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Sunday, September 1, 2024

China, Philippines accuse each other of ramming ships in South China Sea

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China, Philippines accuse each other of ramming ships in South China Sea

The collision near the Sabina Shoal was their fifth maritime confrontation in a month in a longstanding rivalry.
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Friday, December 1, 2023

Children in China, Ohio and Denmark are getting a Bacterial Pneumonia and going to the hospital

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Mycoplasma pneumonia is caused by a bacterium that can spread through droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. The bacterium can linger in the nose and throat without making a person sick, but people may develop pneumonia if it spreads to the lungs.9 hours ago

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What is mycoplasma pneumonia, the illness driving an outbreak in Ohio?

China and Denmark have also reported outbreaks of mycoplasma pneumonia, a respiratory illness caused by bacteria.
A man holds a child suffering from a respiratory illness.
Parents with children who are suffering from respiratory illnesses at a children's hospital in Chongqing, China, on Nov. 23.Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images


    • By Aria Bendix and Jessica Herzberg

    An Ohio county is experiencing a pediatric outbreak of pneumonia, including a number of cases of mycoplasma pneumonia, the illness that has driven recent outbreaks among children in Denmark and China.

    The Warren County Health District said Thursday that it has had an unusually high number of pediatric pneumonia cases this fall: 145 since August. The average patient is around 8 years old, according to the district, and the most common symptoms have been cough, fever and fatigue. No deaths have been reported, and the illnesses are no more severe than in previous years, the district said in a news release.

    At the same time, cases of mycoplasma pneumonia have reached epidemic levels in Denmark and contributed to a surge of hospital admissions in China. Taiwan’s health ministry said Thursday that older adults, young children and people with poor immunity should avoid travel to mainland China, Hong Kong or Macao because of the rise in respiratory illnesses there, which also include rises in flu, adenovirus and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been communicating with its colleagues in China “to make sure that we’re understanding the situation there,” its director, Dr. Mandy Cohen, said Thursday at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing. 

    “We do not believe this is a new or novel pathogen,” she said.

    The Warren County Health District also said it didn’t suspect a new or novel respiratory virus was driving the outbreak and noted that “there has been zero evidence of this outbreak being connected to other outbreaks, either statewide, nationally or internationally.”

    What is mycoplasma pneumonia?

    Mycoplasma pneumonia is caused by a bacterium that can spread through droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes. The bacterium can linger in the nose and throat without making a person sick, but people may develop pneumonia if it spreads to the lungs. 

    Mycoplasma pneumonia is often a milder form of pneumonia, but its symptoms may last longer. Cases tend to peak every three to seven years in the U.S.

    “It’s sometimes referred to as ‘walking pneumonia,’ which means you have pneumonia but you’re not sick enough to be in the hospital,” said Dr. James Cutrell, an associate professor of infectious diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

    In older kids and adults, initial mycoplasma infections usually resemble chest colds and may include sore throats, fevers, headaches or worsening coughing that lasts for weeks to months, according to the CDC. Children under age 5 often develop cold-like symptoms, such as sneezing, stuffy noses, sore throats, diarrhea or vomiting.

    Young children are more likely to have severe cases that progress to pneumonia, particularly if their immune systems are weak or they’ve never been exposed to the bacterium before. Symptoms of pneumonia — which include cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, fever and chills — usually develop one to four weeks after someone is infected.

    The World Health Organization said last week that China has reported an increase in children’s being hospitalized with mycoplasma pneumonia since May. 

    Cases in Denmark have also risen since the summer, according to the Statens Serum Institut, a Copenhagen-based research group that's part of the Danish Ministry of Health.

    It said Wednesday that mycoplasma pneumonia cases have risen significantly over the last five weeks. Denmark recorded 541 new cases in the week ending Nov. 26 — more than triple the number recorded three weeks previously.

    Sweden, Switzerland and Singapore have also recorded more than 100 cases each from April through September, according to a study published last week in The Lancet Microbe.

    Why are outbreaks happening now?

    Infectious disease experts said the outbreaks are cause for increased surveillance — but not panic — in the U.S.

     

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    Friday, June 9, 2023

    The Countries most at risk for Human extinction caused by Artificial Intelligence are China, Russia and the U.S.

    The main Reason China and Russia are at risk from AI human extinction of everyone in their countries is pretty simple: The general lack of oversight and checks and balances.

    The main reason the U.S. is at risk is people who think a lot like Trump who are paranoid and more likely to be armed to the teeth because of their paranoia to begin with.

    However, the victims of Artificial intelligence will be "All Life on Earth".

    How this will unfold is anyone's guess at this point? However, AI Death from the skies from Drones that are Autonomous is my best guess starting around 2050 to 2070 to where only 1 billion people or less are still alive by 2099 and most of them live underground without any cell phones with GPS to target them from Drones that are War Drones in the Sky that can loiter waiting for individual people that they want to target with missiles or hand grenades for 24 hours at present but by then they might stay up there a week or more using helium or hydrogen balloons to stay aloft longer air times. 

    And I think the civilian populations in China and Russia or even North Korea will be the first to be completely driven extinct by AI powered Autonomous drones. No one will be able to come out from under the ground when these things are aloft around the world. Because they will wait as long as they have to day or night and since these things have night vision and radar there will be no way to escape them above ground for any living thing.

    Also, they could be the size of a B-52 Bomber or as small as a fly and be lethal to mankind in various ways. Imagine 1 million artificial flies taking out whole countries with diseases or small lasers. And they wouldn't just take out humans they likely would take out all wildlife too.

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    Sunday, August 16, 2020

    Yes, the virus has mutated since it was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December last year

    Yes, the virus has mutated since it was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December last year. And yes, certain mutations are more common in different parts of the world.
    But so far, these haven't made a material difference in how we should be fighting the virus, says Kanta Subbarao, a virologist at the Doherty Institute.
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    https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-08-15/coronavirus-new-strains-mutation-vaccine-headlines/12519576
    So, as travelers from the world travel to other countries (except for people with U.S. Passports) you can expect most or all of these virus variations to be moving around the world to various random places over time. And likely eventually all virus variations will be in some part of the 50 states here too because of all the people traveling the world now too.
    Most countries now prevent people from the U.S. and Brazil from going there because we have more tested cases than anywhere else now on earth.
    However, this doesn't mean that this is really true it just means our nation is more honest about how many cases we have tested positive.
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    Sunday, August 2, 2020

    as you can see the floods are devastating most of southern Asia in Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, S. Korea and others

    My son was telling me that the last 5 years have kind of been like a drought in Asia but this year hundreds and thousands of people are dying and being flooded out in Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, S. Korea and other countries in the region as well. This in addition to killing a whole lot of people by drowning them is making their lives impossible and giving a whole lot more people coronavirus as well in the interim. So, this is serious on many different levels at once and could bring down local or national governments in a time of coronavirus. Starvation is an even bigger problem than Coronavirus in these times as well in Asia and all over the world.
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    Thursday, April 30, 2020

    5G and Coronavirus appear to still be a problem in Wuhan, China

    This is very bad news for all the states opening early now in the U.S. Just remember people started dying in Wuhan in November and December of 2019.

    This is now 6 months later and there are still problems in Wuhan, China. And likely so will there be 6 months from the first deaths in Los Angeles which were not directly connected to China on February 6th. So, since our first non-directly connected to China case (where the people hadn't been there anytime recently) was on February 6th 2020 and February 15th 2020 are autopsies recently found let's take it 6 months out which would be Late August of 2020. So, just like 6 months out from patient Zero on November 17th 2019 in Wuhan is around now.

    So, August is going to be our 6 months out from I believe it was Santa Clara county where the autopsies were done on two deaths, one on February 6th and one on February 15th of 2020 that autopsies proved were due to coronavirus without those people ever going to China.

    So, it was out and about in the Bay Area by February 6th 2020.
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    Friday, October 11, 2019

    China, Trump and Putin are consummate liars

    So, you really cannot believe "ANYTHING" that is said by China or Trump or Putin on the world stage. They all have consistently proven themselves to liars about anything relevant to the human race.

    This makes it very difficult for everyone who lives on earth now. IN some ways it makes life on earth worse than what people experienced during World war II. Because lies kill always at this point and in every point  in human history.

    The combination of China, Putin and Trump cause the deaths of 1/2 of the population of Earth this century. I theorize as an intuitive that 1 to 4 billion people will be removed from the total population of earth by all their actions at this point by 2100. So, basically you can expect earth to have 1/2 of the  level people they presently have alive and maybe 1/4 of the wild life presently alive or less as well because of all of them by 2100. However, in real terms this might mean 8 to 10 billion total deaths during this reduction of the number of people alive on earth by 2100 in order to wind up with 4 billion people or less alive by 2100.
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    Tuesday, July 23, 2019

    Warplanes from Japan, China, Russia and South Korea face off in Asian confrontation

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    Warplanes from four countries faced off Tuesday in a chaotic and unprecedented confrontation above a small, disputed island ...

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    • a bird flying in the sky: South Korean air forces F-15 fly in formation during the media day of the 65th South Korea Armed Forces Day ceremony on September 25, 2017 in Pyeongteak.
    • a helicopter flying in the air: A Beriev A-50 airborne early warning and control training aircraft flies over Moscow during the dress rehearsal of a Victory Day air show.
    • Vladimir Putin, Moon Jae-in are posing for a picture: Russian President Vladimir Putin and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka on June 28.
    a bird flying in the sky: South Korean air forces F-15 fly in formation during the media day of the 65th South Korea Armed Forces Day ceremony on September 25, 2017 in Pyeongteak.
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    South Korean air forces F-15 fly in formation during the media day of the 65th South Korea Armed Forces Day ceremony on September 25, 2017 in Pyeongteak.
    Warplanes from four countries faced off Tuesday in a chaotic and unprecedented confrontation above a small, disputed island off the coast of South Korea and Japan.
    South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a statement claiming they had fired more than 300 warning shots at a Russian A-50 command and control military aircraft early Tuesday morning after it had twice violated the country's airspace, the first such incident between the countries.
    Moscow furiously denied Seoul's account of the encounter, claiming that South Korean military jets had dangerously intercepted two of its bombers during a planned flight over neutral waters.
    But in a statement Tuesday afternoon, Japan's Ministry of Defense backed up South Korea's claims, saying the A-50 had flown over the islands and that Tokyo had scrambled fighters to intercept.
    In a further complication, both South Korea and Japan said that two Chinese H-6 bombers had joined the Russian military aircraft on sorties through the region as well.
    The confrontation took place over disputed islands in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
    The two, small islands, known to the Koreans as Dokdo and to the Japanese as Takeshima, are claimed by both countries.
    What triggered the confrontation or why the planes were in the region is unclear, but analysts said the mission may have been designed by Russia to draw out South Korean and Japanese aircraft for intelligence gathering purposes.
    "This mission will have given them a comprehensive map of the (South Korean) national air defense system," said Peter Layton, a former Royal Australian Air Force pilot and analyst at the Griffith Asia Institute.

    Chaos in the skies

    The incident came during what South Korean officials have claimed was a joint Russian-Chinese military exercise.
    According to South Korea, two Chinese H-6 bombers passed into Seoul's Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) beginning from 6.44 a.m., joined by two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers.
    The four planes then entered the KADIZ together at about 8.40 a.m. and remained there for 24 minutes.
    Airspace is defined as the area 12 nautical miles from a country's borders, which falls entirely under its control. An ADIZ is an area in which the controlling country demands identification, location and control of aircraft's direction, but doesn't necessarily have any rights of engagement under international law.
    South Korea's KADIZ was first established in 1950 and most recently adjusted by Seoul in 2013.
    After the KADIZ flyover, Seoul said a Russian A-50 flew above the contested islands first at 9.09 a.m. local time and then again at 9.33 a.m., each time for just a matter of minutes.
    In response, South Korea deployed F-15F and KF-16 fighter jets, the statement said, and fired 360 warning shots ahead of the Russian aircraft, 80 during the first violation and 280 during the second. The shots were fired using 20mm weapons, according to the country's Ministry of Defense.
    The South Korean military said they also sent out 30 warnings to the Russian plane but received no response. The A-50 is an unarmed AWACS plane, standing for Airborne Warning and Control System, designed for tracking and observation.
    In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed its aircraft had taken part in a "joint patrol" with Chinese long-range aircraft and said that they were conducting the "first joint air patrol using long range aircraft in the Asian-Pacific region."
    The statement said that two Russian Tu-95 bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers had conducted an air patrol over the waters of the Japan and East China Seas.
    It added that the patrol was "carried out in order to deepen and develop Russian-Chinese relations" and was "not aimed against third countries."
    Earlier in the day, the Defense Ministry furiously denied the South Korean reports and accused South Korean fighter pilots of acting inappropriately.
    "(They) conduced unprofessional maneuvers by crossing the course of Russian strategic missile carriers, threatening their security," the ministry said in the statement.
    "This is not the first time the South Korean pilots have unsuccessfully tried to prevent Russian aircraft from flying over the neutral waters," the Russian statement said, adding it didn't recognize South Korea's KADIZ.
    Although neither of those statements made any reference to the A-50, later on Tuesday, in an on-camera statement, the commander of the Russian Air Forces Long Range Aviation Lieutenant-General Sergey Kobylash said that the mission was "supported" by the A-50 and KJ-2000.
    He also denied that there was any "warning fire," from the South Korea fighters and said: "If Russian pilots had identified such a threat, an immediate adequate response would have followed."
    After Moscow released its initial statement, Japan confirmed it had also scrambled fighter jets in response to the Russian incursion Tuesday.
    "We confirmed Russia's A50 has invaded Japan's airspace while two of Russian TU-95 bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers flew around Japan. We took measures against the invasion," said a spokesman for the country's Ministry of Defense.
    When asked about the incident, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said they weren't aware of the details and referred the question to the Defense Department.
    "You used the word 'intrusion' and I'd caution against using such terms, considering China and South Korea are friendly neighbors and the situation is not clear yet," spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.

    War of words

    Chung Eui-yong, director of South Korea's National Security Office, said that he had sent a "strong" message of complaint to the Russian authorities over the incident.
    "We are taking this situation very seriously, and if this kind of action is repeated, we will take even stronger measures," Chung said, without detailing what those measures could be.
    The Japanese government said that it had issued a strong protest against both the Russian and the South Korean governments for intruding on what they regard as their airspace.
    The South Koreans said they had dismissed Japan's protests. Moscow has not responded to either country's concerns.
    Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the United States' Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center, said that shooting a warning shot in the air was "very very serious" and "very, very rare."
    Schuster said that the fact shots were fired meant Seoul had viewed the violation as a serious and deliberate act, adding he couldn't explain why the Russian plane would come back again after the first warning.
    "Penetrating to a point of requiring warning shots to turn away is normally the result of a deliberate decision to penetrate that airspace," he said.
    On Tuesday, Pentagon Spokesman Lt. Col. Dave Eastburn told CNN that the United States' is in "close coordination" with their Korean and Japanese allies and that the US "will continue to monitor activities as they follow up with their Russian and Chinese counterparts through diplomatic channels."
    "The United States' commitment to the defense of its allies is ironclad," he added.
    Though East Asia is riven by numerous, long-standing territorial disputes, Russia and South Korea rarely come into conflict.
    Top Russian and South Korean leaders at the G20 in Osaka, Japan, in June, where they praised their warming bilateral relations. Russian President Vladimir Putin said South Korea was "one of our key partners" in Asia.
    It is the second tense incident involving the Russian military in East Asia in less than two months. On June 8 two vessels from the United States and Russia almost collided in the Pacific, coming within 50 feet of each other.
    The exact location of the standoff wasn't clear but it was believed to take place in the waters off the coast of China.
    Relations between Beijing and Moscow have reached an "unprecedented" peak in the past year, according to Russia's Putin, including growing cooperation between their two militaries.
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