[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 4/4/2020 at 5:44 PM, Griff88 said:

 

 

Good luck with your hair btw

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Go with the hair trimmer (or scissors and then your shaving thing if you really want to go drastic) and enjoy the breeze on your head  

[nitinsanker 202]

In what appeared to be an unprecedented international heist, the Trump White House reportedly authorized a “diversion” to US from Bangkok airport of a flight carrying 200,000 N95 face masks bound for Germany, causing Berlin to go apoplectic and accuse Washington of “modern piracy.”

 

The masks were manufactured in China by the US company 3M which been contracted by Berlin for the consignment meant for its police. 3M has been under fire from Trump, purportedly for its extra-territorial loyalties in time of crisis, although like with many US companies, manufacturing in China for the international market is part of its global supply chain norm.

 

But the Trump administration, which famously proclaimed a “America First” policy, is now pulling out all stops to secure medical supplies after it has been brutally exposed for its lax initial response to the pandemic, the country's lack of manufacturing capability (which Trump blames on his predecessors) and the shallowness of its national strategic reserves of such material.

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 4/4/2020 at 6:40 PM, nitinsanker said:

3M has been under fire from Trump, purportedly for its extra-territorial loyalties in time of crisis

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Haha, yet they want non-American companies who happen to have stuff produced in the US to produce only for the US  

[dcro 10,210]

France has surpassed both Italy and Spain apparently, in terms of daily numbers...

[up and down 82]

  On 4/4/2020 at 6:40 PM, nitinsanker said:

In what appeared to be an unprecedented international heist, the Trump White House reportedly authorized a “diversion” to US from Bangkok airport of a flight carrying 200,000 N95 face masks bound for Germany, causing Berlin to go apoplectic and accuse Washington of “modern piracy.”

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Well right from the start the leader himself has been wrong playing down about the virus. He thought by blocking China he is safe. There are lots of videos online about how doctors and nurses in America is lacking in PPE and essential equipments needed to treat the patients. Most doctors and nurses had to treat the those patients with the virus without proper full attire and equipments thus endangering themselves. In America the health system is crippled when so many nurses and doctors resigned because they refused to endanger their life treating the patients with the virus. That is why the leader himself is acting in such a manner snatching away face mask etc... 

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  On 4/4/2020 at 6:44 PM, heywoodu said:

 

Haha, yet they want non-American companies who happen to have stuff produced in the US to produce only for the US  

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Yes this part is very funny too.

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 4/4/2020 at 6:40 PM, nitinsanker said:

In what appeared to be an unprecedented international heist, the Trump White House reportedly authorized a “diversion” to US from Bangkok airport of a flight carrying 200,000 N95 face masks bound for Germany, causing Berlin to go apoplectic and accuse Washington of “modern piracy.”

 

The masks were manufactured in China by the US company 3M which been contracted by Berlin for the consignment meant for its police. 3M has been under fire from Trump, purportedly for its extra-territorial loyalties in time of crisis, although like with many US companies, manufacturing in China for the international market is part of its global supply chain norm.

 

But the Trump administration, which famously proclaimed a “America First” policy, is now pulling out all stops to secure medical supplies after it has been brutally exposed for its lax initial response to the pandemic, the country's lack of manufacturing capability (which Trump blames on his predecessors) and the shallowness of its national strategic reserves of such material.

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Sad. They did the same to Canada and France already. Will be interesting to see

a) How Trump will act if/when the US will be first to produce a vaccine

b) How Trump will react if Germany won't sell the US a vaccine (if Curevac will be the first to produce one) or ventilators (produced by Dräger)

[OlympicsFan 860]

In case some people are interested about the situation in Germany:

- Apparently Germany increased its critical care bed capacity to 40k and of those between 15k and 20k are currently free (which means roughly 34 intensive care beds per 100.000 people, compared to roughly 10 intensive care beds per 100.000 people in Italy/Spain/France)

- Currently there are roughly 2200 patients with Covid-19 who need intensive care, 1800 of them need addititonal oxygen

- The number of ventilators was increased to 30k

- Over the last couple of days Germany always had roughly 6000 new cases and 100 - 150 new deaths (which suggests that currently one person statistically only infects one other person), in total there are about 95k confirmed cases and roughly 1400 deaths, so the death rate (which has been steadily increasing over the past couple of weeks) is now at about 1.5 %

- The measures that were taken seem to be working and the doubling time is at 9 days currently, Angela Merkel said that only when the doubling time is at 14 days or so it will be time to consider lifting some of the restrictions

- The current testing capacity is at roughly 100k tests per day and in total around 1.5 million tests were conducted so far, of which roughly 7 % were positive

- Sadly (for all men) german doctors are also observing (like their colleagues from other countries) that men need intensive care more often than women

 

Edit: According to Dietmar Hopp (main shareholder of Curevac) by this fall Curevac might be able to produce a couple houndred million doses of vaccine ... but the leading (german) virologists keep insisting that it will take at least 12 more months to get a vaccine. I would like to believe Hopp on this, but i fear that he won't be right.

Edited April 4, 2020 by OlympicsFan

[heywoodu 15,355]

Does Germany also have statistics about a huge majority of intensive care patients being very much overweight? Here it's around 80 to 90 percent of patients who are overweight, by far the most common 'underlying condition'.

[Monzanator 4,611]

  On 4/4/2020 at 6:40 PM, nitinsanker said:

In what appeared to be an unprecedented international heist, the Trump White House reportedly authorized a “diversion” to US from Bangkok airport of a flight carrying 200,000 N95 face masks bound for Germany, causing Berlin to go apoplectic and accuse Washington of “modern piracy.”

 

The masks were manufactured in China by the US company 3M which been contracted by Berlin for the consignment meant for its police. 3M has been under fire from Trump, purportedly for its extra-territorial loyalties in time of crisis, although like with many US companies, manufacturing in China for the international market is part of its global supply chain norm.

 

But the Trump administration, which famously proclaimed a “America First” policy, is now pulling out all stops to secure medical supplies after it has been brutally exposed for its lax initial response to the pandemic, the country's lack of manufacturing capability (which Trump blames on his predecessors) and the shallowness of its national strategic reserves of such material.

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No surprise here. USA is a global power house. They will do everything to screw the world over during this pandemic time. The last time someone stood up to them and made them sweat economically was the 1973 oil crisis.

 

With 330 million population it's obvious USA was never prepared for this pandemic and they wouldn't have been prepared if Trump wasn't a president either. But they're making up the lost ground now and nobody will do anything to stop it.