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The actual gist of this story is that there is strong (and readily available) evidence that presymptomatic and asymptomatic people are driving the spread of the virus but U.S. officials are effectively denying this for some reason. cnn.com/2020/03/14/hea…
Left: the CDC website's list of symptoms. Right: WHO's. One seems designed to flag only the most serious cases, the other to try to catch everyone who might have it.
"Because she didn't have the most common symptoms like a cough or shortness of breath, 'I thought, okay, well that's definitely why I don't have coronavirus,' said Schneider." news.yahoo.com/dont-panic-say…
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Is there anything anyone involved in the American foreign policy creation industry over the last several decades can point to as a win?
this is basically the answer and it is stuff we could've built on and made universal ten times over with the money we spent on the other stuff
and this, like the Good Friday Accords was nearly a quarter-century ago, but those are the two answers that explain the otherwise inexplicable self-confidence of our liberal foreign policy establishment
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Northeast Democrats like Biden are the most explicit about this but they don't want power. The want divided government. They engineer devided government when the people go and install too many Democrats. buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhip…
It would be helpful for the sanity of this country if the GOP were less extreme. But if you want to pass the Democratic agenda you need to pray for the GOP to be sane and powerless.
"my party shouldn't have too much power" is such a bizarre thing to say unless you really don't believe in your party's agenda
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more support for my theory that basically everything in American life, besides a handful of luxury goods and conveniences subsidized by exploited gig labor, has been getting shittier for years but no one will admit it
see also thebaffler.com/salvos/consola…
in 2001, a guy who helped invent Cheez Whiz in the 50s tried some of the modern stuff and was furious at what Kraft had done to it nationalpost.com/opinion/michae…
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A really heartbreaking sight. The sacrifices from health workers in China have been immense.
This is the context of that video, reportedly related to the death of hospital director Liu Zhiming.
This is making the rounds, claiming to be Chinese escaping the country into Vietnam. I'm almost certain that it is misrepresented, and that this is not true.
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If containment fails, and this projection comes true, the hardships that the world would experience during the onset of the first coronavirus pandemic would be hard to comprehended through our current eyes. A first for the modern world.
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Unsurprisingly, more information was withheld by the Chinese government. COVID-19 had reached Guangdong by January 4th. Wuhan's lockdown only began on the 23rd. This is a probelm far bigger than Hubei and China.
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If you're looking for someone compromised on China, you have this theater and its 'unbreakable friendship.' news.yahoo.com/china-declines…
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@CDCgov While I wait for more info to develop in the coming days, make sure to follow @JaneLytv's fantastic coverage of the misinformation that is spreading:
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Now Japan too 👀 https://t.co/9yeEsUGHDx
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