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| Mass Burials in New York begin. No names, no notice, just like the other countries. This is Hart Island. And the land has already been graded for tens of thousands of bodies. And you can see, they are already piling them in 10 feet deep, 12 feet wide, by 300 feet in length. Drones see it all. |
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| Reusable coffins for the daily dead in Ecuador. After rites, bodies are dumped into mass graves. |
Sweden using ice rinks and shipping containers as morgues overflow due to Covid-19 deaths
Swedish authorities are resorting to refrigerated shipping
containers, ice rinks and canteen fridges to store the nation’s dead as
the Covid-19 death toll rises and burials are postponed across the
country.
Long weekends such as the
Easter Holidays can cause a backlog but this has been exacerbated by the
coronavirus epidemic and ensuing deaths and backlog at cemeteries, many
of which are closed as a precautionary measure. In both Gothenburg and Stockholm, hospitals have resorted to renting out ice rinks and refrigerated containers for use as temporary cold storage for the deceased, while Karolinska University Hospital in Solna has resorted to using a cold storage room for food as a temporary morgue.
“The big bottleneck is that our mortuary is not properly dimensioned for such a large city that we are in. It is then important for relatives to arrange the funerals so that the deceased become coffin-bound and thus can be handled by the cemetery administration,” Gothenburg funeral director Katarina Evenseth told Swedish Radio.
She added that the ice rink "will work great" as the "coffins placed on the hockey rink" due to the dearth of business amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
Meanwhile, Claes Ruth of Karolinska University Laboratory said the situation was "strained" as the "inflow of bodies is greater than the outflow," a situation which, rather grimly, applies to "all hospitals" in the country.
Stockholm's Danderyds hospital has seen a five-fold increase in the number of bodies sent to the morgue while Karolinska's body count has risen by a factor of eight, to between 100 and 150 bodies.
Sweden opted to forego a total lockdown, imposing only minor restrictions on public life and movement. It has seen more cases than its Scandinavian counterparts Norway, 6,086 with 89 deaths, and Denmark 5,266 with 203 deaths.
However, even authorities in the Finnish capital Helsinki have taken similar extreme measures, renting out refrigerated shipping containers, despite Finland having far fewer coronavirus deaths than its neighbors.
In yet more worrying news, some 50 employees from the thoracic surgery department at Linkoping University Hospital were tested for coronavirus, half of whom tested positive for the infection. Some experienced mild symptoms such as headaches or sore throat, but the remainder were completely asymptomatic. They have since been sent home, but concerns are growing about the number of patients with whom the infected staff had contact.
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| Hiding the fact that the dead and dying in America are Chicoms. Race is more important that truth or dealing with the plague |
Three In Four Americans Have Self-Isolated In Their Household: Gallup
Authored by Justin McCarthy of Gallup,
Three in four Americans say they have completely (28%) or mostly (47%) isolated themselves from people outside their household.
The percentage who are self-isolating rapidly increased between March 16 and 26, but has shown only modest change since then.
In the initial Gallup Panel survey, conducted March 16-19, Americans were about equally likely to report being isolated versus not isolated. The percentage who reported self-isolating increased to 64% in the week that followed, reaching 69% one week later.
Gallup found some differences by subgroup:
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The more dense the area where a person lives, the more likely they are to self-isolate. Residents
of urban areas (84%) are more likely than those living in suburbs (79%)
and rural areas (67%) to say they are completely or mostly isolated
from people outside their home.
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Among political party identification groups, Democrats (84%)
are most likely to report being completely or mostly isolated. Most
independents (73%) and Republicans (66%) have isolated themselves to the
same degree.
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Americans who are not currently working (84%) are more likely to report isolation than those who are currently working (69%).
Let's Make This Simple: Zoom Is Malware
submitted by Mark Jeftovic, founder of EasyDNS
We've covered Zoom in these pages before. Back in #AxisOfEasy 104 it turned out that the Zoom installer was installing mini-web servers on your computer, and it wasn't even taking them off when you uninstalled Zoom, leaving your device open to all manner of vulnerability. It took Apple acting on its own to push out an unscheduled update to fix Zoom's problem before they got to it.Last week we outlined how Zoom was sending telemetry data about you to Facebook, even if you don't have a Facebook account.
In the intervening week, all sorts of data points and news items came out about the (lack of) privacy issues with Zoom:
- On April 1st, a (former NSA) hacker released two new Zoom 0-days that enable a hacker with local access to a Zoom session to take over the software to install malware.
- The next day Krebs on Security reported on the fast spreading "Zoom Bombing" phenomenon where pranksters and miscreants were war dialing Zoom rooms, looking for ones without password protections and crashing the meetings, hurling insults and profanities at the participants.
- It gets worse, turns out Zoom Bombing is a thing now, so the perpetrators are recording videos of their antics and releasing them on Tik Tok and who knows where else.
- On the very next day (the cat came back....) it emerged that because of the naming scheme Zoom uses to create the files of video recordings participants make of their sessions, those records were easy to find and access on the web.
- Toronto's Citizen Lab reverse engineered the Zoom client and found that they had "rolled their own encryption scheme" and that it's pretty lousy encryption. Their report is here.
- Arvind Narayanan, a professor of Computer Science at Princeton distilled it down thusly, "Let's make this simple: Zoom is Malware"
Read: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/3/21207134/zoom-recordings-exposed-thousands-identical-naming-search
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| Largest super moon of 2020 rises on a world battling COVID-19 |
— 4.3 billion people under lockdown —
— 213 countries and territories infected —
— 4.5x more confirmed deaths than swine flu —
>LIVE
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>NEWS
UK is under counting deaths, according to official data
https://archive.is/EoUDu
51 patients in South Korea reinfected after "recovery"
https://archive.is/cuSMR
Courts determine Spain omits deaths, real toll 3 times higher
https://archive.is/Y23r1
Low antibody levels raise questions about reinfection risk
https://archive.is/Up2gq
Another city in China is placed on lockdown
https://archive.is/KnNaZ
>INFO
16 year old without health conditions dies in France
https://archive.is/pOtSK
New symptoms: loss of smell and taste
https://archive.is/CAlEK
70% of 600 contacts without symptoms test positive
https://archive.is/Fg3tL
12% of deaths in Italy had no previous conditions
https://archive.is/pLAaL
17 year old in the US dies from infection, no previous conditions
https://archive.is/MXopG
>REMINDER
Ecuador is dumping, burning bodies in the streets
https://archive.is/mwg1D
Mayor in Italy says death toll 4 times higher than detected
https://archive.is/0pqdp
21 million fewer cellphone users in China
https://archive.is/U3pPA
Nurses refused testing by CDC
https://archive.is/Dw2qG
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| Lots of these reports and pics. Ending quarantine doesn't turn off plague |
China Forces Italy To Buy Back PPE It 'Donated'
China has distributed nearly 4 billion masks to foreign countries as it ramps up production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), a move to restore its image as a global leader focused on humanitarian relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic that originated in its country and spread across the world.However, The Spectator provides a new account of how China's latest diplomacy has turned out to be an absolute 'disaster,' in the latest example with Italy and other European countries.
China told the world that it would donate tons of PPE to Italy to slow the virus outbreak. Reports now indicate that China actually charged Italy for PPE, instead of donating. It also turns out the PPE China sent over was the same equipment that Italy donated to China earlier in the year. What a mess...
"Before the virus hit Europe, Italy sent tons of PPE to China to help China protect its own population. China then has sent Italian PPE back to Italy -- some of it, not even all of it ... and charged them for it," a senior Trump administration official told The Spectator.
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| We gave you broken stuff, now pay us to take them back |
Many countries who have received masks and other medical equipment from China have complained about the quality does not meet medical standards. China has apologized for quality issues and blamed its defective equipment on others.
Last week, we noted that the Netherlands was forced to recall 1.3 million face masks produced in China because they did not meet safety standards.
In Spain, the Ministry of Health on March 26 revealed that 640,000 COVID-19 tests that it had purchased from China were defective.
On March 28, the French government, which has several weeks of medical supplies left, announced it had ordered one billion face masks from China. It remains to be seen if the masks will be defective
"It's so disingenuous for Chinese officials now to say we are the ones who are helping the Italians or we are the ones who are helping the developing world when, in fact, they are the ones who infected all of us," the senior administration official said.
"Of course, they should be helping. They have a special responsibility to help because they are the ones who began the spread of the coronavirus and did not give the information required to the rest of the world to plan accordingly."The official also said China's disinformation campaign to downplay the severity of the virus delayed the administration's response to prepare the country for an outbreak by at least a month.
"The disinformation that China has put out is crippling responses around the world... We're operating on some level with a hand-tied behind our back."
