying to the president, Griffin accused Trump of lying about how many coronavirus tests the United States has performed amid the ongoing pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives as it continues to spread around the world.
"I was sent to the #COVID19 isolation ward room in a major hospital ER from a separate urgent care facility," Griffin tweeted Wednesday, going on to criticize the vice president's leadership of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. "The hospital couldn’t test me for #coronavirus because of CDC (Pence task force) restrictions. #TESTTESTTEST"
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland | Brian Witte/AP Photo
Republican governors are following the advice of public health experts and embracing coronavirus lockdowns and business closings despite President Donald Trump's push to reopen parts of the country by Easter.
Trump's press to scrap social distancing in all but the most virus-ravaged areas — and statements implying the fight to contain the disease have turned a corner — have rankled some GOP governors consumed with efforts to contain transmission and ease the burden on stressed local health systems.
"You can’t put a timeframe on saving people’s lives. We’re going to make decisions based on the scientists and the facts," Maryland's Larry Hogan, chairman of the National Governors Association, said on Wednesday.
Hogan's frustration burst into the open Tuesday, when he blasted Trump during a CNN interview for sending "pretty confusing" messages on the virus that don't sync up with the experience on the ground.
“Most people think we’re weeks away from the peak, if not months. That’s the advice we’re getting from the smart folks at Johns Hopkins, the National Institutes of Health, the University of Maryland, places like that,” Hogan said.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday said his state isn't expected to experience peak infections until May 1. "The only way we slow it down is with physical/social distancing," he wrote on Twitter.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who presides over a state Trump won with more than 68 percent of the vote, on Monday ordered residents to stay home after the confirmation of the first case of community transmission, in a nursing home. Justice ordered the state’s National Guard to test everyone at the facility in a bid to control further transmission.
Such moves are more than a display of independence. Governors traditionally have the final say in public health crises and can declare emergencies to speed a response.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe pandemic is bad, we need the capability to measure just how bad Florida governor wants federal disaster area declaration Amash calls stimulus package 'a raw deal' for 'those who need the most help' MORE on Wednesday accused the media of pushing to keep restrictions in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus — measures supported by most public health experts — in an effort to hamper the economy and harm his reelection chances.
"The LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be detrimental to my election success," Trump tweeted without citing specific outlets or evidence. "The real people want to get back to work ASAP. We will be stronger than ever before!"
The tweet marks yet another escalation in Trump's bid to reframe the discussion about when to ease social distancing guidelines that have led to the closure of businesses across the country.
The president's tweet also underscores the degree to which the November general election may factor into his decisionmaking. Trump has tied his campaign closely to the strength of the economy, which has cratered as companies lay off workers and the stock market plunges because of the virus. Media companies have been among those that have cut pay or laid off workers.
The president has in recent days made clear he is not willing to wait more than a few weeks for Americans to return to work and for businesses to reopen. He said Tuesday that he envisions Easter as a goal for when churches will be "packed" and people will be going back to their jobs, at least in certain parts of the country.
Malaria drug may offer no better COVID-19 results than supportive care
Natalie Rahhal Acting Us
10-12 minutes
The malaria drug that President Donald Trump has hailed as a 'game-changer' for treating coronavirus may be no better for treating the virus than standard care like being placed on a ventilator, a Chinese study found.
Clinical trials of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, began in New York on Tuesday, and US doctors can now prescribe it to some coronavirus patients off-label under compassionate use.
Hydroxychloroquine is FDA-approved to treat the parasitic infection, malaria, as well as certain autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Its supplies are already running dry in the US since President Trump praised its potential, but the small Zhejiang University study found that about the same number of untreated COVID-19 patients and those treated with the drug tested negative for the virus a week after the study began.
The study was small, so its results were not statistically significant, but it involved only 10 fewer patients than the French study that suggested hydroxychloroquine helped more than half of patients clear the virus.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/25/smart-move-texas-governor-greg-abbott-signs-waiver-allowing-restaurants-to-sell-food-retail/
Thank you Greg Abbott. This is the first smart move by a state leader recognizing the realities of the system at hand. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a waiver allowing restaurants to sell their bulk food directly to retail customers.
Amid all of the reactionary decisions by elected officials, this is a smart, and temporary move that can take pressure off the retail supply chain. Hopefully others will follow.
Leadership is often about recognizing the unique landscape and taking ‘outside the box’ action in response to current conditions. Greg Abbott recognizes there are two distinctly different supply-chains, and this modification can open one distribution valve.
Most consumers are not aware food consumption in the U.S. is now a 50/50 proposition. Approximately 50% of all food was consumed “outside the home” (or food away from home), and 50% of all food consumed was food “inside the home” (grocery shoppers).
Food ‘outside the home’ includes: restaurants, fast-food locales, schools, corporate cafeterias, university lunchrooms, manufacturing cafeterias, hotels, food trucks, park and amusement food sellers and many more. Many of those venues are not thought about when people evaluate the overall U.S. food delivery system; however, this network was approximately 50 percent of all food consumption on a daily basis.
The ‘food away from home‘ sector has its own supply chain. Very few restaurants and venues (cited above) purchase food products from retail grocery outlets. As a result of the coronavirus mitigation effort the ‘food away from home’ sector has been reduced by half of daily food delivery operations, possibly more. However, people still need to eat.
That means retail food outlets, grocers, are seeing sales increases of 25 to 50 percent, depending on the area. This, along with some panic shopping, is the reason why supermarkets are overwhelmed and their supply chain is out of stock on many items.
The aspect that most models are missing, is the pressure on the supply-chain will not soon end. The restaurant sector (‘food away from home’) appears to be operating at far less than half capacity (perhaps as low as 25%) due to coronavirus restrictions. As long as those food consumers remain shifted into the retail supply chain (food at home), there are going to be long-term shortages due to capacity constraints and distribution limits.
There is enough food capacity in the overall food supply chain, and no-one should worry about the U.S. ever running out of the ability to feed itself. However, the total food supply chain is based on two segments: food at home and food away from home.
The seismic shift toward ‘food at home‘ is what has caused the shortages, and that supply chain is not likely to recover full service of products again until the ‘food away from home’ sector gets back to normal. No need to panic, but there will be long-term shortages.
Greg Abbott/Tom Cotton in 2024!!!!!!!!!!!!
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At the top of the food supply there is ample product and capacity. Its the diversion of customers to the retail grocery sector causing the shortages.
Large chain-stores were impacted first and worst as their proprietary supply chain, and their automated replenishment systems, are more vulnerable to such wide-scale disruption. Their resupply is based on eight week averages; all of the technology that builds the technological framework of that resupply-chain is useless now. However, smaller regional markets, less than 25 stores or mom-and-pops, are/were impacted less due to their use of wholesalers for distribution and a faster response time.
However, in this phase-3 those wholesalers will now enter a period where they are in competition for resupply with the large retail outlets…. so we are entering the phase were smaller stores, and independents, are going to have more trouble getting product.
In addition to the shortages in frozen foods, processed lunch-meat and dairy items, the non-perishable goods will also have wide-spread outages. Again, this is a store issue (phase-1), distribution capacity issue (phase-2), and will now become an upstream production capacity issue in phase-3.
Bread, canned goods, rice, cereals, pasta, flour, sugar, bottled water, etc. are selling beyond the capacity of the traditional supply chain to keep up with demand.
Traditional emergency food recovery and distribution models (think hurricanes) are designed for short-term disruptions to the restaurant sector that provides 50% of food outside the home; and, as a result, short-term increases to at home food needs. Those emergency and recovery models have contingency plans for short-term regional bursts of specific non perishable products into specific areas. This ain’t that.
The current supply chain disruption is a severe reduction in the availability of ‘food outside the home‘ for a sustained period. Losing the entire sector is very unusual, unprecedented, unforeseen in scale; and there is no national contingency plan for a nationwide demand on all retail supermarket food products simultaneously.
Check out how fast things increased. This scale of increase is why the system is overwhelmed (note this is also weeks behind):
Fred or a Fred-like imitator has been triggered. Real thing or imitator, it does not matter. Neither have a lot of grey matter.
Kathy Griffin is as vapid as parrot.
I know she is but what are you?
Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook
The 69-page document, finished in 2016, provided a step by step list of priorities – which were then ignored by the administration.
Russ,
The foreign based supermarket chain that I shop at was not impacted at all. It has small outlets of about 20 employees per store. It tries to source locally and has a limited selection, but has pretty much everything you want in a grocery store.
Walmart however has some shortages.
The smaller store is a liberal dream with the local sourcing of food. Liberal like to talk about food miles. It makes them look smart. You not going to catch the vast majority of those inveterate morons talking about electron volts. Further the chain does not have plastic bags. However, I am sure that the liberals will eventually get around to drawing up a list of charges against the chain. It is what they do.
On a side note the no plastic bags goes back more than 3 decades. It is a chain cost cutting measure not an environmental one. People choose to save money and choose to where to shop top do so. It is a bottom up approach to environmentalism not a top down one by "people who know better." Those same people who want all the cost savings to end up in their or Hunter's pickets. Every lib pol with Children has a 'lil Hunter to feed.
The lack of bags is or was irksome. You get over it. You adapt or go to some other chain and take a pass on the savings. Not evironmentalism although ti works out to the same thing. It was a household budget thing.
Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook
Talked to a teacher yesterday. they noted that Trump not the doctors or others has the biog picture.
You want to be ruled by so called experts. Go for it. The experts will have to have an ober-expert. That person will probably have a public administration degree and be worthless. Look at the course syllabus for a public admin degree. Worthless.
I saw that you were up pat you bed time by an hour last night. What would Ratchet say? If you stress your body by not getting good sleep you are risking Wuhan flu.
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No shit sherlock
Hospitals use to keep rooms cool to harm germs, but it was found to harm patients more.
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