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[sptme]

This is something else

'Once upon a virus': Chinese video takes swipe at US response to COVID-19

A Chinese state media outlet releases an animated video using Lego pieces to mock the US response to the novel coronavirus.

www.abc.net.au

Well, it's a much better effort than the laughable propaganda they were putting out over the the Hongkong protest. But Trump does make an easy target.

 

[Yossarian]

This is something else

'Once upon a virus': Chinese video takes swipe at US response to COVID-19

A Chinese state media outlet releases an animated video using Lego pieces to mock the US response to the novel coronavirus.

www.abc.net.au

Satire produced by dictatorships is reminiscent of some of the terrible Onion imitations American conservatives have come up with. But it's a nice touch how the Lego pieces and figures are clearly knock-offs.

 

[planetgeli]

One SIL in Barcelona has just missed the 'going out' time because she slept in (she always sleeps in). Apparently it's older people this morning and children later. Maybe dessiato or JuanTwoThree can confirm this.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Exercise is 6 till 10 for most people, old people from 10 to 12, then children. Sth else in the evening with adults again after 20.00

Spain allocates time slots for outdoor activity

Health Minister Salvador Illa explains the conditions under which adults may go out for walks and other exercise starting this weekend

english.elpais.com

 

[clicker]

Its fucking stupid to put dates on each stage. Its quite unlikely there will be a continual and steady improvement. Ffs.

The dates aren't set in stone. The govt have said they will only move onto each phase, if the virus isn't spreading due to ease of restrictions. It looks as though the time period between phase 1 and 2 for example is long enough to show any effect possibly?

 

[weltweit]

02/05/2020 US authorises Ebola drug for coronavirus treatment

The US's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorised emergency use of the Ebola drug remdesivir for treating the coronavirus.

The authorisation means the anti-viral drug can now be used on people who are hospitalised with severe Covid-19.

A recent clinical trial showed the drug helped shorten the recovery time for people who were seriously ill.

However, it did not significantly improve survival rates.

 

[zahir]

If this thread is accurate remdesivir doesn’t sound that promising.

 

[elbows]

Remdesivir has certainly not demonstrated anything that made me excited about it, I am ignoring it for now.

 

[teqniq]

They are protesting lockdown and using intimidation as a tactic.



the fucking state of this

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More on this, fucksake:

 

[dessiato]

One SIL in Barcelona has just missed the 'going out' time because she slept in (she always sleeps in). Apparently it's older people this morning and children later. Maybe dessiato or JuanTwoThree can confirm this.

A council has produced these guides

 

[two sheds]

That's really sensible.

 

[dessiato]

That's really sensible.

The distance for walking is wrong. I just checked. For people in the same household it's that they can walk together with masks.

 

[two sheds]

Yes that makes sense. I like the different timings though. It would even help here, where there are only really a few walkers/runners/cyclists/horseriders. Essential for built up areas though you'd think.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

As part of easing restrictions France will mandate that faces are covered up when outdoors. French Muslim women are like, wtf!?!?!

 

[two sheds]

As part of easing restrictions France will mandate that faces are covered up when outdoors. French Muslim women are like, wtf!?!?!

It's god's sense of humour taking a poke at the racists

 

[teqniq]

Fucking hell. I can imagine people wanting rid of him very soon.

President's 'So what?' as 5,000 die sparks fury in Brazil

 

[Part-timah]

Fucking hell. I can imagine people wanting rid of him very soon.

President's 'So what?' as 5,000 die sparks fury in Brazil

Brazil confirmed cases are rising exponentially. Give it 4 weeks and the deaths are going to weigh down on him.

It will be interesting to see if extreme public hostility can unseat a fascist during a pandemic.

 

[two sheds]

I'm sure he'll blame it on someone.

 

[weltweit]

Brazil

from 01/05/2020 Coronavirus surge in Brazil brings coffin shortage, morgue chaos

In Brazil's bustling Amazon city of Manaus, so many people have died within days in the coronavirus pandemic that coffins had to be stacked on top of each other in long, hastily dug trenches in a city cemetery. Some despairing relatives reluctantly chose cremation for loved ones to avoid burying them in those common graves.
..

There also are signs in the much larger cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo that suggest authorities may not be able to handle a huge increase in the death toll. A field of fresh graves that was dismissed in April by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro as excessive has since been filled.

Latin America's grimmest scenes occurred last month in Ecuador's city of Guayaquil, where residents said they had to leave bodies on the street after morgues, cemeteries and funeral homes were overwhelmed.
..

Many in Brazil fear the rising deaths will hit hardest in the favelas, the vast neighbourhoods of the poor that are well-known in Rio and Sao Paulo but that also exist in most big Brazilian cities and even in smaller ones.

"There is a great fear that uncontrolled contamination will happen there," said Panhozzi, whose group represents Brazil's 13,400 private funeral companies.

 

[weltweit]

Oh and I see in Brazil they like to bury people in walls, like the Spanish, rather than in the ground as we do.

 

[William of Walworth]

weltweit (and others) : Al-Jazeera English is a channel we've watched a fair bit, because it frequently includes well-described stories like the above -- from all over the world

Here's a similarly horrendous story about Manaus from Tom Phillips (Latin American correspondent) in Friday's Guardian, including really hard-to-deal-with quotes from people

 

[weltweit]

Here's a similarly horrendous story about Manaus from Tom Phillips (Latin American correspondent) in Friday's Guardian, including really hard-to-deal-with quotes from people

Grim. And there are poorer countries in the world which will be even worse hit.

 

[weltweit]

William of Walworth - I was watching a program about Asuncion (Paraguay) earlier, it might have been on the BBC. I decided to watch because I am sort of "internet buddies" with a photographer from there. It was about waste and recycling. Anyhow made me think how much I would like to visit it and him at some point.

 

[weltweit]

Germany

BBC news is saying Churches Mosques and other places of worship are being opened - but with strict rules including no singing.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

It will be interesting to see if extreme public hostility can unseat a fascist during a pandemic.

He's still running with about 30% approval rating. So far there doesn't seem to be much appetite for impeachment. What will be interesting will be his ongoing relationship with the military and, more importantly, the Centrão, the political block/corruption machine, that will do anything to be close to power. Currently he seems to have lost any chance of getting anything through congress as his allies are embarrassed. It could all change though, and we might have him for a second term
His current attempt to put an ally in charge of the Federal Police seem to have dented his "anti-corruption" credentials, as it looks like it's to influence investigations into his sons.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

this is the UK vs Brazil, deaths per million, since the date of the first reported death on a log/linear scale

 

[frogwoman]

Brazil is almost certainly underreporting tho

 

[Petcha]

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this is the UK vs Brazil, deaths per million, since the date of the first reported death on a log/linear scale

This is completely by the by, but besides the revelation that almost every politician has read Mandela's book, prominently displayed behind them during interviews, is the utterly shit MS Office skills on display everywhere. The daily briefing slides are a visual disaster. And look at the state of that! ^^

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Brazil is almost certainly underreporting tho

and the UK isn't? In the UK the truth will probably out eventually. Here, I suspect not.
Here, the public heath service has very limited capacity. The really weird thing is, 3 weeks ago, they were encouraging all the old folks to line up and cram into the health centres for flu jabs

 

[Cid]

and the UK isn't? In the UK the truth will probably out eventually. Here, I suspect not.
Here, the public heath service has very limited capacity. The really weird thing is, 3 weeks ago, they were encouraging all the old folks to line up and cram into the health centres for flu jabs

The uk is probably underreporting to a degree, though there is the recent change to help correct that. But generally there is probably a lot less space for things to slip through the gaps, and in the final analysis there will likely be decent records for academics to sort through.