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[Leongsam]

Slovenia Declares Victory Over Coronavirus Pandemic​

Anja Vladisavljevic
Zagreb
BIRN
May 15, 202011:09

Slovenia became the first European country to declare an end to the coronavirus pandemic in its territory on Thursday, although the government warned that some measures would have to remain in place for the time being.

A cyclist wearing a protective mask passes an almost empty Preseren Square in Ljubljana. Photo: EPA-EFE/IGOR KUPLJENIK.

The Slovenian government announced the end of the coronavirus outbreak in the country at a telephone session on Thursday, having imposed emergency measures on March 12, the first European country to do so.

The current situation “makes it possible to relax measures that were urgent to contain and manage COVID-19, but they cannot yet be completely abolished,” the government said in a press release.

Prime Minister Janez Jansa on Thursday said Slovenia had been “the most successful country in the EU in dealing with the epidemic”, that the epidemiological situation was now favourable, and the government would now focus on economic issues and recovery following the health crisis.

The National Institute of Public Health, NIJZ, reported that Slovenia had registered only 35 cases of COVID-19 in the past 14 days, and the reproduction rate, which shows how many people once case infects on average, had fallen below 1.

The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Slovenia, an EU member state with a population of about 2 million, was recorded on March 4. By May 13, 1,464 cases had been determined and 103 people had died from the coronavirus.

The authorities rapidly imposed a strict lockdown, closing most shops and all schools and banning outdoor movement and gatherings in public places. In mid-April, Slovenia started easing the lockdown.

The government said testing, contract tracing, isolation and quarantine of high-risk contacts, observance of social etiquette and physical distancing would remain the key measures to fight the remains of the epidemic.

Slovenia has decided to allow EU nationals to cross the border at selected checkpoints, ending the policy of seven-day quarantine. Third-country nationals will be subject to a two-week quarantine, with some exceptions.

The spread of COVID-19 has coincided with the return to power of the veteran right-wing political Janez Jansa, who critics accuse of using the pandemic to restrict freedoms.

• Coronavirus
• European Union
• Janez Jansa
• Slovenia

 

[sweetiepie]

Twitter that doesn't age well


Q&A that doesn't age well
https://www.pmo.gov.sg/Newsroom/PM-Lee-Doorstop-Interview-at-NCID

 

[nayr69sg]

Any bros or sis out there old enough in 1977 or 1978 to share what it was like when climate scientists all saying ice age coming?

From what i remember this global warming stuff is more in the last 5 to 6 years.

 

[laksaboy]

Any bros or sis out there old enough in 1977 or 1978 to share what it was like when climate scientists all saying ice age coming?

From what i remember this global warming stuff is more in the last 5 to 6 years.

It started when Al Gore started fearmongering about polar caps melting and rising sea levels. The libtards then started adopting 'green' politics.

The UN globalists also came out with the IPCC and Agenda 2030.

When they weren't too sure if the planet is warming or cooling, they changed the term to 'climate change' and 'extreme weather patterns' became the new bogeyman. All that can be fixed if you stop eating meat (or eat fake GMO meat), drive electric vehicles and hop on the 'sustainability' cult.

 

[yinyang]

 

[nayr69sg]

It started when Al Gore started fearmongering about polar caps melting and rising sea levels. The libtards then started adopting 'green' politics.

The UN globalists also came out with the IPCC and Agenda 2030.

When they weren't too sure if the planet is warming or cooling, they changed the term to 'climate change' and 'extreme weather patterns' became the new bogeyman. All that can be fixed if you stop eating meat (or eat fake GMO meat), drive electric vehicles and hop on the 'sustainability' cult.

Now that you mention it.....

Yeah that Al Gore!


An Inconvenient Truth. That was the start of the narrative! 2006! So already 15 years!

 

[syed putra]

Any bros or sis out there old enough in 1977 or 1978 to share what it was like when climate scientists all saying ice age coming?

From what i remember this global warming stuff is more in the last 5 to 6 years.

It started when Al Gore started fearmongering about polar caps melting and rising sea levels. The libtards then started adopting 'green' politics.

The UN globalists also came out with the IPCC and Agenda 2030.

When they weren't too sure if the planet is warming or cooling, they changed the term to 'climate change' and 'extreme weather patterns' became the new bogeyman. All that can be fixed if you stop eating meat (or eat fake GMO meat), drive electric vehicles and hop on the 'sustainability' cult.

Al Gore went ballistic wrt global warming after he lost election to george bush by a hairlibe. Just a few thousand vote in florida whose governor at that time was bush'e brother. JEB. Its just a job promoting global warming as far as he is concerned. Plus fund raising.

But i must admit, it was a lot cooler when i was in school. Students used to wear sweaters in the morning and showers were freezing cold.

 

[laksaboy]

But i must admit, it was a lot cooler when i was in school. Students used to wear sweaters in the morning and showers were freezing cold.

I wonder why indeed.

 

[nayr69sg]

I wonder why indeed.

No lah it is all the air con.

Also the huge super aircon that cools a feeaking entire indoor forest at Gardens by the Bay!

 

[Leongsam]

Coronavirus: How 'overreaction' made Vietnam a virus success​

By Anna Jones
BBC News

Published
15 May 2020


Related Topics

• Coronavirus pandemic

image sourceGetty Images
image captionVietnam has already started opening up again after weeks of no local cases
Despite a long border with China and a population of 97 million people, Vietnam has recorded only just over 300 cases of Covid-19 on its soil and not a single death.
Nearly a month has passed since its last community transmission and the country is already starting to open up.
Experts say that unlike other countries now seeing infections and deaths on a huge scale, Vietnam saw a small window to act early on and used it fully.
But though cost-effective, its intrusive and labour intensive approach has its drawbacks and experts say it may be too late for most other countries to learn from its success.

'Extreme but sensible' measures​

"When you're dealing with these kinds of unknown novel potentially dangerous pathogens, it's better to overreact," says Dr Todd Pollack of Harvard's Partnership for Health Advancement in Vietnam in Hanoi.
Recognising that its medical system would soon become overwhelmed by even mild spread of the virus, Vietnam instead chose prevention early, and on a massive scale.

By early January, before it had any confirmed cases, Vietnam's government was initiating "drastic action" to prepare for this mysterious new pneumonia which had at that point killed two people in Wuhan.

image sourceGetty Images
When the first virus case was confirmed on 23 January - a man who had travelled from Wuhan to visit his son in Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam's emergency plan was in action.
"It very, very quickly acted in ways which seemed to be quite extreme at the time but were subsequently shown to be rather sensible," says Prof Guy Thwaites, director of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Ho Chi Minh City, which works with the government on its infectious disease programmes.
Vietnam enacted measures other countries would take months to move on, bringing in travel restrictions, closely monitoring and eventually closing the border with China and increasing health checks at borders and other vulnerable places.
Schools were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday at the end of January and remained closed until mid-May. A vast and labour intensive contact tracing operation got under way.
"This is a country that has dealt with a lot of outbreaks in the past," says Prof Thwaites, from Sars in 2003 to avian influenza in 2010 and large outbreaks of measles and dengue.

image sourceANH PHONG
image captionArrivals were bussed directly from the airport to quarantine centres
"The government and population are very, very used to dealing with infectious diseases and are respectful of them, probably far more so than wealthier countries. They know how to respond to these things."
By mid-March, Vietnam was sending everyone who entered the country - and anyone within the country who'd had contact with a confirmed case - to quarantine centres for 14 days.
Costs were mostly covered by the government, though accommodation was not necessarily luxurious. One woman who flew home from Australia - considering Vietnam a safer place to be - told BBC News Vietnamese that on their first night they had "only one mat, no pillows, no blankets" and one fan for the hot room.

Protection against the asymptomatic​

Prof Thwaites says quarantine on such a vast scale is key as evidence mounts that as many as half of all infected people are asymptomatic.

image sourceLan Anh
image captionFacilities were not always luxurious but kept potentially infected people away from the general public
Everyone in quarantine was tested, sick or not, and he says it's clear that 40% of Vietnam's confirmed cases would have had no idea they had the virus had they not been tested.
"If you have that level[of asymptomatic carriers] the only thing you can do to control it is what Vietnam did," he says.

"Unless you were locking those people up they would just be wandering around spreading the infection."
This also helps explain the absence of any deaths.
As most of the returning Vietnamese were students, tourists or business travellers, they tended to be younger and healthier.
They had a better chance of fighting the virus themselves, and were never able to put, for example, elderly relatives at risk, which meant the medical system could focus its resources on the few critical cases.
While Vietnam never had a total national lockdown, it swooped in on emerging clusters.
In February after a handful of cases in Son Loi, north of Hanoi, more than 10,000 people living in the surrounding area were sealed off. The same would happen to 11,000 people in the Ha Loi commune near the capital, and to the staff and patients of a hospital.
No-one would be allowed in or out until two weeks had passed with no confirmed cases.

 

[Leongsam]

Oops spoke too soon.

 

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[laksaboy]

Oops spoke too soon.

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Hard to solve the problem if you cannot or will not recognize how it started.
You can push vaccines, lockdowns, high tech surveillance, do photo ops in hospitals etc. It's like scratching the surrounding areas of an itch and hoping you find relief.

https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ORIGINS-OF-COVID-19-REPORT.pdf

 

[nayr69sg]

You know why? Medical

Drs notoriously bad at predicting things medical in nature.

Dont believe me go read up on studies about how drs do guess or in depth scoring system to try to determine how long a palliative cancer patient or dementia patient has left to live. Notoriously wrong even with the in depth scoring system

 

[laksaboy]

You know why? Medical

Drs notoriously bad at predicting things medical in nature.

Dont believe me go read up on studies about how drs do guess or in depth scoring system to try to determine how long a palliative cancer patient or dementia patient has left to live. Notoriously wrong even with the in depth scoring system

Here's an idea: find out who funds those 'studies'. Always follow the money and that will lead you to the truth.

 

[nayr69sg]

Here's an idea: find out who funds those 'studies'. Always follow the money and that will lead you to the truth.

Nah nothing to do with funding on this topic. Prediction is stupid in medicine

 

[yinyang]

Nah nothing to do with funding on this topic. Prediction is stupid in medicine

And don't get you started

 

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