Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Ruin]

Saw this getting coffee this morning. They're literally using the fucking NPC meme for Covid propaganda.

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

Not shocking someone scared of a mask and vax, wants to make this thread a safespace, or as you could call it lockdown this thread.

Lets get this thread back on topic, I know you all like to derail it but this the covid thread after all.

Covid in Uttar Pradesh: Coronavirus overwhelms India's most populous state

Spoiler: full story

ndia is reeling under a severe second wave of Covid-19 and many states are struggling to cope with the rising numbers. Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, is among the worst affected in the country and its people are suffering even as authorities insist the situation is under control, reports the BBC's Geeta Pandey.
Kanwal Jeet Singh's 58-year-old father Niranjan Pal Singh died on Friday in an ambulance while being ferried from one hospital to another. They had been turned away by four hospitals for a lack of beds.
"It was a heart-wrenching day for me," he told me on the phone from his home in Kanpur city. "I believe if he had received treatment on time, he would have lived. But no-one helped us, the police, the health authorities or the government."
With a total of 851,620 infections and 9,830 deaths since the pandemic began last year, Uttar Pradesh had not done too badly during the first wave that ravaged many other states. But the second wave has brought it to the brink.
Authorities say the situation is under control. But disturbing images of overcrowded testing centres, hospitals turning away patients and funeral pyres burning round the clock at cremation grounds in the state capital, Lucknow, and other major cities such as Varanasi, Kanpur and Allahabad have made national headlines.
With 240 million people, Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state. Home to every sixth Indian, if it was a separate country, it would be the fifth largest by population in the world, just behind China, India, US and Indonesia - and bigger than Pakistan and Brazil.
The state is also politically India's most important - it sends the largest number of MPs - 80 - to parliament, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi who, although from another state, contests from here. However, this political influence has brought it little development.
The state has 191,000 active cases at the moment and thousands of new infections are being reported daily - though numbers are believed to be much higher - and this has put the state's creaky health infrastructure firmly in the spotlight.

Among the sick are the state's Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, several of his cabinet colleagues, dozens of government officials and hundreds of doctors, nurses and other health workers.
Over the past few days, I have spoken to dozens of people from across the state, and heard grim stories.
Videos shared by a local journalist in Kanpur show a sick man lying on the ground in the parking lot of the government-run Lala Lajpat Rai hospital. A little distance away, an elderly man sits on a bench. They are both positive for Covid, but the hospital has no beds to accommodate them.
Outside the government-run Kanshiram hospital, a young woman wept as she said that two hospitals had refused to admit her sick mother.
"They're saying they have run out of beds. If you don't have a bed, put her on the floor, but at least give her some treatment. There are lots of patients like her. I've seen several people like me being turned away.
"The chief minister says there are adequate beds, please show me where they are. Please treat my mother," she said, sobbing inconsolably.

'No-one came'​

The situation in the capital, Lucknow, is equally dire.
Sushil Kumar Srivastava was photographed sitting in his car, strapped to an oxygen cylinder while his desperate family drove him from one hospital to another. By the time they found a bed for him, it was too late.
When I called his son Ashish, he said he was too devastated to talk. "You know what's happened. I'm in no condition to talk," he said, his voice breaking.

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Retired judge Ramesh Chandra's handwritten note in Hindi, requesting help after the authorities failed to remove his wife's body from their home, was shared by hundreds of people on social media.
"My wife and I are both corona positive. Since yesterday morning, I called the government helpline numbers at least 50 times, but no-one came to deliver any medicines or take us to hospital.
"Because of the administration's laxity," he wrote, "my wife died this morning."

Personally, it's come as no surprise to me that the state is struggling to deal with the coronavirus pandemic as it wreaks havoc on its people.
For years, I have despaired at the poor medical facilities in the state - it's where my ancestral village is located and I know the struggles of finding a doctor or an ambulance even in normal times.
With a raging pandemic, the struggles have become harder.
In the holy city of Varanasi, which is also PM Modi's constituency, long-time resident Vimal Kapoor, whose 70-year-old mother Nirmala Kapoor died from Covid in a hospital last Thursday, described the situation as "bhayavah" - frightening.
"I have seen too many people dying in ambulances. Hospitals are turning away patients because there are no beds, chemists have run out of essential Covid drugs, and oxygen is in short supply."
Mr Kapoor said when he took his mother's body to the cremation ground, he encountered a "lashon ka dher" - a pile of bodies. The cost of wood for the pyre has gone up three times and the wait for a spot for cremation has risen from 15-20 minutes to five-six hours.
"I have never seen anything like that before. Wherever you look, you see ambulances and bodies," he said.

IMAGE COPYRIGHTSUMIT KUMAR
image captionCrematoriums in Lucknow have been busy with funeral pyres burning round the clock
Stories of deaths and families devastated by Covid-19 abound as infections continue to gallop - on Sunday, the state recorded 30,596 new cases, it's highest-ever single-day tally.
Even that, activists and opposition politicians say, does not give a true picture of the infection's spread. They accuse the state of keeping its case and death count low by not testing enough and not including data from private laboratories.
And there seems merit in their claim. Many people I spoke to said either they had failed to get tested or their positive results had not been uploaded on the state government site. From Lucknow, 62-year-old Ajay Singh sent me his wife's positive test report which finds no mention in the state records.
And neither Mr Singh who died in Kanpur, nor Mrs Kapoor's mother who perished in Varanasi, were included in the state's tally of pandemic casualties - their death certificates did not mention coronavirus as the cause of death.

media caption‘A Covid tsunami we had never seen before’
Indian media has also questioned the government data - with reports of a mismatch between the official number of deaths and the bodies at crematoriums in Lucknow and Varanasi.
Anshuman Rai, director of Heritage Hospitals - a private group that runs medical collages and hospitals in the state - describes the situation as "extraordinary".
"The reason why services are cracking is because too many health workers, including doctors, nurses, ward boys and lab technicians are falling sick.
"At a time when we should be working 200%, we are not even able to do 100% because the health sector is totally manpower dependent."
Critics, however, blame the state and the federal government for failing to anticipate the second wave.
They say there was a lull between September and February when the health services and infrastructure could have been augmented, the state could have created oxygen banks and stocked up on medicines, but they squandered the opportunity.
And with the virus spreading rapidly, things are unlikely to get better anytime soon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56799303

lol
Less than ten thousand deaths over the course of a year in a state with 280 million people and destitute poverty. I love when Branch COVIDians try to swing it out of the park and end up proving the 'rona is a similar in danger to the seasonal flu.

Saw this getting coffee this morning. They're literally using the fucking NPC meme for Covid propaganda.

That looks like that alegria art style that null bitches about.

 

[Mrs. Addams]

Weird situation: Buddy went to get his second vaccine, and was sitting down, waiting to be injected, when he looked at the paperwork and realized he was getting the opposite vaccine from his first doze. Aka first was Moderna, second was about to be Pfizer. He freaked out on the nurse, who told him it was fine and not to worry about it, but he did, and left the test site. He called all around town but is having trouble now getting anyone to promise him a second dose of the one he started with.

Some research papers discuss if it's okay or not to mix vaccines: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/can-we-mix-and-match-covid-19-vaccines-experts-say-not-yet
TLDR: We don't know.

 

[knobslobbin]

Between the looming virus casualties and hyperinflation economic collapse I am determined to enjoy as much of this summer as I can. Thank god for free and open maskless red states (for now). Take advantage while you can.

 

[Jarolleon]

Its like what he wanted was to dodge the question and just having him hurling insults at Florida being the "proof" that it doesnt count for...some reason.

Im legit puzzled at what their logic is. We have Florida and Texas being living proof that the mask shit is unnecessary and that its truly a matter of media and politics at this point and yet people like the ones I have shown are basically ignoring that and making up excuses as to why those two "dont count"....Im sorry but thats not how this works. Thats not how anything works.

Does their argument revolve around the fact that corporations enforce mask mandates in those states anyway, so the state policy difference has much less effect than you'd think?

This is the story of a based fiancee leaving a hysterical, COVID fearing woman. This is probably something that is happening more as quarantines go on. "Experts" predicted a baby boom during lockdowns, instead birth rates dropped because no sane person wants to bring a child into this fucked up situation. Now imagine all the destroyed relationships, after being forced together 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Just lol at her shock that pushing someone to abandon friends/family/life will eventually cause them to break and move away. Suddenly COVID isn't important, as she's willing to take him back already. All of his points are so solid, she has nothing to stand on. Good for this man, you got to put your foot down with doomers eventually.

Inb4 "Lockdowns exist to reduce White birthrates because the great replacement isn't happening fast enough for globohomo's liking"

 

[knobslobbin]

Does their argument revolve around the fact that corporations enforce mask mandates in those states anyway, so the state policy difference has much less effect than you'd think?

Inb4 "Lockdowns exist to reduce White birthrates because the great replacement isn't happening fast enough for globohomo's liking"

You are attempting to apply rational thinking to emotional and desperate creatures. Good luck "figuring out their reasoning" besides bat shit crazy repeat cult talking points and scream louder.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

It baffles me that people are still wearing masks in the outdoors while simply casually walking. They must really like the smell of their breath I guess.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

I wonder why Democrats are pro-lockdown while Republicans are anti-lockdown.

 

[JosephStalin]

The latest bullshit from the county I live in.

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE

April 20, 2021, 12:20 p.m.

COUNTY'S CASES CONTINUE TO FALL — YELLOW TIER MAY NOT BE FAR AWAY

• Big Sur, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Carmel Valley, Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach have no new cases

Over the last year, this newspaper has been accused of either downplaying or exaggerating the local coronavirus epidemic — sometimes in response to the very same story. But we defy anybody to figure out a way to interpret what's going on in this county right now as anything other than good news.

This morning, the Monterey County health department said just 92 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the county over the last week — including zero cases in Big Sur, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Carmel Valley, Pebble Beach and Pacific Grove. The total is Monterey County's lowest since early May.

A few hours after the county health department made its announcement, the California Department of Public Health lowered Monterey County's tier score to 2.7 — tantalizingly close to the Yellow Tier requirement of 2.0.(Unless they move the goalposts again. - JS)

All this comes almost six weeks after social distancing restrictions were relaxed here, raising fears that a surge would begin. The decline in this county is also happening as many states around the country are experiencing significant increases in coronavirus infections.

But CDC data show that many of the states with surging cases are the same ones that have the lowest number of cases overall, and that everyone seems to be converging at a point where about 10 percent of the populace has tested positive. Monterey County's rate is 9.5 percent, which means we're already there.

We don't know if that explains why we're not having a surge, but good news doesn't require an explanation. We'll take it the way it comes.(Up the ass, you mean, dude. - JS)

Almost 40,000 Monterey County residents were vaccinated against the virus last week. You can make an appointment to join them here or here. Also, SVMH announced this morning it has begun accepting phone registrations for vaccine appointments at (831) 771-3885.

 

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https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1384522751474552840

null for vaccine type

"Sorry, babe. I must have caught it from that vaccine I had last week."

 

[brentkanaris]

At least the idiots in Japan cancelled the Olympics themselves rather than World War II cancelling it for them like in 1940. Nevermind the only Olympians at risk are the old-ass dudes who do the skeet shooting, the ancient-ass coaches on whatever teams, and the Olympians who do steroids.

Japan has been historically way too risk averse for it's own good. One can say this is the cause or exacerbation of many of their problems.

 

[General Tug Boat]

The PPC in Canada is going hard. Only party that is speaking out against this fucking never ending lockdown nonsense.

 

[Local Fed]

The PPC in Canada is going hard. Only party that is speaking out against this fucking never ending lockdown nonsense.

For those who don't know much about Canadian politics, the last guy guy, Bernier, was nearly picked as the leader of the Conservative Party back in 2017. Instead, being how we are in Canada, they voted in Andrew Scheer to be the party leader who was a total joke. Now they have a guy in named Erin O'Toole who would be the Canadian equivalent of a RINO for the most part. Bernier (who even lost in his own riding during the last national election) and the PPC are a joke in terms of actually being a threat, but I do personally like them on quite a few things. They received about the same share of the vote as the Libertarians did in the US election.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Clark County teen has 3 brain surgeries after J&J vaccine shot​

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local...rain-surgeries-after-jj-vaccine-shot-2333249/ (https://archive.ph/VhCyA)
Excerpt:

An 18-year-old Clark County woman who became critically ill after receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has undergone three brain surgeries related to dangerous blood clots, a spokesman for the patient’s family said on Monday.

The young woman, Emma Burkey, began to feel ill about a week after being vaccinated on or about April 1, eventually experiencing seizures that sent her to the hospital, spokesman Bret Johnson said.

 

[Meriasek]

That disease will either be COVID-19 or a coronavirus more commonly considered a cold. If it's bad enough, we get another spike in hospitalizations and deaths which be from all sorts of demographics, so enjoy your 2022 lockdown. This might be the "COVID-21" some conspiracy theory alleges.

In the end the Coof will be just another common cold, yes, but I was thinking more about a real epidemic of CJD or something caused by the vaccines. Can't mistake that for a common cold.
I mean, I don't think that will happen, but it would be so damn hilarious.

 

[Overly Serious]

These leaflets starting to appear through doors in the UK, now.

Good quality card-stock, too!

https://backtonormal.org.uk/

Yahoo email address - not so reassuring.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

Hm. Yeah, does sound unlikely. Would still be hilariously clownworldish if the vaccines people rushed to get would lead to a widespread and much deadlier disease.

It's not unlikely at all, this has already happened with a non-sterilising vaccine, albeit one which uses older methods to make it, in Marek's disease in chickens.


It's completely within the bounds of feasibility.

 

[Lina Colorado]

Something odd happens here in my country. The numbers are bad, we have alot of covid infections and deaths according to the hospitals..
The media presses us everyday with bad news and yet: the café's and restaurants are going to open soon.
This is gonna give us another spike, just like the last time they reopened and the state is gonna shut them down real soon..
They keep doing this: opening them up, then shutting them down a couple of weeks after. Business owners can't keep doing this.
They even admit that they rather get government money.. I mean do you blame them, they can't run on full capacity because the table count is diminished (to keep a distance between the clients) so they rather get the government gibs instead.

How are we gonna keep doing this. Before you know it alot of business are gonna file for Bankruptcy.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

Something odd happens here in my country. The numbers are bad, we have alot of covid infections and deaths according to the hospitals..
The media presses us everyday with bad news and yet: the café's and restaurants are going to open soon.
This is gonna give us another spike, just like the last time they reopened and the state is gonna shut them down real soon..
They keep doing this: opening them up, then shutting them down a couple of weeks after. Business owners can't keep doing this.
They even admit that they rather get government money.. I mean do you blame them, they can't run on full capacity because the table count is diminished (to keep a distance between the clients) so they rather get the government gibs instead.

How are we gonna keep doing this. Before you know it alot of business are gonna file for Bankruptcy.

STOP GETTING TESTED if you do not have symptoms. I'm serious.

They run PCR tests at far too many cycles, if it's not picked up on owt under 20 or so, then there's nothing there. And don't get tested unless you have proper full blown symptoms. I don't mean a tickle in your throat, I mean a full blown fever and GI issues and a racking, serious cough.


More tests = more +ve and false +ve results = higher case numbers = a nigger - bigger, FFS, that was a Freudian slip and a half - whipping stick to cudgel you all with = more hysteria.



Fact that people can't understand this or how stats work really does make me think that learning how to understand and interpret scientific data should be included as part of the STEM curriculum in high/secondary school.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Fact that people can't understand this or how stats work really does make me think that learning how to understand and interpret scientific data should be included as part of the STEM curriculum in high/secondary school.

I won't be surprised why they don't teach that is because it might reveal an inconvenient truth.