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Here in England when shopping we are required to wear a face-covering or mask however some don't. It only seems to be the larger shops that seem to prefer you to wear one.Originally Posted by bsm2
Since a face mask or covering is the requirement I bought one of these.
Since a disposable surgical mask is about as effective as a wire fence is at stopping flies, mine is even less effective, but I am playing their game.
When you think you have made a procedure idiot proof your company employs a better idiot.
Establishment Media Reaches New Low with Glowing Article About Growing Faith in Communism
“Trump views China’s Communist Party as a threat. Young Chinese see it as a ticket to a better future.”
The statement wreaks of psychological operations strategy and reads like a state-run media sales pitch for modern communism — but rest assured, you are not reading a translation of CCP propaganda at The Western Journal.
That lovely little number was brought to you by the oh-so-principled penmen at The Washington Post.
It wasn’t cut from an official CCP Op-Ed submission, a Post editorial or even the publication’s so-called “news analysis” section.
No siree, this was the one and only headline that sat atop an original report Tuesday from the Post’s Beijing bureau chief, Anna Fifield.
Just when you thought the left-wing establishment media couldn’t possibly carry one more droplet of water for the Chinese communists, a bigger bucket is procured and an astounding introduction made.
New, meet low.
Trump views China’s Communist Party as a threat. Young Chinese see it as a ticket to a better future. https://t.co/mA2qDgLQ1oNow, instead of simply defending China against presidential name-calling and allegations of early pandemic mismanagement, the media might as well have been writing copy for Communist Party membership advertisements.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 4, 2020
“Party membership means better education prospects and better jobs, more politically advantageous marriages and nicer apartments,” Fifield wrote. “For many, it is a ticket to a brighter future.”
The sources in Fifield’s article, though inclusive of a pinch of American expertise, ranged mainly from university students and aspiring party members to Communist officials and publications.
Several interviews for the piece even were conducted with crowd members adjacent to a massive stone monument to murderous Communist revolutionary dictator Mao Zedong — a monument the author referred to as a sort of Chinese Mount Rushmore with “fairground-style” attractions.
Of course, the monument avoided the ire that Post authors have recently aimed at America’s Mount Rushmore.
Our version — the original, I might add — was no more than “colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle.”
Theirs? Again, a “fairground” so popular among young Chinese natives that the “overwhelming humidity of the Chinese summer was not enough to stifle the ardor of the crowds.”
More awing still were the interview responses Fifield legitimized in her piece. All the respondents the author could find, it would seem, were willing to assure American audiences that COVID-19 hadn’t weakened, but strengthened the nation of China.
“It’s strange to think of the Communist Party as weaker,” university student Xia Yuxin told the Post. “All of us feel that our country and our party have grown stronger in the face of this epidemic.”
In fact, Fifield reported, the aggressive statements of American leaders with regard to China were laughable to citizens of the virus-embattled nation.
According to Hunan Communist Party School professor Wang Wei, such attacks revealed only a deep American self-consciousness and fear of Chinese global supremacy.
“This just shows that they fear a stronger Communist Party and a stronger China after we showed our might in the battle against the coronavirus epidemic,” Wei said.
Video of #uighurmuslims blindfolded in #China,Chinese government arrested over 1 million Muslims forcing them 2 eat pork,denounce islam, USA,Britian spoke out against the treatment of the #uighur Muslims in #China,most are silent May Allah help #Muslims against their oppressors pic.twitter.com/R7qnTJiZ25
— Mutah Beale مطاع بيل (@MutahNapoleon) July 28, 2020NEW alleged footage of Uyghur concentration camps in China pic.twitter.com/R9BTNtHZrB#STOPUyghurMuslimGenocide 🧿#TAGG
— Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz) August 4, 2020
And as if the Post’s printing of such statements from the ground in China weren’t concerning enough, Fifield apparently was determined to seal the deal, throwing it in the face of American audiences that she was more than happy to stand as a mouthpiece, willing to spew the CCP line on the world stage.
Rather than even consider a quote or data point that might balance the piece or lend it perspective, the author left the audience with one final quote, the best one yet. It was from a Chinese student, an unequivocal assertion that, while the CCP’s history might be a mixed bag morally, “The good triumphs.”
Apparently, mild Chinese quality-of-life improvements made on the back of modern economic progress through cutting corners balances a recent history of genocidal mania.
After all, what are the lives of 45 million 20th-century Chinese citizens and fundamental human rights of 1 million more Chinese Muslim Uighurs really worth in the grand scheme of things?
Well, if you ask the Post: They are worth at least a single shot at making the Trump administration look stupid.
this is the "truthful" news outlet that BSM2 swallows 'hook-line n sinker'.
#TRUMPPENCE2020
Here in England when shopping we are required to wear a face-covering or mask however some don't. It only seems to be the larger shops that seem to prefer you to wear one.
Since a face mask or covering is the requirement I bought one of these.
Since a disposable surgical mask is about as effective as a wire fence is at stopping flies, mine is even less effective, but I am playing their game.
" YA DO WHAT YA GOTTA DO " brother...
even tho there is a mandate from Gov. Pooper to wear a mask... like in your country, many here refuse to do so...
claim you have asthma .. it's one condition even the W.H.O. WILL GET YOU OUT OF IT. But the WHO is in cahoots with China so....
CDC calls on Americans to wear masks to prevent COVID-19 spread | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
Wear a Mask be a HERO
unless your unAmerican like Phil
Try telling that to the young technology-obsessed residents of Hong Kong.
China's Great Firewall descends on Hong Kong internet users.
China's Great Firewall descends on Hong Kong internet users | World news | The Guardian
When you think you have made a procedure idiot proof your company employs a better idiot.
Exactly, at least I can breathe through mine for the ~45 minutes a week I wear it.
When you think you have made a procedure idiot proof your company employs a better idiot.
CORONAVIRUS
Shortages threaten Trump’s plan for rapid coronavirus tests
Manufacturers of antigen tests say they are nowhere near able to meet demand.
The Trump administration is gambling that a new generation of fast, cheap coronavirus tests can bring the U.S. outbreak under control. The challenge now is getting enough of these tests to pursue that strategy.
The rapid antigen tests, which hunt for proteins on the virus’ surface, give results in less than 30 minutes. They are less accurate than lab tests now in widespread use, which detect the virus’s genetic material and take hours to analyze. But a growing number of public health experts say trading off accuracy for speed is a gamble worth taking, as testing labs struggle to clear days-long backlogs.
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Getting more test results in a matter of minutes, rather than days, could help public health agencies move faster to quarantine the sick and trace their contacts. Many see the rapid antigen tests as the tool that could finally contain the U.S. outbreak — just in time for the annual flu season, which begins in October.
Trump’s testing czar, Brett Giroir, has said he hopes to have 20 million rapid point-of-care tests available per month by September. But some health experts estimate the U.S. needs as many as 25 million of the tests per week by October to ensure the safe operation of schools, health facilities and other essential workplaces.
Nursing homes have been told it could be months before antigen tests are available in sufficient numbers. And states, which have spent months scrambling for protective equipment and testing supplies on the open market, are now competing for the tests.
Manufacturers of antigen tests say they are nowhere near able to meet demand.
Doug Bryant, president and CEO of test-maker Quidel, told investors last week that demand “will far exceed what all of the manufacturers in the rapid antigen space can produce, for at least the next several quarters.”
BD, the only other manufacturer with an antigen test on the market, anticipates producing 10 million test kits from July to September. It plans to increase production to 8 million per month in October and then 12 million a month by March 2021. President and CEO Tom Polen said Thursday that demand for antigen tests will "exceed supply in the foreseeable future at least
Confirmed U.S. Cases: 4,986,345 | U.S. Deaths: 162,244
Other rapid tests on the market — like Abbott’s ID Now and Cepheid's Xpert Xpress, which do not use antigen technology — are still hard to come by. Abbott President and CEO Robert Ford told investors in July that the company is working to expand production of its rapid test kits to more than 50,000 per day.
Meanwhile, shortages of the antigen tests are already causing confusion and frustration
Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of LeadingAge, an association of nonprofit providers of aging services, said nursing homes are in the dark about how many tests they'll be able to purchase.
“When our colleagues have talked to distributors, they have simply said that it could be months before ample testing supplies are available,” she said.
States, which have spent months scrambling for protective equipment and testing supplies on the open market, are now competing for the rapid tests. A bipartisan group of seven governors said Tuesday that they would jointly purchase 3.5 million antigen tests from the only two companies now authorized to sell them — in the hopes of creating an incentive for test makers to ramp up production.
The Trump administration announced last month that it would send antigen test supplies, including the instruments that analyze samples, to each of the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes. The plan was to start with facilities in hot spots. But it had a catch: Each nursing home would get anywhere from 900 to 150 tests depending on its size — and they could take up to three months to arrive. Once the nursing homes exhausted the federal shipments, they’d need to purchase more tests on their own.
Giroir recently told POLITICO he wasn’t worried about jockeying with states for scarce antigen testing supplies because the federal government could use its “priority authority to purchase” and simply jump the line. He also said that recent federal investments aimed at helping the two antigen test-makers, BD and Qiagen, increase production capacity should soon pay off.
Other companies are trying to enter the antigen test market. OraSure Technologies is developing an over-the-counter antigen test that people could take without a prescription from a health care provider. The company said this week it expects to apply for Food and Drug Administration emergency authorization in October at the earliest. If the agency gives the test a green light, OraSure CEO Stephen Tang said the company could produce them at a rate equivalent to 55 million per year by early 2021.
But even if the tests become more available, they’ll have to be deployed carefully, in ways that account for the increased risk of false negatives compared with tests analyzed in labs.
The FDA expects any coronavirus test prescribed by a health care provider — a category that includes antigen tests now on the market — should be able to correctly detect the virus at least 80 percent of the time. The more complex PCR tests that must be analyzed by labs are expected to spot at least 95 percent of positive samples.
Some in the nursing home industry are already raising alarm bells about the risks of going with faster, but less accurate, antigen tests.
“In a nursing home, a false negative test would spell disaster,” said Jabbar Fazeli, a spokesperson for the Maine Medical Directors Association who also oversees medical care in several Maine nursing homes. Fazeli, a geriatric medicine physician, is advising the three homes he supervises against using the tests.
Adm. Brett Giroir, Trump's coronavirus testing czar, speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing in May.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which regulates nursing homes, acknowledges that antigen tests can’t be used to rule out coronavirus infection. But in a statement announcing the federal shipments, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the tests were “one more tool in the toolbox” that could help nursing homes quickly identify infected residents and isolate them to halt the virus’ spread.
BD says it is reaching out to nursing homes to ensure they have the support needed to operate its antigen testing machine.
But many nursing homes have not been adequately trained on how to administer antigen tests — whether made by BD or Quidel, said Chris Laxton, executive director of the The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
“What I'm hearing from our members is that we're not seeing a lot of support from the companies at this point on how to train staff to do that or even advice on what level of clinical background you need in order to carry these tests out,” Laxton said.
Smith Sloan, of LeadingAge, said she knows of at least one facility that has hired its own lab technicians to run coronavirus tests. But that won’t solve every test-related problem. Some LeadingAge members have told her their government-supplied machine and kits arrived without some components needed to actually run the tests.
Despite these speed bumps, the goal of moving toward cheap and rapid testing is worthwhile, says Jonathan Quick, who runs the Rockefeller Foundation’s pandemic response. “Fast and frequent beats slow and highly accurate from an epidemic control point of view,” he said.
Bruce Tromberg, who is leading a $1.5-billion National Institutes of Health program to improve coronavirus testing technology, predicts that government investments should have “a substantial impact on testing” as the country heads into the fall.
“We know that the only way to have a sustainable wide-scale cultural change is to provide tests for everyone and on a personal basis,” Tromberg said.
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