I give up because you will run your agenda no matter what anyone says. I actually know someone who works in the WHO but you know best !
it’s a waste of my time
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it’s a waste of my time
That’s great. I know two airline pilots but it doesn’t mean I know where MH370 is. You seem to have a compulsive need to correct me without being able to back it up.
Well.known trainer Vic Rail was killed in the 90’s by the Hendra virus. Where do you reckon it got its name? It wouldn’t happen under the current criteria.
I emailed someone from the WHO and I stated what that person said. That’s it.
The naming convention has been changed but not for the reason you and TM suggest.
It’s no more complicated than that
OK I accept that you have relayed information in good faith. This is my last contribution on the subject.
WHO issues best practices for naming new human infectious diseases
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65,246 cases
1,487 deaths (2.28%)
10,603 severe (16%)
46,164 mild (71%)
6,992 recovered (11%)
Figures jumping around a lot now. Yesterday's change to the method of counting "infected" renders all previous data useless in trend analysis.
The update was late this morning, so perhaps there is more data to come in.
1,487 deaths (2.28%)
10,603 severe (16%)
46,164 mild (71%)
6,992 recovered (11%)
Figures jumping around a lot now. Yesterday's change to the method of counting "infected" renders all previous data useless in trend analysis.
The update was late this morning, so perhaps there is more data to come in.
Some adjustments going on with the case count, with the number of deaths wound back.
64,453 cases
1,384 deaths (2.15%)
10,608 severe (16%)
45,360 mild (70%)
7,101 recovered (11%)
Coronavirus outbreak: senior US official accuses China of lack of transparency
64,453 cases
1,384 deaths (2.15%)
10,608 severe (16%)
45,360 mild (70%)
7,101 recovered (11%)
Coronavirus outbreak: senior US official accuses China of lack of transparency
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'Therefore, it is important that whoever first reports on a newly identified human disease uses an appropriate name that is scientifically sound and socially acceptable.'
PC 101
Yep seems a perfectly logical and intelligent policy to me and totally consistent with what I was told.
Not sure how this is PC, just common sense.
That is my final contribution as well.
Ah for the good old non PC days when a chap could blame another country for your own propaganda purposes....
To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.[10][11] Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain(such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII).[12] These stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit,[13] thereby giving rise to the pandemic's nickname, "Spanish flu".[14]
To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.[10][11] Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain(such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII).[12] These stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit,[13] thereby giving rise to the pandemic's nickname, "Spanish flu".[14]
Speaking of the 1918-20 epidemic it was to some extent a portent of the future spread of such things... WW1 and the aftermath were the first time in human history where there was massive rapid movement of people.... particularly as millions of troops demobilised and returned home and others displaced persons relocated bringing the infection with them.Today there would be hundreds of thousands of people crossing borders everyday.
Whatever your view of colonialism id say the diseases introduced by settlers killed more indengenous people than bullets.
Whatever your view of colonialism id say the diseases introduced by settlers killed more indengenous people than bullets.
66,907 cases
1,523 deaths (2.28%)
10,759 severe (16%)
46,551 mild (70%)
8,074 recovered (12%)
1,523 deaths (2.28%)
10,759 severe (16%)
46,551 mild (70%)
8,074 recovered (12%)
I don't follow the Premier of Danistan on FB but I was looking up my local MLA's webpage and his FB feed was there ….. Dan is claiming anyone avoiding Chinese precincts is racist. Hopefully he also posted this in Mandarin if its not just targeted at Gweilo.
Dan Andrews
Politician · 609,675 Likes
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Last I checked coronavirus wasn't on the banquet menu.
But many Victorians seem to think it is.
Box Hill's restaurants are quiet. Chinatown gets more deserted by the day.
But that's not because of any medical advice or common sense.
A lot of it is simply fear.
A view that somehow, for whatever reason, Chinese people – and Chinese restaurants – should be avoided.
It's wrong – and it's discriminatory.
So let me say this, as clearly as I can:
Chinese communities are safe.
Chinese restaurants are safe.
Get out this weekend and have a meal.
And don't let fear ruin what's great about our state.
Dan Andrews
Politician · 609,675 Likes
· 1 hr ·
Last I checked coronavirus wasn't on the banquet menu.
But many Victorians seem to think it is.
Box Hill's restaurants are quiet. Chinatown gets more deserted by the day.
But that's not because of any medical advice or common sense.
A lot of it is simply fear.
A view that somehow, for whatever reason, Chinese people – and Chinese restaurants – should be avoided.
It's wrong – and it's discriminatory.
So let me say this, as clearly as I can:
Chinese communities are safe.
Chinese restaurants are safe.
Get out this weekend and have a meal.
And don't let fear ruin what's great about our state.
Honestly it's ridiculous & I really like Dan Andrews.
Mostly Chinese Australians visit these restaurants.
Are they too being discriminatory?
It's not racism, it's common sense.
Mostly Chinese Australians visit these restaurants.
Are they too being discriminatory?
It's not racism, it's common sense.
And the funniest thing is that his accompanying photo is of him and family unpacking the TAKEAWAY in the safety of their own kitchen! Probably arrived by Deliveroo or he sent the Govt driver down to pick it up ?
Maybe you should ask that question of Gladys Liu MHR whose office is in Box Hill.
Otherwise why does she waste her time and our money publishing her electorate information in Chinese languages and similarly how to vote cards. Under the pressure of exercising their democratic rights, they forget how to speak English perhaps?
People of foreign "descent" are fleunt in English but not all of those recently arrived or elderly are.
Typical of a politicians dribble. If the local Chinese won't go shopping in Box Hill or the China town precinct in the city why the *smile* should I? Must be because old male whitey b racist according to the pocket pissin dribblers in charge at Spring st.
I hate Chinese food, I guess that makes me racist long before the current out break of coronavirus, in Dan the mans eyes
