Wow. People Totally Have A Handle On This Coronoavirus Thing

But I repeat myself ...



In typical Canadian fashion, instead of being proactive - which would involve some sort of foresight and the will to apply it sensibly - the band of highway robbers fancying themselves as a government has decided to throw around the money this country doesn't have on - wait for it - a committee!:

Canada increased its funding for COVID-19 research by $20 million, Health Minister Patty Hajdu announced Friday morning, after concluding that the $7 million it had planned to spend isn’t enough.

(Sidebar: this is the same b!#ch who told everyone not to worry about the virus the Chinese developed, that everything was under control and that barring entry anyone who has been in a hot-zone was unnecessary.)

Forty-seven research teams will now get backing from the federal government, for work to “inform clinical and public health responses, develop and evaluate diagnostic tools and vaccines, as well as create strategies to tackle misinformation, stigma, and fear.”

The money is being distributed through the research councils that ordinarily distribute federal grants, the government says.

I'll just leave this right here:

A factory in Melbourne has started producing a test dose of a potential coronavirus vaccine which scientists will begin testing on animals this week.

The test vaccine was developed in just six weeks by University of Queensland researchers using world-first molecular clamp technology invented in Australia.

Thanks for being useless, Canada.


Also - hey! We are totally ready for this! Oh, wait:

The Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association (EZMSA), which represents 1,600 doctors, says family doctors are ill-prepared to deal with a coronavirus outbreak because the province isn't providing enough guidance and information. 

Just like the rest of Canada.




What can possibly go wrong?:

A Canadian patient newly diagnosed with COVID-19 recently travelled to Las Vegas and used public transit in Toronto for several days before he was tested for the virus, according to the Toronto public health authority.

The man, who is in his 40s, was one of the two most recently confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Toronto.

As cases in South Korea balloon, Japan requests anyone from there and China to be quarantined:

Japan will request that people arriving from South Korea and China be quarantined for two weeks at designated facilities in Japan to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday.

“We will strengthen immigration quarantines on people from the two countries,” Abe told a Cabinet-level task force meeting on the virus.

“We will ask them to stay in designated areas for two weeks and not to use public transport in the country.”

The measure will take effect at 12:00 a.m. on March 9 and last through March 31, he said.

Or they could not enter Japan. I mean - it's not like you haven't restricted entry of foreign persons before.




The UN knew that Palestinians were firing rockets from inside UNRWA schools and the WHO declared that North Korea's healthcare system was the envy of the world:

As the virus has spread, other countries have also implemented extraordinary measures, with UNESCO saying Wednesday that 13 countries have closed schools — affecting 290.5 million children — while nine others have implemented localized closures.

While temporary school closures during crises are not new, UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay said, “The global scale and speed of the current educational disruption is unparalleled and, if prolonged, could threaten the right to education.”

Did roving bands of murderous thugs armed with rusty machetes threaten the right to education of Rwandan children?