USA #1!

[Xavier]

Few days old, quick take away China did the world a disservice.

Almost no stats from them have any useful purpose.

Initial tests for awhile could show a false negative 30-50% of the time.

Mainly only hospitalized extreme patients showing symptoms were tested. That's leaves little to no info on asymptomatic patients.

I would never have trusted their casualty count in the first place.

Yeah that 21 million lost cellular subscriber # other people have referenced is scary.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...onavirus-patients-test-negative-then-positive

Mystery In Wuhan: Recovered Coronavirus Patients Test Negative ... Then Positive

March 27, 20209:28 AM ET

 

[norton9478]

Put on your Stephen Miller or Sebastian Gorka or Steve Bannon hat, and tell me about the potential impact of a racial-religiously neutral order to ignore large crowds during a pandemic in a state with one of the largest muslim enclaves in the nation?

I don't follow.

 

[Xavier]

I don't follow.

Don't worry me either, I hope he hasn't boughten into that one urban myth that cocaine cures coronavirus.

Anyways hey at least we arn't these guys:
I forgot about them recently when I wondered how are some of these countries like North Korea are handling this.

The Coronavirus Crisis
Turkmenistan Has Banned Use Of The Word 'Coronavirus'

The Central Asian country of Turkmenistan claims it has no coronavirus cases. But if you happen to utter the word "coronavirus" while waiting, say, for the bus in the white-marbled capital Ashgabat, there's a good chance you'll be arrested.

That's because the Turkmen government, run since 2006 by the flamboyant dentist-rapper strongman Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has reportedly banned the word, according to Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Citing reports from Chronicles of Turkmenistan, which RSF describes as a rare independent media outlet in this notoriously secretive and restrictive country, the press freedom organization says Berdymukhamedov's government has forbidden state-controlled media from writing or uttering the word and has ordered its removal from health brochures distributed at hospitals, schools and workplaces.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondents in Ashgabat report that plainclothes police officers are also arresting people who wear face masks or discuss the pandemic in public.

"This denial of information not only endangers the Turkmen citizens most at risk, but also reinforces the authoritarianism imposed by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov," Jeanne Cavelier, the head of Reporters Without Borders' Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk, said in a statement. "We urge the international community to react and to take him to task for his systematic human rights violations."

Turkmenistan's neighbor to the south, Iran, is one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus. Other neighboring countries in Central Asia have hundreds of confirmed cases.

Turkmenistan is ranked last in RSF's World Press Freedom Index. It's a place where speaking out is punished and where the government frequently shuts down the country for no reason, says Alexander A. Cooley, director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and an expert on Central Asian politics.

"Banning the term 'coronavirus' might seem to us obscene and extreme," Cooley says. "But in reality, when the state controls all of the media and all of the digital nodes coming in and out, it's not that outrageous. My sense is that they'll try and keep [the pandemic] under wraps as long as they can."

Cooley says the government likely anticipates a big post-pandemic economic collapse in a country highly reliant on the sale of natural gas to China.

"That probably spurred the government on to this new kind of more denialist type of posture," he says.

Berdymukhamedov doesn't want to look weak, he says, because he "portrays himself very much as a superman of all trades, the one in charge, the one to be revered and listened to."

Before banning talk of the pandemic, Berdymukhamedov had reportedly offered remedies to battle the virus from a book he authored on medicinal plants.

Current State --- YouTube video

Classic Youtube video:

 

[evil wasabi]

Don't worry me either, I hope he hasn't boughten into that one urban myth that cocaine cures coronavirus.

By exempting churches in muslim majority areas from the gathering restriction, it looks like an implicitly biased attempt to spread the virus in the muslim community.

 

[Xavier]

By exempting churches in muslim majority areas from the gathering restriction, it looks like an implicitly biased attempt to spread the virus in the muslim community.

That's possible, it's also possible that you shouldn't get in the way of Muslims and their religion. It'd be almost as bad if you if you took away the Christian rights guns and Bibles. They shut down the Hajj months ago shocking the world, hopefully local leaders are making sensible decisions as well.

Yeah the virus is known to target the elderly, reporters yesterday at the press briefing kept complaining that Florida currently has some of the weakest restrictions in the country right now.

https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...vernor-despite-criticism-of-coronavirus-respo

 

[LoneSage]

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Turkmenistan is such a batshit crazy country, it's like North Korea in a desert setting. Would've loved to visit but looks like that's never going to happen now.

 

[evil wasabi]

That's possible, it's also possible that you shouldn't get in the way of Muslims and their religion. It'd be almost as bad if you if you took away the Christian rights guns and Bibles. They shut down the Hajj months ago shocking the world, hopefully local leaders are making sensible decisions as well.

Yeah the virus is known to target the elderly, reporters yesterday at the press briefing kept complaining that Florida currently has some of the weakest restrictions in the country right now.

https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...vernor-despite-criticism-of-coronavirus-respo

Florida is the Turkmenistan of America.

 

[norton9478]

I see what wasabi was saying. I somehow missed the post about michigan.

Law or no law, packed churches are crazy.

 

[norton9478]

Berdymukhamedov doesn't want to look weak, he says, because he "portrays himself very much as a superman of all trades, the one in charge, the one to be revered and listened to."

If you watch the WH press conferences, the VP always acts like the social distancing guidelines set out by the white house were all Trump's idea.

 

[basic]

I see what wasabi was saying. I somehow missed the post about michigan.

Law or no law, packed churches are crazy.

God bestows upon people common sense. They just choose to ignore it.

 

[Shackleford]

 

[Xavier]

1 million confirmed cases
57,000 deaths

 

[Tripredacus]

Maybe we shouldn't have ramped up testing.

 

[Xavier]

Maybe we shouldn't have ramped up testing.

Maybe we should ramp up testing X6-10