EPTMonkey pox shouldn't be a problem if it's the same as it has been for decades but I expect fox news to fear monger it into the next covid any day now. Don't spend much time on it for now.
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Sermokala
United States14187 Posts
Monkey pox shouldn't be a problem if it's the same as it has been for decades but I expect fox news to fear monger it into the next covid any day now. Don't spend much time on it for now. | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4438 Posts
WHO just convened an emergency meeting about it : https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/monkeypox-virus-infection-case-symptoms-live-uk-b2083515.html?amp WHO will convene a group of leading experts at a meeting to discuss the ongoing outbreak today, according to The Telegraph . The newspaper said it was believed the main topics of discussion would be how the virus is being spread, the unusually high prevalence in gay and bisexual men, and the vaccination situation | ||
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Lmui
Canada6223 Posts
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Sermokala
United States14187 Posts
From everything I've seen it's not a society breaking event kike covid was going to to be if we knew what we should have known. | ||
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Magic Powers
Austria4478 Posts
https://bnonews.com/monkeypox/ According to experts, a major cause of this sharp rise is likely the fact that very few people have any immunity against smallpox, because vaccination against smallpox (which had a sterilizing effect on the virus) mostly ended in the 70's. This means we have roughly 50 years of unvaccinated people who were born since smallpox was officially eradicated. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01421-8 A sterilizing vaccine exists. Update May 24th: Since the 21st, confirmed cases have increased from 92 to 176, and total (incl. suspected) cases have increased from 120 to 260. The number of affected countries has increased from 12 to 18. Update May 27th: Confirmed cases 333. Total cases 375. Countries 22. No deaths yet. Update May 30th: Confirmed cases 424. Total cases 497. Countries 28. No deaths. I'm posting this edit to keep track of the rate of increase. Will be updating the comment every so often. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4438 Posts
That said though it’s well past time for Canada to remove those vaccination entry requirements as countries all over the world are doing.And even in Australia there was never a requirement to be vaccinated to get on a public train.Such things you could expect to see in communist China, shame to see Canada become so extreme. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4438 Posts
On May 27 2022 11:08 JimmiC wrote: Tons of countries had vaccination requirements before covid. Id bet its still a super popular policy, seems pretty democratic to me. Weren’t those vaccines actually effective at stopping transmission though? Like the yellow fever jab.One dose, lifelong immunity. Have you had your fourth covid jab yet? | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Geisterkarle
Germany3257 Posts
Also why did nobody point out, that most farm animals are tagged with a GPS? So the vaccination is useless there!  | ||
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pmh
1416 Posts
There is a few exceptions but in general you can not go to the EU from the UK for a short visit. Because the UK is classified as a high risk country. It makes little sense,the situation in the UK is not really different from anywhere else in the EU. We dropped all masks and we dont really test anymore (only vulnerable people are recommanded to get an official test). Planes fly from UK to EU and back all the time,hundreds of flights a day probably. Yet you still can not visit the EU from the UK if you are unvaccinated. Why is this? | ||
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Artisreal
Germany9235 Posts
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pmh
1416 Posts
She just doesnt want the vaccine and at this point i can not blame her. She is below 40 and in excelent health condition. Why cant she just take a test and come for a visit? I could understand the requierement if we still tried to slow down the virus. Lockdowns,digital certificates and all that. But all that is gone,we are not trying to slow down the virus at all and hunderds of planes fly every day without tests,masks or whatever. Border patrol doesnt check for them (i called customs at the airport to ask if they check people for test or vaccination status and they said they didnt). I guess she could just go and nothing would happen but we are the type of people that dont want to do anything illegal so that is kinda where it ends. Its not even the requierement that bothers me,its the inconsistency of everything. | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4438 Posts
China is planning on keeping it's Covid Zero strategy going for years.They want testing booths within a 15 minute walk for anyone in a big city with negative tests required up to every 48 hours to do basic tasks like ride a subway. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-31/china-plans-for-years-of-covid-zero-with-tests-on-every-corner After a bruising lockdown in Shanghai and severe curbs in Beijing were needed to halt the spread of Covid-19, China is doubling down on mass-testing in a move that’s dashing hopes for a shift away from its costly Covid Zero strategy. A network of tens of thousands of lab testing booths are being set up across the country’s largest and most economically vital cities, with the goal of having residents always just a 15 minute walk away from a swabbing point. The infrastructure will allow cities like Beijing, Shanghai, tech hub Shenzhen and e-commerce heartland Hangzhou to require tests as often as every 48 hours, with negative results needed to get on the subway or even enter a store. The booths, solid though quickly made, will be ubiquitous in urban centers with at least 10 million residents, part of a seamless process designed to feed test results into popular smartphone apps such as Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat or Alipay, the payment app from Ant Group Co, in just a few hours. Some 420 million people live in cities and towns that have committed to routine Covid tests, according to data compiled by Soochow Securities Co. The intent is to root out silent chains of transmission before the virus has a chance to spread widely in the community. But it will also make testing an inescapable part of everyday life for hundreds of millions of Chinese city dwellers. | ||
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8916 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27268 Posts
On June 02 2022 01:10 JimmiC wrote: Does China need to disguise a surveillance program? It is pretty open that they have a massive one and monitor and curate the internet as well. Haha aye, it’s the equivalent of having a van with ‘FBI’ parked outside your house for a few weeks. Not exactly news! If you untethered it from the genuinely insidious social credit stuff, such mechanisms would be bloody useful. Tracking something like a pandemic being near enough the number 1 application. But other things too like building more efficient transport infrastructure, if you had the data of everyone’s travel patterns. Anonymising that data is hardly impossible, but us Westerners seem to instinctively recoil from that | ||
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Sermokala
United States14187 Posts
Zero-covid would be forcing everyone into their homes and do something crazy like screw the doors shut and create welded cages to keep them in. Would be crazy if they had drones flying overhead taking pictures of people screaming at night when they think its safe and playing "control your hearts desire for freedom" all the time when people are trying to sleep. | ||
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Magic Powers
Austria4478 Posts
No deaths yet. https://bnonews.com/monkeypox/ The last outbreak in the US in 2003 affected only 47 people and was contained. They're currently at 19 cases, while the UK is at 196 cases. The spread is likely going to continue and it has potential to infect any demographic. The incubation period of monkeypox is 7-14 days or 5-21 days. | ||
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