Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Nope.
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China overtook the U.S. as the world’s top destination for new foreign direct investment last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic amplifies an eastward shift in the center of gravity of the global economy.
New investments by overseas businesses into the U.S., which for decades held the No. 1 spot, fell 49% in 2020, according to U.N. figures released Sunday, as the country struggled to curb the spread of the new coronavirus and economic output slumped.
China, long ranked No. 2, saw direct investments by foreign companies climb 4%, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said. Beijing used strict lockdowns to largely contain COVID-19 after the disease first emerged in a central Chinese city, and China’s gross domestic product grew even as most other major economies contracted last year.
The 2020 investment numbers underline China’s move toward the center of a global economy long dominated by the U.S. — a shift accelerated during the pandemic as China has cemented its position as the world’s factory floor and expanded its share of global trade.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-leapfrogs-u-s-to-become-worlds
-no-1-destination-for-foreign-direct-investment-11611519119
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Bill Clinton's plan for Chinese world dominance is almost complete.
All we need now is for Biden to make environmental regulations so strict here that nobody would think of investing in American businesses and then everything the entire world uses will be made by 12 year old Chinese kids that work 80 hour weeks and go outside and choke on the Steven King-esque wall of smog outside after they punch out.
But keep on buying all that shit you don't need and pretending you give one single shit about the environment.
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Quote:The Chinese (on Taiwan and the Mainland) had a big Covid-19 problem and they fixed it. Back in America, lazy old Trump said there was a small Covid-19 problem. The result was that the two Chinese run economies are doing better than ever because they handled their problem and slowed down their pandemic, while the American pandemic is running faster and faster and the American economy is running slowly and erratically.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Bill Clinton's plan for Chinese world dominance is almost complete.
All we need now is for Biden to make environmental regulations so strict here that nobody would think of investing in American businesses and then everything the entire world uses will be made by 12 year old Chinese kids that work 80 hour weeks and go outside and choke on the Steven King-esque wall of smog outside after they punch out.
But keep on buying all that shit you don't need and pretending you give one single shit about the environment.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have 42,700,000 big plans listed by google to reduce CO2 emissions and America has no plans that can get past the GOP Senators and their filibustering. Who do you think will be more prosperous? The Chinese who are working hard on their future? Or the Trumptards complaining that the Chinese are working too hard at making stuff?
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+chinese+plans+for+reducing+co
2+emissions
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Fauci and Birx tell interviewers about the 'nonsense' of the Trump years
Fauci said Trump sometimes called him to "express disappointment in me that I was not being more positive," and Trump surrounded himself "with people saying things that didn't make any scientific sense," but he always felt it was better to stay at his post rather than resign. "I always felt that if I did walk away, the skunk at the picnic would no longer be at the picnic," Fauci said. "Even if I wasn't very effective in changing everybody's minds, the idea that they knew that nonsense could not be spouted without my pushing back on it, I felt was important."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/media/fauci-brix-trump-reliable-sources
/index.html
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Anti-vaccine activists peddle theories that Covid-19 shots are deadly, undermining vaccination
In some cases, anti-vaccine activists are fabricating stories of deaths that never occurred.
Now, the same groups are blaming patients' coincidental medical problems on covid shots, even when it's clear that age or underlying health conditions are to blame, Hotez said. "They will sensationalize anything that happens after someone gets a vaccine and attribute it to the vaccine," Hotez said.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/health/anti-vaccine-theories-undermine-
vaccination/index.html
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Originally posted by second:
The Chinese (on Taiwan and the Mainland) had a big Covid-19 problem and they fixed it.
Yup. They fixed it by having a government run media that lied to their own citizens and the rest of the world every step of the way.
Don't worry buddy. Democrats in America are working on making that the way we do business here. Once we have the Ministry of Truth installed and zero ability to say anything online that is against the narrative, we can fix non-fatal pandemic numbers once and for all and pretend that everybody is in agreement with what the media says since nobody will be able to voice their opinions otherwise.
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Quote:Don't be an asshole about this. The Chinese in Taiwan got control of their pandemic. The results are that few died, or even sickened, and the economy didn't go into recession. How exactly was Taiwan different than America? Taiwan didn't goof off or pretend covid-19 is no problem. Today's news:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The Chinese (on Taiwan and the Mainland) had a big Covid-19 problem and they fixed it.
Yup. They fixed it by having a government run media that lied to their own citizens and the rest of the world every step of the way.
Don't worry buddy. Democrats in America are working on making that the way we do business here. Once we have the Ministry of Truth installed and zero ability to say anything online that is against the narrative, we can fix non-fatal pandemic numbers once and for all and pretend that everybody is in agreement with what the media says since nobody will be able to voice their opinions otherwise.
Taiwan to put 5,000 into quarantine over hospital COVID-19 cluster
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will more than double the number of people who have to quarantine at home to more than 5,000 as it seeks to contain a rare domestic cluster of COVID-19 connected to a hospital, the health minister said on Sunday.
While Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control thanks to early and effective prevention, with the large majority of its 890 infections imported cases, it has since Jan. 12 been dealing with a small number of domestic transmissions at a hospital.
While the 15 people infected so far at the hospital in the northern city of Taoyuan is small compared to many other parts of the world, it has unnerved the government, which has cancelled many large-scale events related to the upcoming Lunar New Year.
Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told reporters that they will expand the number of people who have to quarantine at home for 14 days who may have had contact with the infected patients from the hospital cluster.
He put the number at about 5,000 people, compared to around 1,300 who are currently in quarantine.
The government has been testing all of those who have been in quarantine, and has been announcing new cases amongst them as they are confirmed.
Taiwan has a well-honed system to track those who have been in contact with confirmed cases and an electronic monitoring network to ensure those in quarantine remain at home.
Despite the new infections, Taiwan only has 95 active cases being treated in hospital. The government holds news conferences to announce details of every new infection.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan/taiwan-to
-put-5000-into-quarantine-over-hospital-covid-19-cluster-idUSKBN29T0CN
There are millions of similar articles at https://www.google.com/search?q=taiwan+covid
Compared to Taiwan, America does next to nothing and the result is that America has the crappy economy and high illness/deaths to be expected from doing close to nothing, except once the American sick are in the ICU, the hospitals go into high gear because of the money to be made. Capitalism in the medical industry is great, is it not?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The countries that brought SARS-CoV-2 under control swiftly and that have extremely low per capita deaths were the countries that had had experience with the original SARS. And that includes China, and Taiwan - along with Vietnam, Macau, and Hong Kong.
But those are communist countries and their data is highly suspect! you'll say.
Except the list of countries that brought SARS-CoV-2 under swift control also includes NZ(<1 per100k), Singapore(<1), SK(2.6), Australia (3.5), Japan(4), Iceland(8), and Norway(10); compared to Sweden(108) and the US(128).
Not everybody is lying, and not all figures are fake. There might be some blurring around the edges, but you can't mistake the US(128) for NZ(<1).
figures are to date: http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
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