Coronavirus

[Lario]

Code, what are those columns?

Positive Cases       Cases per 100k       Total Deaths      Deaths Per 100k

[Captain Turdseye]

STATS

[Dougie Do'ins]

9 hours ago, aRdja said:

 

He never wanted any lockdown measures right up until he almost died from it.

Except he never almost died.

[Code]

9 minutes ago, Lario said:

Code, what are those columns?

Positive Cases       Cases per 100k       Total Deaths      Deaths Per 100k

Yes, that is correct.

 

Tyskland = Germany

 

The others should be understandable.

[VladimirIlyich]

Could any of these outbreaks,not just Covid 19 but SARS and mutations of the common flu strains,be attributed to an overall lack of Research and Development within the medical and pharmaceutical industry? Surely these companies are not immune from the 'buy,streamline and flip/sell' culture that seems prevalent nowadays? R and D would not exactly take precedent under these conditions I assume?

[Section_31]

11 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Could any of these outbreaks,not just Covid 19 but SARS and mutations of the common flu strains,be attributed to an overall lack of Research and Development within the medical and pharmaceutical industry? Surely these companies are not immune from the 'buy,streamline and flip/sell' culture that seems prevalent nowadays? R and D would not exactly take precedent under these conditions I assume?

It's a good point, it's no coincidence that all the diseases wiped out by mass vaccination programmes in Britain were administered by the state. Don't even have school nurses checking for nits these days.

 

The drugs industry is terrible for only pursuing treatment drugs rather than cures because it creates ongoing revenue (big money in cancer drugs for that reason). 

 

That's why they're not that arsed about new antibiotics, because they're a cure not a treatment. 

 

In eastern Europe they used something called phages for treating infections because antibiotics were hard to come by in the USSR, they're like a type of targeted virus that kills bacteria. People still go from the USA to places like Tibilisi for treatment on 'untreatable' MRSA and the likes. 

 

Drugs companies over here won't touch it because they're naturally occurring and so can't be patented.

 

If there was an asteroid heading for earth, rather than build a missile to shoot it down, the private sector would rather sell us underground shelters and disposable masks and thermal coats for the fallout.

[SasaS]

Private sector in Germany proved to be very useful in boosting testing capacity. 

[Lario]

38 minutes ago, Code said:

Yes, that is correct.

 

Tyskland = Germany

 

The others should be understandable.

Sound.

 

And what do the colours represent?

[Section_31]

2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Private sector in Germany proved to be very useful in boosting testing capacity. 

Different business culture though I'd say. Still a lot of national pride tied up in German companies (same with Japan), the credit crunch started in London and New York, not Frankfurt and Tokyo. 

 

There's capitalism, and there's transatlantic capitalism. It's like comparing Hilary Jones to Harold Shipman.

[Lario]

And for Irish forumites, apparently CoronaVirus deaths peaked 10 days ago!

 

Buíochas le Dia.

 

 

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0418/1132271-deaths-covid-holohan/

[Code]

8 minutes ago, Lario said:

Sound.

 

And what do the colours represent?

Dead and infected by 100k

 

You can see the scale below.

 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

 

 

Fucking brilliant rant at Trump. Forward to 59:00.

 

How can you not love this guy?

[Red_or_Dead]

1 hour ago, Code said:

Yes, that is correct.

 

Tyskland = Germany

 

The others should be understandable.

Would be more appropriate if it were Poland.

 

[SasaS]

33 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Different business culture though I'd say. Still a lot of national pride tied up in German companies (same with Japan), the credit crunch started in London and New York, not Frankfurt and Tokyo. 

 

There's capitalism, and there's transatlantic capitalism. It's like comparing Hilary Jones to Harold Shipman.

Also, a quick search would suggest that R&D spending in the pharmaceutical industry does not appear to be decreasing, quite the contrary, over the past decades.

[Dougie Do'ins]

42 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

The drugs industry is terrible for only pursuing treatment drugs rather than cures because it creates ongoing revenue (big money in cancer drugs for that reason). 

 

That's why they're not that arsed about new antibiotics, because they're a cure not a treatment. 

 

If there was an asteroid heading for earth, rather than build a missile to shoot it down, the private sector would rather sell us underground shelters and disposable masks and thermal coats for the fallout.

This is what I was trying to say a couple of nights ago and why I believe this virus will never be fully eradicated. Why fully cure something when you can just find a drug to suppress the symptoms ? Money talks for the drug companies and if a few people die along the way like they do with flu, well so what. There's a steady supply of people to take up the slack.

[Sugar Ape]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Section_31]

Downing Steeet AIDS

[johnsusername]

I don't get the opening schools first thing. 30 kids and a teacher and a TA in a classroom? School buses? Assemblies, play ground, parents dropping off kids at school? 

 

 

[cloggypop]

The events ban here looks like it is going to be extended to September 1st.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

If anyone is on Twitter, give Professor Sikora a follow.

 

Some cracking and encouraging tweets from him today:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Section_31]

But what about Norman Hunter?

[Rico1304]

1 hour ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

This is what I was trying to say a couple of nights ago and why I believe this virus will never be fully eradicated. Why fully cure something when you can just find a drug to suppress the symptoms ? Money talks for the drug companies and if a few people die along the way like they do with flu, well so what. There's a steady supply of people to take up the slack.

So now there’s a conspiracy to not find a cure for cancer?  Despite people who work in pharmaceutical companies dying from cancer.  And all the doctors and scientists are in on it? 
 

I despair.  

[Pureblood]

This is fast becoming another twitter fest thread. My scrolly thumb is hurting. 

[TheHowieLama]

@Lario

Just go here fella

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[sir roger]

25 minutes ago, TK421 said:

This is fast becoming another twitter fest thread. My scrolly thumb is hurting. 

Ooh , I didnt know they had different names , which one is your scrolly thumb ?