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This is racism and irresponsible journalism “all but 3 deaths have been in China.” There is a time lag! The disease doesn’t care if you are Chinese or white.

This is racism and irresponsible journalism “all but 3 deaths have been in China.” There is a time lag! The disease doesn’t care if you are Chinese or white. No hospital system can handle the numbers that came first to China, and will soon come here. Wapo downplaying the virus. Just like they’ve downplayed the threat of globalism. And those who have tried to sound the alarm or argued that we should, gasp, renegotiate trade and bring back some manufacturing, those people are slandered as xenophobic or economics dunces. “Any serious person knows we can’t bring manufacturing back.” “Protectionism is stupid, trade wars hurt us,etc...” And now they want to tell the American public, “no death outside China.” Blood on their hands!

pbourke 7y ago
> This is racism and irresponsible journalism “all but 3 deaths have been in China.” Why would you say that this is racism or irresponsible journalism? It seems like a simple statement of fact.
- DataWorker 7y ago
  It’s a fact that has no importance other than to mislead. There is no reason to think the virus is any less deadly outside of China or in non-Asian patients. The rest of the world is just a few weeks, give or take local variation in R0, behind and we should expect the same or similar outcomes. That’s according to the experts who spoke at the senate hearing last week.
  - danso 7y ago
    The fact that only 3 deaths have occurred outside of China (and the vast majority in Wuhan is an important metric in assessing how the virus spreads and how effective or not containment policies have been. There are many, many Chinese people who live outside of China, and emphasizing that the virus is heavily contained in the country of its origin is pretty relevant to anyone who hasn’t visited China recently.
    - DataWorker 7y ago
      The death rate has very little to do with containment. The rate of infection does. In this case both of these merely represent the time lag, and despite what you think all of the experts agree— we are buying time at this point. Argue with the experts, not with me.
bart_spoon 7y ago
We are well past the time lag for many of those sick outside China. Most who die from the virus do so about 10 days after symptoms appear.

pbourke 7y ago

> This is racism and irresponsible journalism “all but 3 deaths have been in China.” Why would you say that this is racism or irresponsible journalism? It seems like a simple statement of fact.

DataWorker 7y ago
It’s a fact that has no importance other than to mislead. There is no reason to think the virus is any less deadly outside of China or in non-Asian patients. The rest of the world is just a few weeks, give or take local variation in R0, behind and we should expect the same or similar outcomes. That’s according to the experts who spoke at the senate hearing last week.
- danso 7y ago
  The fact that only 3 deaths have occurred outside of China (and the vast majority in Wuhan is an important metric in assessing how the virus spreads and how effective or not containment policies have been. There are many, many Chinese people who live outside of China, and emphasizing that the virus is heavily contained in the country of its origin is pretty relevant to anyone who hasn’t visited China recently.
  - DataWorker 7y ago
    The death rate has very little to do with containment. The rate of infection does. In this case both of these merely represent the time lag, and despite what you think all of the experts agree— we are buying time at this point. Argue with the experts, not with me.

bart_spoon 7y ago

We are well past the time lag for many of those sick outside China. Most who die from the virus do so about 10 days after symptoms appear.