CV and mad panic behaviour

[Professer E]

Should have been march straight into isolation.

Must be difficult being the Premier of NSW... Seems to be state full of selfish F-heads.

[northernblue]

I'm critical of the media for causing hysteria, because they aren't doing their job, much of what you see broadcast is pissweak downhill skiing that results in things like panic buying of poo tickets in a country that makes the stuff!

If you want to be a journalist, your job is to filter out the bullcrap, fact check and verify everything with recognised authorities on the subject at hand. Not to propagate rumours and cause panic!

Easily the most agreeable post you’ve ever made.
Next step is to shut down the hoards of immunologists, virologists and other infectious disease experts that seem to have completed their phd’s recently and are spending all day on FB.

We need to give the experts clear air to get their message out.

[Jack Burton]

I only believe what I hear from WHO, CDC and FDA

[LP]

I only believe what I hear from WHO, CDC and FDA

It pays to be critical of all sources, especially as they are funded by sovereign states or other political entities.

For example, the Spanish Flu occurred during the 1st World War killing millions, in retrospect it got labelled the Spanish Flu because Spain was the only country reporting the figures honestly. It now seems most likely the Spanish Flu actually started in the US or Americas and spread to other parts of the world, but the USA had an official policy of denial and enacted sedition laws to prevent media or public comment.

It's a bit like this SARS-CoV-2 not being labelled Wuhan China Virus, for political / social reasons.

Last year you will recall Europe reeling from the Aussie Flu, even though it appears to have originated elsewhere, but it was labelled Aussie Flu because Australia was the first to raise the warning! In retrospect it looks like it was a strain of H3N2 that surfaced in the Middle East.

SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 is a different situation, because there have been official warnings circulating about this strain since Nov 2019, and governments continued to built tunnels and freeways instead of hospitals.

Singapore and Hong Kong have been preparing for a repeat of SARS since 2003, there is a reason they are better situated to deal with this so far!

[PaulP]

Viruses don't have ethnicity.

[LP]

Viruses don't have ethnicity.

 
True, but humans have politics.

[PaulP]

True, but humans have politics.

Yes, and it should stay right out of any decision making on this issue. There's already subtle, casual racist overtones in the discourse on this issue.

[Jack Burton]

Not so subtle overtones from Trump...

[LP]

Yes, and it should stay right out of any decision making on this issue. There's already subtle, casual racist overtones in the discourse on this issue.

 
Overtones that have real world effects, the WHO knows all too well who funds it!

You don't get to the top in those jobs without politics.

[PaulP]

Not so subtle overtones from Trump...

Trump...........just sigh.  :'(