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The Corona Crisis gets real | 89 comments (89 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Awesome - it's going to be a new tradition! (none / 1)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/coronavirus-science-chief-defends-uk-measures-criticis m-herd-immunity

"This is quite likely, I think, to become an annual virus, an annual seasonal infection."

by Number 6 on Fri Mar 13th, 2020 at 02:09:13 PM EST
archived "repatriation" flights (4.00 / 2)
Mon Feb 24th, 2020 at 08:08:48 PM EST
Who controls the narrative of geopolitical CONTAINMENT?--threats, enemies, battles, fights, George Kennan

Before SARS, MERS episodes and since several lethal/deadly/true fatality "novel coronavirus" (yes, another pseudo-scientific term) epidemics have ravished reason, intelligence worldwide only to retired as ignoble, endemic seasonally adjusted "burdens" (yes, another pseudo-scientific term circulating) on GDP growth.

Cue WHO: THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY IS NARROWING, 21 Feb
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My favorite malignant episode, apart from the ebola living lab pHARMa caper (2014-2016, 2018 to present), is The Bird Flu (2009) a threat originating in the USA that killed in one year 151,700-575,400 people worldwide (12,469 USA), and rapidly collapsed into a "normal" seasonal virus event.

The data visualizations, the estimates, the posthumous counts, the "Spanish flu" augurs, the miracle stunts--we've seen it all before, again and again. And yet our governments, no matter who is fronting the "political class," fails to insure adequate, timely medical relief for everyone of their constituents. Why is that?
Or you could go with RUSSIA! or CHINA! or IRAN! COLD WEATHER! or MIGRANTS!
by Cat on Fri Mar 13th, 2020 at 06:07:45 PM EST
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Re: archived "repatriation" flights (none / 1)
"And yet our governments, no matter who is fronting the "political class," fails to insure adequate, timely medical relief for everyone of their constituents. Why is that?"

Can only speak for Sweden but if I understand political statement over the past 20 years: basically old people (70+) are a luxury we can no longer afford. Several problems will be fixed at once - lack of care and facilities for the eldelry, housing crisis, unnecessary strain on health care by the nonproductive.

Former minister of finance Per Nuder in 2004 referred to people born in the 40s as "köttberget" - the beef mountain. (As in Butter Mountain.)

by Number 6 on Fri Mar 13th, 2020 at 06:24:19 PM EST
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