Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Martin Alvito said:
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Analysis: Ron DeSantis has no idea what he's talking about

Gov. Ron DeSantis has made a name for himself within the national Republican Party by spouting science-free statements about Covid-19 and its impact on his state of Florida.
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This is exactly the problem. Public health, like foreign affairs, was not politicized a couple of years ago.

This is what happens when we start turning real issues that affect real people into a game of shirts and skins, and play for political points rather than to save lives.
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He's not the brightest bulb but he's smart enough to know that the republician base is the easiest mark. Force the feds/libeurl cities to act, play the victim which is the one policy that the base really cares about and easily be the No.2 option to Trump in the primaries if he chooses to run.
 
My mate had it last weekend/start of this week. 4 days of feeling bunged up but nothing more than a head cold, and he's been fine exercising since (his 10 day isolation started on the 8th)

Lucky buggar
 
Martin Alvito said:
www.cnn.com

Analysis: Ron DeSantis has no idea what he's talking about

Gov. Ron DeSantis has made a name for himself within the national Republican Party by spouting science-free statements about Covid-19 and its impact on his state of Florida.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

This is exactly the problem. Public health, like foreign affairs, was not politicized a couple of years ago.

This is what happens when we start turning real issues that affect real people into a game of shirts and skins, and play for political points rather than to save lives.
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Yes, the problem is our politicians by in large don’t care about anything but staying in a powerful role and as such, will do or say whatever they can in an effort to do that. It hits both sides. Read Sinema’s story for an example. Look at Biden’s and Harris’s track records before the last 5 or so years. As the tide shifts, they change their stance with it. They all just do or say whatever they can to get votes from the people that can get or keep them in power at that time. It’s just a game for most of them, and DeSantis is playing the game that he thinks can get him into the White House. Our politicians are generally rats. I’m not a Bernie fan for some policy reasons, but he’s one of the few examples I’ve seen where he genuinely seems to believe what he says all the time.
 
Hospital figures - 96 deaths were announced today, down 7 on yesterday and up 22 on last Friday. 76 deaths were in English hospitals, down 4 on yesterday and up 15 on last week. The 7 day rolling average rises to 80.71

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 114 deaths were announced today, up 1 on yesterday and up 14 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average rises to an even 98

For the 60 day cut off, 126 deaths were announced today, up 5 on yesterday’s late revealed total of 121 and up 13 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 111.14
 
Highest case number in Ireland today since January - hospitalisations up a little but way lower than January.

Pretty much every adult who wants a jab has been double jabbed now so overwhelming majority of cases are non-vaccinated people.

Schools opening is a worry but we ate jabbing 12-15 year olds at the moment.

Border counties are a worry - NI had their highest ever positives today since the pandemic began which is worrying. The Health Minister there said if your not jabbed you are gonna get covid.
 
dublinbluenose said:
Pretty much every adult who wants a jab has been double jabbed now so overwhelming majority of cases are non-vaccinated people.
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68% of cases isn't "overwhelming", but there's enough data to suggest the vaccines do ultimately help:

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carolinablue232 said:
Yes, the problem is our politicians by in large don’t care about anything but staying in a powerful role and as such, will do or say whatever they can in an effort to do that. It hits both sides. Read Sinema’s story for an example. Look at Biden’s and Harris’s track records before the last 5 or so years. As the tide shifts, they change their stance with it. They all just do or say whatever they can to get votes from the people that can get or keep them in power at that time. It’s just a game for most of them, and DeSantis is playing the game that he thinks can get him into the White House. Our politicians are generally rats. I’m not a Bernie fan for some policy reasons, but he’s one of the few examples I’ve seen where he genuinely seems to believe what he says all the time.
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I read the first half and thought "Bernie", and then I got to the end, so we were on the same page on that one.

Political science ruined our politics. The opinion literature taught the media how to fool some of the people all of the time, and the voting (and redistricting) literature taught the politicians how to get really good at staying in power. Congress seemed to work OK when the drunks that came back from WWII were running the joint. Today's professional fundraisers in Congress know how to raise money, and haven't much of a clue about how to govern.
 
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