The Coronavirus Thread

[Hermit]

Gravity is the only truth.

Bullshit! Gravity does not exist. The world sucks.

[Brian Peacock]

Gravity is the only truth.

Gravity is a myth. What we call gravity to the upward acceleration of a flat Earth.

[Brian Peacock]

How many more laps do you intend to do with him?

Twelfty-Sevenly.

[rainbow]

Gravity is the only truth.

Gravity is a myth. What we call gravity to the upward acceleration of a flat Earth.

OK.

...but where does the turtle come into it?

[Brian Peacock]

Durr. The acceleration is powered by the farts of The Great Testudine of course. Thousands of us the Flat Earth Society know the truth. We have members all around the globe.

[Svartalf]

Gravity is the only truth.

I suppose next you'll tell us that we were evolved from monkeys.

apes actually, monkeys are a different offshoot

[Svartalf]

You can say that again...

Why are my posts repeating on me? It is worse than asparagus.

when it gets worse than celery, it's going to become serious.

[rainbow]

Gravity is the only truth.

I suppose next you'll tell us that we were evolved from monkeys.

apes actually, monkeys are a different offshoot

[Brian Peacock]

High school pupils in Scotland to wear face coverings from 31 August.

[JimC]

Tartan masks would be a nice touch...

[rainbow]

Tartan masks would be a nice touch...

...or an EU flag, with "Fuck Boris" written inside the stars.

[Scot Dutchy]

Another country admitting mistakes in its data:

Belgium death toll revised down

Belgium has revised down its Covid-19 death toll, just as it was about to pass the milestone of 10,000 fatalities.

Health authorities reviewed figures from care homes in the northern region of Flanders and found some Covid-19 deaths not reported as such, some recorded twice and some not caused by coronavirus. The net effect is a reduction of 121.

The revision brought the total fatalities to 9,878 by Wednesday. Otherwise, it would have been 9,999.

The UK government lowered England’s death toll by more than 5,000 two weeks ago after the government adopted a new method of counting fatalities.

Belgium’s Covid-19 deaths per capita are among the highest in the world and it reports a higher proportion of fatalities in care homes than other countries, including when the disease is suspected but not confirmed.

The Belgian Covid-19 taskforce spokesman and virologist Steven Van Gucht told Reuters TV the country had been hit hard.

“But if you compare Belgium with, for example, the United Kingdom or Spain you see they were actually hit even worse,” he said, adding this was reflected in “excess” mortality rates.

The number of new cases in Belgium has risen steadily from a low of about 80 per day in early July to an average of 490 for the week of 16-22 August, although numbers had been falling for 10 days.

Van Gucht said about a fifth of new infections appeared to have been caught on summer holidays. A new challenge would come from reopening schools and a public tiring of measures among the strictest in Europe.

This is a matter of prevention … This is really to avoid a problem that will only come in a few weeks or a few months.

Another country with mandatory masks.

[Tero]

For Scotty: 60 people infected by one person in Seoul Starbucks, while employees wearing KF95 masks were spared:
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/0 ... =algorithm

[Scot Dutchy]

For Scotty: 60 people infected by one person in Seoul Starbucks, while employees wearing KF95 masks were spared:
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/0 ... =algorithm

That is hard proof? How did the rest survive? South Korea is a total disaster zone.

[Tero]

It was measured! Contact tracing!