The American Indian Reservations have this tightly shut down. In South Dakota they have a near zero transmission rate because their police wont let anyone in or out except for food deliveries. LINK
Of course this also means cutting down income so they have closed casinos, campgrounds, and hunting.
Everyone’s income has been cut down.
And while South Dakota might have a grip on this the Navajo Nation is getting hit hard. Apparently they wanted just a hair too long to lock down.
I did miss it. Apologies.
By my reckoning, in the US at least, the number of confirmed infections and deaths per day have reached a plateau and are heading very slightly downwards. I think we peaked at around 30,000 cases and 2,000 deaths per day, but the last few days the increases have been slightly smaller than that, while the number of recoveries per day increases slightly. We still have a ways to go before we can give an “all clear”, but at least we’re headed in the right direction.
Assuming reporting figures are accurate at least…
I think the Taiwan healthcare system is a good one. An overview of the healthcare system in Taiwan - PMC
An American evangelical bishop who purposefully ignored social distancing recommendations has died of COVID-19: Gerald Glenn: Bishop who said "God is larger than" Covid-19 has died from the disease | CNN
Yeah, well, you can’t say these pastors weren’t warned.
I dunno - if God is supposed to shield the faithful does that mean these guys weren’t faithful enough? They didn’t pray hard enough? What?
Or maybe the virus doesn’t give a damn. It’s not about faith, it’s about medicine and science.
South Dakota doesn’t have a grip on it. It has become a hot spot.
Let me clarify that -
According to reports the Indian reservation is locked down and having near zero transmission because of that lockdown. This is separate from the pork processing plant where the idjits in charge apparently didn’t consider that cramming thousands of workers closely together in one building complex during a pandemic might have negative consequences.
So parts of South Dakota apparently have this under control and parts are out of control.
Good article on grocery store workers.
Please be nice to them. Or you starve.
Today in Austria:
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[li] As promised, today the lockdown was relaxed. Shops with a floor area of under 400 m², as well as all home and garden stores, were permitted to reopen today. Social distancing rules for shoppers were enforced by security guards and by strictly limiting the number of people allowed in a store at any given time. Many home and garden centres had long lines outside even in the early morning, before the stores even opened for the day, though main pedestrianized shopping streets of Vienna and Graz, foot traffic had barely increased at all.[/li]
As the first country in Europe to relax its lockdown, governments and news outlets abroad are now watching how the situation here in Austia plays out. You can check out, for example, The Guardian’s coverage of recent events here. But somewhat strangely, the myriad press conferences held by the Austrian government over the past month have been open only to Austrian media; foreign journalists are barred from attending. This lack of openness has been criticized by the opposition parties.
[li] So far Austrian companies have applied for government aid to pay salaries for 608,607 furloughed workers. The government has had to increase funding for this program from €3 billion to €5 billion.[/li]
[li] At least 37 cities in Austria had temporarily suspended on-street parking fees (or enforcement thereof) in an attempt to encourage workers in critical jobs to drive to work rather than take public transit. As of today, many of these cities are re-imposing normal parking rules, and others are planning to do so in the coming weeks.[/li]
[li] Current statistics: 14,159 confirmed infections, 384 deaths, 7633 recovered. The daily growth in new infections has fallen to 0.8%, with a doubling time of 39 days. It remains to be seen how these good numbers will be affected by the reopening of shops. [/li][/ul]
Excellent advice.
Alarming numbers released in the UK today by the Office for National Statistics. The five years average for numbers of deaths on the first week of April (and indeed for every week in spring) is around 10,000. This year in the same week 16,387 were recorded, 6,082 over the average. And this looks back over an early phase of the outbreak.
3,475 are accounted for by the official Coronavirus numbers. This means nearly half of the extra are unexplained. Theory is that some doctors have not put Covid-19 on the death certificates of people dying with respiratory problems because they were not tested, but also there is a concern that people with other conditions are staying away from hospital.
Similarly, New York is now counting the uncounted.
Trump is suspending American funding for the WHO.
OK - without turning political - how much funding is at stake, and how much % of WHO’s funding came from America to begin with? Is this substantial or not-substantial?
Look at the reasons he gave. Nevermind the funding amount, the thing that this forum prohibits me specifically mentioning is the noteworthy thing there. Maybe in another forum, like The Pit, if you’d be so kind to bring it up?
The very article you posted says how much funding is at stake, and what % it is. Maybe next time you can bother to read the link you posted?
Sorry, I had two links open on the same topic. The Guardian one was paywalled. Got it now.
Pro wrestling ‘essential’ under Florida governor’s order
Here come the death-matches!
Playstation Announces Play at Home, Free Games will be given during pandemic worldwide to encourage self-quarantine: https://blog.us.playstation.com/2020/04/14/announcing-the-play-at-home-initiative/