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2020-07-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronaplague Roundup
[Al Ahram] The Paleostinian Authority on Sunday imposed a night-time and weekend curfew on the occupied West Bank for the coming 14 days to try and rein in rising coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 numbers.
"Attention: All riots, stone throwing, and molotov cocktailing must be done in daylight hours. That is all"
"Travel will be prohibited daily from 8:00 pm (1700 GMT) to 6:00 am in all governorates," as well as from Thursday evening to Sunday morning, Paleostinian government front man Ibrahim Melhem told a news conference.

In the addition to the general dawn-to-dusk curfew, major cities Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus and Bethlehem, will be under total lockdown until Thursday evening, he said, while travel between districts will be banned for two weeks.

Only pharmacies and bakeries will be allowed to open.
Posted by Fred 2020-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 Number of patients in serious condition rises to 151, with 45 connected to ventilators; Health Minister warns local lockdowns are a 'necessity of reality'; IDF to enlist 200 reservists to assist hospitals' virus wings
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 01:50||   2020-07-13 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clash with police over coronavirus lockdown
Protesters try to break through barriers around neighborhoods placed under lockdown, for spike in coronavirus cases, calling police Nazis, claiming they are treated like African Americans in U.S.

To put it into proper perspective, almost 50% of all CV19 cases in Israel are Ultra-Orthodox.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 01:53||   2020-07-13 01:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Florida records more than 15,000 new cases of COVID-19
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 02:07||   2020-07-13 02:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Man, 30, Dies After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’ Texas Hospital Says
A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus, according to a Texas hospital.

The man had attended a gathering with an infected person to test whether the coronavirus was real, said Dr. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, where the man died.

Well, unlike some, he had the courage of his convictions.

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 02:22||   2020-07-13 02:22|| Front Page Top

#5 During the Knesset coronavirus committee meeting, it was revealed that some 170 cases of infection originated since June from weddings, 35 from gyms, 21 from restaurants and six from bars.

Marriage is #1 killer, followed by fitness?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 02:43||   2020-07-13 02:43|| Front Page Top

#6 How many of those weddings were Ultra-orthodox? How many were Arab-Israeli?
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-13 04:30||   2020-07-13 04:30|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Doesn't say.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 04:35||   2020-07-13 04:35|| Front Page Top

#8 In the Hasidic neighborhoods of Brooklyn, NY, the number of new cases seem to be going to zero so they may actually have made it to herd immunity.

I base this on the fact that NY State new cases and new deaths per day are down to the hundreds and teens respectively.

NY had riots and protests like other States beginning in early June but the case load went down not up in that State.
Posted by lord garth 2020-07-13 08:56||   2020-07-13 08:56|| Front Page Top

#9 ^Or they starting practicing distancing & wearing masks.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 11:12||   2020-07-13 11:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Human lungs that are too damaged for transplant can be 'fixed' by hooking them up to a live PIG for 24 hours, study finds
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-13 11:48||   2020-07-13 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Man dies after COVID party? The Doctor, who witnessed his final words, offered nothing about any comorbidities? Other than terminal stupidity, of course. It's more scary if we think he was a picture of health. Oh, that's right - published in the NY Times.
Posted by Bobby 2020-07-13 15:59||   2020-07-13 15:59|| Front Page Top

#12 ^Robert, We all know that it's only attacks people over 65.
IDF: 568 active coronavirus patients, 12,130 soldiers in quarantine
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 16:02||   2020-07-13 16:02|| Front Page Top

#13 All of them over 65?
Posted by Bobby 2020-07-13 16:08||   2020-07-13 16:08|| Front Page Top

#14 None of them over 22.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-13 16:09||   2020-07-13 16:09|| Front Page Top

#15  None of them over 22.

So all 12,000 were in contact with someone who tested positive, or someone in their unit was, but how many are actually sick — and how many are sick enough need an ICU? In other words, how many are in quarantine as a precaution?
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-13 21:56||   2020-07-13 21:56|| Front Page Top

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