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Demi's thoughts:
Most likely virulent but not actually very deadly. But people will panic especially since the media have been sensationalising the spread in China. The spread is essentially unstoppable. Governments need people to be more concerned about hygiene and mass gatherings while not inducing a full blown panic, which explains a) the mixed signals and b) why almost all of them are not seriously testing for it.
There are countries who haven't seriously tested for it with much traffic from China (Hong Kong) and you don't see people dying in significant numbers. The Italians have bluntly said that the only reason why they are 'discovering' many cases is simply because they are bothering to seriously test for it. Otherwise it would have gone mostly unnoticed.Last edited by demi-conservative; 02-27-2020, 12:14 PM.Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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Covid-19 Infects Iranian Vice President, Kills Iran Ambassador To Vatican
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...ed-coronavirusAtheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by demi-conservative View PostThe CDC was perfectly correct in what it said, which is that a community spread of the coronavirus is most likely to happen, and these are likely measures that business and schools should prepare to carry out. Many developed countries around the world are a) not able to prevent community spread and b) enacting similar measures. Maxvel is reasoning along the same lines at his own individual level.
It's simply a sober judgment.
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Originally posted by seanD View PostIn all honesty, I'm more concerned about how government will react to (or how they'll exploit) this situation than I am of the virus itself.Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.
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Originally posted by demi-conservative View PostWhy? You can't do anything about the government, but you might be able to protect yourself from the virus.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
Snopes: Did Trump Fire the US Pandemic Response Team? TRUE:
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Trump also cut funding for the CDC, forcing the CDC to cancel its efforts to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics in 39 of 49 countries in 2018. Among the countries abandoned? China. ..."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by seanD View PostIn all honesty, I'm more concerned about how government will react to (or how they'll exploit) this situation than I am of the virus itself."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Dimbulb View PostDo you get paid by number of false breitbart stories posted to this forum?
Snopes: Did Trump Fire the US Pandemic Response Team? TRUE]
They're selling the same distorted narrative as the Democrats. If you had bothered to actually read the Breitbart story, you world have noted that it was about the Associated Press independently verifying something that Breitbart had reported earlier.
It's true that Bolton eliminated the Ebola response team because they were no longer needed, but the CDC is bigger than that, and they have the money, personnel, and procedures in place to handle the current situation.
But seriously, man, Snopes? You need better sources.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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The administration has put it into Pence's hands... Pence is infamous for letting a preventable epidemic occur in his home state when he was governor by refusing to fund an appropriate response. Guess he prefers to pray things away instead.
The markets responded to Trump's announcement by plummeting, so people are obviously convinced he's got it under control."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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New England Journal of medicine says that the coronavirus may be no worse than a bad season flu.
"[T]he overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively."https://www.breitbart.com/health/202...orse-than-flu/Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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