And you can tell this at an INTERNATIONAL airport during a time when infected Chinese have been scattering like rats? Wow..........you are good.Shanked Punt said:There is zero justification for profiling somebody who appears to be of Chinese decent who hasn't even been to China in two years over this.aggietony2010 said:Shanked Punt said:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/coronavirus-weaponised-way-to-be-openly-racist
Here is a great column in The Guardian today over how this virus is being used as an excuse for people to be openly racist. This would be the greatest tragedy of all of this.Quote:
Dr Zhou had just arrived at Gatwick airport last week when a British couple physically recoiled as she entered a lift. "The woman looked at me, quickly turned to her husband and told him 'they should wear their masks'," she said. "They assumed I didn't understand English, that I was 'fresh off the boat' and that I probably had coronavirus." Humiliated, Zhou a scientist who was travelling from London to Slovenia stood in uncomfortable silence.
"I do give people the benefit of doubt because they're scared, but why can't they give me the benefit of doubt? Fear is no reason to be racist. Statistically, as a British citizen who hasn't been to China in two years, I have the same risk level as a white person."
Ah, yes, some justified profiling is worse than a few hundred dead and a potential pandemic. Sounds about right.
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Elsewhere in the US, three confirmed cases have been reported in California and one each in Washington State and Arizona.
There have been two cases reported in Illinois - the second case being the first time that the disease has been transmitted from person to person in the US.
CorrectMr.Infectious said:
Back to real news....
Pulled from UK Daily Mail..Quote:
Elsewhere in the US, three confirmed cases have been reported in California and one each in Washington State and Arizona.
There have been two cases reported in Illinois - the second case being the first time that the disease has been transmitted from person to person in the US.
The human to human in IL was husband and wife right?
JJMt said:That is my understanding.Quote:
The human to human in IL was husband and wife right?
fightingfarmer09 said:RAB91 said:foleyt said:
Where Irish we need his expertise for whether this is legit
Edit found another article with a bit more info
Their dairy industry will be the next big issue. They are ramping up the size of the operations without any of the support logistics with it.
Tx-Ag2010 said:fightingfarmer09 said:RAB91 said:foleyt said:
Where Irish we need his expertise for whether this is legit
Edit found another article with a bit more info
Their dairy industry will be the next big issue. They are ramping up the size of the operations without any of the support logistics with it.
Aren't most people of Asian decent lactose intolerant? I wouldn't think they would be ramping up dairy.
foleyt said:
Nuclear Scramjet said:Tx-Ag2010 said:fightingfarmer09 said:RAB91 said:foleyt said:
Where Irish we need his expertise for whether this is legit
Edit found another article with a bit more info
Their dairy industry will be the next big issue. They are ramping up the size of the operations without any of the support logistics with it.
Aren't most people of Asian decent lactose intolerant? I wouldn't think they would be ramping up dairy.
Yeah, only people of European descent really aren't lactose intolerant. It's very very obvious when you look at how much milk some countries drink on a per capita basis.
To use an extreme case, shouldn't we know Feb 15th - and definitely end of the month? We keep seeing this 14 day interval reported. So just to really push the time out there, shouldn't March 1 make it clear?cbr said:
I was feeling better but not sure anymore. Some stuff going around again that's pretty bad.
Quarantine going pretty long - things will break down over there soon.
Quarantine expanding still. Immediate burning bodies. The numbers just don't add up. Hopefully the rest of the world numbers are true and we don't have a massive problem coming.
Most of the meaning is clear, but can this be clarified, as the two lines are important to the rest of it:BlueMiles said:Bobcat06 said:For those who cant read Communist:Aggiebrewer said:Nuclear Scramjet said:
Can you decipher this for me pls? I don't mean translate the Chinese, just what am I supposed to get from it
A nothing burger!
So those people who were convinced this must be an engineered virus based on the HIV findings were basing their tin foil theories on bunk science? Whaaaaaaat?! Wonder what brilliant conspiracy theory we'll see next?scottimus said:
Yes, the one from India. Read their rational in the last critic I posted in the 2nd long criticism post.
China totalsfoleyt said: