Probably the math and science books too.
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.New Zealand is set to lift almost all its coronavirus restrictions within hours as it reports there are no active cases in the country.
It will move to level one, the lowest of its four-tier alert system, at midnight local time (12:00 GMT).
Under this, social distancing will no longer be required and there will be no limits on public gatherings, but borders will remain closed
Auckland-based lorry driver Patrick Weston told the BBC: "Everyone is so happy we're finally through this, but we're still nervous.
"I think the main thing people are worried about is the economy - so many people out of work, so many people looking for work at the same time.
"[On Tuesday] all restrictions are lifted and we can carry on as normal. Sporting events, music events can all take place with no restriction of numbers. We're still being encouraged to social distance of course, so we hope people will be sensible.
"We're happy, but nervous about the future."
If the world really can't do without lockdowns, then at least it would sure be nice they worked so well that life could go back to normal.
During the Influenza wave 2017/2018 1.5 million people died and nobody noticed. Now after 6 months of covid19 we are at 400k and the world seems to be freaking out
They paid 10-20x more than the average cost of a syringe. Guaranteed.Canada just purchased 37 million syringes (One for every person living in the country. F*ck off, I didn't ask for one). At what cost? Who knows, but I can't see them getting a good deal on anything.
They might kneel on your neck if you pass.No thanks, I will pass.
Stanford professor John Ioannidis published an overview of C0VlD-19 antibody studies. According to his analysis, the lethality of Covid19 (IFR) is below 0.16% in most countries and regions. Ioannidis found an upper limit of 0.40% for three hotspots.
In its latest report, the US health authority CDC reduced the Covid19 lethality (IFR) to 0.26% (best estimate). Even this value may still be seen as an upper limit, since the CDC conservatively assumes 35% asymptomatic cases, while most studies indicate 50 to 80% asymptomatic cases.
Numerous studies have now shown that children hardly get Covid19 and do not or hardly transmit the virus, which was already known from the 2003 SARS outbreak. There was therefore no medical reason for the closure of schools at any time.
Accordingly, all those countries that reopened their schools in May saw no increase in cases of infection. Countries like Sweden, which never closed their primary schools anyway, had no problems with this either.
Regardless of the comparatively low lethality of Covid19 in the general population (see above), there is still no scientific evidence for the effectiveness of masks in healthy and asymptomatic people in everyday life.
A cross-country study by the University of East Anglia came to the conclusion that a mask requirement was of no benefit and could even increase the risk of infection.
Two US professors and experts in respiratory and infection protection from the University of Illinois explain in an essay that respiratory masks have no effect in everyday life, neither as self-protection nor to protect third parties (so-called source control). The widespread use of masks didn’t prevent the outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, either.
A study from April 2020 in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine came to the conclusion that neither fabric masks nor surgical masks can prevent the spread of the Covid19 virus by coughing.
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine from May 2020 also comes to the conclusion that respiratory masks offer little or no protection in everyday life. The call for a mask requirement is described as an “irrational fear reflex”.
Numerous experts have already pointed out that an express vaccine against the new coronavirus is not necessary or useful due to the overall low lethality (see above) and the already declining spread. The protection of risk groups, especially in nursing homes, could be much more targeted.
- An employee of the German Ministry of the Interior, responsible for disaster protection, together with external experts wrote a 100-page analysis paper on corona crisis management, which was leaked to the press at the beginning of May and created strong reactions. In the paper, C0VlD-19 is described as a “global false alarm” because “there was probably at no time a risk beyond the normal level” for the general population. The collateral damage caused by the lockdown is now significantly higher than the recognizable benefit and far exceeds the risk potential of the corona virus. In March and April alone, over a million operations were not carried out in Germany. The data supplied by the official RKI were “not reliable” as the basis for decision-making. The official was subsequently fired because he had created the paper “without authorization”.
Florida: Despite numerous senior citizens, Florida introduced minimal restrictions and no general lockdown, even the popular beaches were reopened early, which was heavily criticized by many US media. Nevertheless, Florida did very well compared to other states and recently had around 2300 deaths in a population of 21 million, which corresponds to Germany’s mortality.
In an interview, the governor explained that contrary to the media, he realized early on based on the figures from South Korea and Italy that Covid19 was only dangerous for a very small risk group and he therefore protected the nursing homes as best as possible. In terms of prevention, nursing homes were even more important than the clinics themselves, and this strategy had proven itself. At the end of May, the governor announced that summer camps and youth activities could be carried out without restrictions.
- Transmission routes: A new report by the US health agency CDC comes to the conclusion that the virus is transmitted primarily through direct contact with people and “cannot spread easily on surfaces.” The German virologist Hendrik Streeck was already able to demonstrate that the new corona virus does not or hardly spread through objects or through aerosols floating in the air.
- Distance rules: Iceland declared the distance rules optional at the end of May and reopened bars and clubs. Switzerland converted the distance regulations into a voluntary recommendation. A Cochrane study from 2011 already showed that there is so far hardly any evidence for the effectiveness of “social distancing” measures.
- Surgeries: According to an article in the British Journal of Surgery, around 28 million surgeries, including many cancer surgeries, have been canceled or postponed worldwide over 12 weeks due to corona measures.
- Years of life: An evaluation by four US professors comes to the conclusion that the lockdown in the USA will cost about twice as many years of life as C0VlD-19 and was therefore a very counterproductive measure even from a medical point of view.
- Italy: Almost 5% of the population in Milan already had antibodies against Covid19 in mid-February, ie before the outbreak of the epidemic in Italy. This again indicates that the virus was already circulating in Europe earlier than previously thought.
- Unemployment: The International Labor Agency ILO expects that due to the political corona measures, half of the world’s employees or 1.6 billion people are at risk of losing their livelihoods.
- Norway: The Prime Minister of Norway publicly admitted that she panicked in March and that most of the lockdown measures would probably not have been necessary. In Norway, too, it became known that the reproduction number already fell to the stable value of 1 before the lockdown. In the case of a “second wave”, a much softer strategy without lockdown would have to be chosen, the Prime Minister declared.
- There were approximately 100,000 test-positive deaths in the United States by the end of May. The overall mortality rate since the beginning of the year was, however, in the range of the strong flu season of 2017/2018 (see chart below).
- Most of the U.S. Army’s field hospitals, which were built for a total of $ 660 million, closed again in May without treating even a single patient.
- In March and April, England and Wales experienced an excess mortality of about 46,000 people. This roughly corresponds to the strong flu waves of 1999 and 2000 (see graphic below). However, the health authority ONS notes that almost 30% of this mortality is not due to the coronavirus.
- After about four weeks of relative excess mortality, since the middle of May Switzerland is already in experiencing below-average mortality. The cumulative mortality rate since the beginning of the year is in the range of a normal flu season and far below the strong flu season of 2015 (see chart below). Around 50% of deaths occurred in nursing homes that did not benefit from a lockdown. The median age of deaths is around 84 years, which is slightly above the average Swiss life expectancy.
- Germany and Austria have not had any significant excess mortality since March. In fact, Germany has even seen a slightly below-average level of mortality since the beginning of the year if corrected for population growth.
Where’s the option for PIV?
This meme is so unbelievably powerful, and most people will completely fail to comprehend it to its fullest extent. The federal government has doomed this nation to default and failure.
Van Kerkhove acknowledged Tuesday that her use of the phrase “very rare” had been a miscommunication. She said she had based that phrasing on findings from a small number of studies that followed asymptomatic cases and tracked how many of their contacts became infected. She said she did not mean to imply that “asymptomatic transmission globally” was happening rarely, because that has not been determined yet.
Right...sooooo, the guy had a criminal history(that he payed his debt for) and that entitles the police to murder him with a smile on their face. I don't agree with the martyr narrative, but I also have a big issue with this mindset that since he had a criminal background, his killing is "no big deal". We have a double edged sword....and no easy answers.Why was George Floyd’s murder-by-cop chosen over all the others? There are many others. Thousands.
The man was no saint. Certainly not a martyr.
Yet he is the current poster child for police brutality, spun concurrently into racism by default of being American.
Its’s funny (not really) that a violent criminal is made a martyr for young black men and boys to look up to and revere.
Jeez, I don’t know, might that help further keeping blacks in poverty? Forget about being an upstanding citizen, a successful man, or husband or father. Why bother with that when you can invade the home of a pregnant woman, point a gun at her womb and rob her dwelling? Shit, a few years after that you’ll be a national hero.
Why are most black “martyrs” criminals?
Maybe it’s because the SJW, liberal mentality perpetuates institutional racism? Perhaps the same politicians that this ilk continues to vote into office want blacks and other minorities to eat from their palm so that they remain in power?
Their system is failing.
Sympathizing with communists will give them what they want:
POWER.
Who is planning and funding the agent provocateurs hiding behind protests, inciting riots and violence? Pallets of bricks and stones aren’t cheap, nor can you have one, let alone hundreds delivered on a whim. Coming from the construction industry, I can tell you it doesn’t work like that. Lead times anyone? Hah. Not when a riot needs to be had. It was F*cking planned.
Straw man.Right...sooooo, the guy had a criminal history(that he payed his debt for) and that entitles the police to murder him with a smile on their face. I don't agree with the martyr narrative, but I also have a big issue with this mindset that since he had a criminal background, his killing is "no big deal". We have a double edged sword....and no easy answers.
For me, as the father of 5 black children, I am less concerned about how my kids perceive George Flloyd. They have their own dad to look up to. I am more concerned about how quickly the police will draw their weapon over a misunderstanding. We have seen the police draw their weapons and fire without provocation. My kids are law abiding citizens and I fear for them.
New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free
PM Jacinda Ardern says she "did a little dance" as it was confirmed NZ had no active virus cases.www.bbc.com
Sounds like paradise but obviously there's a dark side of this:
As critical as I am about lockdowns, I applaud New Zealand which, in just a matter of three and a half months, is done with all this BS. I sure would love to be a New Zealand citizen now and see life go back to normal, without the ****** social distancing tapes, mandatory masks, restrictions on everything, etc.
They had a very strict lockdown but at least it worked. Obviously they have a huge geographic advantage but still. They ruined their economy but so did every country around the world without much to show for it (including Sweden and their lax approach which in the end didn't save neither economy nor lives).
If the world really can't do without lockdowns, then at least it would sure be nice they worked so well that life could go back to normal.
I'm in Barbados with just 4 active cases left and no new cases in over two weeks but for some reason I doubt they lift all restrictions once there's 0 cases.
The one murder chosen to frontline all this was George Floyd’s. A crackhead with a violent past for young men and boys to respect as a martyr.
Why?
WHY?
So food prices are going up, which should be a nice addition to people who are already facing financial hardship.
Food isn't getting any cheaper | LinkedIn
Food prices, having jumped the most since 1974 in April, rose another 1% in May — one of the few items to see an increase.www.linkedin.com
Also, to anyone who considers discussing George Floyd and everything surrounding that, you should take heed of the fact that these phenomena have, for all practical considerations, become a religious movement. People were literally washing other people's feet in public.
Regardless of what opinions you might have on this subject, discuss your thoughts on it at your own peril.
There are plenty of righteous zealots who are prepared to burn heretics for the cause, with heresy being defined as merely saying something that can be twisted in a way to go against the mainstream narrative, or even to agree with the narrative but just not strongly enough. You've been warned.
There almost isn't a right answer today.
That's exactly what I'm getting at. You're f***ed no matter what opinion you give - the mob wants blood, and any blood will do.
Regardless of what opinions you might have on this subject, discuss your thoughts on it at your own peril.
There are plenty of righteous zealots who are prepared to burn heretics for the cause, with heresy being defined as merely saying something that can be twisted in a way to go against the mainstream narrative, or even to agree with the narrative but just not strongly enough. You've been warned.
Remember when the WHO said that asymptomatic transmission was very real, and then a couple of days ago they said that it was actually very rare?
Well it should come as a surprise to no one by now, but they walked back on that statement again.
This has been the repeating pattern through this whole ordeal. Experts saying one thing, and people building their whole lives around a badly worded quote, only for the experts to come out and clarify themselves and rinse and repeat.
So food prices are going up, which should be a nice addition to people who are already facing financial hardship.
Food isn't getting any cheaper | LinkedIn
Food prices, having jumped the most since 1974 in April, rose another 1% in May — one of the few items to see an increase.www.linkedin.com
Also, to anyone who considers discussing George Floyd and everything surrounding that, you should take heed of the fact that these phenomena have, for all practical considerations, become a religious movement. People were literally washing other people's feet in public.
Regardless of what opinions you might have on this subject, discuss your thoughts on it at your own peril.
There are plenty of righteous zealots who are prepared to burn heretics for the cause, with heresy being defined as merely saying something that can be twisted in a way to go against the mainstream narrative, or even to agree with the narrative but just not strongly enough. You've been warned.
Sandra Bland.Because it was caught on camera.
Because he clearly wasn't resisting.
Because the crime they were arresting him for was a non violent financial crime.
Because other murders by the police, are not filmed.
Because the majority of people ignore stories about racist cops killing people inside cells.
The black community have been going on about this for decades, yet they are ignored.
Do you remember the name of the black lady that was arrested for nothing? She was stopped by a traffic cop, then tased, then arrested, then murdered. This all happened a few weeks after she explained why saying all lives matter, in response to BLM is ignorant in the extreme, because law-abiding white people, and even white criminals, generally don't have to worry about police brutality.
Lots of noise from the African American community. A few news articles, then it was ignored by white America.
(I'm not putting her name here, because I'm interested to know if you had heard of her before).
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