Iran's Rouhani refuses to allow a quarantine in spite of Iran's massive COVID-19 spread

Don't let the eye glasses fool you--this guy
is no genius

When people think that licking religious shrines will help protect them from coronavirus [COVID-19], they tend to contract coronavirus and pass it on to others who think in similar fashion. Thus, Iran reported the biggest single-day leap of coronavirus deaths.

To add stupidity to injury, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, ruled out a general quarantine as the pandemic runs amok, because he may be an idiot.

According to their reporting, Iran had over 100 coronavirus deaths Sunday. This was their biggest single-day increase in fatalities since the outbreak began. Many analysts believe that the actual numbers of cases and deaths are much higher than Iran reports, but even so, it has the fourth highest death toll in the world, in spite of some of their religious population licking shrines to ward off the evil virus.

Iran’s Health Ministry reported 113 new deaths, bringing the death toll to 724, and confirmed COVID-19 cases reached nearly 14,000. The country is considered the epicenter of the pandemic in the Middle East. [H/T Fox News]

In addition to ruling out a general quarantine, Rouhani on Sunday said the government was working to keep the nation’s borders open, leading one to believe that he has licked one shrine too many.

Iran blames the U.S. sanctions for why they are slow to adopt reasonable measures to slow the virus' spread. Other Middle East countries have imposed sweeping travel bans and canceled public events while calling on non-essential businesses to close for the coming weeks. Schools and universities have also been temporarily shuttered.

Iranian health officials expressed concerns that if the rapid rise in cases continues, health facilities might not be able to accommodate all the sick.

“If the trend continues, there will not be enough capacity,” Ali Reza Zali, who is leading Iran's campaign against the outbreak, was quoted as saying earlier by the state-run IRNA news agency.

Iran is believed to have around 110,000 hospital beds, of which 30,000 is in the capital, Tehran. Authorities have pledged to set up mobile clinics as needed.

Zali said that “many” of those who have died from the illness caused by the virus were otherwise healthy, a rare admission by local authorities that the virus does not only prey on the sick and elderly but can be fatal to otherwise healthy people.

Health Ministry figures show that while 55 percent of fatalities were in their 60s, some 15 percent were younger than 40, which was previously thought to be a relatively safer age in which to fight COVID-19.

The virus has infected over 150,000 people worldwide and killed more than 5,800. More than 70,000 people worldwide have recovered after being infected.

For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. Most people recover in a matter of weeks.

But the real "silver lining," according to PBS's Christiane Amanpour, is that in spite of all the misery and death, the huge reduction in global aircraft and other transportation, will decrease air pollution. That is a paraphrase, but she really said that.


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