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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2020 9:32:55 GMT -7
New cases in Gallatin County indicate community spread of coronavirus
Still no confirmed cases in Park County The Livingston Enterprise reports:
"Four new coronavirus cases in Gallatin County have indicated the presence of community spread, according to the Gallatin-City County Health Department, or GCCHD.
Community spread means the source of the infection is unknown or can’t be traced to a known exposure, according to the GCCHD press release.
Gallatin County has a total of 10 confirmed cases. There are 34 cases statewide. Six cases, the second highest in the state, are being reported in Yellowstone County. There are no confirmed cases in Park County".
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2020 9:41:16 GMT -7
Covid 19 Virus News for March 23, 2020 Park County requests immediate closure of Yellowstone National Park The Livingston Enterprise reports:
"ark County health officials on Sunday requested the immediate closure of Yellowstone National Park in response to the spread of new coronavirus.
Park County Health Officer Dr. Laurel Desnick, along with the Park County Covid-19 Unified Health Command and Park County Covid-19 Incident Command, sent a letter to Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt requesting the immediate closure of Yellowstone National Park, according to a news release.
“We feel this is necessary to protect the citizens of Park County, our elderly population and our healthcare resources,” the news release said.
No further details about the requested closure were included in the news release". I am an American constitutional lawyer – and I see our government using Covid-19 to take away our fundamental rights Robert Barnes in an opinion piece published by RT Question More writes:
" Do we really think “it can’t happen here” in America? Could we quarantine the constitution? Are we doing it already?
Panics from pandemics unleash unchecked governmental power. The very premise of popular films like V for Vendetta reveal this: a group uses a virus to seize power and create a totalitarian society. Anyone could witness this from far-off lands, watching the news about China locking people up in their own homes and then removing them screaming from those homes whenever the state wanted. World War I and the Great Depression birthed virulent forms of governments with leaders like Hitler, Mao, Mussolini and Stalin".
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2020 9:44:00 GMT -7
California police to use Chinese-made patrol drones with night-vision cameras during coronavirus lockdown The Washington Examiner reports:
"A California police department is planning on using drones equipped with cameras and loudspeakers to monitor a coronavirus shutdown.
The Chula Vista Police Department recently doubled its fleet of drones, purchasing two of the machines from Chinese company DJI. The police department told the Financial Times that they would be outfitted with night-vision cameras.
“We have not traditionally mounted speakers to our drones, but ... if we need to cover a large area to get an announcement out, or if there were a crowd somewhere that we needed to disperse, we could do it without getting police officers involved,” said Capt. Vern Sallee.
“The outbreak has changed my view of expanding the program as rapidly as I can,” Sallee added.
U.S. officials have warned about the threat Chinese-made drones could pose to the United States. The company that the police department is purchasing from, DJI, is the world’s largest player in the civilian drone industry.
Spencer Gore, chief executive of U.S.-based drone company Impossible Aerospace, said he is “working like crazy” to help equip other law enforcement agencies with drones and emphasized that the hardware his company uses is made domestically.
“What we saw in China, and what we're probably going to see around the world, is using drones with cameras and loudspeakers to fly around to see if people are gathering where they shouldn't be, and telling them to go home,” Gore said. “It seems a little Orwellian, but this could save lives.”
Another use for drones, at least for the Chula Vista police, might be to help spread the message about the coronavirus to homeless people who may not receive information any other way.
“We need to tell them we actually have resources for them — they are vulnerable right now,” Sallee said. “It might be impractical or unsafe for our officers to be put into those areas.”
At the peak of China’s coronavirus outbreak, the country used talking drones to force citizens in certain areas to wear face masks.
"Where is your mask? Wear your mask!," operators of the drones shouted at passersby in Chinese.
The news comes as cases of the coronavirus across the U.S. have increased dramatically. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned on Monday that the coronavirus pandemic is " going to get bad" this week. Estimates of how many people will become infected vary, but some states have taken stringent measures to stop the spread, including closing all non-essential business.
In the U.S., there have been more than 35,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 473 deaths, according to the latest reading by the Johns Hopkins University tracker". |
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2020 9:46:19 GMT -7
Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: 'We're going to be fine' Yahoo News reports:
"Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted.
Now he foresees a similar outcome in the United States and the rest of the world.
While many epidemiologists are warning of months, or even years, of massive social disruption and millions of deaths, Levitt says the data simply don't support such a dire scenario — especially in areas where reasonable social distancing measures are in place.
"What we need is to control the panic," he said. In the grand scheme, "we're going to be fine."
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2020 9:49:22 GMT -7
I Just Called to Say … the Phone Call Is Back DNUZ reports:
"The other night my friend Margot called. It’s not unusual for me to hear from Margot — we’ve been friends for more than 30 years, email frequently, have dinner every month or two, and I stay over at her house whenever I’m in town. But Margot never calls. Practically no one does; my few surviving telephonic friendships antedate the internet. But Margot has a cold, and because her husband is immunocompromised, she’d had to quarantine herself in their guest room; she was, in effect, the invalid mother confined to her room upstairs in some Victorian novel. She’d been just about to email me when she thought, why would I email? and picked up the phone.
Once I’d ascertained that it wasn’t an emergency, her call was a pleasant surprise. We talked for half an hour or so, and it cheered us both in a dark, uncertain time".
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2020 9:51:46 GMT -7
The Beautiful World Beside the Broken One Another hopeful story from DNYUZ:
" A two-week bout with flu turned me into a person I didn’t recognize — a hopeless, coughing, exhausted person. I lay in bed, phone in hand, skipping from news outlet to news outlet: refreshing, clicking, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. The news was always bad, every update worse than the one before.
By the time my fever broke for good, Covid-19 was an official pandemic, and the news was all about social distancing: no meetings, no coffee dates, no dinner parties, no book clubs. I work from home, and the loss of such communal activities would have been disheartening if it weren’t for the fact that the world had changed during the two weeks I spent in bed.
I don’t mean our cities and towns, our trailer parks and hamlets. True, this pandemic has altered our lives so fundamentally and so suddenly that no amount of scrolling can explain it in a way that sinks in. For the worried well, our whole world is now unrecognizable, and it’s too soon to tell what it will look like when the virus finally burns out.
But there’s another world that has always existed both apart from and alongside civilization. While I was sick it changed, too, in the age-old turning of the earth itself. By the time I could walk outside again, springtime had come to Tennessee".
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2020 10:23:50 GMT -7
Former CDC Chief Dr. Tom Frieden: Coronavirus infection risk may be reduced by Vitamin D Fox News reports:
"As we race to develop effective treatments and a vaccine against COVID-19, people are looking to reduce their risk of getting sick. One thing that might help is as obvious as the sun in the sky and as close as your medicine cabinet – Vitamin D.
Higher COVID-19 mortality rates among older people and those with chronic conditions suggest that a weakened immune system contributes to poor outcomes. There are many crackpot claims about miracle cures floating around, but the science supports the possibility – although not the proof – that Vitamin D may strengthen the immune system, particularly of people whose Vitamin D levels are low.
Vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk of respiratory infection, regulates cytokine production and can limit the risk of other viruses such as influenza. A respiratory infection can result in cytokine storms – a vicious cycle in which our inflammatory cells damage organs throughout the body – which increase mortality for those with COVID-19. Adequate Vitamin D may potentially provide some modest protection for vulnerable populations".
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