#coronavirus spread

[macmanx]

The tests can be ordered on COVIDtests.gov and will start to ship the week of Dec. 19, a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call. The government is urging people to test themselves when they have symptoms, and before visiting with family.

#covid19 #coronavirus #get tested #stop the spread #usa

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).

my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying

#yall can reblog this #for those of you touting community care or progressive values or allyship to marginalised communities #i better see y’all masking #it goes without saying that if you can’t mask then my saying mask up does not apply to you #but for the people who can mask please do so to protect yourself and others #masking up also protects people who aren’t able to mask #I’m just so tired of being told that death to a virus that is preventable via masking and air filtration and proper testing availability to #prevent spread by allowing people to stop their chain of transmission #is just. fine. like all these people will die and apparently that’s fine and actually a great thing #also. with one or two covid infections formerly healthy people enter vulnerable groups. because the studies coming out right now and #what we know about long term sars1 effects (because covid is not a cold or flu. it’s sars2. it’s severe accuse respiratory syndrome) #are showing that the long term effects on the bodies of people who have had covid will be disasterous #and if covid had been properly felt with then maybe only some people would be facing that reality. but the amount of people who have been #infected not just once but multiple times. with some people having close to double digit numbers of infections. means that the amount of #people looking at sars2 long term symptoms could be quite a large group #coronavirus #my post

[nando161mando]

Who are you protecting?

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #covid #covid19

#occupationalhealthandsafety #health #safety #covid19 #covid 19 #long covid #covid isn't over #covid #coronavirus #corona virus #corona vaccine #covid is airborne #covid is still a thing #keep masks in healthcare #mask up #wear a mask #covid is spreading rapidly in deer – and mutating as it goes #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #virus #pandemic #germs

[a-star-that-fell]

opens twitter

“MERS at the world cup”

closes twitter

#jules speaks #babe wake up time for your nightly dose of Despair #i was just talking to my co about how covid has completely altered the landscape of our generation #aaaand now theres an even deadlier version of it about to spread. nice. good fucking night #coronavirus blogging #negative #current events

[birdsintheory]

FREE covid test kits for people living in the US! Ends TOMORROW (3/8/2024)

#Covid #covid 19 #covid testing #Covid test #free #healthcare #coronavirus #mask up #please share #spread the word #free healthcare

[banner123]

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[keytoinfo]

Coronavirus - Symptoms of COVID-19 and How to Prevent It

Coronavirus – Symptoms of COVID-19 and How to Prevent It

Is Coronavirus Is A Type of virus A coronavirus is a type of virus that causes various illnesses, from respiratory infections to pneumonia. Known as COVID-19, this virus is airborne, making it easy to spread from person to person. The symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to those of the common cold, but they are more serious and can lead to pneumonia if not treated early. COVID-19 is a new type of…

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#Can Covid-19 Be Preventable With Vaccines #Coronavirus - Symptoms of COVID-19 and How to Prevent It #COVID-19 is a new type of coronavirus #Is Coronavirus Is A Type of virus #Is COVID-19 Spread through Airborne Spread #It is harder to detect with rapid tests #Symptoms Of COVID-19 #Types Of Airborne Spread Covid-19

[cybertriumphllama]

How Dengue Spreads:

#A few species of Aedes mosquito (female mosquito) are the primary carriers of the dengue virus. Among these #Aedes aegypti is the main one. There are five serotypes of the virus. Infection with one serotype of the virus results in lifelong immunity #if the patient is infected with a different dengue virus serotype #severe complications may occur. #Dengue fever can also be diagnosed through several tests #such as the presence of antibodies against the virus or its RNA. At the beginning of this decade #dengue fever spread widely in our country #especially in the capital Dhaka. As a result #people become panicked. Even sick person and their families are disoriented. Blood banks struggle to collect blood and blood platelets from #headache #vomiting #muscle and joint pain #and skin rash. Dengue patients usually recover within two to seven days. But in some cases #the disease can take a severe hemorrhagic form called dengue hemorrhagic fever. This results in bleeding #decreased blood platelet levels #and secretion of blood plasma. Sometimes dengue shock syndrome occurs. Blood pressure drops dangerously in dengue shock syndrome. Symptoms #this mosquito-borne disease can reach fatal locations. In this corona period #if someone has a fever #they think they have the coronavirus! Not only if infected with corona #the patient suffers from fever but also due to dengue fever. So #if you have a fever now #do not worry #but consult a doctor immediately. However #if you know some of the symptoms of Dengue #you can determine whether you have Dengue or not. #Know the symptoms of dengue fever: #1. Classical fevers of Dengue: #• Classical dengue fever usually presents with high fever and severe pain throughout the body. #• Fever up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. #• Severe abdominal pain may also occur.

[rudrjobdesk]

आखिर कैसे फैला कोरोना?, किम जोंग उन ने दिया जवाब, दावे सुन आप भी रह जाएंगे हैरान

आखिर कैसे फैला कोरोना?, किम जोंग उन ने दिया जवाब, दावे सुन आप भी रह जाएंगे हैरान

Image Source : FILE PHOTO Kim Jong Un on Coronavirus Highlights ‘एलियन की वजह से कोरोना वायरस फैल रहा है’ ‘एलियंस ने गुब्बारे में वायरस भरकर फेंका था’ बॉर्डर के आस-पास रहने वाले लोगों के लिए निर्देश Kim Jong Un on Coronavirus: कोरोना वायरस ने पूरी दुनिया में तबाही मचाई। अभी भी कोरोना वायरस के लाखों मामले सामने आ रहे हैं, लेकिन हैरानी की बात यह है कि अब तक पूरी दुनिया के सामने यह रहस्य है कि यह…

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#Around The World Hindi News #Corona cases #Coronavirus #Coronavirus News #covid-19 #Kim Jong Un on Coronavirus #Kim Jong-un #North Korean #spreading corona from aliens #world news

[maqsoodyamani]

کرونا وائرس کے بعد دنیا میں منکی پاکس ، پھیلاؤ میں تیزی کا خدشہ: عالمی ادارہ صحت

کرونا وائرس کے بعد دنیا میں منکی پاکس ، پھیلاؤ میں تیزی کا خدشہ: عالمی ادارہ صحت

کرونا وائرس کے بعد دنیا میں منکی پاکس ، پھیلاؤ میں تیزی کا خدشہ: عالمی ادارہ صحت   جینوا ، 22 مئی ( آئی این ایس انڈیا )   عالمی ادارہ صحت (ڈبلیو ایچ او) نے کہا ہے کہ مختلف ممالک میں منکی پاکس کے مزید کیسز بھی سامنے آ سکتے ہیں اور اس خدشے کے پیش نظر ان ممالک کی نگرانی بھی بڑھا دی گئی ہے جہاں ابھی تک یہ بیماری رپورٹ نہیں ہوئی۔برطانوی خبر رساں ادارے روئٹرز کے مطابق ڈبلیو ایچ او نے کہا ہے کہ سنیچر…

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#coronavirus #Fear #MonkeyPox #rapid #spread #world #WorldHealthOrganization

[disneydatass]

You can’t support decolonization and still go on vacation to Hawaii when natives are literally begging you to stop spreading covid by coming there just so you can ‘live a little and get a way from it all’ lol

#it’s not funny #tw: covid 19 #tw: coronavirus #I know Hawaiian natives and Hawaii is not the only vacation tourist spot struggling like this #why can’t people just stay tf at home!!! WE ARE NOT POST PANDEMIC AND YET YALL STILL PLANE HOPPING LIKE THE PANDEMIC IS OVER #anygays… #EDIT: I wrote this post months ago but never posted it and saved it into my drafts bc I thought it wasn’t my place or too agressive #but fuck that covid is rising again and I know it’s from assholes plane hopping that’s how it spread to begin with im so over idiots #literally nauseous over incompetence I have zero patience

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Facts about the English language

English was invented in the year 927 by Lord English of England. Because 927 was a long time ago, he called it "Old English." Lord English of England was German, so the language was mostly just German with a dash of the language spoken by the original inhabitants of England, the Romans.

It became popular to speak English until 1066, when English Island was taken over by a French guy named Norman. Norman insisted everyone speak French, but they didn't know French so he just dropped some French words into the middle of the language and called it "Middle English."

After Middle English, trade patterns and technology such as the printing press and podcast allowed the infusion of numerous other languages, which all melted into English in their own way. Because they melted with each other, the new language was called Modern English. Several sounds and phonetics changed over the years as well, so this was called the era of the Colossal Vowel Movement.

About this time, England did its usual bullshit and colonized pretty much every place on Earth that it could. English thus spread like a linguistic coronavirus across America, Africa, Australia, and Atlantis, which managed to purge the English influence by sinking to its total destruction and thereby avoiding the horrors of having to speak English.

Today, English is the most spoken language on Earth, not because the most people speak it, but because those who do just never shut the fuck up. Several books have also been written in English, including "Fifty Shades of Grey," "A Weasel in My Meatsafe," and "Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides."

If English were a dress, it would be purple.

#english #lord english #homestuck #history #chuck tingle #unreality

[mariacallous]

For Sander van der Linden, misinformation is personal.

As a child in the Netherlands, the University of Cambridge social psychologist discovered that almost all of his mother’s family had been executed by the Nazis during the Second World War. He became absorbed by the question of how so many people came to support the ideas of someone like Adolf Hitler, and how they might be taught to resist such influence.

While studying psychology at graduate school in the mid-2010s, van der Linden came across the work of American researcher William McGuire. In the 1960s, stories of brainwashed prisoners-of-war during the Korean War had captured the zeitgeist, and McGuire developed a theory of how such indoctrination might be prevented. He wondered whether exposing soldiers to a weaker form of propaganda might have equipped them to fight off a full attack once they’d been captured. In the same way that army drills prepared them for combat, a pre-exposure to an attack on their beliefs could have prepared them against mind control. It would work, McGuire argued, as a cognitive immunizing agent against propaganda—a vaccine against brainwashing.

Traditional vaccines protect us by feeding us a weaker dose of pathogen, enabling our bodies’ immune defenses to take note of its appearance so we’re better equipped to fight the real thing when we encounter it. A psychological vaccine works much the same way: Give the brain a weakened hit of a misinformation-shaped virus, and the next time it encounters it in fully-fledged form, its “mental antibodies” remember it and can launch a defense.

Van der Linden wanted to build on McGuire’s theories and test the idea of psychological inoculation in the real world. His first study looked at how to combat climate change misinformation. At the time, a bogus petition was circulating on Facebook claiming there wasn’t enough scientific evidence to conclude that global warming was human-made, and boasting the signatures of 30,000 American scientists (on closer inspection, fake signatories included Geri Halliwell and the cast of M*A*S*H). Van der Linden and his team took a group of participants and warned them that there were politically motivated actors trying to deceive them—the phony petition in this case. Then they gave them a detailed takedown of the claims of the petition; they pointed out, for example, Geri Halliwell’s appearance on the list. When the participants were later exposed to the petition, van der Linden and his group found that people knew not to believe it.

The approach hinges on the idea that by the time we’ve been exposed to misinformation, it’s too late for debunking and fact-checking to have any meaningful effect, so you have to prepare people in advance—what van der Linden calls “prebunking.” An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

When he published the findings in 2016, van der Linden hadn’t anticipated that his work would be landing in the era of Donald Trump’s election, fake news, and post-truth; attention on his research from the media and governments exploded. Everyone wanted to know, how do you scale this up?

Van der Linden worked with game developers to create an online choose-your-own-adventure game called Bad News, where players can try their hand at writing and spreading misinformation. Much like a broadly protective vaccine, if you show people the tactics used to spread fake news, it fortifies their inbuilt bullshit detectors.

But social media companies were still hesitant to get on board; correcting misinformation and being the arbiters of truth is not part of their core business model. Then people in China started getting sick with a mysterious flulike illness.

The coronavirus pandemic propelled the threat of misinformation to dizzying new heights. Van der Linden began working with the British government and bodies like the World Health Organization and the United Nations to create a more streamlined version of the game specifically revolving around Covid, which they called GoViral! They created more versions, including one for the 2020 US presidential election, and another to prevent extremist recruitment in the Middle East. Slowly, Silicon Valley came around.

A collaboration with Google has resulted in a campaign on YouTube in which the platform plays clips in the ad section before the video starts, warning viewers about misinformation tropes like scapegoating and false dichotomies and drawing examples from Family Guy and Star Wars. A study with 20,000 participants found that people who viewed the ads were better able to spot manipulation tactics; the feature is now being rolled out to hundreds of millions of people in Europe.

Van der Linden understands that working with social media companies, who have historically been reluctant to censor disinformation, is a double-edged sword. But, at the same time, they’re the de facto guardians of the online flow of information, he says, “and so if we’re going to scale the solution, we need their cooperation.” (A downside is that they often work in unpredictable ways. Elon Musk fired the entire team who was working on pre-bunking at Twitter when he became CEO, for instance.)

This year, van der Linden wrote a book on his research, titled Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity. Ultimately, he hopes this isn’t a tool that stays under the thumb of third-party companies; his dream is for people to inoculate one another. It could go like this: You see a false narrative gaining traction on social media, you then warn your parents or your neighbor about it, and they’ll be pre-bunked when they encounter it. “This should be a tool that’s for the people, by the people,” van der Linden says.

[theonion]

The coronavirus that spread across the United States and became a pandemic in March 2020 will go down as one of the most difficult times in our nation’s history. Nearly every American experienced significant disruptions to their daily lives, with financial issues and physical isolation often leaving permanent scars. It was a terrible time, and one we will never forget. Today, however, things are looking up. President Biden recently declared that Covid is no longer a national emergency. What does that mean? Well, I’ll tell you.

We are post-pandemic. We are immortal. Those still alive cannot die.

It is time to bask in the knowledge that we have defeated the feverish viral scourge. Go forth without fear, because those malevolent RNA intruders can harm you no longer. You are the chosen Americans. The virus has been banished from every corner of our great nation, even stupid fucking Arkansas, who never listened to me, and you have emerged from the other side as survivors. Join me in celebrating mask-less in a very crowded room, my friends, for nothing—nothing—can take your life now.

Full story.

[foulpuppynerd]

The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers

Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization. Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global. Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global. She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided. Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud. In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion. According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.

[tomorrowusa]

Four years ago today (March 13th), then President Donald Trump got around to declaring a national state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration had been downplaying the danger to the United States for 51 days since the first US infection was confirmed on January 22nd.

From an ABC News article dated 25 February 2020...

CDC warns Americans of 'significant disruption' from coronavirus

Until now, health officials said they'd hoped to prevent community spread in the United States. But following community transmissions in Italy, Iran and South Korea, health officials believe the virus may not be able to be contained at the border and that Americans should prepare for a "significant disruption." This comes in contrast to statements from the Trump administration. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Tuesday the threat to the United States from coronavirus "remains low," despite the White House seeking $1.25 billion in emergency funding to combat the virus. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC’s Kelly Evans on “The Exchange” Tuesday evening, "We have contained the virus very well here in the U.S." [ ... ] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request "long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency." She also accused President Trump of leaving "critical positions in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security vacant." "The president's most recent budget called for slashing funding for the Centers for Disease Control, which is on the front lines of this emergency. And now, he is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check," Pelosi said in a statement Tuesday morning. "Our state and local governments need serious funding to be ready to respond effectively to any outbreak in the United States. The president should not be raiding money that Congress has appropriated for other life-or-death public health priorities." She added that lawmakers in the House of Representatives "will swiftly advance a strong, strategic funding package that fully addresses the scale and seriousness of this public health crisis." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also called the Trump administration's request "too little too late." "That President Trump is trying to steal funds dedicated to fight Ebola -- which is still considered an epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- is indicative of his towering incompetence and further proof that he and his administration aren't taking the coronavirus crisis as seriously as they need to be," Schumer said in a statement.

A reminder that Trump had been leaving many positions vacant – part of a Republican strategy to undermine the federal government.

Here's a picture from that ABC piece from a nearly empty restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. The screen displays a Trump tweet still downplaying COVID-19 with him seeming more concerned about the effect of the Dow Jones on his re-election bid.

People were not buying Trump's claims but they were buying PPE.

I took this picture at CVS on February 26th that year.

The stock market which Trump in his February tweet claimed looked "very good" was tanking on March 12th – the day before his state of emergency declaration.

Trump succeeded in sending the US economy into recession much faster than George W. Bush did at the end of his term – quite a feat!. (As an aside, every recession in the US since 1981 has been triggered by Republican presidents.)

Of course Trump never stopped trying to downplay the pandemic nor did he ever take responsibility for it. The US ended up with the highest per capita death rate of any technologically advanced country.

Precious time was lost while Trump dawdled. Orange on this map indicates COVID infections while red indicates COVID deaths. At the time Trump declared a state of emergency, the virus had already spread to 49 states.

The United States could have done far better and it had the tools to do so.

The Obama administration had limited the number of US cases of Ebola to under one dozen during that pandemic in the 2010s. Based on their success, they compiled a guide on how the federal government could limit future pandemics.

Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm

Of course Trump ignored it.

Unlike those boxes of nuclear secrets in Trump's bathroom, the Obama pandemic limitation document is not classified. Anybody can read it – even if Trump didn't. This copy comes from the Stanford University Libraries.

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Feel free to share this post with anybody who still feels nostalgic about the Trump White House years!

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