Altair
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Wake me up when a thousand people have dropped dead from it in China.Gotta keep an eye on that virus in China, folks. That looks like some bad news.
3 dead in a county of 2 billion is less than a rounding error.
Wake me up when a thousand people have dropped dead from it in China.Gotta keep an eye on that virus in China, folks. That looks like some bad news.
Thanks for that pearl. The problem is not the language.Let me share a bit of wisdom regarding Latin American news.
If it's in English, be fucking skeptical.
Someone got screened at an airport in Australia.
This shit needs to be stamped out fast, especially before lunar new year travel.
I kinda love how the media freaks out about these things.
Swine flu
Avian flu
Mad cow
SARS
Ebola
Then these things kill a few hundred or a few thousand and fizzle out.
God forbid there was 24 hour news networks trying to scare people for ratings in 1919 or 1347.
But I guess that also explains how the death of a dozen people is a massacre these days, compared to things like Rwanda.
"But I guess that also explains how the death of a dozen people is a massacre these days, compared to things like Rwanda".
100.How many dying people constitute a massacre for you?
I have no problems with serious vigilance. Have border agents do additional screening, have health care professionals prepared to quarantine people.Serious vigilance is not the same as freaking out.
We now have a seemingly unknown virus emerging from the world’s most populous country, run by an irresponsible dictatorship known for burying it’s responsibility and bungling management of these events, just as they are about to experience their biggest holiday travel season. Only 4 fatalities in China so far, but look at how quickly we have confirmed cases in Australia and the US. That should be a signal of it’s potential to cause harm (unlike Ebola).
No one one needs to freak out. Just don’t f*ck around until it’s too late.