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Testing mantra is everywhere. It would make sense IF cost was not a function, time much lower, and also the capability of abuse was negated. It would be nice to go do our usual society things from going to family reunion and wedding – even simple flight to vacation – and be able to get a test right at entrance and less than in minute get a result and then allowed in. But lets assume this is the case – can you imagine if someone could hack that and then cause certain individuals from being able to move. This is a lot of power. Another testing news to reduce time…. – https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-ministry-announces-israeli-developed-faster-pcr-tests-for-virus-diagnosis/
“The Health Ministry announced on Monday that an Israeli-developed system would considerably cut the time it takes to process a PCR coronavirus test.”
“The statement from the ministry did not state where the technology had been developed or if it was an amalgamation of work from a number of facilities.
“Israeli technology is breaking records time and time again. The world will be able to see the shortcuts as risk-reducing, more efficient, and, no less important than all that, based on Israeli products,” Edelstein said.”
Excess death discussion has continued to be in the news too. Below are the current excess deaths in US – last date end of Sept. with most states reporting. Reporting seems to be slow.
The excess death and quarantine noted in the following case in Australia where Melbourne has had a very strict quarantine – also please consider the majority of the deaths for covid are 45+ (92%) – so it would be tragic to cause those under 45 to die because of covid restrictions – https://fee.org/articles/four-newborns-die-after-being-denied-heart-surgery-because-of-covid-travel-restrictions/
“Four babies died in Adelaide, Australia over the last four weeks after being denied transport to Melbourne because of government COVID-19 restrictions, health officials say.
Adelaide, the capital city of the state of South Australia, doesn’t offer paediatric cardiac surgery. According to local news reports, this means about 100 babies are sent interstate for treatment annually, typically to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital.
Because of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, however, Melbourne no longer remains an option. Patients must be sent to Sydney instead.
The distance from Adelaide to Melbourne is about 725 kilometers, a flight of roughly 75 minutes, while the distance to Sydney is about 1,375 kilometers, a flight of nearly two hours. An extra 45 minutes might not sound like a lot of time, but when you’re talking about surgery on a vital organ in a sick infant, minutes matter.
The infants never left Adelaide, news reports indicate, presumably because doctors either determined they would not survive the lengthy trip or because Sydney’s Children’s Hospital at Westmead—the lone hospital available due to travel restrictions—lacked the capacity to treat them.
Whatever the case, because of the travel restrictions and the lack of a cardiac center in Adelaide, the infants failed to receive treatment that could have saved their lives.
Dr. John Svigos, an obstetrician and gynecologist, told Australian TV network 9 News that the four babies who died in Adelaide “almost certainly" would have benefited from on-site surgery. He noted that recent state restrictions on travel inhibited the hospital’s ability to get the infants treated at other facilities.
“Particularly in our current COVID situation where the usual process of referral to the Melbourne cardiac unit is no longer tenable and referral to Sydney is on a case-by-case basis,” said Svigos, who has operated a private practice at Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide since 1978. “I shall leave it to you to imagine the profound effect of these deaths on the parents, their families and the dedicated medical and nursing staff dealing with these tragedies.””
“we must look beyond the immediate effects of an action and consider the far-reaching unintended consequences.
Tragically, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a virtual laboratory for lessons in “unseen” evils that have resulted from pursuing “a present good.” By imposing mass lockdowns and sweeping bans on travel and other basic freedoms, governments may have increased social distancing, but they did so at costs we may never fully understand (but are now just beginning to).
We see the immediate, desired effects—less travel, businesses closed or limited in capacity, more children working on laptops and not in school—but we tend to overlook the many unseen, second-order evils. These include the cancer screenings people are not getting, the 100,000 US businesses that will never reopen, the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings people cannot attend, the rise in depression as people lose jobs, the millions of people slipping into poverty and extreme poverty, the rise in suicide, and yes—infants and other people denied surgeries that could have saved them.
Each of these effects will in turn trigger countless other effects, many of which will never be seen or written about.
The effort to protect individuals from the coronavirus through government fiat instead of individual action was akin to performing heart surgery with a broadsword—clumsy, foolish, and deadly.
“How many more deaths of babies and young children will the community and staff be forced to endure?” asked Svigos.
It’s a question every person suffering under inhumane lockdowns and other draconian government restrictions should be asking.”
No country over 500 deaths – Iran 3rd place at 434. US continues with huge confirmations 81.5K
IL leads states in death. TX continues in leading in confirmation
County wise its all Cook IL – leading both confirmation and deaths
Leading TX county in confirmation is El Paso TX – border county
Switzerland is showing an alarming trend in deaths
