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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2022 14:49:14 GMT
And just like that the deadliest virus known to man disappeared from the news........ Weird, isn't it?
It's like today's deadliest virus is named Vladimir.
I've always maintained that humans are the real virus......especially the ones called politicians....
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 12, 2022 13:10:39 GMT
I see China has lost the fucking plot.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 27, 2023 13:17:55 GMT
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 27, 2023 13:41:48 GMT
The idea that it was from eating bats, or whatever it was, never rang true.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 27, 2023 15:12:46 GMT
I remember saying to the lass at the time that it had to be a lab leak and she reacted as if it was some kind of conspiracy theory.
It blows my mind that all this has happened yet nothing ever comes from it. It's just like, "move on, there's nothing to see..."
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Post by DayoRemix on Feb 27, 2023 15:32:56 GMT
"the agency made its updated judgment with “low confidence”...
"The energy department’s updated findings run counter to reports by four other US intelligence agencies that concluded the epidemic started as the result of natural transmission from an infected animal. Two agencies remain undecided."
LOL
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Feb 27, 2023 15:38:22 GMT
Will China ever face consequences for all this? I'd be more than happy for the world to be less reliant on Chinese-produced goods, but applying sanctions before any of us are able to do that will only harm everybody, so what could be realistically done to "punish" China? Choose a city of approx. 7 million people and nuke it in some sort of eye-for-an-eye scenario? I don't think so. So whaddya do?
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Post by tory on Feb 27, 2023 15:45:11 GMT
"the agency made its updated judgment with “low confidence”... "The energy department’s updated findings run counter to reports by four other US intelligence agencies that concluded the epidemic started as the result of natural transmission from an infected animal. Two agencies remain undecided." LOL The opinion on this is being changed slowly but surely. I imagine that in five years time it will be the accepted perspective and no-one will bat an eyelid over such a pronouncement.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 27, 2023 15:55:25 GMT
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Post by tory on Feb 27, 2023 16:20:41 GMT
The gall of it. Nothing like "This newspaper pushed a narrative based on little scientific evidence; we were wrong."
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 27, 2023 18:19:44 GMT
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Post by davey on Feb 27, 2023 18:21:54 GMT
Brett Stephens. 🙄
There’s nothing wrong with looking back to determine what worked and what didn’t. That’s how we learn for next time. But the Monday morning quarterbacking is useless and stupid. Mask mandates were smart policy given what was knowable at the time.
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Post by davey on Feb 27, 2023 18:28:29 GMT
Trump treated it rhetorically as a Chinese attack. Not a leak - but essentially an act of global warfare. Which is the thread being pulled on when talking about “consequences.”
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Post by tory on Mar 3, 2023 7:57:35 GMT
The Telegraph has disclosed details of hundreds of thousands of whatsapp messages between ministers and senior civil servants. It makes for grim reading. Really, deep down, it is what happens when you hand over authority to Government to do as they please - the ceding of authority to unelected individuals who make (bad) decisions in a blind panic. We must ensure this never happens again.
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Post by oh oooh on Mar 3, 2023 8:22:55 GMT
How?
I don't want to defend the government, but the same thing happened in every country across the world - they had to make very difficult decisions very quickly, based on scant information. It was an almost impossible situation. Deaths in care homes were tragically high in other European countries too (I think Spain had it worse, among others).
You can call it incompetence if you want, but I don't see how it could have been handled much better. Chances had to be taken. Nobody was wilful, everybody wished for the best outcome - but we ended up with some terrible, sometimes fatal misjudgments. We weren't the only ones.
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