Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

[Intrepid]

Now the next phase of the pandemic is likely to begin, where the outbreak will take place in countries that have neither significant test capacities nor a meaningful reporting system. The numbers will look less bad, but people will experience terrible suffering.

 

[Jura The idiot]

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I quit reading right in the first sentence, after "The novel corona virus — as did the Japanese strike at Pearl Harbor— constitutes a sudden attack on the United States",
common "sudden attack", didn't you watch TV in 2020
Andrew Krepinevich is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the author of “

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now realized I had also mentioned Pearl Harbor Thursday at 3:30 PM

and seriously now, here's what I told a guy in Facebook Messenger:

in case it doesn't show, it's from March 30
"this year the Feds acted like as if the US had known in November of '41 six aircraft carriers sailed west, and the US would've done nothing except waiting for the bombardment if you know what I'm saying"

 

[Rettam Stacf]

This discovery, in conjunction with the Cambridge U research that categorizes the three major strains of coronavirus (Type A, B & C), may explain why Europe is hit so much harder than China and other Asian countries that went through the virus infection earlier, and why New York is hit so much harder than the West Coast states.

Worth reading.

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[localizer]

The fact that pretty much all of the anti-China propaganda people are also conspiracy theorists (blahblahblah bioweapon, 5G, gates, soros, jews, deep state, WHO, illuminati ...) should tell you something about the intentions of their anti-China rhetoric.

Indeed there is no shortage of such people. Foolish to think otherwise.
See Tweet below from US Senator Tom Cotton.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1250577105387237376

 

[Jura The idiot]

Published 4 hours ago
Coronavirus crisis prompts call to suspend lottery gambling

from the headline it was unclear to me why; it's because people would blow their unemployment money (LOL) and you may follow the link

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if interested

 

[vincent]

Unlike many think, going back to China is not an option for most of the Chinese Americans. Although you do see many have gone back, vast majority have decided to stay in the US. As I have said before, take me as an example, my whole family is here and my career is here. Uprooting all that and going to another country is not an option. Also, we left China in the 80's because China was not ideal. And now we are leaving the US because the US is no longer ideal? What happens if China becomes non-ideal again? We move back to the US? This back and forth sounds very unacceptable to me ethically...

Let's leave the ethics out of it for a moment, just think who would still trust us again if we keep switching sides? Even if we go back to China, who do you think the Chinese government will suspect first when the US and China start another conflict? Yes, that would be the "Chinese American double spies" sent back to China by the US... You think we will be in a better boat? You think we won't be rounded up in some sort of camp? What do you think the common native Chinese will say about us? Keep in mind that, by that time, we would have switched sides twice... Where is our allegiance?

Although I fear a few irrational and unstable ones who would do crazy things (that's why I own firearms), I do believe that things in the US will turn for the better. This is not the 1950's and 1960's. We have gone through that and have learned our lessons. Also, Chinese Americans are no longer the same Japanese Americans during the WWII. We have our voices and our political clout.

I bet some Jews in Nazi Germany thought the same way.

How's working in China be considered as switching allegiance? You go to China to make money and avoid being killed by some punk on the street just because you are an Asian

 

[supersnoop]

Yup. Remember WMDs in Iraq?

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I also did not read the whole thing because the bit I did read was mostly political tinged nonsense.

So we should be expecting Nimitz CVN-68 parked just outside Sanya with fresh "Mission Accomplished" banner printed from newly liberated "Dongguan City Banner Printing Factory No. 7892" delivered via C-2 Greyhound?

The one undeniable factor the US has over China is a more open media. Most of the time this is used very effectively in the sense that American culture is the most exported product and usually well-received (there are two Disneylands in China, and zero Wanda studios lands in USA, lol). However, by throwing up all this noise and false allegations of cover-ups and bioweapons labs, it is totally undermining this relative advantage. Now essentially you just have two opposing propaganda messages, Wuhuan bioweapon lab vs. Maatje Benassi patient-zero.

While nobody is listening to this:

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[Jura The idiot]

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rambling

 

[localizer]

Hehe I'm surprised we're willing to suffer trillions of dollars in damage but not willing to spend $100 billion per year to solve hunger.

 

[vincent]

Hehe I'm surprised we're willing to suffer trillions of dollars in damage but not willing to spend $100 billion per year to solve hunger.

Who dies from the virus and who hungers? The rich can die from the virus but zero chance of dying from hunger