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Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is that the bar for preventing a pandemic? I guess it makes sense if you're generally okay with sanctions: killing off a population slowly to force unrest. However, I just don't see why this is the requirement for something that won't be regionally restricted. It's cutting your nose to spite your face.
No, it's cutting off someone else's nose to spite their face. Big difference.
Unless it spreads, as pandemics like to do.
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#44Iranian 'supreme leader' playbook: 1) Find out about disease outbreak before elections. 2) Tell your people that the reports are a Western conspiracy to lower turnout. (e.g. [0]) 3) Get utterly shocked when people die. How could you have known!? [0] https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1231530523740266496
The turnouts were very low this time because they allowed only conservative candidates to run, they have enough ways to rig their elections they'll do #2 just for fun tho.
True that. The point is that the Iranian authorities knew in advance about the disease, yet underplayed it so that the already low turnout won't be lower.
Not only that, they kept regular civilian flights to China upto a few days ago while nearly everyone else was restricting flight.
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#45With the 150+ Italian cases (3 dead), it's probably safe to say that the virus is out of our control... which we probably never had. https://apnews.com/32540d09ec101aac057660ef1b0aa970
Try 215 cases and 4 deaths
A fifth death has just been confirmed, sadly.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy-death/...
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#46According to this video[1], there are speculations that given its high mortality rate, the virus in Iran has mutated.
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#47Is it time to start treating this like a big deal yet? Their first case was three weeks ago and 50 deaf already? This virus is unprecedented and it is only responsible for individuals with means to start preparing. No reason to wait for the government to tell you to do so. Plus each person that does it early is one less for the potential store rush.
I don’t know in what way it isn’t treated as a big deal. There are daily updates from every country; the news covers the epidemic in detail; China quarantined tens of millions of people; major trade shows are being cancelled. Unless you literally mean bubonic-plague levels of panic, I’m not sure what else remains to be done in places where the disease has not yet fully spread.
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#49This 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.
That seems mildly optimistic. Fear of corona (an invisible enemy) seems to increase xenophobia overall.
Hell in the Ukraine they were throwing rocks at busses repatriating their own countrymen who had caught corona virus
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#50Around 99% of the patients developed a high temperature, while more than half experienced fatigue and a dry cough. About a third also experienced muscle pain and difficulty breathing. Research from the Chinese Center for Disease Control suggests that around 80% of coronavirus cases are mild. Around 15% of patients have gotten severe cases, and 5% have become critically ill. Here's how symptoms progress among typical…
Are you aware if there is any data yet on what proportion of recoveries will experience lasting lung/other damage? For example, is the permanent lung damage seen so far (which I've only anecdotally read about, I must admit) mostly related to ARDS?