Pass...hard pass.

 

And then will Mexico get its vaccine?

 

Shitter proves yet again he is undeserving of one...

 

Point, set, match.

 

Flat earthers absolutely out of control here......they blew up a test centre!

Election in two weeks should sort it out.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/03/dutch-covid-test-centre-hit-by-suspected-bomb-attack

Thinskin

 

In the UK they arrested a man for sending a fake bomb to the AZ vaccine bottling plant delayed the production for a day.

 

oh how the media love to hype up
nonsense crap

Although:
We did have a protest last time.
9 people turned up

Auckland lockdown threatens to split 'team of five million'

Bullshit

 

The difference is in NZ you have a good PM .What she has done worked .In the UK we have a crap PM.

 

food for thaught

it is 'Premature,' 'unrealistic' that pandemic will end soon

A senior World Health Organisation official said on Monday (NZT Tuesday) it was “premature” and
“unrealistic” to think the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year,
but that the recent arrival of effective vaccines could at least help dramatically reduce hospitalisations and death.

The world’s singular focus right now should be to keep transmission of Covid-19 as low as possible,
said Dr Michael Ryan, director of WHO's emergencies program.

“If we’re smart,
we can finish with the hospitalizations and the deaths and the tragedy associated with this pandemic”
by the end of the year, he said at media briefing.
**
But Ryan warned against complacency, saying that nothing was guaranteed in an evolving epidemic.

“Right now the virus is very much in control,” he said.

***

for the first time in seven weeks, the number of Covid-19 cases increased last week,
after six consecutive weeks of declining numbers. He described the increase as “disappointing,” but said it wasn't surprising.

part of that spike appeared to be due to the “relaxing of public health measures"

So stay safe people.
It's still your choice , to be a part of the problem ,
or part of the solution.

And now we have a probable begining to the end ,
is a good time to ensure you and yours are still here and healthy at the end of the beginning ,
and when it is finally actually under control.

 

What we need is a good Global pandemic that will take out all the despots, terrorists, malignant governments, dictators & nut jobs all in one swell swoop. Thus bringing the World population back to a sustainable number & leaving a proportionate number of people that can have only 1-2 kids if any to keep it down.

 

More than 100 illegal immigrants released by the Border Patrol into Texas since late January have tested positive for the coronavirus following their arrival, officials in a city on the U.S.-Mexico border tell Fox News.

Felipe Romero, a spokesperson for Brownsville, said Wednesday that the 108 positives represent 6.3% of the number of total migrants who have been rapid-tested at the city’s main bus station, where they are being released by the Border Patrol. Rapid testing of the individuals began there on Jan. 25.

He added that Brownsville does not have the authority to prevent those who test positive from traveling elsewhere in the U.S. — and are advising them to quarantine, follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and socially distance.

 

When illegal aliens are tested for COV, 1 in 20 are testing positive. Then they are put on buses throughout the country.

At a bus station in Brownsville, Texas, border-crossers released by U.S. Border Patrol receive a rapid COVID-19 test before boarding buses to their intended destinations throughout the United States.

Why bother? They are free to go just the same.

Destinations include Texas, North Carolina, Maryland, and even up to New Jersey.

A spokesman for the City of Brownsville confirmed they don’t have the authority to stop migrants who test positive from getting on buses to the rest of the country. Municipal workers can only recommend that those who test positive ask local non-government groups and nonprofits to help them find somewhere to quarantine.

 

GOV. ABBOTT: "The two things, Brian. First, it obviously is not the type of thing that the president should be saying. But, second, he kind of said it on the worst day he could have, because the same day he said that in Texas, the Biden administration was releasing illegal immigrants into our communities who had COVID. The Biden administration was spreading COVID in south Texas yesterday because of their lack of constraint of testing and quarantining people who come across the border illegally. The Biden administration was exposing Texans to COVID. That is a Neanderthal type approach to dealing with the COVID situation."

 

I respectfully suggest you take your personal political crusade to politics and start a thread about it there ,
where it belongs.

 

How about the blocking of vaccine to Australia, by Italy and the EU by extension? Is this a political move or a health concern?

At least one thing has become rather clear, the methods used in island nations, were impossible to implement in countries with extensive land borders. While @slutwolf thinks this should be in the political sub forum, it is really a health control issue. We cannot have an effective isolation or control system when politicians refuse to follow the protocols. The admission of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who are testing positive in alarming numbers, is purely a political decision.

 

Finally ,
an interesting and comprehensive
summary.
I've been keeping an eye out for something like this , because clearly ,
something is going shaped there.

My apologies that this is a lot longer than my usual copy and pastes ,
but it seems the only way to cover it properly..


MILAN (AP) today — The virus swept through a nursery school and an adjacent elementary school in the Milan suburb of Bollate with amazing speed.
In a matter of just days, 45 children and 14 staff members had tested positive.

Genetic analysis confirmed what officials already suspected:
The highly contagious coronavirus variant first identified in England was racing through the community, a densely packed city of nearly 40,000 with a chemical plant and a Pirelli bicycle tire factory a 15-minute drive from the heart of Milan.

“This demonstrates that the virus has a sort of intelligence. ... We can put up all the barriers in the world and imagine that they work, but in the end, it adapts and penetrates them,” lamented Bollate Mayor Francesco Vassallo.

Bollate was the first city in Lombardy, the northern region that has been the epicenter in each of Italy’s three surges, to be sealed off from neighbors because of virus variants that the World Health Organization says are powering another uptick in infections across Europe.
The variants also include versions first identified in South Africa and Brazil.

Europe recorded 1 million new COVID-19 cases last week,
an increase of 9% from the previous week and a reversal that ended a six-week decline in new infections .

“The spread of the variants is driving the increase, but not only,” said Dr. Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe,
citing
“also the opening of society, when it is not done in a safe and a controlled manner.”

The variant first found in the U.K. is spreading significantly in 27 European countries monitored by WHO and is dominant in at least 10 countries: Britain, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Spain and Portugal.

It is up to 50% more transmissible than the virus that surged last spring
and again in the fall, making it more adept at thwarting measures that were previously effective.

Scientists have concluded that it is also more deadly.

“That is why health systems are struggling more now,” Kluge said. “It really is at a tipping point. We have to hold the fort and be very vigilant.”

In Lombardy, which bore the brunt of Italy’s spring surge, intensive care wards are again filling up, with more than two-thirds of new positive tests being the UK variant, health officials said.

After putting two provinces and some 50 towns on a modified lockdown, Lombardy’s regional governor announced tightened restrictions Friday and closed classrooms for all ages.
Cases in Milan schools alone surged 33% in a week,
the provincial health system’s chief said.


The situation is dire in the Czech Republic, which this week registered a record-breaking total of nearly 8,500 patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

Poland is opening temporary hospitals and imposing a partial lockdown as the U.K. variant has grown from 10% of all infections in February to 25% now.

Two patients from hard-hit Slovakia were expected to arrive Saturday for treatment in Germany, where authorities said they had offered to take in 10 patients.

Kluge cited Britain’s experience as cause for optimism,
noting that widespread restrictions and the introduction of the vaccine have helped tamp down the variants there and in Israel.

The vaccine rollout in the European Union, by comparison, is lagging badly, mostly because of supply problems.


In Britain, the emergence of the more transmissible strain sent cases soaring in December and triggered a national lockdown in January.
Cases have since plummeted, from about 60,000 a day in early January to about 7,000 a day now.

Still, a study shows the rate of decline slowing,
and the British government says it will tread cautiously with plans to ease the lockdown. That process begins Monday with the reopening of schools.

Infection rates are highest in people ages 13 to 17,
and officials will watch closely to see whether the return to class brings a spike in infections.

While the U.K. variant is dominant in France, forcing lockdowns in the French Riviera city of Nice and the northern port of Dunkirk,
the variant first detected in South Africa
has emerged as the most prevalent in France’s Moselle region, which borders Germany and Luxembourg.
It represents 55% of the virus circulating there.


Austria’s health minister said Saturday the U.K. variant is now dominant in his country. But the South Africa variant is also a concern in a district of Austria that extends from Italy to Germany,
with Austrian officials announcing plans to vaccinate most of the 84,000 residents there to curb its spread.
Austria is also requiring motorists along the Brenner highway, a major north-south route, to show negative test results.

* * *
The South Africa variant, now present in 26 European countries,
is a source of particular concern because of doubts over whether the current vaccines are effective enough against it.

The Brazilian variant, which appears capable of reinfecting people, has been detected in 15 European countries


WHO and its partners are working to strengthen the genetic surveillance needed to track variants across the continent.

Thus last statement surprised me a little ,
because I'd have thaught it would have already been being done.

We have been for many months , since way back ,
so we can check and trace the origins of any outbreak ,
or incursion ,
and follow all comunity connections
if/when they occur ,
and the norm is to have all cases sequenced withing 24 hours of positive test .

That is a huge plus in control and erradication .

 

A sad truth.
we've been discussing this very thing for a while now.
**
OPINION: There is some incredulity within Government circles about how much good publicity New Zealand’s covid 19 vaccine rollout has generated.

Behind the scenes, the feeling is, it is not warranted.

In reality, it is a "secretive, sluggish"
"spin-fest"

While other countries race ahead with their inoculation programmes, New Zealand is only a fortnight or so in.
**
and painfully slow ,
after all the Poli Hype leading up to its arrival.

It's been painfully slow ,
and then it was revealed they had only trained a very few , in there much hyped
"preparation and training"
in "readiness for the rollout"

They're still training them now , a couple of weeks after the rather pathetic start.

They vaccinated just 1200 in the first 9 days , and it hasn't improved much yet ,
In spite of there being enough already in the country a to do near , or over 200,000.

Shameful.

And so annoying ,
given all the Poli Babble and bullshit they've been feeding us constantly.

Oh
But they're being cautious.

Buu llll shit

 

This is worrying.

https://www.theguardian.com/theobse...track-and-measure-new-variants-of-coronavirus

Thinskin

 

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