Unless those doctors perform procedures the rabble doesn’t like, in which case they’re vulnerable to being harassed, assaulted, and killed.
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My state has dropped the ball with nursing homes, too. Is it worse not to have a plan at all, or to have a plan and not follow through with it?
As if the infections and deaths aren’t bad enough, somehow they have plenty of resources to use conservative treatments suggested by the WH:
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We do have the expression “lateral thinker” in English, but it doen’t have political connotations. Your article attributed the protests to the “Initiative ‘Querdenken’”, so I assumed it was an organized thing (or maybe a nickname for an organized thing, like “Professor’s Party” is a nickname for AfD).
I’m afraid that the pandemic has moved too fast for the peer-review process. Most policy has been based on informal reports and things like letters to Lancet. Sweden’s Johan Giesecke has famously pointed out that British and American lockdowns are based on a “paper” by Neil Ferguson which is likewise not in a scientific article and “not very good”.
Science Direct is not an academic publication, but it is part of the same service that is behind Scopus, one of the two main international scientific publication indexes, so it is not as easily dismissed as a newspaper or popular science magazine.
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They don’t even tell the name of paper and authors, neither the journal! Of course this can be dismissed.
ETA:
Thanks, Randall.
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What problem? Trumpvirus has 1% fatality rate, maybe 2% when medical facilities are overwhelmed. Fewer people means fewer people he had to keep under his thumb.
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If they were a law firm, they’d know that in order to contest unemployment, an employee needs to fuck up bad, otherwise it’s not worth it. Really really bad. Like making credible threats of armed violence because of a perceived slight during what is actually a common everyday occurrence, then attaching his name and (presumably) his workplace to it via a social media post under his real name, because he thinks there is absolutely nothing wrong with this behavior.
…oh.
Absolutely it is.
I pity any woman or LGBTQ person with whom he has ever worked, or who has crossed his path in any way.
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An update about the shitshow going on in my town’s nursing home
Things could end up getting much worse here. There’s a women’s NY state prison across the street from The Villages Of Orleans. I’m not making this up, check out Google Maps.
If folks aren’t careful, it’s going to get into the prison which is one of the largest employers here and spread really freaking fast.
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Remember how we were all supposed to be taking a hard second look at the virtues of Xtian Neo-fascism after Singapore’s successful Trumpvirus lockdown?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/singapore-battles-massive-wave-of-coronavirus-infections
Infections in Singapore, an affluent Southeast Asian city-state of fewer than 6 million people, have jumped more than a hundredfold in two months — from 226 in mid-March to more than 23,800, the most in Asia after China, India and Pakistan. Only 20 of the infections have resulted in deaths.
The slip-up highlighted Singapore’s treatment of its large population of low-wage foreign workers, who play an integral part in the economy but live on the fringes in conditions where social distancing is impossible. The misjudgment was also an embarrassment for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s government ahead of a general election anticipated in the next few months that is expected to be the last for Lee, who has led Singapore since 2004 and is planning to retire soon.
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Looks like the AMC Theater at your dead mall might become an mini Amazon distribution center
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Thank you, very interesting and vital in understanding the global spread of stupidity. Got our own brand of Quer here in the usa, Qanon seems to be cut from the same cloth.
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But that’s for the same reason: anything to do with girls has cooties.
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Actual LOL here. I’ll bet she does, and I know she has the gumption to keep pressing to get answers!
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Sure they do. It is a short communication in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, which is a peer-reviewed journal with a decent impact factor. Here is the link to the article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920301643
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People who punch people who throw their trash on the ground?
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Not on the page of SCMP which was linked above, nor the link (to another SCMP piece) given in it. They also quote a press release which they do not link.
(@BakaNeko removed it - thanks, a CAVEAT EMPTOR disclaimer probably would have sufficed, but I appreciate the removal as I really think this is bad journalism.)
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“I’m warning you. I received COVID-19 from the last guy I punched for not policing his medical waste.”
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The Fundi-Fascism Complex has a plan, which is to make everything so horrible that prayer seems like an equally serious option.
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I wouldn’t call it bad journalism if an article like the one he linked doesn’t include a bibliography; you can’t apply the standards of academic publishing to science popularization. The fact that there is an actual published article in a reputable journal behind the article makes it a better article than many. It wasn’t all that hard to find the original article, though as the journal I edit is Scopus indexed I might have more experience with the site than some.
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