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    up and down reacted to Ashton in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    Luckily I have no relatives in US. One of my Aunt's son is working in Australian Navy and has dual citizenship. His family is living there but they didn't return even though Australia got covid 19 before India. Maybe a good decision I feel as Australia is doing well. 
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    up and down got a reaction from Ashton in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    You are right about it. US side reacted too late and seem to be on the relax mode at the very beginning. They wasted 70 days doing nothing. That is why the surge in their daily cases is horrible. Hospitals is running out of bed and ventilators not enough. So doctors will decide who is worth saving to give them the ventilators.
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    up and down reacted to Ashton in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    That doesn't seem too appealing. 
     
    Again shows money can buy you things but not everything. 
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    up and down got a reaction from Ashton in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    You are right. The fear of travel will be there forever even after this pendamic is over. US is right now snatching ventilators to see which hospitals get it first.
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    up and down got a reaction from Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    Aw that is a bad thing to have happened. What a mess. Hope India can get over this crisis soon.
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    up and down reacted to Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    The Tabligi Jamaat . Muslim leaders all over India and the world in delhi for 3 days 
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    up and down got a reaction from Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    Cases reaching 9,000. Does it look like a bad news? What caused this kind of massive eruption of so many cases all of a sudden?
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    up and down reacted to Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    906 Cases in India in 1 day. That's too much. 
    9000 cases in total almost. High alert 
     
    At least I can breathe without fear where I live. Just 3 cases in the district total... My State has 225 steady increase but thats just okay comparitavely. Its a very difficult situation still .
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    up and down reacted to Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    I guess  my state is not that unlucky ,not a very densely populated state except few districts. And yeah mass census around 4 of the 6 crore ppl has been completed. That would help pen down the origin and travel history. And now every district has separate website with all info about patients. 
     
    But I'd be worried about Maharashtra and other states. Lockdown here started like 25 days ago with 30 cases or so unlike some other states 
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    up and down reacted to Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    I was little optimistic about my state Karnataka which has 207 cases and it's 1 month 2 days since 1st case.Average of 6 cases approximately per day.With 16 cases day before and 10 cases yesterday. 
    Also surprising 1 patients with history of  SARI died in a district later tested positive but none of his close contacts are positive with covid after repeated testing. This is a mystery. 
     
     
    It looks controlled but then govt has decided to seal the state fearing reports from a statistical company saying 10000 patients are infected already. So everything except hospitals will be closed. Grocery can be sold in vehicles and online delivery of medicine to take place. Volunteers have signed in to take the duty to be assigned places to check entry and exit of people. Not just military but women ASHA workers are also been assigned job. Have to see will it be implemented or cancelled last moment. 
     
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    up and down got a reaction from Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    Yes I can understand your feelings. More and more cases in India. Actually this virus escaped from the lab as an accident when the virus infected the scientists doing the research in the Wuhan lab. At the intial stage as early as November 41 people in Wuhan are infected with the virus. However only 14 of them have gone to the Wuhan Seafood Market. Another 27 of them did not even go to the Wuhan Seafood Market. The other 27 of them got the virus directly from the Wuhan lab. These 27 people consisted of the scientists from the Wuhan lab who then pass the virus to their close contacts. Huang Yan Ling is the patient 0 who is the first scientist in the lab to have caught the virus.
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    up and down reacted to Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    But sadly we are all facing it. Almost 8000 cases in India. 
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    up and down got a reaction from Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    @Fly_like_a_don
     
    It is all an accident. Nobody wanted it to happen. China scientists led by Shi Zhengli conducted research on Bats Coronavirus. Then the bats infected the scientists doing research at the lab. That is how the virus escaped. Shi Zhengli herself has published 4 research papers related to Bats Coronavirus explaining the researches that she and her team has done.
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    up and down got a reaction from Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    You are right. It is hard to proof anything. However the facts of the missing patient 0 Huang Yan Ling cannot be dismissed. People cannot disappear just like that.
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    up and down reacted to Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    @up and down some say that in news channels here too .But some say it's just fake. 
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    up and down got a reaction from Fly_like_a_don in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    https://www.ibtimes.sg/wuhan-labs-job-postings-coronavirus-bats-research-scientists-november-fuels-conspiracy-theory
     
    Wuhan lab's job postings for 'coronavirus and bats' research scientists in November fuels conspiracy theory
     
    The Wuhan Institute of Virology posted job listings looking for scientists to "research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats" weeks before the coronavirus outbreak

    A series of job listings posted by the Wuhan Institute of Virology weeks before the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city has reawakened the conspiracy theory which suggests that the deadly virus was leaked by a Wuhan lab.
     
    As pointed out by the National Review, the Wuhan Institute of Virology posted a job listing on November 18, 2019, for "scientists to come to research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats."
     
    Looking for scientists to conduct research on 'coronavirus and bats'

    "Taking bats as the research object, I will answer the molecular mechanism that can coexist with Ebola and SARS- associated coronavirus for a long time without the disease, and its relationship with flight and longevity," reads the Google translation of the posting. "Virology, immunology, cell biology, and multiple omics are used to compare the differences between humans and other mammals."
     
    On December 24, 2019, the institute posted a second listing. The duties and responsibilities of the job posting included "long-term research on the pathogenic biology of bats carrying important viruses has confirmed the origin of bats of major new human and livestock infectious diseases such as SARS and SADS, and a large number of new bat and rodent new viruses have been discovered and identified."
     
    According to Matthew Tye, a China-based documentary filmmaker and YouTuber who makes videos based on information obtained from public records, the second listing essentially translates to "we've discovered a new and terrible virus, and would like to recruit people to come deal with it."
     
    This is in line with the timeline of the outbreak. On December 31, about three weeks after doctors reported the first cases, the Chinese government notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of a "mystery pneumonia" that had hospitalized dozens of people in the city of Wuhan.
     
    Was COVID-19 leaked accidentally?
     
    A recently discovered Chinese documentary has added further fuelled the conspiracy theory. As previously reported, a seven-minute documentary film, posted online in December, shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak began, shows the lab's researcher Tian Junhua and his colleague exploring a cave to capture the nocturnal creatures for samples while wearing protective suits.
     
    In the documentary, Tian himself expresses the dangers of coming in close contact with bats due to the potential exposure to a host of viruses carried by them. Tian once failed to wear protective gear in a cave and as a result, was exposed to bat urine. In order to avoid contracting a disease, he was forced to quarantine himself for 14 days – the same self-isolation period recommended for people exposed to COVID-19. You can watch the documentary below:
     
     
    The revelation that the institute collected bat viruses for research combined with the fact that Wuhan virology lab is located just a few hundred yards away from the Huanan wet market, which was identified by health officials as the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has led many to believe that the first COVID-19 infection may have occurred due to a laboratory accident and the job postings will give conspiracy theorists more evidence to support their claim.
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    up and down reacted to Vic Liu in Artistic Gymnastics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games   
    Only theoretically, he needs 15.266 to qualify. So For China, it's settled. Fan Yilin got the uneven bar quota and Liu Yang got the rings quota.
     
    Edit: only theoretically is too arrogant, 15.266 is possible for young and healthy version of Petrounias, currently is not likely to achieve. But the one year postponement could happen lots of things, maybe retirement or total recovery from the injuries. 
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    up and down reacted to heywoodu in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
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    up and down reacted to Vic Liu in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    I think it's true and objective since China Russia and Iran not on the list
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    up and down reacted to OlympicsFan in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    Reverse ranking? The US, UK and the Netherlands are among the countries that have had the worst response to this. You might as well put Italy on 1, Spain on 2 and France on 3 ...
    meanwhile Norway is way done the list and Iceland for example is nowhere to be seen ...
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    up and down reacted to Monzanator in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    This is from three weeks ago. Very irrelevant now. Just throw it in the trash. The Swedish non-isolation method seems to be bottoming out hard since last week.
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    up and down reacted to Agger in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    I'm sure that it may be right when it comes to the health care systems. But it's not really stronger than the ones taking the decisions.
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    up and down reacted to heywoodu in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    That is one hell of a funny ranking.
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    up and down reacted to Monzanator in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    CNN won't say a single positive word about Trump, it's the Democrats version of FOX tbh
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    up and down reacted to Monzanator in [OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic   
    It's obvious the coronavirus has overwhelmed everyone. It's proven to be too much for both liberal and conservative politicians so I can only laugh at the ideas that if someone else was in charge here or there, things would have looked different. No, it wouldn't.
     
    Malaria claims 1-3 million lives per year but it's viewed as Third World disease so it doesn't impact the global market and all these wealthy countries don't give a damn about it. But 100k coronavirus deaths have broke into the industrial powerhouses in Europe and America and the world freaks out. It's easy to dismiss infants dying in Chad of malaria but COVID has proven rich & powerful people can't buy health either.
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