Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
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Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#2> “No one is qualified to discuss this sort of news at all,” Haririchi said
This almost made me laugh out loud, tragic though any deaths and disablement are. It does seem to get to the heart of the matter, and not just in Iran either.
Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#3> “No one is qualified to discuss this sort of news at all,” Haririchi said This almost made me laugh out loud, tragic though any deaths and disablement are. It does seem to get to the heart of the matter, and not just in Iran either.
Sounds like a slightly mangled quote - I think he's saying that no-one outside of the ministry has access to the Coronavirus mortality figures, so the lawmaker is presumably pulling the figures out of his butt.
Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#4This would be a fantastic time for the US to drop its bs rhetoric, work with Iran, and save lives both there and in the rest of the world.
Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#5> “No one is qualified to discuss this sort of news at all,” Haririchi said This almost made me laugh out loud, tragic though any deaths and disablement are. It does seem to get to the heart of the matter, and not just in Iran either.
Sounds like a slightly mangled quote - I think he's saying that no-one outside of the ministry has access to the Coronavirus mortality figures, so the lawmaker is presumably pulling the figures out of his butt.
The immediate sentence following gp’s out of context quote:
> adding that lawmakers have no access to coronavirus statics and could be mixing figures on deaths related to other diseases like the flu with the new virus, which first emerged in China in December.
So, not necessarily out of his butt, could be mixed up.
In any case, 12 dead out of 61 (a quickly rising figure) is already terrible.
Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#6Fucking hell, these politicians are as much a virus as the virus itself. 100% that number was pulled straight from their hindquarters.
Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#7This would be a fantastic time for the US to drop its bs rhetoric, work with Iran, and save lives both there and in the rest of the world.
This would be a fantastic time for Iran to drop it's bs sponsorship of Hezbollah, Assad, Shiite militias, Houthi rebels, work with the US, and save lives both there and in the rest of the world.
Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#8This would be a fantastic time for the US to drop its bs rhetoric, work with Iran, and save lives both there and in the rest of the world.
This would be a fantastic time for Iran to drop it's bs sponsorship of Hezbollah, Assad, Shiite militias, Houthi rebels, work with the US, and save lives both there and in the rest of the world.
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Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#9> Health Ministry spokesman Iraj Harirchi rejected the Qom lawmaker’s claims, insisting the death toll from the virus remains at 12.
Who to trust?
Re: Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
#10> “No one is qualified to discuss this sort of news at all,” Haririchi said This almost made me laugh out loud, tragic though any deaths and disablement are. It does seem to get to the heart of the matter, and not just in Iran either.
50 deaths mean nothing if you don't have the number of deaths due to more classic strains to compare it against.