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No, CNN, ‘Humanity’ Is Not Responsible For Wuhan Virus. China Is

In an article and TV segment yesterday, CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh and Vasco Cotovio argued that the Chinese virus pandemic was not the fault of China’s communist government or bats, but “human activity.” The big winner in this bizarre way of telling the story is China, which is launching a furious disinformation campaign to distance itself from blame for the pandemic.

According the CNN theory, the real problem is a global one. Through climate change and other means, natural habitats are being destroyed. This displaces animals such as bats. When the bats are displaced (and I’m not making this up), the bats get stressed out and are more susceptible to viruses they could otherwise fight off.

The war on science goes on .The southern theater is firmly under control by the GOP .

OAN?????? are you kidding me??

The global health community stopped naming diseases after places in recent years.

At a January 28 meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, the WHO director reportedly offered effusive praise for Beijing’s transparency and management of the coronavirus outbreak in late January, even though China initially tried to hide the epidemic from its public and the rest of the globe as the disease spread.

Dr. Tedros also blasted other governments, like the United States, that tried to prevent the outbreak from spreading even further beyond China’s borders by suspending travel to and from the country.

This month, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, proclaimed that the coronavirus outbreak would be “worse” if U.S. President Donald Trump had not implemented travel bans on China early this year.

The WHO director served as health minister in Ethiopia, which has a Marxist past. China is currently the largest foreign investor in the African country.

Communist China is now the second-biggest donor to the United Nation’s regular budget after the United States. As such, Beijing holds considerable sway over the WHO, a U.N. entity.

Perhaps one of the most glaring examples of the influence Beijing holds over the WHO is its success in blocking Taiwan’s access to the body, a position that could devastate the Taiwanese people as coronavirus continues to spread.

Although China does not control Taiwan, it claims the island as part of its territory.

would you turn your back on their 'science,' or would you go on shouting that 'science' had become a hoax in the service of political interests?

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would you turn your back on their 'science,' or would you go on shouting that 'science' had become a hoax in the service of political interests?

What are you talking about. Facts are not negotiable. Science either works or its a hoax. You can follow whomever you think. If you wish to join the SPring Break crowd exchanging DNA on Florida beaches, or you wish to ingest chloroquine because Trump thinks it has merit.OR if you wish to stick a hair dryer up your nose, all I wish to ask is"Can I , from a safe distance watch and take notes?".

Even dimwit science can teach us something.


PS, I dont usually shout unless Im calling a greeting out to another boat .

I’ll bet you $50. that Obama vs Clinton came back from a deficit larger than Bernie vs Biden.

Steve Schmidt
@SteveSchmidtSES
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Trump is incompetent, dishonest and profoundly indecent. His staggering incapacity for moral leadership in this unprecedented moment is hard to overstate. His empty boasting, dishonesty, blame gaming, lack of empathy and fragile ego are a deadly combination of traits right now

Steve Schmidt

John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
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Trump declines to pledge that his family business won’t take any of the hundreds of billions in relief for companies in coronavirus bill now before Congress

“let’s see what happens,” Trump says

Jared Bernstein
@econjared
· 6h
I wouldn't have put it as colorfully as Sen. Manchin, who is a D but no radical, but he's solidly on point here re Rs biz plans: “They’re throwing caution to the wind for average workers and people on Main Street and going balls to the wall for people on Wall Street." [thrd]

Dr. Milton Wolf: ‘The American media is garbage … they’ll claim a cure is a killer just to bash Trump’

In tweets posted Saturday morning, he specifically took aim at Bloomberg for running a widely mocked piece warning that the potential coronavirus cure that’s currently being scrutinized by the Trump administration can be lethal at very high doses …

As Wolf and countless others rightly noted, ANY DRUG can be lethal at very high doses.

when did Obama incorrectly blame Bush for anything??

Rupert Murdoch Put His Son in Charge of Fox. It Was a Dangerous Mistake.
The 48-year-old Lachlan Murdoch stood by as Fox News hosts played down the danger of the deadly coronavirus to their viewers.

...Fox failed its viewers and the broader public in ways both revealing and potentially lethal. In particular Lachlan Murdoch failed to pry its most important voices away from their embrace of the president’s early line: that the virus was not a big threat.

..The damage Fox did appears likely to extend beyond the typical media hits and misses. I asked Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Public Health Institute, who appeared on Fox News recently, whether he believes people will die because of Fox’s coverage.

“Yes,” he said. “Some commentators in the right-wing media spread a very specific type of misinformation that I think has been very harmful.”.

NYT