JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Masks do help, even (maybe) stopping 75% of influenza, and you can make them
In the West the public have been discouraged from wearing face masks,
and told they aren’t much help. This is mostly because they are “much
help” and the front line docs and nurses really need them but no one in
charge ordered enough in advance, and none of them had the honesty to
say so. The daft push-me-pull-you messaging of how the useless masks are
needed on the front line will go down as a c
If you only read one serious page about how to deal with this crisis
read Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance. The countries that “get
this” approach will be the first to recover. It’s all the things I’ve
been suggesting but done on big scale with an expert team. What I call
the Slow Bleed is officially known as Mitigation. It’s the 6 month Flu
strategy that kills people and the economy. When I
Anyone know where Pat is? We miss him, hope he is OK. Rating: 8.8/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 8.8/ 10 (4 votes cast)
In the West the public have been discouraged from wearing face masks,
and told they aren’t much help. This is mostly because they are “much
help” and the front line docs and nurses really need them but no one in
charge ordered enough in advance, and none of them had the honesty to
say so. The daft push-me-pull-you messaging of how the useless masks are
needed on the front line will go down as a c
If you only read one serious page about how to deal with this crisis
read Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance. The countries that “get
this” approach will be the first to recover. It’s all the things I’ve
been suggesting but done on big scale with an expert team. What I call
the Slow Bleed is officially known as Mitigation. It’s the 6 month Flu
strategy that kills people and the economy. When I
Anyone know where Pat is? We miss him, hope he is OK. Rating: 8.8/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 8.8/ 10 (4 votes cast)
Yesterday
Apparently no one listened to him. The thing we were always afraid of
was a virus that people could shed even if they felt well enough to get
on a plane… He’s right about “the blood of survivors” – blood contains
antibodies to the virus after they recover. So plasma from survivors
might help current victims. And that trial will happen in New York. But
we don’t need a “global heath system”. We hav
Be wary of reports that the new Imperial College modeling on
Coronavirus has downgraded the threat. With headlines like these
(below), you could be forgiven for thinking Coronavirus posed less of a
problem. The updated model talked of UK deaths being “only” 20,000, not
500,000, but because they were modeling two totally different scenarios.
The update assumed that drastic action had started. The
Apparently no one listened to him. The thing we were always afraid of
was a virus that people could shed even if they felt well enough to get
on a plane… He’s right about “the blood of survivors” – blood contains
antibodies to the virus after they recover. So plasma from survivors
might help current victims. And that trial will happen in New York. But
we don’t need a “global heath system”. We hav
Be wary of reports that the new Imperial College modeling on
Coronavirus has downgraded the threat. With headlines like these
(below), you could be forgiven for thinking Coronavirus posed less of a
problem. The updated model talked of UK deaths being “only” 20,000, not
500,000, but because they were modeling two totally different scenarios.
The update assumed that drastic action had started. The
Mar 27
Looking for something to do for 14 days? A light moment thanks to
Willie and whoever the extraordinary Joseph is. Rating: 9.9/10 (24 votes
cast) Rating: 9.9/ 10 (24 votes cast)
Asleep at the wheel. The Lucky Country wakes up to the cost of
globalization. There are only 3,000 Covid cases here, we have barely
begun, yet we’re already running out of protective gear. The lives of
our doctors and nurses are at risk because bureaucrats were too slow to
see the obvious, blindly unaware of foreign allegiances, and they kept
using the old Influenza plan when this wasn’t influenz
Looking for something to do for 14 days? A light moment thanks to
Willie and whoever the extraordinary Joseph is. Rating: 9.9/10 (24 votes
cast) Rating: 9.9/ 10 (24 votes cast)
Asleep at the wheel. The Lucky Country wakes up to the cost of
globalization. There are only 3,000 Covid cases here, we have barely
begun, yet we’re already running out of protective gear. The lives of
our doctors and nurses are at risk because bureaucrats were too slow to
see the obvious, blindly unaware of foreign allegiances, and they kept
using the old Influenza plan when this wasn’t influenz
Mar 26
Where did Thursday go? Rating: 10.0/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/ 10 (6 votes cast)
Where did Thursday go? Rating: 10.0/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/ 10 (6 votes cast)
Mar 25
Option
three gathers wings Finally the world is tossing out the pointless old
Influenza Pandemic plan that called for six months of slow bleeding.
Leaders are waking up to the high speed, hard and fast option. Tonight
20% of the worlds population are crushing that curve with a full
lockdown because it’s the only option. 1.3 billion people in India are
now in a three week home quarantine, joining F
A
High Stakes Game If the trials of the anti-malarial chloroquine (or
variants) work, Trump will get away with all the understatements he said
in February. On twitter the combination of Hydroxychloroquine and
azithromycin are known as #TrumpPills. The trials started Tuesday. We
don’t know the results but doctors are buying up pharmacy stocks across
the US — presumably to protect themselves (hopefu
Option
three gathers wings Finally the world is tossing out the pointless old
Influenza Pandemic plan that called for six months of slow bleeding.
Leaders are waking up to the high speed, hard and fast option. Tonight
20% of the worlds population are crushing that curve with a full
lockdown because it’s the only option. 1.3 billion people in India are
now in a three week home quarantine, joining F
A
High Stakes Game If the trials of the anti-malarial chloroquine (or
variants) work, Trump will get away with all the understatements he said
in February. On twitter the combination of Hydroxychloroquine and
azithromycin are known as #TrumpPills. The trials started Tuesday. We
don’t know the results but doctors are buying up pharmacy stocks across
the US — presumably to protect themselves (hopefu
Mar 24
Message to the young and immortal A fully fit 28 year old who ran
marathons tells what it was like for him to get Coronavirus. He ended up
spending 13 days in ICU. His ongoing liver problems and weakness will
take a month or two to get better. His message to young people out at
parties or on the beach: ” You might survive, but the old person that
didn’t get that ventilator might not…” But the spr
Message to the young and immortal A fully fit 28 year old who ran
marathons tells what it was like for him to get Coronavirus. He ended up
spending 13 days in ICU. His ongoing liver problems and weakness will
take a month or two to get better. His message to young people out at
parties or on the beach: ” You might survive, but the old person that
didn’t get that ventilator might not…” But the spr
Mar 23
…. Rating: 7.3/10 (12 votes cast) Rating: 7.3/ 10 (12 votes cast)
For most people Coronavirus is like the flu or even a cold, but for 20%
it’s something awful. Even in younger patients — a few seemingly fit
and healthy 40 and 50 year olds are gasping for air as their lungs fill
with blood and fluid and it’s “like a near death drowning” or “inhaling
caustic gas”. Forgive the language in the headline — those were this
docs exact words. He’s working at a New Orlea
…. Rating: 7.3/10 (12 votes cast) Rating: 7.3/ 10 (12 votes cast)
For most people Coronavirus is like the flu or even a cold, but for 20%
it’s something awful. Even in younger patients — a few seemingly fit
and healthy 40 and 50 year olds are gasping for air as their lungs fill
with blood and fluid and it’s “like a near death drowning” or “inhaling
caustic gas”. Forgive the language in the headline — those were this
docs exact words. He’s working at a New Orlea
Mar 22
Look
at State by State outcomes: visit Covid Act Now Its an excellent
display of modeled outcomes across the US*. Click on each state in the
US to find out predicted death tolls and the day hospitals will be
overwhelmed with too little action. Dear readers, get out of the way of
this virus. My advice is to stay home. Order online. Wear masks if you
have to venture out. Keep kids home from school.
I believe there are other things happening in the world still. Rating: 10.0/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/ 10 (7 votes cast)
The wave coming is not just a “bit bigger” than hospitals can handle
Western Australian specialists estimate that at present rate, in 45 days
Coronavirus cases will fill up their entire state hospital system. Two
weeks later Covid patients will also fill all the beds in the extra two
copies of their entire state hospital network that haven’t been built
yet. Hospitals will need 20 times as many ve
Look
at State by State outcomes: visit Covid Act Now Its an excellent
display of modeled outcomes across the US*. Click on each state in the
US to find out predicted death tolls and the day hospitals will be
overwhelmed with too little action. Dear readers, get out of the way of
this virus. My advice is to stay home. Order online. Wear masks if you
have to venture out. Keep kids home from school.
I believe there are other things happening in the world still. Rating: 10.0/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 10.0/ 10 (7 votes cast)
The wave coming is not just a “bit bigger” than hospitals can handle
Western Australian specialists estimate that at present rate, in 45 days
Coronavirus cases will fill up their entire state hospital system. Two
weeks later Covid patients will also fill all the beds in the extra two
copies of their entire state hospital network that haven’t been built
yet. Hospitals will need 20 times as many ve
Mar 21
The first epicentre in Italy was Vò, a little town of 3,000. It was
shut down, fully tested and twice and nine days apart. By testing,
isolating, and tracking, they reduced the spread to almost nothing, and
this is despite the extraordinary discovery that when the first death
happened, already 3% of the town had the disease. At that point surely
the Italian government should have immediately clos
Traitors
to the people? Some in the Republican Party knew what was coming. At
least four Senators in the US are being accused of insider trading,
selling stocks before the crash, but not warning the public or making
sure the US was prepared. Senator Richard Burr sold something like a
million dollars in their own stocks on Feb 13th. At private briefings
his message was that this virus was aggressiv
The first epicentre in Italy was Vò, a little town of 3,000. It was
shut down, fully tested and twice and nine days apart. By testing,
isolating, and tracking, they reduced the spread to almost nothing, and
this is despite the extraordinary discovery that when the first death
happened, already 3% of the town had the disease. At that point surely
the Italian government should have immediately clos
Traitors
to the people? Some in the Republican Party knew what was coming. At
least four Senators in the US are being accused of insider trading,
selling stocks before the crash, but not warning the public or making
sure the US was prepared. Senator Richard Burr sold something like a
million dollars in their own stocks on Feb 13th. At private briefings
his message was that this virus was aggressiv
Mar 20
… Rating: 9.0/10 (8 votes cast) Rating: 9.0/ 10 (8 votes cast)
Remember back in February when the mainstream media was telling us this
was “just like the flu”? They weren’t asking the Health Minister “how
many Australians might die” or “why don’t we close the borders”. They
didn’t want to know whether the PM had calculated the cost of leaving
the borders open? They weren’t estimating how many weeks it would be
before we ran out of ICU beds. Nor were they dem
Australian Medical Association WA President Andrew Miller said Western
Australia was headed for a situation like Italy and are 8 – 10 days
behind Sydney. The tally in Australia is now about 900, the same as
Italy had on Feb 28th, just three weeks ago. Now Italy has 41,000 cases
and 3,405 people have died. Their population is three times larger than
Australia and slightly older, it’s colder and pa
… Rating: 9.0/10 (8 votes cast) Rating: 9.0/ 10 (8 votes cast)
Remember back in February when the mainstream media was telling us this
was “just like the flu”? They weren’t asking the Health Minister “how
many Australians might die” or “why don’t we close the borders”. They
didn’t want to know whether the PM had calculated the cost of leaving
the borders open? They weren’t estimating how many weeks it would be
before we ran out of ICU beds. Nor were they dem
Australian Medical Association WA President Andrew Miller said Western
Australia was headed for a situation like Italy and are 8 – 10 days
behind Sydney. The tally in Australia is now about 900, the same as
Italy had on Feb 28th, just three weeks ago. Now Italy has 41,000 cases
and 3,405 people have died. Their population is three times larger than
Australia and slightly older, it’s colder and pa
Mar 19
There
is a third way — Why are we so fatalistic? It’s not a choice between
Let It Rip and the slow bleed of “Flatten the Curve”. It’s not a choice
of health versus money. The third option no one is mentioning is to
Crush The Curve: we go hard, fast, and do a major short sharp
quarantine. It’s not radical, it’s just textbook epidemiology, it saves
more lives and it saves the economy too. SlowMo, Bo
There
is a third way — Why are we so fatalistic? It’s not a choice between
Let It Rip and the slow bleed of “Flatten the Curve”. It’s not a choice
of health versus money. The third option no one is mentioning is to
Crush The Curve: we go hard, fast, and do a major short sharp
quarantine. It’s not radical, it’s just textbook epidemiology, it saves
more lives and it saves the economy too. SlowMo, Bo
Mar 18
I’ve said from the start that anti-virals were always going to be more
useful to us this year than vaccines, which take so long to test and be
ready for use. What we really need are anti-virals which also happen to
be preapproved and tested and hopefully in mass production. Chloroquine
is cheap too, though I doubt Australian stocks of the drug are very
high, or that our genius rulers have arrange
I’ve said from the start that anti-virals were always going to be more
useful to us this year than vaccines, which take so long to test and be
ready for use. What we really need are anti-virals which also happen to
be preapproved and tested and hopefully in mass production. Chloroquine
is cheap too, though I doubt Australian stocks of the drug are very
high, or that our genius rulers have arrange
Mar 17
Oops. Forgot Tuesday. Sorry. Rating: 9.3/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 9.3/ 10 (7 votes cast)
Australia has only one mask factory, and the Army was only sent in
yesterday to start helping to ramp up production? Six weeks after this
disaster was obvious to bloggers-watching-twitter-feeds, the entirely
predictable shortage of masks is only just starting to be addressed? Why
weren’t they doing this a month ago? Australian Defence Force soldiers
have been deployed to help Australia’s only mas
Dithering
politicians push the fatality from 0.5% toward 5% A gritty analysis by
Tomas Pueyo shows how leaders inertia is killing people every day. Some
of the victims of tomorrows Virus Get-Togethers won’t die for a few
weeks, but the next batch starts tomorrow (and every day until the
nation self-isolates, stops the pox-parties, the cough-shopping, and
pneumonia-planes. ). And each day there are
Oops. Forgot Tuesday. Sorry. Rating: 9.3/10 (7 votes cast) Rating: 9.3/ 10 (7 votes cast)
Australia has only one mask factory, and the Army was only sent in
yesterday to start helping to ramp up production? Six weeks after this
disaster was obvious to bloggers-watching-twitter-feeds, the entirely
predictable shortage of masks is only just starting to be addressed? Why
weren’t they doing this a month ago? Australian Defence Force soldiers
have been deployed to help Australia’s only mas
Dithering
politicians push the fatality from 0.5% toward 5% A gritty analysis by
Tomas Pueyo shows how leaders inertia is killing people every day. Some
of the victims of tomorrows Virus Get-Togethers won’t die for a few
weeks, but the next batch starts tomorrow (and every day until the
nation self-isolates, stops the pox-parties, the cough-shopping, and
pneumonia-planes. ). And each day there are
Mar 16
I seem to have the uncanny ability to predict what frontline experts
will recommend days in advance. It’s not genius. Just medical training
and that the solution to this is so Bleeding Obvious, and politicians
are still 2 to 3 weeks behind an exploding epidemic of an inanimate
nucleic acid code. WA hospitals call for state border closures to deal
with coronavirus fears (COVID-19) Top doctors acro
Scuttlebutt that crossed my desk today says “”US to have nationwide
quarantine for 14 days’”. h/t Scott. I hope this is correct. My
reply:”Brilliant”. Finally, a hint of an attitude determined to beat
this. It’s so refreshing after all the defeatist fatalism telling us
this is a disease we have to have. I predict if the US does this, other
countries will follow. This is the fastest way to get bor
I seem to have the uncanny ability to predict what frontline experts
will recommend days in advance. It’s not genius. Just medical training
and that the solution to this is so Bleeding Obvious, and politicians
are still 2 to 3 weeks behind an exploding epidemic of an inanimate
nucleic acid code. WA hospitals call for state border closures to deal
with coronavirus fears (COVID-19) Top doctors acro
Scuttlebutt that crossed my desk today says “”US to have nationwide
quarantine for 14 days’”. h/t Scott. I hope this is correct. My
reply:”Brilliant”. Finally, a hint of an attitude determined to beat
this. It’s so refreshing after all the defeatist fatalism telling us
this is a disease we have to have. I predict if the US does this, other
countries will follow. This is the fastest way to get bor
Mar 14
BREAKING NEWS: Since writing this Scott Morrison has finally moved to
quarantine all arrivals including planes and ships. He’s still two weeks
behind the virus, and playing catch up with Jacinta Ardern, the real
leader. But finally the bleeding obvious has dawned. He won’t close
schools, and perhaps, suddenly that will now be a viable option, though
Sydney still need short sharp major action to s
… Rating: 8.2/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/ 10 (6 votes cast)
BREAKING NEWS: Since writing this Scott Morrison has finally moved to
quarantine all arrivals including planes and ships. He’s still two weeks
behind the virus, and playing catch up with Jacinta Ardern, the real
leader. But finally the bleeding obvious has dawned. He won’t close
schools, and perhaps, suddenly that will now be a viable option, though
Sydney still need short sharp major action to s
… Rating: 8.2/10 (6 votes cast) Rating: 8.2/ 10 (6 votes cast)
Mar 13
Finally, some action happening around the world. Australia has banned
gatherings over 500, but for some reason gatherings of 1500 small humans
on a daily basis are still fine. Admittedly short humans (of the young
sort) don’t get as deadly sick, but they still spread it, and generally
go back each day to houses with people who are at risk. Homeschooling is
now on an exponential growth, and it isn
Finally, some action happening around the world. Australia has banned
gatherings over 500, but for some reason gatherings of 1500 small humans
on a daily basis are still fine. Admittedly short humans (of the young
sort) don’t get as deadly sick, but they still spread it, and generally
go back each day to houses with people who are at risk. Homeschooling is
now on an exponential growth, and it isn
Mar 12
… Rating: 8.6/10 (15 votes cast) Rating: 8.6/ 10 (15 votes cast)
… Rating: 8.6/10 (15 votes cast) Rating: 8.6/ 10 (15 votes cast)
Mar 11
… Do young adults learn anything that matters in school? They’re
protesting in the streets but can’t even answer the most baby-basic
questions about energy or their pet molecule “CO2″. It’s almost like
carbon dioxide is totally irrelevant? Teachers don’t care. Kids don’t
care. Media don’t care, and when they all grow up the adults won’t care
either. More than 72% of Gen Z ‘don’t know nuclear powe
Moving at sedimentary-rock speed, the Australian government has finally
put a ban on flights from Italy effective at 6pm, and only ten days too
late. On the 28th of February Italy had 1700 cases and infections were
growing at 30% a day. At that point it was obvious where the numbers
were headed. Today France, Spain and Germany are where Italy was then.
How many infections will we fly in before we
… Do young adults learn anything that matters in school? They’re
protesting in the streets but can’t even answer the most baby-basic
questions about energy or their pet molecule “CO2″. It’s almost like
carbon dioxide is totally irrelevant? Teachers don’t care. Kids don’t
care. Media don’t care, and when they all grow up the adults won’t care
either. More than 72% of Gen Z ‘don’t know nuclear powe
Moving at sedimentary-rock speed, the Australian government has finally
put a ban on flights from Italy effective at 6pm, and only ten days too
late. On the 28th of February Italy had 1700 cases and infections were
growing at 30% a day. At that point it was obvious where the numbers
were headed. Today France, Spain and Germany are where Italy was then.
How many infections will we fly in before we
Mar 10
Here’s one for all the history-deniers from 1885 Mr N Bartley
understood Australias climate 134 years ago better than some climate
scientists appear to now. After the fire came the floods, Feb 2020. Even
then Australia already had a century-long rolling cycle of floods,
fires and droughts. One natural disaster after another back when CO2
levels were perfect. These go back to the earliest dates of
.. Rating: 7.4/10 (17 votes cast) Rating: 7.4/ 10 (17 votes cast)
Here’s one for all the history-deniers from 1885 Mr N Bartley
understood Australias climate 134 years ago better than some climate
scientists appear to now. After the fire came the floods, Feb 2020. Even
then Australia already had a century-long rolling cycle of floods,
fires and droughts. One natural disaster after another back when CO2
levels were perfect. These go back to the earliest dates of
.. Rating: 7.4/10 (17 votes cast) Rating: 7.4/ 10 (17 votes cast)
Mar 09
And so it begins. Suddenly there are no more weddings for a quarter of
Italy. No more movies, pubs, dance halls or trains to some parts of the
country either. Italy is about to overtake South Korea for the number
two spot on the list no country wants to lead, unless Iran beats Italy
to it (which it almost certainly has already). Today 16 million Italians
are not free to go about their business, o
And so it begins. Suddenly there are no more weddings for a quarter of
Italy. No more movies, pubs, dance halls or trains to some parts of the
country either. Italy is about to overtake South Korea for the number
two spot on the list no country wants to lead, unless Iran beats Italy
to it (which it almost certainly has already). Today 16 million Italians
are not free to go about their business, o
Mar 07
Watching
South Korea — it appears to have stopped the exponential spread of
Coronavirus Heartening. At its peaks last Saturday and Tuesday, South
Korea acquired 800 new infections per day. Since then, whatever it is
doing, South Korea has managed to keep the new daily cases between
300-800. That may not sound like much, but in exponential terms it could
have been a lot worse. Is this the future fo
Who needs studies? CSIRO doesn’t need any evidence to tell Australians
how things work Senator Matt Canavan asks Dr Peter Mayfield of CSIRO why
an explainer document they put out about the bushfires didn’t include a
sentence he found in another CSIRO study. “No studies explicitly
attributing the Australian increase in fire weather to climate change
have been performed at this time.” A record brea
With a big hello and best wishes to long time commenter Roy Hogue who’s
in hospital and we hope is improving fast. We miss you Roy. (Not
CoronaVirus) Rating: 9.4/10 (14 votes cast) Rating: 9.4/ 10 (14 votes
cast)
The
evidence is overwhelming but the names of 85 unconvinced experts
threatens the Earth. Shield your eyes, sinner, lest ye faith be tested! …
The Religion of Carbonoid-Weather-Control is so fragile, and Wikipedia
so captured by philosophical fruit flies, that 35 editors voted down 19
other editors and now The List does not exist. Thus do 35 editors keep
safe the minds of Wikipedia babes who might
Sobering This 25 year old British man caught the virus in Wuhan on
November 25. He must have been one of the earliest cases, and it was
only recognised belatedly that he had Coronavirus. Twice, he thought he
was well, only to relapse. But he does recover. I suspect this is the
rarer “severe” type case in an otherwise healthy young man.
Theoretically 80% of people get the easier five day version a
If solar power and batteries were a winner anywhere, we’d hope it would
be in remote Australian communities. But a cyclone clouded over
Central-Australia for a few days and the batteries ran out. People had
no money, no phone and no landline either. To boot, the rain flooded the
roads, so people were cut off in every sense. Welcome to Renewable
World: Telstra says the stations that provide landli
Watching
South Korea — it appears to have stopped the exponential spread of
Coronavirus Heartening. At its peaks last Saturday and Tuesday, South
Korea acquired 800 new infections per day. Since then, whatever it is
doing, South Korea has managed to keep the new daily cases between
300-800. That may not sound like much, but in exponential terms it could
have been a lot worse. Is this the future fo
Who needs studies? CSIRO doesn’t need any evidence to tell Australians
how things work Senator Matt Canavan asks Dr Peter Mayfield of CSIRO why
an explainer document they put out about the bushfires didn’t include a
sentence he found in another CSIRO study. “No studies explicitly
attributing the Australian increase in fire weather to climate change
have been performed at this time.” A record brea
With a big hello and best wishes to long time commenter Roy Hogue who’s
in hospital and we hope is improving fast. We miss you Roy. (Not
CoronaVirus) Rating: 9.4/10 (14 votes cast) Rating: 9.4/ 10 (14 votes
cast)
The
evidence is overwhelming but the names of 85 unconvinced experts
threatens the Earth. Shield your eyes, sinner, lest ye faith be tested! …
The Religion of Carbonoid-Weather-Control is so fragile, and Wikipedia
so captured by philosophical fruit flies, that 35 editors voted down 19
other editors and now The List does not exist. Thus do 35 editors keep
safe the minds of Wikipedia babes who might
Sobering This 25 year old British man caught the virus in Wuhan on
November 25. He must have been one of the earliest cases, and it was
only recognised belatedly that he had Coronavirus. Twice, he thought he
was well, only to relapse. But he does recover. I suspect this is the
rarer “severe” type case in an otherwise healthy young man.
Theoretically 80% of people get the easier five day version a
If solar power and batteries were a winner anywhere, we’d hope it would
be in remote Australian communities. But a cyclone clouded over
Central-Australia for a few days and the batteries ran out. People had
no money, no phone and no landline either. To boot, the rain flooded the
roads, so people were cut off in every sense. Welcome to Renewable
World: Telstra says the stations that provide landli
Mar 06
The
irony: while Australia blocks fruit flies, China blocks deadly viruses
How long before China bans flights from the US, UK and Australia? Count
the days… Coronavirus: China orders travellers quarantined amid outbreak
[BBC] Travellers from countries with severe coronavirus outbreaks who
arrive in some parts of China will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine,
state media say. Travellers from the v
The
irony: while Australia blocks fruit flies, China blocks deadly viruses
How long before China bans flights from the US, UK and Australia? Count
the days… Coronavirus: China orders travellers quarantined amid outbreak
[BBC] Travellers from countries with severe coronavirus outbreaks who
arrive in some parts of China will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine,
state media say. Travellers from the v
Mar 05
The Tasmanian Government has just announced they will be “200%
renewable” by 2040 — a feat only possible because they have an umbilical
cord to hostages in the mainland who have to pay for irrelevant surges
in electricity that arrive when they don’t need it. The same hostages
will send back fossil powered electricity every week to keep Tasmania
running when the wind and sun stop and the water is
Leading the pack, at about number 92, Australia bans flights from South
Korea South Korea added to Australia’s coronavirus travel ban list,
restrictions for travellers from Italy [ABC News] The Federal Government
has expanded its coronavirus travel ban to include South Korea, and
added additional precautions for travellers from Italy, amid fears about
the spread of the disease. The revised bans w
… Rating: 9.1/10 (11 votes cast) Rating: 9.1/ 10 (11 votes cast)
The Tasmanian Government has just announced they will be “200%
renewable” by 2040 — a feat only possible because they have an umbilical
cord to hostages in the mainland who have to pay for irrelevant surges
in electricity that arrive when they don’t need it. The same hostages
will send back fossil powered electricity every week to keep Tasmania
running when the wind and sun stop and the water is
Leading the pack, at about number 92, Australia bans flights from South
Korea South Korea added to Australia’s coronavirus travel ban list,
restrictions for travellers from Italy [ABC News] The Federal Government
has expanded its coronavirus travel ban to include South Korea, and
added additional precautions for travellers from Italy, amid fears about
the spread of the disease. The revised bans w
… Rating: 9.1/10 (11 votes cast) Rating: 9.1/ 10 (11 votes cast)
Mar 04
In
a word: bum. WHO announced their estimates of 3.4% global mortality
today. All the caveats apply — it includes rubbery-figures-from-China
and comes from the Useless UN and a group headed by a star
apologist-for-Xi. But here’s the thing, look at the numbers outside
China (see the big table below), and its a similar ballpark. Sorry to
rant on about this virus. The World Health Organization had sa
In
a word: bum. WHO announced their estimates of 3.4% global mortality
today. All the caveats apply — it includes rubbery-figures-from-China
and comes from the Useless UN and a group headed by a star
apologist-for-Xi. But here’s the thing, look at the numbers outside
China (see the big table below), and its a similar ballpark. Sorry to
rant on about this virus. The World Health Organization had sa
Mar 03
In the new pandemic era with a global social media, people are not
waiting for governments to tell them travel is risky. According to
IATA’s press release, airlines are experiencing serious declines in
demand: A carrier 26% reduction across their entire operation in
comparison to last year. A hub carrier reporting bookings to Italy down
108% as bookings collapse to zero and refunds grow. Many car
… Rating: 8.3/10 (13 votes cast) Rating: 8.3/ 10 (13 votes cast)
In the new pandemic era with a global social media, people are not
waiting for governments to tell them travel is risky. According to
IATA’s press release, airlines are experiencing serious declines in
demand: A carrier 26% reduction across their entire operation in
comparison to last year. A hub carrier reporting bookings to Italy down
108% as bookings collapse to zero and refunds grow. Many car
… Rating: 8.3/10 (13 votes cast) Rating: 8.3/ 10 (13 votes cast)
Mar 02
It’s
too expensive to close borders, they say, but who can afford to import
this virus? Should we stop holidays and conferences, or most of the
economy? The monthly PMI figures show that in February about four fifths
of China’s economy was shut down. Locking people in apartments and
hospitals being not very productive. Strangely, all the economists
watching the mainstream news and official Chinese
It’s
too expensive to close borders, they say, but who can afford to import
this virus? Should we stop holidays and conferences, or most of the
economy? The monthly PMI figures show that in February about four fifths
of China’s economy was shut down. Locking people in apartments and
hospitals being not very productive. Strangely, all the economists
watching the mainstream news and official Chinese
Feb 29
Fun
subject of the day: How Coronavirus kills No seriously, this is
matter-of-fact, youtube-at-its-best, concise, cartoony, and smart. Think
of doctors as Body-Engineers. The problem to solve today
Engineer-readers — is how to keep blood supply oxygenated when lungs are
highly inflamed, filling with fluid, and the delicate thin membranes of
lung tissue can’t cope with the sheer forces of rapid col
… Rating: 9.1/10 (22 votes cast) Rating: 9.1/ 10 (22 votes cast)
Fun
subject of the day: How Coronavirus kills No seriously, this is
matter-of-fact, youtube-at-its-best, concise, cartoony, and smart. Think
of doctors as Body-Engineers. The problem to solve today
Engineer-readers — is how to keep blood supply oxygenated when lungs are
highly inflamed, filling with fluid, and the delicate thin membranes of
lung tissue can’t cope with the sheer forces of rapid col
… Rating: 9.1/10 (22 votes cast) Rating: 9.1/ 10 (22 votes cast)
Feb 28
Amazing. Sinbad reports on the situation in Iran. He is a commenter
here who speaks the language. I can’t confirm this except to say that
#Coronavirusupdates Iran looks like everything he is describing.
Officially there are only 388 cases and 34 deaths. But on twitter, just
like China, censorship and denial and so much more. Mass graves. Corrupt
officials. Mass spraying of the streets. But if the
Overnight, people woke up to the real threat and markets crashed
appropriately. Unless we take massive action immediately, the
exponential curve is about to lift off. And if we don’t act now then
massive action is coming anyway in a month, along with major disruption,
pandemonium, and worse. There are now 5,300 cases outside China. If it
doubles every 5 days (as it just has) then 40 days from now
The non-binding unenforceable Paris agreement was always a theatre show
on the international stage, where most countries promise to do nothing,
and the rest make promises they don’t keep. But it’s an excuse for the
domestic Deep
Amazing. Sinbad reports on the situation in Iran. He is a commenter
here who speaks the language. I can’t confirm this except to say that
#Coronavirusupdates Iran looks like everything he is describing.
Officially there are only 388 cases and 34 deaths. But on twitter, just
like China, censorship and denial and so much more. Mass graves. Corrupt
officials. Mass spraying of the streets. But if the
Overnight, people woke up to the real threat and markets crashed
appropriately. Unless we take massive action immediately, the
exponential curve is about to lift off. And if we don’t act now then
massive action is coming anyway in a month, along with major disruption,
pandemonium, and worse. There are now 5,300 cases outside China. If it
doubles every 5 days (as it just has) then 40 days from now
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