Tuesday, March 24, 2020

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Covid-19 hits doctors, nurses and EMTs, threatening health system
New York, New Jersey coronavirus ‘attack rate’ is 5 times higher than rest of US, top official says “The New York metro area of New Jersey, New York City, and parts of Long Island have an attack rate close to one in 1,000” ..... roughly 28% of the specimens submitted in that region have tested positive for COVID-19 ...... “Clearly, the virus had been there for a number of weeks.”...... New York is currently the hardest-hit state in the country, ahead of New Jersey, California and Washington state. New York City, alone, accounts for 12,305 of the 20,875 confirmed infections in the state as of Monday morning ...... Cuomo estimated up to 80% of the state’s more than 19.4 million residents will get the coronavirus. Last week, Cuomo estimated there are likely “tens of thousands” of COVID-19 cases in the state among residents who didn’t know they had it.











Japanese PM and IOC chief agree to postpone 2020 Olympics until 2021
Coronavirus stayed on surfaces for up to 17 days on Diamond Princess cruise, CDC says
Arizona man dies, wife ill after taking drug touted as virus treatment: "Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure"
Amid coronavirus crisis, Hollywood writers and major studios can’t agree on contract extension
NY Democratic leader floats nixing state’s presidential primary
Trump predicts 'this is going to be bad' but vows to reopen America In his zeal to fire up American prosperity after helping to trigger an unprecedented self-inflicted economic meltdown, Trump is already losing patience -- weeks before the virus may peak. ....... "Our country was not built to be shut down," the President warned on Monday. "We are going to be opening up our country for business because our country was meant to be open." ....... His comments came on day when the number of confirmed cases soared past 40,000 and 100 people died in a single day for the first time. Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of Trump's coronavirus task force, warned that the "attack rate" of the disease in New York, America's dominant economic and financial powerhouse, was five times that of elsewhere. ....... he argued that "if it were up to the doctors, they may say let's keep it shut down -- let's shut down the entire world." ....... attempts to reverse a shutdown to alleviate a horrific unemployment picture that has devastated the economy are premature at a moment when the pandemic is still exploding. ............

The President's upbeat prediction of a return to full speed ahead directly contradicted the actions of state governors nationwide -- who are imposing stay-at-home orders, closing businesses and ordering schools out for summer in March.

....... Trump's course change -- after warning last week the shutdown could last until July or August -- was consistent with the scattershot way in which he has managed the coronavirus pandemic. ....... He spent weeks denying it was a serious problem, predicting it could simply go away and was not much worse than the flu....... Then, with the crisis building last week, he turned himself into a wartime leader -- vowing to battle an "invisible enemy" and warning normal life may not resume until July or August......... It was noticeable Monday that Trump was talking about the virus in the past tense.........

he went back to comparing Covid-19 to the seasonal flu even though it is far more virulent, has a far higher death rate and has no vaccine.

........ There is no mistaking the severity of the nightmare that has turned one of the strongest economies in American history into a disaster area that might rival the Great Depression. ........ Trump's apparent impatience, only days after declaring war on the virus, raises questions about the depth of his thinking and his own motivations given the importance of a strong economy to his reelection campaign. ......... There was a strong sense in Trump's press conference on Monday that he was engaging in wishful thinking that the pandemic would get better in order to allow his preferred reality -- unleashing what he hopes will be a post-crisis boom. ......... Apart from questions about Trump's motivation, there are deep practical questions about his desire for a swift reopening of the economy. First up, he doesn't have the power to do it....... Many of the shutdowns imposed on US cities and states have been ordered by governors fearful that their hospitals could be overrun.

This cure is killing economy, crushing dreams — we need to figure out a better way Countries have experienced economic depressions before, but not usually as a matter of choice....... The nation-wide coronavirus shutdowns over the last two weeks have ground parts of the American country to a halt. We have probably never before in our history seen so much economic activity vaporize so quickly — within days or even hours. The Great Depression and the panics of the 19th century are the only possible analogues. ...... These are the top-line numbers of a devastation that will throw millions out of work, stress families and blight personal lives, destroy the dreams of small-business owners and bankrupt industries. This is a tale of human misery, not just of declines in the stock market and in GDP. ..........

even the biggest, best-designed stimulus bill is no fix for shuttered store-fronts and factories. And how many times can Washington pass $2 trillion bills?

......... Would New York City restaurants really be full if it weren’t for the Gov. Andrew Cuomo-ordered lockdown? Would people be eager to get on airplanes? To book a cruise? To see a Broadway show? To go to Disneyland? ........ No matter how bad ­today’s lockdowns are, imagine if we decided to undertake them at a time when America already had a million cases and the health-care system was in deep crisis. ........ Our aim should be to shift from the blunderbuss solution of mass shutdowns to rifle-shot remedies, on the model of what South Korea has done with its widespread testing ...... We should focus on the production of tests, ventilators, masks and other protective gear on an industrial scale. Whatever the federal government has to spend or do to get it done should happen — just as if we were on a wartime footing. ....... population-wide testing ...... Whatever path we take will be costly and have its downsides. All we can know with certainty is that the current path is untenable.

Cuomo: Coronavirus spreading like ‘bullet train’ in NY as cases top 25,000 Cuomo tore into President Trump and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s vow to send 400 ventilators to New York — a sliver of the 30,000 it’s anticipated the state will need. ........ a continuing flood of cases that now stands at 25,665 in the state and 14,904 in the city. The death toll reached 210. .....

“The president said it’s a war,” continued Cuomo. “Well then act like it’s a war!”

....... “We’re not slowing it, and it is accelerating on its own,” said Cuomo, noting that number of cases in New York is now doubling every three days. ...... The rate has led experts to project an eventual peak demand of 140,000 hospital beds — up from the 110,000 that Cuomo had previously predicted. ......... the worst could hit in as little as two weeks. .......“The apex is higher than we thought, and the apex is sooner than we thought.” ...... “But if you ask the American people to choose between public health and the economy, then it’s no contest.

How Trump can win re-election in a pandemic Three weeks ago, President Trump seemed poised for victory in November. The economy was strong. The nation was at peace. That is usually a recipe for re-election ...... But then the coronavirus hit. ....... If we were going by the book, we’d have to conclude that Trump is a goner in November. History tells us that presidents do not win re-election in situations like this.

The last global crisis didn't change the world. But this one could To experience a crisis is to inhabit a world that is temporarily up for grabs. ........ our only guaranteed exit route from enforced “social distancing” is a vaccine, which may not be widely available until the summer of next year. ......... It is now inevitable that we will experience deep global recession, a breakdown of labour markets and the evaporation of consumer spending. The terror that drove government action in the autumn of 2008 was that money would stop coming out of the cash machines, unless the banking system was propped up.

It turns out that if people stop coming out of their homes, then the circulation of money grinds to a halt as well.

Small businesses are shedding employees at a frightening speed ........

There is a grim truth at the centre of the present crisis that makes it feel closer to a war than a recession

....... The degree of devastation it will spread is due to very basic features of global capitalism that almost no economist questions – high levels of international connectivity and the reliance of most people on the labour market. ........ this pandemic does not discriminate on the basis of economic geography. It may end up devaluing urban centres, as it becomes clear how much “knowledge-based work” can be done online after all. ........ a striking feature of the last few weeks has been the universality of human behaviours, concerns and fears. ....... coronavirus is not a spectacle happening somewhere else: it’s going on outside your window, right now, and in that sense it meshes perfectly with the age of ubiquitous social media ....... In the end, government policymakers will ultimately be judged in terms of how many thousands of people die. ......... The immediacy of this visceral, mortal threat makes this moment feel less like 2008 or the 1970s and more like the other iconic crisis in our collective imagination – 1945. ........ Rishi Sunak’s astonishing announcement that the government would cover up to 80% of the salaries of workers if companies kept them on their payroll. ........ Rather than view this as a crisis of capitalism, it might better be understood as the sort of world-making event that allows for new economic and intellectual beginnings. ........ as an authentically global crisis, it is also a global turning point. There is a great deal of emotional, physical and financial pain in the immediate future. But a crisis of this scale will never be truly resolved until many of the fundamentals of our social and economic life have been remade.

Coronavirus: China braced for second economic shock wave as Covid-19 controls kill demand

After riding out a supply shock that closed down most of its factories, China is bracing for a second wave demand shock to its economy

........ The situation in the US, for instance, is deteriorating so quickly that Morgan Stanley economists changed their forecast of a minus 4 per cent contraction in the economy in the second quarter to a record low minus 30.1 per cent, within the space of a week........ the coronavirus could cost China’s migrant workers a combined 800 billion yuan (US$115 billion) in lost wages ....... “Half of Beijing took a salary hit if they did not get fired.” ...... Most economists now expect the Chinese economy to shrink this quarter for the first time since 1976

After Coronavirus the World Will Never Be the Same. But Maybe, It Can Be Better we feel anxious and scared about what’s ahead. ...... we’re never going “back to normal”—and what we should be doing now to make the new normal a good one. .......

“It’s my contention that this isn’t a 2001 moment, this is something much bigger. I think of this as a 1941 moment.”

....... 1941 was the thick of World War II. Nobody knew what the outcome of the war was going to be, everybody was terrified, and the US and its allies were losing the war. “But even in the height of those darkest of times,” Metzl said, “people began imagining what the future world would look.” ....... It was 1941 when President Roosevelt gave his famous Four Freedoms speech, and when American and British leadership issued the Atlantic Charter, which set out their vision for the post-war international order. To this day, our lives exist within that order. .......Institutions intended to foster global cooperation (like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization) have been starved in the context of this re-nationalization, and as a result we don’t have effective structures in place to address global crises—and not just coronavirus. Think of climate change, protecting the oceans, preparing for a future of automation and AI; no country can independently take on or solve these massive challenges. ........... “The pandemic moves at the speed of globalization, but so does the response,” Metzl said. “The tools we’re bringing to this fight are greater than anything our ancestors could have possibly imagined.” ....... at the same time we’re experiencing this incredible bottom-up energy and connectivity, we’re also experiencing an abysmal failure of our top-down institutions. ......... If the poorer parts of the world get hit hard by the virus, we may see fragile states collapsing, and multi-lateral states like the European Union unable to support the strain. .......... “The world is not going to snap back to being exactly like it was before this crisis happened,” Metzl said. “We’re going to come out of this into a different world.” .............. take the trends that were already in motion and hit the fast-forward button. Virtualization of events, activities, and interactions. Automation of processes and services. Political and economic decentralization. ........ ....What if, three months ago, there’d been a global surveillance system in place, and at the first signs of the outbreak, an international emergency team led by the World Health Organization had immediately gone to Wuhan? ........ this new normal that feels so shocking to us right now will simply be normal for our children and grandchildren. ......... In 1941, the global planning process was top-down: a small group of powerful, smart people decided how things would be then took steps to make their vision a reality. But this time will be different; to succeed, the new global plan will need to have meaningful drive from the bottom up. ........ “We need to recognize a new locus of power,” Metzl said. “And it’s us. Nobody is going to solve this for us. This is our moment to really come together.”

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Saturday, March 21, 2020

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Coronavirus: California issues state-wide 'stay at home' order
New York and neighboring states order hair salons and nail parlors to close
Cuomo orders most New Yorkers to stay inside — ‘we’re all under quarantine now’
My Son Wants to Move His Family Across the Country so I Can Be Day Care
15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered The scale and scope of what we’re seeing, with organizations of 5,000 or 10,000 employees, asking people to work from home very quickly, is unprecedented......... There’s ample research showing that virtual teams can be completely equal to co-located ones in terms of trust and collaboration. It just requires discipline...... People lose the unplanned watercooler or cappuccino conversations with colleagues in remote work. These are actually big and important parts of the workday that have a direct impact on performance. How do we create those virtually? ..... WhatsApp, WeChat, or Viber. ...... One more piece of advice: Exercise. It’s critical for mental well-being. ........ Number one, make sure that team members constantly feel like they know what’s going on. You need to communicate what’s happening at the organizational level because when they’re at home, they feel like they’ve been extracted away from the mothership. They wonder what’s happening at the company, with clients, and with common objectives. The communication around those are extremely important. ......... Productivity does not have to go down at all. It can be maintained, even enhanced, because commutes and office distractions are gone. ........ Another problem might be your ability to resolve problems quickly when you can’t meet in person, in real time. That might create delays........ “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ....... You can’t monitor the process, so your review will have to be outcome-based. ...... We have enterprise-wide social media tools that allow us to store and capture data, to have one-to-many conversations, to share best practices, and to learn. ........ “Folks, when we have these meetings, we do it in a nice way, we turn off of phones, we don’t check emails or multitask.” ....... spend the first six to seven minutes of a meeting checking in. Don’t go straight to your agenda items. ........... Start with whomever is the newest or lowest status person or the one who usually speaks the least. ...... Say you have a video conference about a topic. You follow it up with an email or a Slack message. You should have multiple touchpoints through various media to continue the trail of conversation. ....... Allowing people to disagree in order to sharpen the team’s thinking is a very positive thing. ....... you might even want to generate or model a little of disagreement — always over work, tasks or processes, of course, never anything personal. .......... You don’t have to eat lunch at 12pm. You might walk your dog at 2pm. Things are much more fluid, and managers just have to trust that employees will do their best to get their work done. ...... Maybe you can’t wine and dine. But you can do a lot. Be creative.

Coronavirus: How to protect your mental health
Harrowing video from a hospital at the center of Italy's coronavirus outbreak shows doctors overwhelmed by critical patients



Italy calls in military to enforce coronavirus lockdown as 627 people die in 24 hours
'India must prepare for a tsunami of coronavirus cases' if the same mathematical models applied in the US or UK were applied to India, the country could be dealing with about 300 million cases, of which about four to five million could be severe...... Official figures show the country has 149 active cases, but many public health experts worry that the country has conducted far too few tests.
US tax filing deadline moved to July 15, Mnuchin says
Trump says US not currently considering a nationwide lockdown
Three pillars of Trump’s case for reelection are collapsing all at once
New Jersey woman writes about watching four relatives die from coronavirus
Walmart to pay nearly $550 million in employee bonuses: ‘It’s almost like a mini stimulus package’
This Is Not A Recession. This Is An Ice Age
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

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Live with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US’s top infectious disease expert, to learn about what we can all do to fight the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

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“It is not Corona, it’s Karma.”
Posted by Bijay Raut on Thursday, March 19, 2020


The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order China Is Maneuvering for International Leadership as the United States Falters ...... Global orders have a tendency to change gradually at first and then all at once. In 1956, a botched intervention in the Suez laid bare the decay in British power and marked the end of the United Kingdom’s reign as a global power. Today, U.S. policymakers should recognize that if the United States does not rise to meet the moment, the coronavirus pandemic could mark another “Suez moment.” ...... It is now clear to all but the most blinkered partisans that Washington has botched its initial response. Missteps by key institutions, from the White House and the Department of Homeland Security to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have undermined confidence in the capacity and competence of U.S. governance. ........ Both public and private sectors have proved ill-prepared to produce and distribute the tools necessary for testing and response. ........ As Washington falters, Beijing is moving quickly and adeptly to take advantage of the opening created by U.S. mistakes, filling the vacuum to position itself as the global leader in pandemic response. ....... It is working to tout its own system, provide material assistance to other countries, and even organize other governments. The sheer chutzpah of China’s move is hard to overstate. ....... As the crisis worsened through January and February, some observers speculated that the coronavirus might even undermine the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. It was called China’s “Chernobyl” ........ When no European state answered Italy’s urgent appeal for medical equipment and protective gear, China publicly committed to sending 1,000 ventilators, two million masks, 100,000 respirators, 20,000 protective suits, and 50,000 test kits. ....... Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma has promised to send large quantities of testing kits and masks to the United States, as well as 20,000 test kits and 100,000 masks to each of Africa’s 54 countries. ........ It was already the major producer of surgical masks; now, through wartime-like industrial mobilization, it has boosted production of masks more than tenfold, giving it the capacity to provide them to the world. ........ China’s share of the U.S. antibiotics market is more than 95 percent ........ The U.S. government can help by providing incentives to U.S. labs and companies to undertake a medical “Manhattan Project” to devise, rapidly test in clinical trials, and mass-produce a vaccine. ........ there is much Washington and Beijing could do together for the world’s benefit: coordinating vaccine research and clinical trials as well as fiscal stimulus; sharing information; cooperating on industrial mobilization (on machines for producing critical respirator components or ventilator parts, for instance); and offering joint assistance to others.



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What COVID-19 means for people with diabetes people with chronic medical conditions are at higher risk for experiencing more serious complications from the new coronavirus, and are at a higher risk for death. ..... diabetics are not more likely to get COVID-19, the problem lies with the seriousness of the virus once infected. ..... “if diabetes is well managed, the risk of getting severely sick from COVID-19 is about the same as the general population.”....... COVID-19 is much more serious than the seasonal flu, and precautions to avoid it should be followed more strictly by people with diabetes, like washing your hands and avoiding close contact with people who are coughing or sneezing.

Some children with coronavirus develop serious illnesses, study finds
Coronavirus shows off Donald Trump's single greatest accomplishment as President There may be differing views about Ronald Reagan, but no reasonable mind can deny the comfort he provided us after the Challenger explosion in 1986. Contrast that with Trump on Sunday, who during a formal coronavirus briefing, while surrounded by uniformed public health officers (not modeling responsible "social distancing" behavior, mind you) couldn't resist whining about "fake news." Trump was unhappy about the natural skepticism from reporters about a misleading (or at least confusing) claim regarding access to information about coronavirus testing...........Any goodwill the President might deserve for suddenly adopting a more reasonable tone at coronavirus press conferences is undercut by his Twitter demeanor, which remains as petty as ever. ........ The President regularly bullies or attacks the credibility of anything or anyone that isn't fully in lockstep with him: the intelligence community, federal prosecutors, career diplomats, the Federal Reserve Board, federal courts, the National Security Council, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and top military officials, to name a few. ....... patently false or misleading remarks like "when you have 15 [coronavirus cases in the United States], and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero," to utter nonsense like "[Coronavirus is] going to disappear. One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear" — a statement that would be laughed at by a 9th grade biology student.

Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown Is Coming Politicians won’t admit it yet, but it’s time to prepare—physically and psychologically—for a sudden stop to all life outside your home. ......... The window of opportunity to relocate has closed for residents of the Bay Area. .......

Where, and with whom, do you want to spend the next six to 12 weeks of your life, hunkered down for the epidemic duration?

...... Your time to answer those questions is very short—a few days, at most. Airports will close, trains will shut down, gasoline supplies may dwindle, and roadblocks may be set up. Nations are closing their borders, and as the numbers of sick rise, towns, suburbs, even entire counties will try to shut the virus out by blocking travel. Wherever you decide to settle down this week is likely to be the place in which you will be stuck for the duration of your epidemic......... The United States, for example, is currently tracking exactly where Italy was about 10 days ago. France and Germany, which track two to five days ahead of the United States, are now revving up measures akin to those taken by Italy, including lockdowns on movement and social activity. In a matter of days, the United States will follow suit........ While panic-buying has led to stockpiles of toilet paper and hand sanitizer, getting through eight months of confinement with others will require a great deal more, both physically and psychologically. This is especially true for households that span generations. ...... Long-term confinement that includes children undergoing remote schooling and adults trying to work requires designated spaces for each individual, a powerful Internet signal and Wi-Fi router, and a great deal of shared patience. ......... The virus is transmitted by droplets and fomites—it isn’t like measles, capable of drifting about in the air for hours. It dehydrates quickly if not inside water, mucus, or fomite droplets. The size of the droplets may be far below what the human eye can see, but they are gravity-sensitive, and will fall from an individual’s mouth down, eventually, to the nearest lower surface—table, desk, floor. You do not need to clean upward. ........... the virus survives in “aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.” This means an uncleaned surface can pose a risk to members of the household for a very long time—a doorknob, tabletop, kitchen counter or stainless steel utensil......... Give special attention to the most commonly shared surfaces in your home or work area: door knobs, light switches, phones, faucets, toilet handles, kitchen utensils, computer keyboards, and remote controls...... The virus is killed by ultraviolet sunlight, and air flow will hasten dehydration........

It’s also important to prepare psychologically. Every family or couple has its issues, and tensions can amplify during long confinement. Common sense can ease the shared suffering.

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UK braces for coronavirus shut down as London stations close virtual shut down of London as underground train stations across the capital closed ....... London’s transport authority said it would close up to 40 underground train stations until further notice and cut down other services including buses and trains ...... Britain has so far reported 104 deaths from coronavirus and 2,626 confirmed cases, but UK scientific advisers say more than 50,000 people might have already been infected......

Britain faces a “massive shortage” of ventilators

...... Supermarkets have been forced to limit purchases after frantic shoppers stripped shelves.







Coronavirus: France President Macron suspends rent, taxes and utilities
Forced To Finally Take Coronavirus Seriously, Trump Turns To Racism
New Analysis Suggests Months Of Social Distancing May Be Needed To Stop Virus









As Beijing, Hong Kong face second coronavirus onslaught, quarantine gets serious

China is now reporting more imported new cases than domestic infections



Coronavirus: WHO official denounces stigmatising language such as that used by Donald Trump
This is the biggest blunder in presidential history
More than 80 national security professionals break with tradition and endorse a presidential candidate — Biden

A New York Doctor’s Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. But this is different. ....... Today, at the hospital where I work, one of the largest in New York City, Covid-19 cases continue to climb, and there’s movement to redeploy as many health care workers as possible to the E.R.s, new “fever clinics” and I.C.U.s. It’s becoming an all-healthy-hands-on-deck scenario. ........ Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. I’m a board-certified surgeon and critical care specialist who spent much of my training attending to traumas in the emergency room and doing the rounds at Harvard hospitals’ intensive care units. I’m now in my last four months of training as a pediatric surgeon in New York City. Part of my job entails waking in the middle of the night to rush to the children’s hospital to put babies on a form of life support called ECMO, a service required when a child’s lungs are failing even with maximum ventilator support. Scenarios that mimic end-stage Covid-19 are part of my job. Panic is not in my vocabulary; the emotion has been drilled out of me in nine years of training. This is different............

We are living in a global public health crisis moving at a speed and scale never witnessed by living generations. The cracks in our medical and financial systems are being splayed open like a gashing wound.

....... today, and likely tomorrow, even M.D.s do not have straightforward access to testing across the country. ....... I say this not to panic anyone but to mobilize you. ....... Doctors across the globe are sharing information, protocols and strategies through social media, because our common publishing channels are too slow.



86% of people with coronavirus are walking around undetected, study says
Coronavirus patient on hellish ordeal: ‘I was screaming for mercy and praying to God’

It started out as a tickle in his throat before bed, but by the next morning, it felt like the worst flu ever.......And by the time Kevin Harris was admitted to a hospital in Ohio five days later, he thought he was suffocating.

...... Harris, a father of four children with three grandchildren, believes he was exposed to the coronavirus at another hospital when he went in for an appointment that wound up being canceled. ..... Within a couple of days, he said, he felt like he couldn’t clear his throat. He couldn’t stop coughing. By the next day, he had a fever and headaches. But the worst part was the body aches.......

On a scale of 1 to 10, he said, the pain was 15. ...... “The pain is off the charts. Everything hurts, nose, toes and ears,” said Harris. “I was like one big ball of pain.”



As Cities Around the World Go on Lockdown, Victims of Domestic Violence Look For A Way Out For women who are experiencing domestic violence, mandatory lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 (the disease caused by the new coronavirus) have trapped them in their homes with their abusers, isolated from the people and the resources that could help them....... their abusers are using COVID-19 as a means of further isolating them from their friends and family...... One out of three women in the world experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the World Health Organization, making it “the most widespread but among the least reported human rights abuses.” But during times of crisis—such as natural disasters, wars, and epidemics—the risk of gender-based-violence escalates. In China, the number of domestic violence cases reported to the local police tripled in February compared to the previous year, according to Axios. Activists say this is a result of enforced lockdown....... “We know that domestic violence is rooted in power and control,” says Ray-Jones. “Right now, we are all feeling a lack of control over our lives and an individual who cannot manage that will take it out on their victim.” She says that while the number of abuse cases may not rise during the coronavirus crisis, people who were already in an abusive situation will likely find themselves facing more extreme violence, and can no longer escape by going to work or seeing friends.

A day-by-day coronavirus symptoms. It shows how the disease, COVID-19, goes from bad to worse. A worth watching video !

Posted by Jiba Lamichhane on Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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