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Why are you letting your wife work, when she is not in good condition. You take up the work and let her take rest, and also make sure that she eats and sleeps well. Give some good fruits and cook proper vegetarian dish.
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This is a excellent case of the total failure of the media. Iran had obviously lost total control two days ago. Yet the media is still going on about South Korean and Italy, it seems clueless. We also need the immediate relaxation of sanctions around this on Iran. I 'think' WHO might be breaking some sanctions by currently helping Iran.
Lets blame the media ? What are you talking about. The media is reporting whats happening as it gets it, if Iran's media is being silenced that got nothing to do with the virus itself and more about the control of panic. > We also need the immediate relaxation of sanctions around this on Iran I'm pretty sure the WHO couldn't give a rats about US sanctions when it comes to human rights and world health.
No they simply are not. Should I be watching Fox?
Iran has 12 people dead atm. This is unheard of in any country other than China. We have known this high toll for 3 days. Last Friday is was thought to be 9! Who has headlined this?
CNN has Italy and South Korea as it's headlines right now and today, they pail in comparison to Iran.
This is not a high toll, this is out of control spread of the disease. I feel like this is a clown world. Korea and Italy are not the same as what's going on in Iran.
It's taken this latest report of 50, to make any headway in the news.
As to the WHO not caring I doubt that, but it's still not the point, companies need to be able to free allow supplies in. I don't know what sanctions are in place but companies for instance that supply gasses like oxygen need to know they are allowed to export it to Iran and how do they receive funds?
Why does this article not mention the sanctions if the media is on top of this?
Yes I blame the media.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/02/23/619365/Iran-corona...
It seems odd that there are no cases reported in Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Indonesia. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati... Possibly these countries have no way of monitoring and reporting COVID-19? In which case we are likely to have new, large clusters added in the coming weeks.
The thing is, although COVID-19 has a long incubation period in some cases, in many cases it has a short one. And about 15-20% of people will end up in hospital. So it can only spread under the radar for a limited period of time before it becomes obvious. The symptoms are well known by this point, dry cough, fever, shortness of breath.
"Problems with CDC coronavirus test delay expanded U.S. screening" - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/cdc-coronavirus-116...
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While 2% is indeed the WHO's current official early estimate, it's still very early to give accurate numbers here. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Using the "closed cases" figures on this page (currently: 27892 closed cases, 25265 recovered, 2627 deaths), we get a fatality rate closer to 9.4%, but I've been monitoring this page for a while, and the fatality rate based on this calculation has improved a lot…
World-o-meter isn't the definitive source for that information. Does the big counter at the top include the large number of people who contracted the disease, but never progressed past a mild stage, and so never reported it to their doctor? The WHO number is based on more than just the known cases vs deaths tally.
The big counter is based on official stats reported by the various countries and is equal to the numbers published by the WHO. Obviously, nobody knows the number of people who had it but didn't report it. You could do random sampling and get an estimate for the particular population that you tested, but let's forget about that for a moment.
The WHO's fatality estimate may or may not turn out correct at some point for the entire outbreak, but sadly there is no denying that the number isn't correct for the people who were tested positive a couple weeks ago, and the WHO published their estimate a couple weeks ago too.
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> My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time In my opinion it’s high time to call in sick. She is neither helping herself nor her coworkers by going to work.
If that's an option. I lot of people cannot call in sick. Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid.
According to this video[1], there are speculations that given its high mortality rate, the virus in Iran has mutated. [1]: https://youtu.be/02TwdiRUJTA
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The 61 is almost certainly rising much more quickly than the 12. Many cases don't get counted early on, so the fatality rate at this stage is overstated and largely meaningless. Same thing happened everywhere else with a suddenly-noticed largeish outbreak.
> Same thing happened everywhere else with a suddenly-noticed largeish outbreak. I’ve been paying pretty close attention since early on and nowhere else with a suddenly-noticed largish outbreak had a temporary death rate remotely close to 20%. Not even in Wuhan. In fact 12 deaths currently ranks #3 on the global death count chart when each Chinese province is counted as a separate entity, and any comparable entity ha…
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> My wife is, after 3 weeks, still really ill. Probably because she's working full time In my opinion it’s high time to call in sick. She is neither helping herself nor her coworkers by going to work.
If that's an option. I lot of people cannot call in sick. Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid.
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If that's an option. I lot of people cannot call in sick. Being sick means being unpaid, and many people cannot afford to go unpaid.
Netherlands though, not the US. If they're anything like most of Europe then a doctors note is all you need to still be paid while sick more than 1-2 days.
But how about if you run the business on your own, and you're concerned that if you take two weeks off the business will lose many customers who won't come back?
(I was shocked when I saw the they put the name of the illness on the note. That's so far from my employers business that it should be illegal to even ask. Employees and consumers rights in Germany seem to be seriously limited.)
USA unilateral sanctions of Iran are not only ilegal but inhumane and criminal.