^Come on, man. The fact that they have CNN listed as neutral and "fair opinion" is enough to know that that chart is a joke. CNN, FOXNEWS, MSNBC, and the like are all full of crap.

left-right is a very simplistic measure of bias, there are many more dimenions

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:56 am

yong wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:27 am

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:21 am The dogs of war are howling
Hysteria ^^^
dangerous (very)

imo

China Communist Party has go be taken responsible and account to this

"War - so be it" is not generally a sentiment spoken by anyone who has actually seen it in real life.

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In this case, unfortunately, I've seen too much of it.

Which is why I didn't advocate for war with China. But if it is necessary then so be it.

China declared war on the world with their actions - not words - actions.

When the virus appeared they used censorship, secrecy, and physical arresting of doctors to keep the public in the dark. In January, local officials stopped internally reporting new cases ahead of the communist party enclave in Hubei. China refused to admit multiple countries infectious disease experts to evaluate the severity of the virus. Chinese health officials understood the severity of the threat before the Lunar New Year - they released no information to the public nor to the world. Millions upon millions travelled - so did the virus.

On December 26th, a Chinese lab reported to health officials that a new corona virus with 87% similarity to SARS was present in samples coming from hospitals in Wuhan from patients with pneumonia like symptoms. December 26th they knew.

Not until it was impossible to suppress the extent of the problem did China admit the virus could be transmitted between humans and begin to call for action. It took further weeks before they released the data that Epidemiologists could use to study the impact the virus might have. This all has cost (and will cost) 10's of thousands of lives, trillions of dollars, and destroyed the livelihood of 10's of millions.

All to protect the Communist Party of China. The world be damned.

The spread of this virus is an attack on all of the world. It IS an act of war.

So yes, I fully support the total isolation of China from the world. And I say that knowing one of the ramifications could be war.

Good Luck

"China declared war on the world with their actions - not words - actions."

hysterical and bullshit

(imo only, but you are entittled to your conflict stirring views too)

This news item from Australia shocks me to the core. It's not xenophobia, but there is an element of racism in these attacks: In Australia, medical workers, particularly (Asian) nurses, are being targeted by random people because they are believed to be coronavirus carriers. These workers are risking their lives to do their jobs, and they get coughed on, spat at and aggressed by random dickheads. Frankly, I think the people who threaten or harrass health workers right now need to taste some tough 'quarantine' time. This is not ok.

Abused nurse tells public: 'It is wrong. This has got to stop'
By Julie Power
April 7, 2020 — 11.46am

Nurse Shirley Kavanagh's life changed a week ago when two teenage boys started coughing at her on an empty train to work from Macquarie Park. "She's a nurse. She's got COVID-19," they taunted as they coughed.

She threatened to call the police and their parents but they kept coughing. Then they said, "We've got COVID-19."

Shirley Kavanagh was abused on the train while heading to her nursing night shift at Royal North Shore Hospital.

Across NSW, hospitals have told health workers not to wear their uniforms to work after reports doctors, nurses and other health workers have been physically and verbally abused while travelling to and from work. Health unions have been assured that NSW Police will prosecute people who physically and verbally attack health workers.

By the time Ms Kavanagh arrived for her night shift working with premature babies in Royal North Shore Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, she was shaken.

"I felt vulnerable. I couldn't get myself together. I realised this is the new normal. I don't feel safe."
She no longer felt safe travelling to work at a job she had always loved.

None of the medical staff who have been attacked have gone public but Ms Kavanagh and another neonatal nurse from RNSH decided to speak out because of the number of hospital staff who are putting their lives on the line.

"They are the ones who are putting the tubes down people's throats, they are putting themselves and their families at risk, and they go home and put their own kids to bed," Ms Kavanagh said.

"It is wrong," she said of these attacks. "This has got to stop."

She thinks the boys, who she believed to be about 15-years-of-age, only identified her as a nurse because she was wearing her blue scrubs beneath a zip-up sports shirt.

Across NSW, other nurses have been reportedly spat at and criticised online and in public.

A nurse was refused service at a cafe while another in northern NSW was denied accommodation because the landlord was afraid she would spread the virus, according to Brett Holmes, the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association's general secretary.

The union has received about 10 to 15 "shocking" reports from across the state.

Mr Holmes said these attacks were based on "over-the-top-fear response", misinformation and ignorance of how the virus was spread. They often presumed that every healthcare worker was working in a high-risk area and carrying the virus on their clothing.

Nurses understood infection control, and were "super conscious of not taking the virus home to their family." And if members of the public were practising social distancing, there was very little risk. "It doesn't have legs, or springs," Mr Holmes said of the virus.

There was also an element of "racism on top of this ill-informed view", Mr Holmes said.

"Nurses who have Asian appearance are copping it worse," he said.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/abu ... 54fyy.html

"A Nazi flag attached to two Chinese flags was left to fly above the Victorian town of Kyabram for two days after being tied to a Telstra tower in the centre of town"
"Last month in Tongala, only 16 kilometres from Kyabram, the Chinese owners of the local IGA faced a barrage of abuse from customers entering the store, as panic buying and anxiety ramped up.

Store manager, Jodie Wilson, said rumours about "busloads of Asians" clearing out supermarket shelves were untrue for the Tongala IGA."
""They're a little bit heartbroken because they're very community-minded people, they donate to every organisation in this town and employ all locals to keep the money here."
""It's generally a response by people who are not well-educated, who have not travelled, who don't read a broad range of topics, but only read things that are written or hear things that are said by people in their own group," he said."
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-04- ... a/12145166

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:38 pm This news item from Australia shocks me to the core. It's not xenophobia, but there is an element of racism in these attacks: In Australia, medical workers, particularly (Asian) nurses, are being targeted by random people because they are believed to be coronavirus carriers. These workers are risking their lives to do their jobs, and they get coughed on, spat at and aggressed by random dickheads. Frankly, I think the people who threaten or harrass health workers right now need to taste some tough 'quarantine' time. This is not ok.

Abused nurse tells public: 'It is wrong. This has got to stop'
By Julie Power
April 7, 2020 — 11.46am

Nurse Shirley Kavanagh's life changed a week ago when two teenage boys started coughing at her on an empty train to work from Macquarie Park. "She's a nurse. She's got COVID-19," they taunted as they coughed.

first toilet paper panic, now this. what is wrong with these people?

racist hysteria

if they can prove deliberate intent then fine go to war

they cant

i do think there should bea international inquiry tho

if china was criminally negligent, fine them

then fine every nation for wars that were staged

fair's fair