Why are there calls to prayer from mosques in Germany when everyone else has to stay in groups of 1 and not go out anywhere? How does that work exactly?
(Video above shows the Merkez Mosque in Duisburg last Friday)
By Loren Smith
Everyone paying attention knows full well by now that electromechanical ventilators are the most critically needed and longest lead-time items required for saving the most vulnerable Covid-19 infected patients — the ones who develop secondary pneumonia and would otherwise literally drown in their own fluids if not for this artificial breathing technology.
According to BBC News on Thursday, “the NHS [British National Health Service] has just over 8,000 ventilators,” and is seeking help from the vacuum cleaner company, Dyson, to rapidly manufacture more. So far so good, and we all wish Sir James Dyson’s company Godspeed. At the same time, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo likens ventilators to “missiles in World War II.” Therelated news article reports that, “…There are about 160,000 ventilators in existing hospital treatment rooms across the United States and the Centers for Disease Control have a Strategic National Stockpile of 12,700 ventilators and the Pentagon announced this week that they can contribute 2,000 more military-style ventilators to the total, which would bring the number to just under 175,000 ventilator-equipped beds in America.” Eight thousand ventilators are presently available in the UK versus 175,000 in the US.
Looking back and forth across the Atlantic, these numbers are interesting and upon inspection, tell a cautionary tale regarding nationalized versus privately managed healthcare. If we compare the populations of the UK with the US, we find that the UK has 65 million people whereas the US is home to 330 million people. Therefore, in the UK, each resident must potentially share each ventilator with 8,125 of their compatriots. In the US, each resident must only compete with 1,886 of our neighbors if we wind up in the ICU. The ratio of population between the two countries calculates to 5.07 times more people in the US than the UK but the ratio of ventilators is tipped in favor of 21.9 times more ventilators in the US than in the UK. US residents are therefore 4.3 times more likely to have a ventilator available when one is required than our UK cousins. In the US, this situation didn’t stem from central planning but instead from market forces. For the UK, with the benefit of the NHS’s top down planned wisdom, the opposite is true.
The “universal healthcare” nirvana that Biden, Sanders, and progressives long for with envy doesn’t look so good when the chips are down. It might be poorly timed phraseology to caution, “don’t hold your breath,” nevertheless, don’t hold your breath waiting for MSNBC, CNN, or any of the left-wing alphabet media to point out this glaring and life-threatening disconnect between the promise and the reality of centrally planned healthcare. We already know the Democrat candidates never will, as they instead continue to blame President Trump for every date and detail that is slightly off while traitorously refusing to report the real story.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/uk_healthcare_fails_under_coronavirus.html
Health experts warned this week that Turkey’s Coronavirus epidemic was out of control and that deaths from the disease could soon be on a par with Italy or Spain.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network reported on the dire situation. “The recent data on cases and death tolls shows that the situation is out of control in Turkey. If the necessary measures are not taken, Turkey will be like Italy or Spain, where the daily death toll is in the hundreds,” Emrah Altındiş, a Turkish professor from Harvard University’s Medical Faculty, told BIRN.
Turkey reported its first Coronavirus patient on March 11, but the total number of cases in the country is already 1 872. The Turkish Medical Association (TTB) urged the government on March 23 to be more transparent about the pandemic.
Another doctor interviewed by BIRN noted: “What I observe in my hospital and the general situation is that the real numbers are at least two to three times higher than the numbers that the government announced. The Covid-19 pandemic is now out of control.”
freewestmedia.com/2020/03/27/turkeys-covid-19-situation-is-out-of-control/
A baker in the city of Arezzo was attacked by a migrant after she asked the man to wait outside before being served to prevent gatherings in the shop and the spread of Wuhan coronavirus.
The incident occurred earlier this week and saw the African migrant, who was described by the baker as being slightly intoxicated, enter the Boutique del Pane bakery while other customers were inside and was politely asked to wait outside until it was his turn to be served.
The migrant reacted highly negatively to the suggestion and began to berate the baker and the female customers in the shop, shouting “You Italians are shit!”
“I was serving a client when this young black guy entered, initially calm. I told him that he had to stay outside, that he had to respect like all the rules: in the shop no more than one at a time. And he has lost his mind,” the baker said, in comments reported by Italian newspaper La Nazione.
“The bad news was when he started to wreak havoc. He ran his hands over the shelves and threw everything on the ground, smashing what happened to be within his range: tins, glass jars, beer bottles. An uncontrollable fury,” she added.
Both the baker and a female customer were then attacked by the migrant who pushed them up against a wall and began hitting them.
“I yelled at the client to call the police; he ran away at that point, without taking anything away. Fortunately, because at that time there was no one else who could give us a hand. The other shops were all closed. I wouldn’t have known who to ask for help,” the baker said.
The incident comes after a 60-year-old man in Novara was attacked by an African migrant after he was asked to keep a safe distance to maintain social distancing.
“He started to rail against the Italians calling them ‘bastards and racists’,” the victim said.
Other countries have also seen tensions after lockdowns were put in place to halt the spread of coronavirus, including Britain, where youths set fire to food delivery vans and attacked police earlier this week.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/27/migrant-attacks-italian-baker-told-wait-outside/
BY MATT MARGOLIS
It goes without saying that the world was sent into panic mode because of the coronavirus pandemic. This was, in part, due to predictions of widespread infection and deaths from the virus, particulary those of British scientist Neil Ferguson. His report, published on March 16, predicted 2.2 million Americans and over a half a million Brits would be killed by the virus. The report was taken seriously, prompting the United States, UK, and much of the world to effectively shut down to slow down the spread of the virus. But now Ferguson is walking back those doomsday predictions.
Ferguson’s report from Imperial College, which White House and other officials took seriously, said that if the U.S. and U.K. did not shut down for 18 months, and isolation measures were not taken, “we would expect a peak in mortality (daily deaths) to occur after approximately 3 months.” His “models” showed overflowing hospitals and ICU beds.
“For an uncontrolled epidemic, we predict critical care bed capacity would be exceeded as early as the second week in April, with an eventual peak in ICU or critical care bed demand that is over 30 times greater than the maximum supply in both countries,” the report reads.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, reportedly said the administration was particularly focused on the Imperial College report’s conclusion that entire households should stay in isolation for 14 days if any member suffered from COVID-19 symptoms.
Ferguson has now essentially retracted his original predictions.
The UK should now be able to cope with the spread of the covid-19 virus, according to one of the epidemiologists advising the government.
Neil Ferguson at Imperial College London gave evidence today to the UK’s parliamentary select committee on science and technology as part of an inquiry into the nation’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.
He said that expected increases in National Health Service capacity and ongoing restrictions to people’s movements make him “reasonably confident” the health service can cope when the predicted peak of the epidemic arrives in two or three weeks. UK deaths from the disease are now unlikely to exceed 20,000, he said, and could be much lower.
Other experts have also suggested that the world overreacted to the coronavirus pandemic. Standford University professors Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya wrote in the Wall Street Journal that current estimates about the fatality rate of the coronavirus “may be too high by orders of magnitude,” and based on their modeling, the coronavirus could have a mortality rate of 0.01% — that’s ten times lower than the seasonal flu. Does that mean it will be that low? Not necessarily. Does that mean there may have been an overreaction by world governments because of faulty research by experts they rely on? Yeah, maybe.
A 16-year-old Somali citizen was caught yesterday afternoon using an intercity train from Frankfurt-on-Main to Erfurt without a valid ticket.
During the check, he refused to buy a ticket and coughed aggressively several times in the face of the train attendant. Shortly afterwards he fled into another carriage.
The train attendant locked the doors of the empty wagon and informed the federal police by telephone of the incident. In the further course of the incident the Somali damaged several windows of the train. At the train’s stop in Eisenach, state police initially took the 16-year-old into custody and subsequently handed him over to a patrol of the Federal Police, which also came to the spot. An emergency doctor was able to determine that the Somali was not infected with the corona virus. When his personal details were checked, it emerged that the Somali was wanted because he had left a dormitory in Neustadt-Klewe. The officers took the young man to the Erfurt police station and initiated criminal proceedings for bodily harm, property damage and fare evasion. After the police measures were completed, the officers handed the 16-year-old over to the Youth Welfare Office.
presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/74167/4557614
A 60-year-old man was attacked by a North African migrant in a supermarket after he asked the migrant to maintain a distance of a least one meter at the check-out line.
The elderly man was lining up to check-out with his items at a discount store in Corso Trieste when he asked the couple behind him – a North African man with his wife – to maintain at least a one-meter distance between them. At this point, the migrant became irate, started screaming and threatened the elderly man physically, La Stampa reports.
“He started screaming, threatening to break my face. He approached. He touched me and breathed on me,” the 60-year-old man from Novara said.
After shop workers attempted to intervene in the situation, the victim said that the migrant became even angrier and began railing against the Italians, calling them “bastards and racists”.
Unfortunately, the ordeal didn’t end inside the supermarket.
After checking out with his items, the North African migrant chased the 60-year-old down, grabbed him, and kneed him in the thigh.
“I didn’t react in the first place because you never know if the attacker is armed or not; secondly, because I wanted to avoid physical contact, with possible risks of coronavirus contagion,” the victim said.
Since the coronavirus outbreak really began to pick up steam over the past month, migrants have become increasingly aggressive, combative, and anti-social.
One week ago, Voice of Europe reported on migrants living a facility in Suhl, Thuringa, who threatened to burn the center down, began rioting and threw bottles at police in protective gear, in response to the camp being sealed off to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus.
When about 200 police were called in to handle the escalating situation the migrants gathered at the front gates, waving ISIS flags and threatening to burn the center to the ground.
voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/italy-north-african-migrant-attacks-60-year-old-man-in-supermarket-when-asked-to-keep-distance/
A major hospital in France has had its stocks of hydroxychloroquine stolen by persons unknown.
Hydroxychloroquine is a drug that is used to treat malaria. Recent trials have tentatively shown that it is effective against the Coronavirus. Since it is a long-established drug, it can be immediately prescribed against the disease too, without testing.
Professor Christian Perronne, chief of infectious diseases at Raymond Poincaré university hospital in Garches, confirmed the theft of the drug in an interview with LCI.
“Unfortunately, the central hospital pharmacy announced today that it’s totally out of stock, that the stocks have been looted. It’s lamentable, and it’s been looted.”
On March 9, a team of researchers in China published results showing that hydroxychloroquine was effective. The authors suggested a five-day treatment consisting of two 200-milligram tablets twice a day on the first day followed by one tablet twice a day for four more days.
A more recent French study used the drug in combination with azithromycin, generally prescribed for upper respiratory infections. The drug alone does not appear to help, and the findings of combination treatment are preliminary.
But researchers in France treated a small number of patients with both hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, and 100 percent of them were cured by day six of treatment. Compare that with 57,1 percent of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone, and 12,5 percent of patients who received neither.
On a more positive note, most patients were cured in three to six days rather than the 20 days observed in China. That reduces the time a patient can spread the virus to others.
freewestmedia.com/2020/03/26/drug-to-threat-covid-19-stolen-from-french-hospital/
