Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

manqiangrexue

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
Red Moon said:
You make it sound simple. If you ask who is the most ignorant, I think the answer is easy: it's the guy who's there now. If you ask who is more senile, I think it's the other guy. Stupidest? It's impossible to say, given the other two factors. Who will be Biden's nurse -- er, I mean VP?
Click to expand...
Well, Trump is the most divisive and most damaging to America's international alliances and standing. That's pretty much certain. Given that they're both not prime candidates, I'll take that.
 
vincent

vincent

Grumpy Old Man
Staff member
Moderator - World Affairs
vesicles said:
If you pay close attention to all the contagious critters in the world, you will see that we have all kinds of weird contagions somewhere in the world all the time since forever. We are noticing them now because of the COVID-19 mess. With the whole public scared and paranoid, media feels that they will get more viewing with any reporting of any diseases spreading. The fact is it's always been like this. Every now and then, we get a perfect storm with all the conditions right and get a pandemic.

Many kinds of past viruses and bacteria, which we had successfully conquered in the past, are making their come back. It's an unsettling feeling...
Click to expand...

Well, having lots of anti-vaxxers in the West doesn’t help
 
SteelBird

SteelBird

Colonel
I'm not sure if this worth discussion the US is withdrawing itself from the WHO. It will take a year for it to fully withdraw from the organization. By that time if Trump fails the election, he'd not be in office anymore. The new president may continue or roll back the process. It looks somehow like the controversial Brexit.
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
 
supercat

supercat

Major
China's 3rd COVID-19 vaccine will enter phase 3 trial in Brazil soon.
Sinovac to Test Covid-19 Vaccine on 9,000 Health Care Workers in Brazil
Click to expand...
What’s new: China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd. plans to start large-scale human trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine in Brazil this month.

Brazilian medical research center Instituto Butantan will sponsor the phase 3 clinical trials on nearly 9,000 health care workers across 12 sites, the company said in a statement Monday.

Each site still needs to give ethical approval before the trials can go ahead, and the test subjects will need to be recruited.

The background: The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, known as Anvisa, granted approval on Friday for a large-scale trial of Sinovac’s inactivated Covid-19 vaccine, known as CoronaVac.

CoronaVac went into development on Jan. 28, and early trials on healthy people in China have shown no “serious” adverse responses, with nine in 10 subjects producing detectable levels of coronavirus-fighting antibodies after two jabs, the company said.

Brazil has emerged as the country second-hardest hit by Covid-19. The South American nation’s epidemic continues to grow after it reported an astonishing 263,337 new cases last week, more than three times the official total caseload in China where the outbreak began.
Click to expand...
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
 
AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

There's still this assumption that China does what it does because of nature being oppressive. If that were the case they wouldn't have changed tactics here. They would be like Trump and all his allies. All because the usual suspects just wanted to use coronavirus as another excuse to force China to be like them. They make it like when they compare which countries handled coronavirus best, China was in the same boat. China didn't see it coming. Everyone else saw it coming. Yeah if China followed how the US did it, it would have gotten worse and that's what they wanted. They accused totalitarian states of exploiting coronavirus. That's what the US has been doing not just domestically but internationally too. Even the media who thinks they're against Trump are guilty because they're following along with that geo-political narrative that they're the leading example that everyone in the world has to follow.

Trump refuses to adapt because that's weakness. He's sticking to his guns because changing his mind is admitting to being wrong and at what expense...? He doesn't change anything and now he's threatening schools if they don't reopen just for appearance of normality. Just if imagine Trump didn't think about only himself, handling coronavirus might've costed in hundreds of billions and not the trillions and rising where it's now at and nothing has really changed. What a sociopath...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top