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U rel jokey yes.i will provide less contamination to the bottle....less likely to spread/ contaminate anything else.maj. tom wrote:wam yuh only have one hand? Squeeze into one open hand, put away the bottle with the other hand, then rub your hands together. Yuh jocking with the hand sanitizer or wuh?
https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/show-me ... tizer.html
aaron17 wrote:U rel jokey yes.i will provide less contamination to the bottle....less likely to spread/ contaminate anything else.maj. tom wrote:wam yuh only have one hand? Squeeze into one open hand, put away the bottle with the other hand, then rub your hands together. Yuh jocking with the hand sanitizer or wuh?
https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/show-me ... tizer.html
K74T wrote:and for fadda in law to stop fighting for benz
Bill Gates: Coronavirus may be ‘once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about’
PUBLISHED FRI, FEB 28 20202:29 PM EST UPDATED FRI, FEB 28 20203:47 PM EST
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the coronavirus is starting to behave like the “once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.”
Gates also pointed out COVID-19′s current predicted fatality rate is higher than that of the 1957 influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 66,000 people in the U.S.
“I hope it’s not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise,” Gates said in an article.
GS: Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaking
Microsoft founder Bill Gates
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Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the coronavirus that has killed at least 2,859 people and infected more than 83,700 globally may be the “once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.”
“I hope it’s not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise,” Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Gates and his wife, Melinda, founded The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 to help improve world health and combat extreme poverty. The foundation announced Feb. 5 that it would donate $100 million to help find treatments and expand testing for the virus, particularly for poorer populations.
According to Gates, COVID-19 poses a serious threat to the world because it’s far more deadly and contagious than many other deadly viruses.
“First, it can kill healthy adults in addition to elderly people with existing health problems,” he wrote. “Second, Covid-19 is transmitted quite efficiently. The average infected person spreads the disease to two or three others — an exponential rate of increase.” World health leaders say the disease is spread by people who are mildly ill or don’t show any symptoms at all, making it harder to contain and more contagious than other types of viruses.
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The mortality rate is “many times more severe than typical seasonal influenza,” Gates said. The World Health Organization said the mortality rate of COVID-19 can differ, ranging from 0.7% to up to 4%, depending on the quality of the health-care system where it’s treated. Gates said that its current average estimated fatality rate of around 1% places it somewhere between the 1957 Asian flu pandemic (0.6%) that killed 1.1 million people and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic (2%) that killed 50 million around the world, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Gates is sounding the alarm to world leaders to try to help slow the spread of the virus, calling on developed countries to help less wealthy nations prepare.
Many low- and middle-income countries’ “health systems are already stretched thin, and a pathogen like the coronavirus can quickly overwhelm them,” Gates wrote. “And poorer countries have little political or economic leverage, given wealthier countries’ natural desire to put their own people first.”
WHO officials have echoed Gates’ concern about the virus infiltrating low- and middle-income countries with health systems that are too weak to support a potential outbreak. In January, the organization identified 13 top priority countries with direct links or high volume of travel to China, including Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Ghana.
This isn’t the first time Gates has warned that the world isn’t prepared for an infectious disease outbreak. He made similar remarks on the Ebola outbreak, which was declared a public health emergency of international concern by WHO. His foundation similarly donated millions of dollars to combat that disease.
Fellow billionaire and Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett has also called Gates his “science advisor” and added that he has discussed the coronavirus with him. Buffett said Gates was “bullish” on the long-term outlook for a universal prevention of the disease.
redmanjp wrote:on TTT news - You can be detained or jailed under quarantine laws if you breach isolation requirements.
$6,000 fine, jail time for lying about sickness, resisting quarantine
LOOP NEWS CREATED : 5 MARCH 2020
Anyone found lying to quarantine officials or resisting quarantine officials in the act of exercising their duties can be subjected to a $6,000 fine or up to six months jail time.
During a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19), Chief Medical Officer Roshan Parasram said the Quarantine Act provides the ‘teeth’ to allow officials to prevent people from breaching quarantine if they are found to be symptomatic (showing symptoms of the disease).
“The quarantine that we speak of is based on the Quarantine Act. There was a proclamation by the President…that added the coronavirus to the Act.”
“Before you go into quarantine it indicates the Quarantine Act and the penalties therein if you are to breach."
“If the need arises, the Minister of National Security has assured the Ministry of Health that the necessary steps through the Defence Force or the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service will be taken to have persons stationed outside of their home and guarded 24 hours a day to ensure that they stay there.”
“We can actually take you out of your home to a hospital, isolation, under the Quarantine Act if need be, as another tier of isolation.”
He said however that situation has not yet arisen and everyone has willingly complied with the quarantine.
Parasram said since the beginning of the restrictions, 20 people have been placed under quarantine, with eight people still under quarantine up to Wednesday morning.
According to a Ministry update on Thursday, to date, 26 samples were sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for testing - all tested negative for the virus.
Parasram said 10 people were turned away from entering the country, based on the travel restrictions currently in place barring travellers from China, Iran, South Korea, Italy, Japan and Singapore.
Under the current restrictions, any Trinidad and Tobago national who arrives from a country included in the ban will be subjected to home quarantine for 14 days. Non-nationals will not be allowed to enter the country.
In January 2020 the Quarantine [2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Disease] Order, 2020 was issued by Chief Medical Officer Roshan Parasram, adding the virus to the list.
Here are three things to know under the Quarantine Act:
1. Lying to quarantine officials
Under Section 7 (1) (a) of the Quarantine Act, anyone who “refuses to answer or knowingly gives an untrue answer to any inquiry made under the authority of this Act, or intentionally withholds any information reasonably required of him by an officer or other person acting under the authority of this Act, or knowingly furnishes to any such officer or other person any information which is false” is liable on conviction to a fine of $6,000 and to imprisonment for six months.
2. Breaching quarantine
Likewise, breaching a direct quarantine order can result in possible penalties.
Under Section 7(1)(b) of the of the Act, anyone who “refuses or wilfully omits to do any act which he is required to do by this Act, or refuses or wilfully omits to carry out any lawful order, instruction or condition made, given or imposed by any officer or other person acting under the authority of this Act” is liable on conviction to a fine of $6,000 and to imprisonment for six months.
3. Resisting/bribing quarantine officials
Under Section 7(1)(c) of the act, anyone who “assaults, resists, wilfully obstructs or intimidates any officer or other person acting under the authority of this Act, or offers or gives a bribe to any officer or person in connection with his powers or duties under this Act, or being such officer or person, demands, solicits or takes a bribe in connection with his powers or duties under this Act, or otherwise obstructs the execution of this Act” is liable on conviction to a fine of $6,000 and to imprisonment for six months.
For more information on the Quarantine Act see here: https://bit.ly/2IsmeXX
maj. tom wrote:well that's a quite ideal law eh? Looks fine on paper. But it can never work in real life. Covid-19 is here already and spreading daily and incubating and will be ready to explode soon. Expect the first few cases to be unannounced by authorities until it gets past a double digit number.
sMASH wrote:apparently, children (not the legal definition of being under 18, but actual little sheit monsters) are carriers of the virus, without being significantly affected. so, that means they can spread it, without being obvious.
paid_influencer wrote:Here's the really scary thing. This is a new virus and we don't really know what the natural history of the virus will be. After a few weeks most people recover, but we don't know if long-term there will be implications for otherwise recovered people.
also, Italy had 49 coronavirus virus deaths in 24h.
killercow wrote:So I was wondering. Suppose I breach quarantine.. Yes I can be fined, remanded, brought before a court and possibly imprisoned...
BUT..
When I'm arrested are the police going to house a highly contagious man in their station even though I might be in a cell by myself? What about transportation to / from the station? Dey going to put me in the same vehicle with them? What about when I go to court? The magistrate, prosecutor and police all closing the court just for my hearing and coming in hazmat suits? What about if I am convicted? Where are they putting me? Golden Grove or Carrera? Either way I could infect / kill all the convicts (which might not be such a bad thing).
eitech wrote:killercow wrote:So I was wondering. Suppose I breach quarantine.. Yes I can be fined, remanded, brought before a court and possibly imprisoned...
BUT..
When I'm arrested are the police going to house a highly contagious man in their station even though I might be in a cell by myself? What about transportation to / from the station? Dey going to put me in the same vehicle with them? What about when I go to court? The magistrate, prosecutor and police all closing the court just for my hearing and coming in hazmat suits? What about if I am convicted? Where are they putting me? Golden Grove or Carrera? Either way I could infect / kill all the convicts (which might not be such a bad thing).
Good point. Hopefully u get too sick and they put u in their special hospital one time with bed handcuffs. Lol
sMASH wrote:apparently, children (not the legal definition of being under 18, but actual little sheit monsters) are carriers of the virus, without being significantly affected. so, that means they can spread it, without being obvious.
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