I read the suggestion, somewhere on the internet, that we call it the CCP flu. I also support writing off whatever debt the US owes China, and sending them a bill for the rest, once the total cost of this is tallied up.
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Rumor is that UE is planning for the next couple months to alternate between lockdowns and normal life according to the wave pattern followed by the virus.
Once the emergency is contained and ICU capacity restored, remove lockdowns to get people back to work, then shift back to lockdown as soon as the unavoidable new outbreaks emerge, and so forth until thereās a cure, a vaccine or we develop some kind of immunity.
Basically playing ping pong between butchering economy and butchering human lives trying to find a middle ground where you donāt lose too much on each side.
This whole thing is going to be devastating for economies of every country affected.
Itās fucking grim. China will have to answer for this.
Youāre just racist
Youāre just racist. And a bigot. And right.
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Haha maybe. I used to work with an old man who would tell stories, and mention that someone was colored. Weād ask him, which color? Green? Purple?
Sometimes youād see people around us overhear him use the word ācoloredā and for a second theyād be like WTF? Then youād see them smile as they realized the guy was just old as dirt and didnāt mean any disrespect. Hell, 60 years ago ācoloredā was the polite term. One day, weāll all be old (I hope) and will use the wrong words and I hope people understand.
As far as Trump and the āChinese Virusā I think Trumpās instincts here are correct, this is the Chinese Governmentās fault. They did nothing in the crucial early stages of this pandemic, except threaten people to keep their mouths shut. But I think calling it the āChinese virusā is clumsy and imprecise and can be seen as shitting on the Chinese people and thatās wrong. Their own loathsome government shits on them enough.
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Itās still called the NAACP
I assumed Trump calls it the China virus because itās easier to pronounce than coronavirus.
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I view it as something to shift blame. Donāt judge my decisions because all of this is Chinaās fault. I donāt think anyone in the world thinks China didnāt fuck up big time. But we had plenty of information to handle it better on our end when we knew it was coming. Trump trusted his instincts on that one and was dead wrong. He should have trusted his medical experts. That he fucked up his handling of this initially is something few people are debating. Medical professionals donāt call it the Chinese virus and initially he wasnāt calling it that either. That shift was purely political. Honestly itās little kid stuff. Itās when youāre being scolded at for what you did and you said āhe started it!ā
Weāve been married to China so long economically that pointing excess blame right now seems dangerous. We will need China as a partner the moment we can step back out. The time to distance ourself from them was decades ago. We need to have a serious look at a gradual moving away from them. Because right now we are so reliant on them that attempting to say when this is over weāre done with you guys would be catastrophic.
If Chinaās the devil weāve been dancing with her so long we donāt even know how to ask other girls. Time to learn again.
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Iām joking, of course. Iām just mocking the virtue signaling scum pukes that pulled the race card in this disaster
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I just saw on CNN"s Covid-19 page that a test has been developed that might start coming into production in 2 4 weeks that costs $25 in materials to make and can determine a result in 30 minutes. It needs to be kept at 65 degrees Celsius during the 30 minutes and should be usable at home.
This would be awesome!
Just cotton swab your pee hole. If there are red flecks you have ghonorrreeaaaaa
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What was the anti Trump spin on this ?
You donāt need a test to know you have it. I warned you about herā¦
I havenāt really read exactly what those medical experts recommended. Do you have any specific articles you could point me to? Do the recommendations take into account economic impact, or is it just purely how to stop the spread?
My feeling on this is that it has been just on stopping the spread. I think economic impact will be looked at in a couple weeks, when people start missing payments.
They ALL took the bait. ONE dipshit from the CCP tweets about the virus originating from the IS. Trump, of course, retaliates by calling it the āChinese virusā. NOW the CCP officially says they do not think the virus came from the US.
Early responses could lessen total economic impact. The longer this drags on the more economic impact. He played the short game and needed to play the long one. We didnāt react in the manner we needed and that will cost us more long term. You can see these two. We are now reactive when people said to be proactive.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/5805683/trump-administration-coronavirus/%3Famp=true
We understand youāre generally joking.
I guess, my question is: what benefit does POTUS derive from branding the virus (and all of the fallout) as Chinese? Versus, what benefit would be derived from branding the virus as a worldwide human problem?
To me, it goes back to his stock playbook: divisiveness is more effective (and easier to foment) than togetherness. Itās how he plays politics domestically, and it has undoubtedly worked, so why wouldnāt he fall back on that now?
I think it is bad policy in general, but especially now. Why piss off the country we will need to rely on to get ourselves out of this economic mess? Itās just an unnecessary ego play IMO.
I think China needs calling out. Between their atrocities involving human rights, eating vermin, etcā¦