The exchange happened during a congress of Mr Erdogan's AK Party
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (click here) has been criticised after telling a girl in military uniform that she would be honoured if killed while fighting.
"If she's martyred, they'll lay a flag on her," he told the sobbing girl at a televised congress of his AK Party.
His supporters cheered "Chief! Take us to Afrin!", in reference to Turkey's operations against Kurdish fighters in Syria's northern Afrin region.
The speech has been described as "child abuse" and a glorification of death.
In the event, broadcast live on state television, the young girl dressed as a soldier seems to catch the attention of Mr Erdogan, who then invites her to the stage....
Donald Trump enjoys the idea of having the power that can cause death. He does not care about the lives of Americans or anyone else for that matter. In case the Trump speechwriters haven't noticed there is a global spike in cases because the USA is setting such a lousy example and calling the World Health Organization "Fake News."
From the beginning of the global pandemic, Trump's agenda was to eliminate the influence of medical professionals. These tactics have existed throughout this administration in most agencies of the federal government. Trump needs to admit his strategy to reclaim the USA from the clutches of SARS-CoV-2 to date has not worked and opening the country will only prove more bad decision making.
22.06.20
The World Health Organization (click here) has reported its highest single-day rise in new cases, as global testing efforts are ramped up. In Germany, the R-rate has spiked 60% to 2.88. Follow DW for the latest....
The R-rate is also known as "R naught" and has yet to enter the dialogue of COVID-19 in the USA.
...Three possibilities (click here) exist for the potential transmission or decline of a disease, depending on its R0 value:
- If R0 is less than 1, each existing infection causes less than one new infection. In this case, the disease will decline and eventually die out.
- If R0 equals 1, each existing infection causes one new infection. The disease will stay alive and stable, but there won’t be an outbreak or an epidemic.
- If R0 is more than 1, each existing infection causes more than one new infection. The disease will be transmitted between people, and there may be an outbreak or epidemic....
While the WHO is alarmed at the one day increase globally, it is not happening globally so much as "certain" countries and the USA tops that list. Spain has made the leap of faith to open it's borders again after their daily cases are nearing single digits.
Graph (click here)
Trump's pathology has denied the very poor performance of the administration since the early cases of COVID-19 were exposed. Trump put a false face on this from the beginning in hoping to hide this virus in the statistics of the flu and only focusing on the jet from China as the only known case of Americans. Trump's "strategy of denial" has failed.If this was a sincere war, the US Congress would be asking for his resignation and begin hearings to the lack of an exit strategy to end the war. Instead of having rock-solid reasons to open the USA, Trump demands the testing to end because that is the only reason there is a growing number of cases reported as if all the new cases were benign and absent of symptoms.
Trump is wrong and the possibility of opening schools is nearly upon us. Children must be protected. Children do not have magical immunity to the virus.
19 June 2020
...Swiss health officials (click here) have insisted that young kids are not vectors of infection or transmission.
“Based on the current knowledge, few children get infected with the Covid-19 virus”, Daniel Koch, former head of the infectious diseases unit at the Federal Office of Public Health said in April.
But there have been cases in Switzerland and elsewhere of children dying of Covid-19.
At the end of May, an infant died in a Zurich hospital, after contracting the virus while in Macedonia.
Also in May, a nine-year-old boy, with an underlying health condition, died in France from the Kawasaki-like disease believed to be linked to coronavirus....
June 20, 2020
In a shocking admission (click here) during his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday night, President Donald Trump said he had told officials in his administration to slow down coronavirus testing because of the rising number of cases in America, and used a racist term to describe the coronavirus.
“You know testing is a double-edged sword,” Trump said while complaining about media coverage of his handling of the virus. He said that the US has now tested some 25 million people. “Here’s the bad part… when you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people; you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down please.”
At another point during the rally, he said Covid-19 has more names than any other disease: “I can name Kung Flu,” he said using the racist term, “I can name 19 different versions of them.”...
Racism and blaming the media when he should be blaming himself for the failure of his strategy. Everything he says is propaganda and endangers American quality of life and life itself. If that is not pathological, don't ask me what is?
