Click to Translate to English Click to Translate to French  Click to Translate to Spanish  Click to Translate to German  Click to Translate to Italian  Click to Translate to Japanese  Click to Translate to Chinese Simplified  Click to Translate to Korean  Click to Translate to Arabic  Click to Translate to Russian  Click to Translate to Portuguese  Click to Translate to Myanmar (Burmese)

PANDEMIC ALERT LEVEL
123456
Forum Home Forum Home > Main Forums > Latest News
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - COVID-19 around the world: U.S. cities fear protes
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Now tracking the new emerging South Africa Omicron Variant

COVID-19 around the world: U.S. cities fear protes

 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Message
bradlux View Drop Down
V.I.P. Member
V.I.P. Member


Joined: May 18 2020
Status: Offline
Points: 2050
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote bradlux Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: COVID-19 around the world: U.S. cities fear protes
    Posted: May 31 2020 at 3:44am

The massive protests sweeping across U.S. cities following the police killing of a black man in Minnesota have sent shudders through the health community and elevated fears that the huge crowds will lead to a new surge in cases of the coronavirus.

https://worldabcnews.com/covid-19-around-the-world-u-s-cities-fear-protests-may-fuel-new-wave-of-outbreaks/

Back to Top
Emswally View Drop Down
V.I.P. Member
V.I.P. Member
Avatar

Joined: January 25 2020
Location: Idaho USA
Status: Offline
Points: 1380
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Emswally Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2020 at 6:31pm

There’s all ready a new round of cases         Seems to be an up tick in my area as well as other places around the country. Loosening lock down and populace really doesn’t care. 

Back to Top
carbon20 View Drop Down
Moderator
Moderator
Avatar

Joined: April 08 2006
Location: West Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 65816
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote carbon20 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2020 at 8:38pm




Bloody madness.........

Protest at the 

Ballot  box.......

That's the Only protest that counts....





Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.πŸ––

Marcus Aurelius
Back to Top
Tabitha111 View Drop Down
Adviser Group
Adviser Group
Avatar

Joined: January 11 2020
Location: Virginia
Status: Offline
Points: 11640
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tabitha111 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2020 at 10:03pm

Up late here in my town. listening to the scanner and on social media ..our Oceanfront in Va Beach is getting trashed. Looting, businesses broken into and trashed, hotel lobbies trashed, dumpster fires,  car windows smashed out - both cop cars and cars just on the road, talking about breaking into our Aquarium right now (poor animals), SUV earlier riding down the road shooting assault rifles....its a mess...still going on.

Peaceful protest until around 11 pm when all hell broke loose.

Swat deployed. Tear gas dispersed. State Police called in, other cities police called in. Its just terrible and sad.

'A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.'
--Confucius

Back to Top
Dutch Josh View Drop Down
Adviser Group
Adviser Group


Joined: May 01 2013
Location: Arnhem-Netherla
Status: Offline
Points: 94027
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dutch Josh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2020 at 10:38pm
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
~Albert Einstein
Back to Top
WitchMisspelled View Drop Down
Adviser Group
Adviser Group
Avatar

Joined: January 20 2020
Status: Offline
Points: 17170
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WitchMisspelled Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 6:22am

We haven't seen this kind of civil unrest and looting in NYC since before 9/11.   

Back to Top
AI View Drop Down
Adviser Group
Adviser Group


Joined: January 21 2020
Status: Offline
Points: 8850
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote AI Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 12:14pm

Well obviously this current round of protesting is different from the other round of protesting the stay at home orders as congregating in groups during a pandemic was then widely condemned in the previous protesting events, yet not a peep out of anyone here during this round of protesting potentially mass spreading the virus on a far large scale. How very interesting.

Back to Top
carbon20 View Drop Down
Moderator
Moderator
Avatar

Joined: April 08 2006
Location: West Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 65816
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote carbon20 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 2:59pm








Not really interesting!!!!! that's obvious AI.....

 from what I see most people have masks on.... 

I'm waiting for the first suicide bomber.....

Islamic State still out there.......

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.πŸ––

Marcus Aurelius
Back to Top
carbon20 View Drop Down
Moderator
Moderator
Avatar

Joined: April 08 2006
Location: West Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 65816
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote carbon20 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 3:11pm







These people just demonstrating their 

DEMOCRATIC right to protest....

Something you would agree that's 

THEIR RIGHT TO DO.....

Isn't.....it? 


Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.πŸ––

Marcus Aurelius
Back to Top
Technophobe View Drop Down
Assistant Admin
Assistant Admin
Avatar

Joined: January 16 2014
Location: Scotland
Status: Offline
Points: 88450
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Technophobe Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 3:16pm

Well, most of them anyway.  There are always a few opportunists in the mix, only there for what they can get.

Although I really get the reasons most of them are there, there could not be a worse time.  Even with masks cutting down the infection rate, there still IS an infection rate.


How do you tell if a politician is lying?
His lips or pen are moving.
Back to Top
carbon20 View Drop Down
Moderator
Moderator
Avatar

Joined: April 08 2006
Location: West Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 65816
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote carbon20 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 3:33pm

it's F...ing MADNESS.......



Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.πŸ––

Marcus Aurelius
Back to Top
Technophobe View Drop Down
Assistant Admin
Assistant Admin
Avatar

Joined: January 16 2014
Location: Scotland
Status: Offline
Points: 88450
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Technophobe Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 3:46pm

Yep!

The GOO is fanning the flames as we speak.

How do you tell if a politician is lying?
His lips or pen are moving.
Back to Top
AI View Drop Down
Adviser Group
Adviser Group


Joined: January 21 2020
Status: Offline
Points: 8850
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AI Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 3:55pm

Of course they have the right to protest. And yes quite a few do have masks on but a lot don't and those are not masks that seal, they are only good for large droplet. And then there is the transmission of the virus by contact and crowds are not a good way to avoid that. And then they take it home.  And given the virus does seems to effect blacks more, seems an odd choice to congregate with the potential for the virus to kill more than the cops can. And that includes the other races in the protests as well. It's still a pandemic and congregating is not going to help, but it is their right to protest. They just have to live or die with their choices, but then again that's life isn't it.

 Just very curious that not one person on here has said anything about this since everyone seemed so worried about a second wave, I guess they are not now. I'd have to guess they are afraid of saying anything against the protests like the last ones least they be deemed a racist. Forget about following the science and the advise of the experts as everyone has called for, this is about feelings I think and logic and science went out the door.

But like you once said 

"There's a big difference ,of having a "Right"

And chosing  when to exercise that "Right"

It takes a certain about of intelligence,

To make that decision,

Which is Somewhat lacking in 

Certain Quarters....."


And AFT is right again in that   You Can't Fix Stupid.

And you are right Carbon this a F**King mess.

Back to Top
Technophobe View Drop Down
Assistant Admin
Assistant Admin
Avatar

Joined: January 16 2014
Location: Scotland
Status: Offline
Points: 88450
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Technophobe Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 4:01pm

On THAT we can agree.

How do you tell if a politician is lying?
His lips or pen are moving.
Back to Top
carbon20 View Drop Down
Moderator
Moderator
Avatar

Joined: April 08 2006
Location: West Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 65816
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote carbon20 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 5:03pm

I watch diaster movies ,

Thinking "get real that would never happen"

And it is happening....

Seriously folks I truly hope all are safe,and stay safe....

Not sure what happens next, 

Lets just hope everyone, steps back, goes home, and uses your Democratic right to Vote,

No other way.....

One of my Hero's 

Ghandi......

Passive resistance.......

.


Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.πŸ––

Marcus Aurelius
Back to Top
KiwiMum View Drop Down
Moderator
Moderator
Avatar

Joined: May 29 2013
Status: Offline
Points: 29640
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote KiwiMum Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 10:10pm

Originally posted by AI AI wrote:

 Just very curious that not one person on here has said anything about this since everyone seemed so worried about a second wave, I guess they are not now. I'd have to guess they are afraid of saying anything against the protests like the last ones least they be deemed a racist. Forget about following the science and the advise of the experts as everyone has called for, this is about feelings I think and logic and science went out the door.

I had just assumed that the majority of Americans are more concerned about their freedoms being eroded than they are about Covid 19. Prior to these riots, all I saw was Americans protesting about restrictions and enforcements that were impinging on their civil rights. They obviously value civil liberties more than they do their health. 

But I do think the whole world is suffering from virus fatigue. There are pictures for everywhere showing people on beaches, in bars, just generally out and about as normal. It's madness.

Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts.
Back to Top
EdwinSm, View Drop Down
Moderator
Moderator


Joined: April 03 2013
Status: Offline
Points: 24065
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote EdwinSm, Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2020 at 10:27pm

Originally posted by KiwiMum KiwiMum wrote:

But I do think the whole world is suffering from virus fatigue.

Good description.  


Back to Top
AandEM View Drop Down
V.I.P. Member
V.I.P. Member
Avatar

Joined: March 06 2020
Location: IN
Status: Offline
Points: 1245
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AandEM Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2020 at 12:47pm

Tear gas, pepper spray= lots of coughing.  I have a friend that went to the city the next morning to help clean up, and she couldn't get the pepper spray smell out of her clothes or hair, at least 8 hours after it was used.  

Back to Top
WitchMisspelled View Drop Down
Adviser Group
Adviser Group
Avatar

Joined: January 20 2020
Status: Offline
Points: 17170
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WitchMisspelled Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2020 at 4:31pm

Tell your friend milk should do the trick to get the smell out.

Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply
  Share Topic   

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down