Spain's COVID-19 death toll surpasses China's

[GANGIE 5,430]

6 minutes ago, Emigrante said:

poland? 

Yep but it's 1000+/16 for now... 

[Leblanc 2,494]

2 hours ago, Faysalaaa said:

I dont think your country is evil, and I dont think my country is good. But dont tell me to not criticize your country because it has done great things for you.

I'm saying now is not the time, what good is it to criticize stuff we cannot change now when we should be all coming together

[Rio 5,088]

18 hours ago, Economy said:

Let's keep calling it the Chinese virus tho...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's where it originated. Fact. And that could have been prevented with better hygiene practices, stricter wet market regulations and less dangerous eating habits. 

[MelbHawker 6,583]

Are we seriously supposed to believe the virus has just all of a sudden stopped killing people in China?

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20 minutes ago, LeBlanc said:

I'm saying now is not the time, what good is it to criticize stuff we cannot change now when we should be all coming together

Actually now is the time to all come together and criticize people in power. Its time to criticize people in power during this crisis because they are making decisions based on their personal stocks and money. They are openly saying we dont mind people dying so we can save the economy! Then they are taking poor citizens money to bail themself out while offering nothing to poor people.

If you dont care about any of this, its fine live your life the way you want to. But I choose to take action and do something about it. So its annoying when you try to minimize the problem and tell me I should not criticize because you love your "democratic" country.

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1 minute ago, Rio said:

That's where it originated. Fact. And that could have been prevented with better hygiene practices, stricter wet market regulations and less dangerous eating habits. 

Literally takes only 1 person getting infected to spread it to everyone

 

U can't blame an entire Nation for that

 

How would Canada & USA feel if we called mad cow disease the "American disease"? Ppl would flip

 

Viruses and bacteria pop up all over nature. We don't have to attach stigma to the people that inhabit the human borders that we invented that don't even exist in nature

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2 minutes ago, Rio said:

That's where it originated. Fact. And that could have been prevented with better hygiene practices, stricter wet market regulations and less dangerous eating habits. 

That's all true.

But surely you understand that by Donald Trump labelling it the 'China Virus', it basically actualises racism in it's most dangerous form. Half of America (and the world) are that dim-witted that they will blame the entire Chinese population for this virus because of the context in which Trump has dubbed it the 'China Virus'. The last thing the world needs is more racism. That's why his language is wrong and problematic.

[Rio 5,088]

4 minutes ago, MelbHawker said:

That's all true.

But surely you understand that by Donald Trump labelling it the 'China Virus', it basically actualises racism in it's most dangerous form. Half of America (and the world) are that dim-witted that they will blame the entire Chinese population for this virus because of the context in which Trump has dubbed it the 'China Virus'. The last thing the world needs is more racism. That's why his language is wrong and problematic.

His language is self-serving and dirty. I didnt wanna come across as supporting what he said btw

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25 minutes ago, Faysalaaa said:

Actually now is the time to all come together and criticize people in power. Its time to criticize people in power during this crisis because they are making decisions based on their personal stocks and money. They are openly saying we dont mind people dying so we can save the economy! Then they are taking poor citizens money to bail themself out while offering nothing to poor people.

If you dont care about any of this, its fine live your life the way you want to. But I choose to take action and do something about it. So its annoying when you try to minimize the problem and tell me I should not criticize because you love your "democratic" country.

As of right now, that isn't helping. There will be lots of time and plenty of inquiries after this is over and we can criticise them then. Right now we are all in a horrible situation and unless your criticism offers a solution then we don't need to hear it right now.

There are so many hard working regular people, who have no ulterior motive other than trying to save as many lives as they can, working in governments across the world and you choose to focus on the negatives which are ultimately always going to occur in a pandemic.

This isn't even about being patriotic, I've had a lot to say against my country too but I realise now the best thing to do is be positive, listen to the facts and doing my part by staying home.

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9 minutes ago, LeBlanc said:

As of right now, that isn't helping. There will be lots of time and plenty of inquiries after this is over and we can criticise them then. Right now we are all in a horrible situation and unless your criticism offers a solution then we don't need to hear it right now.

There are so many hard working regular people, who have no ulterior motive other than trying to save as many lives as they can, working in governments across the world and you choose to focus on the negatives which are ultimately always going to occur in a pandemic.

This isn't even about being patriotic, I've had a lot to say against my country too but I realise now the best thing to do is be positive, listen to the facts and doing my part by staying home.

There wont be lots of time, decisions are being made now. I do have a solution and its to not use peoples money to bail out corporations, banks, and billionaires.

Again, u dont have to do what im doing, u can go back to loving ur country and being greateful for it..

[ltlmnstr 2,771]

4 hours ago, homomo said:

That’s not reassuring at all. A very large population of people (including my partner and friends) have asthma

yeah I know but saying she no pre-existing conditions isn't helping

that article you linked went viral 24 hours ago on reddit and the highest upvoted comment is that the headline was wrong

 

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3 hours ago, Rio said:

That's where it originated. Fact. And that could have been prevented with better hygiene practices, stricter wet market regulations and less dangerous eating habits. 

I'm really tired of Westerns blaming an entire country with multiple provinces, each with a different set of laws, for the virus

Do you want to go back to calling HIV/AIDS Gay Cancer?

And chill out with the imperialism

You might as say these  Asians need to like White people (when the most of the world got corona from traveling Italians)

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3 hours ago, MelbHawker said:

Are we seriously supposed to believe the virus has just all of a sudden stopped killing people in China?

Well they're still reporting deaths. But China actually had a widespread lockdown and testing phase that helped stop the spread. Same for the other neighboring countries. Unlike Western countries were weren't prepared.

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14 hours ago, ThunderSwallow said:

I’m Chinese and I’m with you sending out all my prayers.

Its true Chinese government owns the world a big apology. What’s worst, they shamelessly now accusing US and then Italy is the first discovered this virus with many local media supporting this ideas here. Sadly, most Chinese who only received news within China believe this bullshit. 

We are now have many ppl losing their jobs not just because domestic economic crisis but also whose companies lost tons of orders due to the outbreak in many other countries. 
 

I might losing my job as well since my company is doing Amazon and we can’t even ship our products due to its current non-essential policy.

I'm really sorry too about you all, and thankful for understanding my message, I made the clarification but I want to insist that my message just goes to the government (and I blame also my government, the Spanish one, and today the US one that claims that citizens should go back to the streets and work again, since they care more about money than for the lives they're gonna ruin during the following weeks). It's very frustrating to see EVERYTHING corrupted everywhere, that we will never stop being in the middle of wars that are not ours, and that we'll face the consequences and lose our beloved ones no matter what, that's why we all have to go out to the streets once this is over, and take justice with our own hands and make a radical change. Hope your job situation gets solved soon... I'm a freelancer and also, all my jobs are cancelled at the moment, and I have to move to a new apt. in 4 days... this is crazy. But as long as we all go through it safe... I'll be glad

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3 hours ago, ltlmnstr said:

 

You might as say these  Asians need to like White people (when the most of the world got corona from traveling Italians)

Don't excuse others stupid comments with more stupid comments, most of the world got corona because China covered it for weeks while it got spread exactly as the government (not the Chinese people) wanted, now economy is collapsed, and stocks are being sold at ridiculous prices, which is the point of all this; war on economy. You all just need to check last years headlines, no more, about the tax changes and war between US' and China's governments, we're just in the middle of this sadistic game, period.