Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

Intrepid

Major
We have many lockdown releases in Germany, the usual life is coming back.

We also have a system in which the lockdown is maintained or reapplied in a district when significant infection numbers have occurred again within the last 7 days (Germany is divided into 16 federal states with a total of 401 districts).

And now there is a district with migrant workers for slaughterhouses, where, similar to Singapore, the virus could spread in the dormitories. Now all dormitories in the affected federal state are being checked, all migrant workers are being tested, and the relief from the lockdown has been suspended for the other residents in the affected district.

The slaughter industry all over Germany may even be inspected as a precaution. After that, living conditions in the dormitories of migrant workers would be better everywhere. And the meat price would go up. But I think that was necessary a long time anyway - even without Covid-19.

This is the new reality: be disciplined, keep your social distance, otherwise your district will fall back into the lockdown.
 

hullopilllw

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Hmmm is it just me or there seems to be a huge unspoken mental blow to US political establishment when they see that China, who is supposed to be ruined by the Covid19 due to their dysfunstional 3rd world communist governaing system, is now almost fully functioning and rebooting her manufacturing industries.
 

localizer

Colonel
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Hmmm is it just me or there seems to be a huge unspoken mental blow to US political establishment when they see that China, who is supposed to be ruined by the Covid19 due to their dysfunstional 3rd world communist governaing system, is now almost fully functioning and rebooting her manufacturing industries.

There's a mental block that prevents them from seeing or admitting it.

So no, there is no mental blow.
 

hullopilllw

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Sinovac Biotech Xuzhou vaccine is ready to launch phase III clinical trials in regions where the novel coronavirus is still spreading rapidly.

Boxes of a medicine called SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

Sinovac Biotech says its vaccine will hopefully work by preventing the virus's ability to reproduce.(ABC News: Steve Wang)

Chinese Drugmaker in Talks to Test Coronavirus Vaccine Globally
Bloomberg News
May 8, 2020, 2:41 PM GMT+9

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Can China stop doing such nonsense that seemingly challenge US superiority ??
 

hullopilllw

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Exactly, and I don't even know if that counts as being good at propaganda or just having thicker skin to boldly repeat lies as truth again and again to your own people. The testament to this is that one of the reasons that America was so ill-prepared for COVID-19 is that they believed their own lies that everything China says is wrong and should be rejected so they subconsciously felt that COVID-19 is not going to be a big problem. That and the fact that they were distracted from their rational thinking by the high of an overwhelming dose of schadenfreude. Some people say that if the Wuhan outbreak had instead occurred in a European city, the US would have been on much higher alert.

Yeah, you can say that America is a victim of their prolonged America Exceptionalism mindset. Their(US politicians and general population as a whole) mistaken thinking that the virus outbreak in China is somehow due to poor governance model of an incompetent communist regime, which imply that the outbreak and damage won't be as serious in a first world developed liberal nation like America. It cause Americans to process thinking in a highly unscientific and irrational manner. Turnout the virus did not aim nations by their ideology.
 
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