I am living in the middle of the emergency over coronavirus in Finland. Due this reason the update cycle to make posting to this blog could be slowed down.
The Finnish government announced on Monday nationwide school closures in order to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Read more on the following aricles:
Finland closes schools, declares state of emergency over coronavirus
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finland_closes_schools_declares_state_of_emergency_over_coronavirus/11260062
Daycare centres are to stay open but parents were asked to keep their kids home if possible. The government also published a 19-point list of emergency legislation that takes effect on 18 March.
Coronavirus latest: 359 cases confirmed in Finland, S-Group shuts its Helsinki eateries, bankruptcy fears mount
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/coronavirus_latest_359_cases_confirmed_in_finland_s-group_shuts_its_helsinki_eateries_bankruptcy_fears_mount/11249610
Here is a link to an earlier post related to Coronavirus:
https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/02/12/mobile-trends-2020-mwc-canceled/
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Surveillance Company Says It’s Deploying ‘Coronavirus-Detecting’ Cameras in US
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epg8xe/surveillance-company-deploying-coronavirus-detecting-cameras
Athena Security previously sold a system that it claims can detect weapons in video feeds. Now it says it’s applying a similar approach to spotting fevers.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Staggering Collapse Of U.S. Intelligence On The Coronavirus
An agency tasked with tracking future bio threats fell down on the job, causing us to wonder what else we don’t know.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-staggering-collapse-of-u-s-intelligence-on-the-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR1PGsWpSx8gAtK9RGSz_gP5FsaH4NkZwmrwieldmCl0Id-rNK5pSqDPtqY
If the fight against the coronavirus is a war, then the virus clearly took the U.S. government by surprise. “Certainly we didn’t get an early run on it, Trump noted in a press conference on March 17. “It would’ve been helpful if we knew about it earlier.”
It is the job of the U.S. intelligence community to provide senior U.S. government policy makers, including the president, with advance warning about potential crises. The U.S. taxpayer pays a premium for this service; in 2020, the budget for the National Intelligence Program, which includes all programs, projects and activities of the U.S. intelligence community, was $62.8 billion.
Included in this budget is a small, specialized intelligence unit known as the National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), which operates as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
For example, in April 2009—two months prior to when the WHO and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially declared the global outbreak of H1N1 influenza a pandemic, NCMI published an intelligence product, known as an “Infectious Disease Risk Assessment,” which predicted that a recent outbreak of the Swine Flu (H1N1) would become a pandemic.
“The sooner we can detect and understand a threat,” Obama wrote in the introduction to the first National Strategy for Biosurveillance, “the faster we can take action to protect the American people.”
The coronavirus was clearly part of the NCMI’s remit. And yet its first Infectious Disease Risk Assessment for COVID-19 was issued on January 5, 2020, reporting that 59 people had been taken ill in Wuhan, China.
The next day the CDC warned American citizens to take precautions if traveling to China, followed a day later with the activation of a COVID-19 incident management team
Unlike 2009, when the NCMI provided a full two months heads up about the threat of a Swine Flu pandemic, in 2020 the Trump administration was taking its cues from the WHO, which waited until January 30, 2020 to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The NCMI had been relegated to a mere observer, having failed in its mission to provide timely, predictive analysis of pending epidemiological threats.
Almost everything the NCMI knew about the current situation in Wuhan came from the WHO
the “most recent common ancestor” for the coronavirus could be dated back to as early as October 1, 2019.
The importance of this date as it relates to the NCMI is that in mid-October 2019 a delegation of 300 U.S. military athletes arrived in Wuhan to participate in the 2019 Military World games. China has suggested that these personnel might have introduced the coronavirus infection to Wuhan, citing their own research thatsuggests that the virus was introduced into China from elsewhere
The CDC has recently acknowledged, during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on March 11, that its biosurveillance program has uncovered evidence that Americans who had previously died to what had been originally diagnosed as influenza have, through post-mortem testing, been found to have actually have perished from the coronavirus.
Tomi Engdahl says:
We’re not going back to normal
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/
Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.
To stop coronavirus we will need to radically change almost everything we do: how we work, exercise, socialize, shop, manage our health, educate our kids, take care of family members.
We all want things to go back to normal quickly. But what most of us have probably not yet realized—yet will soon—is that things won’t go back to normal after a few weeks, or even a few months. Some things never will.
Tomi Engdahl says:
It’s now widely agreed (even by Britain, finally) that every country needs to “flatten the curve”: impose social distancing to slow the spread of the virus so that the number of people sick at once doesn’t cause the health-care system to collapse, as it is threatening to do in Italy right now. That means the pandemic needs to last, at a low level, until either enough people have had Covid-19 to leave most immune (assuming immunity lasts for years, which we don’t know) or there’s a vaccine.
How long would that take, and how draconian do social restrictions need to be?
In China, six weeks of lockdown are beginning to ease now that new cases have fallen to a trickle.
But it won’t end there. As long as someone in the world has the virus, breakouts can and will keep recurring without stringent controls to contain them.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/
Imperial College London proposed a way of doing this: impose more extreme social distancing measures every time admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) start to spike, and relax them each time admissions fall.
Each time they rise above a threshold—say, 100 per week—the country would close all schools and most universities and adopt social distancing. When they drop below 50, those measures would be lifted, but people with symptoms or whose family members have symptoms would still be confined at home.
What counts as “social distancing”? The researchers define it as “All households reduce contact outside household, school or workplace by 75%.” That doesn’t mean you get to go out with your friends once a week instead of four times. It means everyone does everything they can to minimize social contact, and overall, the number of contacts falls by 75%.
Under this model, the researchers conclude, social distancing and school closures would need to be in force some two-thirds of the time—roughly two months on and one month off—until a vaccine is available, which will take at least 18 months (if it works at all).
Eighteen months!? Surely there must be other solutions. Why not just build more ICUs and treat more people at once, for example?
Well, in the researchers’ model, that didn’t solve the problem. Without social distancing of the whole population, they found, even the best mitigation strategy—which means isolation or quarantine of the sick, the old, and those who have been exposed, plus school closures—would still lead to a surge of critically ill people eight times bigger than the US or UK system can cope with.
How about imposing restrictions for just one batch of five months or so? No good—once measures are lifted, the pandemic breaks out all over again, only this time it’s in winter, the worst time for overstretched health-care systems.
And what if we decided to be brutal: set the threshold number of ICU admissions for triggering social distancing much higher, accepting that many more patients would die? Turns out it makes little difference.
This isn’t a temporary disruption. It’s the start of a completely different way of life.
Living in a state of pandemic
In the short term, this will be hugely damaging to businesses that rely on people coming together in large numbers: restaurants, cafes, bars, nightclubs, gyms, hotels, theaters, cinemas, art galleries, shopping malls, craft fairs, museums, musicians and other performers, sporting venues (and sports teams), conference venues (and conference producers), cruise lines, airlines, public transportation, private schools, day-care centers. That’s to say nothing of the stresses on parents thrust into home-schooling their kids, people trying to care for elderly relatives without exposing them to the virus, people trapped in abusive relationships, and anyone without a financial cushion to deal with swings in income.
There’ll be some adaptation, of course
Tomi Engdahl says:
Israel is tracking its coronavirus patients through their phones to make sure they obey strict quarantine policies
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-israel-government-track-patients-quarantine-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet approved new measures early Tuesday to allow its spy agency to tap into the cell phones of Israelis sick with coronavirus and monitor their movements.
The new surveillance regulation does not require Israel’s security agency — Shin Bet — to obtain a court order to track people’s phones and collect data, but calls for the data must be deleted after 30 days, Haaretz reported.
As of Monday, Israel has reported 298 coronavirus cases. It has a population of around 8 million people.
Tomi Engdahl says:
German State Finance Minister commits suicide over coronavirus crisis
https://btnews.online/archives/119257/german-state-finance-minister-commits-suicide-over-coronavirus-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR2mo3XvxM_re5Jmu4cjhpc8XLkOLB2kwRstLthHzUhRvD19zUYMFvELa1I
Thomas Schafer, the state finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state committed suicide after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus.
“I have to assume that these worries overwhelmed him,”
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Germany has risen to more than 60,000 and 482 people have died of the disease.
The relatively low death rate in comparison to other European countries, such as Italy or Spain, led to a discussion on the numbers of recorded and unrecorded cases, including their age distributions, and international differences in the number of intensive care beds with respiratory support.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://professorinajatuksia.blogspot.com/2020/03/kykeneeko-eu-mihinkaan.html?m=1
Tomi Engdahl says:
Cybersecurity experts come together to fight coronavirus-related hacking
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-coronavirus-cyber/cybersecurity-experts-come-together-to-fight-coronavirus-related-hacking-idUSKBN21D049
An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed on Wednesday to fight hacking related to the novel coronavirus.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Karu aikajana paljastaa: näin epidemia vyöryi Wuhanista maailmalle – ja näin Suomi reagoi https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006457313.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-says-rich-must-pay-covid-19-chaos
Tomi Engdahl says:
Espanja pysäyttää koko taloutensa
Vain yhteiskunnalle välttämätön taloudellinen toiminta sallitaan.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11281216
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tutkijatohtori: Nämä voisivat olla Suomen seuraavat koronarajoitukset
Tutkijatohtori Tuomas Aivelo pitää ongelmallisena ”puolivillaisissa toimenpiteissä” roikkumista.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/d56dc2ae-fbae-4482-984b-7a7398d36ea0
Tomi Engdahl says:
Saksassa koronavirukseen kuolee huomattavan vähän ihmisiä – taustalla useita syitä
https://www.iltalehti.fi/koronavirus/a/f6a6f6eb-bbf0-407e-9a73-50613aa69a89
Germany has a remarkably low coronavirus death rate — thanks largely to mass testing, but also culture, luck, and an impressive healthcare system
https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-why-coronavirus-death-rate-lower-italy-spain-test-healthcare-2020-3
Tomi Engdahl says:
Brittitutkijat: Jos koronavirus olisi saanut levitä vapaasti, se olisi tarttunut 7 miljardiin ihmiseen ja tappanut 40 miljoonaa
https://tekniikanmaailma.fi/brittitutkijat-jos-koronavirus-olisi-saanut-levita-vapaasti-se-olisi-tarttunut-7-miljardiin-ihmiseen-ja-tappanut-40-miljoonaa/
koronaviruspandemia olisi voinut tartuttaa 90 prosenttia maapallon väestöstä ja tappanut 40,6 miljoonaa ihmistä, jos sen leviämistä ei olisi yritetty estää millään tavalla.
Tällaisen arvion esittää brittiläinen Imperial College London uudessa mallinnuksessaan, kertoo Nature-lehti
Viime viikolla julkistettu Imperial College Londonin raportti arvioi, että ihmisten eristystoimilla ja testaamisella kuolemien määrä voidaan leikata 1,8 miljoonaan.
Nämä toimenpiteet pitäisi mallinnuksen mukaan kuitenkin tehdä silloin, kun kunkin maan kuolleisuus on 0,2 ihmistä 100 000 ihmistä kohti viikossa.
Jos näihin toimenpiteisiin ryhdytään, kun kuolleisuus on jo 1,6 ihmistä 100 000 ihmistä kohden viikossa, virukseen kuolee 10,5 miljoonaa ihmistä ympäri maailmaa.
”Tuloksemme viittaavat siihen, että kaikkien maiden pitää tehdä suuria ja kalliita toimenpiteitä estääkseen taudin leviämistä, tai muuten niiden terveydenhuoltojärjestelmä on vaarassa tukkeutua.”
Coronavirus pandemic could have caused 40 million deaths if left unchecked
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196496/coronavirus-pandemic-could-have-caused-40/
The outbreak of COVID-19 would likely have caused 40 million deaths this year in the absence of any preventative measures.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/italia-kypsyi-taysin-jahkailuun-eu-erosta-puhutaan-jo-taysin-avoimesti-nyt-maaritellaan-euroopan-olemassaoloa/46288ce4-c1c6-476f-a3e0-582cc9be3abc
Tomi Engdahl says:
Coronavirus trajectory tracker explained
The FT’s senior data-visualisation journalist John Burn-Murdoch explains the must-see daily graphs, which show how cases and deaths are growing around the world
https://www.ft.com/video/9a72a9d4-8db1-4615-8333-4b73ae3ddff8
Tomi Engdahl says:
The New York Times is urging its staffers to work from home
https://nypost.com/2020/03/10/the-new-york-times-is-urging-its-staffers-to-work-from-home/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Coronavirus: News media sounded the alarm for months – but few listened
https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-news-media-sounded-the-alarm-for-months-but-few-listened-132224
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Wuhan, China, journalists at the biggest U.S. news organizations have diligently reported on the many dangers posed by its rapid spread.
Yet even as entire states – like California and New York – shut down, many Americans still don’t believe that the coronavirus is as big a deal as the news media has made it out to be. A poll conducted in mid-March found that only 56% of Americans consider the coronavirus a “real threat,” and that 38% believe that it has been “blown out of proportion.” A more recent poll similarly found that only 57% of U.S. residents see the coronavirus as “the biggest concern facing your family right now.”
It’s true that there has been a lot of coverage.
People aren’t missing the coverage, either: Online news consumption has gone up drastically since the beginning of March.
Still, a significant portion of the American people are unprepared and uninformed about the pandemic journalists have warned about for months, which is now upon us all. Why is that? As someone who researches the relationship between journalism and the public, I have observed a growing consensus within journalism scholarship around a possible answer: People simply don’t trust what they’re reading and hearing.
Most Americans don’t trust the news media
Gallup polls show that since 2005, less than half of Americans trust the mass media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tutkija: “Kyllä tästä meille pitkäaikainen ongelma tulee” – Koronavirus ei pyri tappamaan ihmisiä vaan asettumaan meihin
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11279674?fbclid=IwAR3DFPKdSGvC8N-tbrcTZSzBBEIuJc7Vx90AstUzmk9cGQGIY08_i2E-hG4&utm_source=facebook-share&utm_medium=social
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://talouskriisi.fi/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Epidemiahuipun ennuste: 100 potilasta teholla Husissa – vakavampi skenaario voi jopa kaksinkertaistaa lukeman
https://www.helsinginuutiset.fi/artikkeli/853340-epidemiahuipun-ennuste-100-potilasta-teholla-husissa-vakavampi-skenaario-voi-jopa
Hus varautuu siihen, että koronaepidemian huippu koetaan touko-kesäkuun vaihteessa
Koronavirusepidemian pahin huippu osuu ennusteiden mukaan Suomessa touko–kesäkuun vaihteeseen. Ennusteen mukaan Suomessa on huipun hetkellä noin 900 potilasta sairaalahoidossa koronaviruksen vuoksi, joista 280 tehohoidossa. Husissa tämä tarkoittaa noin 300 potilasta sairaalahoidossa, joista noin 100 tehohoidossa. Vakavammassa skenaariossa määrät saattavat lähes kaksinkertaistua
Husin sairaaloissa on noin 3 000 vuodeosastopaikkaa ja noin 200 teho- ja valvontapaikkaa. Ennusteen mukaan vuodeosastopaikoista kymmenesosa ja teho- ja valvontapaikoista puolet olisivat koronapotilaiden käytössä epidemian huipun yhteydessä.
Suurin osa sairaaloiden toiminnasta kohdistuisi edelleen muiden kuin koronapotilaiden hoitoon.
Maailmalla pystytetään tilapäissairaaloita, Suomi ei pidä kenttäsairaaloita toistaiseksi tarpeellisina
https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006450489.html
Toistaiseksi ainut sairaalatelttojen pystyttäjä Suomessa on ollut Punainen Risti, joka on pystyttänyt vastaanottoteltat kolmen sairaalan pihalle.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Lähipäivät näyttävät: Pelastavatko hallituksen toimet koronakuolemien hurjalta nousulta?
https://www.iltalehti.fi/koronavirus/a/36dfdca0-a120-470c-9c0d-cd623cfd5d2c
Lähipäivät näyttävät, lähteekö koronaan kuolleiden määrä samanlaiseen nousuun kuin Ruotsissa ja Tanskassa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hallitus jatkaa koronatoimia kuukaudella – ylioppilasjuhlat saatetaan joutua siirtämään
https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/0206249a-48b9-4db8-80d6-373ecf388386
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bill Gates on coronavirus: We need an ‘extreme shutdown’ of 6 to 10 weeks
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-on-coronavirus-161803530.html
Philanthropist and billionaire Bill Gates believes that America needs six to 10 weeks of “extreme shutdown” of regular life to get a handle on the new coronavirus outbreak (or COVID-19), contradicting comments from President Trump.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kommentti: Euromaat kiistelevät koronavelkakirjoista – yhteinen piikki on kuitenkin jo auki https://www.is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000006458161.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Uusi tutkimus. Kun otetaan huomioon myös testamaattomat koronavirustartunnat, Covid-19 kuolleisuus onkin aikaisemmin olettua pienempi n. 0,66 % (vaihteluväli 0,39 – 1,33 %). Tämä on silti kausi-influessaa (0,1 %) merkittävästi suurempi.
“Our estimated overall infection fatality ratio for China was 0.66% (0.39–1,33), with an increasing profile with age. Similarly, estimates of the proportion of infected individuals likely to be hospitalised increased with age up to a maximum of 18.4% (11.0–7.6) in those aged 80 years or older.”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30243-7/fulltext
Tomi Engdahl says:
Boris Johnson’s government is furious with China and believes it could have 40 times the number of coronavirus cases it says
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-boris-johnsons-government-reportedly-furious-with-china-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Anatomy of the $2 Trillion COVID-19 Stimulus Bill
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-anatomy-of-the-2-trillion-covid-19-stimulus-bill/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Leaving Las Vegas… for good? IT industry conference circuit won’t look the same on other side of COVID-19 pandemic
O’Reilly has quit the events game, and it might not be the only one
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/30/it_events_after_coronavirus/
Love them or loathe them, IT conferences are a feature of industry life.
But is that world about to come to an end? Some think so. Earlier this week Laura Baldwin, president of IT education and conferences company O’Reilly, announced plans to permanently end mass face-to-face events. Restrictions around COVID-19 had forced the conference online, and O’Reilly, for one, was not about to turn back.
“Without understanding when this global health emergency may come to an end, we can’t plan for or execute on a business that will be forever changed as a result of this crisis,” she said. “With large technology vendors moving their events completely on-line, we believe the stage is set for a new normal moving forward when it comes to in-person events. We also know we are poised to accept that challenge.”
At the end of last week, SAP threw in the towel on its Sapphire Now and ASUG Annual Conference: saying that the 2020 in-person event would “become digital experiences”, while just days before, Google said its May I/O 2020 event, normally used for announcements relating to Android and other products, was cancelled completely, with product announcements to be emitted via blog.
For these companies, IT conferences are not about helping users learn. They are about selling more product to a captive market.
“There’s a serendipity factor at in-person events that virtual events just can’t offer. Hallway meetings, finding that obscure booth in the back corner that has exactly what you need,” as one Register reader put it.
Or as another said: “Folks REALLY like Vegas.”
But perhaps it is time to change. “People have been asking for years why companies fly all over the planet for events, meetings etc. when video conferencing etc. exists,” another correspondent said. “This crisis might just force the old habits to stop when they SEE it’s unnecessary and money can be saved.”
And money is what may settle the issue. Undoubtedly, many conferences will be pushed online for the remainder of the year. Sales will be down and IT companies will blame COVID-19 for the depressed state of the market.
When the market bounces back, vendors will get a visceral sense they are missing out on sales, and conferences will be back. But they will be smaller
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kahden metrin turvaetäisyys ei riitä – koronaviruspilvi yltää jopa 8 metrin päähän
Kesäinen lämpökään ei näyttäisi nitistävän koronavirusta.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/koronavirus/a/63bbc246-f15f-4e88-b727-4a349ce14983
MIT:n mukaan yskimisen ja aivastelun yhteydessä leviävät viruspisarat voivat matkata kosteassa ja lämpimässä ilmassa 10–100 metrin sekuntivauhtia luoden jopa seitsemän, kahdeksan metrin etäisyydelle yltävän viruspilven.
Tutkijat varoittavat The Telegraph -lehdessä, että pisarat voivat pysyä ilmassa tuntien ajan liikkuessaan esimerkiksi ilmanvaihtokanavia pitkin.
MIT:n tutkijoiden mukaan nykyinen kahden metrin turvaväli saattaakin olla liian lyhyt.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Social distancing: new study suggests two metres is not enough
People may still be at risk even when they are more than two metres away from an infected person
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/27/social-distancing-new-study-suggests-two-metres-not-enough/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Suomalaisten koronavirusnäytteitä tutkitaan Etelä-Koreassa – Yritykset huolissaan rajoitteiden hintalapusta: ”Jokainen viikko vie 1,2 miljardia”
https://www.iltalehti.fi/koronavirus/a/d579311b-687e-4de9-9dd7-364487dc294d
Tomi Engdahl says:
Coronavirus: Doctor explains the proper way to wash your hands and put on a face mask
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=A4qwCWwC-Oo
Six steps to wearing the N95 mask
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bo-PEzHE7iw
Tomi Engdahl says:
I’ve said it before….people either think it’s a serious pandemic or it’s the government and corporations trying to take over using media. Actually, it’s a serious pandemic AND the government and corporations are trying to take over using media. People just base their opinions on anecdotal evidence and generalizations and choose a side instead, propagating whatever conspiracy pushes their beliefs while downplaying the other side
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ennen rajoituksia se oli Tanskassa 2,6 – eli jokainen sairastunut tartutti niin monta uutta ihmistä – mutta nyt se oli tippunut jo 1,4:ään.
Samaan 1,4:n R0-lukuun tähtää myös THL Suomessa nykyisillä rajoituksilla. Tosin viimeisin tehohoitopaikkojen riittävyyttä kuvaava arvio perustui siihen, että koronavirus etenisi maassamme R0-luvulla 1,6.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/koronavirus/a/9aa0525e-7988-4111-ab9b-8e7ed3ec78b6
Tomi Engdahl says:
Oletko valmis, jos joudut koronan vuoksi sairaalaan? ”Tee valmistelut nyt, kunto voi romahtaa äkkiä” – 5 tärkeää asiaa
https://www.iltalehti.fi/flunssa/a/7f805aba-ece5-4597-9d5a-68f87e3c0ad1
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hengitysteitse leviävästä globaalista tappajasta vakava varoitus jo syyskuussa: ”Maailma ei ole valmis”
https://www.iltalehti.fi/koronavirus/a/5ab925aa-1cf4-4004-bb8d-2b33286f8fae
Raportti julkaistiin vain muutamaa kuukautta ennen koronavirusepidemian alkua.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr John Ioannidis of Stanford University | Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6MZy-2fcBw
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
Projecting the Diamond Princess mortality rate onto the age structure of the U.S. population, the death rate among people infected with Covid-19 would be 0.125%. But since this estimate is based on extremely thin data — there were just seven deaths among the 700 infected passengers and crew — the real death rate could stretch from five times lower (0.025%) to five times higher (0.625%). It is also possible that some of the passengers who were infected might die later, and that tourists may have different frequencies of chronic diseases — a risk factor for worse outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 infection — than the general population. Adding these extra sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Flu
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
Tomi Engdahl says:
Yhdysvaltain kiusallinen ongelma: Koronavirus pysäytti lentotukialus Theodore Rooseveltin
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/yhdysvaltain-kiusallinen-ongelma-koronavirus-pysaytti-lentotukialus-theodore-rooseveltin/33a17e01-f896-448a-bdd8-30fd87322f1f
Vietnamin-vierailu osoittautui miehistölle kohtalokkaaksi.
Tomi Engdahl says:
8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here’s what clues they’re giving scientists.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/27/scientists-track-coronavirus-strains-mutation/5080571002/
Scientists sequenced the genomes of eight coronavirus strains circling the globe providing hints about the effectiveness of efforts to halt the virus.
Tomi Engdahl says:
VIDEO: Japanese Vice PM Says WHO Should Be Renamed ‘Chinese Health Organization’
Taro Aso slammed the WHO for reciting CCP talking points
https://nationalfile.com/video-japanese-vice-pm-says-who-should-be-renamed-chinese-health-organization/
“Although the details are murky, the WHO’s previous Director General was a Chinese national, and at he time, there were complaints all around,” Taro Aso said.
“And now, at least, the petition has gathered three hundred thousand signatures, or rather, five hundred thousand signatures.”
“Early on, if the WHO had not insisted to the world that China had no pneumonia epidemic, then everybody would have taken precautions. The WHO, which is a global organization, does not even include Taiwan, and then precisely because Taiwan is not a member of the WHO, it becomes a world leader in fighting the epidemic,”
The WHO has come under intense criticism for essentially acting as the medical propaganda wing of the CCP.
Tomi Engdahl says:
‘Terror Threat’ Charges for Walmart ‘Coronavirus’ Licker
Clout-chasing social media stunt gone wrong
https://nationalfile.com/terror-threat-charges-for-walmart-coronavirus-licker/
Tomi Engdahl says:
99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says?utm_medium=social&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&fbclid=IwAR2-LKZSW09OT8Evz93BGNoDocXO5aZMemzffosdLCABi40SN_dvEj0N8W4
More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority.
The new study could provide insight into why Italy’s death rate, at about 8% of total infected people, is higher than in other countries.
The Rome-based institute has examined medical records of about 18% of the country’s coronavirus fatalities, finding that just three victims, or 0.8% of the total, had no previous pathology. Almost half of the victims suffered from at least three prior illnesses and about a fourth had either one or two previous conditions.
More than 75% had high blood pressure, about 35% had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.
Tomi Engdahl says:
and there is far more corona related deaths than those being reported as corona.
https://pandemic.substack.com/p/the-elephant-in-the-room-undercounting
Tomi Engdahl says:
Two experts explain what other viruses can teach us about COVID-19 – and what they can’t
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-covid-19-mers-sars-experts/
Coronaviruses and Acute Respiratory Syndromes (COVID-19, MERS, and SARS)
https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/respiratory-viruses/coronaviruses-and-acute-respiratory-syndromes-covid-19,-mers,-and-sars
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://thl.fi/web/infectious-diseases/what-s-new/coronavirus-covid-19-latest-updates
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kriisi on journalismin ja mediabisneksen öljy:
Monet asiaohjelmista ovat lähes tuplanneet katsojamääränsä – Koronapandemian aika on televisiossa jotain ”aivan poikkeuksellista”
https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000006459199.html?share=32b6ffd2f6e455106f727327d6ba5a82
Varsinkin uutis- ja asiaohjelmat ovat nyt kiinnostaneet katsojia. Jopa viittomakieliset, venäjän- ja saamenkieliset uutiset ovat olleet katsotuimpien ohjelmien joukossa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Rajoitukset ovat hidastaneet koronan leviämistä – THL:n johtaja kiittää suomalaisia
https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/2b641eb4-0e4e-4d56-bbf8-6ae34632aecf
Tomi Engdahl says:
How Coronavirus Scammers Hide On Facebook And YouTube
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2020/03/19/how-coronavirus-scammers-hide-on-facebook-and-youtube/