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wizard69 said:

lkrupp said:

wizard69 said:

lkrupp said:

Good! And to hell with the "alternative truths" and "competing information" baloney. We already have enough of that from the anti-vaccer crowd, the flat earthers, and creation "science" idiots.  And if you say you can't trust the CDC, the NIH, and the WHO then you can't trust anybody and you're hopeless. What you read on internet blogs is usually about 99% nonsensical idiocy., period.

That is all well and good but you really should wake up and look at WHO’s behavior in  China over the last couple of months.   If you can honestly say you trust WHO after reasonable research you have a problem.    Between a corrupt reporting system in China and WHO’s willingness to accept what the government in China feed them, we really don’t know how deadly this infection is.    This isn’t anti science as much as it is a humbling government in China and the WHO’s inability to deal with that problem.  

Beyond all of that we must not forget that even the CDC and NIH can be wrong.   This simply because so little is known about the disease at the moment.  

The professionals may be wrong sometimes but they're all we have. And you are NEVER going to get the truth by slugging through the disgusting pile of dung known as the internet where anonymous 'experts' hold court.

I freely admit to the idiots that take glee in the suffering of others.   That doesn’t imply that everybody is so disposed.     The problem is while the WHO and CCP where telling everybody things where fine I’m seeing guys posting videos and interviews from people actually in China.   It was obviously a lot worse than we have been told this lead to a lot of complacency around the world.   Any chance of containment evaporated months ago.  

Everyone has had some kind of trouble dealing with China. The U.S. government, Apple, google, Microsoft all have. Trying to blame WHO when they are risking their lives trying to contain a pandemic is reprehensible. The WHO offered a test for the virus to the U.S. months ago and we turned it down. S. Korea and the U.S. had their first cases on the same day. S. Korea has implemented drive thru testing and we are not even close to them, much less the needed testing to get the pandemic under control. If there’s any skepticism it should be for the trump administration’s handling of this. He disbanded the cabinet level pandemic response unit and when asked about it said he doesn’t take responsibility for that action at all. 

“Leadership: Whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible.” 

entropys said:

dinkydogs said:

AF_Hitt said:

hentaiboy said:

lkrupp said:

Oh, and how long till we get a white supremacist emoji

Apparently this is it ߑ찟ﻦlt;/div>

I’ve seen this around a lot too. When did the a-okay sign become a white supremacist thing?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/ok-sign-white-power.html

from above article

It started in early 2017 as a hoax. Some users of 4chan, an anonymous and unrestricted online message board, began what they called “Operation O-KKK,” to see if they could trick the wider world — and especially liberals and the mainstream media — into believing that the innocuous gesture was actually a clandestine symbol of white power

“We must flood twitter and other social media websites with spam, claiming that the OK hand signal is a symbol of white supremacy,” one of the users posted, going on to suggest that everyone involved create fake social media accounts “with basic white girl names” to propagate the notion as widely as possible.

The 4chan hoax succeeded all too well, and ceased being a hoax: Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other white nationalists began using the gesture in public to signal their presence and to spot potential sympathizers and recruits. For them, the letters formed by the hand were not O and K, but W and P, for “white power.”

 Victory for the 4chan kiddies enabled by the absurdity of victimology.