I thought you were hunkered down in your doomsday bunker ?.
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I thought you were hunkered down in your doomsday bunker ?.
Nope. I haven't missed a day of work. Currently sitting in my truck at a job site because a winter storm just blew all our ladders down
You remember how breathlessly cnn and Co covered that all through the month of January while utterly ignoring the spread of the virus, literally shifting to breathlessly covering the virus the day BEFORE it was clear he was going to be acquitted? I sure do.
And still, the U.S. couldn't pay for all the damage it has done around the world in 100 years.
OMG, we continue to carry a great financial crisis partly because of your wars. Stop watching American movies about save the world.
Aren't you from Spain?
Thank you for so clearly posting your anti-americaism that informs every insulting, stupid comment denigrating my country that is rampant on this forum. This should be stickied.
Good news everyone! Turns out you can discuss US politics on reddit and score as many points as you want over there! Over here I recommend people ignore those who insist on making every event in the world about their political ideology.
Make no mistake, I am not anti-American, I am anti stupid politicians who lead big countries. But my "anti-Americanism" may be directly proportional to your patriotism. Really I think there are great American people.
yes,i´m from Spain,
I know that my country has done enough damage in the past, and you do not think that part of the population does not believe that they should apologize for it (I do not know if they have done it), some of us even feel ashamed of part of our history, I am 0 Patriotic, my country can matter to me like any other.
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/\ This.
Now, watch that video again if you didn't already (one of many videos like that),
And repeat to yourself what you just wrote, but slowly.
You don't seem to have the slightest clue about what's happening here.
Well, it's obviously worse than seasonal flu.
How much worse we can't really tell without mass testing.
Regarding the high number of deaths in Italy, they seem the have recorded a unusual high number of casualties related to normal flu compared to other European Countries.
According to the article below, there were 25000 deaths attributable to influenza epidemics in 2016/2017 flu season in Italy.
25000.
Unfortunately, that's the way of the world these days sadly. Particularly if you can make out that your the victim and the other person is a villain.
I was talking to a friends wife early today, and suggested that perhaps more serious penalties be thrown at people who are working counter to the good of society in regards to this virus (i.e. incarcerating for the duration any cretins going around slashing ambulance tires, spreading false news and the like).
Suddenly I was accused of being in favour of purging non-binary types, non-heterosexuals, the elderly and obese people in a manner akin to Auschwitz as their lifestyles were 'against patriarchal societal norms' or some such.
I found the whole experience quite odd, seen as I was in the middle of delivering food to elderly people in the village who can't get out at the moment, a fact which she knew.
I got your point. However, border policy, by and large, hasn't been about keeping contagions out. Point out such concerns now, as if they were a significant reason for restrictive border policies before, is a justification after the fact that isn't going to do anything to silence the kinds of criticisms you mention, quite the opposite really. Any perception of such silence is probably due to their being more pressing matters occupying people's (and media) attention.
Those who advocate stringent adherence to an immigration policy that that doesn't make immigration easy for those who test clean of communicable disease aren't advocating those policies to keep out disease.
For my part I do not feel any pride for what my country or Europe has done in the past and sorry for what they did,
, in fact , they (Spain and other European countries that collaborated) also annihilated my ancestors and their / our culture here ,in the Canary Islands.
There is no rancor and I am not proud of what they did either ,but i know that feel.
Anyway, one bad action doesn't justify the others, It is a time of change and the world must take a different course and learn to live better together, and that begins in the mind of each one, not leaving it in the "brilliant" minds of some leaders.
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And I don't feel bad about liberating Europe and re-building it, or re-building Japan, or providing disaster relief globally or leading in R&D or keeping sea lanes open.
Go bash a country that deserves it, where human rights are virtually non-existent.
It's long past time that the world showed some appreciation for what America has contributed rather than the envy bashing that's so PC fashionable.
A few kickers:
SARS - CoV - 2 is more contagious than "the flu" . It spreads quicker . It kills quicker . And we have NO medicine, and NO Vaccine for it .
I mean, what do people think would happen every "flu season" if there were no medicine and vaccine(s) available against "the flu" ?
Wait a minute, are you saing the US is giving 6 trillion dollars to the WORLD for "the effort" ?
Ofc, that is NOT what you are saying, you know very well where that money goes . And while you pride yourselves in the USA throwing massive amounts of money at the economy, you are one of the people advocating testing would not be worth doing, anyone is infected anyways...tell you what, this pandemic will not go away by throwing money at the domestic economy .
As for Germany, I can tell you that our ongoing efforts to test, confirm, clinically document as many CoViD - 19 patients as possible, and meticulously report the findings accurately, and not giving up on this but actually RAMPING IT UP all the time...is amongst other things to the benefit of the WHOLE WORLD . WE generate highly accurate numbers, which can be used to make better predictions . We ALSO produce a rather HUGE, VERY accurate DataSet, which helps and will help to no end in the finding of treatment, medicine and vaccine .
So what now ?
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Quick SitRep (Germany) :
A bigger Hospital in a nearby larger town has changed drastically over the last week, in sync with our smaller local Hospital.
The same people who gave me weird looks or questioned my intentions (clueless) just a few mere few weeks ago now wear face masks themselves. Nurses, Doctors, patients.
Still not all of them, though.
Entire Hospital has been locked down with strict regulations, access control and -management and reducing foreign personnel (all visitors prohibited) to the absolute minimum.
Floors for certain Stations have either been closed and re-purposed as future ICU rooms or re-located to separate COVID19 treatments from non-COVID treatments and personnel.
Situation there is still calm but no comparison to last month, when I seemed the only person knowing what was coming and had to explain myself over and over.
I liked that they are in the progress of shifting to taking arriving patients over already at the entrance, just some mis-communication between entrance area and treatment facilities (who asked why I was there). Guess those quirks will be worked out over the next days.
Now it's all down to waiting, as this larger town as well is slowly shifting from "zone yellow" to "zone orange" with steadily increasing contamination levels.
I hate having to go there but my mother needs it, so no choice.
Only small setback was my mother putting on her face mask wrong, resulting in a "FFP0" protection level.
Took me a minute to convince her to re-fit it properly and check for firm seal. Very stubborn. Expected but doesn't help .... sigh.
Her statement "that's good enough for me, it's not needed, I don't want it". Old people can be very difficult. Oh well....
A bigger Hospital in a nearby larger town has changed drastically over the last week, in sync with our smaller local Hospital.
The same people who gave me weird looks or questioned my intentions (clueless) just a few mere few weeks ago now wear face masks themselves. Nurses, Doctors, patients.
Still not all of them, though.
Entire Hospital has been locked down with strict regulations, access control and -management and reducing foreign personnel (all visitors prohibited) to the absolute minimum.
Floors for certain Stations have either been closed and re-purposed as future ICU rooms or re-located to separate COVID19 treatments from non-COVID treatments and personnel.
Situation there is still calm but no comparison to last month, when I seemed the only person knowing what was coming and had to explain myself over and over.
I liked that they are in the progress of shifting to taking arriving patients over already at the entrance, just some mis-communication between entrance area and treatment facilities (who asked why I was there). Guess those quirks will be worked out over the next days.
Now it's all down to waiting, as this larger town as well is slowly shifting from "zone yellow" to "zone orange" with steadily increasing contamination levels.
I hate having to go there but my mother needs it, so no choice.
Only small setback was my mother putting on her face mask wrong, resulting in a "FFP0" protection level.
Took me a minute to convince her to re-fit it properly and check for firm seal. Very stubborn. Expected but doesn't help .... sigh.
Her statement "that's good enough for me, it's not needed, I don't want it". Old people can be very difficult. Oh well....
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