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Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Other Countries (not Philippines or UK)

Discussion in 'News from the UK, Europe and the rest of the World' started by aposhark, Oct 19, 2020.

  1. aposhark
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  2. Druk1
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    I can never see the name without remembering my old mate Tom asking for a dwarf in the four floors :oops:
  3. aposhark
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    Haha, saw quite a few seamen getting waylaid there.
    Mind you, it was quite tame compared to Bugis Street back in the 70s :oops:
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    I always felt uncomfortable in those places, I took my son down Soi 6 a few years ago, a katoy felt his bum and ran after him, that made me chuckle :lol:
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    You jumped countries there. :D
  6. Druk1
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    Fire started in a covid ward in Gujarat, at least 18 dead.
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    I know, because you mentioned a renown katoey "Hot-spot" :oops:
  8. aposhark
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    We used to call the "four floors..." in Orchard Towers, Singers.
  9. Druk1
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    Four floors of...... :oops:
    Did you ever witness the dance of the flaming............?
  10. aposhark
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    Yes, the Aussies used to do it in the 1970s in Bugis Street, Singapore.
    Saw a fella getting burnt - not a pretty sight but everyone was very amused (except him).
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    They had very effective lockdowns last year, you won't get clear data from this, already there is serious doubt about the ability of the Indian state to count the numbers of dead never mind the inability to do more tests as they have already reached national laboratory testing capacity, so they won't know.

    They got in this mess because they got cocky and thought they already had herd immunity.

    Let me repeat again, as far as we know the state of herd immunity in humans has never been reached for any viral disease except by the use of vaccination programmes.

    And let's go further Indian hospitals are reporting that ICUs are filling up with young people something they hadn't seen in previous waves, they are not fighting the same virus as last year it's a huge country where it has spread fairly freely and the inevitable emergence of mutations is changing the outcome, it's still Covid but it is not the same Covid that got out of China in 2019.

    If you want to see what happens when you do nothing look at Brazil or the USA, any attenuating factors in Brazil and for most of last year in the USA were the result of voluntary actions and behaviour of the informed portion of the populace, the government particularly in Brazil did bugger all.

    And further we owe the successful trials of vaccines to countries like that where it was allowed to run wild, there were times last year when not enough people were infected to get good results from vaccine trials but that was not the case in Brazil where it was one big rolling mess.
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    Just watched an Indian being interviewed on the BBC, one comment she made at the end of the interview is that the government is not being transparent about the deaths and that from what they are getting on local media the real numbers dying could be 10,000 to 20,000 a day just now.

    She also effectively laid the blame for all this at the feet of the Prime Minister who she was basically accusing of electioneering using the relaxation of pandemic restrictions as a political tool.
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  16. bigmac
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    20,000 a day is the same--or less --% to what we had in the UK a very few weeks ago.
  17. oss
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    No it isn't we have never had 20,000 deaths a day.
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    India's official Infection Fatality Rate at 157 per million is tiny compared to ours (1871 per million) but that is their reported numbers some are saying that the reality is 5 times that but even then it would still be less per head of population than the UK.
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    i meant pro rata
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