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"Coronavirus and the US" or "We are all going to die!!!!"
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Hyperbole aside, cases are exploding in China. It appears China is modifying how it diagnosis positive cases of Coronavirus... something like actually having it. <- That's a joke.
This isn't. It is definitely interesting. The numbers outside of China aren't blowing up and it looks like the WHO did a good job at telling Governments to step up quicker to deal with isolation.
That said, we are all going to die!
And more importantly, this could lead to a temporary slow economic slowdown... in China... which is something China can not stand. They'll need to invent a new global soccer tournament to get people to work or something.
Honestly, I think this is all fake news, China is just coming up with an economic excuse for not buying $200 billion more in soy beans from the US.
Cases are not exploding. What happened is that they are now accepting a doctor's opinion that it's Covid-19 as sufficient as testing is a bottleneck, the result is a bunch of suspected cases moved to the confirmed column. (Suspected + confirmed) didn't make a big jump.
No. They weren't able to test patients as fast as they showed up.
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Vaccines cause the Coronavirus.Hyperbole aside, cases are exploding in China. It appears China is modifying how it diagnosis positive cases of Coronavirus... something like actually having it. <- That's a joke.
This isn't. It is definitely interesting. The numbers outside of China aren't blowing up and it looks like the WHO did a good job at telling Governments to step up quicker to deal with isolation.
That said, we are all going to die!
And more importantly, this could lead to a temporary slow economic slowdown... in China... which is something China can not stand. They'll need to invent a new global soccer tournament to get people to work or something.
Honestly, I think this is all fake news, China is just coming up with an economic excuse for not buying $200 billion more in soy beans from the US.
Cases are not exploding. What happened is that they are now accepting a doctor's opinion that it's Covid-19 as sufficient as testing is a bottleneck, the result is a bunch of suspected cases moved to the confirmed column. (Suspected + confirmed) didn't make a big jump.
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I have a thread on this trip in the Travel forum. I'll post pictures there when I get a chance.
https://talkfreethought.org/showthr...ion-Cruise-in-Asia-during-the-Wuhan-Flu-Scare
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Vaccines cause the Coronavirus.Hyperbole aside, cases are exploding in China. It appears China is modifying how it diagnosis positive cases of Coronavirus... something like actually having it. <- That's a joke.
This isn't. It is definitely interesting. The numbers outside of China aren't blowing up and it looks like the WHO did a good job at telling Governments to step up quicker to deal with isolation.
That said, we are all going to die!
And more importantly, this could lead to a temporary slow economic slowdown... in China... which is something China can not stand. They'll need to invent a new global soccer tournament to get people to work or something.
Honestly, I think this is all fake news, China is just coming up with an economic excuse for not buying $200 billion more in soy beans from the US.
Cases are not exploding. What happened is that they are now accepting a doctor's opinion that it's Covid-19 as sufficient as testing is a bottleneck, the result is a bunch of suspected cases moved to the confirmed column. (Suspected + confirmed) didn't make a big jump.
We really need to add some smileys here: http://talkrational.org/smileys/default/haironfire.gif
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LP's response to my claims was disagreeing and rewording what I said. So I just felt like going to the BS well.
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Get on the crazy train!
Then suggest nefarious origin that kind of negates the original claim: we also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China's only Bio Safety level 4 super laboratory
Okay, so the virus didn't originate in the market, but for some reason he justifies mentioning the Bio lab because it is... close to the market?
And then, we need to step our claims back: We don't have evidence that this disease originated there ... but we at least have to ask the question
We have no evidence that suggests Sen. Tom Cotton was involved in the murder of the 6 year old girl that disappeared from a bus stop in South Carolina, but shouldn't we be asked why the Senator hasn't denied involvement?
So make up a claim: virus didn't originate in Wuhan animal marketUS Senator Tom Cotton said:
Then suggest nefarious origin that kind of negates the original claim: we also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China's only Bio Safety level 4 super laboratory
Okay, so the virus didn't originate in the market, but for some reason he justifies mentioning the Bio lab because it is... close to the market?
And then, we need to step our claims back: We don't have evidence that this disease originated there ... but we at least have to ask the question
We have no evidence that suggests Sen. Tom Cotton was involved in the murder of the 6 year old girl that disappeared from a bus stop in South Carolina, but shouldn't we be asked why the Senator hasn't denied involvement?
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increase is higher than in 2 previous days but I would still say overall slowdown.
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Doesn't look to be slowing down from what you've reported. Below is what you posted according to the date where I am. So some of them came out on the same dates I assume due to being in different time zones. So I took the higher one for that date. The plot seems to show a generally accelerating trend.
Date Dead
1/22 17
1/23 25
1/25 54
1/26 80
1/28 132
1/29 170
1/30 213
2/1 304
2/2 361
2/3 425
2/5 565
2/6 638
2/8 813
2/9 910
2/10 1018
2/12 1367
2/15 1666
2/17 1776
2/18 2010
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Why the "but"? Did you also mistrust American government statistics about the health of its citizens during the H1N1 outbreak of 2009? If not, why not?
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It wasn't obvious where either of you were getting your data. I was just interested in plotting the trend with whatever data was handy. You introduced yours without citing it's source as I would have done. So I did.
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Here is daily death rate, it is no longer exponentially increasing.
Data from:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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From the politics form pyramidgead is a stanch defender of China winch has nothing to be critical of and a despiser of the USA. From his posts I can not help getting the feeling he a foreign govt troll of some kind.
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Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
I wonder where we would be if a response had been delayed even further. The report gas said it spread through a quarantined ship.