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Its your duty to go fuck yourself!

Im going out to the street now and tell random people to do this!
I too will tell every person I see while out and about that they must be a spectacular wanker to be so healthy and untouched by COVID-19! Especially if they are not wearing a mask - their secret must be their very strong wrists and constant solo sessions!
 

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Meanwhile in better news.


“As a result, a 28-year old female has been charged with the offence of incitement and has been bailed to appear at the Ballarat Magistrates Court on 25 January 2021.

“Those still thinking of attending the protest in Ballarat on Saturday can expect a swift and firm response from police.”
Good!
 
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- Canada: Chief Medical Officer says the of transmission risk during physical relations in the pandemic is similar to any action which involves being close to another person, not to kiss, and to wear masks while fornicating to reduce the risk of catching COVID-19. Goes on to advise solo self pleasuring is by far the safest course of sexual satisfaction action during the pandemic.
Sorry honey but it's by medical orders we only do it doggy style.
 

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Meantime, in India:

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Most countries had a spike, a pullback, and another spike. India is just one ongoing wave and a massive population in a dangerous situation.
 
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COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today Thursday 3rd of September:

- World: 26,102,099 confirmed cases and 864,415 confirmed deaths.

- US: States asked to remove red tape and prepare to allow for potential vaccine distribution as early as late October/ early November, with certain at risk groups planned to receive treatments before the election, if the planned scenario unfolds as expected. Concerns are raised over rushing a vaccine into operation to meet an artificial deadline over ensuring it is safe and effective.

- India: Country close to overtaking Brazil for second most confirmed cases after USA.

- UK: Head of the test and trace system apologizes after it emerged UK labs were struggling to meet demand and some people were told to travel as far as 100 miles for a COVID-19 test with one man being advised by the booking website to take his sick toddler 200 miles for a COVID test. Government defended the issues as caused by having to focus efforts on places which were seeing spikes in cases leaving lower level areas with fewer resources. One woman was denied a postal test as she had already had one and told to travel 40 miles to a drive-thru center, however she could not drive. No local walk-in centers existed so she was, finally, permitted another postal test.

- France: A professor who promoted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 to face ethics committee investigation after a mass complaint accused him of breaking 9 rules of medical ethics.

- UK: Daily cases still climbing as last 24 hours sees 1,735 confirmed.

- India: Sees a record day of 83,883 infections.

- EU: The Public Health Agency for the Europan Union advises cases are back to March levels, when the continent was in the grip of the contagion.

- World: Amnesty International reports at least 7,000 medical workers have been lost to COVID around the world.

- Scotland: 300 people attend house party prompting police investigation.

- Isle Of Man: Rule change means people returning to the island can reduce their Quarentine from 14 days to 7 days with restrictions, if at the end of the 7 days they pay for their own COVID test and it comes back negative. If they don't take a test or it comes back positive it's still 14 days.

- Australia: Extends ban on overseas travel for another 3 months.

- Thailand: First local transmission cases reported following a clear period of over 100 days.

- US: Actor and wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and his family test positive for COVID despite taking precautions.

- Spain: Employment Minister states the Furlough scheme has been extended for 'as long as it takes' and that 'it doesn't make sense to put dates on' as with no vaccine there is no certainty.
 
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So, a while ago I wrote some posts complaining about "young people acting irresponsibly" by going on Spring Break to Florida and not following guidelines/acting irresponsibly.

In the interests of fairness and equity, I'm now going to write a post complaining about OLDER PEOPLE acting irresponsibly and not following guidelines or precautions.

Every year, people travel to Sturgis North South Dakota (never can keep those 2 states aparrt) for a huge motorcycle rally (see https://www.sturgismotorcyclerally.com/dates). The dates in 2020 were August 7 - 16, so I would expect a surge in cases in that area within about 2 weeks .... and guess what:
Screenshot_2020-09-04 An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19 91-DI...png


graph is from https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ which is another great website for tracking/data

EDIT: I should point out, the biggest problem with this was not just that it would raise the COVID rate of the host state/city, but that people would get infected there, and carry it around with them to other states or carry it back home with them...which we apparently can see in neighboring states, like North Dakota, Iowa, etc. In any event, it looks like we likely have another circumstance in which a smaller number of people are likely go to infect a much larger number of people, and continue the spread right up until the expected second wave of infections this Fall.
 
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COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Friday 4th of September:

- World: 26,410,996 confirmed cases and 870,650 confirmed deaths.

- France: Sees near to 9,000 new cases.

- Spain: Reports over 10,000 new cases.

- Italy: Highest number of cases since 2nd of May.

- Ukraine: Record high new cases.

- Iran: record high new cases.

- Brazil: Passes 4 million confirmed cases.

- Japan: Government announces it will cover the cost of vaccines for its population to ensure effective inoculation.

- France: Just days in to the new academic year which started on Tuesday, COVID cases close 12 schools.

- Italy: Former leader of Italy Silvio "Bunga Bunga" Burlusconi admitted to hospital, he tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday.

- WHO: World Health Organization stresses it will not endorse a vaccine not proven to be safe and effective and one should not be realistically hoped for until Mid 2021.

- US: Following yesterdays Centers for Disease Control and Prevention messages to states advising them to be ready for a vaccine soon, fears have again been raised it was due to pressure from the top and fingers point toward the multiple hydroxychloroquine claims as example that politics and pandemics should not mix.

- Russia: (Taken verbatum from the news report): "Russia’s “Sputnik-V” Covid-19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in early-stage trials, according to results published by the Lancet medical journal. The results of the two trials, conducted in June-July this year and involving 76 participants, showed 100% of participants developing antibodies to the new coronavirus and no serious side-effects, the Lancet said."
 

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COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today Saturday 5th of September:

- World: 26,683,612 confirmed cases and 875,943 confirmed deaths.

- India: Hot on the heels of Brazil yesterday, India sees its 4 millionth confirmed case today.

- Australia: Police arrest 15 as hundreds march in protest at lockdown in Melbourne.

- Scotland: Edinburgh sees protesters gather to decry lockdown measures.

- UK: Government demands civil servants (the workers who do the office work in the government) get back in the office with a quota of 80% back in the office at least once a week as quickly as possible, as it fears Central Business Districts may be left like ghost towns with no passing trade, as workers have now been shown they are clearly able to perform their functions from home, with may businesses now not intending to force their staff to return to the office until it is clearly safe to do so.

- Portugal: Sees biggest surge in cases since may with 486 new daily confirmed.

- UK: Survey reveals over 1000 doctors plan to quit the NHS as they have become disillusioned with the governments dire response to the pandemic which lead to 60 thousand excess deaths and frustrated with pay which has been frozen for the best part of a decade meaning with inflation taken into account a real-world pay cut of many thousands of pounds.

- China: Extends its late stage Vaccine test to four other countries.

- Iran: Schools reopen to 15 million students.
 

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COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today Sunday 6th of September:

- World: 26,949,247 confirmed cases and 880,624 confirmed deaths.

- UK: Cases jump by 1,175 compared to the day before, seeing 2,988 in the last 24 hours.

- Australia: Government announces $1.7 billion deal with two vaccines which if the vaccines are successful will secure 84.8 million doses.

- UK: Under the guise of the COVID pandemic, government announces it intends to introduce online citizen ID cards to "revolutionize" the use of data across the government to assist with such things as registering with a new GP or other aspects, with every citizen having their own unique reference ID code. Civil rights groups point out this is going to be expensive, intrusive and unnecessary.

- Italy: Former leader of Italy Silvio "Bunga Bunga" Burlusconi responding 'optimally' to COVID treatment, they are optimistic but it is too early to give the all clear.

- Wales: class of 21 children have to self isolate for 14 days after member of staff tests positive.

- Costa Rica: Trials to begin on inexpensive treatment derived from taking antibodies from horses injected with COVID-19, which is based on the use of horse antibodies in the production of anti-venom.

- Isle Of Man: Sees first case in 109 days. The case arose in someone who had recently returned to the island from traveling and was self isolating as are the rules there and are at this point in time asymptomatic. They will now be subject to a further 14 days of quarantine.

- UK: Foreign Secretary says "The economy needs people back at work". Smart asses also point out the economy needs people to be alive and not on ventilators in medically induced comas.
 
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- UK: Foreign Secretary says "The economy needs people back at work". Smart asses also point out the economy needs people to be alive and not in on ventilators in medically induced comas.
However, it is not the Foreign Secretary's concern. A Government employee for example can be dead for days before anyone notices them kind of stiffly sitting at their desk looking at the same computer screen on Thursday as they were on Monday. Commercial employees can just stiffen up and do the same.
 

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COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Monday 7th of September:

- World: 27,164,557 confirmed cases and 889,627 confirmed deaths.

- World: Passes 27 million confirmed cases. We hit 26 million on Thursday, so that's a million in the last 4/5 days.

- India: Passes Brazil to second place on the league of most confirmed infections, but both are still around two million behind the USA in first place.

- Spain: Passes 500k total confirmed infections, the first in Western Europe to do so.

- Children: Study finds fatigue, headache and fever are the most common symptoms of COVID in kids, with coughing and loss of taste/smell being rare.

- Japan: Olympics will go ahead next year "With or without COVID" says Olympics Organization Committee.

- UK: Sees another high day of 2,948 recorded cases, however deaths and hospital admissions have not followed suit... yet...

- UK: Health Secretary Matt Hancock goes on a radio interview to let the young know that they are mostly to blame for the spike in UK cases, and tells them not to catch COVID and pass it on to their relatives. The soundbite for the interview was "Don't kill your Gran". It is unclear if teenagers and those in their early twenties are permitted to catch COVID if they no longer have female grandparents.

- Denmark: To lower public gathering limit from 100 to 50 in several parts of the country.

- Nigeria: Doctors strike over pay, welfare and facilities.

- UK: Schools in Leicestershire, Suffolk and Cardiff tell children to stay home as cases are confirmed, with eight schools in Liverpool finding cases that sent hundreds of children home to self isolate.

- UK: In another radio interview Health Secretary Mat Hancock reported Partner of the Oxford university vaccine AstraZeneca has already started production of 30 million doses of vaccine for the UKs initial order, ahead of approval.
 

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COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Tuesday 8th of September:

- World: 27,382,880 confirmed cases and 897,713 confirmed deaths.

- World: Nine companies working on vaccines issue rare joint statement that they will "follow the science" and not allow the thirst for a vaccine force their hand in rushing a treatment to market. The companies are: Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Astra Zeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co, Moderna, Novavax, Sanofi and BioNTech.

- US: Man who worked in USA in for 2 years in the 60's, who has been living in Austria ever since, receives Virus Relief check. His wife who has never lived or worked in the US also received a check. Austrian banks indicate they have cached dozens.

- UK: Government admits 5% to 10% of the Furlough funds paid out (some £3.5 billion) were fraudulent or paid in error, and are looking at 27,000 cases.

- South Africa: Economy shrank by 51% in the second quarter of the year.

- France: Prime Minister to have COVID test after sharing a car with the director of the Tour De France, who has tested positive.

- Czechoslovakia: Prime Minister tells WHO to "keep their mouths shut" criticizing the early uncertainty on facemasks and the perceived delay in announcing COVID-19 was a pandemic, after the Czech WHO raised its concerns at the potential reduction of track and trace measures while the country witnesses climbing asymptomatic cases.

- Italy: Former leader Silvio "Bunga Bunga" Berlusconi showing reassuring signs of recovery.

- Indonesia: Passes 200,000 confirmed cases.

- Malaysia: Officials tell people to stop fist-bumping, a popular greeting in the country since physical contact has been prohibited, however it appears not to be effective at limiting transmission as cases climb.
 
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