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UPDATE:

News reports are that Russia is sending medical specialists to Italy to help with the outbreak there:

The Russian Defense Ministry said that military transport planes would deliver eight mobile brigades of military medics, special disinfection vehicles and other medical equipment to Italy from Sunday. Russia will also send about 100 military specialists in virology and epidemics, the Interfax news agency cited the defense ministry as saying.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-italy-idUSKBN219081

Would Russia send this aid if they were fighting their own secret epidemic?

Or do they recognize that controlling the epidemic in Italy helps everyone including Russia?

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From what I’ve read Fauci disagrees with you.

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What does he know? :roll_eyes:

Don’t you know there are experts here.

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More likely scenario…the average Russian doesn’t have enough money to buy food, let alone travel anywhere.

How do you think the US got it? Patient zero traveled to the epicenter of this disaster in China, then came back to the Seattle, Washington and it spread from there.

Since the average Russian can’t travel, they can’t get it. Simple enough.

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Since the Russian abandoned Communism, there are plenty of Russians with money and the ability to travel.

I visited Rome in January a few years ago and heard many people speaking Russian. They like to the go to Italy to avoid the Russian winter.

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The whole world should speak Russian.

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I shouldn’t say nothing…I should say mathematically they don’t buy you much time because community spread eventually swamps any effect they have.

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I’m pretty sure that was the total testing capacity for the entire country.

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In Mother Russia, Russian speaks you.

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Of course you are.

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Regardless they have plenty of tourists that come into Moscow but the Russians I am pretty sure were the first that implemented the travel ban from and to China.

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Of course I am because that’s what the excerpt said.

78 labs across 50 states with the capacity to test 75,000 people.

I can’t see how any reasonable person would read that as anything differently than the total testing capability.

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UPDATE:

Russia admits to a growing outbreak in Moscow:

The situation with the spread of the coronavirus has entered a new stage. More than 1,000 cases of have been recorded in Moscow already. . .A week-long holiday is currently in force across Russia in a bid to stifle the spread of Covid-19. It started on Saturday.

https://www.rt.com/russia/484401-covid-19-spread-in-moscow/

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This virus is going to reveal so many weaknesses in all forms of our society.

None more so than the human desire to cover up bad news.

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Those kits has patient sampling for four to five hundred patients.

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Bill you may be on to something. Good post

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That is promising.

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Their authoritarian government can whip people into line quickly. A little more difficult some enclaves of the progressive minds

Q. How many people does it take to change a lightbulb in a progressive city?

A. Twelve — four to approve the request; one to hold the light bulb, four to turn the ladder, and three to enforce compliance regulations.

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They might have just killed anyone with it or sent them to Siberia.

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Russia’s policies appear to have delayed the arrival of the epidemic, but they have been forced to extend the shutdown in Moscow until May 1.