Last year more than 500,000 marched for action on the growing #climatecrisis in #Montreal. They were joined by millions around the world. Today many march online.
No time to waste, no planet B. Let's protect each other & the planet. #ClimateStrikeOnline
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The Greta Thunberg effect. Marvellous. But we need to continue, more than ever. The corona crisis reminds us of even much bigger, equally urgent crises: the climate and ecology crises.
Specially for those ppl asking why has the virus not spread to bear places like Shanghai & Beijing but gone far to Italy, Spain & USA. Read on & try to understandā¦
Why canāt other countries do what China did to stop the spread of COVID-19?
By Robin Daverman (published in Quora – 22nd March 2020)
Answer: China is mostly organized like a department of engineering. The European countries, and the US are mostly run by amateurs or professional politicians with a hobby. This is something people have always known for ages. It just takes an emergency like this to demonstrate the pros and cons of such arrangements
For example, UKās Secretary of State for Health is The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP. OK so what does he know about health? He was a banker before, then did a stint in Digital and Media. Italyās Minister for Health is Roberto Speranza, a political science major. The US Coronavirus task force is headed by Vice President Pence, who was a conservative radio and TV talk show host.
Chinaās Health Ministry is headed by Ma Xiaowei, who is himself a physician and directed hospitals before. Its department of construction is headed by someone whoās been doing construction for 30 years. Its rail transportation department is headed by someone building trains for 30 yearsā¦
So when the State Council formed the āJoint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Councilā, headed by the Health Ministry, on January 20th, the head of the logistics immediately rushed to Tianjin to ramp up production of PPEs and disinfectant China pushes all-out production of face masks in virus fight, the head of Construction immediately started organizing for the construction of new hospitals, providing an additional 2,500 ICU beds How China Built Two Coronavirus Hospitals in Just Over a Week, the head of transportation immediately started re-routing all the trains and the flights, and the Health Ministry immediately started organizing medical teams and publishing standard treatment protocols and infection prevention protocols. 40,000 ICU and Pulmonary doctors and nurses rushed to Wuhan to treat the patients, not a single person got infected. New and improved diagnostic and treatment protocols were being published once a week. The latest is the 7th edition. ę°åå ē¶ē ęÆčŗēčÆēę¹ę” (čÆč”ē¬¬äøē)
Basically these guys can all deliver on their part, right? Talks and promises arenāt going to do a thing to the virus. There must be effective ACTION. In Europe, these positions are mostly rewarded to politicians as part of the ācoalition buildingā. So they make speeches. They donāt do the job themselves. Which is kind of bizarre, if you think about it – can you actually vote someone the ability to save patients in ICUā¦
PS: The other side of the coin is that the Chinese ministers are often not good speakers. In fact, they often donāt even speak in a language that the general public can understand, because their primary audience is other professionals like themselves. For example, when the Chinese Health Ministry gave a talk to the docs on Feb. 10, it went on like āyou need to go all the way up as early as possible. Take aggressive measures. Even if thereās no condition to do so, you need to create the condition to do so.ā The only people that really get what they are saying are the other ICU docs familiar with Covid-19 treatment. Basically the Health Ministry is saying that the clinical data theyāve gathered showed that patients should be intubated early. Donāt wait until their blood oxygen levels drop precipitously. If they run out of negative chamber rooms they still need to suit up to do the intubation (because some docs wonāt do intubation in regular ICU rooms. Intubation is risky to the docs. docs have close face-to-face with the patient at intubation so the risk of infection is super high when they do this).
So the communication problem is there anyway. The difference is that if the guy is a real technical expert and you are not, you wonāt understand what heās saying, then you say, heās a terrible communicator and I need to elect a guy whose words I can understand. So you elect a guy you can understand perfectly, which solves the communication problem, but everything he says and everything he does is stupid beyond belief. Itās almost like they are grating a violin string over the nerves, but you wonāt know it because you are not an expertā¦ The less people are trained / accountable in āhard sciencesā, the more superstitious people are about THEMSELVES. Cāest la vie!
"We are a mature and highly-accomplished advanced democratic country, and have absolutely not instigated our people to personally attack the WHO's Director General, and have absolutely not made any racist comments," says #Taiwan's foreign ministry. https://t.co/VhYCJshMKl
After being criticized as pro-China and anti-Taiwan at the expense of global health, the WHO's chief lashes out at Taiwan for failing to disassociate from a racist attack against him and Africans. From @samsonellis: https://t.co/eZ9R5EAsik
ā ļø Contrary to some news reports this morning, we're NOT advising that all cats be kept indoors during the #COVID19 pandemic. Only cats from infected or self-isolating households should be kept indoors as a precaution, if possible. Read our statement https://t.co/0Gr9ADZfxapic.twitter.com/L7UO72MyzR
Some vets say cat owners who are self-isolating or have COVID-19 symptoms should consider keeping pets indoors to stop them carrying the virus on their fur. https://t.co/1of0rKjyqB
That Tik Tok contest is now officially gone from the radar. Promotion tweets about the contest have been deleted from both parties. Damage is done and now it's time to face the consequences. Good luck.
BCG (TB) vaccine might protect against Covid19. Vaccinated Older people less likely to die. BCG could be a āgame-changerā. Australia is fast tracking testing of BCG vaccination for health workers. Mechanism involves whatās called innate immune memory. https://t.co/C0FyBAmnyy
Universal BCG vaccination and protection against COVID-19: critique of an ecological study | Nature Research Microbiology Community https://t.co/JoBC8iediU
Universal BCG vaccination and protection against COVID-19: critique of an ecological study | Nature Research Microbiology Community https://t.co/JoBC8iediU
Jadi, apa yang disebut DG Kesihatan Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, ada kementerian yang membenarkan kakitangan mereka bercuti diluar negara semasa COVID19 adalah benar.. Ustaz Bahlol Zuhdi adalah staff Kementerian Pendidikan. pic.twitter.com/hKp8DujWq4
Our office has conducted two operations of food distribution, feeding 533 families in total. From our state allocation, we have spent RM19,608.82 todate. pic.twitter.com/WJLaf3vjze
Pasukan kami telah menjalankan dua operasi agihan bantuan makanan, untuk sejumlah 533 keluarga. Daripada peruntukan negeri, setakat ini RM19,608.82 telah dibelanjakan. pic.twitter.com/ZKcWwpAUe2
Thank you, #eCommerceKaki, #wecare4u and #econat for donating hand sanitisers to Angsana residents. Thank you, JKP 4, for putting this together. I am fortunate to have community leaders who are hardwired in being selfless. pic.twitter.com/sBvYHaV2WD
