"Contagion" follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.
Coronavirus Death Toll Hits 25 As Beijing Confirms 830 Patients Infected
There’s a real scramble for face masks in Hong Kong. The only ones I could find were these: HK$850 for a box of 20 (about US$100) ones, and some small ones for kids. People are still lining up to buy what’s left.
The outbreak coincides with the country’s busiest travel period, as millions board trains and planes for the Lunar New Year holidays.
Ah, Bill Gates to the rescue...
A coalition backed by Bill Gates is funding biotechs that are scrambling to develop vaccines for the deadly Wuhan coronavirus
The biotech Moderna said Thursday it is working with the National Institutes of Health to develop a coronavirus vaccine, as the deadly virus has spread beyond China in recent days.
The effort is funded by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, a group started by Norway and India, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the World Economic Forum.
None of them have said how long it might take to make a vaccine.
Vaccines often require difficult testing in thousands of people before being allowed on market. For instance, an Ebola vaccine developed by Merck & Co., one of the largest drugmakers in the world, required years of clinical testing on top of about two decades of research to gain FDA approval, accoding to Stat News. The agency approved the vaccine in December 2019, more than five years after a major outbreak of the Ebola virus in Africa.
Novavax, a small clinical-stage biotech in Maryland, also announced plans to develop a cornoravirus vaccine earlier this week. Shares in the company spiked more than 70%, and Novavax subsequently filed plans to raise $US100 million from investors in a secondary offering.
Pandemic simulation exercise spotlights massive preparedness gap
Event 201, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, envisions a fast-spreading coronavirus with a devastating impact
For Event 201, hosted in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the experts added a new layer of realism by reaching beyond government and NGOs to leaders in the private sector and business community. Participants included representatives from NBCUniversal, UPS, and Johnson & Johnson.
"Very few people have included the private sector in pandemic preparedness, but that's where most of the resources are," Toner says.
That's particularly true when it comes to vaccine development.
Quick "Coronavirus" update from Rome, Italy
(courtesy of Italy's largest "news"paper, La Repubblica) :
"Allo Spallanzani sono tuttora ricoverati 11 pazienti sintomatici provenienti da zone della Cina interessate dall'epidemia. Tutti sono stati sottoposti al test per la ricerca del nuovo coronavirus."https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/ ... 247573359/
"At Spallanzani (hospital) 11 symptomatic patients who've returned from areas of China affected by the epidemic are still hospitalized . All have been tested for the new coronavirus."
Quick "Coronavirus" update from Rome, Italy
(courtesy of Italy's largest "news"paper, La Repubblica) :
"Allo Spallanzani sono tuttora ricoverati 11 pazienti sintomatici provenienti da zone della Cina interessate dall'epidemia. Tutti sono stati sottoposti al test per la ricerca del nuovo coronavirus."https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/ ... 247573359/
"At Spallanzani (hospital) 11 symptomatic patients who've returned from areas of China affected by the epidemic are still hospitalized . All have been tested for the new coronavirus."
Sigh...
Simon, this is from one of the UK's leading newspapers the Mirror....
A convoy of coaches carrying British nationals evacuated from Wuhan
Images from the UK base showed how ambulance crews met passengers, including a number of young children, on the tarmac as they disembarked from the aircraft after a lengthy 12-hour journey.
British passengers were being taken by bus to Arrowe Park Hospital on the Wirral, where they will spend the next fortnight.
They will be housed in an NHS staff accommodation block with access to the internet for a quarantine period of 14 days.
Noticeable is the bus drivers seem rather unperturbed despite being in close proximity to people in protective clothing and people wearing masks who have just arrived from a place that's supposedly the source of an outbreak of a deadly epidemic.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdUi_kwuw7I
Re: THE "CHATBOX"
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 11:50 am
by simonshack
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Here are today's Coronavirus "news" : 11 Italian smalltowns have been "closed down"...
"Coronavirus, the emergency decree: you can't get out of 11 [hotbed] towns.
School trips suspended, games canceled." The Wuhan model. Exceptions to the blockade can only be authorised by the prefect and in exceptional cases. Transgressors may be arrested.
NOTE: The 11 towns are actually small / minor villages all located in Northern Italy. Apparently, everything (from shops to public transport) has been closed down in those municipalities - and videos are already circulating showing these "ghost towns" and their empty streets...
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Let me remind you about this CNN headline from a couple of weeks ago :
Which translates as: "Coronavirus, 11 passengers disembark from the Diamond Princess. They are 11, all over 80 [years of age], and tested negative for the coronavirus."
On J-wire (Digital Jewish news daily for Australia and New Zealand) this other "Diamond Princess news" was reported two days ago:
March 4, 2020 : Coronavirus Update: 11 Cases Confirmed In N.Y., Most Connected To New Rochelle Attorney
"NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York has grown to 11, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday." https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/03/04 ... uarantine/
March 5, 2020: "US coronavirus death toll hits 11 with new infections in New York, LA; California declares state of emergency"
The first California death from the virus was announced by health officials as an elderly adult with underlying health conditions. It was the first coronavirus fatality in the US outside of Washington state, where 10 have died. https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unit ... os-angeles
Re: THE "CHATBOX"
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 1:27 am
by ElSushi
Well it seems that this coronavirus media story keeps bringing its usual red flags, nothing really new for most CF members and readers.
Yesterday's on-line first page of Japan Today. You got to love the angle of the photo shoot and the pyramidesque shape appearing from the boom microphones. TV staff also appears to be covering their faces with no mask, same goes with the TV guy. Lame.
And apparently, besides Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion movie which came in 2013 (with extremely similar plot stories as the current 'one'), also back in 2013, there was a Chinese movie released whose story had a very similar plot,released in Mexico under the title " Coronavirus " , go figure !
Re: The PR of Secret Societies
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 8:46 am
by kickstones
Masonic Patch Scottish Rite Wings Up 33rd Degree for Freemasons
Corona = Crown
The below video, posted March 2nd, demonstrates news articles found when Coronavirus 33 is typed in any search engine.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOLXBX_ICT0
ElSushi wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 1:27 am
And apparently, besides Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion movie which came in 2013 (with extremely similar plot stories as the current 'one'), also back in 2013, there was a Chinese movie released whose story had a very similar plot,released in Mexico under the title " Coronavirus " , go figure !
Amazing !!!!
Re: The PR of Secret Societies
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2020 5:19 pm
by heniek1812
Kickstone, one commentor to that video gave a link to this story. Check it out,
Huum, that globe reminds me of something I keep seeing over and over over the last month and a half.
Re: The PR of Secret Societies
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 11:14 am
by kickstones
Ha ha, yes, heniek1, they even manage to get a singular 3 (three) in as well for good measure.
From the headline page....
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The Amazing Race 33
Amazing Race 33 stops racing, sends teams home because of coronavirus
Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan in London during season 31.
by Andy Dehnart 28 Feb. 2020 | 3:25 pm
Amazing Race 33 visited London before suspending production.
TAR 33 started filming last weekend, but after three legs of the race, all teams are headed home because of the quickly-spreading coronavirus.
As the commentator states in the original video posted...
'to use basketball parlance that is a "slam dunk".
The CORONAVIRUS circus
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:46 pm
by simonshack
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"ASTERIX IN ITALY" (2017)
As I live in Italy (which yesterday closed ALL schools for two weeks due to the Coronavirus mass hysteria) I have been wondering this last few days: WHY Italy? WHY has Italy been picked as the prime European "target" for this global hoax? And has this choice of Italy as the European Coronavirus "epicentre" been predicted (as usually is the case with these worldwide hoaxes) by anyone in the entertainment industry? The answer is yes: a world famous cartoon character has. This time, however, it is not The Simpsons (who, as we all know, blatantly "predicted" the 9/11 hoax - and many other major psyops): it is the universally-famous French cartoon character Asterix.
Here are a few extracts from the 2017 Asterix album originally titled "Asterix et la Transitalique" (the German version is titled "Asterix in Italien"):
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In short, "Asterix in Italien" is about a chariot race across Italy which Julius Caesar has approved (providing it is won by a Roman). The "villain" in the story (yet also the favorite of the Italian public) is named "Coronavirus" and his brutish co-rider is named "Bacillus"(a disease-causing bacterium). The golden chariot of Coronavirus and Bacillus is eagle-shaped - and Coronavirus wears a golden, grinning mask.
By the end of the story, Coronavirus abandons the race - in what is said to be a "strategic move" (and is secretly replaced by Julius Caesar himself). Caesar very nearly wins the race - but his chariot hits a pothole (a common feature of Italian roads!), handing over the victory to our heroes Asterix and Obelix.
Many European newspapers are currently carrying this story (what with the Coronavirus "coincidink") - but of course, they all conclude that it is just "a matter of happenstance" (arguing that the coronavirus term already was well-known at the time, due to the previous "pandemics" of similar virus outbreaks in recent years...)
As much as I dislike prophesizing, I predict that the current Coronavirus bug will soon "strategically abandon the race" - just like all its predecessors of recent years.
As I live in Italy (which yesterday closed ALL schools for two weeks due to the Coronavirus mass hysteria) I have been wondering this last few days: WHY Italy? WHY has Italy been picked as the prime European "target" for this global hoax? And has this choice of Italy as the European Coronavirus "epicentre" been predicted (as usually is the case with these worldwide hoaxes) by anyone in the entertainment industry? The answer is yes: a world famous cartoon character has. This time, however, it is not The Simpsons (who, as we all know, blatantly "predicted" the 9/11 hoax - and many other major psyops): it is the universally-famous French cartoon character Asterix.
Well Simon I am simply flabbergasted. How the hell did you find this ?