Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tubey]

Racism is at the heart of these attacks on China...racism and Cold War propaganda.

Shame on the people using an infection from bats to further the cause of racism by attacking Chinese-Britons and western imperialism.

I think it's a virus that they fostered the conditions to create which is at the heart of these attacks on China mate...

 

[LocalNative]

Starmer has destroyed Johnson with one question at pmqs. Johnson blabbering nonsense in reply.

I'm really impressed by him so far. He's pressing hard and really asking the right questions.

 

[davek]

I think it's a virus that they fostered the conditions to create which is at the heart of these attacks on China mate...

Barmy.

 

[Tea_drinker]

I'm really impressed by him so far. He's pressing hard and really asking the right questions.

Apparently Johnson even turned up late to it. Hes terrified of Starmer.

 

[LocalNative]

Apparently Johnson even turned up late to it. Hes terrified of Starmer.

His biggest downfall will be far-leftists who're too angry that they haven't got a Corbyn 2.0 in power to give him a chance. His lawyer background very obvious in these questions, really putting it to the PM and demanding answers.

Sorry should be putting this in Labour thread rather than this one.

 

[COYBL25]

Racism is at the heart of these attacks on China...racism and Cold War propaganda.

Shame on the people using an infection from bats to further the cause of racism by attacking Chinese-Britons and western imperialism.

No Dave, the CCP told big fat lies at the beginning and many thousands of people have died globally as a result.

You can point elsewhere as much as you want, but you can`t change the fact that the CCP have the blood of many thousands of people on their hands.

Imagine if the virus had originated in Britain, we`d then tried to cover it up, lied and then tried to downplay it, before finally coming clean !!!!

You`re head would be so far in orbit, that NASA would be tracking it lol

 

[sbbefc]

Johnson is a right mess.

 

[mill]

So eating the bats plays no part in the virus passing?

It's just political correctness on overdrive to say you can't blame China. Just in case we hurt their feelings.

No. Actually it’s nothing to do with eating bats.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Caused panic? Officially over 30,000 dead. Real figure more like 50,000.

Do you really not understand what this would have been like without lockdown? Deaths would be well into six figures already.

He made them see sense!

I read somewhere that yesterday's ONS figures quoted all deaths where covid was mentioned in death certs was 30k upto April 24th. If you add the daily increase in deaths since that date, which includes the spike on April 28th when care home deaths started to be counted, you will get a more accurate figure of official CV linked deaths that should be closer to the excess deaths seen over the period

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Just asking out loud here

Why is it racist to not blame China for covid-19?

17 years ago Sara cov 1 started in China from bats apparantly.

Now sars cov 2 has started in China from bats apparantly.

But anyone who blames China is racist.

Because when you start to look into these viruses and risk, this could have very easily jumped out from intensive animal farming... And rat assured this won't be a hundred year event...

 

[Barnfred 55]

My mrs got tested today, she had a bit of a wheezy chesty cough so got tested as a precaution

Hope she fully recovers soon mate and in the meantime that you both self isolate whilst waiting for the results. Did you not request a test too? Given there appears to be spare capacity in testing it would have made sense to do so

 

[PhilM]

Not officially reported at that time though.

The point I`m trying to make is that it`s more than likely been in Europe for many more weeks than initially thought.

Which would also add to the argument of people showing COVID-19 like symptoms back in the first month or two in the year.

I'm not saying it is the case that it was more widespread and much earlier than initially thought, but I think it's something that may be considered.

 

[peteblue]

My mrs got tested today, she had a bit of a wheezy chesty cough so got tested as a precaution

Hope it goes well....

 

[Kenshin]

Maybe they're being too politically correct?


Chinese in Britain 'too scared to venture out alone' amid rising levels of anti-Asian racism
Rising levels of racist abuse that forced people of Chinese heritage to withdraw from UK society before the lockdown are likely to escalate when it lifts, an academic has warned.
Chinese people have been coughed at, attacked and told to “go back home”, according to research led by Prof Binna Kandola. Reported experiences ranged from casual jokes to violent attacks and death threats, with people left too frightened to venture out alone and children ridiculed by their peers, 29 in-depth interviews with people of east Asian heritage revealed.
Kandola told the PA news agency that some people who have lived in the UK their whole life are questioning “whether people of Chinese heritage will ever be accepted as British”.
Just over half of the 412 people surveyed said they had experienced an increase in discrimination during the Covid-19 outbreak. Three in 10 said they had witnessed or experienced discrimination at work, while 37% said they had experienced this outside the office.
One woman, an NHS doctor who works in her local hospital’s respiratory unit, said she has stopped her daily morning jog because of the abuse. Another family withdrew their four-year-old boy from a football club after other parents told their children not to stand close to him.

Ahh but that is a completely different thing.

Saying it's China's fault for the virus is not the same as racist dickheads in other countries using that as an excuse .

Simply put, people haven't just become racist that weren't before.

Unless the entirety of America is racist because of the KKK existing?

No. Actually it’s nothing to do with eating bats.

Ahh so coincidence then?

It's a coincidence that repsiratory viruses just keep happening to appear in the same country from the same source?

The oh but it's this or that is making excuses for political correctness, just so we don't upset the country.

Same as ebola has nothing to do with Africa or the poor living conditions and health welfare of its people in places that it spread. Except there is a reason why ebola was a pandemic in Africa and not Swansea.

Because when you start to look into these viruses and risk, this could have very easily jumped out from intensive animal farming... And rat assured this won't be a hundred year event...

As I say it happen once it's just chance it come from a particular location. Happen twice within 20 years , not so much

 

[Kenshin]

It`s the lying and misinformation afterwards that lands squarely on the shoulders of the CCP.

Imagine how much further on the world would be right now with this virus and how many people would still be alive, if they`d be truthful from day one and hadn`t try to cover it up and then downplay it.

That is on them.

No amount of hand wringing and playing the race card will change that.

Exactly.

Saying blame China is not blame every single person who lives there. It's just quicker to write that then a list of every single political person who done all of that.

I mean pick a war from history and I'm sure you blame the country for starting it , even if it wasn't every single person collectively deciding it.