Putin doesn't give a fu.....

[Borchester]

Belarus's strongman president has in recent weeks suggested drinking vodka, driving tractors, saunas and playing ice hockey as antidotes to the deadly illness.



On Friday, he added another: baby goats. Talking to a group of farmers, he spoke warmly of watching a herd of new-born kids at his farm. "This is the treatment for the virus," he said.

Nothing wrong with that, provided you and the goat love each other

[Borg Refinery]

They all sound more like fun than staying home and staying alert.

Yes drinking vodka, playing ice hockey with baby goats whilst driving a tractor in a sauna does sound like more fun.

[Barry]

Belarus's strongman president has in recent weeks suggested drinking vodka, driving tractors, saunas and playing ice hockey as antidotes to the deadly illness.



On Friday, he added another: baby goats. Talking to a group of farmers, he spoke warmly of watching a herd of new-born kids at his farm. "This is the treatment for the virus," he said.

They all sound more like fun than staying home and staying alert.

[Borg Refinery]

Belarus's strongman president has in recent weeks suggested drinking vodka, driving tractors, saunas and playing ice hockey as antidotes to the deadly illness.



On Friday, he added another: baby goats. Talking to a group of farmers, he spoke warmly of watching a herd of new-born kids at his farm. "This is the treatment for the virus," he said.

[Borg Refinery]

Oh yes. Belurus. The home of 150 Covid deaths who enjoy drinking heavily and have excessive alcohol related deaths. Nobody is asking them to ban Vodka over there but they should have shut themselves down to protect those 150  (most likely) elderly vulnerable residents.

🤣😆😄  :: And you trust Belarus's all-supreme pryezidyent of the super throwback state?

The healthcare system in Belarus is being propped up by volunteers and crowdfunding campaigns as the country grapples with a coronavirus pandemic its president has been hesitant to admit exists.



Belarus has attracted international headlines for its delayed response, continuing to host Europe's only active football league, as the president, Alexander Lukashenko, dismissed the pandemic as a "psychosis".



"No one in the country will die from coronavirus," Lukashenko declared publicly earlier this week.



Meanwhile, a human rights activist and volunteer worker, Andrej Stryzhak, has cofounded the #bycovid19 group to crowdfund, acquire and deliver equipment and protective clothing to medics and other frontline personnel, one of many local initiatives by NGOs and businesses.



"Our goal is to make sure this system doesn't collapse," he said. "In many places, for instance in Vitebsk [a city in north-east Belarus], we see that there's a very difficult situation, a critical situation. There are a lot of sick people, and a lot of medics are sick."



Healthcare workers help a patient into an ambulance in Minsk.

Healthcare workers in Minsk help a patient into an ambulance. Much of the protective equipment available has been sourced by volunteers. Photograph: Sergei Grits/AP

With material shortages worsening, and the black market charging as much as £12 for a single mask, Stryzhak, alongside a team of dozens of volunteers and NGOs, raised more than £100,000 and distributed 27,000 respirators, as well as protective clothing and medical equipment.



"The toughest situation is with respirators," he said. "If you look at the official government numbers, our supplies make up a considerable part [of the total]."



One doctor in Vitebsk, the site of one of the worst outbreaks, said some hospitals had not been not resupplied to deal with the outbreak, and dozens of medical personnel had consequently fallen ill.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/belarus-crowdfunds-to-fight-coronavirus-as-leader-denies-it-exists">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thegua ... -it-exists">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/belarus-crowdfunds-to-fight-coronavirus-as-leader-denies-it-exists



I guess they've got their bonces screwed on tightly.

[Borg Refinery]

Btw.

Doctors in Russia say the government is covering up coronavirus cases in the country and forcing medical staff to treat infectious patients without protective equipment.



Anastasia Vasilyeva, the head of Russia's Alliance of Doctors trade union, voiced the accusation in a video published on Thursday.



She called on Russian doctors to go public with information about the "true" state of the coronavirus outbreak in the country.



"While the whole world is facing an outbreak of a new coronavirus, Russia is facing an outbreak of a community-acquired pneumonia," Vasilyeva said. "And as usual, we're facing the lie of the authorities."



She said Russian authorities were referring to coronavirus cases as ordinary pneumonia, implying that they're distinct from the coronavirus pandemic.



Russian authorities strongly denied her claims. A statement from the Moscow Department of Health accused her of seeking "to discredit Russian medicine and relevant government agencies" and called for authorities to investigate her.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-russia-doctors-say-government-is-covering-up-cases-2020-3?amp&r=US&IR=T">https://www.businessinsider.com/coronav ... &r=US&IR=T">https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-russia-doctors-say-government-is-covering-up-cases-2020-3?amp&r=US&IR=T

When Anastasia Petrova, a 36-year-old journalist in the Urals city of Perm, died on March 31, health officials changed the official cause of death from double pneumonia to "double pneumonia brought on by coronavirus" only after a friend of Petrova's made public a text message in which Petrova revealed her second COVID-19 test had come back positive.



In Daghestan, in Russia's North Caucasus, one doctor said on April 28 that at his hospital alone, 12 people had died of pneumonia in the previous four days: "80 to 90 percent [of those cases] are most certainly coronavirus," he said. But Daghestan as a whole had officially recorded only 11 COVID-19 deaths as of that date.

https://www.rferl.org/amp/why-is-russia-coronavirus-death-toll-so-low/30585706.html">https://www.rferl.org/amp/why-is-russia ... 85706.html">https://www.rferl.org/amp/why-is-russia-coronavirus-death-toll-so-low/30585706.html



I trust Putin with my life, so should you - he's a bigly guy!

[Borchester]

Baltic nations have opened up their borders to one another and Latvia says it's "Covid Free". And now Russia...



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52659481">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52659481



...who have had daily cases exceed 10000 for a little while now has basically told their citizens to get back to work even though they are the case rate epicenter.



The figures are in. Early models of hundreds of millions of global deaths is going to be wrong. And what we thought was the infection rate is ten times under estimated. And Putin, who is the first of I expect many many leaders to call an end of this lockdown sh*t show and getting people to actually live their lives, has said enough is enough.

Are you sure on this Boysie? If the original estimates of hundreds of billions of deaths have been under estimated by a factor of ten then we can expect the actual death toll to be in the order of two billions which is more than a quarter of the world population although considerably less than the number who have tried to read Das Kapital but who were forced to give up when their buttocks fell off from sheer bloody boredom.

[Borg Refinery]

Poor Russians, 2nd highest in the world now.



Putin really doesn't appear to give a care for their wellbeing, how sad.

[Hyperduck Quack Quack]

Countries that introduced lockdowns earlier have fared better than those that left it too late.



Countries that left it much too late are doing worst of all - UK, USA, Russia, Brazil.



Countries that lifted lockdown too early risk getting a second wave - that's already happening in Iran. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iran/">https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iran/



There are now 20 territories around the world that had small outbreaks that have become free of cases.



Lockdown does work but it can't be applied for ever.  Lifting it too soon is dangerous.

[B0ycey]

Oh yes. Belurus. The home of 150 Covid deaths who enjoy drinking heavily and have excessive alcohol related deaths. Nobody is asking them to ban Vodka over there but they should have shut themselves down to protect those 150  (most likely) elderly vulnerable residents.

[papasmurf]

Lock down, what lock down?



Not much sign of it here:-

[B0ycey]

Baltic nations have opened up their borders to one another and Latvia says it's "Covid Free". And now Russia...



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52659481">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52659481



...who have had daily cases exceed 10000 for a little while now has basically told their citizens to get back to work even though they are the case rate epicenter.



The figures are in. Early models of hundreds of millions of global deaths is going to be wrong. And what we thought was the infection rate is ten times under estimated. And Putin, who is the first of I expect many many leaders to call an end of this lockdown shit show and getting people to actually live their lives, has said enough is enough.