Corona Virus Treatment

I wonder whether Winston smith would agree with you!

 

There is always skullduggery in politics @SimonZ - politics entire being is skullduggery in one way or another. Always remember, to tell if a politician is lying, simply look for lip movement or movement of fingers over a keyboard.

 

I don't think for one moment that Boris is chuffed about Sadiq getting an extension, but even you admit that the length of that extension was extremely long - does that not strike you as being odd? Given that it was in March when we (supposedly) knew less than zilch about this virus, you may well be correct that they were erring on the side of caution; you could equally take the inference that a lot more was known than was ever let on; it will be interesting to see what happens come next May, because I fully suspect that Covid will still be around by then.

Riddle me this though, if the world's powers that be really wanted to get shot of this virus, do you not think that with a co-ordinated effort that they could (or as near enough to at least knock a substantial hole in transmission)? An infected person is infected for 7 to 14 days, so let's err on that side of caution and go for the full 14.

Why not, in a co-ordinated fashion, arrange for everyone to build a stockpile of four weeks worth of food, and then stop everything bar absolute emergency services. Everything - no carrying on building HS2, or the that block of flats down the road - - dead stop, nothing moves, everyone stays home. The only movement of people then would be medics/ambulance (assuming everyone behaved), thus drastically reducing transmission and anyone asymptomatic would see out their incubation period whilst isolated with their families. Not easy to arrange, but not beyond the realms of possibility - or, at least it wouldn't have been if they hadn't lost the trust and respect of the public.

Having said that, it would appear that lockdowns don't work anyway - Spain had some of the harshest restrictions, yet their infections are somewhat rampant. Masks, we were told, don't work - - in the words of Jenny Harries to use one where not surgically needed would be "quite dangerous", yet a matter of weeks later they are mandated?

Nobody can answer how the virus seems to know how to tell when it was summer, and to back off - - can't be temperature, because apparently Brazil are one of the hardest hit? Kids are not affected we were told, yet as soon as the chiddlers go back to school, infection rates explode; is that just coincidence or is it the common cold? How does the virus tell the time? It clearly knows the difference between 10pm and 11pm according to Boris and Co.

I am not for one minute saying there isn't a virus - clearly there is - but, how much worse is it being made by inaccurate data and poor decisions made by people who have vested interests financially?

As for our differing views of politicians, I am obviously much more cynical than you are - through my entire life, I haven't seen a single government that wasn't embroiled in some sort of trouble at one stage or another - not one. Politicians don't put their money where their mouth is - they put OUR money where their mouth is.

 

The mighty Dollar comes before everything to the Republicans and the Governor, Ron Desantis, is a Republican. So, I think that, in around two weeks time, Florida will have record numbers of infections and, sadly, deaths, but the really sad thing is that the Republicans know this.

 

Not really. Past Covid 19 history, particularly in the USA, that opening up businesses fully will result in an increase of infections and deaths. The scientific data is there for all to see, not just in the USA but globally. Balancing opening up business is a hard for any country, but USA states are following a political agenda rather than one that listens and actions on the scientific advice.