The virus came from China. I don't see how that's wrong to say
Of course you do.
Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks
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#92The virus came from China. I don't see how that's wrong to say
Of course you do.
I fail to see how stating the country of origin is racist. I've seen some people refer to it as "Kung Flu", which is clearly and obviously racist. The argument that associating a virus to it's country of origin is wrong makes no sense to me at all
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel already damaged listening to Trump for over one hour. Watch the update yourself and you will hear it 1:1. I do not want to go thru that torture again! All his "update" could be compressed in one short paragraph. Maybe one day I will propose a Trump compression algorithm as his vocabulary is very limited and he keeps repeating the same nonsense a million times hoping on inducing some hypnotonic effect in his lo…
Low-IQ is not a choice. Mocking people for having a lower IQ is the same as mocking someone born without an arm or a leg or any other sort of genetic or birth defect that one has no control over. Those who suffer from mental retardation have low IQ. Should they not be spoken to in a way they can understand? Trump recognizes that everyone in the country has vastly different levels of intelligence, and speaks in a way…
You clearly understand I was not referring to people with medical conditions. He doesn't say anything meaningful and definitely does not do it so that people with disabilities can get him. If that was his strategy, he would speak slowly, and not go in circles and confuse everybody, and force his people to publish clarifications after all the confusion he brings us with his TV appearances!
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#94The virus came from China. I don't see how that's wrong to say
Of course you do.
I also don't see wrong stating the origin of something - French wine, Spanish wine, Chinese virus. I am Bulgarian and on the national TV, everybody calls it "the Chinese virus". There no acts against the many Chinese living in Bulgaria. Even doctors use it - Lyme disease, Marseilles fever, West Nile virus, etc. So, it's a matter of mentality, not how you call the virus. It is the same low-IQ crowd, which discriminate Americns from Chinese ancestry due to some name!
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#95The virus came from China. I don't see how that's wrong to say
Don’t you feel like you’ve lost all self-respect when you joined this cult that continually requires you to pretend to be stupid?
Re: Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is enough for 14 days for ~50,000 people at 1/day. It seems like huge overkill when stated as a single number, but two weeks is a reasonable amount to plan for, especially for reserves at a time when the supply chain is stressed. I wish our hospitals' administration had as much foresight. I think this crisis is making it clear that management in health care is vastly overpaid.
It truly is insane how quickly the severity of the crisis ramped up. Monday co-workers on slack were messaging how the flu was more of a worry, after Wednesday it was mandatory work from home. And it truly feels like medical authorities were as caught off guard as the rest of us. Who was on guard duty? Was no one monitoring the situation? No one thought to increase production of PPE or RNA tests?
I think this single news story is the best answer to your question:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-n...
My other comment on this was flagged, which had far more links. I'm not 100% sure why it was flagged other than the voting revealed it to be very controversial.
Re: Facebook donates emergency reserve of 720k masks
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course you do.
I also don't see wrong stating the origin of something - French wine, Spanish wine, Chinese virus. I am Bulgarian and on the national TV, everybody calls it "the Chinese virus". There no acts against the many Chinese living in Bulgaria. Even doctors use it - Lyme disease, Marseilles fever, West Nile virus, etc. So, it's a matter of mentality, not how you call the virus. It is the same low-IQ crowd, which discriminate…
I see President Trump's tweet from 7:19 AM - Mar 27, 2020 after chatting to President Xi now refers to "the CoronaVirus" and "the Virus".
[I am not sure about all the capitalisation - we aren't speaking German (yet).]