The captain of that navy ship tested positive.
I’m sure that both parties have been discussing what his options are, including his return to leadership, and it’s not as if the Navy has an endless stockpile for CV captains.The Secretary of the Navy has insisted that the decision to relieve Cpt Crozier was his, and his alone, with no pressure or influence coming from the White House.
Taiwan offers masks and medical aid to foreign countries, angering Beijing.
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/worl...-angering-beijing/ar-BB12bcRe?ocid=spartandhp
People craft comfortable echo chambers and surround themselves with people with whom they share views, and these views get repeated over and over, creating the false sense that they are correct, and then when a view that doesn't conform to theirs is encountered, it's deemed incorrect because it isn't what they're so accustomed to seeing.And there in lies the problem of what you define as nonsense.
Which carrier is that? The Royal Navy doesn't have any operational carriers at moI imagine the Navy is now scrambling to send another carrier to the region to replace the Roosevelt, which is basically inoperable at this point. I also wonder if the Royal Navy sending one of their carriers to the region has anything to do with this, or if it’s just coincidence.
His pregnant fiancee has also tested positive.Yeah, a typical case of getting what you deserve.
Which carrier is that? The Royal Navy doesn't have any operational carriers at mo
His pregnant fiancee has also tested positive.
They have two, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, and the HMS Prince of Wales.Which carrier is that? The Royal Navy doesn't have any operational carriers at mo
I thought I remembered reading a tweet from the Royal Navy about it, but I can’t find it now. Maybe I dreamed itMontrose and Defender were already in the area having performed escorts during the latter part of 2019, they're redeploying into the Straits. Neither of our aircraft carriers are in the region, I think Queen Elizabeth is in the South China sea while Prince Charles is still parked at Portsmouth having its ears trimmed.
Neither of them are operational.They have two, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, and the HMS Prince of Wales.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft_carrier
I was sure that I read somewhere that the Queen Elizabeth was in or headed to the South China Sea. After some searching, turns out it was here that I read it, but that was in early January.
I thought I remembered reading a tweet from the Royal Navy about it, but I can’t find it now. Maybe I dreamed it
I don’t know where she is currently, if she’s still somewhere in the Pacific or Indian Oceans, or if she’s returned home.
Report: Pentagon Knew Of Possible Coronavirus Threat For Years
The Pentagon was aware of the likelihood of a pandemic brought on by a novel coronavirus years ago, predicting with startling accuracy shortages of masks, hospital beds and ventilators that could occur in an outbreak, according to a 2017 internal document reported by The Nation.
The 103-page document — which the magazine describes as an update to an earlier Defense Department pandemic influenza response plan — cites a novel respiratory illness as the "most likely and significant threat" in a pandemic situation.
The documents also warns that shortages of masks and ventilators would have a "significant impact on the availability of the global workforce."
"The intelligence community and the military were well aware of what could, and unfortunately, did happen" said Nation reporter Ken Klippenstein in an interview with NPR's All Things Considered.
Klippenstein reports that he obtained the document from a Pentagon official who requested anonymity. Klippenstein says the Pentagon has not responded to his requests for comment on the story.
Klippenstein told All Things Considered that within intelligence circles, a coronavirus has been viewed as a likely threat going back at least five years. And while President Trump has said the current COVID-19 pandemic "came out of nowhere," Klippenstein says it is "inconceivable that the White House did not receive this," referencing information contained in the 2017 Pentagon report.
Klippenstein adds," The threat of a highly transmissible pathogenic virus that targets the respiratory system, this was appreciated for at least the last 10 years."
The "USNORTHCOM Branch Plan 3560: Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Disease Response," as the document is titled, mentions past coronavirus outbreaks, including the MERS outbreak. The document notes that coronvavirus infections are also quite common worldwide.
Though unclassified, the Pentagon plan is an internal document intended to foresee the causes of and potentials hurdles to arise in a pandemic situation. It outlines scenarios that may arise during a global outbreak and options for how the military might respond. Within the document are also references to classified materials that could provide additional support to its conclusions.
The report's conclusions have foreshadowed many of the concerns currently being voiced by both elected officials and medical professionals over hospitals beds and medical equipment.
You have to blame the packed together fools outside.Wal-Mart changing their policies this weekend to limit the amount of people in the store at once, instead forcing them to stand packed together outside in a line, isn't quite the most clueless COVID-19 corporate feel good change I've seen.
But it is close.
Like him or not, why does he deserve it?Yeah, a typical case of getting what you deserve.
Like him or not, why does he deserve it?
In the UK queueing spaces outside supermarkets are marked on the ground with tape to help people stand 2m away from each other. Don't know what Wal-Mart are doing.You have to blame the packed together fools outside.
That was unwise, but I would stop a short of saying he deserves it. I get what you mean though.His ignorant stance about the situation? Kept on shaking hands?
They are doing that here. The Home Depot we've been going to has 'X's taped on the floor of where people should stand in line...doesn't mean people are following it though.In the UK queueing spaces outside supermarkets are marked on the ground with tape to help people stand 2m away from each other. Don't know what Wal-Mart are doing.
StayhomeStaysafeIn the UK queueing spaces outside supermarkets are marked on the ground with tape to help people stand 2m away from each other. Don't know what Wal-Mart are doing.
What do you mean by 'tapering off'? The general trend in the US looks very like it is tapering off to me, though clearly some states are better than others.http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
I'm not really seeing tapering off in any of the US states, and some of them have as much as a 20 day head start (depending on how you measure it) compared to CO. Doesn't bode well for how long we have to keep this up.
What do you mean by 'tapering off'? The general trend in the US looks very like it is tapering off to me, though clearly some states are better than others.
If anything, I'm surprised at how quickly the growth rate of new cases in the US is dropping. The US lockdown is working at least as well as the UK if not better, which does bode well for how long the current restrictions might last.