Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Turgid]

We don't know. Many speculated here yes. Other said nope. We don't know for sure.

Here some hard data on the confirmed infection rates of the past 7 days per 100 K inhabitants: of Sept. 17th.

Nordrhein-Westfalen 13. (here prostitution is allow since Sep 11).

Hessen 11. (here prostituion remains forbidden).

Here the source: https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/cor...land-weltweit/.

(do confirm those numbers you have to click on "Neuinfektionen" - and "pro 100,000 Einw".).

From the map Deutschland seems to be doing pretty good.

[ExpatLover]

Covid is a aggressive virus if not why so many medical staff are being infected, are we dying from it, probably not, can we have to fight hard several days or weeks to recover if we get infected this possibility exist. Close body to body contacts, with mixing body fluids is increasing the risk to get sick knowing that even this virus is able to enter through the eyes, how long the virus can survive in the hair of a girl or on the door handle nobody really knows but the risk exist.

Again I will wait for better times and my finances are getting better month after month.

[Kuni042]

We don't know. Many speculated here yes. Other said nope. We don't know for sure.

Here some hard data on the confirmed infection rates of the past 7 days per 100 K inhabitants: of Sept. 17th.

Nordrhein-Westfalen 13. (here prostitution is allow since Sep 11).

Hessen 11. (here prostituion remains forbidden).

Here the source: https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/cor...land-weltweit/.

(do confirm those numbers you have to click on "Neuinfektionen" - and "pro 100,000 Einw".).

[HammerTime96]

Covid-19 is such a 'deadly' virus that we need massive testing to see if anyone has got it! LOL!

That about illustrates the pathetic way in which the sheeple have been brainwashed by politicians and the 'lamestream' media, and typical for dictatorships where there's always invisible "enemies of the state" ("saboteurs, wreckers and counterrevolutionaries") hiding everywhere.

[McAdonis]

Being Norwegian, I can only confirm that we've always preferred social distancing, even pre-Corona. LOL! But the main reason why we have a low infection and mortality rate is because Norwegians trust the government and apply the social guidelines given without protesting. Most of the infected are also younger, hence the low mortality rate.

I do see that Sweden has the lowest number of average people per household in Europe. Finland and Denmark are not close behind. No numbers released for Norway. That could be due to cultural factors (fewer children, fewer marriages, fewer senior citizens living with their children, less hugging and kissing). Or the fact that housing is relatively more affordable in Scandinavian countries. https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu...TableAction.do.

Denmark, Norway and Finland is running the same strategy it seems. The reason why you see an increase in Norway and Denmark is linked to partying students when returning after the vacation. I guess Finnish students are more abiding by the rules.

Why is Sweden trending down? Back in August, there was a paper published about a study conducted in April or May. At the time, they found that only a small percentage of people in Stockholm had the antibodies despite the fact that their country remained open. Roughly the same as other cities that implemented lockdown, such London. https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...20-8?r=DE&IR=T.

[McAdonis]

For 7-day moving average, EU is at 28 K while USA is 35 K.

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus...ium-us-1532010

[Pessimist]

India is testing way too low; I think their tests per million people are 7 or 8 times less than that in US. It is a poor country and their testing quality may be inadequate. But I agree with Pistons that I think commie China is more likely to blatantly lie and cover up. From what little I have seen of India, it seems like a chaotic and almost dysfunctional democracy. That said, I don't think China has millions of cases as India is reporting. My pet theory, which I argued ad nauseum w / MacAdonis is that China had enough motive to unleash this virus onto the world in a sinister way and until the West had a chance to investigate to the roots thoroughly (which China will not allow), I will not believe that everything is as we see with regards to the origins of this virus.

[Pistons]

So India is more trustworthy than China?

In this case, yes.

[Turgid]

Never trust the Chinese. The layer of lies are so big that you will not comprehend. They have millions of cases in China. Just a massive cover up to fool their own people into keeping them in power. And to lie to other nations in order to try and keep a better than them image. Just like a certain European country in 1939 and another Asian island country at the same time.

So India is more trustworthy than China?

[Mursenary]

Doesn't paracetamol (acetaminophen) work actively just like acetanilide? Which again is made out of acetipyretic. Which is basically tree bark. Used as a natural remedy since at least the middle ages in Europe for the exact same reason as paracetamol?

What we have here is a case of someone providing one true statement (acetaminophen works like acetanilide) followed by a false statement (acetanilide being made from acetipyretic (sic) which is made from tree bark), thus rendering the statement as a whole false.

Hell I don't even know what "acetipyretic" is; is it even a word? Perhaps you were looking for the term "antipyretic", a fever reducing agent or the fact that quinines and salicylic acid (aspirin derivative) are extracted from tree bark.

"The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".

[Mursenary]

This argument is very weak. You are basically saying that it is fine to inhale some covid-19, but not fine to inhale some smoke particles. Right.

It's weak to you because you don't understand and don't want to understand the details. Or perhaps it's because a "media communications" guy just doesn't have the breadth of scientific education past the basic high school level.

Large quantities of hot hydrocarbon burns and irritates right away. Small exposure to SARS-CoV2 below the inoculating dose will not cause an infection. Physics versus biology.

As stated, under everyday circumstances, SARS-CoV2 travels through the air attached to respiratory droplets. It doesn't matter that the individual virus can penetrate a regular surgical mask or cloth covering, it doesn't normally just float around in the air without being bound to much larger particles. Attach yourself to a 2 meter balloon and you won't be able to fir through your front door.

Perhaps if instead of belittling healthcare workers who actually do some good in the world and actually listen, maybe you would actually learn half of what they know and be a fraction as useful to the world and stop coming off as a perpetual adolescent know-it-all. Side benefit, actually learning something with breadth means less bullshitting.

[Pistons]

Are masks supposed to stop every viral particle? No. They are supposed to prevent the spread, in this case preventing an inoculating dose. Inhaling several thousand micron particles will not necessary lead to an "infection. " There's a big difference between the effects of smoke inhalation that irritate the lining of the lungs and inhaling enough viral particles to produce an inoculating dose that leads to "infection."

Furthermore, in most situations, SARS-CoV2 travel attached to respiratory droplets, not as individual viral particles. These droplets are at minimum 5 microns, well contained by regular surgical masks and most fabric masks depending on thread count and electrostatic properties.

This argument is very weak. You are basically saying that it is fine to inhale some covid-19, but not fine to inhale some smoke particles. Right.

[Pistons]

How did China eliminate covid 19? Today India gets in one day more than the total number of covid 19 infections that China got since the beginning of the pandemic.

Never trust the Chinese. The layer of lies are so big that you will not comprehend. They have millions of cases in China. Just a massive cover up to fool their own people into keeping them in power. And to lie to other nations in order to try and keep a better than them image. Just like a certain European country in 1939 and another Asian island country at the same time.

[Pistons]

Seriously? Geez, ever heard of paracetamol?

Doesn't paracetamol (acetaminophen) work actively just like acetanilide? Which again is made out of acetipyretic. Which is basically tree bark. Used as a natural remedy since at least the middle ages in Europe for the exact same reason as paracetamol?

[Sirioja]

How did China eliminate covid 19? Today India gets in one day more than the total number of covid 19 infections that China got since the beginning of the pandemic.

Eliminate? When China is still confining cities.