Time to read THE LAST CENTURION?

TFLYTSNBN wrote:

cthia wrote:Does Kim jon-un have covid-19?

Fascinating question. I've read reports that he had undergone some unspecified surgery. Is there a surgery that might be performed in response to the Coronavirus? It is reported that the China plague can inflict cardiac damage. As of this posting, John's Hopkins continues to report zero cases in North Korea. This is absurd. Equally absurd is China's reporting that half of it's provinces have zero cases as well as Beijing having only a few cases.

In other news, new cases in the US are way down. Of course all of our tests have high false positive as well as moderate false negative rates. We really should be doing two different tests on each patient to have accurate statistics.

Getting North Korea to say something that may reflect poorly on them is like squeezing blood from a rock.

And using different tests is a good idea, but I think the problem is that there isn't enough of them right now to make it feasible.

Joat42 wrote:
Getting North Korea to say something that may reflect poorly on them is like squeezing blood from a rock.

And using different tests is a good idea, but I think the problem is that there isn't enough of them right now to make it feasible.

Hopefully the number of tests available will ramp up to what is needed. It won't happen nearly so soon as we would wish, but it will probably get there.

Don

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n7axw wrote:

Joat42 wrote:
Getting North Korea to say something that may reflect poorly on them is like squeezing blood from a rock.

And using different tests is a good idea, but I think the problem is that there isn't enough of them right now to make it feasible.

Hopefully the number of tests available will ramp up to what is needed. It won't happen nearly so soon as we would wish, but it will probably get there.

Don

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Pretty much.

What I'm worried about is the possible inaccuracies in the tests. False positives is not really a problem per se since that means isolation for that particular person - it's the false negatives that are troublesome.

In a somewhat different subject, ever since Donald Trump assume the office of the presidency, I have wondered how much corruption and sheer incompetence the office could absorb before it simply collapsed of its dead weight.

In the incompetence department, here is a new one... HHS department head Alex Azar has appointed Brian Harrison to head the department's day to day response to the Coronavirus. Harrison joined the department in 2018 as an aid to Secretary Azar. Harrison's prior occupation was running a business breeding dogs, labradoodles, no less. No experience in public health at all.

Hmm. I got a M. Div from a seminary and spent 35 years as a parish pastor. I wonder if I could con the Trump Administration to hire me as a brain surgeon... I could specialize in frontal lobotomies...

Don

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In China's case, with it's rural provinces and severe lockdown, they could well have half their country with no cases.

Ironic news: CDC admitted that the nation that handled pandemic most efficient was Vietnam. No new cases, no death, one of the largest testing program per 1 million of population, and they already started to help others.

Currently statistic is firmly for socialistic organization of medicine over capitalistic)

Alternatively, nothing to do with socialism, but everything to do with a totalitarian regime that controls the media and narrative in its country? I am a supporter of moderate socialism, but do find it passing strange that a country bordering China has no deaths?

Dilandu wrote:Ironic news: CDC admitted that the nation that handled pandemic most efficient was Vietnam. No new cases, no death, one of the largest testing program per 1 million of population, and they already started to help others.

Currently statistic is firmly for socialistic organization of medicine over capitalistic)

Daryl wrote:Alternatively, nothing to do with socialism, but everything to do with a totalitarian regime that controls the media and narrative in its country? I am a supporter of moderate socialism, but do find it passing strange that a country bordering China has no deaths?

Dilandu wrote:Ironic news: CDC admitted that the nation that handled pandemic most efficient was Vietnam. No new cases, no death, one of the largest testing program per 1 million of population, and they already started to help others.

Currently statistic is firmly for socialistic organization of medicine over capitalistic)

Sorry, but Vietnam success is confirmed by your own American service. And why do you call Vietnam regime totalitarian? It is single-party, yes, but far from trying to exercise total control.

n7axw wrote:I could specialize in frontal lobotomies...

Don

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You wont find much work if your patients are all from the current administration.

Sorry Dilandu, but I'm not American and don't trust either them or Vietnam for accurate reporting.