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  • #31
    ...here's another book selection for you, Pat:

    China barred my dystopian novel about how its system enables epidemics.




    In this Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, medical workers wear protective suits before entering the isolation ward in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Warning that China's virus epidemic is "still grim and complex," President Xi Jinping called Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020 for more efforts to stop the outbreak, revive industry and prevent the disease from disrupting spring planting of crops. (Cai Yang/Xinhua via AP)

    By Max Brooks https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...036_story.html

    Max Brooks is the author of the novel "World War Z" and the upcoming "Devolution." He is a senior, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Modern War Institute at West Point.

    Feb. 28, 2020 at 12:58 a.m. GMT+7

    In my zombie apocalypse novel, cases of a mysterious new disease start showing up somewhere in China. The government responds by suppressing news of the infection, threatening several doctors who try to sound the alarm. That coverup allows the virus to spread throughout the country, and then beyond its borders to the rest of the world.

    Sound familiar?

    I'd chosen China as ground zero for my 2006 novel, "World War ZSARS. Cases emerged in China in late 2002, but for months, the Chinese government did not warn the public about the new and deadly pathogen. Authorities forbade newspapers from reporting on it, undercounted cases and were slow to share information with the World Health Organization. By the end of the outbreak in July 2003, the pathogen had shown up halfway around the world, infecting 8,000 people and killing 774.

    As of this writing, a new strain of coronavirus has infected more than 80,000 peoplehave praised what China learned from SARS: It established a nationwide system for hospitals and clinics to report outbreaks, for example, and officials in China have issued public statements emphasizing the need for greater transparency, as well as its rapid response to this new epidemic. But that centralized power also helped enable the outbreak.

    There might not have been a need for rapid hospital construction and mobilization if the authorities hadn't played down the severity of the coronavirus and silenced early whistleblowers like Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan who tried to share news about the new virus. His posts were censored, and the police forced him to sign a letter stating that he'd made "false comments." That's not so different from what happened to my fictional first responder in "World War Z," Kwang Jingshu: He was gagged by those in power.

    Unlike Kwang, however, Li eventually died of the disease he tried so hard to stop. His death sparked an online outcry among outraged Chinese citizens, who called for freedom of speech. They were also silenced, their posts removed and hashtags deleted. In recent weeks, state-run media has been instructed to cover only positive stories about the relief efforts, and Internet platforms have been more vigilant about removing articles critical of the government.

    How can we trust any government that values control more than public safety? Of all the countries I write about in "World War Z," the most mysterious is North Korea. In my book, the entire population disappears underground. They might all be safe. They might all be undead. We don't know. In the real world, Kim Jong Un has claimed that there are no coronavirus cases in North Korea. Is that true? We don't know. Meanwhile, Iran has reported the largest number of deaths from the virus outside China. Its mortality rate, 14 percent, is so much higher than in other countries that critics have questioned whether the number of infections has been underreported or whether the government has suppressed information about the public health crisis.

    In the United States, we have a free and open society that lets us protect ourselves. But that freedom doesn't mean freedom from responsibility. In "World War Z," the zombie plague infects America because Americans are too distracted by greed, apathy, gullibility; they reject science and willfully embrace an incompetent president. Does that sound familiar? On his trip to India this past week, President Trump called the coronavirus "a problem that's going to go away," and at a press conference, he claimed that "the risk to the American people remains very low." The good news is that he's not the only one with a voice. We can turn to more qualified sources, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which warns that "disruption to everyday life may be severe.and it willprotect ourselves, we need to listen. When civil servants tell us what it will cost to strengthen our institutions, we need to pay up. Lastly, when we hear our fellow citizens surrendering to rumors, gossip or any unscientific fearmongering, we need to push back as if they were coughing in our face.

    I was prevented from publishing my book in China because the government did not want to confront its own flaws, even when heavily fictionalized. But if we admit ours now, and work together to correct them, we can ensure that World War Z remains firmly in the realm of fiction.


    Max Brooks
    Max Brooks is the author of the novel "World War Z" and the upcoming "Devolution." He is a senior, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Modern War Institute at West Point.
    Last edited by harrymsmarkle; 02-28-2020, 03:45 PM.
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    • #32
      Corona-Zombie viral strains....

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      • #33
        Coronavirus: How Fox News and other right-wing media endanger our healthhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavir...202100444.html
        USA TODAY Opinionsignificant disruptionaccording to one officialFox News are broadcasting sensationalistic, poorly sourced talking points, obfuscating the realities of the outbreak and the United States' own readiness to deal with it, leaving Americans more vulnerable and less informed.

        Virtually from the moment reports of a new virus emerged out of Wuhan, China, far-right extremists began circulating theories about its origin. When experts declared that the coronavirus likely spread from bats, far-right figures began circulating videos showing Asian people consuming exotic animals. Former InfoWars personality Paul Joseph Watson tweetedTucker Carlson also blamed the emergence of the virus on Chinese culture, erroneously claiming it was a result of people

        Fringe conspiracy theories


        The moment was emblematic of the cycle that right-wing media has fallen into while covering the coronavirus: Fringe conspiracy theories are making their way to more mainstream outlets and overshadowing accurate, fact-based reporting.

        In early February, fringe bloggers claimed that the findings of an unpublished, unreviewed paper that found similarities between the virus and HIV indicated that the virus was man-made. Though it was repeatedly debunked, the claim is now ubiquitous in right-wing media: The Daily Wire, The Federalist, Steve Bannon and Rush Limbaugh have all uncritically pushed the conspiracy theory that the virus may have leaked from a Chinese research lab.

        On Fox News, Carlson has broadcast the narrative multiple timessome sayminutes after Ken CuccinelliThe Daily Caller, a right-wing website founded by Carlson, chose instead to focusTom Cotton, R-Ark., was criticized this week for an appearance on Fox News in which he repeated the debunked theory, and Cotton had made the claim at least two other times on Fox.

        Despite widespread condemnation by major news organizations for ignoring the best available scientific evidence, right-wing outlets rushed to defend and reframe his remarksLimbaughblame Sanders for the drop in marketsultimately help Sanders defeat Trump.

        Coronavirus politics


        The politicization of the disease ultimately serves to provide cover for right-wing media to justify bigoted policies and xenophobic rhetoric. Carlson, a man with a well-documented history of expressing white nationalist sentiment, blamed globalizationwokeness is a cultproven right again Melissa Francis argued that the coronavirus outbreak had with China.

        It is now practically inevitable that the United States will face an outbreak of the coronavirus, but half-baked information is already appearing in public statements from Trump and other officials. Trump has already made multiple false or misleading claims regarding the virus that contradict experts and his own government organizations.

        cuts to CDC programs over the past two years, which have cast uncertainty on the organization's ability to handle a potential pandemic.Right-wing media outlets are failing their audience by turning a global health emergency into a tinfoil hat spectacle.
        Last edited by harrymsmarkle; 02-28-2020, 10:08 PM.
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        • #34
          Originally posted by Somchai Boonporn View Post
          Nature's plan.
          Taking out the most undesirable and those who conduct the greatest destruction.
          So that would be the Chinese then.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Hugh Cow View Post
            So that would be the Euro-types then.
            Yep.
            Quite correct.

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            • #36
              https://www.technologynetworks.com/n...1uErU.facebook

              ...informative vid that explains the coronavirus activity in your body...and an antidote to Boonytunes hysteria ()...
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              • #37
                Overall - been quite astounding as to the particular misinformation/blatant lies/make believe promoted largely from traditional ideals of "those people".
                The old Yellow Peril conditioning remains steadfast with attached contemporary twists.


                Even more so is the Western media's/Western establishment blatant disregard towards factual accounts of this mess.
                You know that is - repeated often and loud enough, it all becomes real and true.

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                • #38


                  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
                  Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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                  • #39

                    By Hailey Waller https://www.bloomberg.com/asia
                    February 29, 2020, 11:40 PM GMT+7

                    Last edited by harrymsmarkle; 03-01-2020, 06:46 AM.
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                    • #40
                      Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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                      • #41
                        Simple solution...

                        Make more masks very quickly...

                        Create more jobs and save our elderly, etcetera...

                        And I'd rather wear a mask than not if I were to be walking through the valley of death...

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                        • #42
                          A better resolution...
                          Mindless consumption and accumulation needlessly.

                          Cures everything, don't it.

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by BaitongBoy View Post
                            And I'd rather wear a mask than not if I were to be walking through the valley of death...
                            ...News Update: Valley of Death offers huge holiday discounts...
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                            • #44
                              The news is now telling everyone to stock up on things.. kind of overblowing this pandemic thing.
                              So, yesterday my mom tells me she goes and buys two or three bottles of tylenol, water, tp, etc..

                              People will start doing this which I think is pretty unnecessary if you live in a big enough city.

                              I'm just glad I am not in China (Shanghai) and not in the hospital where I was two years ago for 11 days for pneumonia.

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by vendetta4real View Post
                                I'm just glad I am not in China........
                                Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

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