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This article makes me angry because it doesn't consider the effects of Cov2 going pandemic. It could become another seasonal flu and kill people like the curren

by lolc 7y ago

This article makes me angry because it doesn't consider the effects of Cov2 going pandemic. It could become another seasonal flu and kill people like the current flu kills people. It would add to the deaths. Having just suffered through a flu infection, I absolutely don't want another strain in the wild. Granted, that is assuming that Cov2 proves as resilient as Influenza. Maybe it will just flounder coming summer and be extinct by next winter. But it's not something we want to find out the hard way. We fight it now and if it turns out weaker than expected that's good!

45ure 7y ago
>This article makes me angry because it doesn't consider the effects of Cov2 going pandemic. Your anger is justified, but perhaps you are not it's intended audience. The Spectator is prone to virtue signalling and is a sister publication to The Telegraph (aka The Torygraph). The excerpt below has been used so many times, that it is practically a trope, and easily identifiable. The premise being, telling it's intended audience: you are rich and priveleged, this matter is trivial and does not concern you, continue as usual and pick up a few bargains whilst there is still blood on the streets, screw the poor. We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it.
- mcv 7y ago
  > "We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it." This is true. Seen from a historical context, we're living in a utopia, yet we seem very unhappy about it.
  - 45ure 7y ago
    You seem to have missed the point entirely or not familiar with this group of publications. This hook is used to entice it's target pearl clutching readership, in order to maintain it's flailing subscriber base ─ even giving it away for free with a bottle of water! I am enclosing yet another facetious quote from the article, of which there are many, and have no relevance or bearing to the grave matter at hand. At the end of January, Brexit had just been completed without incident. Here is another dated example of a running theme, amongst many recent ones. I will let you look for them at your leisure. If you agree with it, good luck, you are a Tory. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10412499/The-world-has-never-had-it-so-good-thanks-partly-to-capitalism.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10412499/The-w...
stevens32 7y ago
> It could become another seasonal flu and kill people like the current flu kills people. It would add to the deaths. This is bad, but 'another seasonal flu' is not dominating the news day and night. Governments aren't preventing people from doing business with, and traveling to countries due to the seasonal flu. Seasonal flu isn't giving closet racists license to come out of the closet. Maybe you're lucky and have missed all the "they deserve it" comments, but the truth is if this originated in any other country this wouldn't be getting the coverage it's been getting.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
  I simply don't believe that closet racists are coming out of the closet. It seems to me that open racists are just saying "haha coronavirus" instead of whatever they were saying before. Governments don't block travel due to the seasonal flu only because they know the seasonal flu is unstoppable. If the seasonal flu could be kept out of your country by closing borders for a month or two, I think a lot of governments would do it.
  - lolc 7y ago
    I think so too. If we had any hope of eradicating just one influenza strain we would discuss even a month of worldwide travel bans to get that.
  - stevens32 7y ago
    I debated bursting your bubble on this, because I would like to get back into the bubble - but in case others find this and aren't aware: https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus
    - SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
      I don't really know how to interpret this. The first example I saw in English (I had to skip past some because I can't read French) was some guy beating up an Asian woman. I find it pretty implausible that guy's racism was closeted beforehand.

by lolc 7y ago

45ure 7y ago

>This article makes me angry because it doesn't consider the effects of Cov2 going pandemic. Your anger is justified, but perhaps you are not it's intended audience. The Spectator is prone to virtue signalling and is a sister publication to The Telegraph (aka The Torygraph). The excerpt below has been used so many times, that it is practically a trope, and easily identifiable. The premise being, telling it's intended audience: you are rich and priveleged, this matter is trivial and does not concern you, continue as usual and pick up a few bargains whilst there is still blood on the streets, screw the poor. We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it.

mcv 7y ago
> "We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it." This is true. Seen from a historical context, we're living in a utopia, yet we seem very unhappy about it.
- 45ure 7y ago
  You seem to have missed the point entirely or not familiar with this group of publications. This hook is used to entice it's target pearl clutching readership, in order to maintain it's flailing subscriber base ─ even giving it away for free with a bottle of water! I am enclosing yet another facetious quote from the article, of which there are many, and have no relevance or bearing to the grave matter at hand. At the end of January, Brexit had just been completed without incident. Here is another dated example of a running theme, amongst many recent ones. I will let you look for them at your leisure. If you agree with it, good luck, you are a Tory. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10412499/The-world-has-never-had-it-so-good-thanks-partly-to-capitalism.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10412499/The-w...

stevens32 7y ago

> It could become another seasonal flu and kill people like the current flu kills people. It would add to the deaths. This is bad, but 'another seasonal flu' is not dominating the news day and night. Governments aren't preventing people from doing business with, and traveling to countries due to the seasonal flu. Seasonal flu isn't giving closet racists license to come out of the closet. Maybe you're lucky and have missed all the "they deserve it" comments, but the truth is if this originated in any other country this wouldn't be getting the coverage it's been getting.

SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
I simply don't believe that closet racists are coming out of the closet. It seems to me that open racists are just saying "haha coronavirus" instead of whatever they were saying before. Governments don't block travel due to the seasonal flu only because they know the seasonal flu is unstoppable. If the seasonal flu could be kept out of your country by closing borders for a month or two, I think a lot of governments would do it.
- lolc 7y ago
  I think so too. If we had any hope of eradicating just one influenza strain we would discuss even a month of worldwide travel bans to get that.
- stevens32 7y ago
  I debated bursting your bubble on this, because I would like to get back into the bubble - but in case others find this and aren't aware: https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus https://twitter.com/hashtag/JeNeSuisPasUnVirus
  - SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
    I don't really know how to interpret this. The first example I saw in English (I had to skip past some because I can't read French) was some guy beating up an Asian woman. I find it pretty implausible that guy's racism was closeted beforehand.