The Coronavirus Thread

[Brian Peacock]

One third take the drug.
One third take a placebo pill.
One third pray.

The Pope tried that a month ago. God hung up on him. If the Pope can't get through what chance have the common people?

He just asked God 3 months too early.

[Sean Hayden]

Wrong thread...

[pErvinalia]

There's no wrong threads on Ratz..

[Sean Hayden]

There's one, but we don't talk about it.

[Brian Peacock]

Shhhhh. It's a secret.

[Scot Dutchy]

The 'experts' dont even agree the best way forward. Politicians want to keep control.

Debate over when and how to ease New Zealand's lockdown turns personal

As Jacinda Ardern plots an exit from strict lockdown measures, scientists are engaging in increasingly fraught disputes

New Zealand has been one of the few western nations to pursue a policy of elimination for Covid-19, drawing global praise and popular support at home for a swift and stringent lockdown that began three weeks ago.

But now as the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, decides how and when the strictest measures in the country’s national shutdown will ease, New Zealand’s comparatively low death toll and case rate have generated increasingly fraught and personal disputes between scientists about whether the lockdown has proven too costly.
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“There are a lot of people who are experts in this space in a way that we haven’t really seen in other crises that she’s had to deal with,” Curtin said. “This is a whole of society crisis and a whole range of interest groups are offering their opinion now.”

Ardern has suggested that during the next phase of recovery from Covid-19 restrictions will be loosened only slightly. She has also pushed back at academics who are calling for a swift and total lifting of restrictions.

[pErvinalia]

[JimC]

Don't let Brian near her!. He'll push her over, and she'll drown!

[Brian Peacock]

My cow-tipping days are over because now I believe that human kind and ungulates can live together in harmony.

[Scot Dutchy]

You guys in Ozland are welcome; Big Brother is coming your way:

Australia's coronavirus contact tracing app: what we know so far

Scott Morrison says consent will be key, indicating the app won’t be mandatory, but it could play a part in easing Covid-19 restrictions

They need 60% to download it so what happens when they dont reach that number?

[pErvinalia]

They send the brown shirts around.

[Tero]

Sweden passes 1000 dead, Finland next door has 60.

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Deaths are the more reliable number, the cases in Sweden likely twice or more what reported

[Faithfree]

Even banksy's working from home now:

[Brian Peacock]

That's very good.

[Brian Peacock]

Nicaragua has had only one Covid-19 death.

Hmm.