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tractor fanatic posted:Yes, by going back and looking at previous pneumonia cases. Are you saying the Chinese government was able to detect immediately that some unknown pneumonia was a new virus? It was something they knew they wanted to cover up pretty quick: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-scientists-destroyed-proof-of-virus-in-december-rz055qjnj
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It was something they knew they wanted to cover up pretty quick: They also notified WHO and released the viral genome about a week later. It definitely tracks that they covered it up but for closer to three weeks than three months. Arguing that they covered it up for that long is just giving cover to the incompetent response in the US and Europe.
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tractor fanatic posted:They also notified WHO and released the viral genome about a week later. It definitely tracks that they covered it up but for closer to three weeks than three months. Arguing that they covered it up for that long is just giving cover to the incompetent response in the US and Europe. They didn't notify the WHO until late December, over a month after the outbreak started, and China was punishing doctors for raising alarm until mid-January. The genome wasn't published until January 11, almost two months after the initial outbreak, and the CCP shut down the laboratory that published it "for rectification" the next day. You're conflating the heroic efforts of Chinese doctors and scientists who succeeded despite the CCP with CCP competence.
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# ? Mar 19, 2020 23:42 |
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I'm not saying anything about CCP competence. I'm saying your timeline doesn't make any sense. If you agree that the first case was around mid-November, it would be an unbelievable miracle for the government to have known about it until much later, simply because you don't discover new diseases immediately. Remember the first US case of community spread was only detected a month after when it was probably introduced, and this was despite knowing the disease existed and how to test for it. It seems very likely that no one alive knew this disease existed until mid-December, which points to about 3 weeks of coverup.
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tractor fanatic posted:It seems very likely that no one alive knew this disease existed until mid-December, which points to about 3 weeks of coverup. japanese doctors were already suggesting to sick patients who didn't have influenza that they had the New Unknown Virus From China in early december so no, unless japanese doctors are counted as undeads, living people knew this disease existed prior to mid-december just because it wasn't called Coronavirus or Wuhan Flu doesn't mean it wasn't circulating and that people didn't know about it
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The White Dragon posted:japanese doctors were already suggesting to sick patients who didn't have influenza that they had the New Unknown Virus From China in early december so no, unless japanese doctors are counted as undeads, living people knew this disease existed prior to mid-december Really? I hadn't heard about this. Do you have a source?
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tractor fanatic posted:Really? I hadn't heard about this. Do you have a source? my source is that was a suggested diagnoisis for me in the first week of december sorry go in thinking you can get a pass to get paid while you lay about with the flu and walk out with ??? China Virus and a couple bags of caffeinated nsaids Fur20 fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Whilst it is important that China/the CCP covered up the COVID-19 virus, (be it for 3 weeks or 3 months, they intentionally withheld information from the public allowing a highly infectious disease to spread globally.), I think it is equally as important the reasons why they covered it up. They covered it up because they couldn't be arsed to do anything about it and hoped it would go away on it's own. They covered it up because bullshit tinpot middle management lower level officials were scared of looking weak/incompetent in the eyes of their superiors, so they actively put lives at risk and threatened those who were trying to help. They covered it up because those superiors, and the Party has built a culture where looking like you are doing your job, and submitting numbers that look like you are doing your job is a much higher priority than actually doing your job. Resulting in admin officials threatening doctors over the doctor reporting medical findings. They covered it up for the same reason they are now trying to deflect blame. Because the paper thin facade of "China No.1! Everything we do is good, and nothing we do is bad, even those things we are provably dong bad and wrong are good because someone else once did something bad generations ago" is more important that helping to save lives.
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well said
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 01:59 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:dong bad No! Dong good!
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BrigadierSensible posted:Whilst it is important that China/the CCP covered up the COVID-19 virus, (be it for 3 weeks or 3 months, they intentionally withheld information from the public allowing a highly infectious disease to spread globally.), I think it is equally as important the reasons why they covered it up. Was Lunar New Year movement basically unrestricted? That was less than two months ago and it feels like ages. This year is already making me nostalgic for early 2017. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Keeping America Great.
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ded posted:Keeping America Great.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 04:27 |
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I don't know why they would bother; he can't read.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 04:28 |
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Almost crashes foreign policy and the market with Europe because he is too vain to use glasses.
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Honky Dong Country posted:*The party official leaves after a lengthy inspection. Peeking around a corner to make sure he's gone, one worker spins their head back to the marketplace and cuts loose a shrill whistle. Instantly two hundred trapdoors and and tarps are drawn back by cleverly hidden mechanisms to reveal a vast stock of pangolins, bats, and other live exotic animals.* all this ace ventura talk i want to point out that the only animal he didnt like was bats. checkmate china
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oohhboy posted:Almost crashes foreign policy and the market with Europe because he is too vain to use glasses. It's this sadly, which is somehow one of the least pathetic yet still terrible things about this moron. Ashley Feinberg did a good write-up on this. Compare Obama's teleprompter to his size 972 font: Obama: Trumpf:
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 06:15 |
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yeah funny how they need different size fonts but they still pass out billion dollar bailouts to the rich and suck down corpos like they the same drat person
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 06:28 |
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If he uses glasses it would at least hide his reverse Raccoon eyes and might even give him an unearned look of intelligence. Regulatory capture, ideologically restricted tools and moral hazards is hell nor is the president as powerful as a king though his word carries a lot of weight. Even if he wanted to nationalise and let companies fail on a wide scale I doubt he could. I think he did manage some stealth soft nationalisation.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Whilst it is important that China/the CCP covered up the COVID-19 virus, (be it for 3 weeks or 3 months, they intentionally withheld information from the public allowing a highly infectious disease to spread globally.), I think it is equally as important the reasons why they covered it up. This is a fantastic post and I'd love for it to be spread far and wide to expose the CCP. Instead of the Chinese or Wuhan Flu, is there a catchy way to name it the Xi Jinping "Pooh Flu" or associate it with the CCP and get that trending somehow?
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 06:50 |
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sticksy posted:"Pooh Flu" i like this one, puts it directly at the feet of the guilty in a way that makes them furious i've been calling it c-virus but honestly that's too cool and cyberpunk for the loving pooh flu
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snergle posted:all this ace ventura talk i want to point out that the only animal he didnt like was bats. checkmate china Lmao you're totally right
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Shumagorath posted:Was Lunar New Year movement basically unrestricted? That was less than two months ago and it feels like ages. Domestic travel was severly affected. People who left early were able to visit Japan, Europe etc. but mid-week the Chinese govt blocked exit visas and closed schools and everything went nuts from there.
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sticksy posted:This is a fantastic post and I'd love for it to be spread far and wide to expose the CCP. Winnie the Flu
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The Fear posted:Winnie the Flu
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 11:08 |
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Welp, with the level 4 travel restrictions announcement, my company is pulling all business trippers out and giving all expats the option of relocating back to the States. My flight was changed before I even woke up this morning, and I leave glorious Nippon tomorrow. Not the way I wanted to leave; I have a lot of work left undone, a lot of stuff left unseen, a lot of goodbyes left unsaid. If this blows over in a month or so I'll be back, but for now I'm treating this as the end of my time here in Osaka
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The Fear posted:Winnie the Flu
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 14:41 |
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Some days i really wonder whether the Great Wall was meant to keep the chinese in.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 15:22 |
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it was meant to be a huge sink of manpower and resources to keep the people focused on external threats and act as a vanity project for whichever emperor was around at the time ~ history rhymes ~
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Super Waffle posted:My flight was changed before I even woke up this morning, and I leave glorious Nippon tomorrow. Every other day this week I've had a flight cancelled and changed until Thursday, when the carrier (Air France, then KLM) pretty much just said "Everythings canceled, wait until we're flying again or take a refund". If I didn't have to return for work, I would stay in South Korea, because life has been pretty much normal. Parents sent me back pictures of empty shelves from the UK (they had a mad dash up from Portugal for the ferry in their camper van as the borders started closing). So now I'm sat at in an eerily empty Incheon, waiting for my direct flight home (because gently caress getting stranded in a third country with no family support), with most of the souvenirs ditched for hand sanitiser, surgical masks, pasta and a single toilet roll (just in case). Other than the rebooking flights nonsense, a good trip all round, and Jeju is lovely (though the drivers are loving terrible).
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:26 |
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Seconding the life in Korea is pretty much normal. Even most of the restaurants in my town are open and running, (albeit with slightly less customers than usual). I took a photo at my local supermarket to show my parents that the shelves are fully stocked with toilet paper, as compared to the idiots panic buying in Melbourne. I'll still be leaving here in May/June after my contract ends, but that is due to largely Corona Virus unrelated matters. In fact one of the places I will be applying for new work will be the Korean Public School system
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 02:06 |
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Hard agree, Osaka is a little less crowded but the shelves are stocked, restaurants are open, buskers are playing, and stores are full of people. Meanwhile I'm being shipped back to a city with no food, a mandatory curfew, and minimum two weeks in isolation "working from home".
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My plans to go to Russia were thwarted when literally as I was being handed my visa, I was told they were closing the border that night. They say they'll open the border May 1st, and my visa in Korea was automatically extended to April 30th, but I'm sure I can get a few days more if I apply. Hearing the hilarious situation in the US and also flights cost money, I decided to just wait it out here. Everything's pretty normal here except more masks and a couple small precautions here and there. I really hope I can get that flight at the start of May...
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Question for china goons, some people on 4chan pulled up chinese phone records and are speculating that the 14.4m canceled accounts in the past few months represent the actual death toll from covid-19. I know nothing of the chinese cell phone setup. The poster claimed that people simply do not cancel phone accounts like that because it is linked to alipay. Any credibility to this claim?
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Mr. Nice! posted:some people on 4chan Mr. Nice! posted:Any credibility to this claim? no
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Mr. Nice! posted:Question for china goons, some people on 4chan pulled up chinese phone records and are speculating that the 14.4m canceled accounts in the past few months represent the actual death toll from covid-19. I know nothing of the chinese cell phone setup. The poster claimed that people simply do not cancel phone accounts like that because it is linked to alipay. Any credibility to this claim? There would probably be soldiers in the street hauling away truckloads of bodies if that were the case, and something like that would leak.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Question for china goons, some people on 4chan pulled up chinese phone records and are speculating that the 14.4m canceled accounts in the past few months represent the actual death toll from covid-19. I know nothing of the chinese cell phone setup. The poster claimed that people simply do not cancel phone accounts like that because it is linked to alipay. Any credibility to this claim? Total bullshit. I am sure their official numbers are lower than reality, but there's no loving way they're covering up 14.4 million dead. People change numbers.
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Blistex posted:There would probably be soldiers in the street hauling away truckloads of bodies if that were the case, and something like that would leak. no there wouldnt because the soldiers are all dead of winnie the flu Super Waffle posted:Hard agree, Osaka is a little less crowded but the shelves are stocked, restaurants are open, buskers are playing, and stores are full of people. Meanwhile I'm being shipped back to a city with no food, a mandatory curfew, and minimum two weeks in isolation "working from home". getting to see osaka with 40% as much foot traffic as usual is amazing and good though
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 02:55 |
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Is there any info about asymptomatic COVID-19 on asthma people? I'm like 3 days without any symptom but having my chest get a bit tight and hard to breathe and I have no idea if it's the 'rona or not since in Brazil they're limiting exams for people in hospitals, and going there might be the worst mistake of my life (since it seems that hospitals are an autoinfect zone right now according to quarantine instructions and the doctors I've been talking to via videocall). Docs say maybe, maybe not, we can't test because you don't have fever and is not in hospital for it, so idk.
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Grand Fromage posted:Total bullshit. I am sure their official numbers are lower than reality, but there's no loving way they're covering up 14.4 million dead. People change numbers. I thought as much.
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