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15.04.2020, 11:59
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: |  | | | Even you deleted one of his postings for trolling, but yet you allow him to keep doing the same thing over and over again. | | | | | The "socialists" must be shut down, didn't you know?
The funny part is people have no idea what socialism means if they use this term so loosely.
Everyone with a bit of common sense and who doesn't want to be a complete asshole neither on internet nor in real life is labeled "woke" or even worse - "socialist".....
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15.04.2020, 12:03
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | Why can't one have a different opinion than everybody else? | | | | | When did I say they can't? But you're pushing buttons now and enjoying it.
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15.04.2020, 12:08
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | Yes, like everything about corona in news you really need to scratch under the surface to get the big picture.
For some reason, most of the corona cases in Sweden are migrants from Somalia, Syria, Iraq. They fear this can be due a vitamin D deficiency as migrants make the majority of corona cases in Sweden | | | | | Exactly!
First, positive test is not the same as ICU.
Second, see Edwin's post.
Third, you need to prove that refugees, asylants, etc are tested as often as the locals. Sweden has stopped broad testing three weeks ago, but refugees are under state care thus the state has increased responsibilities, which probably means much lower hurdles when it comes to testing, too.
Fourth, prove that they follow hygiene like the Swedes. The language barrier alone will make that very difficult, and then there is of of course the differen upbringing. And while you're at it, demonstrate that they're given enough space to respect social distancing.
Fifth and the killer:
Refugees are in the age groups where an infection is next to riskless. You will find hardly any ICU cases, almost regardless of how many have been tested positive.
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15.04.2020, 12:14
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | When did I say they can't? But you're pushing buttons now and enjoying it. | | | | | Which buttons am I pushing? The ones that slowly but surely show that all of this has been a media hype and not much else? Or the fact that countries are slowly starting to go to Sweden's approach, seeing, no matter how effective lock down measures can seem, eventually societies need to reopen and what is 100% sure is that the virus will still be around?
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15.04.2020, 12:18
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| | Re: Coronavirus
Ski resorts closed in Sweden since ~2 weeks ago following advice of the Swedish goverment(s) to ease the burden of the local healthcare systems. Everyone was planning to ski on Easter break, say farewell to your vacation plans. I guess it's not a lockdown because kids go to school...who cares? https://www.skistar.com/en/myskistar...-about-corona/ | 
15.04.2020, 12:19
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | Which buttons am I pushing? The ones that slowly but surely show that all of this has been a media hype and not much else? Or the fact that countries are slowly starting to go to Sweden's approach, seeing, no matter how effective lock down measures can seem, eventually societies need to reopen and what is 100% sure is that the virus will still be around? | | | | | Can you imagine the rate of infections in CH if it wasn't for the lockdown? Even so, being one week late was pretty bad.
Honestly you sound like Trump a few weeks ago. How on earth that doesn't amount for trolling is beyond me.
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15.04.2020, 12:21
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | Well they've already said numbers are so good that they will reopen faster than intended. So for me it's just a matter of time how quick other countries will follow their approach. | | | | | Who's they? Sweden?
Follow Swedish approach? They have high death rate to me, 1033 is a lot. Follow Austria with 393 or CZ with 167, they had the strictest measures, flattened fast and now are reopening. Why follow Sweden's approach when their slow inf rate growth does secure hospital care but still with many deaths? I see that they push for herd immunity, keep hischool and uni students at home to avoid young deaths and experienced brains deaths and leave at risk and older population to isolate, everyone else is out.
But you cannot expect the countries that are now already in the midst of fast and massive spread that risk thousands ending without medicail aid, to start following Swedish approach now.
The steps Austria and CZ opted for were timed and cascaded. Reopening the same way. Sweden had a different point of departure, countries around isolated Sweden, too, their steps were timed as well and linked to inf rate. None of these three SW, CZ or AUT followed EU guidance, btw there wasn't any except "keep the borders open".
Asking FR or UK to now follow the Swedish example would, imho, not yield the same results, they are too far along in the spread, no room for real containment nor timed herd immunity strategy any more. Aside of strict isolation for a few more weeks.
I understand that you worry about the economical impact of the complete shutdown, I think you are correct. It will be tragic. But following Swedish example now wouldn't help that, I don't think, it would be worse. En plus, people need to know that these big measures and sacrifice were done for a reason. You let them out now and you can start from square 1, with extra thousands of deaths and with a complete loss of trust in their leadership.
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15.04.2020, 12:27
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | Can you imagine the rate of infections in CH if it wasn't for the lockdown? Even so, being one week late was pretty bad.
Honestly you sound like Trump a few weeks ago. How on earth that doesn't amount for trolling is beyond me. | | | | | I try to imagine and the only example I have is Sweden.
Not only nothing disastrous happened in Sweden, but they have had less infections/deaths compared to 12 other countries that did a lock down.
Switzerland is still at 900 corona deaths compared to 1500 deaths from a flu year.
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15.04.2020, 12:28
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | Be a pretty boring forum if the fringe views were not allowed.
Don't forget the vocal minority on EF are generally wrong on the big topics, despite the noise and shouting down that takes place.
Trump election: wrong.
Brexit referendum: wrong.
Corbyn for PM: wrong.
Boris for PM: wrong.
Next Trump election: I'd chance my arm and say wrong.
Looks to me like everyone who posts carries the same weight, forum legend or not. | | | | | You have an incredible amount of insight for someone who only joined this forum in December 2019. | Quote: | |  | | | Regardless, the popular opinion of the forum has been consistently wrong, plenty of very highly paid Champagne Socialists it partly responsible. | | | | | Which is your favourite champagne?
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15.04.2020, 12:32
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | You not being very highly paid?
lol | | | | | He doesn't need to be paid to manage owning 3 homes in 3 different countries. | This user would like to thank Blueangel for this useful post: | | 
15.04.2020, 12:37
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | Which is your favourite champagne? | | | | | All time favourite is 1982 Dom Perigean, served Verve Clicquot yellow at our wedding.
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15.04.2020, 12:39
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Yes, as Chuff already posted. Worth noting this sentence though | Quote: |  | | | Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said during a briefing that the virus may have "reactivated" in the patients rather than them becoming reinfected, | | | | | EDIT: Sorry, saw the replies out of sequence, yours was the earlier one.
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15.04.2020, 12:40
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | I try to imagine and the only example I have is Sweden.
Not only nothing disastrous happened in Sweden, but they have had less infections/deaths compared to 12 other countries that did a lock down.
Switzerland is still at 900 corona deaths compared to 1500 deaths from a flu year. | | | | | Flu - no lockdown.
CV - lockdown and already 900 extra deaths, on top of flu.
Why not avoid the extra menace? Don't worry about CH, there is very high level of autonomy and CH will not be dependent on foreign cash, imho. So I wouldn't worry about the impact of a possibly pointless lockdown on the economy too much. Worry about the EU and places that get paralyzed by lockdowns and dependent on the outside even more. It is not CH. I know you don't worry about us here. Who do you worry about?
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15.04.2020, 12:41
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | Some days ago I was about to leave a comment on the twitter of Daniel Probst, the guy behing corona-data.ch I saw other people already have done the same remark about how data from the last 2 days was still subject to change (insert fax machine joke here).
Now the plots at corona-data.ch take into account this delay caused by all the checks and balances (quality control) in the data processing, hats off to Mr. Probst.  | | | | | Interestingly, on this graph we can see that the decline in daily deaths started around April 5, which can mean that the decline in infections began around mid-march, exactly when lockdown started (since infection-to-death takes ca. 3 weeks). But this is not certain either, even though death rate is probably more reliable than testing.
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15.04.2020, 12:44
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: |  | | | And I've twice explained why the beds are under capacity. There are now more ICU beds than before. You persist in trying to use that as proof Covid 19 is not as bad as expected. No?
Are you suggesting that all those listed above are both simple and easily treatable? Really? We underreacted to this new, particularly in the UK and US. | | | | | It is proof that the impact of the virus isn't bad as expected, the modeling used by the government meant that they expected far more ICU beds which is why they scaled up with the Nightingale Hospitals (an incredible achievement btw). What has happened is in fact that the beds haven't been required.
This matters because the purpose of the lock down (in the UK at least) was to "protect the NHS". So far this has worked and the NHS hasn't been overwhelmed. If the healthcare system is coping, then it opens up the rational to ending the lockdown. | Quote: | |  | | | Economically, it's clear the lockdowns are going to be seriously damaging. The scale tipping conversations will start, was the economic damage "worth" saving those lives. Many, many people think like V__ - that the disease only really hits old people who were going to die anyway. It's an oversimplified view, but millions will share it. | | | | | Whilst I wouldn't say "only" hits old people, it is statistically far more likely to affect them than those under 65. Whilst there have been a number of fatalities of young people, statistically speaking, these are roughly no more than die in car accidents on any given day. This is why I support lifting the lockdown for everyone other than those most vulnerable. | Quote: | |  | | | It could be argued that this posting of yours is trolling, certainly it's aggressive and inflammatory, against our posting rules and guidelines. Please tread more carefully. | | | | | Where can one find these guidelines? It doesn't make sense to me, I have had robust posts deleted when debating a topic for being aggressive and inflammatory, but see direct insults and name calling and foul language left alone. It doesn't make sense to me | This user would like to thank TonyClifton for this useful post: | | 
15.04.2020, 12:46
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | All time favourite is 1982 Dom Perigean, served Verve Clicquot yellow at our wedding. | | | | | Suppose you meant Dom Perignon?
I drank only once in my life and I think it's highly overrated.
But of course, not spending my days drinking might make me the ignorant one....
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15.04.2020, 12:47
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | ... I posted it probably 10 pages back I think) that mild infection (only up to a duration of 7 days) or asymptomatic infection will not assure that the patient will be sick enough to develop enough antibodies. They really talk of reinfection being possible. | | | | | This has been discussed in depth on a number of UK programmes and it all comes back to one primary factor. We're only 5mths into this so there's no possible way of knowing what level of immunity can come from this, how and how long it will last. People who are apparently asymptomatic might have stronger immune systems but of the type that can produce antibodies without sending the white blood cells into overdrive attacking other organs and healthy tissue. They may have had a small initial viral load exposure. They may have practised scrupulous hygiene on returning home. There may be a high incidence of viral latency. Simple answer is, at this point in time, we don't know.
For anyone who doesn't understand viral latency, a common one in humans is herpes, particularly the herpes simplex virus commonly known as cold sores.
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15.04.2020, 12:48
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | For the first time, the Federal Office of Public Health recognizes that the peak of the first wave is behind us
We went from 1,300 positive cases at the height of the crisis to 254th Tuesday. ... | | | | | As someone posted earlier, we have to wait until Thursday-Friday's numbers, couple of days after the very low testing volume over Easter. Only after Friday we can be certain, but I hope the numbers will stay low...
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15.04.2020, 12:53
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | This has been discussed in depth on a number of UK programmes and it all comes back to one primary factor. We're only 5mths into this so there's no possible way of knowing what level of immunity can come from this, how and how long it will last. People who are apparently asymptomatic might have stronger immune systems but of the type that can produce antibodies without sending the white blood cells into overdrive attacking other organs and healthy tissue. They may have had a small initial viral load exposure. They may have practised scrupulous hygiene on returning home. There may be a high incidence of viral latency. Simple answer is, at this point in time, we don't know.
For anyone who doesn't understand viral latency, a common one in humans is herpes, particularly the herpes simplex virus commonly known as cold sores. | | | | | Indeed. One aspect that has been mentioned by many doctors is the viral load exposure. Apparently it counts.
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15.04.2020, 12:55
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| | Re: Coronavirus | Quote: | |  | | | As someone posted earlier, we have to wait until Thursday-Friday's numbers, couple of days after the very low testing volume over Easter. Only after Friday we can be certain, but I hope the numbers will stay low... | | | | | What is your prediction? They said on the local news last night that the officials are happy with how disciplined people were. I can already hear the traffic really picking up, compared to 2 wks ago.
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