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Interesting article on Japans and Asia lowcoid rate of infection.
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Lost wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:30 am Nine and a half hours till pubs re-open in the UK. Brits failed to be responsible when allowed to just sit at home drinking, or in a park. Can't see this going well... 😆

Expect covid infection to accelerate its rise in 3...2...

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musungu wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:25 am
Lost wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:30 am Nine and a half hours till pubs re-open in the UK. Brits failed to be responsible when allowed to just sit at home drinking, or in a park. Can't see this going well... 😆

Expect covid infection to accelerate its rise in 3...2...

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Well DOOM & GLOOM, what happened from what I read the vast majority behaved very well - it is so very often just a minority!!
Well ROSE TINTED SPECTACLES what happened from what I read was many bars closed early due to 'incidents' and social distancing was thrown out the window.
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Lost wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 12:08 pm social distancing was thrown out the window.
That was news in the UK about 2 months ago, it was never going to come back just because a few pubs opened.
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When coronavirus robs you of your sense of smell

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/19466 ... e-of-smell

PARIS: "What I miss most is the smell of my son when I kiss him, the smell of my wife's body," said Jean-Michel Maillard.

Anosmia -- the loss of one's sense of smell -- may be an invisible handicap, but is psychologically difficult to live with and has no real treatment, he says.

And it is the price that an increasing number of people are paying after surviving a brush with the coronavirus, with some facing a seemingly long-term inability to smell.

"Anosmia cuts you off from the smells of life, it's a torture," said Maillard, president of anosmie.org, a French group designed to help sufferers.

If you have the condition you can no longer breathe in the smell of your first morning coffee, smell the cut grass of a freshly mown lawn or even "the reassuring smell of soap on your skin when you're preparing for a meeting", he said.

You only truly become aware of your sense of smell when you lose it, said Maillard, who lost his own following an accident.

And it is not just the olfactory pleasures you lose. He points out that people with anosmia are unable to smell smoke from a fire, gas from a leak, or a poorly washed dustbin.

Eating is a completely different experience too, as so much of what we appreciate in food is what we can smell, says Alain Corre, an ear, nose and throat specialist at the Hopital-Fondation Rothschild in Paris.

"There are dozens of causes of anosmia," he said, including nasal polyps, chronic rhinitis, diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Now the new coronavirus has been added to that list, says Corre -- with the symptom alone allowing a diagnosis of Covid-19 in some cases.

"When people lose their sense of smell and don't get it back, we note a real change in the quality of life and a level of depression that is not insignificant," he added.

The problem is when the condition persists, he said.

"To be deprived of your sense of smell for a month, it's not serious. Two months, it starts to become a problem. But after six months, you're all alone under a bell jar.

"There's a psychological aspect to this which is very difficult to live with," he said. "You need to get help."

- No treatment -

There is no specific treatment for the condition.

You have to address the cause, said Corre, but "the problem of the anosmias linked to the virus is that often, the treatment of the viral infection has no effect on your smell".

"According to the first numbers, around 80% of patients suffering from Covid-19 recover spontaneously in less than a month and often even faster, in eight to 10 days."

For others, however, it could be that the disease has destroyed their olfactory neurons -- the ones that detect smells. The good news is that these neurons, at the back of the nose, are able to regenerate.

Two Paris hospitals, Rothschild and Lariboisiere, have launched a "CovidORL" study to investigate the phenomenon, testing how well different nose washes can cure anosmia.

One cortisone-based treatment has proved effective in treating post-cold instances of anosmia and offers some hope, said Corre.

Another way to approach the condition is through olfactory re-education, to try to stimulate the associations that specific smells have in your memory, he said.

His advice is to choose five smells in your kitchen that are special to you, that you really like: cinnamon say, or thyme. Breathe them in twice a day for five to 10 minutes while looking at what it is you are inhaling.

Anosmie.org has even put together a re-education programme using essential oils, working with Hirac Gurden, director of neuroscience research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is based on the work of Dresden-based researcher Thomas Hummel.

"As early as March, we got several hundred phone calls, emails from people who had CoViD and who were calling for help because they couldn't smell anything any more," Gurden said.

Maillard meanwhile finished his re-education programme last winter, using four smells.

"Today, I have 10 of them," he says, including fish, cigarettes and rose essential oil. "I've even found a perfume that I can smell!" he declared.
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'100 per cent sure': Disturbing coronavirus theory backed by scientists emerges

https://au.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-w ... 46658.html

An Australian scientist is fronting a group of more than 200 experts around the world as they challenge the World Health Organisation (WHO) on their view on how the coronavirus is spread.

Six months into a pandemic that has killed more than half a million people, the WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain that you have to worry about only two types of transmission.

They identify inhaling respiratory droplets from an infected person in your immediate vicinity or – less common – touching a contaminated surface and then your eyes, nose or mouth as the two main sources of infection.

But other experts contend the guidance ignores growing evidence a third pathway also plays a significant role in contagion.

They say multiple studies demonstrate particles known as aerosols – microscopic versions of standard respiratory droplets – can hang in the air for long periods and float for several metres, making poorly ventilated rooms, buses and other confined spaces dangerous even when people stay 1.8 metres from one another.

"We are 100 per cent sure about this," Lidia Morawska, a professor of atmospheric sciences and environmental engineering at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, said.

She makes the case in an open letter to the WHO accusing the United Nations agency of failing to issue appropriate warnings about the risk.

A total of 239 researchers from 32 countries signed the letter, which is set to be published next week in a scientific journal.

In interviews, experts said aerosol transmission appeared to be the only way to explain several "super-spreading" events, including the infection of diners at a restaurant in China who sat at separate tables and of choir members in the US state of Washington who took precautions during a rehearsal.

WHO expert casts doubt over claims

WHO officials have acknowledged the virus can be transmitted through aerosols, but say that occurs only during medical procedures such as intubation that can spew large quantities of the microscopic particles.

Dr Benedetta Allegranzi, a top WHO expert on infection prevention and control, said in responses to questions from the Los Angeles Times that Prof Morawska and her group presented theories based on laboratory experiments rather than evidence from the field.

"We value and respect their opinions and contributions to this debate," Dr Allegranzi wrote in an email.

But in weekly teleconferences, a large majority of a group of more than 30 international experts advising the WHO has "not judged the existing evidence sufficiently convincing to consider airborne transmission as having an important role in COVID-19 spread".

She added such transmission "would have resulted in many more cases and even more rapid spread of the virus".

The proponents of aerosol transmission said masks worn correctly would help prevent the escape of exhaled aerosols as well as inhalation of the microscopic particles.

But they said the spread could also be reduced by improving ventilation and zapping indoor air with ultraviolet light in ceiling units.

Jose Jimenez, a University of Colorado chemist who signed the letter, said the idea of aerosol transmission should not frighten people.

"It's not like the virus has changed," he said.

"We think the virus has been transmitted this way all along, and knowing about it helps protect us."
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Spain's coronavirus antibodies study adds evidence against herd immunity

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/heal ... index.html

Madrid (CNN) Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is "unachievable," the medical journal the Lancet reported on Monday.

The findings show that 95% of Spain's population remains susceptible to the virus. Herd immunity is achieved when enough of a population has become infected with a virus or bacteria -- or vaccinated against it -- to stop its circulation.

The European Center for Disease Control told CNN that Spain's research, on a nationwide representative sample of more than 61,000 participants, appears to be the largest study to date among a dozen serological studies on the coronavirus undertaken by European nations.... (Continued at link)
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^^ Not really surprising. Spain's population approx 46 million, reported covid-19 cases approx 300,000. So 0.65% of its population confirmed to have covid and would be expected to have antibodies. So if another 4.5% have antibodies that's another 2 million or so that were also infected but unreported. It would need a lot more before any herd immunity could be expected.
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Why everyone was wrong. The fairy tale of no immunity.

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musungu wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:25 am
Lost wrote: Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:30 am Nine and a half hours till pubs re-open in the UK. Brits failed to be responsible when allowed to just sit at home drinking, or in a park. Can't see this going well... 😆

Expect covid infection to accelerate its rise in 3...2...

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Well DOOM & GLOOM, what happened from what I read the vast majority behaved very well - it is so very often just a minority!!
"A number of pubs in England have closed after customers tested positive for coronavirus.

At least three establishments announced they had shut their doors again just days after reopening at the weekend.

They were among hundreds of venues that welcomed customers for the first time in three months as lockdown measures were eased.

Crowds descended in some towns and cities, prompting fears social distancing was being disregarded."


There's a shocker.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53315702
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A good read. Demonstrates that we need around 10-20% to get herd immunity.

https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/07/sec ... ven-close/
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Coronavirus: 'The masks you throw away could end up killing a whale'

Watch the video, please :( , and send it to your friends. Covid-19 will be killing a lot more than just humans.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-env ... ng-a-whale
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Five million begin lockdown in Australian city

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/19485 ... alian-city

More returnees from Mideast infected

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... t-infected

Hong Kong battling third wave of coronavirus infections as city confirms 14 new cases

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hea ... -hong-kong

US Covid-19 cases surge past 3 million

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/us-c ... -3-million

Trump now in open dispute with health officials as virus rages

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/poli ... index.html

Singapore mandates state-quarantine for Thais but not other harder-hit countries

(The world is not believing Thailand's numbers IMO)

https://www.thaienquirer.com/15384/sing ... countries/

'Travel bubbles' plan tipped to be put on ice

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... put-on-ice
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Emergency decree should be revoked, say activists
A group of activists on Thursday petitioned the Civil Court to revoke the emergency decree imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19, saying that extending it until the end of this month would affect their rights to public assembly.

Nimit Thian-udom, of the People Go network, said he had lodged a petition with the court on Ratchadaphisek Road.

The leader of the June 24 Democracy Group, Somyot Phrueksakasemsuk, the leader of the Commoners Party, Lertsak Khamkhongkham, and their supporters also gathered in front of the court holding placards calling for the lifting of the state of emergency. Police and court security officers were deployed to maintain order.

Mr Nimit, who is also a member of the People's Network for Welfare State, said he felt the need to lodge the petition because the group planned to hold a gathering next Monday in front of the United Nations building on Ratchadamnoen Nok Road to call on the prime minister to endorse a bill on national pensions.

More than 10,000 people have signed a petition supporting the bill but it has been on hold for almost five months. All it needed, Mr Nimit said, was the prime minister's signature so it can be tabled in parliament for discussion.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/po ... -activists
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