Or it it that the Amish do not mix a lot with the general population Especially in towns and city's

 

If you were hoping for population control , you backed the wrong horse..

But with a good dose of stupidity ,
some dedicated ignorance ,
and reasonable misinformation ,
along with your conspiracy theorists
and devisive governance ,
you can probably keep it going quite a long time ,
and blame an endless list of people ,
and
kill of enough to be memorable to ,
and
go down in history ,
in a not very flattering light.

Some of us prefer to face it n fix it ,

so we're enjoying a basically normal happy life
just without overseas visitors ,
untill they come to their senses and catch up .

 

So now CNN blames China, before the election it was all Trumps fault..."most trusted name in news"...Ya right

The Wuhan files
Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19​

London — A group of frontline medical workers, likely exhausted, stand huddled together on a video-conference call as China's most powerful man raises his hand in greeting. It is February 10 in Beijing and President Xi Jinping, who for weeks has been absent from public view, is addressing hospital staff in the city of Wuhan as they battle to contain the spread of a still officially unnamed novel coronavirus.
From a secure room about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) from the epicenter, Xi expressed his condolences to those who have died in the outbreak. He urged greater public communication, as around the world concerns mounted about the potential threat posed by the new disease.
That same day, Chinese authorities reported 2,478 new confirmed cases -- raising the total global number to more than 40,000, with fewer than 400 cases occurring outside of mainland China. Yet CNN can now reveal how official documents circulated internally show that this was only part of the picture.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/asia/wuhan-china-covid-intl/index.html

 

They flip and flop and twirl like despicables.
Whatever it takes, eh?

 

LOL
the blame game is just an ongoing red herring.
It's old hat ,
and dto far beyond that initial situation ,
that all the blame for now , rests with those who didn't act.

A world monitering association gave its members the first warning at the end of December 1919 .
Interestingly the US is not a participant in that organisation , typical of its increasing isolationist ways ,
but Canada for example did , along with the majority of countries.

Then , the WHO issued a warning to Everyone on the 3rd of January.

From then on , you can revisit who knew what over the next couples of months , but after that , the writing was definitely on the wall.

The blame for any inaction and failures in the last 8 months rests totally with the people responsible in each country ,
and to varying degrees , the citizens.

The blame game now ,
is just more avoidance ,
and continuing avoidance of responsibilities.
and ,
It dose not change people's general responsibilities as good citizens either.

Poor or bad governance And stupid and or ignorant citizens
never makes for a good outcome.

One might balance out the other ,
but combined ,
they're a recipe for disaster.


As ye sow
So shall ye reap

 

And with a couple of exceptions all countries have had the same experience with Covid.
Doesn't appear anyone has figured out how to stop this thing.

 

That's right and the states is an example to us all.........of what can be achieved by a large dose of common sense, courtesy of the flat earth society with a measure of anti-maskers.

Cannot wait to hear how well the anti-vaccers are going to influence the death toll......may even move up from virtually no-one!

Thinskin

 

SWMBO just put up dirty dishes before washing them. She's doing that a lot lately...

 

Here's a perfect example of going half arsed.

On the news , the UK is lifting restrictions ,
because they've reduce daily rates to about a half what it got away to at peak.

Woop'dy'do.

Today they only had 12,330 cases recorded.

That would be the equivalent of us having
about 1,000 cases today.

But we've only had about 2,000 , all up .
Total.
in 8 months..

and many .
most in recent months were imports ,
not local transmissions ,
proven by rapid testing , and rapid gnome sequencing.

So only 12,000 cases a day ,
or only 5,000 cases a day ,
is no control at all.


With that sort of half arsed effort ,
the beast will continue on ,
rising and falling ,
probably with sesawing in and out of various verieties of restrictions ,
for many months ,
and quite possibly for several years yet , untill widespread mass vaccinations have been achieved.

AT WHAT COST ?

for there surely is a cost , to every case and every death.

They can and do calculate the costs of traffic deaths and injuries , for example ,
so eventually someone will do the same for covid.

It will be colossal.

Our biggest costs , for example , are purely because of others inactions ,
and they are mounting daily.

 

Yes they estimate that 8000 flights by boeing 747 size aircraft will be needed a lot more if you use smaller aircraft.That's to transport the vaccine for the world.

 

Don't worry about any shortage of aircraft , there's plenty of empty cruise ships all around the world , standing by to pic up the slack

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California’s governor said on Monday the state was at a “tipping point” in the COVID-19 pandemic that would soon overwhelm hospitals as political leaders nationwide turn to increasingly aggressive measures to hold back the latest surge.

Governor Gavin Newsom said he may clamp new “stay-at-home” orders on California’s roughly 40 million residents in the face of infections and hospitalizations that are still rising weeks before emergency vaccines are predicted for release.

″(California) has worked hard to prepare for a surge—but we can’t sustain the record high cases we’re seeing,” Newsom said on Twitter. “Current projections show CA will run out of current ICU beds before Christmas Eve.”

The governor told reporters discussions were underway among state health officials over the potential stay-at-home order. He expects to issue a decision in the next day or two.

Last week he ordered a daily curfew barring social gatherings and other non-essential activities across most of the state between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily.

Newsom, who has largely banned indoor dining in the state, has apologized after photos surfaced of the first-term Democrat eating dinner with 11 other people, including a prominent lobbyist, at a French restaurant near Napa. None wore masks.

More than 4.2 million new COVID-19 infections and 36,000 COVID-19 related deaths were reported across the United States in November, according to a Reuters tally. Hospitalizations are at a pandemic high and deaths the most in six months.

Nearly 93,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, up 11% from last week and double the number reported a month ago, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county public health reports.

Americans who have endured eight months of restrictions, lockdown and business closures in the face of the pandemic are pinning their hopes on vaccines developed by drug companies Pfizer Inc and Moderna that are awaiting U.S. government approval for emergency use.
VACCINES BY CHRISTMAS?
U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said Pfizer’s medication could be authorized and shipped within days of a Dec. 10 meeting of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration.

Moderna’s vaccine could follow a week later, Azar said, after the company announced on Monday it would apply for emergency authorization both in the U.S. and Europe.

“So we could be seeing both of these vaccines out and getting into people’s arms before Christmas,” Azar said on CBS’ “This Morning.”

Health officials in many states say that even after the vaccines are approved the rollout to Americans nationwide could be slowed by shortages of personal protective equipment and other factors.

The non-partisan Government Accountability Office reported on Monday that some diagnostic test kits and accompanying reagents, as well as PPE are hard to come by “due to a supply chain with limited domestic production and high global demand.”

In Los Angeles, health officials on Friday banned all public and private gatherings for at least three weeks and urged residents to stay home as much as possible.

In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday ordered all elective surgeries to cease in one county and told hospitals statewide to plan on increasing their capacity by 50% if necessary or set up and staff field hospitals.

“Hospital capacity is the top concern,” Cuomo said.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said that as of Saturday he was re-tightening the limit on most outdoor gatherings to 25 people.

Murphy, who has brought back a series of COVID-19 restrictions in recent weeks, also said all indoor youth and adult sports will be put on hold from Dec. 5 through Jan. 2, 2021, also with exemptions.

 

Over and over, these assholes go on TV admonishing us that eating in restaurants is too dangerous - then get caught eating in restaurants.

Remember CA Gov Newsom , with his Medical official pals - no masks, no distancing - lied that it was outdoors, but oops - there's a photo...

Now, L.A. Supervisor Sheila Kuehl votes to close down restaurants again, and the tape of the meeting has her going on about how unsafe it is for the servers and the patrons.

Just a few hours later, she was eating at a restaurant.

Obviously, they do not believe what they are telling the rest of us.

 

The FDA has given emergency approval and the CDC has established the protocols of who should be vaccinated first so the vaccine should start getting shipped out very shortly,


It won't be any help in the short run though when we are still setting new records for cases and have more than 2,000 deaths a day.

 

And in related news, not to be outdone by Newsom and supervisor Kuehl;

SF Mayor Attended French Laundry Dinner Party the Day After Gov Newsom (yahoo.com)
SF Mayor Attended French Laundry Dinner Party the Day After Gov Newsom

You know, it isn't the lies or the arrogance. It's the hypocrisy that sticks in the craw the most.

 

Biden’s national coronavirus strategy is starting to take shape—and it’s very different than Trump’s

https://fortune.com/2020/11/28/biden-covid-strategy-policy-coronavirus-vaccine-stimulus/

 

U.S. Surpasses Record For Coronavirus Deaths In A Single Day
More than 2,800 people died from COVID-19 in the U.S. on Wednesday, higher than the previous record of just over 2,600 dead in a single day in April.

The U.S. marked a grim milestone on Wednesday, hitting the highest number of deaths from the coronavirus in a single day since the pandemic began.

Just over 2,800 people died of COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, higher than the previous record of about 2,600 people dying one day in mid-April.

The coronavirus pandemic is surging in the U.S., with more than 13.9 million confirmed cases and more than 273,000 dead so far.

More than 100,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Hospital occupancy peaked on April 15 at 59,924. That record held until Nov. 10, when the U.S. saw 62,059 hospitalized. The number has crept steadily higher every day since.

Of the 100,226 currently hospitalized, 19,396 are in intensive care units and 6,855 are on a ventilator, according to data provided by The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project.

Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday that 180,000 more people in the U.S. could die of the virus before February.

“The reality is December and January and February are going to be rough times. I actually believe they’re going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation,” the CDC director said in a Q&A with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Redfield urged Americans to help change the course of the pandemic and reduce the rapid spread of the coronavirus by following measures that public health experts have recommended for months: social distancing, wearing masks, staying at home and gathering only in small groups outdoors rather than indoors.

The White House, meanwhile, plans to hold multiple holiday parties, even though outgoing President Donald Trump and dozens of people surrounding him, including his family members, tested positive after crowded White House events earlier this fall.

 

If someone has already posted this I apologize for not seeing it but they just completed a very interesting study testing Red Cross blood samples which proved COVID 19 was already spreading in the US in early December.

But now after the most deadly presidential incompetence in American history we finally have a vaccine that can save us IF PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO TAKE IT! Which is doubtful because Trump and many if not most of his cult members were already anti vaxxers before COVID ever came along. So sane people need go big to overcome that.

And the example they are looking to was when the first Polio vaccine came out in 1956. How could they get people to jump on it and get vaccinated? Get what was probably the most popular guy in the country to take it in. Which turned out to be Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Well now Elvis has left the building so they will have to settle for lesser celebrities. And this is a start.

Obama, Bush and Clinton Volunteer to Take Coronavirus Vaccines on Camera

 

Are we still Beating the pandemic horse .