Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

IdleRich said:

Alison Pearson wrote an article in the Telegraph saying that the nicotine study meant everyone should be smoking cigarettes.

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How is Boris? For millions of people, that was our first thought upon waking yesterday. And our last thought before we fell asleep the night before. The prospect of losing our Prime Minister was profoundly shocking. “He won’t die, will he?” a friend texted at 11.18pm. “My heart will break.”

It’s rare for a politician to inspire such emotion, but Boris is loved – really loved – in a way that the metropolitan media class has never begun to understand. Hearing reporters and doctors on TV talking about the PM’s admission to the ICU at St Thomas’s Hospital, discussing the likely effect on his lungs and “other vital organs”, was horrible; the picture of naked vulnerability it painted so entirely at odds with our rambunctious hero barrelling into a room with a quizzical rub of that blond mop and a booming: “Hi, folks!”

Yet, make no mistake, the health of Boris Johnson is the health of the body politic and, by extension, the health of the nation itself. All 66 million of us are metaphorically pacing the hospital corridor, desperate for news.

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IdleRich said:

Half right. Anyway, gonna go inject some bleach to ensure I don't get ill.

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luka said:

This is coooool

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HMGovt said:

But will that enquiry start out seeking to find institutional racism, or physiological reasons (like serological vitamin D differences, dietary differences, epigenetic factors (like being vitamin D deprived for several generations))

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droid said:

Yeah, I wonder if reporting is a factor here. Maybe British Caribbeans are more likely to go to hospital in the first place?

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Mr. Tea said:

Weird though that Caribbean populations would be such an outlier, with figures for both Asians and Africans not much different from white people. No doubt inequality does play some role but it's hardly as if there aren't plenty of poor UK Somalis, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis etc.

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catalog said:

The virus is better at being racist than the state

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Leo said:

I whole-heartedly endorse the GOP leadership, Fox News opinion show hosts and trump base moving forward with this home brew vaccine, excellent idea.

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version said:

I saw someone describe Michael Gove as "sentient foreskin" earlier.

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droid said:

TBF the dems just recently encouraged voting in the middle of a pandemic in order to ensure that their right wing candidate defeated a marginally left wing opponent. Thats pretty evil no matter how you swing it.

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Leo said:

not to beat a dead horse but just read something related: the democratic governor of Wisconsin postponed the primary election to June, but was sued by the state GOP party who took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, where the GOP-appointed majority overturned the postponement and forced the election to happen. Wisconsin is a very polarized state (remember previous governor Scott walker?), split between democratic cities (Milwaukee, Madison) and republican rural areas. Milwaukee and Madison were hit hardest by the virus, so the GOP wanted to screw with those strongholds and force the election to happen while people were on lockdown and fearful of going out and standing on line.

just wanted to clarify that the Democratic Party/establishment wasn't the one encouraging the election in the middle of a pandemic.

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...after the CDC on March 15 advised the public to cancel all gatherings of more than fifty people, a senior adviser to Joe Biden, the current frontrunning Democratic presidential candidate, went on CNN and claimed the CDC had deemed in-person voting safe. And not a single major media outlet reported on it.

Nor did they report on the actual dangerous conditions at multiple primary voting sites, and the exposure of trusting citizens to the coronavirus that the adviser’s reckless advice had encouraged. And it wasn’t just one irresponsible adviser that put people at risk: DNC chair Tom Perez made misleading statements, downplayed the dangers and exaggerated the preparedness of voting sites, and criticized and threatened states which wanted to postpone their primaries. The Biden campaign as well as the DNC put politics over people, exposing countless voters to a fatal virus.

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...internal DNC memo sent to members of the Rules and Bylaws Committee on Wednesday night, and obtained by the Guardian), went further, threatening to punish states that moved their primary beyond a cut-off date of June 9 by reducing their number of delegates by half. (Louisiana and Kentucky scheduled their elections to take place on June 23.) It’s hard to reconcile Perez’s statement that the “timing around the virus remains unpredictable” with a firm cut-off date.

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“A convention having tens of thousands of people in one arena is very different than having people walk into a polling booth with accurate spacing with 6 to 10 feet apart, one at a time going in, and having the machines scrubbed down,” Biden said. “I think you could hold the election as well dealing with mail-in ballots and same-day registration. I think it could be done… but that’s for them to decide.”

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