After WHO called c-19 a pandemic they were quick to say that a pandemic is defined by spread, not by severity.

 

I like both of you.

I am the Master of Facts,
the Teller of Truths,
the Font of Wisdom,
the Friend of the Friendless,
and the Defender of the Defenseless.

When the wicked hear the name "Distant Lover," they tremble with fear. Their victims sigh with relief.

 

A good investment for a hoax


Moderna plans to sell more than $1 billion in fresh stock after COVID-19 vaccine study success
By Jeremy C. Owens
Published: May 18, 2020 4:32 pm ET
After announcing positive results of a study of its potential COVID-19 vaccine and seeing shares jump 20% to record highs Monday, Moderna Inc. MRNA+19.96% announced after trading closed that it will sell more than $1 billion in fresh shares. Moderna said it plans to sell $1.25 billion worth of stock to fund manufacturing and distribution of its vaccine candidate, referred to as mRNA-1273, if it can receive regulatory approvals. Moderna announced Monday morning that a phase 1 study of its vaccine was able to produce COVID-19 antibodies, and the company has laid out plans for phase 2 and phase 3 trials in the coming months. Shares closed at a record high of $80 Monday, up more than 300% from the beginning of the year, though the stock sank 2.8% in after-hours trading Monday after Moderna announced the impending arrival of new shares. Morgan Stanley is leading the offering,

and Moderna expects to offer an additional $187.5 million in shares for overallotment.

 

There’s a pandemic?

 

I saw these results......the vaccines evoked anti-covid 19 antibodies but there was no T-cell activation.

Thinskin

 

China finally pulling their finger out over wet meat markets!

Ancient Chinese medcine has a lot to answer for but the authorities need to be careful not to drive this trade undrground!

From the Guardian.....

Farmers in China are being offered cash to stop breeding exotic animals as pressure grows to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade that has been blamed for the coronavirus outbreak.

Authorities have for the first time pledged to buy out breeders in an attempt to curb the practice, animal rights activists say.

China has in recent months banned the sale of wild animals for food, citing the risk of diseases spreading to humans, but the trade remains legal for other purposes including research and traditional medicine.

The deadly coronavirus – first reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan – is widely believed to have passed from bats to people before spreading worldwide.

Two central provinces have outlined details of a buyout programme to help farmers transition to alternative livelihoods.

Hunan on Friday set out a compensation scheme to persuade breeders to rear other livestock, or produce tea and herbal medicines.

Authorities are offering to pay 120 yuan ($16) per kilogram of cobra, king rattlesnake or rat snake, while a kilogram of bamboo rat will fetch 75 yuan.

A civet cat – the animal believed to have carried Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) to humans in another coronavirus outbreak nearly two decades ago – is worth 600 yuan.

Neighbouring Jiangxi province has also released documents on plans to help farmers dispose of animals and financial aid.

Both Jiangxi and Hunan border Hubei, the province where the coronavirus first emerged in December.

Animal rights group Humane Society International (HSI) said Hunan and Jiangxi are “major wildlife breeding provinces”, with Jiangxi seeing a rapid expansion of the trade over the last decade.

Revenues from breeding reached 10bn yuan in 2018, it said.

HSI China policy specialist Peter Li told AFP that similar plans should be rolled out across the country.

But he cautioned that Hunan’s proposals leave room for farmers to continue breeding exotic creatures as long as the animals are not sent to food markets. The province’s plan also does not include many wild animals bred for fur, traditional Chinese medicine or entertainment.

Li said Chinese authorities are nevertheless moving in the right direction.

In the past 20 years, a lot of people have been telling the Chinese government to buy out certain wildlife breeding operations, for example bear farming.

This is the first time that the Chinese government actually decided to do it, which opens a precedent... (for when) other production needs to be phased out.

Thinskin

 

A summary from the Guardian as of two hours ago......

Summary

• Global cases pass 4.8 million. There are 4,805,005 confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The death toll stands at 318,534. US deaths, the highest worldwide, passed 90,000, and the number of cases climbed above 1.5m, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
• Trump threatens to make WHO funding freeze ‘permanent’. Late on Monday evening, Donald Trump tweeted a letter addressed to World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus saying that if the WHO “does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider our membership of the organization”. The letter does not detail what the improvements are.
• WHO chief promises review of coronavirus response. Before Trump’s letter was released, the World Health Organization said on Monday that an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible . A resolution drafted by the European Union calling for an independent evaluation of the WHO’s performance appeared to have won consensus backing among the WHO’s 194 states. The motion is expected to be voted on on Tuesday.
• Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine. After the US president told reporters at the White House that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, his doctor released a letter confirming that they had discussed the use of the drug and “concluded the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks”. A White House spokesperson told the New York Times that Trump was prescribed the drug and is taking it. The US Food and Drug Administration has cautioned against use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for Covid-19 outside of a hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems.
• Brazil cases overtake UK to become third-highest worldwide. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Brazil stands at 255,368, according to Johns Hopkins University figures, making the country the third-worst affected in terms of cases.There are 16,792 officially confirmed deaths in Brazil, which is lower than the UK, Italy, Spain and France.
• IMF chief says full economic recovery unlikely in 2021. The global economy will take much longer to recover fully from the shock caused by the new coronavirus than initially expected, the head of the International Monetary Fund said, and she stressed the danger of protectionism. Managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the IMF was likely to revise downward its forecast for a 3% contraction in GDP in 2020, but gave no details. That would likely also trigger changes in the fund’s forecast of a partial recovery of 5.8% in 2021.
• Deaths in Australia reach 100. The death toll in Australia has reached 100, following the death of a 93-year-old woman who had been diagnosed with Covid-19.The woman had been a resident at Newmarch House, the care home in western Sydney that has been the site of a cluster of cases.
• India cases pass 100,000. The number of confirmed cases in India has passed 100,000, standing at 100,328 according to Johns Hopkins University figures.The country has recorded 3,156 deaths. The government this week extended a nationwide lockdown to the end of May, but with significantly reduced restrictions, including allowing markets and standalone shops can reopen from Monday, with social distancing measures. Inter and intra-state road travel resumed with the agreement of states, but air travel, both domestic and international is still banned.

Thinskin

 

Captain Disinfectantgate has given WHO a 30 day ultimatum..................it is difficult to lend any cridibility to a guy who suggested drinking Domestos and is self medicating with an unproven medication........still he has 30 million doses of the stuff he needs to get rid of somehow!

Trump threatens permanent freeze of WHO funding, review of U.S. membership

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...unding-review-of-u-s-membership-idUSKBN22V0B0

Thinskin

 

Here is another very good idea the US is borrowing from the Netherlands.........your welcome guys!

Exclusive: CDC plans sweeping COVID-19 antibody study in 25 metropolitan areas

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-study-in-25-metropolitan-areas-idUSKBN22U2TZ

Thinskin

 

Nice graphic from Reuters showing the state of play regards covid-19 in all of the states in the US.......updated yesterday!

https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-TRENDS/dgkvlgkrkpb/

Thinskin

 

Has anyone seen a graph or a map that only lists the ACTIVE cases? I see maps and graphs all the time that show the total number of cases but I don't think I have seen one that shows the number of recoveries.

 

Try worldometers.......they list active cases per state or per country!

Thinskin

 

US to keep WHO funding freeze in place after WH investigation
By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News

President Trump released a blistering letter late Monday to the head of the World Health Organization, stating that his administration conducted an investigation that confirmed the health body’s multiple failures in the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, and warned that his current funding freeze will become permanent if the organization does not make “substantive” improvements within 30 days.


“It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world,” he wrote in the letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China.”



The White House has insisted that Beijing downplayed the virus' threat in December, which led to the subsequent outbreak. China has denied the charge.

Trump announced in April that the U.S. would halt funding to the organization. He said at the time that his administration would undertake a 60-to-90 day investigation into why the "China-centric" WHO had caused "so much death" by "severely mismanaging and covering up" the coronavirus' spread, including by making the "disastrous" decision to oppose travel restrictions on China.

The U.S. was the WHO's largest single donor. Trump said the United States contributes roughly $400 to $500 million per year to WHO, while China offers only about $40 million.



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This is the letter sent to Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization. It is self-explanatory!






The letter offers a bullet-point list of shortcomings at the agency that Trump claimed could have been prevented under the right leadership.

The WHO “consistently ignored credible reports of the virus” in December 2019. By the end of that month, it was clear at the organization that the virus was a “major health concern.” Taiwanese authorities told health officials at the organization about human-to-human transmission, but that revelation was not shared with the international community.


Trump’s letter stated that International Health Regulations require countries to report the “risk of a health emergency within 24 hours.”

The letter laid the blame squarely on China and the WHO for weeks of non-action. The health body even accused U.S. travel restrictions to the country in late February of causing “more harm than good.”


“By the time you finally declared the virus a pandemic on March 11, 2020, it had killed more than 4,000 people and infected more than 100,000 people in at least 114 countries,” the letter read.


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Trump's letter comes as Democrats criticize the White House for not taking the virus seriously from the outset.

Dr. Rick Bright, a whistleblower who ran the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, blamed the Trump administration for its own slow response to the pandemic and said the administration was instead worried about politics instead of science.

Trump has dismissed Bright's charges and has indicated that he is a disgruntled employee with a political bent.



The WHO bowed to calls Monday from most of its member states to launch an independent probe into how it managed the international response to the coronavirus pandemic that has killed over 300,000 people and leveled the global economy.

 

Also from worldometer from whom I get most of the data I report. That and Johns Hopkins (that fly by night medical resource)



Seems like humans are doing more than fine.

 

Consider this...........we critisize the Chinese wet markets as unhygienic and a potential virus factory........quite rightly in my opinion but we also need to look at our own meat production!

If we take the transmission of the virus through meat packaging plants in the US and now in Germany, as was reported on the Dutch news this morning, as a measure of how clean and hygienic these plants are then they fail miserably!

Clean and sterile working should be paramount in these plants but we have processing lines of people standing next to each other and poor hygienic protocols have led to the virus sweeping through meat processing plants which should be amongst the cleanest and most sterile activities in our food chain and they are plainly not so!

Therefore we may be on very shaky ground criticizing the Chinese when our own plants are a hot bed of infection due to bad practices!

Thinskin

 

Still waiting @thinskin. What have you contributed financially to to help stop human suffering and I have given you time to refine YOUR lies and note that I did not need to consult the person you libel with the name “shitter”. I’ve done plenty to help others. Both financially and by raising awareness of the REAL sources of human suffering in this world other than this bullshit disease. WHAT have you done to practically help anyone other than to increase public attention to yourself???!!!

 

Un-fucking-believable
You create a sock named @NicoleDeLint and argue with me for months then disappear.
Now you have a penis and call yourself @cirdellin .
You have the audacity to call others liars and tell us all about your life experiences that are identical to @NicoleDeLint ,except for the penis.
Your problem isn't being stupid. It's thinking that everyone else is. Do you really expect anyone to take you at your word about anything?
You can deny this all you like but it's all here on the record for anyone that would like to decide for themselves.

 

However you draw the line now as......let them die as I cannot afford my gambling habit.........seems to be your ethos right now!

Thinskin

 

Magic 8 ball says: “All signs point to yes.”

 

As many others have pointed out one of the biggest problems is countries lying about what is really happening.

Nicaragua's 'express burials' hide true COVID-19 scale: Doctors
Nicaragua has confirmed 25 cases and eight deaths, but rights groups and experts believe the numbers are far higher.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...e-covid-19-scale-doctors-200519145757104.html