Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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So here is another sports related article on a recent outbreak on the Vancouver Canucks hockey team
I like sports articles because they are less politically biased
Here's a few things I takeaway from it.
1. For all the talk about "government transparency", it seems like most of the information was discovered by the media rather than the government.
While I understand there are privacy concerns, this sort of information would be extremely useful to the public. I feel like people are trying to follow the rules, but other than "wear a mask, wash hands and use sanitizer often", what else do people ACTUALLY know to do?
There are the occasional "50 people infected at a wedding", but these stories have basically dropped to zero. Where is infection happening?
2. Following this, I recently read in Ontario, most outbreaks are actually related to the workplace. You are getting 30 - 40 people infected in factories, warehouses, etc. Yet we are shutting down things like hair salons which just make people confused.
As mentioned before, I totally do not understand why the government is not targeting companies like Amazon and forcing them to conduct rapid testing every workday (on their dime). I've been told that this precaution is helping Long Term Care homes reduce the number of outbreaks that occurred early on.
I'm really sick of fingerpointing. How is it possible that in a place as crowded as China, infections are minimal? The outbreak at the Shanghai airport, which quarantined 20,000 people (basically the population of a small town) was dealt with quickly and did not spread through the city.
I like sports articles because they are less politically biased
Here's a few things I takeaway from it.
1. For all the talk about "government transparency", it seems like most of the information was discovered by the media rather than the government.
While I understand there are privacy concerns, this sort of information would be extremely useful to the public. I feel like people are trying to follow the rules, but other than "wear a mask, wash hands and use sanitizer often", what else do people ACTUALLY know to do?
There are the occasional "50 people infected at a wedding", but these stories have basically dropped to zero. Where is infection happening?
2. Following this, I recently read in Ontario, most outbreaks are actually related to the workplace. You are getting 30 - 40 people infected in factories, warehouses, etc. Yet we are shutting down things like hair salons which just make people confused.
As mentioned before, I totally do not understand why the government is not targeting companies like Amazon and forcing them to conduct rapid testing every workday (on their dime). I've been told that this precaution is helping Long Term Care homes reduce the number of outbreaks that occurred early on.
I'm really sick of fingerpointing. How is it possible that in a place as crowded as China, infections are minimal? The outbreak at the Shanghai airport, which quarantined 20,000 people (basically the population of a small town) was dealt with quickly and did not spread through the city.
By playing vaccine nationalism, the west is really committing genocide on the global south. They could share the means of vaccine production or make it opensource so other nations can help produce it. The west is really lucky they own like 99% of the global information stream and can white wash this vaccine nationalism away.
So, per the Al Jazeera video, will only be used by Chinese nationals living on Sri Lanka
Man, people are stupid. Hopefully China wont deliver anything more if they dont plan to use. Better to use it to countries who are actually administrating it..
solarz
Brigadier
Sri Lanka wont use the already delivered Sinopharm vaccines from China!
So, per the Al Jazeera video, will only be used by Chinese nationals living on Sri Lanka
Man, people are stupid. Hopefully China wont deliver anything more if they dont plan to use. Better to use it to countries who are actually administrating it..
Most likely fake news.
Nope I think its real.
Al Jazeera is credible though. When they do propaganda they use subtle means. In this case, the news was pretty clear. The regulator said that Sinopharm is on hold until approved by the WHO
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Watch someone will spin that China demanded Chinese get the vaccines first.
I don't think you meat ALL Anglo people, right?
It is important to distinguish ordinary working people in the west and their capitalist ruling class. The ordinary people are victimized and cheated by the ruling class. Once they finally realize the nature of their capitalist oppressors and exploiters, they will be friends and allies of the working people of China. After all, we have the same enemies -- their ruling class.
Why not all Anglo people? Surely, the west is democratic... which means racism within a government or a party is a reflection of the democratic and constitutional will of the people. I always found it laughable how Americans are trying to distance themselves from Trump, and trying to blame him for everything that is wrong with the country.
Trump did nothing wrong, the American public DEMANDED a racist and sexist president (who also happened to be anti-science, as shown with COVID) and Trump fulfilled that promise. The american government, as the "greatest democracy in the world" IS the american people.
Because Racism is not genetic but social, and it is a favorite divide-and-conquer tactics of the ruling class.
As Malcom X pointed out: "You can't have capitalism without racism", as the capitalist must turn the white worker against the colored ones to keep all of us weak.
White American working people do not hate the Chinese by birth, but with constant lies and slanders from their politician and corporate media, I would think any good person who believe their lies would hate "evil" China.
If we lump all Anglo people together with their ruling class, that is exactly what the ruling class want. We may not able to overthrow the white ruling elite, but white people can, just like they did with their own white oppressors and exploiters before (Kings, Queens, Nobles...）.