International COVID-19 Updates & Discussion 2

[noxibox]

Gravity does not prevent droplets coming out of your mouth from staying airborne.

It does. What it doesn't do is quickly pull down the aerosolised virus.

The very reason that "quickly the inside of the mask becomes an uncomfortably hot, wet environment" is because it is filtering out the moisture (droplets) in your breath. If there was no difference then that wouldn't happen.

Hence the word tiny included.

Yes, that's what I get with the cloth mask on too. But I suppose if you had read what I wrote you'd know that.

You see I did the test with the same person in the same environment using the actual cloth mask in question.

I did the same with a child wearing the mask they wear to school and with an FFP2 mask. Slightly different results, but also showed minimal reduction in the quantity of vapour getting into the environment.

A mask will stop that almost immediately and the remaining directional force will be scattered, resulting in a very short travel distance.

Which is fairly irrelevant if it floats about for hours like they've been claiming for a while now.

So a mask will filter out a large amount of particles and stop the directional force of the remaining ones.

So you claim.

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Makes a lot of assumptions though.

And it's missing the distance with no mask option, which let's face it, would also have to very low based on their pictures.

Even some research I read recently that found that the masks in their tests blocked a certain percentage stated that there were problems with extrapolating their results into the real world.

That ballie can waffle , i find it hard to listen to him .

Not only that, but you need to fact check him. He has stated some complete nonsense in some past videos.

 

[copacetic]

That ballie can waffle , i find it hard to listen to him .

I feel the same way about most of the people on this website, oddly enough.

 

[copacetic]

That is exactly why I avoid YouTube videos like I avoid Covid 19.
I can't be bothered to sit through videos and crap just in case I am going to find something useful.

I personally find his videos useful for an overview of what's going on, as I simply don't have the time or indeed the ability to make sense of it all. Also, I send people his way when they send me a link to a ****ing homeopath or something, because if people need media this rather than that.

It's easy for me though, as I watch a lot of Youtube anyway, and this is probably more useful to my brain than a video about computer games.

 

[copacetic]

Not only that, but you need to fact check him. He has stated some complete nonsense in some past videos.

At the end of the day is there any source of information that does not require fact checking? Also, what complete nonsense has he posted (I'm not saying he has not, but that's quite strongly worded and he's fairly qualified to offer his opinion, and also makes it clear when he's speculating or when he's had it wrong)?

 

[Grant]

World looks on in horror as Trump flails over pandemic despite claims US leads way

World looks on in horror as Trump flails over pandemic despite claims US leads way

The president’s outlandish behavior as Americans suffer has inspired horror and confusion while alienating allies

www.theguardian.com

The president’s outlandish behavior as Americans suffer has inspired horror and confusion while alienating allies

The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that the US is “leading the world” with its response to the pandemic, but it does not seem to be going in any direction the world wants to follow.

Across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, views of the US handling of the coronavirus crisis are uniformly negative and range from horror through derision to sympathy. Donald Trump’s musings from the White House briefing room, particularly his thoughts on injecting disinfectant, have drawn the attention of the planet.

“Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger,” the columnist Fintan O’Toole wrote in the Irish Times. “But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.”

The US has emerged as a global hotspot for the pandemic, a giant petri dish for the Sars-CoV-2 virus. As the death toll rises, Trump’s claims to global leadership have became more far-fetched. He told Republicans last week that he had had a round of phone calls with Angela Merkel, Shinzo Abe and other unnamed world leaders and insisted “so many of them, almost all of them, I would say all of them” believe the US is leading the way.

Fukking trump again. Keep him in his thread and stop spamming every other thread on the forum with your trump dementia.

 

[Sl8er]

Fukking trump again. Keep him in his thread and stop spamming every other thread on the forum with your trump dementia.

Hear, hear!

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1271842682130890752

 

[TribbleZA]

You can't prevent a virus, murder yeah but a virus not really. Especially one that is a coronavirus, also 80% of the people that die are apparently basically dying already.

Well you can certainly try and not go anywhere you can contract the virus.

 

[Lupus]

Well you can certainly try and not go anywhere you can contract the virus.

So for the rest of time you're just not going to go anywhere?

 

[Gordon_R]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1271842682130890752

Locking down whole cities is a desperate strategy, and until now has protected Beijing:

Coronavirus: Fear of second wave in Beijing after market outbreak

Parts of China's capital are locked down after its first new coronavirus cases in nearly two months.

www.bbc.com

 

[Polymathic]

because Russia , Saudi Arabia and few more ...

Some experts are claiming that the actual number of deaths in Russia is x18 the European average.

 

[Polymathic]

People who ignore social distancing rules may have psychopathic personality traits, study finds

People who ignore social distancing rules may have psychopathic personality traits, study finds | Business Insider

A preprint study looked at how people's personality traits could influence whether they partake in coronavirus pandemic health guidelines or not.

www.businessinsider.co.za

That's a clever way to get the psychopaths to wear masks

 

[MiW]

Subscribe to read | Financial Times

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

www.ft.com

But Spanish data has been more volatile than that of any other rich country. Just a week ago, the country increased its overall tally of people dying from all causes during the pandemic to 43,000 — up by 12,000.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1268450746422493184

5/ e.g on Mon & Tues when Spain was celebrating zero deaths, Madrid actually recorded 11 and then 12 new deaths, but since they hadn’t occurred the day before the report, they were ignored

 

[MiW]

Some experts are claiming that the actual number of deaths in Russia is x18 the European average.

Moscow - When Leonid Shlykov's father, Sergei, died in a Moscow hospital last month after 11 days on a ventilator, the death certificate listed the coronavirus as an underlying condition but not the actual cause of death.


“Yes, he was suffering from impaired kidney function and diabetes, but if it hadn’t been for Covid-19, he would’ve been alive,” the son wrote on Facebook. “If we had known the real number of infections and deaths … it would have helped us make the decision to hospitalise (dad) earlier.”

Russia's low virus death toll still raises questions in West

The way Russia counts fatalities during could be one reason why its official death toll of 6829 is far below many other countries.

www.iol.co.za

 

[MiW]

Delhi coronavirus fears mount as hospital beds run out

More than 1,200 have died from the virus in the Indian capital and more than 1,000 new cases are being reported each day.

ewn.co.za

 

[dualmeister]

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[theratman]

US healthcare...it's insane.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Florida scientist makes own COVID-19 map after refusing to doctor state data

A Florida data scientist who claimed she was fired by the state for not doctoring coronavirus figures released her own COVID-19 map. Former state Department of Health worker Rebekah Jones said she …

nypost.com

A Florida data scientist who claimed she was fired by the state for not doctoring coronavirus figures released her own COVID-19 map.

Former state Department of Health worker Rebekah Jones said she was fired because she refused to “manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen.”

So now the enterprising Sunshine Stater has created her own map, similar to Florida’s version, except for one major additional detail: her map includes report cards for each county on whether they meet the state’s own criteria for entering the next phase of reopening.

By Jones’ calculations, only four of Florida’s 67 counties are ready to loosen coronavirus restrictions.

She has said she tried to add the report cards to the state’s own data portal, but health department officials made her drop the feature when they realized it cast the state’s progress in a negative light.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Not great.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243482076.html

Florida’s Department of Health on Friday morning confirmed a new daily record high of 1,902 additional cases of COVID-19 — surpassing the previous high of confirmed cases by 204, which was reported just a day earlier.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article243520927.html

On Sunday, Texas hit an all-time high of patients hospitalized with the novel coronavirus — the sixth day in the last week that hospitalizations have broken records.

According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, 2,287 patients were hospitalized Sunday with COVID-19 — an increase of 45 patients from the previous records of 2,242 on Saturday.

 

[The Voice]

Well, I think the next few weeks are going to be interesting, especially here in the UK: we've had thousands of people protesting all over the country, going to the beaches, going to raves (yeah, they're a thing again) and from tomorrow non-essential businesses will re-open (but with social distancing measures in place). On the latter, I can tell you that the British stick to the social distancing measures outside supermarkets, but once inside, it all goes to ****.

At this rate, it's only a matter of time before the 2nd, far more dangerous peak hits.