Quote from: Snowcrash on April 09, 2020, 19:01:09 PM
Am I the only one who feels like they're on a film set for 28 days later?
Haven't seen any zombies yet.
Over 25% of the world population is in lock down, weird times.

For me it's Resident Evil  

A large group of economists say the US is in a recession,  I spent twice as much for a loaf of bread because the store brand wasn't on the shelf.  Food prices keep increasing, for what ever reason the aisles are now one one way, I'd have to say the shelves are better stocked though. 
Carl2

Here's a link to the world figures. Grim reading. Note that cases are only from hospitals, so most mild cases (upto 80%) are not reported. Not all deaths are reported, I know UK only reports hospital deaths not nursing homes, I believe others do similar. China is either under reporting or knows something they're not telling.

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

"More Coronavirus Cases Linked To Biogen Meeting At Boston "  "How Biogen Became a Coronavirus Superspreader"    Biogen was doing research in a new drug for Alzheimer's and had some top members In Europe and other countries, these top member returned to the US, held meetings and dinners Then realized they had the virus.  As far as I know that is how the virus was spread to the US.
A Biogen management meeting held in Boston in late February has spawned 108 confirmed or presumptive positive cases of the novel coronavirus—and has now led to a criminal investigation. Monday
Carl2

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Hope springs eternal.

Wiki has a site with the virus progression in the US, for me it seems to be a good reliable source of info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_the_United_States

Carl2

London on Tuesday...

I had heard the virus was related to bats and I looked for bats and covid-19 on you tube, it seems they have groups of people capturing bats to look at viruses they carry and collect data about the viruses and keep track of them.  Quite a few viruses can be carried by them.  I looked further into this and found a video on   Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus or the Covid-19 virus.  Pretty long film but very interesting.  I never knew that China was run by the communist .


Carl2

The United States has the world's highest death toll.   UK now has world's third-highest COVID-19 death toll.   They have shut down a few stores in Worcester because people working in the store had the virus.
The state has said it will respond slowly lifting bans to avoid having the virus start another upswing.
  Two Massachusetts hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital and UMass Memorial, helped put the experimental drug Remdesivir to the test against COVID-19 and it seems to show promise.
Carl2

Just an FYI, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, China and Vietnam are the current Communist countries in the world. Several others have been under communist rule at different points in time but these are the current 5.

Art, Thanks for putting that in, haven't keep up on the on Communist countries for ages.  Looks like there are a lot of countries that would like to sue China including the US.  I hope they will be able to get a vaccine for the virus.
Carl2

I came across another video    "Chinese lab conducted extensive research on deadly bat viruses, but there is no evidence of accidental release"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinese-lab-conducted-extensive-research-on-deadly-bat-viruses-but-there-is-no-evidence-of-accidental-release/ar-BB13rxpf?ocid=msedgdhp

What is real and what is not real?
Carl2

There seems a lot of press to say this virus was made in a lab. At the moment I feel this is politically driven and not "fact".
This virus is named either SARS-CoV-2 or 2019-nCoV. The names come from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Corona Virus 2 or 2019 novel Corona Virus. The disease it causes is CoViD-19 which comes from Corona Virus Disease 2019.
Found this report from 10-12 March.

QuoteThe study did find that SARS-CoV-2—referred to by its former name 2019-nCoV in the report—has a similar genome sequence to other coronaviruses. However, it also has a noticeable difference in the form of a "peculiar furin-like cleavage site" which has not been seen in other coronaviruses.

Furin is a protein found in humans and animals which can be exploited by viruses like coronavirus, HIV and Ebola to help them spread by activating the proteins which hold the virus, and are contained in "cleavage sites".     

The study said the "furin-like cleavage site" in SARS-CoV-2 "may provide a gain-of-function to the 2019-nCov for efficient spreading in the human population" compared to other coronaviruses.

In simple terms, this means that the presence of this site in the virus could be the reason why it is infecting so many people. However, the study makes absolutely no suggestion that the virus has been "genetically engineered" to cause this.

I don't go for conspiracy theories but China does seem somewhat complicit in allowing international flights to spread the virus while locking down internal flights.

I still feel Trump is making outbursts to further his political aims.

But this could be the beginning of germ war 3

Besides the video there is also written statements that people from the US and other countries visited the labs,  also Biogen a US company was in China and brought back the virus to the US.  Quite a few companies in different countries do research in Biowarfare since it costs less than making and moving bombs around.  Guess I'll just say here we are creating viruses to destroy the enemy when even back in the days of Christ we wanted Peace.
Carl2