Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

robal wrote:

Texanbrazil wrote:

Jack in the Box would be sooooooo great. BK is the best but only in the malls, so thanks right now.

We have 2 BK in Novo Hamburgo and 2 McDonald´s. What I really really want is KFC and Dunkin Donuts!

Oh man, you had to mention DD! Something about what they call donuts here I can't figure out, (Maybe the flour?)
Almost everyday on vacating it's a donut and coffee.
If I had buttermilk it would fry some chicken. DO try to get KFC at GRU before coming home.

"DO try to get KFC at GRU before coming home."

I did the last time coming from San Francisco to GRU. I exaggerated ordering a whole bucket but their chicken was even better than the one in Frisco. It wasn´t dry or browned too much. Very good indeed and had the chance to bring some to RS. It was cold but I reheated it!

Texanbrazil wrote:

Well when you come to PY you can find Jif and some Skippy.
Sometime I can find it in Super Mufatto, but goes fast.
Made some Menudo buchada when I finally found hominy.
Many time just buchada, but hanker'n for "hang over soup" !

I´ll probably buy a dozen of JIF or Skippy if I had the chance...

Ron Pinto wrote:

robal wrote:

Texanbrazil wrote:

Jack in the Box would be sooooooo great. BK is the best but only in the malls, so thanks right now.

We have 2 BK in Novo Hamburgo and 2 McDonald´s. What I really really want is KFC and Dunkin Donuts!

Robal, when I returned to the US KFC was my first stop, even if I had visited KFC in Sao Paulo a few times.
As for Dunkin Donuts, I went over to Autozone this morning and on the back, I stopped at a doughnut shop and brought home a dozen.  I really was in the mood for some doughnuts.

Yeah! I´m getting hungry talking about food that´s out of reach. Let me see... Ooops, looks like I have to reheat food from lunch! Lazy me...

robal wrote:

Texanbrazil wrote:

Jack in the Box would be sooooooo great. BK is the best but only in the malls, so thanks right now.

We have 2 BK in Novo Hamburgo and 2 McDonald´s. What I really really want is KFC and Dunkin Donuts!

Both KFC and Drunkin Donuts available in Vigan. Ilocos Sur.

Really? Such a small city and I'm ashamed of Brazil beaten in foreign investments by a small country in Southeast Asia. Too much taxes levied on businesses; they impose rigid laws in favor of workers and against enterprises; the employer has to pay the 13th salary of the year,  etc, etc. That's why not much investments coming to Brazil.

robal

For what it's worth, this just out re chloroquine....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/worl … e0c639a644

Viajanete wrote:

For what it's worth, this just out re chloroquine....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/worl … e0c639a644

Tweetstorm ahead! 

abthree wrote:

Viajanete wrote:

For what it's worth, this just out re chloroquine....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/worl … e0c639a644

Tweetstorm ahead! 

No kidding, Abthree, I wonder if it will be "those liberal communist FDA bastards" or the fake news.

abthree wrote:

Viajanete wrote:

For what it's worth, this just out re chloroquine....

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/worl … e0c639a644

Tweetstorm ahead! 

My earplugs ready!

Interesting:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ … uses-wuhan

Hmnn... Interesting. The viruses transported to Wuhan all belongs to genus Henipavirus and Ebolavirus. They don´t resemble at all the morphology of Coronaviruses by electron microscopy. Symptoms could be similar like the Nipah virus for example. But the single long strand of nucleocapsid is just the opposite of the glycoprotein spiked encapsulated structure of the Coronavirus...

The fact that the Wuhan lab is connected to the military is very suspicious because viruses like those could be weaponized for biological warfare.

robal

COVID-19 update: Brazil has now passed the 1million mark of Coronavirus cases to 1,032,913. A total of 48,954 dead. New deaths the last 24 hours of 1,206 and new cases to 54,771! Brazil has now also overtaken the UK on the number of deaths and now second only to the US!

robal

robal wrote:

COVID-19 update: Brazil has now passed the 1million mark of Coronavirus cases to 1,032,913. A total of 48,954 dead. New deaths the last 24 hours of 1,206 and new cases to 54,771! Brazil has now also overtaken the UK on the number of deaths and now second only to the US!

robal

Interesting,
The only two countries where this virus is being disrespected by the respective presidents.

Foz recorded 48 new cases in 24 hours! 
Sure glad they open things, 
The only thing higher is the record number of cases is the smuggling of drugs

Update on COVID-19:

1. Total deaths Saturday the 20th of June 2020: 49,976 an increase of 2.08% from Friday.
2. Total overall cases: 1,067,579 an increase of 3.35% from Friday

robal

This weekend, Brazil passed 50,000 deaths.  According to Folha's "Café da Manhã" this morning, that's about equal to the deaths in the Paraguayan War, one of Brazil's bloodiest, and more than the estimated 36,000 who died from the 1918 Flu.

abthree wrote:

This weekend, Brazil passed 50,000 deaths.  According to Folha's "Café da Manhã" this morning, that's about equal to the deaths in the Paraguayan War, one of Brazil's bloodiest, and more than the estimated 36,000 who died from the 1918 Flu.

Meanwhile our presidents, mine and yours adopted ones, keep calling it "uma gripezinha" or "kung-flu", the latest denomination from the Trump group.

Foz has lockdown 3 small Jardim's due number of high cases in such.
"Avá-Guarani tekoha Ocoy community of São Miguel do Iguaçu,",  one of the few Guarani native towns we have in the area is locked down

Ron Pinto wrote:

abthree wrote:

This weekend, Brazil passed 50,000 deaths.  According to Folha's "Café da Manhã" this morning, that's about equal to the deaths in the Paraguayan War, one of Brazil's bloodiest, and more than the estimated 36,000 who died from the 1918 Flu.

Meanwhile our presidents, mine and yours adopted ones, keep calling it "uma gripezinha" or "kung-flu", the latest denomination from the Trump group.

"Kung-flu" appears deadlier than "Gripezinha" though, to the dismay or insulting remarks yet for Xi Jinping. Imagine saying "Wuhan Kung-flu" like a new form of martial arts!

COVID-19 running count; 23June2020

1. Total deaths: 52,649
2. Total cases: 1,145,906
3. 24hr deaths: 1,378
4. 24hr new cases: 39,436

robal

COVID-19 running count; 25June2020

1. Total deaths: 54,971
2. Total cases: 1,228,114
3. 24hr deaths: 1,141
4. 24hr cases: 39,483

COVID-19 running count; 26June2020

1. Total deaths: 55,961
2. Total cases: 1,274,974
3. Last 24hr deaths: 990
4. Last 24hr cases: 46,860

robal

Dr David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA - an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and leader for the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment and Laboratory of the same university has found after researching 8,000 papers on COVID-19 treatment that the combination of antivirals lopinavir and ritonavir (both HIV meds) and the corticosteroid dexamethasone stands out as the best protocol for SARS-CoV-2 treatment.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/health/c … index.html

robal

robal wrote:

Dr David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA - an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and leader for the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment and Laboratory of the same university has found after researching 8,000 papers on COVID-19 treatment that the combination of antivirals lopinavir and ritonavir (both HIV meds) and the corticosteroid dexamethasone stands out as the best protocol for SARS-CoV-2 treatment.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/health/c … index.html

robal

Well, at least there is someone working to find a way to treat it, instead of wishing the virus to be gone, like some politicians.

Running COVID-19 count for June 28, 2020:

There is now a total of 57,622 dead; 1,344,143 confirmed cases; 552 dead in the last 24hrs; 30,476 confirmed new cases in the last 24hrs.

Here we have jump to "intermediate". Another 30 cases.

Ready for this"
"Seizures recorded during the operation: – 4.2 tons of marijuana; – 3.2 million cigarette portfolios, valued at about R$ !0,000,000.
"30 kilos of cocaine",
"3,400 electronic items (including mobile devices",
"295 tires",
"74 people arrested (31 for smuggling and 20 for drug trafficking",
All sine May 30th

Hey guys,
Los Angeles County has surpassed many countries.  We have now over 100 K new cases.

I read this. Know anything about Orange Co.? Stepdaughter living there.

Foz just closed tourist attractions. Falls and Itaipu.
Just a matter of time (IMO) the neighborhood lockdown goes citywide again.

Texanbrazil wrote:

I read this. Know anything about Orange Co.? Stepdaughter living there.

Sure Tex,
Orange County has to date, 13,843 cases with 779 deaths.  This is as of today.
Much better than LA County.

Thanks my friend. She is interning from home.

Beginning July 1 all will be shut down again except essential services and large mercados. Mercados will close on Sunday's for hard sanitation.

Thanks, everyone for going nuts. 

Meanwhile, here in Amazonas, the Federal Police served 20 search warrants and 8 arrest warrants today, in connection with suspected overbilling on 28 respirators that  the state government ordered through a wine importing company on a no-bid contract.  The Federal Police were waiting at the airport for the governor when he got off the plane returning from Brasília.  The assets of 13 people and companies are frozen, totaling almost  R$3 million.
Hard to say yet what the effect on combatting covid in the state will be.  Fingers crossed!

abthree wrote:

Meanwhile, here in Amazonas, the Federal Police served 20 search warrants and 8 arrest warrants today, in connection with suspected overbilling on 28 respirators that  the state government ordered through a wine importing company on a no-bid contract.  The Federal Police were waiting at the airport for the governor when he got off the plane returning from Brasília.  The assets of 13 people and companies are frozen, totaling almost  R$3 million.
Hard to say yet what the effect on combatting covid in the state will be.  Fingers crossed!

Does anyone doubt it was overbilled?  I am sure the price shown was triple the real price.

I am not surprised at all at the new wave.  I knew it was coming when I saw those several thousand people marching without masks.

COVID-19 update for 30Jun2020:

1. Total deaths: 59,594
2. Total cases: 1,402,041
3. 24hr new deaths: 1,280
4. 24hr new cases: 33,846

Dr Anthony S.Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has raised concern that if the COVID-19 situation in the US is not turned around, a 100,000 cases per day could happen...

Brazil extended closed borders until July 30th.
Same restriction as before.

robal wrote:

Dr Anthony S.Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has raised concern that if the COVID-19 situation in the US is not turned around, a 100,000 cases per day could happen...

According to reports, we are currently at 40,000 cases/day nationwide.

COVID-19 update as of Friday, 3July2020:

1. Total deaths: 63,174
2. Total cases: 1,539,081