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The Trump Virus, 500,000 Dead!
Faith:
I have been trying to follow this epidemic in China. It is quite obvious given the extreme measures they have taken that they are grossly understating the severity of this outbreak. They have isolated at least 60 million people, they are speed-building hospitals and now they are burning corpses without funerals. Also, the US is setting up quarantine bases and preparing for calamity in ways that I never remember seeing during my lifetime.
I read that the number of Coronavirus infections doubles roughly every 3 days, with death rate doubling at a similar rate, lagging by about 10 days... If this we’re to continue unabated the entire population of earth could be infected in 60 days, give or take.
Still I have trouble feeling sympathy for the Chinese given the way they treat animals in those disgusting "wet markets" of theirs and the practices of slaughtering endangered species for their bizarre and revolting culinary practices as well as the witchcraft of their 'traditional medicine'.
Maybe hitting the reset button on our species is a long-overdue eventuality.
NC Yankee:
It's not that deadly. I think our species will survive.
Lady luck:
--- Quote from: positronium on February 02, 2020, 07:59:14 pm ---I think that the coronavirus is a part of the family of common cold viruses from what I have read about it. Am I correct?
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It is in part but also from mammals and birds. I think the biggest part of it comes from the markets that China has that people buy exotic foods from.
NC Yankee:
--- Quote from: positronium on February 02, 2020, 07:59:14 pm ---I think that the coronavirus is a part of the family of common cold viruses from what I have read about it. Am I correct?
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I didn't hear that. I heard they think it comes from bats. They did DNA sequence and it's closely related. They think Sars did too.
NC Yankee:
--- Quote from: Faith on February 03, 2020, 09:52:13 am ---The three most populous nations on Earth in order: China 1.44 billion. India 1.38 billion. United States 0.33 billion
Same countries listed in order by area: US 3.8 million square miles. China 3.7 million square miles. India 1.27 million square miles.
In India, there are 650 million people that do not have toilets in their homes..... twice the population of the US in a country less than half the size of the US are using the street as a latrine.
Jesus Christ. I feel like washing my hands after typing this.
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Much of the rest of the world isn't much better and yet somehow it's all our fault.
This modern belief we have in western nations that it's all our fault or all caused by colonialism is so effing laughable it makes me sick and it's just assumed to be true at many levels of society, in the government, and at the UN.
Almost all there places were horribly backwards awful places before europeans left Europe! Many places were wealthy because becauze of resources too or the fact that trade routes passed through their land. We no longer live in such a world. Nations that are wealthy are technologically advanced and highly educated. Europeans can look back to Ancient Rome and Greece for the foundations of our technology advanced culture. Many places do not have that as well. None of this is our fault however.
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