It's especially symbolic when you realize there's a meteor inside there that Muslims worship. It's as if they've suddenly fled from it because it has 'been activated'. Well, meteors are certainly active in the skies of late!This image is so weird (Deserted Streets and Public Places Amid Coronavirus Outbreak)
Consider the fact that the flu - whatever strain goes around in a given year - is a nasty sickness for anybody, and more dangerous for some. So one can't just say "oh, nothing going on here."
A flu, any flu, going around as it does each year is bad.
A new variation on colds/flu (they are all corona type viruses I understand), is cause for some concern of a usual nature, the same as every year when nobody wants to get the flu or some new variation.
But PUH-LEEEZE, what is being done with this sickness is just un-freaking-real.
How many deaths in China up to now, where it started? Under 5K??? That's a pretty poor showing for any flu. And now, their infection rate is already dropping.
I tell ya, something really weird is going on and it isn't a pandemic.
Seeing the leadership of nearly every country on the planet acting in public like complete morons is just astonishing. Are they doing this deliberately, in concert, just to see how truly dumb and programmed the public actually is?
It's pretty bizarre that so many people are so determined to find some kind of covert plot behind the spread of the virus, when a) flu-like viruses in winter are normal and b) governments are, generally speaking, pretty feckless when it comes to things like this.
It's obviously far more appealing to people to believe in either some kind of 'evil plot' by governments to spread the virus or that governments have the whole thing under control because they're so competent. The likely reality is that as far as controlling nature goes, there is no one "driving the bus" in that respect.
The major problem here seems to be a refusal by many people to reconcile themselves to the reality of the human condition and humanity's position in the cosmos and align themselves accordingly. The ironic thing is that if people were to do that, or were to be properly instructed how to do that (responsible leadership and proper spiritual teachings) they'd be in a much better position to deal with the cosmic chaos that periodically besets our planet and its population.
It's not quite a match. SARS kicked in (propaganda-wise anyway) in early 2003 (during the Iraq War build-up). The Swine Flu did so in 2009. So beware that this is tilted by US-centrism, which we see in the States from those who believe this current hoopla is being done 'to' Trump. See Joe's post above regarding ascribing agency to a largely natural phenomenon.
Scientists in Israel are expected to announce in the coming days that they have completed development of a vaccine for the new coronavirus COVID-19, according to a media report here.
Israeli daily Ha'aretz, quoting medical sources, reported on Thursday that scientists at the Israel's Institute for Biological Research, supervised by the Prime Minister's office, have recently had a significant breakthrough in understanding the biological mechanism and qualities of the virus, including bet ..
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Coronavirus, warning danger, but not the one you think.
For 30 years, from my hospital observatory, I have lived through many health crises, HIV, SARS, MERS, resurgence of tuberculosis, multi-resistant bacteria, we have managed them calmly and very effectively.
None of them have given rise to the current panic.
I have never experienced such a degree of concern for one infectious disease and indeed for any other.
And yet, I am not worried about the medical consequences of the Coronavirus. There is nothing in the current figures on mortality and the spread of the virus that justifies the global health and especially economic panic.
The measures taken are appropriate and effective and will allow the epidemic to be brought under control. This is already the case in China, the initial and by far the largest outbreak of this infectious agent, where the epidemic is now dying out.
The near future will tell if I was wrong.
However, on the other hand,
- I am concerned about the theft of masks and that those needed to protect healthcare workers and people at risk, our elderly and those already ill, especially immunocompromised patients, are distributed with zero effectiveness in airports, cafés and shopping centres.
- I am concerned about the theft of cleaning gels.
- I am concerned about the brawls to buy toilet paper and boxes of rice and pasta.
- I am concerned about the terror that leads to obscene stockpiling of food in countries where it is available in equally obscene abundance.
- I am worried for our elders who are already alone and who should no longer be seen or touched for fear of killing them. They will die faster but "only" of loneliness. We used not to visit our parents and grandparents if we had the flu, not to avoid them "just in case" and for an indefinite period of time, it is no different for the coronavirus.
- I am concerned that health is becoming an object of belligerent communication and conflict like any other, when it should be the ultimate cause of struggle in the gathering.
- I am concerned that our health care system, already in great difficulty, will soon be overwhelmed by an influx of sick people at the slightest sign of influenza-like illness. That will mean all the other illnesses that we will not be able to deal with. A myocardial infarction or appendicitis are always emergencies, a virus rarely.
The media coverage on the coronavirus is very anxiety-provoking and it contributes to everyone's panic.
This leads to the craziest conspiracy theories of the kind, "they are hiding something from us". Nothing is obscure, it is impossible in medicine in this digital world where scientific knowledge is immediate and unfiltered.
The coronavirus kills (almost) only already fragile organisms.
I am worried that this tiny living being will only reveal the immense fractures and fragilities of our societies. The deaths that will then be counted in the millions will be those of the confrontation of individuals in the total indifference of the collective interest.
Gilbert DERAY, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris