Our politicians are cowards. This whole shyt should be shut down and government checks mailed to every family. We can repair our economy but if you catch a disease and it kills you that can't be repaired.
Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic
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ultimatemike
I'm about a dollar..
need to look at countries like New Zealand that did a really hard lock down for a period of time and got it under control.
all these dikkkheads out there barking about losing their freedom and i won't wear a mask etc.. .. fukkk sake.
hard lockdown and checks. the numbers are beyond frightening at this point.. this shiiiit is changing countries and ways of life to the core.
all these dikkkheads out there barking about losing their freedom and i won't wear a mask etc.. .. fukkk sake.
hard lockdown and checks. the numbers are beyond frightening at this point.. this shiiiit is changing countries and ways of life to the core.
BK The Great
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Back to square one huh 
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ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
I'm reading Spillover by David Quammen and the Ebola section has an interesting interview with Barry Hewlett, anthropologist.
I'm reading the Italian translation so I'll try to paraphrase...
The traditional practices in Uganda in case of really "bad spirits" require the person under attack to be isolated and the movement between the attacked village and the rest limited.
Cured, if there are any, are to take care of the ill; no sexual contact with the ill is allowed; meat is not to be eaten just smoked or when got bad; traditional funeral practices get suspended...
These practices together with the intervention of the Ugandan government and CDC, Doctors without borders and WHO contributed to isolate and stop Ebola in Gulu, Uganda.
Hewlett argued that we have unfortunately lost our traditional practices tweaked during many years of evolution.
I'd add that this may be contributing to our selfishness and individualism, and helping coronavirus response in some countries...
Also, on the other hand traditional practices may be the cause of death... It depends probably on the rareness of the problem... In case of common problems and practices, like standard childbirth or breastfeeding, the traditional practices were probably able to tweak enough during the years, while the ginecological and neonatal practices in the 70s didn't get decades long proof of effectiveness and are now scaling back towards some traditional practices in the last decades...
The most important message of the book is that if we continue the deforestation and get close to more wild species, we will get more of their deseases.
I guess in time we will also rebuild our traditional practices around the new infections. Cultures that already have that will have an advantage.
I'm reading the Italian translation so I'll try to paraphrase...
The traditional practices in Uganda in case of really "bad spirits" require the person under attack to be isolated and the movement between the attacked village and the rest limited.
Cured, if there are any, are to take care of the ill; no sexual contact with the ill is allowed; meat is not to be eaten just smoked or when got bad; traditional funeral practices get suspended...
These practices together with the intervention of the Ugandan government and CDC, Doctors without borders and WHO contributed to isolate and stop Ebola in Gulu, Uganda.
Hewlett argued that we have unfortunately lost our traditional practices tweaked during many years of evolution.
I'd add that this may be contributing to our selfishness and individualism, and helping coronavirus response in some countries...
Also, on the other hand traditional practices may be the cause of death... It depends probably on the rareness of the problem... In case of common problems and practices, like standard childbirth or breastfeeding, the traditional practices were probably able to tweak enough during the years, while the ginecological and neonatal practices in the 70s didn't get decades long proof of effectiveness and are now scaling back towards some traditional practices in the last decades...
The most important message of the book is that if we continue the deforestation and get close to more wild species, we will get more of their deseases.
I guess in time we will also rebuild our traditional practices around the new infections. Cultures that already have that will have an advantage.
BK The Great
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Rickdogg44
RIP Charmander RIP Kobe
this is wrong on so many levels 1. "Criminals" people being used/risk their life to do the dirty work. I hope their sentences reduced significantly for this.
2. Just lock the fukk down for two weeks. Get a stimmy out. Everyone buy ps5 and chill the fukk out for two damn weeks. Two weeks isn't that tough
BK The Great
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1. "Criminals" people being used/risk their life to do the dirty work. I hope their sentences reduced significantly for this.
2. Just lock the fukk down for two weeks. Get a stimmy out. Everyone buy ps5 and chill the fukk out for two damn weeks. Two weeks isn't that tough
They always treated inmates like their lives never mattered. I'm not surprised anymore by anything going on. This virus done exposed so many negative things for the world to see.
BK The Great
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So what's the point of taking this thing?
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It will reduce numbers.. allow vaccinated "low risk" people more freedom. Personally I don't think it is a quick fix.