The Coronavirus Thread

[Tero]

[Brian Peacock]

What about Covid-19 parties, like the chicken pox parties of yore our mums made us go to?

[Tero]

Yeah I have the story in the works for Kari when I get home.

[Svartalf]

What about Covid-19 parties, like the chicken pox parties of yore our mums made us go to?

don't remind me of those, one of my aunts brought her sick daughters at a family function, and I spent 3 weeks in a coma.

[laklak]

We used to have STD parties with all the siblings and cousins. Good times.

[JimC]

We used to have STD parties with all the siblings and cousins. Good times.

You would fit in perfectly in Tasmania. Can you play the banjo?

[laklak]

Accordion.

[Tero]

What about Covid-19 parties, like the chicken pox parties of yore our mums made us go to?

http://karireport.blogspot.com/2020/03/ ... e.html?m=1

There is the parody. But in truth, only 2-3% of people younger than 18 will show any signs, even if infected.

[pErvinalia]

Is it over yet?

[Tero]

No, but you can travel a bit. Not sure about Australia. When does flu peak there? Avoid travel then.

[Scot Dutchy]

The first signs of more control and monitoring.

'The new normal': China's excessive coronavirus public monitoring could be here to stay

Experts say the coronavirus has given the Chinese government a pretence for accelerating the mass surveillance

Over the last two months, Chinese citizens have had to adjust to a new level of government intrusion.

Getting into one’s apartment compound or workplace requires scanning a QR code, writing down one’s name and ID number, temperature and recent travel history. Telecom operators track people’s movements while social media platforms like WeChat and Weibo have hotlines for people to report others who may be sick. Some cities are offering people rewards for informing on sick neighbours.

Chinese companies are meanwhile rolling out facial recognition technology that can detect elevated temperatures in a crowd or flag citizens not wearing a face mask. A range of apps use the personal health information of citizens to alert others of their proximity to infected patients or whether they have been in close contact.

How many other governments will use the pretence?

[Scot Dutchy]

Of course third world countries will force people to work:

Lack of paid leave will leave millions of US workers vulnerable to coronavirus

Low-wage workers in service industries without proper medical benefits and sick leave will risk getting sick or spreading the virus

For over 30 years, Joyce Barnes has worked as a home healthcare aide in Richmond, Virginia without any paid sick days. She makes $8.25 an hour and often works through illnesses because she can’t afford to lose income from taking the time off.

“I can’t afford to miss pay so I have gone to work before several times sick as a dog, masked up so my patients wouldn’t catch what I have,” Barnes said. “Everyday I pray and I ask God to give me strength that I won’t get sick so I can keep on making it and that’s the way we have to do it.”

Last July, Barnes contracted an illness from one of her patients that caused her a stay in a hospital for over a week. She relied on family members to help with bills to make up for the income she lost from missing work, and still has to make regular monthly payments toward the thousands of dollars of medical debt she accrued, despite having health insurance.

“I have a lot of medical debt I have to pay. They had to do a test on my stomach when I was sick. That one test cost me $3,000 and I’m still paying it because I can’t afford to pay everything back,” Barnes added.

[Scot Dutchy]

[Brian Peacock]

What about Covid-19 parties, like the chicken pox parties of yore our mums made us go to?

http://karireport.blogspot.com/2020/03/ ... e.html?m=1

There is the parody. But in truth, only 2-3% of people younger than 18 will show any signs, even if infected.

Oh, I wasn't thinking about parties just for youngsters.

[Tero]

Well, they do these things. Measles is the popular one, highly contagious.

In colonial days vaccinators purposely gave the patient small pox. Some may have used a variant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastrim

George Washington had himself vaccinated. It was in Barbados when he was 19. The story has an error, it was on purpose.
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/dig ... /smallpox/