CNN)President Donald Trump has grown more and more irate as his attempts to contain the political fallout of coronavirus -- much less the health crisis itself -- continue to fall short, people close to him said.
Here is a positive outcome of the coronavirus. Fossil fuel pollution is plummeting. Check out the video of emissions in Milan: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/03/13/italy-emissions-coronavirus/ ?
The same thing happened in China. This could mean a reduction in the atmospheric carbon levels for 2020 that no one could have imagined.
I know this is the million-dollar question, but does anybody know when we can expect this pandemic to end?
Here in the UK, Bumbling Boris has decided to implement no social distancing, no testing of any kind outside hospitals and no mass closures of any kind. We've basically been told that most of us will get the virus at some point, and many of us will 'lose loved ones' so we're all suitably freaked out and pretty horrified at the idea of the government allowing almost a million innocent people to die for no apparent reason.
While we're not in as serious a situation as you guys in the US, we do have a severely underfunded NHS, which will ultimately collapse under the weight of the upcoming Italy-like crisis.
I just need a little bit of hope at the moment that this will end soon. All this darkness is really harming my mental wellbeing.
The Mad King is holding a press conference. What an asshole. I decided to watch because different medical experts and business people (from Labcorp, Quest Diagnostics, Walmart, CVS, etc.) were speaking. Unbelievably T still wanted to shake their hand, and most complied -- except for a few who just nodded, and one CEO, who gave him the elbow greeting. Then Mike Pence went up to the microphone, fawning all over him -- stuff like "under your incredible leadership", "you've been so decisive," "you've put the health of all Americans first". Banana Republic stuff. It made me think of that meeting he had with his Cabinet, and how they were all genuflecting before him. It made me nauseous and I walked away. I'm sorry that I watched.
@jha I'm thinking that April will be a big month because back in the 11.11.19 meditation I'd seen so much upset in the collective for that month. Although that upset could be something involving Trump. Anyway it may slow down during summer, but not go away, when people get more sunshine which can boost their immune systems.
Hard to believe Johnson would do something that flies in the face of science at such a critical time. Pandemic experts explain why social distancing is so important-- It keeps the number of cases at levels that the health care system can manage.
It's possible that everyone may eventually be exposed, but we want them to spread it out so they don't all hit the hospitals at the same time as has happened in Italy. Also if we can spread it out, then we increase the chances of getting a vaccine to those who are able to stay healthy.
In the graph, the yellow mountain is what has happened in Italy.
Me too deetoo (sorry I couldn't resist the rhyme lol). He actually seemed less out of it this time. And yes Pence made me queasy. I just listened to see how he answered the questions of the reporters. Then I turned it off. I can only take so much of his energy.
Thank you, @jeanne-mayell. I don't think anybody really trusts what Johnson is saying, and this 'herd immunity' nonsense has already been debunked by many experts. It seems like they're unnecessary inflicting harm on the general public.
I've already started self-isolating, partially because I have some symptoms that are reminiscent of the virus (although, since they're no longer testing people, I have no idea if it's Coronavirus or just another respiratory cold). I just hope other people are practicing social distancing, too. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.
@jha my best friend is a civil servant In The U.K. government. He has told me like trump johnson bungled this completely. However his wife works in infectious disease and they have predicted that it will last 3 months with 6 bad weeks.
@jaidy, thank you for sharing this. That is the most comforting thing I've heard in some weeks. There's no question Johnson has bungled it. I don't think anybody truly thinks this is a good idea, but if those on the inside are predicting an endpoint as short as three months, I get some comfort from it.
I just really hope that they're able to (as they claim) flatten the curve.