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Shoot First

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is allowing for the use of deadly force against those found violating lockdown standards implemented in an effort curtail the spread of the coronavirus. The volatile leader added he’s granted the military and local authorities permission to shoot those resisting the new measures and abusing medical officials.

“My orders to the police and military ... if there is trouble and there’s an occasion that they fight back and your lives are in danger, shoot them dead.”

“Is that understood? Dead. Instead of causing trouble, I will bury you.”

Sounds rather ominous; glad my sister-in-law made it out before Duterte made it in.

 

Gotta Feel Sorry For That Iranian

An Iranian health official announced on Thursday that one person in the nation is dying from coronavirus every 10 minutes. 

 

The Hand Of God?

Israeli scientists at the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute had worked for four years and had successfully developed a Coronavirus vaccine for chickens which passed clinical trials. When they saw the genetic sequencing of the COVID-19 virus, they realized that they could quickly adapt their chicken vaccine to the human virus.

Ella Dagan, a spokesman for MIGAL told europorter:

When the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus COVID-19 was published, the researchers realized that the two viruses have the same infection mechanism similarities so they can use it, with small amount of adaptation, to achieve an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.

Dr. Shahar, one of the scientists at MIGAL saw God’s hand in this. He told nocamels.com:

It’s a little bit like fate that we were working on this coronavirus vaccine at the same time that the world was suddenly hit by this epidemic of coronavirus for humans.

Seems like a bit of fowl play....

No word on what this will do to KFC stocks.

 

Coming To America

It's already here.

Around 20% of cases require hospitalization, 5% of cases require the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and around 2.5% require very intensive help, with items such as ventilators or ECMO (extra-corporeal oxygenation).

The numbers are staggering, and the USA has got behind the ball on it. The article is a lengthy read but should give you facts you need to stay safe.

Who Needs Bombs?

With the outbreak of Covid-19 in Iran, rumors and unscientific treatments on how to fight the virus have spread on social media. Among them was drinking alcohol.

And some Iranians were crazy enough to drink industrial alcohol (methanol) sold in the market for sanitizing purposes.

Some got blind and others are in critical condition. At least 27 have died.

 

Wheels Of Justice

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The U.S. government said Thursday that it is deporting a 94-year-old German ex-Nazi who has been in the United States for decades after information was found in a sunken ship, implicating him as a concentration camp guard. An immigration judge ordered Friedrich Karl Berger's deportation on Feb. 28 after a two-day trial in Memphis, authorities said.

The Washington Post reported that the Justice Department traced Berger's Nazi service to an index card that was found in a sunken ship years after it was mistakenly bombed by the British Royal Air Force in May 1945. The card apparently documented Berger's work at the Neuengamme concentration camp system.

Berger acknowledged that he never requested a transfer from the concentration camp guard service and that he still gets a pension from Germany. He has been living in the U.S. since 1959.

If he gets a pension from Germany, there's certainly no reason to allow him to keep living here. Let him die there.

 

 

It Seems Remarkably Resilient

A 36-year-old man has died of respiratory failure in Wuhan, five days after being discharged from one of the makeshift hospitals built to contain the outbreak, according to a report by Shanghai-based news portal The Paper. The Paper also reported that Fangcang Hospital – one of Wuhan’s makeshift facilities – issued an emergency notice on Wednesday that said more discharged patients had been readmitted after falling ill again. The hospital will begin conducting antibody tests on all patients before discharge from Thursday, to ensure they are fully recovered.

So you get the virus, get treated, recover, and then it comes back and kills you. What an interesting development. Other coronavirii don't do that. This one is very different from others in its class.

 

Japan: The Great Toilet Paper Caper

Panic hoarding being evidently insufficient, folks have taken to stealing toilet paper rolls from public restrooms. So dire is the situation that some locations have taken to chaining rolls to stall walls.

As we’ve learnt from the case of the 64-year-old man who was arrested and fined 200,000 yen ($1,762.82) for stealing a 30-yen roll of toilet paper from a public stall, taking something that doesn’t belong to you is indeed a crime in this country.

 

A Self-Correcting Issue?

Iran has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases in the Middle East, and is second only to China in the number of reported deaths. What’s more, a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this has not stopped Muslim worshipers from licking and kissing a shrine in Iran’s holy city of Qom, which Shia Muslims consider to be the second most sacred city in the Persian Gulf country after Mashhad.

A video captured two men and a younger male identified as a child licking the doors and burial mound inside the Fatima Masumeh shrine, with the men saying they are not afraid of the highly infectious virus that has killed close to 3,000 worldwide.

Well, as long as they're not afraid, then nothing bad can happen to them.

 

 

No Pooping In Japan

They're fresh out of toilet paper, in addition to masks.

This is the line for people hoping to purchase masks:

Earlier this week, toilet paper was widely available nearly everywhere in Japan. Now, it’s selling out at stores throughout the country because of coronavirus. 

"Tissues and paper towels were also vanishing from store shelves. Near where I live in Osaka, all the toilet paper is already gone."

This toilet paper panic is not a first for Japan. After the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, hoarding caused shortages. But even before that, back in 1973, there were even toilet paper riots in Japan.

I don't get it. It's an island. So there's plenty of water around there to wash their butts.