05-17-2020, 04:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-17-2020, 04:44 PM by Firestarter.)
(05-16-2020, 02:43 PM)Steve Wrote: Covid-19: the war against the elderly in uncaring "care" homesThe link doesn't return an article...
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/covid-1...e-homespun
While I don’t agree with the lockdown measures, I have to agree that if people stay at home, they cannot possibly become infected with any coronavirus (unless of course they don’t practise social distancing with visitors)...
If people get hospitalised that have carefully followed the stay at home orders, it’s obvious that their hospitalisation had nothing to do with a virus.
Data from 100 New York hospitals involving about 1,000 patients shows that 66% of new admissions for COVID-19 were people who had largely been sheltering at home. The second highest source of admissions was from nursing homes, 18%, who I’d also expect to follow the social distancing guidelines.
Instead of easing the lockdown, as this apparently doesn’t prevent so-called COVID-19 hospitalisations, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo commented:
Quote:This is a surprise: Overwhelmingly, the people were at home. We thought maybe they were taking public transportation, and we’ve taken special precautions on public transportation, but actually no, because these people were literally at home.
Governor Cuomo also said that contrary to expectations only a small percentage of “essential employees” that were still going to work, like health-care workers or city staff, were hospitalised: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/ny-gov-c...-home.html
President Donald has announced that the US army will be mobilised to distribute more than 300 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year.
Of course in such a short amount of time, no proper scientific experiment can be done to prove that the vaccine actually prevents the disease or ensure that the vaccine doesn’t cause serious adverse effects.
To head Operation Warp Speed (for the fast-track a COVID-19 vaccine), President Donald has appointed the Moroccan-born Dr. Moncef Slaoui as Chief Adviser and General Gustave Perna as the Chief Operation Officer.
Moncef Slaoui is the former chairman of GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccines division.
When he was chairman of GSK’s vaccines division, it developed the malaria vaccine Mosquirix, funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
GlaxoSmithKline is also working on a COVID-19 vaccine.
After leaving GSK, Slaoui has taken on executive roles at several other biotech firms, including companies that receive funds to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
Moncef Slaoui has earned $490,000 as a board member at Moderna, Inc. that has received part of the billions of dollars bonanza to develop a gene-altering COVID-19 vaccine.
Slaoui is also a director of the Swiss Lonza Group AG that is working with Moderna on a Covid-19 vaccine.
Slaoui is also a partner at Medicxi, that invests in pharmaceutical industry, and sits on the board of companies that Medicxi has invested in, including as chairman of the board at biotech medical firm Galvani Bioelectronics.
Galvani Bioelectronics was started in 2016 with funding from GSK and Google and specialises in bioelectronic “medicines” – implantable electronic devices labelled a new class of “medicines” consisting of miniaturised: https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/trump-...y-advisor/
On 22 March, the UK government released the following document (“prepared” by SAGE’s behavioural science sub-group SPI-B) detailing how to achieve that the herd will become even more obedient.
Quote:There are nine broad ways of achieving behaviour change: Education, Persuasion, Incentivisation, Coercion, Enablement, Training, Restriction, Environmental restructuring, and Modelling (2, 3). We have focused on those that are most relevant for this task and where there is evidence to draw on.https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk...032020.pdf
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A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened; it could be that they are reassured by the low death rate in their demographic group (8), although levels of concern may be rising (9). Having a good understanding of the risk has been found to be positively associated with adoption of COVID-19 social distancing measures in Hong Kong (10). The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging. To be effective this must also empower people by making clear the actions they can take to reduce the threat (11).
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Social approval can be a powerful source of reward. Not only can this be provided directly by highlighting examples of good practice and providing strong social encouragement and approval in communications; members of the community can be encouraged to provide it to each other. This can have a beneficial spill-over effect of promoting social cohesion (15). Communication strategies should provide social approval for desired behaviours and promote social approval within the community.
(http://archive.is/4X3ME)
The Order of the Garter rules the world: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5549#p5549