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Covid 19 virus
not1xor1:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 15, 2020, 04:44:10 am ---This age discrimination reminds me of Soylent Green. https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/italy-may-abandon-over-80s-to-their-fate-as-crisis-grows-20200315-p54a75.html
Maybe age discrimination is legal in Italy. It certainly is not in Australia except by the insurance industry. If the Chinese can build a hospital in six days, why can't the Italians?
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pure bullshit
there is no age discrimination but it is like war
when resources are limited a doctor might chose to devote them to people more likely to recover and that doesn't depend on age (a 101 old chines man fully recovered and suffered only quite mild symptoms) but on general health conditions
e.g. a 30 years old may be affected by a last stage cancer and other pathologies, while an 80 years old one may just have the virus
not1xor1:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on March 15, 2020, 11:10:59 am ---Still, making the choice of who lives and who dies based on age, is age discrimination by definition
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there is no case of age discrimination, just fake news
paulca:
--- Quote from: not1xor1 on March 15, 2020, 04:47:55 pm ---but it is like war
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The first casualty is the truth? Plausible, but we were already dealing with the mainstream press. If you want the hyperbole look there, extrapolate back to reality.
not1xor1:
--- Quote from: paulca on March 15, 2020, 04:56:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: not1xor1 on March 15, 2020, 04:47:55 pm ---but it is like war
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The first casualty is the truth? Plausible, but we were already dealing with the mainstream press. If you want the hyperbole look there, extrapolate back to reality.
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just fake news...
there are plenty of that even here...
people who speak about unlikely protective masks, unlikely remedies and so on
enough is enough
The sad truth is rather that Germany even stole a large quantity of protective masks bought from China and unboarded in Amburg just because they were in transit there and they have forbidden individual protection devices export.
The same thing happened to me.
I had ordered respiratory masks (3M aura FFP3 grade) for other purposes in mid February from Conrand. They were "soon available". But at the beginning of March they deleted my order because of the export ban.
not1xor1:
--- Quote from: vad on March 14, 2020, 08:55:17 pm ---As for expectations that the virus will become less potent with hotter weather and higher humidity... That did not work well in tropical hot Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, in warm Hong Kong, California, or in countries of Southern Hemisphere, including Australia.
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just see this:
--- Quote ---A significant number of infectious diseases display seasonal patterns in their incidence, including human coronaviruses. We hypothesize that SARS-CoV-2 does as well. To date, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has established significant community spread in cities and regions only along a narrow east west distribution roughly along the 30-50 N” corridor at consistently similar weather patterns (5-11 degrees Celsius and low specific and absolute humidity). There has been a lack of significant community establishment in expected locations that are based only on population proximity and extensive population interaction through travel. We have proposed a simplified model that shows a zone at increased risk for COVID-19 spread. Using weather modeling, it may be possible to predict the regions most likely to be at higher risk of significant community spread of COVID-19 in the upcoming weeks, allowing for concentration of public health efforts on surveillance and containment.
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