Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?
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Wuhan coronavirus: From silent streets to packed pools
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Image captionThousands can be seen packed together at a music festival
Thousands of people packed shoulder-to-shoulder with no face masks in sight, frolicking on rubber floats and cheering along to a music festival.
It's not a very 2020 image, but it was the scene this weekend in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first emerged late last year.
Pictures of partygoers at the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park - looking very much removed from the outbreak that the rest of the world continues to battle - have now gone, well, viral.
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Image captionNo masks, no social distancing for these partygoers
It's worlds apart from the images that came out of Wuhan when it had the world's first Covid-19 lockdown in January - a ghost town devoid of residents and vehicles.
The lockdown was lifted in April and there have been no domestically transmitted cases in Wuhan or Hubei province since mid-May.
A slow return to normal
Wuhan went into a then unprecedented lockdown on 23 January - at a time where the virus had killed 17 people and affected more than 400.
It was a week after China confirmed that human-to-human transmission of the virus had taken place, something not previously proven.
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Image captionWuhan was left eerily silent when it went into lockdown
The city of 11 million people was entirely cut off from the rest of China, as thousands of people were over the next few months tested and placed in quarantine. All large public gatherings were cancelled and people told to avoid gathering.
By March, the lockdown slowly started to ease.
One resident from each household was allowed to leave their residential compound for a maximum of two hours.
Shopping malls began re-opening, public transport started to run and people slowly started heading out - though social distancing was still in place and masks had to be worn.
Couples rushed to get married, after having their plans put on hold for months.
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Image captionCouples raced to get married when the city's lockdown was lifted
For a while it seemed like life was getting back to normal as schools re-opened, businesses slowly emerged and public transport resumed operations.
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Image captionSenior middle students in Wuhan headed back to school in May
But on 12 May, six new virus cases were recorded. The city quickly put in place ambitious plans to test its entire population of 11 million people. The outbreak was soon brought under control.
By June, night markets - which see street stalls set up along small streets - were allowed to re-open.
And a month later, in July, life truly started to go back to normal in most parts of China. Cinemas in most places were allowed to re-open, certain parks, libraries, museums were also allowed to open at half capacity and larger gatherings were given permission to take place.
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Image captionA cinema in Wuhan in July
Today, it appears that life has edged back to normal in Wuhan. The images of partygoers attending the HOHA Water Electrical Musical Festival over the weekend have only proved this point. Organisers even offered female tourists tickets at half price in a bid to attract more visitors.
Wuhan Happy Valley - the theme park that owns the Maya Water park - re-opened on 25 June, but according to its deputy general manager it only started getting more visitors this August.
The park currently sees around 15,000 visitors on the weekend, he said, around half the number of people it saw this time last year.
On Chinese social media, some commenters expressed surprise that such a large scale event was allowed to take place in Wuhan. There was also alarm on Twitter and Facebook.
But Wuhan has not had a local coronavirus case since mid-May, and about 9.9 million people in the city have been tested for the virus. There are no bans in place on large gatherings.
However, Sanjaya Senanayake, an associate professor in infectious diseases at the Australian National University, said that while a majority of the city's residents had been tested, there was still the risk of the virus being introduced from elsewhere.
"The problem is we haven't eradicated Covid-19, and what that means is that as long as its not eradicated, there's still the risk of having it introduced, whether from overseas or elsewhere," he told the BBC.
He points to the example of New Zealand, which had no locally transmitted cases for more than three months - before a new spike in cases were reported earlier last week.
"A study from London came out suggesting that about 10-20% of people with Covid-19 are responsible for about 80% of cases," he said.
"So if you're putting large groups of people together you really have to be careful. Even if one person has the virus, you're in for some rough times."
Media captionHow has Wuhan changed? And what can the rest of the world learn about life after lockdown?
Meanwhile, the virus continues to rage on elsewhere. There have been more than 21 million cases worldwide. Countries like South Korea - which seemed to have successfully contained the virus - are facing a new wave of cases.
So it may be a long time before other countries feel confident in allowing crowded events to resume.
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Image captionThousands can be seen packed together at a music festival
Thousands of people packed shoulder-to-shoulder with no face masks in sight, frolicking on rubber floats and cheering along to a music festival.
It's not a very 2020 image, but it was the scene this weekend in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first emerged late last year.
Pictures of partygoers at the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park - looking very much removed from the outbreak that the rest of the world continues to battle - have now gone, well, viral.
Image captionNo masks, no social distancing for these partygoers
It's worlds apart from the images that came out of Wuhan when it had the world's first Covid-19 lockdown in January - a ghost town devoid of residents and vehicles.
The lockdown was lifted in April and there have been no domestically transmitted cases in Wuhan or Hubei province since mid-May.
A slow return to normal
Wuhan went into a then unprecedented lockdown on 23 January - at a time where the virus had killed 17 people and affected more than 400.
It was a week after China confirmed that human-to-human transmission of the virus had taken place, something not previously proven.
Image captionWuhan was left eerily silent when it went into lockdown
The city of 11 million people was entirely cut off from the rest of China, as thousands of people were over the next few months tested and placed in quarantine. All large public gatherings were cancelled and people told to avoid gathering.
By March, the lockdown slowly started to ease.
One resident from each household was allowed to leave their residential compound for a maximum of two hours.
Shopping malls began re-opening, public transport started to run and people slowly started heading out - though social distancing was still in place and masks had to be worn.
- What did China do when the outbreak emerged?
- Diary of a life in locked-down Wuhan
- A dazed city emerges from the harshest of lockdowns
Couples rushed to get married, after having their plans put on hold for months.
Image captionCouples raced to get married when the city's lockdown was lifted
For a while it seemed like life was getting back to normal as schools re-opened, businesses slowly emerged and public transport resumed operations.
Image captionSenior middle students in Wuhan headed back to school in May
But on 12 May, six new virus cases were recorded. The city quickly put in place ambitious plans to test its entire population of 11 million people. The outbreak was soon brought under control.
By June, night markets - which see street stalls set up along small streets - were allowed to re-open.
And a month later, in July, life truly started to go back to normal in most parts of China. Cinemas in most places were allowed to re-open, certain parks, libraries, museums were also allowed to open at half capacity and larger gatherings were given permission to take place.
Image captionA cinema in Wuhan in July
Today, it appears that life has edged back to normal in Wuhan. The images of partygoers attending the HOHA Water Electrical Musical Festival over the weekend have only proved this point. Organisers even offered female tourists tickets at half price in a bid to attract more visitors.
Wuhan Happy Valley - the theme park that owns the Maya Water park - re-opened on 25 June, but according to its deputy general manager it only started getting more visitors this August.
The park currently sees around 15,000 visitors on the weekend, he said, around half the number of people it saw this time last year.
On Chinese social media, some commenters expressed surprise that such a large scale event was allowed to take place in Wuhan. There was also alarm on Twitter and Facebook.
But Wuhan has not had a local coronavirus case since mid-May, and about 9.9 million people in the city have been tested for the virus. There are no bans in place on large gatherings.
However, Sanjaya Senanayake, an associate professor in infectious diseases at the Australian National University, said that while a majority of the city's residents had been tested, there was still the risk of the virus being introduced from elsewhere.
"The problem is we haven't eradicated Covid-19, and what that means is that as long as its not eradicated, there's still the risk of having it introduced, whether from overseas or elsewhere," he told the BBC.
He points to the example of New Zealand, which had no locally transmitted cases for more than three months - before a new spike in cases were reported earlier last week.
"A study from London came out suggesting that about 10-20% of people with Covid-19 are responsible for about 80% of cases," he said.
"So if you're putting large groups of people together you really have to be careful. Even if one person has the virus, you're in for some rough times."
Media captionHow has Wuhan changed? And what can the rest of the world learn about life after lockdown?
Meanwhile, the virus continues to rage on elsewhere. There have been more than 21 million cases worldwide. Countries like South Korea - which seemed to have successfully contained the virus - are facing a new wave of cases.
So it may be a long time before other countries feel confident in allowing crowded events to resume.
It's almost like they had the vaccine before they spread the virus, isn't it? Just lock down one city for show and while the rest of the world is fighting to contain spread and develop vaccination in a rush....quietly reopen all of China and start selling masks and ventilators to the rest of the world.
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What Is Gilead's Role In The War On Hydroxychloroquine?
Is Gilead, the maker of Remdesivir, waging war on HCQ (hydroxychloroquine)?
The first attempt to discredit HCQ was a hastily compiled Veterans Administration hospital system study last April. Notably, one of the study’s authors had in the past received numerous grants from Gilead, with one grant in 2018 totaling nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
After deep flaws in the VA study were exposed, Surgisphere came to the rescue in May with a “15,000 patient” megastudy allegedly compiled from hospitals all over the world.
This strategy succeeded: Following its publication in the Lancet and the NEJM, all outpatient use of HCQ was severely restricted in the U.S., Australia, and most of Europe.
When the Surgisphere scam was exposed, both articles were quietly retracted and the editor-in-chief of the Lancet tried to wash his hands of this embarrassing incident by denouncing Surgisphere’s “monumental fraud.”
However only a few days earlier, Lancet editors played a major role in persuading WHO to suspend all trials for HCQ. Who put them up to it?
The study’s main author, Mandeep Mehra, also apologized for his reliance on a third party for the data. He may not have known the data was fabricated, but the hospital he directed was conducting two trials for Remdesivir. Was he under pressure from his sponsors?
These are the stakes:
Progressives mistakenly believe that socialized medicine protects patients from the abuses of big pharma, but the first nation to severely restrict access to HCQ was France.
This policy compelled Dr. Raoult to testify against Gilead’s disproportionate leverage over the medical community during a meeting of the French National Assembly last June.
Notably in the U.S., a third of the FDA’s budget comes from pharmaceutical user fees, and according to the NIH’s website, eight out of 55 members of the panel responsible for COVID-19 treatment guidelines are currently affiliated with Gilead. These government ties to Gilead more than triple when you include panel members with past associations.
Paradoxically, most opposition to HCQ in the U.S. comes from the left, but conservatives who know the ways of crony capitalism regard this as par for the course. After all, big pharma has given more to Democrats ever since the passage of Obamacare and up to now, Gilead employees donated three times more to the Biden campaign.
Sooner or later there will be a reckoning for everyone who colluded in this disinformation campaign. If you are among the policymakers or physicians participating in this charade, you may want to dissociate yourself while you can credibly plead ignorance for tens of thousands of preventable deaths.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/what-gileads-role-war-hydroxychloroquine
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What Is Gilead's Role In The War On Hydroxychloroquine?
Is Gilead, the maker of Remdesivir, waging war on HCQ (hydroxychloroquine)?
The first attempt to discredit HCQ was a hastily compiled Veterans Administration hospital system study last April. Notably, one of the study’s authors had in the past received numerous grants from Gilead, with one grant in 2018 totaling nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
After deep flaws in the VA study were exposed, Surgisphere came to the rescue in May with a “15,000 patient” megastudy allegedly compiled from hospitals all over the world.
This strategy succeeded: Following its publication in the Lancet and the NEJM, all outpatient use of HCQ was severely restricted in the U.S., Australia, and most of Europe.
When the Surgisphere scam was exposed, both articles were quietly retracted and the editor-in-chief of the Lancet tried to wash his hands of this embarrassing incident by denouncing Surgisphere’s “monumental fraud.”
However only a few days earlier, Lancet editors played a major role in persuading WHO to suspend all trials for HCQ. Who put them up to it?
The study’s main author, Mandeep Mehra, also apologized for his reliance on a third party for the data. He may not have known the data was fabricated, but the hospital he directed was conducting two trials for Remdesivir. Was he under pressure from his sponsors?
These are the stakes:
- A five-day treatment with Remdesivir costs around $3,000.
- A five-day supply of generic HCQ costs around $10.
Progressives mistakenly believe that socialized medicine protects patients from the abuses of big pharma, but the first nation to severely restrict access to HCQ was France.
This policy compelled Dr. Raoult to testify against Gilead’s disproportionate leverage over the medical community during a meeting of the French National Assembly last June.
Notably in the U.S., a third of the FDA’s budget comes from pharmaceutical user fees, and according to the NIH’s website, eight out of 55 members of the panel responsible for COVID-19 treatment guidelines are currently affiliated with Gilead. These government ties to Gilead more than triple when you include panel members with past associations.
Paradoxically, most opposition to HCQ in the U.S. comes from the left, but conservatives who know the ways of crony capitalism regard this as par for the course. After all, big pharma has given more to Democrats ever since the passage of Obamacare and up to now, Gilead employees donated three times more to the Biden campaign.
Sooner or later there will be a reckoning for everyone who colluded in this disinformation campaign. If you are among the policymakers or physicians participating in this charade, you may want to dissociate yourself while you can credibly plead ignorance for tens of thousands of preventable deaths.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/what-gileads-role-war-hydroxychloroquine
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I think I read somewhere most of the UK Covid deaths were in carehomes. Why was that? By the very nature its a carehome its very easy to isolate the residents from outside contact. It should have been a very easy process to design a template to keep the residents safe from the virus.
Have you literally only just this moment read up on this?
Tory incompetence. We were discharging people back to care homes without testing whether they still had the virus. We also had PPE shortages.
Borris then attempted to blame care home managers for not following COVID guidelines. There should be a case for criminal negligence, IMO. We threw our most vulnerable population to the wolves.
Happened in Ireland too. First few months were a clusterfuck, now the Government have no idea how to go about reopening things, despite single figure deaths in the last month (about 15 reported but most were from May and June).
Most of them will have been forced to sell their financial assets and homes to pay for the cost of this "care". Alas they're dead now, and their kids will have to give most of what is left over, if anything, to the funeral director and the government, as tax, so they can use that all important tax for important things like paying the administrative staff who will process the means testing of their own assets when their turn to die comes around. Hahaha what am I saying, their kids won't have any assets, those now belong to the Chinese. Problem solved.
It's somewhat concerning that the testing result is something the government can control by increasing and reducing the amount and location of tests, like a lever. Then use the law to stop people doing stuff. If they hadn't borrowed so much money and created eternal 0% interest rates, if they weren't retarded, then in the good old days you could use interest rate adjustments to keep the economy stable. They totally fucked that up. If I were Rosco, I'd suspect they are using the testing rate for the same purpose, to control when people can go out and spend and when they tighten their belts, using fear. I think that means the country is finished sadly. Next stop is communism, then secret police, then gun wielding clerics to enforce the banning of all displays of emotion.
Who could have foreseen that telling people to go the pub and buy avocado on toast to get the economy going again was a bad idea?
It’s also a nice distraction from them being held to account for willing to break international law with brexit.
And the hillarious thing is the people who voted these cunts in will continue to vote for these cunts. I'd love to put them all on Marshall Islands and nuke it.
Only a distraction in a very limited & specific way though.
It's more than international law, this is also simple black and white contract law. They entered into a contract, which he apparently didn't bother to read, and now finds out he needs to breach the contract he should never have signed and should never have been voted for in the first place. Our subsequent trade deals are also contracts, where the counter parties will now all think yeah nah, money up front please and then we trade, otherwise go fuck yourselves.
Why the fuck one of the nurses in the hospital didn't kill the this cunt when they had the chance I will never know and never forgive.
Because even if they did kill him the second in command will still be a useless cunt and we'd be no better off.
I reckon at least half of the UK leaders have broken international law while in power.
The fifth sixth or seventh one might not be. You give up too easily.
It's somewhat concerning that the testing result is something the government can control by increasing and reducing the amount and location of tests, like a lever. Then use the law to stop people doing stuff. If they hadn't borrowed so much money and created eternal 0% interest rates, if they weren't retarded, then in the good old days you could use interest rate adjustments to keep the economy stable. They totally fucked that up. If I were Rosco, I'd suspect they are using the testing rate for the same purpose, to control when people can go out and spend and when they tighten their belts, using fear. I think that means the country is finished sadly. Next stop is communism, then secret police, then gun wielding clerics to enforce the banning of all displays of emotion.
I like how I'm the lunatic
If you think people are gonna wait for the 6th or 7th one to turn out to be good then you've underestimated the general public.
And openly admit they’re doing so?
This is the big thing.
I seriously think they could come out & say "Well I'm afraid some of you could, & will die, but our profit is more important than your life, so tough" & people would still lap it up.
It's fucking insanity.
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China should adhere to international law over Hong Kong citizenship route, UK PM's spokesman says
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the weekly question time debate in Parliament in London, Britain July 1, 2020, in this screen grab taken from video. Parliament TV/Reuters TV via
REUTERS
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China should adhere to international law over Hong Kong citizenship route, UK PM's spokesman says
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the weekly question time debate in Parliament in London, Britain July 1, 2020, in this screen grab taken from video. Parliament TV/Reuters TV via
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It really is crazy. They’ll still get in to power no matter what they do.
Well, Starmer reversing over Corbyns hard work makes that easier.
It's looking increasingly likely that Scotland will leave the Union too. Bad for Labour that.