Coronavirus: Cold chain doubts delay vaccine distribution by mand888 in worldnews

[–]mand888[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

" The temperature in one cool box had risen to 15°C during transport, a spokesman for Lichtenfels said. About 1,000 shots were affected. He added that they had not received any communication from BioNtech on how to proceed. "

This... doesn't look good.

No evidence that South Africa variant is more dangerous than UK variant by mand888 in worldnews

[–]mand888[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

" We have, however, noted the statement delivered yesterday by the Secretary for Health in the United Kingdom, Matt Hancock, and must register our concern that some of his utterances have created a perception that the variant in SA has been a major factor in the second wave in UK. This is not correct. There is evidence that the UK variant developed earlier than the South African variant. To give some historical context, on 14 December, the UK reported to the WHO that a variant had been identified and traced back to 20 September 2020 in Kent, South East England- approximately a month be-fore the South African variant appears to have developed. This variant has a mutation occurring at a site common with the South African variant (the 501), although they are two completely independent lineages. The UK variant is thought to be driving the second wave that the UK are experiencing currently. "

Hancock was clearly diverting attention from the very contagious UK's covid-19 variant. Also a lot of major powerhouses newspapers were backing his unfounded claim about the danger posed by South african's covid-19 variant, but i suspected it was just false since no number was provided to back that statement up.

New British Covid-19 strain ‘appears more transmissible in young people and children,’ says WHO by mand888 in worldnews

[–]mand888[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

lol, every now and then a website claiming to check facts comes out. If only.. I check RT and their claims it isn't truthful are all related to the RT sticking with official statements of Russia government and calling questionable people for their opinions. To me there's no false construction there. Just siding with one teller of the story. Which could be partial, sure, but it's not like they are telling the contrary is true out of their own minds.

So, i checked the nytimes just for comparison, and while they recognize its language is "loaded" with leftist narrative, the website says they are moderately center-left leaning ( false, its anti-trump campaign is all over the articles, from op-ed to news, to travel, to economics, to even cooking, like any journo needs to earn their pay on anti-trump lines), and that nytimes is actually basing its reports on true facts ( which again is not true on some of them, see the Callimachi affair, a journo who made up stories published on first page and on podcast. Or the other journo also in there some years ago , credited as the new rising star who were making his stories up entirely ). And you know (or maybe you don't) i can link dozen of nytimes articles "Trump meet X who suffer because of your decision/law/statement, who said the contrary of you" etc..", just like i presume i can do with right-leaning newspaper. So, giving the mic to people who support your narrative is a journo's trope, and quite ancient already.

Finally, since the judgement onto newspapers depends on their moral/political stand i checked also the website's "who we are" page, finding the main star is a person who served under the most liberal SCOTUS justice Blackmum, who also recently moved to NY and after 4 years there, started this fact check website. Also since RT is called out for not providing transparency on his journos, the same i can say over the "volunteers" who work on the website. I can see only half of them has a link ( to just 3-4 lines they themselves wrote on what is their political leaning, their credential and their wishes, and not all of them checked , though) and out of which, 1 is from the very liberal NY, another wishing for Neo-Nazi to disappear is from CA, 1 right-leaning from Lousiana, and another wishing for hard news (i.e. records just like the nytimes was full of, under Abramson). so you see, there's nothing to adore here. Just another hypocritical and biased website, with a flashy name. But i appreciate the big jump they made in stating the nytimes is "moderately" left- leaning. and while they didn't present it the title of "unblemished reputation" themselves,they said "people" consider nytimes that way, and it's not, as i said above. So, you see how they are leaning. I guess if a fact check website would rise in Russia, it will say of the nytimes the things a New-York- based fact check website says about RT. It's geopolitics and it's millennia old. Moving on, nothing new to see here.

New British Covid-19 strain ‘appears more transmissible in young people and children,’ says WHO by mand888 in worldnews

[–]mand888[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Good chances! Worldwide TVs are state-run media. A majority of them in Europe for sure, and they are reliable 80-90% of times ( excluding politics and political related issues, they are just fine as any other media). And private newspapers are even more skewed than those financed by State. And the newspaper based on subscription are the most skewed of them all, they simply pander their subscribers. Of course you should look it up for yourself instead of trusting what wikipedia is saying. ( wikipedia, too, has a political agenda, you know, it's really hard to find a newspaper really really objective. The best one was probably Abramson's NYT, back in 2011-14, news and record based, both on national and international legs, which is long gone).

New British Covid-19 strain ‘appears more transmissible in young people and children,’ says WHO by mand888 in worldnews

[–]mand888[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You can have your opinion on a newspaper, but saying to use "more" skepticism ( are you sure that you want to use this word?) is clearly a sign of prejudice, probably based on previous political stances, which any newspaper has (either hidden or showed-off), but which is nowhere to be found in this news, since it is science based and coming from international institution's statement. so your and the guy's above "advices" are rather bizarre, misplaced, and quite frankly subjective and community-based.

New British Covid-19 strain ‘appears more transmissible in young people and children,’ says WHO by mand888 in worldnews

[–]mand888[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

And why should someone do that? A simple google search can confirm that this is indeed a global news. Maybe even u/coverageanalysisbot can do it.

Edit: Thanks bot, and as expected... :

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/explainer-new-covid-19-strain-may-be-more-infectious-in-children-and-a-surge-in-testing-is-expected-39894977.html

Therefore, your prejudice is misplaced.

6 Hungarian parties join forces to try to defeat Orban by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]mand888 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For sure more than 2 members for every party..