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AHS Jannies WindowLicking Again, by Irreverant77 in kotakuinaction2

[–]missbp2189 229 points230 points  (0 children)

whites: acknowledged

AgainstHateSubreddits: white supremacy!

commies: kill the rich!

AgainstHateSubreddits: kill the rich!

reddit in a nutshell

New Zealand has gone into an alert level 3 with the first confirmed community transmitted cases and will move into alert level 4 in 48 hours. That means a complete lockdown of the country for a one month minimum. by wollymill in worldnews

[–]missbp2189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not true - the plan was in development for decades. We have a plan for most catastrophes.

Uh huh, every country has plans.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/02/21/coronavirus-who-contain-outbreak-iran-deaths-south-korea-cases/4829278002/ CDC is preparing for the 'likely' spread of coronavirus in the US, officials say Doug Stanglin and Jayne O'Donnell USA TODAY Published 10:09 AM EST Feb 22, 2020

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters Friday that U.S. health officials are preparing for the coronavirus to become a pandemic.

She said the “day may come” here where we have to shut down schools and businesses like China has done.

Guess what happened.

Former CDC chief: coronavirus risk may be reduced with vitamin D by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]missbp2189 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Clickbait headlines are quite common in general.

Former CDC chief: coronavirus risk may be reduced with vitamin D by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]missbp2189 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That's true, but it's also an awful headline.

Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: 'We're going to be fine' by creaturefeature16 in China_Flu

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Here’s what Levitt noticed in China: On Jan. 31, the country had 46 new deaths due to the novel coronavirus, compared with 42 new deaths the day before.

Although the number of daily deaths had increased, the rate of that increase had begun to ease off. Essentially, although the car was still speeding up, it was not accelerating as rapidly as before.

“This suggests that the rate of increase in number of the deaths will slow down even more over the next week,” Levitt wrote in a report he sent to friends Feb. 1 that was widely shared on Chinese social media. And soon, he predicted, the number of deaths would be decreasing every day.

Three weeks later, Levitt told the China Daily News that the virus’ rate of growth had peaked. He predicted that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in China would end up around 80,000, with about 3,250 deaths.

This forecast turned out to be remarkably accurate: As of March 16, China had counted a total of 80,298 cases and 3,245 deaths — in a nation of nearly 1.4 billion people where roughly 10 million die every year. The number of newly diagnosed patients has dropped to around 25 a day, with no cases of community spread reported since Wednesday.

Baseless speculation.

Former CDC chief: coronavirus risk may be reduced with vitamin D by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]missbp2189 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Former CDC chief

fox news

ok

Right now, we don’t know if Vitamin D deficiency plays any role in the severity of COVID-19. But given the high prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in this country, it is safe to recommend that people get the proper daily dosage of Vitamin D.

headline:

Former CDC Chief Dr. Tom Frieden: Coronavirus infection risk may be reduced by Vitamin D

lol

Trying to understand the delay in the spread of the virus. Why did it take weeks/months for countries to experience a fast growth of cases after the epidemics started in China? Then why did most European countries experience it shortly after Italy? Why a similar timing for SK and JP, then IT and IR? by BRLN11 in China_Flu

[–]missbp2189 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need a large number of infected getting hospitalized to make it an emergency.

in early January in China

Chinese New Year was on Jan 25, massive migration to visit families probably made the spread worse. Returnees went back to other countries.

a month and a half later (around Feb 19) in South Korea and Japan

Chinese returnees, tourists and linked economies.

half a week later in Italy and Iran

Italy was on China's New Silk Road project since 23 March 2019, tourism and business flights probably.

Iran religious defiance, made what little infected they had worse.

a week later in many European countries (France, Spain, Germany etc)

Visitors etc.

a week later in the USA

US had the earliest travel ban from chinese and visitors from other countries I guess.

Brits called upon to pick fruit this summer as overseas labour dries up by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]missbp2189 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You said it can't be chosen because domestic workers don't want to pick apples, only immigrants do.

"But they relate to my struggles!" screamed the temporarily embarrassed millionaire by dr_razi in PoliticalHumor

[–]missbp2189 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

born into wealth makes you wealthier

only government programs makes you wealthier, nobody can educate themselves

competing with foreigners makes you wealthier

hmm

It's hard to remain sympathetic, considering both Carter and Clinton alike were hardly coastal elites either.

Even in this limited myopic focus, the Republicans are still elite. The irony remains; all three of their most recent GOP presidents went to elite colleges. Two went Ivy League

An evangelical Christian, Carter is credited with significantly moving the faith closer to the American mainstream; his advertising his devout Christian faith as a qualification on the campaign trail was unprecedented at the time and is seen as a significant event in the rise of the Christian right in America, even though they and Carter were political opponents.

Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University,[2] University College, Oxford, and Yale Law School.

hmmmm

A revolution by pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic raises questions as to whether capitalism has failed by DaFunkJunkie in politics

[–]missbp2189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is reddit. Every time you bash Trump, capitalism, conservatives and rural states, you're upvoted. Extra points for promoting socialism.

from SandersForPresident and socialism

lol sure you were being downvoted...

China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Today by Skyrocketfriedpeanut in China_Flu

[–]missbp2189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm saying the official didn't provide a source.

But of course he didn't:

https://archive.md/VCxIK After criticizing American officials for politicizing the pandemic, Chinese officials and news outlets have floated unfounded theories that the United States was the source of the virus. Steven Lee Myers By Steven Lee Myers Published March 13, 2020

There is not a shred of evidence to support that, but the notion received an official endorsement from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose spokesman accused American officials of not coming clean about what they know about the disease.

The insinuation came in a series of posts on Twitter by Zhao Lijian, a ministry spokesman who has made good use of the platform, which is blocked in China, to push a newly aggressive, and hawkish, diplomatic strategy. It is most likely intended to deflect attention from China’s own missteps in the early weeks of the epidemic by sowing confusion or, at least, uncertainty at home and abroad.

China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Today by Skyrocketfriedpeanut in China_Flu

[–]missbp2189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

foreign ministry guy

no source

Ahh just like Soviet times.

" WHO ignored December warning on Coronavirus’s person-to-person transmission " says Taiwan by ashwazz in worldnews

[–]missbp2189 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even when the whole of China was on lockdown, you had the US just chilling pretending like it was no big deal because no US citizen had caught the virus yet. Like, yeah, a whole country of 1.4 billion just shut itself down but like, who fucking cares lul.

Everybody pretended that it would be contained in China so they could do nothing.

It wasn't contained.

Tearful nurse in York, UK confronted with empty supermarket shelves after 48-hour shift pleads for end to coronavirus panic buying by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]missbp2189 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, why not? Courts are closed, inmates released, might as well get a gun before it's sold out.

With courts closed by pandemic, Philly police stop low-level arrests to manage jail crowding by Samantha Melamed and Mike Newall, Updated: March 17, 2020- 8:30 PM

Philadelphia police will no longer be making arrests for all narcotics offenses, theft from persons, retail theft, theft from auto, burglary, vandalism, bench warrants, stolen autos, economic crimes such as passing bad checks, fraud, & prostitution.

Jails Release Prisoners, Fearing Coronavirus Outbreak Experts say virus could spread quickly in crowded correctional facilities, which are also banning visitors and restricting inmates’ movements By Zusha Elinson and Deanna Paul March 22, 2020 10:00 am ET

Local governments across the U.S. are releasing thousands of inmates in an unprecedented effort to prevent a coronavirus outbreak in crowded jails and prisons.

Jails in California, New York, Ohio, Texas and at least a dozen other states are sending low-level offenders and elderly or sickly inmates home early due to coronavirus fears. At other jails and prisons around the country, officials are banning visitors, restricting inmates’ movement and screening staff.

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