Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Sure Dave.
roydo
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I tend to ignore Joey mate, when I can understand him that is.
davek
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I wasn't sure which mistake was greater: talking about football on this thread or responding to Joey!
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
lol
The idea that the WHO is somehow inside the pocket of the Chinese authorities pocket is just another bizarre fabrication floating around online, spawned from nothing more than the fact, that the WHO praised China's handling of the crisis, in direct opposition to rising anti-Chinese sentiment (especially for the Chinese government), often subliminal in the mainstream media, but highly vocal/toxic on social media.
People, especially those driving the narrative, don't want to hear that, as praise, and not blame, shifts attention away from the 'foreign enemy' and onto their own handling of the crisis. Which is what people in the UK and especially the US should be worried about now...
What's really worrying is these are the very tactics of totalitarian regimes, not supposedly freedom loving democracies, and it is aspiring dictatorships who love to generate as much chaos, economic instability (for the anger), and vengeful xenophobia as possible.
The WHO praised China, because a harmonious cooperation between both parties is to the benefit of the mission/mankind but also because the extremely aggressive measures the Chinese authorities put in place, worked. Had China refused to even test people, while publically declaring it to be a harmless case of the sniffles, I don't think the WHO would have been quite so gushing.
People call the WHO every name under the sun, when actually unlike all of us, these are the people who are actually doing something to stop this virus spreading.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
I see Germany and France have effectively stopped any exports of appropriate medical equipment to the rest of the EU, saying that it’s not an export ban, merely a requisitioning of equipment in France’s case and an introduction of export documentation in Germany’s case for if the equipment can be used in Germany instead.....gotta love the EU......
The US response has generally been awful but the Seattle Flu Study group has been a rare bright spot.
www.nature.com
The race to unravel the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the United States
As cases in Washington state soar, virologists are working around the clock to diagnose cases, reveal routes of transmission and test treatments.
www.nature.com
Foot Long Hot Dog
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Shocked to see you regurgitating the Daily Heils spin on a domestic policy solely intended to ensure they have sufficient supplies to cater for their own needs, and that comes with the caveat of humanitarian crisis that the Heil chose not to share.
A policy, that if it was British you’d undoubtedly label as pragmatic and sensible.
Germany banned the export of masks as they’re running short, likewise the French government requisitioned all available masks and are now only available on prescription.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
As we are not in the EU I would. However I would be appalled if England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales were treated any differently within the U.K......
Foot Long Hot Dog
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Only the United Kingdom is completely politically aligned, unlike the 27 nations of the EU, who retain individual sovereignty and can therefore make their own decisions on what they think is in the best interests of their own nation.
Shame no one pointed this vital difference out to you a few years back..........
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Your defence of them, while completely misplaced, is still commendable ......they could be Politically aligned, economically aligned, militarily aligned and all speak the same language...and France and Germany would still screw the rest of them......
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