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The World Could Be Running Out of Condoms Because of Pandemic
The world’s biggest maker of condoms warned of a global shortage as supply falls by almost 50% while its stockpile is set to last for just another two months.
Malaysia-based Karex Bhd., which makes one out of every five condoms worldwide, only restarted its factories on Friday after a week-long closure, working with just half its workforce to comply with a lockdown that the country imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The company said condoms are mainly made in China and India, which are both heavily impacted by the pandemic.
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@JaredBusch there is going to be a massive baby boom
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Joe Diffie, only 61, just died of COVID
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/joe-diffie-country-singer-dead-obituary-974556/
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This is where I see failure still.
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Coronavirus: Trump extends US guidelines beyond Easter
President Donald Trump has said federal coronavirus guidelines such as social distancing will be extended across the US until at least 30 April.
He had previously suggested that they could be relaxed as early as Easter, which falls in mid-April.
"The highest point of the death rate is likely to hit in two weeks," Mr Trump said. He appeared to be referring to peak infection rates that experts fear could overwhelm hospitals. White House medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci had earlier warned that the virus could kill up to 200,000 Americans. Dr Fauci said that it was "entirely conceivable" that millions of Americans could eventually be infected. -
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Hungry black hole may be cosmic 'missing link'
A team of astronomers has found what it says is the best evidence yet for an elusive class of black hole.
They say the presumed "intermediate-mass" black hole betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that ventured too close. These medium-sized objects are a long-sought "missing link" in the evolution of the cosmos. Researchers used two X-ray observatories, along with the Hubble telescope, to identify the object."Intermediate-mass black holes are very elusive objects, and so it is critical to carefully consider and rule out alternative explanations for each candidate, said Dr Dacheng Lin, from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, US, who led the study. -
Arizona doctor believes Vitamin C could be game changer in COVID-19 treatment
Could a common vitamin prove to be a key in helping treat the coronavirus? Some doctors in both China and New York have been using Vitamin C to try to treat their patients.
One Arizona doctor who’s been using this technique for other infections explains why vitamin C might be effective. The key, he says? Absorption through an IV. “When people get sick, the first thing in their body that actually gets depleted is vitamin C,” said Dr. Steven Katz, a naturopathic physician in Scottsdale. Dr. Katz often sees patients with pneumonia or bronchitis. The World Health Organization says coronavirus can lead to things like pneumonia. “I’ve been using Vitamin C for acute and chronic infection patients for a long time,” he said. He said the immune support the vitamin has on a person’s body is incredible. But he said it's more than just your typical Vitamin C pill or chewable gummy. Instead, it’s a very high dose of it through an IV that he said could help save these COVID-19 patients. “The absorption is going to be much higher when you go with an IV because it gets absorbed right away,” he said. -
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Coronavirus could infect privacy and civil liberties forever
From a technological perspective, the coronavirus pandemic is one massive testbed for surveillance capitalism.
More specifically, it's a testbed for new, much more large-scale forms of surveillance. Already, governments in Italy, Germany, Austria, China, South Korea and Taiwan have begun analysing smartphone data so as to determine to what extent populations are really locking themselves down at home. Meanwhile, governments in the UK and the US are very close to rolling out similar surveillance measures, all in the effort to ensure that policies of mass behaviour modification are successful. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.change.org/p/hobby-lobby-employees-hobby-lobby-is-putting-employees-at-risk/
Ohio forced them to shut down yesterday.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.change.org/p/hobby-lobby-employees-hobby-lobby-is-putting-employees-at-risk/
Ohio forced them to shut down yesterday.
Yeah, Texas asked Ohio for some legal paperwork help and OH, NY, and PA all told TX that they had all filed against Hobby Lobby as they were running a nationwide campaign to stay open despite laws in all those places closing them. So Texas files a copy of Ohio's paperwork today and went on television and directly told Hobby Lobby that they needed to set down what they were working on and walk out the doors immediately.
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Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
The president and NBA players get unlimited tests. It just depends on how rich you are to get tested.
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@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
The president and NBA players get unlimited tests. It just depends on how rich you are to get tested.
LOL, including the president here is just ludicrous. You might love him or hate him - but he's the bloody POTUS, hell yeah he gets all the testing he wants/his medical advisors demand.
Now NBA - yeah screw those guys. All those industries should be slashing all salaries for the year, and helping the world financially.. they'll be back in a year or two at their huge salaries (not something I personally have an issue with - you lot love your sports and prop up the industries that pay those people huge dollars).
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
The president and NBA players get unlimited tests. It just depends on how rich you are to get tested.
LOL, including the president here is just ludicrous. You might love him or hate him - but he's the bloody POTUS, hell yeah he gets all the testing he wants/his medical advisors demand.
Now NBA - yeah screw those guys. All those industries should be slashing all salaries for the year, and helping the world financially.. they'll be back in a year or two at their huge salaries (not something I personally have an issue with - you lot love your sports and prop up the industries that pay those people huge dollars).
I feel like he means the NBA president?
