Novel Coronavirus

[Ritafee]

So far:
Deaths per million people - Italy 192
Deaths per million people - Canada 2

On a global basis, on average 14 million die over the first three months of the year.

18,944 coronavirus deaths represent 0.14 per cent of that total.

If a new infection is causing many extra people to die (as opposed to an infection present in people who would have died anyway) then it will cause an increase in the overall death rate.

We have yet to see any statistical evidence for excess deaths, in any part of the world.

If someone dies of a respiratory infection, the specific cause of the infection is not usually recorded, unless the illness is a rare 'notifiable disease'.

So the vast majority of respiratory deaths are recorded as bronchopneumonia, pneumonia, old age or a similar designation.

We don't really test for flu, or other seasonal infections.

If the patient has, say, cancer, motor neurone disease or another serious disease, this will be recorded as the cause of death, even if the final illness was a respiratory infection.

This means certifications normally under-record deaths due to respiratory infections.

Now look at what has happened since the emergence of Covid-19.

The list of notifiable diseases has been updated.

This list - as well as containing smallpox and conditions such as anthrax, brucellosis, plague and rabies (which most doctors will never see in their entire careers) - has now been amended to include Covid-19. But not flu.

That means every positive test for Covid-19 must be notified, in a way that it just would not be for flu or most other infections.

In the current climate, anyone with a positive test for Covid-19 will certainly be known to clinical staff looking after them: if any of these patients dies, staff will have to record the Covid-19 designation on the death certificate - contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind.

There is a big difference between Covid-19 causing death, and Covid-19 being found in someone who died of other causes.

Making Covid-19 notifiable gives the appearance of it causing increasing numbers of deaths, whether this is true or not.

It might appear far more of a killer than flu, simply because of the way deaths are recorded.

Source: Idiotic?

 

[ChemGal]

On a global basis, on average 14 million die over the first three months of the year.

18,944 coronavirus deaths represent 0.14 per cent of that total.

If a new infection is causing many extra people to die (as opposed to an infection present in people who would have died anyway) then it will cause an increase in the overall death rate.

We have yet to see any statistical evidence for excess deaths, in any part of the world.

If someone dies of a respiratory infection, the specific cause of the infection is not usually recorded, unless the illness is a rare 'notifiable disease'.

So the vast majority of respiratory deaths are recorded as bronchopneumonia, pneumonia, old age or a similar designation.

We don't really test for flu, or other seasonal infections.

If the patient has, say, cancer, motor neurone disease or another serious disease, this will be recorded as the cause of death, even if the final illness was a respiratory infection.

This means certifications normally under-record deaths due to respiratory infections.

Now look at what has happened since the emergence of Covid-19.

The list of notifiable diseases has been updated.

This list - as well as containing smallpox and conditions such as anthrax, brucellosis, plague and rabies (which most doctors will never see in their entire careers) - has now been amended to include Covid-19. But not flu.

That means every positive test for Covid-19 must be notified, in a way that it just would not be for flu or most other infections.

In the current climate, anyone with a positive test for Covid-19 will certainly be known to clinical staff looking after them: if any of these patients dies, staff will have to record the Covid-19 designation on the death certificate - contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind.

There is a big difference between Covid-19 causing death, and Covid-19 being found in someone who died of other causes.

Making Covid-19 notifiable gives the appearance of it causing increasing numbers of deaths, whether this is true or not.

It might appear far more of a killer than flu, simply because of the way deaths are recorded.

Source: Idiotic?

I don't know where you get this information from. We do test for influenza and a death here was recently reported due to it.

Alberta reports another flu-related death, bringing season total to 35

During the 2018/2019 flu season, AHS reported 30 people died with laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus.

calgary.ctvnews.ca

 

[Ritafee]

I don't know where you get this information from. We do test for influenza and a death here was recently reported due to it.

Alberta reports another flu-related death, bringing season total to 35

During the 2018/2019 flu season, AHS reported 30 people died with laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus.

calgary.ctvnews.ca

"Another person in the province has died due to complications from 'the' influenza virus"...
and then the rest of the article is get a flu shot get a flu shot get a flu shot get a flu shot. Did the person that died not get a flu shot?

 

[Mendalla]

"Another person in the province has died due to complications from 'the' influenza virus"...
and then the rest of the article is get a flu shot get a flu shot get a flu shot get a flu shot. Did the person that died not get a flu shot?

Quite possibly not. The uptake is still a long way from 100%.

 

[Mendalla]

Randall Munroe continues his run of COVID comics.

 

[Ritafee]

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

Randall Munroe continues his run of COVID comics.

I didn’t notice pasta getting short, it seems to be rice here.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Maybe some brand selection is down but there seems to be plenty of food available again...kind of funny if rice and pasta are getting in short supply but you can find just about every other food choice under the sun. Nobody who is grocery shopping is going hungry...rice or no rice.

It’s the paper products and cleaning aisles that are cleaned out everyday.

 

[Lastpointe]

yesterday, just a few types of pasta. Few types of soups, few types of frozen fruit. Only one size and type of eggs

this are all things to stock up on so that’s why they are short. People are trying to shop every two weeks and need to fill up with storable things. Plus now everyone is home so suddenly everyone needs to make lunch too

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I’m somebody and the food availability in stores isn’t a problem. I’m glad we have less selection. We have too much anyway. I can’t carry home enough for two weeks entirely - I did that as best I could a few weeks ago, and so I do have enough survival food...my parents gave me some of their Costco purchases, too (a grocery bag full)...but if I buy a few extra staple items a few times a week I have it if I need to stay home completely. I can live off beans, rice I already have, soups, peanut butter, , and a few frozen items, frozen veggies...if in survival mode. That’s not what’s going on now. Running out of our favourites is not survival mode.

I don’t eat three square meals per day...sometimes, but it’s not my norm, hasn’t been for years. I eat snacks and small meals as needed.

I’ve never stocked up on any of those things, like pasta or eggs....or anything, really. Even soups. This is the most I’ve ever stocked up, I think.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I just miss going for coffee the most...sitting in a coffee shop. That’s it...so simple yet so complicated.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

And when I do shop, I see quite a few seniors out around here!

 

[Carolla]

I buy a few extra staple items a few times a week

I understand the challenge of transporting things home - but a primary idea of physical distancing is to make far fewer trips out to places where you encounter others (doing so helps keep grocery store staff safer) - so shopping less frequently is very important.

My husband does our cooking & shopping and has for many years. He's retired and was in the habit of planning only a day at a time & then going out pick up anything he needed - keeping him out and about daily. l But now he is not doing that. We are shopping just once a week, possibly less. It's a big change in routine.

 

[KayTheCurler]

My hubby too has become the shopper for us. We try not to have him leave the house and yard more often than once a week. Yesterday I sent him off with a grocery list, actually not very long. Fruit, veg, flour, garlic sausage, eggs, yoghurt, brown sugar. Just before he left I added a second bag of flour as daughter #1 mentioned she was completely out. He brought back food - but reported that there were no carrots to be had.

 

[Ritafee]

That’s not what’s going on now. Running out of our favourites is not survival mode.

The hardest hit will be the world’s most vulnerable people ...

Including 300 million children who rely on school meals as their one reliable meal of the day.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned of the impact of the COVID-19 virus on the global food supply chain in a notice on their website writing: “We risk a looming food crisis unless measures are taken fast to protect the most vulnerable, keep global food supply chains alive and mitigate the pandemic’s impacts across the food system.”

Food flows are international in character. Some 20 percent of the calories people eat—such as rice, soya, grains and wheat, cross at least one international border, up by more than 50 percent since 1980, with one third the world’s food coming from low and middle-income countries.

The pandemic has exposed the degree to which farming is dependent upon migrant workers, with more than a 25 percent of the world’s farm work done by migrant workers.

Every first world economy is used to workers coming from other economies to pick their fruit and vegetables….

According to FAO statistics, a massive 820 million people around the world (12 percent) are currently experiencing chronic hunger and lack the caloric energy to lead normal lives. An additional 113 million are so hungry that their lives and their livelihoods are in danger, reliant on external assistance for their existence.

As COVID-19 proliferates in the 44 countries that already need external food assistance or in the 53 countries that are home to 113 million people experiencing acute hunger as a result of poverty, wars, conflicts, landlordism, extortionate debt charges and climate change, the consequences will be catastrophic.

UN warns that COVID-19 pandemic could trigger global food shortage

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[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I understand the challenge of transporting things home - but a primary idea of physical distancing is to make far fewer trips out to places where you encounter others (doing so helps keep grocery store staff safer) - so shopping less frequently is very important.

My husband does our cooking & shopping and has for many years. He's retired and was in the habit of planning only a day at a time & then going out pick up anything he needed - keeping him out and about daily. l But now he is not doing that. We are shopping just once a week, possibly less. It's a big change in routine.

I understand and I am limiting my outings to the same supermarket in my neighbourhood and only going within about a 1/2 km radius anywhere. I used to shop for a few things at a 1-2 stores everyday. Now every 2-3 days, same place. Today I went in at 8:15 am because I woke up early. Finally they had paper towel. They sell out after 10 am. There were less than 10 shoppers in the whole big supermarket at that time and staff were busy cleaning everything. Carts, baskets, wiping freezer doors, checkouts, etc. I think I will go at that time from now on.

They say we need to social distance, not isolate unless we're sick...but go out less. Which I am definitely doing less.

 

[Ritafee]

If you can squeeze by the tanks at the US border, you could go to crowd the churches for Easter Service in the US, if you so desire.
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"Trump's America" is merely the avatar of the allied criminal enterprise.

I am so annoyed by this scapegoating of 'America'.

 

[Ritafee]

Oh Canada we stand on guard for 'thee' ... WHO is the thee?

Are we on guard against efforts to use 'the crisis' to implement long-planned efforts to build up the powers of the state?

The danger now is that capitalist governments will utilize emergency conditions to make bans on demonstrations and social protests permanent, enforced through the deployment of police forces and the military and the legitimization of dictatorial forms of rule.

The vast technological and scientific advances and the enormous productive forces of humanity are being constrained by the profit motive and the nation-state system.

The present 'crisis' demonstrates again the failure of the capitalist system to meet the needs of modern society.

For the second time in little more than a decade, the entire world economy is on the verge of a collapse and meltdown.

As well 'climate change' threatens to make much of the world uninhabitable.

This particular 'pandemic' has blatantly exposed the bankruptcy of the entire political system as well as the UNelected predator class.

The 'novel' corona virus ... is being served up as the 'whole' problem ... but like Trump it is just a symptom of the unsustainable inevitable collapse of capitalism.

And now the 1%'rs are asking the rest of us to voluntarily 'surrender' the pitchforks ... to protect 'their herd' immunity from the rest of us.

But only till we can get the 'magic vaccine' of course.

18 months or more of voluntary 'overabundant caution' - even if the cure is worse than the disease.

The cure that the predators need is to 'break the spirit of righteousness'.

To all intents and purposes the predators have seized the day of this 'perfect storm' ... we have let our guard down ... we have thrown our hands up ... and we are ... more than not of us ... 'willing to serve' the wrong 'masters of the universe'.

I am not saying that people are not going to die if we don't do all we can to 'flatten the curve' ...

The curve should have been flattened a long time ago ... the latest virus outbreak ... just a consequence of our choices up to now.

The management of the consequences by the 'shepherds' that led us down this path in the first place - were guarding their own safety then and I do not expect that they will be changing their priorities now.

Two irreconcilable interests of two classes stand opposed to each other.

The 'virus' as a tool to serve those interests is being manipulated by the 'ruling' class to their own advantage.

Humans being die when they are unable to breathe on their own ... no longer inspired ... so to speak.

Breathing room is being compromised on all fronts now.

The predators are taking our breath away ... one freedom of choice after another.

Universal mandatory vaccination is a big part of the agenda for totalitarian control ... that is no conspiracy theory ....

Agenda 2030 lays it all out ... as it is written ... so let it be done - sustainably.

Whether it is a plan for good or evil .... is a matter of interpretation.

'Even the elect will be fooled' ... I am not saying that every politician or bureaucrat is intentionally conspiring to exercise evil on the unsuspecting masses .... I am saying a lot of them are blindly following the 'leader' as well.

Any how another rant ... everything about this Novel precedent of medical martial law screams at me to be on guard ...

We will see ... what we will see ... as we I D 2020 and beyond.

 

[Carolla]

For any who are anxious about grocery shopping & bringing food into the house - this is the scoop from somebody who's certainly qualified to advise ... be sensible - use good hygiene practices, don't freak out

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Latest headlines in BC say domestic violence is up since everyone's home. Mental health is a big issue. Restrictions expected to continue into the summer. Vancouver Island has had no new cases in a few days - holding, so far, at 67 cases out of 795,000 population - but we have the same restrictions as the rest of BC regardless. Most of the increases on the mainland have been outbreaks at seniors care homes, and now a farm/ garden nursery with live on staff - many temp foreign workers - and the facility is now quarantined.