"I can handle a communist dictatorship, but a communist dictatorship with a deadly virus on its hands is like a chimp with a machine gun!"
"You're not a real world power..."
"...I'm what?"
"You're not a real world power!"
"I can handle a communist dictatorship, but a communist dictatorship with a deadly virus on its hands is like a chimp with a machine gun!"
Even tho I *love* the idea, I'm like 90% sure that the Chinese regime will take that and blow it out of proportion. They already shit on everything we do, west bad china good and all that.The lockdown probably did some good in that, but if we had good data from China instead of the shitshow they put on, we wouldn't be in this mess. The entire world really needs to punish China so they don't fuck around like this again. Sanctions, tariffs, whatever. Doesn't need to be hostile, just hamstring them economically and make them regret their decisions.
Current mortality rates are showing below 0.1%, which is similar to seasonal flu. They were maybe as high as 0.3% at the height of the pandemic. They'd have been a lot lower if we'd kept it out of the nursing homes instead of deliberately putting the infected in them to protect a health system that didn't need protecting. In a non clown world a whole lot of people would be strung up for pulling this shit, and no I have zero doubts that this was deliberate, the early data showed that the on;y people who needed to worry about this were the very old and the very chronically unwell. The idea that asymptomatic carriers were some kind of super spreaders was always so fucking retarded it defies belief.The current strains are far more divergent than what hit China, so you're right, the virus in its current form is probably a lot less lethal than what we were dealing with.
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global
The lockdown probably did some good in that, but if we had good data from China instead of the shitshow they put on, we wouldn't be in this mess. The entire world really needs to punish China so they don't fuck around like this again. Sanctions, tariffs, whatever. Doesn't need to be hostile, just hamstring them economically and make them regret their decisions.
"You're not a real world power..."
"...I'm what?"
"You're not a real world power!"
So then there's no harm in hitting them back for once since all they do is shit on us anyway.They already shit on everything we do, west bad china good and all that.
Seems like good news for the continued protests, imo. Once they're over, though, new science will show that asymptomatic spread is not just common, but double plus deadly.So are we back to believing the WHO now? Because I thought they were confirmed as China's bitch and saying what they were told to say.
So if this is going to be the new overwhelming scientific consensus, I guess that means everyone can stop wearing masks again. The whole stated reason behind everyone wearing a piece of cloth on their face was to stop asymptomatic spreading.
"No one needs to wear masks, we need them for medical people."
"Ok, turns out everyone should wear a mask."
"Just a prank bro, just people that have it need to wear a mask."
Who is JM, I wonder?
No, medical workers still should wear an actual respirator if at all possible, it still spreads at least as much as SARS.
Except for that whole part where it is not and has never been airborne . . .
John maddenWho is JM, I wonder?