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New York state has 10 times the COVID-19 cases California has. Why? New York is testing far more people — three times as many as California — and as a result identifying more cases. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Cuba has been well known for their excellent medical, for a long time now. The only people that don't recognise that, is the U.S. govenment.

Was that a Trump government advisor?

I am very sorry to hear that! How are you protecting yourself? Take care.

Is that enlightened data?

How do you know that your enlightened men were "enlightened, and how do you know that you have never met an enlightened woman?

True! The goal as I see it in the short term, is to flatten the curve, so as to have enough hospital beds available to all.

Asses!

But still, it is our mote of dust!

Trump is desperate to get the economy going as soon as possible because, all of his hotels and golf clubs are empty. Like all very wealthy sociopaths, he does not care, how many thousands of unnecessary deaths, that it takes to rebuild his wealth. And of course, his relection is dependent on it.

The current seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic is largely the fault of the CCP. And its eruption into global pandemic is inseparable from the nature of that regime. Had the authorities in that country intervened early to contain the fresh strain of COVID-19, there would likely have been 90%+ fewer cases.. Instead, China’s one-party state created the conditions for the spread of the virus. Early on, it suppressed information and punished those who shared it. In December, Li Wenliang, a 33-year-old medical worker in Wuhan, the site of the outbreak, told his friends on a private online chat group that patients exhibiting symptoms much like SARS—severe acute respiratory syndrome—were in quarantine at the city’s central hospital where Li worked. The upshot of that concealment was 774 fatalities at home and abroad. Li warned his friends—all of them doctors—to be careful. China's internet police intercepted the exchange. And three days later, Li was berated by his bosses, accused by the police of “making false comments” and coerced into signing a statement expressing contrition for disturbing “social order”. After forcing Li to return to work, where the young doctor immediately contracted the virus, the local apparatchiks of the Communist Party of China ordered labs to stop testing and destroy the existing samples and proceeded with a potluck banquet for 40,000 families in a precinct of Wuhan. As patients proliferated, Taiwan notified the World Health Organisation before the end of December that the virus spread from human-to-human. But rather than ring the alarm bells, as late as 14 January, WHO was parroting Beijing’s line that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission”. The genome of the virus, mapped as early as 2 January, was withheld from the world for a week. Information that might have averted a global catastrophe was studiously suppressed. And by the time President Xi Jinping properly acknowledged the crisis, on 20 January, three people had died. That number rose to above 200 by the end of the month. Li died in early February. In its' inevitable outward march, the virus claimed lives beyond China’s borders, the CPC mounted a major public relations exercise that exploited common human decencies to evade accountability. Criticism of the Chinese government was equated with racist prejudice against ordinary Chinese people. Rather than confront China, social irresponsibilities was catered to by China. In February, the Mayor of Florence encouraged Italians to “hug a Chinese”, describing it as a “fight of solidarity and unity against the virus”. The People’s Daily, a mouthpiece of the CPC, applauded young Italians advertising their virtuousness on the Internet with photos of themselves hugging Chinese tourists without mentioning a word about the mortal perils of human contact.

China is fighting a propaganda war. Beijing's plan is to shift all blame from China for the initial botched response concerning the outbreak. The communist government is claiming that it has largely controlled the epidemic, even as it suspiciously now blames “foreign arrivals” for new cases of virus. Videos smuggled out from China shows huge lines at a hospital in Chongqing, raising questions about just what is happening around the country. What Beijing cares about is clear from its sustained war on global public opinion. Chinese mouthpieces have launched a broad attack against the facts, attempting to rewrite history. Chinese state media is touting the government’s effective governance. The truth is that Beijing dropped the ball early on because of long-standing CCP policy. Chinese officials knew about the new virus back in early December, and did nothing early on except to persecute their true heroes sounding the alarm! China also has enablers abroad helping to whitewash Beijing’s culpability. The World Health Organization refused for months to declare a pandemic, and instead thanked China for “making us safer,” a comment straight out of an Orwell novel. Most egregiously, some Chinese government officials have gone so far as to state that the Wuhan virus was not indigenous to China at all. The reality is that China did not tell its own people about the risk for weeks and refused to let in major foreign epidemiological teams, including from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Thus, the world could not get accurate information and laboratory samples early on. Because of China’s initial failures, governments around the world, including democratic ones, now are being forced to take extreme actions that mimic many of Beijing’s authoritarian tendencies,. Not least of the changes proposed will be in more invasive, digital surveillance of citizens, (public safety has always been the main venue to curb freedom and we all need to keep that in mind as the world transforms around us), so as to be able to better track and stop the spread of future epidemics, a step that WILL NOT be necessary, yet it will be an argument parroted by most government because, of Beijing's slipshod incompetence.

The New York Times puts lines through it if you are not a subsciber, but I don't care. It is an update within the last hour. New York’s virus case count is doubling every three days. Coronavirus is accelerating its spread in New York, with potentially disastrous consequences, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a briefing on Tuesday in which he criticized the federal government’s response as woefully insufficient. ‘ASTRONOMICAL’ SURGE With cases in New York City doubling every three days, the governor and mayor pleaded for more federal help. The case count is doubling every three days, and the peak of infection in New York could come as soon as two to three weeks, Mr. Cuomo said, outrunning earlier projections and threatening to put even greater strain on the health care system than officials had feared. “We haven’t flattened the curve. And the curve is actually increasing,” Mr. Cuomo said. “The apex is higher than we thought, and the apex is sooner than we thought. That is a bad combination of facts.”

Quotes from the greatest leader of all time--- Marcus Aurelius 1.The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. 2.When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. 3.I am going to be meeting with people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won’t be surprised or disturbed, for I can’t imagine a world without such people. 4.He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. 5.You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength. 6.Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. 7.Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. 8.Do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life. 9.Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask the following question ‘what fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticise?’ 10.Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. 11.Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Why does entering puberty (10+ years old) seem to increase the coronavirus lethality from 0%?

The California governor issued a statewide shelter-in-place order on Thursday of last week. This is Huntington Beach this last Sunday: The city removed the hoops from basketball courts to stop the public from playing.

If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.--- Kamala Harris

I was surprised Dr. Faucci lasted as long as he did. He believed in the truth.

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I think that is a good idea.

You brought that up, as a fact to establish credibility on that post. The fact that you will not share it, tells me, that you tend to run off at the mouth without thinking.* *Edited out the word "since" and two commas because it was such clumsy writing. I believe the original meaning is intact though.

Yet, with so much temptation, I have never said that of your world.

Kudos, I was wondering how many people would see that!

Not only that but, a good art denier!