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COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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Yes that is the issue. I’ve been saying that since the government put the country in that position, then that’s our path forward. That’s my point. Folks have no choice but to take matters into their own hands now to survive. That’s the facts. The time of sitting at home is gone, because the government failed the citizens. I’ve pointed that out several times. I’m not ignoring the dead, and the ones that will still die. But you have to weigh the cost of trying to protect those folks to the detriment of the rest of society now because of the position the government put us in. It’s not being heartless. It’s just the reality of the situation. You simply have to try and shield the vulnerable and the old while the rest of the country maintains some sort of living, or else society crumbles for 90% of the people instead of just the folks that will die off from the virus. The window for any other option has been closed since June
BaileyPark31
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Half of US COVID Deaths Are People of Color
Half of US COVID Deaths Are People of Color
By VOA News
Updated August 22, 2020 08:55 AM
FILE - A patient is moved by health care workers at Maimonides Medical Center, in New York City, amid the coronavirus pandemic, May 6, 2020.
The Associated Press reported Friday that half the COVID-19 deaths in the United States were people of color – Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and Asian Americans.
An analysis by The Associated Press and The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the criminal justice system, found that while people of color make up just under 40% of the U.S. population, they accounted for approximately 52% of all the “excess deaths" above normal through July. The report defined excess deaths as the number of people above the typical fatality number who died in the United States during the first seven months of 2020, based on figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The U.S. has more coronavirus cases and deaths than any other country, with 5.6 million infections and more than 175,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Brazil has 3.5 million cases and India is approaching the 3 million mark.
There are nearly 23 million global COVID-19 cases and almost 800,000 deaths, Johns Hopkins reported Saturday.
The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief Mike Ryan said Friday the scale of the pandemic in Mexico is "under-recognized" and that testing there is limited.
He told a Geneva briefing that Mexico was testing about 3 people per 100,000, compared with about 150 tests per 100,000 people in the United States.
Mexico had nearly 550,000 cases of the virus early Saturday and more than 59,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.
South Korea is imposing a nationwide ban on large gatherings, closing churches, nightclubs and beaches. In addition, fans will not be allowed at professional sports events.
A worker disinfects pews at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 21, 2020.
Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said Saturday the new nationwide restrictions, which begin Sunday, follow nine days of triple digit increases in coronavirus cases. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 332 new cases Saturday. The country has more than 17,000 coronavirus infections and more than 300 deaths.
Several European countries have been reporting new surges of COVID-19 cases.
“There should be no confusion: things are not going well,” Fernando Simón, Spain’s health emergency chief, said this week. “If we continue to allow transmission to rise, even if most cases are mild, we will end up with many in hospital, many in intensive care and many deaths.” The number of COVID-19 cases admitted to hospitals last week in Spain was double the admission numbers from the previous week.
Berlin experienced a COVID-19 outbreak after its schools opened. Hundreds of students and school personnel are now in quarantine.
French schoolchildren are set to return to school even after the country recorded 4,700 new cases Thursday and more than 4,500 Friday.
In Germany, officials warned Friday against travel to the Belgian capital of Brussels because of its high rate of coronavirus infections.
Britain said Friday it plans to start regular, population-wide testing for COVID-19 by the end of the year to help suppress the spread of the virus. The country has the highest death toll in Europe, with more than 41,000 fatalities.
The head of the World Health Organization says he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will end in under two years – less time than it took to stop the 1918 Spanish flu.
Speaking Friday at his regular briefing in Geneva, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the key to stopping the virus is for countries around the world to “pool our efforts.”
Yet this idiot @Absolut talking about 99% of people catch recover no problem
And he keeps talking about reopening shyt, that is not a good idea when you have idiots refusing to do the bare minimum of wearing a mask or social distancing.
Dzali OG
Dz Ali OG...Pay me like you owe me!
This country is resisting a fundamental change to our society. To our predatory, capitalist country that the wealthy treat as a playground.
As stated, other countries have given their citizens support and incentive to stay home. Our country is on that, "fukk that, yall better get back out there". And we're allowing them to have that attitude.
We should be out there in bigger numbers than for ol boy who got shot.
As stated, other countries have given their citizens support and incentive to stay home. Our country is on that, "fukk that, yall better get back out there". And we're allowing them to have that attitude.
We should be out there in bigger numbers than for ol boy who got shot.
My brother best friend just died
Young dude.. gym rat
Was in a come for weeks
Young dude.. gym rat
Was in a come for weeks
I have a friend who just lost her sister to this shyt. She has been sick only a few days and just suddenly passed away today. It was just sudden. shyt is fukked up. The only issue she had was childhood asthma.
I pray I don't have to deal with any shyt like this in my family and I got folks in my family who are legit at risk. But thankfully, I haven't had any immediate family who are dumbasses about this shyt either. My aunt who is a professor at a HBCU down in Texas has a lot of preexisting condition and she told her employer she refuses to show up for in person classes and got it where she is offer all online shyt right now. If I had an anti-masker its a hoax dumbass in my family, I might flip my shyt dealing with the stupidity.
I pray I don't have to deal with any shyt like this in my family and I got folks in my family who are legit at risk. But thankfully, I haven't had any immediate family who are dumbasses about this shyt either. My aunt who is a professor at a HBCU down in Texas has a lot of preexisting condition and she told her employer she refuses to show up for in person classes and got it where she is offer all online shyt right now. If I had an anti-masker its a hoax dumbass in my family, I might flip my shyt dealing with the stupidity.
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$cam-U-Well_Jack$on
Superstar
Right. Folks drank da Kool-aid of capitalism and don't wanna let go. Especially those of whom it benefits. It's even more disgusting to see black folks (presumed and/or verified) take on capitalist attitudes of a system that doesn't and never has benefitted us.
Yet this idiot @Absolut talking about 99% of people catch recover no problem
And he keeps talking about reopening shyt, that is not a good idea when you have idiots refusing to do the bare minimum of wearing a mask or social distancing.
Good ole herd immunity, brehs.
humminbird
Veteran
My condolences
humminbird
Veteran
I’m sorryI have a friend who just lost her sister to this shyt. She has been sick only a few days and just suddenly passed away today. It was just sudden. shyt is fukked up. The only issue she had was childhood asthma.
Youseenmywork
KING
Dzali OG
Dz Ali OG...Pay me like you owe me!
This scares the shyt outta me!!
There is no "get back to work, hope for herd immunity, just live ya life" with incidents like this!