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tmar said:

Australia warns China against using 'economic coercion' to prevent a probe into the coronavirus pandemic as Beijing ambassador warns they could stop importing wine and beef

Tim Stickings For Mailonline and Reuters
7 hrs ago
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Australia has warned China against using 'economic coercion' to stop an investigation into the coronavirus pandemic after Beijing's ambassador in Canberra hinted at a boycott of the country's products.

Australia is urging WHO members to support an independent review into the origins of the virus - an inquiry which China opposes.
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China's ambassador Cheng Jingye said in an interview that the 'Chinese public' might abandon Australian wine and beef if such a probe goes ahead.

But Australia's foreign minister Marise Payne has dismissed the threat, saying Australia was making a 'principled call' for an investigation.

'We reject any suggestion that economic coercion is an appropriate response to a call for such an assessment, when what we need is global cooperation,' Payne said.

An 'honest assessment' of the pandemic would seek to strengthen the WHO's role, the foreign minister said.

The comments from ambassador Cheng were published in the Australian Financial Review, which said the diplomat had described a possible probe as 'dangerous'.

'The Chinese public is frustrated, dismayed and disappointed with what Australia is doing now,' he said.
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Well, there's a threat if I've ever seen one. Jmo
 
Trino said:
What? The federal government is a last resort for testing? I thought we were the UNITED States of America.
White House document says federal government is a test 'supplier of last resort' - CNNPolitics
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The private sector should "develop new technologies" and "accelerate production of tests and materials," according to the document. It also states the federal government is working with private companies to accelerate the production of "highly specific and sensitive antibody tests," which could detect whether a person has previously been exposed to the virus.
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This sounds reasonable to me. Private companies producing the needed tests with assistance from the federal government.

White House document says federal government is a test 'supplier of last resort' - CNNPolitics
 
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A judge has overturned Gov. JB Pritzker's extended stay-at-home order in a bombshell ruling.

Downstate Republican State Representative Darren Bailey filed a lawsuit last week challenging the governor's authority to issue a stay-at-home order.

On Monday, a judge ruled in favor of the lawsuit, granting a temporary restraining order blocking the governor's extended stay-at-home order which was to take effect Friday and run through the end of May. The order had loosened restrictions on some businesses and allowed for some outdoor recreation to resume.

Coronavirus Update: Illinois' stay-at-home order overturned by judge as IL COVID-19 death toll nears 2K with 45K total cases
 
MimosaMornings said:
I wish there was a plan for those trying to keep working but it’s difficult. Especially if unable to work remotely or even in a smaller office environment.

My cousin who works for a large manufacturing plant asked for a temporary furlough due to 65 with hypertension and was told to take his two weeks of vacation and then show up for work. How do you social distance with 1000 people in a manufacturing plant working elbow to elbow? He will not get his full social security for a year and a half.
Temp checks are good but we know that it is also spread by people with no symptoms or very mild symptoms.
To avoid paying unemployment, the plant is going to work 2-3 days a week.
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He needs to find a good hazmat suit ASAP.......seriously....if the boss doesn’t like it......call the cops.
 
Yes. I'm down here now at my Marina. On my second home. Quite a few people here. No problem making the hour drive down.
Marina is checking to make sure you're a tenant before letting you enter the parking areas.
You can take watercraft without engines out, but not with engines. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. We can also fish again.
It's nice to get out of my air-conditoned house, it's been hot here.


Curious Me said:
Much better news about the San Diego beaches opening today. Beach goers followed the rules. It is nice to see the surfers being able to do their thing, but following the guidelines. The Mayor is very happy to get cooperation. :):):)

Watch Live: Mayor reports on 1st day of limited beach re-openings


Watch some surfers!
Some San Diego beaches open for limited use after weeks-long closure
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Curious Me said:
Is it my antimalarial pills or my thyroid pills... one of my meds warns to not take any kind of antacids soon after. Pepcid sounds like a type of antacid.

How odd they keep saying the antimalarial HC doesn't help, and yet they keep trying it in conjunction with other drugs. It must show some promise. No wonder there's still a shortage of my Rx of HC.
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Pepcid is an H2 proton pump inhibitor, not an antacid.
Proton-pump inhibitors - Harvard Health

H2 Blockers: Treatment Options for GERD | Healthline
 
JaneEyre said:
This is graphic - warning.
Meat chickens are bred so that they cannot live long. They have been engineered by humans to become so large that their muscles and bones just collapse under their own weight.... snipped to reply …
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Wow, the graphic truth!
So, those chickens can't be turned into egg layers. :( ​
I had no idea it was that bad. No longer in denial with that explanation. Thank You for the honest, horrible truth.

I have a very hard time connecting the meat I eat with live animals. I'd have a difficult time ever raising and killing my own chickens, but the profit making connected with meat goes beyond cruel. It goes too far and makes me feel guilty for eating meat.

I bought eggs recently that came with a cute card showing their laying chicken of the month and telling how much space each chicken got to roam. I thought that made me feel good about eating eggs. There's also a family owned egg farm in the county that people are driving to that is known for their humane practices.
 
CSIDreamer said:
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A judge has overturned Gov. JB Pritzker's extended stay-at-home order in a bombshell ruling.

Downstate Republican State Representative Darren Bailey filed a lawsuit last week challenging the governor's authority to issue a stay-at-home order.

On Monday, a judge ruled in favor of the lawsuit, granting a temporary restraining order blocking the governor's extended stay-at-home order which was to take effect Friday and run through the end of May. The order had loosened restrictions on some businesses and allowed for some outdoor recreation to resume.

Coronavirus Update: Illinois' stay-at-home order overturned by judge as IL COVID-19 death toll nears 2K with 45K total cases
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I was following this closely because I think it confirmed something for me about WA's Governor who today announced re-opening of golf and recreation parks but refused to confirm a schedule for re-opening and/or lifting the home shelter mandate. I think Gov Inslee is afraid to publically extend the shelter mandate to a fixed, future date only to be over-ruled, and instead is buying time the best way he thinks possible.
 
anneg said:
Thanks for your thoughts. I do write about my feelings, worries, and hopes for the future. Since we are staying home except for going out to buy food, medicine, etc., it feels like normal life is on hold for an indefinite, potentially VERY LONG period. I know most of you feel the same.

However, I do not intend my journals to be passed along to my son and grandchildren. Too much in there I'd rather keep private. I'd rather my husband not read them either. I guess I'll eventually need to burn the journals written on paper, although if I told my son to just toss them in the trash, I expect he would do that. Honestly I don't think he would bother to try reading them! ;)

I do have a lot of family history material to pass on--letters, photos, genealogical information, and other documents like the original copies of my father's writings about his WWII experiences.
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Even if you don't want your children and grandchildren to know all you write, there might be some things you could leave to them. For example, how did you and your husband met, how was your courtship, engagement and wedding. What guests were at your wedding. Where have you lived since you were a child. Relatives and friends you have had. There is so many memories to write about, and you don't have to write down things you prefer to keep private. Write how you would describe your life if your great grandchildren asked you.
 
The book, "The Extinction Pandemic" by A.G. Riddle, actually has a veterinarian on the "Pandemic Team", who is searching for a bat in a bat cave, to identify the Coronavirus.

It is a fiction novel on Amazon, quite amazing as to how accurate this is, in relationship to our current situation.
 
Well okie dokie then. People are going to randomly come by folks house without notice and ask them for blood and question them? That's interesting. I wonder which tests they are using, because as I posted on this main thread just yesterday, some of the tests have a 14% false positive rate.

COVID-19 Antibody Testing Activity

The Georgia Department of Public Health, Fulton County and Dekalb County Boards of Health are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to learn more about the spread of COVID-19 in the community. This investigation will help us estimate the percentage of people in the community who have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Some people may have had COVID-19 but were not tested, did not have any symptoms, or did not seek medical care.

From April 28 through May 4, teams will be visiting randomly selected homes in Fulton and Dekalb counties to ask residents questions about their health and to collect blood samples for an antibody test......
 
Curious Me said:
Is it my antimalarial pills or my thyroid pills... one of my meds warns to not take any kind of antacids soon after. Pepcid sounds like a type of antacid.

How odd they keep saying the antimalarial HC doesn't help, and yet they keep trying it in conjunction with other drugs. It must show some promise. No wonder there's still a shortage of my Rx of HC.
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The article said that up until now they were using the 'pepcid' stuff in conjunction with hydroxychloroquine as so many patients and their relatives wanted it tried due to hearing so much promising stuff about it. As it was approved to try it in patients, the doctors were trying it in the patients out of hope, and because at the time there wasn't a study showing that it would do more harm than good.

That's why studies need to be done, and why the HC was only allowed on compassionate grounds, but even then it's much better to have a study done at the same time to ensure that giving it is the right thing....and if it does help then you have the evidence to push for more patients to receive it.

But now that the studies are starting to suggest it isn't as helpful as hoped (too many negative effects and not enough positive effects) they're likely to stop doing the study with HC + the pepcid stuff, and just use the pepcid stuff.
 
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