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Originally posted by bigdeal:

And here I sit in my home in Orlando for the next two weeks.

Do not sit around, go out and do what you can. Practice good hygiene, maintain distance, but go out if you wish.

The list of exceptions under this stay at home order is so long that you can pretty much leave at will. I am not an attorney, but my guess is they knew they were on shaky constitutional ground, so they wrote it in a way as to not interfere much more than already has been. But, also knowing that if they issue a shelter in place order, a certain percentage of the people will just stay home.

I went for a bike ride around Orlando this morning. A route of 20 miles that I ride regularly, from just before 6am to just after 7am. The drop in traffic this morning versus earlier this week was slight, maybe 10%, but there was still PLENTY of traffic out there. There are plenty people that were not at home this morning before 7am.

And I was really, really glad to see that.

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China Supplied Faulty Coronavirus Test Kits to Spain, Czech Republic

The majority of rapid test coronavirus test kits supplied by China to Spain and the Czech Republic are faulty, local news outlets reported.

Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty, according to local Czech news site Expats.cz. The tests can produce a result in 10 or 15 minutes but are usually less accurate than other tests. Because of the high error rate, the country will continue to rely on conventional laboratory tests, of which they perform about 900 a day.

The country’s Health Ministry paid $546,000 for 100,000 of the test kits, while the Interior Ministry paid for the other 50,000.

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Jan Hamacek downplayed the discovery that many of the tests were faulty, blaming it on a possible wrong methodology and saying the kits can still be used “when the disease has been around for some time,” or when “someone returns after quarantine after fourteen days.”

“In my opinion, this is not about some scandalous revelation that it is not working,” Hamacek said.

Meanwhile, Spain, which has more than 56,000 infected people and more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths, the second-highest number of fatalities in the world after Italy, found that the rapid coronavirus test kits it purchased from Chinese company Bioeasy only correctly identified 30 percent of virus cases, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.

The director Spain’s Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, said Spain tested 9,000 of the test kits and will return them based on their high error rate.

Studies performed on the tests which discovered the high error rate caused the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology to recommend officially that the tests not be used.

The Chinese embassy in Spain claimed the Bioeasy products are not included in the products China has been supplying to countries where the virus has broken out.

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Originally posted by AirmanJeff:

Kevin Durant

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Originally posted by Tn226:
Newsflash - It's all Trumps fault

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Originally posted by tleddy:
The best COVID 19 summary I have seen:

WSJ, March 27, 2020, Page R3

Excellent!

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Originally posted by bdylan:
The take away for leftist will be that if they scare the populace bad enough, society will embrace the nanny state. This thread illustrates how effective it is even among somewhat conservative folks.

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Originally posted by bdylan:
The take away for leftist both sides of the aisle will be that if they scare the populace bad enough, society will embrace the nanny state. This thread illustrates how effective it is even among somewhat conservative folks.