Fewer than 600 cases had been confirmed at the time of Modi’s announcement, although that number is widely believed to be an undercount. But without control measures, 300 million to 500 million Indians could be infected by the end of July and 30 million to 50 million could have severe disease, according to one model. And the world’s second most populous country has large numbers of poor living in crowded, unsanitary conditions and a weak public health infrastructure, with just 0.7 hospital beds per 1000 persons, compared with Italy’s 3.4 and the United States’s 2.9; India also has fewer than 50,000 ventilators.
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
Back to COVID
It's hard to believe that it won't be a disaster in India. Not to mention Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, and any nation when large numbers of the poor live in slum like areas. From Science:
The real nasty breakout may not come until next Winter. The people who have been terribly affected so far have been the Americans, where I think the breakout started, and elsewhere it was the people who had the right weather for it in February. Peter Hitchens thinks it probably goes back to December where he is.
ReplyDeleteDirect known evidence puts the start of it in Wuhan as an accidental leak from the lab there. I'm not buying it myself. I think that this evidence has been pushed onto the Chinese by way of baiting them to infiltrate Western institutions, then planting the lurgie in Wuhan with a cover story. But I'm only expecting that second layer of evidence to leak out over a few years. And it will be a harder leak than with 9/11. Because internet developments caught the bad guys off-guard back then. Whereas now they are ready to suppress the emergence of this second layer of evidence.
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ReplyDelete#3387780, posted on April 1, 2020 at 3:55 pm
The bat behind the chunk virus was the Horseshoe Bat, an ugly little buggar which is not found naturally within 900 klms of Wuhan but is used experimentally in both of the Wuhan labs. Interesting innit."
So is anyone still in denial about this being a bioweapon? The Americans now have more deaths than the Chinese. If you consider vaping, extra Flu and pneumonia, they probably always did. The denial has to end or the libertarians will be stuck on cruise mode. We all need to be putting together our stash.
Still in denial? Anyone?
Its true we need to claw our sovereignty back from China. But its not true that China didn't do a good job containing this virus. 80% of our infections came out of the US. We need to get on top of the China influence. But we do need to stop lying about their role in this.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-19Q1tyhhw
Actually China DID do a great job of containing the virus really. If we take the position that it was the deep state that attacked them with a well worked out cover story. The one man who knows the truth will be Xi.
ReplyDeleteTry to imagine having an attack on Xi and he's not a Catholic just war theorist right? He's climbed his way to the top of the communist party right? A tough guy and no-one to be fucking with. The usual suspects are so used to attacking people and those people not being able to retaliate. So if Xi tried to retaliate against Taiwan and failed. And if Xi tried to retaliate against New York and succeeded ............ Well it would have been a bit of a letdown if he did not do these things. Tough Guys Don't Dance. They hit back and when they hit back they hit back hard. Even if a few New York rich people of a certain ethnic group are going to go down.
The rest of us should always do our best to meet Georgism and Catholic Just War Theory halfway. Sometimes circumstances make it hard to meet them all the way.
ReplyDeleteBut if the usual suspects who framed up Xi, made him look like he fucked up, and attacked his country........ If we think HE IS GOING TO NOT RETALIATE. then clearly thats a delusion.
We ourselves must never lose our sense of ethics. But if Xi punches back, well you know. Maybe the worst of us could stand to learn a few lessons from that.