Coronavirus - International stories and thoughts

My issue with these reports is they fuel panic. It's sorta like saying:
"100% of skydivers die. (if not using parachutes)"

 

Will cross 10k deaths in the next few hours worldwide, and the curve is still almost straight up.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 242,205 Cases and 9,991 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer

 

I don't think that's an accurate comparison. The more fair comparison would be "X percent of car accidents will result in a fatality without using a seatbelt." Please see this and start using seatbelts. Just my opinion.

 

BLINK! just broke 10,000

 

FYI, my wife was tested last Friday after having symptoms for days and then only because she is on an immunosuppressant drug (doing better but not recovered yet). We still don’t have the results back and don’t expect them until sometime next week. If she doesn’t have the results she can’t take her next round of drugs. I don’t think saying “the testing situation has improved greatly” adequately captures just how dire it was and how far it has to go.

 

We were wondering why the hell all these athletes are getting tested without even having symptoms? I mean I get the money thing, but for god's sake at least have some symptoms or direct exposure before just randomly testing people. Even then, they probably still shouldn't waste a test for a healthy athlete in their 20's/30's where the recovery will probably be like 99.9%.

Then in our hospital there's literally a guy in a negative pressure ICU in isolation, and 4 others that will probably have to go in isolation, 0 test results and they only even tried to submit 1. Nurses and Physicians don't even have masks, and forget about it for other hospital staff inside the hospital (who still have to travel the corridors and elevators).

 

Mexico will be the test case for doing practically nothing.

Mexico, former swine flu hub, tests nerves with coronavirus strategy

Mexican officials are dragging their feet on border closures and coronavirus containment measures, in what critics call a high risk strategy driven by bad memories of a shutdown a decade ago that deepened the country’s recession during the swine flu epidemic.

The United States and neighbors in Latin America have suspended flights, banned public gatherings and closed schools.

In Mexico City, however, tens of thousands of music fans rocked out to Guns and Roses at a festival at the weekend. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also went on tour, hugging surging crowds of supporters and kissing babies.
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Mexico's first case was Feb 28th, they now are up to 118. They are now 19 days from first case, numbers should be doubling from here on out.

 

This is all part of Trumps plan.

 

This s*** is for real

 

31 more deaths since I posted that. If the numbers hold tomorrow we should see 11,000-12,500.

 

OOPS!!!!

Mexico's First Coronavirus Death: Man Attended Ghost Show on March 3rd

Mexico's first coronavirus death is a 41-year-old man who earlier this month went to a concert by Swedish rock band Ghost in Mexico City. According to reports published in multiple media outlets, including the BBC and Mexico’s El Universal, the man went to the concert at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes on March 3, along with over 50,000 other fans.

 

Spain to close all hotels, help nursing homes as coronavirus deaths climb

Officials reported deaths had jumped by more than a third on Thursday to 767, while the number of cases rose by a quarter to 17,149, making Spain the second worst-hit country in Europe after Italy.

 

Sitting on their hands. Mexico could see a greater infection slope than that of Spain’s this time next week.

 

Bankers quarantined after Mexico hosts convention despite coronavirus threat

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Many of Mexico’s top banking and financial brass are under quarantine or having to work from home after having attended an annual industry bash at a Pacific getaway last week where at least one participant later tested positive for coronavirus.

In contrast to much of Latin America, Mexico’s government has so far taken a hands-off approach to tackling the fast-spreading virus, letting large-scale events go ahead, including the swanky banking conference in the beach resort of Acapulco and a music festival in Mexico City.

Then a high-ranking official at Mexico’s central bank tested positive after participating in the convention, which was also attended by the president, finance minister and hundreds of senior bankers.

 

Bolsonaro says coronavirus to peak in Brazil in three-four months

 

Prince Albert of Monaco has tested positive

 

The SK response truly shows a flattening of the curve

South Korea Coronavirus: 8,652 Cases and 94 Deaths - Worldometer

 

You and I are not worth 10s of millions of dollars. We are expendable.

 

Some animals are more equal.

 

We treat star athletes better because they're better people.