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My daughter and I just had this conversation: Her: "They just declared a global health emergency over Coronavirus." Me: "Who did." Her: "The World Health Organization." Me: "That's what I said."
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I really wonder if I made myself unemployable in China because I posted this. How far does the censoring actually go?
It goes far enough that your concern is valid. Since HN is not exactly mainstream and many Chinese people are posting similar kinds of videos, you're probably okay in this case. However, if you want to make honest comments about China online and still want to travel there, I highly recommend that you post anonymously.
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That's the mortality rate in the US. Worldwide it's much higher and goes up to 600,000 deaths annually.
Yes, and for Cononavirus, it will be even more.
This thread is full of cringeworthy doomsdayers and armchair epidemiologists throwing around unsubstantiated nonsense. When your only knowledge of this comes from the media people should be a bit more selfaware.
The fact that qAnon folks are all over this and one day old accounts turning up saying millions will die speaks volumes for the level of discourse here.
Bet on the above comment stands for anyone. $1000 USD sound ok? Put your money where your mouth is.
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Any idea what the rates are for the corona virus?
The official figures in China are 8,163 cases 171 deaths which is 2% right now, but take these with a big grain of salt. They could go up (some of those confirmed cases will be very recent and may get worse) or down (more cases might have happened but be unreported). Its really hard to tell what it will look like in a month or two.
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Indeed. China’s medical system is primitive by comparison. They have shiny highways and trains, but hospitals are overcrowded and underfunded.
...because they are not for profit so people can actually afford to get help even if they are poor
For those who are referencing the flu and it's mortality rate here are estimates from the CDC for 2019 * 15,000,000 – 21,000,000 who had the flu * 8,200 – 20,000 deaths from the flu The morality rate ranges from 0.03% to 0.09% or 3/10000 9/10000 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
My daughter and I just had this conversation: Her: "They just declared a global health emergency over Coronavirus." Me: "Who did." Her: "The World Health Organization." Me: "That's what I said."
You were incorrect. Your daughter said “The W.H.O.” where as you only said “Who”
Sorry if I took you away from fact checking open mic night. :-D
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How is locking down an entire city "poor containment". Find it staggering to insinuate that were it originating in Western countries we'd do the same?
> How is locking down an entire city "poor containment". Because it followed a week of ignoring the issue and then another week of arresting people who were reporting on the issue. This has been an issue since December 28th, but China and the WHO are pretending it began just recently. It's "containment" in much the same way that the Soviet Union just couldn't stop lying about Chernobyl because people miles away were…
5 have been arrested in Malaysia and 2 in Thailand also, have read the viral fake news they wrote and have no problems with their arrest at all.
In the shadier parts of the internet I'm already seeing services for ruining your competitors with viral social media fear campaigns.
r/Australia has a big sticky of all the nonsense being peddled in the country and the NSW health department is constantly having to repudiate popularly shared content. The bullshit asymmetry principle at work.
> China finally moved when it realized the problem could not be swept under the rug
Again, if this outbreak was in the US or Northern Europe, would they _move_ as quickly? Would huge cities be quarantined? Find it incredibly hard to believe.
It's 2020, hiding things a la Chernobyl is not so easy. I think they are doing a half decent job given the circumstances and it's just the usual China bashing by people who have absolutely no idea about the country and only knowledge comes from the newsmedia
My daughter and I just had this conversation: Her: "They just declared a global health emergency over Coronavirus." Me: "Who did." Her: "The World Health Organization." Me: "That's what I said."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_on_First%3F >The premise of the sketch is that Abbott is identifying the players on a baseball team for Costello, but their names and nicknames can be interpreted as non-responsive answers to Costello's questions. For example, the first baseman is named "Who"; thus, the utterance "Who's on first" is ambiguous between the question ("Which person is the first baseman?") and the ans…