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[Paphitis]

A bogus vaccine though might. Or give us an extra pair.

That’s unlikely to happen. It would have to be a vaccine licensed and distributed before undergoing the accepted standards of testing. Perhaps for a reason like “national prestige”. Never going to happen.

What national prestige? Do the Big Pharma companies have national prestige in mind?

This is the problem though isn't it? Normally a vaccine will take many years to get approved and licensed by our regulatory bodies. I have heard that the average is 7 years.

But now, we have a vaccine in 6 months, and they expect to licence it in another 6 months making in barely 1 year. Talk about availability by March 2021.

Personally, I hope they have a licensed product tomorrow. The sooner this shit is over, the better. But I'll let you go first. You are much older than me, so you go first.

[Londonrake]

I was referring to “Sputnik V”.

[cyprusgrump]

Here you go Lockdown Lovers*!

We can’t lock down forever

Argentina passed a grim milestone at the weekend. Sunday marked 150 days in lockdown for the capital Buenos Aires and the surrounding area. The lockdown, which was one of the strictest in Latin America, began on 20 March and was originally slated to last until the end of March. Though there have been a number of relaxations and subsequent re-tightenings over the past few months, the current lockdown measures have been extended to the end of August.

Earlier in the pandemic, Argentina received a great deal of praise for its handling of the virus. In June, Time magazine included it in a list of the ‘best global responses’ to Covid-19. At the time of the Time article, Argentina had recorded just 726 Covid deaths. But deaths and cases have surged in the past two months, rising to over 5,800 deaths. According to Bloomberg, on a per capita basis, similar numbers have died in recent weeks to the US and Brazil – the world’s two worst hotspots. All of this, of course, is occurring during the long and strict lockdown. Or as Bloomberg put it: ‘The worsening outbreak stands at odds with a government that seemed to do everything right.’

* Bedwetters...

[Londonrake]

"Hospital admissions for Covid-19 were over-reported at the peak of the pandemic, with patients who were taken in for other illnesses being included in outbreak statistics, it has emerged.

An investigation for the Government's Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) found that people were being counted as Covid hospital admissions if they had ever had the virus, and were added to those being admitted directly due to it.

Government figures show that, at the peak of the pandemic in early April, nearly 20,000 people a week were being admitted to hospital with coronavirus, but the true figure is unknown because of the problem with over-counting.

The oversight echoes recent problems with the data for Covid-19 deaths, in which it emerged that thousands of people who died of other causes were being included in coronavirus statistics if they had once tested positive.

Professor Graham Medley, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, asked by Sage to look into the situation, told The Telegraph: "By June, it was becoming clear that people were being admitted to hospital for non-Covid reasons who had tested positive many weeks before.

"Consequently, the NHS revised its situation report to accommodate this."..................................... blah , blah, blah.

There's much more of course but just thought I would throw that into the ring.

[repulsewarrior]

...sadly, this belongs in this topic, as it is a threat that the virus has forced upon us to consider, (and adapt to).

...profits will evaporate, despite the records that Wall St. is recording (because it is based on the Fed buying debt).

...when; timing is everything. And pull out now; where.

[Tim Drayton]

Curious clip. A frontline hospital doctor in Madrid is interviewed on state broadcaster TVE about the so-called increase in covid case numbers and starts deviating considerably from the official narrative until he is hurriedly taken off the air:

https://youtu.be/SwlkumcRf6w

(In Spanish with English subtitles")

[Get Real!]

Curious clip. A frontline hospital doctor in Madrid is interviewed on state broadcaster TVE about the so-called increase in covid case numbers and starts deviating considerably from the official narrative until he is hurriedly taken off the air:

https://youtu.be/SwlkumcRf6w

(In Spanish with English subtitles")

I’d first check in case he’s with the Illuminati... one can’t be too careful these days!

[Tim Drayton]

Thomas S. Harrington, professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, on the reaction to covid.

https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/22/are ... n-routine/

[Tim Drayton]

No lockdown, no masks, no hysteria... NO PROBLEM: Sweden didn't go into a corona coma - and it's living in glorious normality. Now DOMINIC SANDBROOK asks: Is this proof we got it all terribly wrong?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... wrong.html

[Londonrake]

A similar article in todays DT. Not sure if it’s all visible:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... s-symptom/

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