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Another neat websiteshowing peak forecast for each US state if practicing social distancing by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Coronavirus around the world
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A note from a British ex-serviceman:
QuoteDisplay MoreMe and the lads out in Afghan in 2007.
There was about 60 of us surrounded by hundreds of Taliban.
The temp. was pushing 50 when we got there.
We went out on patrol every day carrying 50-60lb of weapons, ammunition and equipment.....
..... often getting into ferocious fire-fights with the enemy.
There were land mines, booby traps and IED’s everywhere.
We were living in derelict buildings, sleeping on camp beds and the water in the showers was ice cold.....(the temp. dropped to -20 over the winter)
......and the fuckers fired mortars or Chinese Rockets at us most nights.
We had to shit in a trench, sitting on a plank of wood with a hole in it....
....can you imagine what a trench full of shit smells like in 50 degrees heat?
And one week there wasn’t enough supply helicopters...
...so we had to make the decision as to whether we wanted food or ammunition?
We then lived on 2 x cups of noodles per day for 4-5 days.
Now.
I was lucky enough (depending on how you look at it) to get blown up after 2 months...
....and came home to get patched up and recover.
The boys did another 4 months of it.
By the end.....
2 were dead.
(not the lads in the picture)
Several others had suffered life changing injuries.
Numerous lads had been shot.
And one lad who’d been in my Section sadly took his own life last year after suffering years of PTSD.
That’s why it makes me want to fucking cry when I see on the news...
....that people can’t just stay in their fucking house for a couple of months.
You’ve got food.
Water.
A hot shower.
A nice comfy bed.
A telly, an iPad, a phone and music at your finger tips.
Amazon will deliver anything else you want to your house tomorrow.
Nobody is shooting at you.
And.
If you do need to go out for food.
You haven’t got to worry about stepping on a fucking booby trap!
So please.
The weather is going to be nice this week 😎.
But don’t be a dick.
Understand and appreciate how lucky you are to be in the position you’re in....
....and stay in your fucking house.
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Boris Johnson has been moved to the ICU, in “worsened condition.” I hope he makes it.
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Now THIS is a twice-weekly series that shows promise. Of course each of us would like to write our own version!
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Boris Johnson has been moved to the ICU, in “worsened condition.” I hope he makes it.
Bolsonaro and Trump , next?
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Maybe too evil to get it.
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Who in their right minds would hang out in the park with cops and dogs going after them?!
As people would say in my birth state of Alabama, THOSE COPS MEAN BIDNESS! -
If you can stand one more count site, this one has live updates and has a country-by-country chart showing all the main categories, including number of tests administered, a number that can help explain some large discrepancies in reported numbers of cases /deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?u…gn=homeAdvegas1?
Can it be possible that Argentina has given fewer than 12k tests, or 261 per million population? By comparison, tests per million population in other countries :Italy - 12,495
Switzerland -19,346
Germany - 10,962
Norway - 29,001
USA - 6,271
UK - 3,929
Argentina - 261
Shame on the USA and UK for having done so few tests, and so late. And shame on Argentina for pretending to have any knowledge AT ALL, of how many cases/deaths there have been.
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If you can stand one more count site, this one has live updates and has a country-by-country chart showing all the main categories, including number of tests administered, a number that can help explain some large discrepancies in reported numbers of cases /deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?u…gn=homeAdvegas1?
Can it be possible that Argentina has given fewer than 12k tests, or 261 per million population? By comparison, tests per million population in other countries :Italy - 12,495
Switzerland -19,346
Germany - 10,962
Norway - 29,001
USA - 6,271
UK - 3,929
Argentina - 261
Shame on the USA and UK for having done so few tests, and so late. And shame on Argentina for pretending to have any knowledge AT ALL, of how many cases/deaths there have been.
Terrible effort by the UK and US for sure. It will be interesting to return to this in a couple of weeks. It seems those countries would have got their act together by then and we see those numbers much higher. Argentina? Probably not.
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Magnificent!
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If you can stand one more count site, this one has live updates and has a country-by-country chart showing all the main categories, including number of tests administered, a number that can help explain some large discrepancies in reported numbers of cases /deaths.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?u…gn=homeAdvegas1?This website is the first one with a number of ICU patients due to coronavirus in Argentina. Currently, 96 in serious/critical condition.
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Is anyone else disturbed by the low number of tests given in all of Argentina?
I’m encouraged by the small number of covid-19 patients in ICU’s, and the low number of both cases and deaths. Why am I waiting for a dam to break? Let’s hope that Argentina will escape the overwhelming hit that much of the northern hemisphere is having. Is quarantine going to do the trick? When can we exhale?
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Brits are predictably flouting the law and travelling to the coast just because of some lovely Easter weather.
It's not as if they haven't been warned ffs.
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I think they miss a bit Duterte......
That way quarantine works 100%.....one way or another....
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Is anyone else disturbed by the low number of tests given in all of Argentina?
I have some doubts whether some of these testing figures around the world are accurate....maybe they're dragging people in off the streets to test them for no real reason?
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Is anyone else disturbed by the low number of tests given in all of Argentina?
I’m encouraged by the small number of covid-19 patients in ICU’s, and the low number of both cases and deaths. Why am I waiting for a dam to break? Let’s hope that Argentina will escape the overwhelming hit that much of the northern hemisphere is having. Is quarantine going to do the trick? When can we exhale?
The ICU number is still 96. It looks like nobody is counting.
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I have some doubts whether some of these testing figures around the world are accurate....maybe they're dragging people in off the streets to test them for no real reason?
On the contrary: they are administering a laughably small number of tests, guaranteed to miss most of the people who would probably test positive.
That is, if they wanted to know.
