Trump says US reopening, 'vaccine or no vaccine'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52685487

Should we be worried?

I see that https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries has put in position numbers and total populations of countries now which makes for better comparisons to be made.

Russia put in another 10K+ day putting them on track to take 2nd place from Spain within 48hrs, while Brazil threw in a 15K+ day will take Italy's current 5th place from them tomorrow (based on low testing numbers Brazil could eventually knock Russia out of that 2nd place).

India, Mexico, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Egypt, Nigeria and several other African nations I'd also class as very dark horses that could shock the rest of the world.

McConnell Says He Was ‘Wrong’ to Claim That Obama Administration Left No Pandemic Plan

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-says-he-was-wrong-to-claim-that-obama-administration-left-no-pandemic-plan/ar-BB1486oH?li=BBnb7Kz
What ever Trump touches dies.

The said plan be seen in this video at 1:06,
https://www.c-span.org/video/?472141-1/president-trump-calls-dr-rick-bright-angry-disgruntled-employee

This plan was found to insufficient and a lot tougher plan was published after Trump Administration Failed Dry Run 'Crimson Contagion' Pandemic Exercise

Or so they say, as IMHO if they followed their own plan, then that failed as well.

There potentially goes out the window the herd immunity hypothesis.

And potentially any VAX.

There potentially goes out the window the herd immunity hypothesis.

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Good evidence that the coronavirus stays with people that have been infected from the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Sailors on sidelined carrier get virus for second time

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five sailors on the U.S. aircraft carrier sidelined in Guam due to a COVID-19 outbreak have tested positive for the virus for the second time and have been taken off the ship, according to the Navy.

The resurgence of the virus in the five sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt underscores the befuddling behavior of the highly contagious virus and raises questions about how troops that test positive can be reintegrated into the military, particularly on ships.

All five sailors had previously tested positive and had gone through at least two weeks of isolation. As part of the process, they all had to test negative twice in a row, with the tests separated by at least a day or two before they were allowed to go back to the ship.

The Roosevelt has been at port in Guam since late March after the outbreak of the virus was discovered. More than 4,000 of the 4,800 crew members have gone ashore since then for quarantine or isolation. Earlier this month hundreds of sailors began returning to the ship, in coordinated waves, to get ready to set sail again.

In a statement Friday, the Navy said that, while onboard, the five sailors self-monitored and adhered to strict social distancing protocols.

“These five Sailors developed influenza-like illness symptoms and did the right thing reporting to medical for evaluation,” the Navy said, adding that they were immediately removed from the ship and put back in isolation. A small number of other sailors who were in contact with them were also taken off the ship.

I'm starting to hear people locally (informed, professional, people) argue that "the abrupt lockdowns introduced by government without democratic legitimacy are too great an infringement of rights".

In other words, it is more important that they retain their freedom to continue as normal, than that other people retain their lives.

When I express support for the view that sometimes the collective 'right to life' of society as a whole outweighs the rights of any individual, they despair at my lack of respect for individual rights.

It's similar to the response you get from NRA types when you suggest that confiscating individual guns would reduce the national death toll from mass shootings.

An interesting view of the current situation that I'm starting to question less everyday....

Police State Dry Run a Huge Success
By Carol Brown
May 15, 2020

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/police-covid-19-pandemic-excuse-abuse-roma-200511134616420.html

Police are using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to abuse Roma

Police State Dry Run a Huge Success

I'm surprised you choose to include the tracking cookies in your urls.

Perhaps pay clicks? No, I'm sure he doesn't realize that everything after the ? is tracking information.

Either tracking where you got it from, or where he got it from. Makes it easier for the watchers to join the dots.

Police State Dry Run a Huge Success

I'm surprised you choose to include the tracking cookies in your urls.

Perhaps pay clicks? No, I'm sure he doesn't realize that everything after the ? is tracking information.

Another possible hope in progress....
Sorrento finds a coronavirus antibody that blocks viral infection 100% in preclinical lab experiments
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sorrento-finds-coronavirus-antibody-blocks-130034416.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb

There are several other candidates that have the same promising development as this preclinical lab experiment. Does the Genius Trump really approve to this? And what timeline are we talking about? This year? Hardly not. 2022?

It's definitely worth cautioning that no treatment or vaccine is likely to be a "magic bullet" in treating SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, but this is still a promising development, and one to watch as it undergoes clinical trials and the therapeutic development and regulatory process.

Btw. The author of article says "treating SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19". What? You treat COVID-19 and you kill SARS-CoV-2 at best. Sigh... Bad reporting!

Police State Dry Run a Huge Success

I'm surprised you choose to include the tracking cookies in your urls. This works just as well.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/police_state_dry_run_a_huge_success.html

Another possible hope in progress....

Sorrento finds a coronavirus antibody that blocks viral infection 100% in preclinical lab experiments

Darrell Etherington
TechCrunch May 15, 2020

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sorrento-finds-coronavirus-antibody-blocks-130034416.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Hmm. Let me think.

Are viruses communists?

Needed

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An interesting view of the current situation that I'm starting to question less everyday....

Police State Dry Run a Huge Success
By Carol Brown
May 15, 2020

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/police_state_dry_run_a_huge_success.html?fbclid=IwAR2QTcled6TlY54vAtRWej5D3ROeHGO24naYHEP31mze3P7GV5hJ8pl73do

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

What ever Trump touches dies.

Yes. He makes the Corona mess more worse. And he is spreading his mess to us other countries as well. Like a virus!

McConnell Says He Was ‘Wrong’ to Claim That Obama Administration Left No Pandemic Plan

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-says-he-was-wrong-to-claim-that-obama-administration-left-no-pandemic-plan/ar-BB1486oH?li=BBnb7Kz
What ever Trump touches dies.

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Hmm... Why do I think this is not true?

....because....

According to the authorities

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Question mark? I'm convinced that the Slovenian health agency doesn't agree at all. But politicians have other ideas of course.