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Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)

Ok, the whole naming discussion can stop, this thread is devolving a bit.

Lets keep this about science and public policy please.
 
SunriseChampion said:
Ok, not China flu then......China Virus.

Same as calling the Spanish Flu just that.

I don't have a problem with theonly the double standards.
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At least now they are calling the Covid variants by their locations, UK, South African, Brazilian..etc. No one so far has been upset by that. Scientists have naming viruses after geographical names for years. Zika, Ebola, Hantavirus, West Nile, Lyme Disease, Guinea worm, rocky mountain spotted fever, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Norwalk virus.
 
I'm surprised Disney isn't selling a fast pass for $100 to get to the front of the line.

www.republicworld.com

'Disneyland' to turn into a COVID-19 mass vaccination site; Details

Disneyland, the eponymous theme park that has entertained and enthralled tourists and Disney enthusiasts since 1955, will be turned into a vaccination site
www.republicworld.com www.republicworld.com

Metro Toronto convention center just said they will run out of vaccines on Friday.
toronto.ctvnews.ca

Ontario's first major COVID-19 vaccination site will pause after just 5 days due to supply shortage

Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg says a pilot COVID-19 vaccination clinic that just opened today at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre will have to pause vaccinations on Friday because of a shortage of vaccine supply in the province.
toronto.ctvnews.ca
 

Simcoe, Ont. mother fined $880 for dropping kids off with grandparents for babysitting​


From link.

A Simcoe, Ont., woman said she's facing an $880 fine for violating the province's lockdown measures.

Natasha Kohl said police stopped her after she had dropped her kids off at their grandparents' house in order to do some grocery shopping.

Kohl believes the incident stemmed from a neighbour complaint.

"I had to stop working to stay home with my kids," Kohl said. "So, an $880 ticket is quite expensive when I'm not working."

The mother of four says she dropped three of her kids off at their grandparents' Delhi home last weekend because she didn't want to bring them to the store. Kohl said her fiancé wasn't available to care for the children.

"He wasn't able to help me and it was actually my birthday, so I wanted to get home so I could spend the night with him and my kids, so I took them to my father-in-law," Kohl said.

Kohl said her brother-in-law, his fiancée and their kids also live at the house.

"When I came back to get my kids, they were having lunch with their uncle and their cousins, so I was in the house with them as they were eating their pizza," Kohl said.

When they left, Kohl said she was pulled over by police.

"All the [police officer] said was they had a neighbour complain about a lot of traffic at the house and a possible party," Kohl said. "They had seen me leave, so they pulled me over to see if I lived at that address.”

Provincial police declined to comment to CTV News Kitchener, but in a news release said that two people were charged for failing to comply with the Reopening Ontario Act.

"They advised me they were going to my father-in-law's to speak to him about the complaint as well," Kohl said.

Kohl was fined before the stay-at-home order went into effect and the mother plans to fight the ticket.

Kohl said she had never even received a warning from police.
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SunriseChampion said:
Careful. That journal article is racist as it refers to the "Spanish Flu" H1N1 pandemic of the early 20th century. Which didn't originate in Spain.
Or is it only racist to call SARS-CoV-2 the "China Flu" because they're not Caucasian?

Asking for a friend who finds the double standards confusing and offensive to their sense of logic and propriety.


Oh, interesting that the actual infection fatality rate is even less than the already low case fatality rate. Didn't know about the infection/case difference.
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Go back and rename SARS first.
 
I'm not wagering.

Trendlines, as has been shown are not always static.

That said; should the current trendline hold; its about 15 days to 1,000 cases.

Though that's variable and far from a given. That's also based on the declined in the last 7-days, you could pick 10, or 3 and get a different outcome.
 
Northern Light said:
That said; should the current trendline hold; its about 15 days to 1,000 cases.
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Making 2-4 weeks a decent window of good odds.

Look, casinos are closed and the lottery is beyond boring.....gotta do something with my hard-earned money other than save it.

I'm also looking at the as-yet unprecedented hairpin decline in the trendline.
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
Profiles of privilege:

www.thestar.com

Opinion | ‘I’ve never washed my own hair.’ Australian Open quarantine whining falls on deaf ears, as it should

Novak Djokovic’s much-publicized list of demands in the run-up to the season’s first tennis major in Melbourne include: giving certain players access ...
www.thestar.com www.thestar.com

AoD
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From this, just because it merits highlighting:

Meanwhile, Australian pro Bernard Tomic’s girlfriend, Vanessa Sierra, sent out a video complaint via Twitter in which she bellyached that she now has to wash her own hair: “I’ve never washed my own hair. It’s just not something that I do.”

Now, we can all debate the correct mix of measures to respond to the pandemic. Its fair game to discuss what should be locked down/restricted, for how long etc.

Whatever one's position there can be an agreement that being laid off is a hardship; being forced to stay home due to closed schools/childcare is a hardship, being denied medically necessary care is a very serious hardship.

But never, ever, can we discount the seriousness, the profound, life-altering hardship that is having to wash one's own hair................

FFS..........I may oppose heavy-handed policing; or over-incarceration; but I desperately want police to find something to charge this woman with such than the sentence can involve cleaning public washrooms for a month.
 
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Northern Light said:
From this, just because it merits highlighting:

Meanwhile, Australian pro Bernard Tomic’s girlfriend, Vanessa Sierra, sent out a video complaint via Twitter in which she bellyached that she now has to wash her own hair: “I’ve never washed my own hair. It’s just not something that I do.”

Now, we can all debate the correct mix of measures to respond to the pandemic. Its fair game to discuss what should be locked down/restricted, for how long etc.

Whatever one's position there can be an agreement that being laid off is a hardship; being forced to stay home due to closed schools/childcare is a hardship, being denied medically necessary care is a very serious hardship.

But never, ever, can we discount the seriousness, the profound, life-altering hardship that is having to wash one's own hair................

FFS..........I may oppose heavy-handed policing; or over-incarceration; but I desperately want police to find something to charge this woman with such than the sentence can involve cleaning public washrooms for a month.
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If she find washing too challenging, she can always go out and buy herself a shaver and go Sinead.

AoD
 
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