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  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    edited June 2020 Posts: 4,585
    The USA has once again recorded their worst day of the pandemic. On June 25th, the US recorded 40,212 new infections, marking the first time they were above 40,000 new cases. Yesterday (June 26th), the USA recorded 47,341 new cases.

    World-wide, yesterday was the worst day yet, with 194,190. new cases. Of those, 94,248 were recorded in only 2 countries: USA and Brazil.

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  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,718
    1st death from coronavirus: January 9th.
    100 deaths reached on January 27th (18 days later).
    500 deaths reached on February 5th (9 days later).
    1,000 deaths reached on February 10th (5 days later).
    5,000 deaths reached on March 13th (32 days later).
    10,000 deaths reached on March 19th (6 days later).
    15,000 deaths reached on March 23rd (4 days later).
    20,000 deaths reached on March 25th (2 days later).
    25,000 deaths reached on March 27th (2 days later).
    30,000 deaths reached on March 28th (1 day later).
    35,000 deaths reached on March 30th (2 days later).
    40,000 deaths reached on March 31st (1 day later).
    45,000 deaths reached on April 1st (1 day later).
    50,000 deaths reached on April 2nd (1 day later).
    60,000 deaths reached on April 4th (2 days later).
    70,000 deaths reached on April 6th (2 days later).
    80,000 deaths reached on April 7th (1 day later).
    90,000 deaths reached on April 9th (2 days later).
    100,000 deaths reached on April 10th (1 day later).
    110,000 deaths reached on April 12th (2 days later).
    120,000 deaths reached on April 14th (2 days later).
    130,000 deaths reached on April 15th (1 day later).
    140,000 deaths reached on April 16th (1 day later).
    150,000 deaths reached on April 17th (1 day later).
    160,000 deaths reached on April 18th (1 day later).
    170,000 deaths reached on April 20th (2 days later).
    180,000 deaths reached on April 21st (1 day later).
    190,000 deaths reached on April 23rd (2 days later).
    200,000 deaths reached on April 24th (1 day later).
    210,000 deaths reached on April 26th (2 days later).
    220,000 deaths reached on April 28th (2 days later).
    230,000 deaths reached on April 30th (2 days later).
    240,000 deaths reached on May 2nd (2 days later).
    250,000 deaths reached on May 4th (2 days later).
    260,000 deaths reached on May 6th (2 days later).
    270,000 deaths reached on May 7th (1 day later).
    280,000 deaths reached on May 9th (2 days later).
    290,000 deaths reached on May 13th (3 days later).
    300,000 deaths reached on May 14th (1 day later).
    310,000 deaths reached on May 16th (2 days later).
    320,000 deaths reached on May 19th (3 days later).
    330,000 deaths reached on May 21st (2 days later).
    340,000 deaths reached on May 23rd (2 days later).
    350,000 deaths reached on May 26th (3 days later).
    360,000 deaths reached on May 28th (2 days later).
    370,000 deaths reached on May 30th (2 days later).
    380,000 deaths reached on June 2nd (3 days later).
    390,000 deaths reached on June 4th (2 days later).
    400,000 deaths reached on June 6th (2 days later).
    410,000 deaths reached on June 9th (3 days later).
    420,000 deaths reached on June 11th (2 days later).
    430,000 deaths reached on June 13th (2 days later).
    440,000 deaths reached on June 16th (3 days later).
    450,000 deaths reached on June 17th (1 day later).
    460,000 deaths reached on June 19th (2 days later).
    470,000 deaths reached on June 21st (2 days later).
    480,000 deaths reached on June 23rd (2 days later).
    490,000 deaths reached on June 25th (2 days later).
    500,000 deaths reached on June 27th (2 days later).

    1st death from coronavirus: January 9th.
    100,000 deaths reached on April 10th (92 days later).
    200,000 deaths reached on April 24th (14 days later).
    300,000 deaths reached on May 14th (20 days later).
    400,000 deaths reached on June 6th (23 days later).
    500,000 deaths reached on June 27th (21 days later).


  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,217
    TripAces wrote: »
    The virus has hit my inner circle. A friend of mine tested positive on Monday. I have not been around him in months, but his daughter and mine are good friends and have been in contact quite a lot in recent weeks.

    My daughter is young and healthy, and I am not concerned for her. But if I contract this I am likely a goner, due to underlying health problems. But it would be okay. My kids would be left with a massive amount of money from my life insurance, enough to get them through college and then some.

    I understand your fear. I've lost three friends from this damned thing, and while I wasn't considered high risk, both of my parents are.

    My sympathies for your loss, @TripAces
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,718
    The US situation is now dramatic.

    Florida set their record for daily new infections yesterday, with 5,508 new cases. Today, Florida has once again had their worse day yet, with 8,942.

    Florida has recorded more new infections in the past 2 weeks than in the previous 3 months combined.

    https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/06/26/florida-reports-nearly-9000-new-cases-of-covid-19-shattering-single-day-record/

    Florida has beaten there daily infections record for the 3rd consecutive day, with 9,500 new cases on Saturday.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,553
    Thinking about you both, @TripAces and @CraigMooreOHMSS. Please stay safe!
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,718
    Thinking about you both, @TripAces and @CraigMooreOHMSS. Please stay safe!

    Same here. Please stay safe @CraigMooreOHMSS and @TripAces.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,217
    Thank you chaps, @NickTwentyTwo and @DaltonCraig007 - still staying in for now. Thankfully I live in an isolated area, so it's a lot easier.
  • edited June 2020 Posts: 6,709
    TripAces wrote: »
    The virus has hit my inner circle. A friend of mine tested positive on Monday. I have not been around him in months, but his daughter and mine are good friends and have been in contact quite a lot in recent weeks.

    My daughter is young and healthy, and I am not concerned for her. But if I contract this I am likely a goner, due to underlying health problems. But it would be okay. My kids would be left with a massive amount of money from my life insurance, enough to get them through college and then some.

    Don t be ridiculous. The whole world still needs you. Be careful.

    Damn right. You better take good care of yourself, @TripAces, old pal. Keep safe.
    Thank you chaps, @NickTwentyTwo and @DaltonCraig007 - still staying in for now. Thankfully I live in an isolated area, so it's a lot easier.

    Yes, staying in, if you can, is still the best option. I know I am, for the most part. Stay safe, my friend.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,718
    There is growing talks in Japan that the planned 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo may be canceled completely.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,041
    Count on Thunderfinger to link to yet another anti-semitic conspiracy fantasist (theorist is too scientifically-sounding) spewing utter nonsense when the rest of the board is trying to talk sense.

    'Blondet has been criticized by anti-hate speech groups
    such as Milan-based Osservatorio Antisemitismo for
    his allegedly anti-Semitic views. In 2002, Blondet
    published a book titled “9/11, U.S. coup” (“11
    Settembre, colpo di stato in Usa”), in which he
    asserted that the 9/11 terror attacks were perpetrated
    by “the neocon, pro-Israeli extremists of the Jewish
    lobby in the U.S.” (“i neoconservatori, estremisti filoisraeliani della lobby ebraica in Usa”).'

    https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/MaurizioBlondet.it-with-boxes.pdf (page 1)

    And as for coronavirus, page 2 of the same document:

    'In one such article, titled “Two things about the
    coronavirus,” (“Due cose sul coronavirus”), the site
    stated that the virus “may have been engineered in
    order to sell a vaccine, which is already ready”
    (“potrebbe aver creato il virus per vendere il vaccino,
    che pare sia già pronto”). The article also quoted from
    InfoWars.com, a site run by conspiracy theorist and
    radio host Alex Jones, which said that the Pirbright
    Institute, a U.K. research institute, “owns the patent to
    the deadly virus and are working on a vaccine to solve
    the crisis,” adding that “suspiciously, the Pirbright
    Institute ‘primary funderʼ is the Bill and Melinda Gates
    Foundation.”'
  • Sometimes I post music videos around here knowing that the vast majority of folks are going to ignore them. I'm okay with that. I trust Thunderfinger knows that the vast majority of us are going to ignore his crazy links. Nonetheless, j.w., thanks for letting us know what we're ignoring...
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,041
    Sometimes I post music videos around here knowing that the vast majority of folks are going to ignore them. I'm okay with that. I trust Thunderfinger knows that the vast majority of us are going to ignore his crazy links. Nonetheless, j.w., thanks for letting us know what we're ignoring...
    Thanks, @BeatlesSansEarmuffs. I think one can post music links without having an agenda. I'm not so sure regarding the other stuff.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    I haven t even checked out that site, so spare me the condecending nonsense. The document itself is from the European Comission.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/vaccination/docs/2019-2022_roadmap_en.pdf

    Let s try again, then. How is this for anti-semitic conspiracy fantasies?
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,041
    It's the source that counts... and there is a pattern to your sources, even if in this case they may only replicate official documents. I wouldn't refer to an anti-semitic or fascist website even if they only said that two plus two makes four.

    Apart from that, what's wrong with that roadmap? Maybe with vaccination in general? I'm all for it, mandatory and everything. We'd still have smallpox and polio without that, and we won't beat Covid-19 without it. Keep the vaccine coming.
  • I haven t even checked out that site, so spare me the condecending nonsense. The document itself is from the European Comission.

    If you haven't even checked out the site, why are you sending us links to it?

  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 2,848
    To update the situation in the US:

    Several states have now paused their re-openings (or re-imposed restrictions) in light of recent COVID-19 spikes in cases and hospitalizations. Even here in New York, where the reported number of new cases continues to decline, the governor is re-considering the schedule to lift some of the restrictions on indoor dining. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised, if the planned phase 3 of New York City’s re-opening – scheduled for next week – was delayed (the city entered phase 2 on June 22nd).

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/nyregion/Coronavirus-restaurants-reopening-ny-nj.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

    …Epidemiologists say that eating indoors poses a particularly high risk for transmitting the virus even if certain precautions — spacing out seats, making sure ventilation is adequate, ensuring that employees observe strict hygiene practices — are taken.

    “As soon as you get into indoor dining, your mask comes off and you have the potential for aerosols to be generated not only from breathing and talking but also from eating,” said Krystal Pollitt, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. “It’s a higher-risk activity”….


    In other news, Broadway will remain closed for the rest of this year. As some have noted, re-opening at a limited capacity would mean – in effect – that many shows would automatically operate at a loss. Earlier, there was talk of a September re-opening. But no longer.
    https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/broadway-officially-shuts-down-until-least-january-2021
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited June 2020 Posts: 15,718
    South Australia and Queensland have cancelled plans to open their state borders as cases rise in Victoria state.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-30/coronavirus-live-news-covid-victoria-lockdown-queensland-border/12403274

    ----

    Leicester becomes the first UK area to reimpose lockdown measures.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-53229371

    ----

    Covid-19 infections are overwhelming Afghanistan hospitals.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53198785

    ----

    Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra have become the latest Indian state to go back into lockdown mode as the entire country battles against rising infections.

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/maharashta-tamil-nadu-extend-lockdown-till-july-31/articleshow/76700887.cms
  • Posts: 2,918
    And in further news...

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  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,266
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    It's the source that counts... and there is a pattern to your sources, even if in this case they may only replicate official documents. I wouldn't refer to an anti-semitic or fascist website even if they only said that two plus two makes four.

    Apart from that, what's wrong with that roadmap? Maybe with vaccination in general? I'm all for it, mandatory and everything. We'd still have smallpox and polio without that, and we won't beat Covid-19 without it. Keep the vaccine coming.

    Quite a lot, really. they plan to take 3 years, that is THREE YEARS to come up with a common vaccine passport!!! If anything this show the EC is as sluggish and slow an institution as all those criticasters have stated time and time again.

    Not that we don't need the vaccines, but we DO need an institute that actually can deliver quite a bit faster.
    Revelator wrote: »
    And in further news...

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    Is that a coca leave per chance?

    @TripAces stay safe! Even though you may have an underlaying condition, it doesn't mean covid19, or the specific strand that your friend has, also affects you. And even if it does, IC's are not full yet, so you stand a very good chance of getting through if you catch it/ have cought it. Just don't catch it when the IC's have filled up, because that's when your chances are getting far worse.

    The daily death toll in the US is still low compared to the new cases because of 1. the delay in development of the disease and 2, hospitals are still able to cope. But with the increase in numbers as it's going now, that'll soon be completely different. And more than 1000 deaths a day will return.

    Good luck to all Americans. North- and South.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,804
    @TripAces stay safe! Even though you may have an underlaying condition, it doesn't mean covid19, or the specific strand that your friend has, also affects you. And even if it does, IC's are not full yet, so you stand a very good chance of getting through if you catch it/ have cought it.
    Optimism, yes. Remember it affects different people differently, and some not at all. The odds are our favour.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    I haven t even checked out that site, so spare me the condecending nonsense. The document itself is from the European Comission.

    If you haven't even checked out the site, why are you sending us links to it?

    I haven t even checked out that site, so spare me the condecending nonsense. The document itself is from the European Comission.

    If you haven't even checked out the site, why are you sending us links to it?


    If you don t read, why do you comment? I never sent a link to that site.
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    It's the source that counts... and there is a pattern to your sources, even if in this case they may only replicate official documents. I wouldn't refer to an anti-semitic or fascist website even if they only said that two plus two makes four.

    Apart from that, what's wrong with that roadmap? Maybe with vaccination in general? I'm all for it, mandatory and everything. We'd still have smallpox and polio without that, and we won't beat Covid-19 without it. Keep the vaccine coming.
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    It's the source that counts... and there is a pattern to your sources, even if in this case they may only replicate official documents. I wouldn't refer to an anti-semitic or fascist website even if they only said that two plus two makes four.

    Apart from that, what's wrong with that roadmap? Maybe with vaccination in general? I'm all for it, mandatory and everything. We'd still have smallpox and polio without that, and we won't beat Covid-19 without it. Keep the vaccine coming.

    I don t care what third or fourth party an upload has been through as long as it s official. As you maybe noticed, I linked to the official EC site later. Same document. Never said there was anything wrong with it. Isn t this relevant information in this situation? Certainly more relevant than articles about jews and 9/11 that you felt compelled to read about and post on this corona virus thread.. I don t read Italian myself, so I can only take your word for it .

    And if you are for mandatory vaccination, you re the fascist.
  • edited June 2020 Posts: 3,566

    If you don t read, why do you comment? I never sent a link to that site.


    And if you are for mandatory vaccination, you re the fascist.

    And if you're against vaccination as an effective tool to combat the spread of polio, pox, and now COVID-19, you're ... several different kinds of wrong. (I'm trying to be nice here.)

    Never sent a link to that site? Then why are you having to defend that link (deleted here to save space) in your conversation w/ @j_ w_pepper?

    "Open up your pocket book,
    Get another quarter out,
    Drop it in the meter, Mama
    Try me on for size..."
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    You do as you please, I don t care about that.
  • You do as you please, I don t care about that.

    I was vaccinated at a very early age against polio, pox, etc. Had no choice in the matter. Let me just say this about that: "Thanks, Mom!"
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    I was, too.
  • I was, too.

    And yet, we haven't heard a "Thank you"...
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,553
    I was, too.

    And yet, we haven't heard a "Thank you"...

    Well, we don't need people to be thankful, we just need people to get vaccinated so they don't start spreading polio again. ;P
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited June 2020 Posts: 15,718
    At his US Senate hearing today, Dr. Anthony Fauci says the US daily infection rate "could easily go up to 100,000 a day".

    "It is going to be very disturbing, I will guarantee you that."
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