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peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
tsubaki
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a journalist
his record is such pete that if your pub had one pint for every single occasion on which he has turned out to be wrong, your pub would be a sizeable lake
Yes but the Germans gave been cheating ,they have been testing people in there droves.
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The Thai government can afford to buy a ton of military hardware, including submarines and aircraft carriers from China, but can't afford to give much help to its own people.
For shame.
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Taiwan reveals email, blasts WHO for possible 'dereliction of duty' - Focus Taiwan
Following the World Health Organization's (WHO's) rejection of Taiwan's claims that it had warned the global health body that the novel coronavirus may be transmitted from human to human, Taiwan's government on Saturday revealed the contents of the disputed Dec. 31 email, which didn't actually...
Tedros and his cronies in the WHO have blood on their hands. Sure, given his history, that's something that Tedros is used to, but his mates? Maybe not.
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Just my hap'orth on this, we have seen 3 viruses emerge from the same part of the world, Swine Flu, SARS, and now Covid-19.
As just an ordinary joe, I'm skeptical in the extreme at the death figures reported by China for Covid-19 and their ability to contain the spread largely within Wuhan province.
If lessons can be learned from their handling of the outbreak, then well and good, but surely there will a huge global body of research on the true causes of this virus, even though the Chinese authorities will no doubt attempt to stifle that and continue to capitalise on the economic and political opportunities that this outbreak has presented them.
Even without definitive evidence, the cover-up of information and practices at these wet markets, are in themselves worthy of severe criticism and continuing concerns at the possibilities of a further outbreak, or another strain emerging.
As just an ordinary joe, I'm skeptical in the extreme at the death figures reported by China for Covid-19 and their ability to contain the spread largely within Wuhan province.
If lessons can be learned from their handling of the outbreak, then well and good, but surely there will a huge global body of research on the true causes of this virus, even though the Chinese authorities will no doubt attempt to stifle that and continue to capitalise on the economic and political opportunities that this outbreak has presented them.
Even without definitive evidence, the cover-up of information and practices at these wet markets, are in themselves worthy of severe criticism and continuing concerns at the possibilities of a further outbreak, or another strain emerging.
tsubaki
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TBF that emboldened bit is a bit misleading - viruses (and diseases generally) get to be pandemics when they are moved around the world a lot.
China is, and has been for several thousand years, densely populated and one of the biggest part of the global trading network (or networks in previous times) and so diseases from there are much more likely to get a foothold amongst a population and then get fired around the world. Closing wet markets might reduce this sort of thing, but the chances of a disease from China going around the world are far higher than, say, Argentinian or Icelandic diseases.
Yet its undeniable that two have resulted from China due to wet markets. We can't control the fact they have a large population; we can control stupid practices that exacerbate the risk.
JobForTheMoyes
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Only they can do that. And they had already 'banned' wet markets before the outbreak.(Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, etc)
Yep - hence the need for massive and laser-focused pressure on them, and for the blame to be firmly and irrefutably placed on them.
tsubaki
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TBF I am not sure that we can - even if they got rid of wet markets (genuinely this time), you are still going to have the rest of the factors present that create the conditions for a pandemic.
Not to talk about blame for a moment, but one of the things that must come out of this is a genuinely global monitoring organization that can have full access to countries to detect, warn, circulate true information and help treat diseases before we get to this sad pass again.
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Archived Petition: Support Taiwan's membership of the WHO to help fight Coronavirus.
We call on the UK government to support Taiwan's membership of the WHO to aid the fight against Coronavirus. Taiwan's exclusion from this body risks not only the health of the people of Taiwan, but of the international community as a whole, including Britain.
petition.parliament.uk
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