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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
None of which changes my point. It is not possible for people to be hysterically overreacting and simultaneously playing it down as nothing to worry about.
Faith was just parroting the party line with her usual disregard for the truth.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: No, Trump was still playing it down even then. That’s what his complaints were about.
quote: What? Seriously the disease was not rife among Chinese-Americans. And she did it because people were avoiding Chinatown. Without good cause. Chinatown was no worse than anywhere else.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: But not that often. Pelosi went there in late February. Trump was still saying that he wasn’t worried by the virus in early March. And, I’ll note that it’s New York where the problem started getting really bad, not San Francisco.
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quote: Trump does a very good job of making himself into the bad guy. But Trump’s hoax speech was 28th February. After Pelosi’s Chinatown visit. Trump was saying that figures of 35,000 to 40,000 deaths in the US were overblown. There were 1800 deaths recorded yesterday, and the total is already at 13,000.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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And I bet that a lot of them are not ethnic Chinese. With China being such a major manufacturing centre there is quite a bit of business travel.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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It turns out that the virus in New York mainly came in from Europe, not China.
NYT
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
November is really early, and if the virus had been freely spreading it ought to have been noticed. So it’s almost certainly a winter cold or flu.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
That’s nearly two months before the first recorded cases in the US. Unless one of them had been to Wuhan or closely associated with someone who had, I can’t see it as likely at all.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
I think that November is too early for anywhere but Wuhan to be a likely source. Italy didn’t have any recorded cases until late January.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: The point of that is to slow the spread so we don’t get a lot of bad cases at once. You said that Levin complained that other medical treatments were being neglected. How will more coronavirus cases help that ? Intensive care places are limited. Ventilators are limited. If we run out people will die because of it, In fact that British government were following the strategy of letting the virus spread. They realised that it wasn’t going to work. Maybe that initial strategy is the reason why Britain had 980 deaths yesterday - neither Italy or Spain have reported such a high figure.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: Healthy people die of coronavirus, too. If we run out of respirators more of them will die.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3
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Ars Technica reports on a study that finds that Fox viewers who preferred Sean Hannity over Tucker Carlson were more likely to catch the coronavirus. Hannity played down the threat from the virus up until mid-March while Carlson warned of it from January.
The consequence is that Carlson’s viewers took action to avoid infection a little earlier than other Fox viewers, while Hannity’s viewers were noticeably later than the average Fox viewer. Hannity viewers were more likely to catch - and die of - COVID-19.
Whether Fox News planned to conduct this experiment or not, it does elegantly show that dis- or misinformation during a public health emergency costs lives. Edited by Admin, : Fix link and quote.
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