XXL
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He talks in the third person like GuhGuh
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On 3/27/2020 at 6:28 PM, Flip The Switch said:
Class.
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On 3/27/2020 at 9:08 PM, karbatal said:
Well, some were wondering why some countries have more material than others to face the pandemic. Was it because those countries were better prepared or have a more efficient system? Nope. It's because their governments FORBID the companies to sell material to the neighbors while people were dying. Those firms were the official distributors in public Spanish hospitals.
This is not a blind item. The names are Germany and France. Information by the very serious newspaper La Vanguardia.
This pandemic is going to change a lot many things.
If this is true it's disgusting
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30 minutes ago, acko said:
I agree... We need a further (extreme) integration. A proper European constituency, constitution.. social security... An Army.
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5 minutes ago, Ciccone's Cheeks said:
Spot ON!! Just all of it. LOL LOATHE the US now. Un friggin believable its *attached to the entire northern part of the country (thousands of miles) and was always generally basically joined at the hip in most if not all ways. Then 2016 and Canada overnight became like 3016 while the US regressed back to 1816!!
Don't get me wrong I love the US too, I grew up with the US Myth, and part of that dream is true, but for a country so advanced in many ways it has shown to be so incredibly backwards in many ways and that's the saddening thing. It's like the media keeps the entire world in a trance lying about the true motives behind wars etc, which are NOT in the interest of ANY population at all, a lie and fabrication start to finish
Because it used to stand for the place where people who were persecuted for religious or other reasons could run to and aspire to create something for themselves. That ideal is completely lost there, it is kind of lost and faded in general in the world now.
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On 3/27/2020 at 7:02 PM, Raider of the lost Ark said:
I suppose, the evil Germans forced the district attorney of Innsbruck to start an investigation.
In the meantime, the evil Germans have accepted more than 120 Italian and French patients in critical condition to be treated in IC units in German hospitals.
Can we please stop playing the blame game at this moment? It is merely a distraction of the really important things that matter now.
Why the defensiveness?
I don't believe anyone thinks any particular population or nationality is evil, anyone in their right mind and with a modicum of education that is
Personally, I certainly don't blame ANY nationality at all. I blame centralised power, now showing its true colours. I blame the technocrats and politicians. They are doing everything they can at the moment to give ammo to all the "exiters" arguments and I really don't like it.
Even France which is generally very much aligned with German political intentions is saying this delaying real tangible action is unacceptable
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On 3/27/2020 at 12:47 PM, runa said:
Canada, a beacon of hope in North America and the Western world in general, civilised, clean, cultured, bilingual, education and healthcare are more important than warmongering, job market not as fucked up as in other countries, beautiful scenery, great nature etc
No butcho macho John Wayne nonsense
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On 3/27/2020 at 2:03 AM, GOD said:
I got the impression he was going in Trump's total opposite direction. And that his action was lauded by the public. In this video they're actually saying he prevented medical supplies from reaching their destination?
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On 3/27/2020 at 12:43 PM, acko said:
Fuck Mark Rutte. I say SOLIDARITY now for all EU citizens.
I don't give a fuck if it costs me my tax money.
Yes
So many technocrats and local politicians are showing their true colours. If the EU as a political construct is only about a common currency and taxation of its 500m citizens then it's to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch. The original 1958 idea was to promote solidarity and a cultural exchange between countries and to avoid more wars on the continent. Now it's really showing that it is anything but. How can you have a common currency and 28 different fiscal systems to begin with? It's insanity.
The EU must stop serving the banking cartels and start defending people's rights and their well being, otherwise it will be just a cold, mechanical, useless wreck very soon.
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On 3/27/2020 at 9:52 AM, Genevieve Vavance said:
China just reported 55 new cases, you know no way , I mean good if it is so BUT ..
Yes, doubt should always be welcomed and applied. Keep in mind though that China is an autocratic country therefore it was possible for authorities to lock down the country without intermediary stages. That's why despite starting there they have managed to break off the contagion quite early on.
I also think they have a return of the virus now. I don't see much transparency in how the West has traced back the origin of this virus and its response to it. Particularly from two Western countries, two very "muscular" countries, the US and the UK
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14 minutes ago, runa said:
Maybe the word I used is incorrect though. The problem in the situation we live is the bunch of fake news and misinformation everywhere, shared by so many people. In the end there is so much info, you don’t know who to believe... Many people are in panic and I don’t think it helps at all...
That’s kinda mass hysteria to me if 100% of your post are related to the virus. This is obsession and I don’t think it’s healthy at all. That’s a psychologist they need, not a vaccine
People spend way too much of their time reading and watching everything about the virus. They should take a little break.
True
Not healthy at all
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26 minutes ago, runa said:
Aaaaaaaa Hec you’re my hero
He would have gone on to repeat the same dramatic shit in every single Corona thread from now till the day the emergency is over
Who cares what anyone said two months ago or even a month ago ... Things have progressively evolved and nobody has a fucking crystal ball
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12 minutes ago, Kelmadfan said:
So sad about Mark Blum (Gary Glass) passing away from COVID-19
Just found out my cousin & her hubby are in quarantine at home. They went to Florida a week or so ago. (
) She says they’re feeling okay but still kinda hit home. Seeing all the news out of NYC today had already been bad, this just was a gut punch. Their whole family are separated now. My aunt is probably around 86 by now. She’s in quarantine too at her house, because she’d been around them too. Just a nightmarish day.
Saddened in reading this
Wishing you and your family all the best
A nightmare indeed
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Beautiful Stranger
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33 minutes ago, Genevieve Vavance said:
I don't believe the numbers from China, there is something fishy going on, not meant to sound conspiracy theoretical I swear but ...
I don't think China is to be blamed squarely for all of this. The US government in particular should stop pointing the finger at China or stupid propaganda tricks calling it the Wuhan Virus rather than COVID-19 or
Virus, as everyone else, everywhere else calls it.
Since China is not to be trusted why does the World Health Organisation feels instead so safe in co-running a Bio4SL Laboratory in Whuan? The most dangerous level of Biohazard laboratories. That is indeed fishy and at the very least highly contradictory. Regardless of the origins of the virus itself. China is not to be trusted, yet they run a laboratory of that kind on their soil? I don't get it. It makes no sense whatsoever
I don't believe China but I certainly do not believe America First Brainwash Drilling either. The US have caused massive poblems in the world 1945 onwards. Let's not even talk about the past twenty years alone
It literally became an Empire and not for the people, of any country, US citizens included
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4 minutes ago, PDC717 said:
Just remember, the UK government told people to not go to restaurants and stores and movie theaters, causing a massive decline in revenue for those businesses, but then wouldn’t officially shut them down because then the business owners would be allowed to file insurance claims and people would be able to apply for unemployment benefits. That was honestly one of the most disgusting global reactions to the pandemic thus far.
I think the US government and the Trump administration have even managed to do worse than Dumpling Johnson.
The only prominent American politician worthy of praise is Andrew Cuomo, for everything he's doing for the State of NY. God forbid that state falls because if NY falls the population in between coasts is done or at the very least severely impaired
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4 hours ago, karbatal said:
It really made me sad that it was The Guardian. I really admire that newspaper. Maybe in the UK it's happening as in other countries, that the complete interruption of revenues from advertisement has put media on the limit and are asking for a bail out from the Government.
Me too
I generally love and respect The Guardian. Objectively the UK institutions have done jack shit nothing at all up until a few days ago compared to what the Italian and Spanish governments have done. Maybe whoever wrote this article didn't do their homework before coming up with their fantasy tale
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2 hours ago, bardo said:
i just read that the actor who played rosanna arquette's husband in desperately seeking susan, died of covid.
https://www.thewrap.com/mark-blum-actor-dies-coronavirus-desperately-seeking-susan-you/
Oh no
RIP
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16 minutes ago, karbatal said:
This has been published in Boris Johnson's country. The very very nerve.
I find it quite bizarre too
The British government is at least three weeks behind schedule after its entire government and top institutional figures bar the former Top Medical Advisor Professor John Ashton up until a couple of weeks ago were saying things like "I shook hands with lots of COVID patients in every hospital and I just washed my hands afterwards" or "we're aiming at herd immunity" or "we cannot afford to slow down business, a lockdown is too unprecedented, we will wait for the peak and then we shall intervene, delay technique"
But at least the journalist gives Boris & Donald some food for thought: "It has only a third of the hospital beds per capita provided by Austria or Germany. Yet that is still more than the UK or the US"
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3 minutes ago, Butter9 said:
I hope he chokes one his next Chinese Take away .
Idiots will be idiots
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/spain-coronavirus-response-analysis
How did Spain get its coronavirus response so wrong?
Spain saw what happened in Iran and Italy – and yet it just overtook China’s death toll in one of the darkest moments in recent Spanish historyIt is one of the darkest and most dramatic moments in recent Spanish history. In the chilling table of daily dead from the coronavirus pandemic, Spain has taken top position from Italy - with 738 dying over 24 hours.
Spain is now the hotspot of the global pandemic, a ghoulish title that has been passed from country to country over four months – starting in Wuhan, China, and travelling via Iran and Italy. As it moves west, we do not know who will be next.
What went wrong? Spain had seen what happened in China and Iran. It also has Italy nearby, just 400 miles across the Mediterranean and an example of how the virus can spread rapidly and viciously inside Europe.
Yet Spaniards cannot blame that proximity. There are no land borders with Italy, while France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia – all countries that are doing much better – do have them.This may, in fact, be one of the reasons for the country’s late response. Spain thought it was far enough away. “Spain will only have a handful of cases,” said Dr Fernando Simón, the head of medical emergencies in Madrid, on 9 February. Six weeks later he gives out daily figures of hundreds of deaths. The number of dead per capita is already three times that of Iran, and 40 times higher than China.
On 19 February, 2,500 Valencia soccer fans mixed with 40,000 Atalanta supporters for a Champions League game in Bergamo which Giorgio Gori, mayor of the Italian city, has described as “the bomb” which exploded the virus in Lombardy.In Spain, Valencia players, fans and sports journalists were among the first to fall ill.
The main reason for the quick spread through Spain may be completely mundane. It has been an unusually mild, sunny spring. In late February and early March, with temperatures above 20C (68F), Madrid’s pavement cafes and bars were heaving with happy folk, doing what Madrileños like best – being sociable. That means hugging, kissing and animated chatter just a few inches from someone else’s face.
On 8 March, just a week before the country was closed down, sports events, political party conferences and massive demonstrations to mark International Women’s Day all took place. Three days later, about 3,000 Atlético de Madrid fans flew together for another Champions League match in Liverpool.
The Socialist-led government of Pedro Sánchez reacted late and clumsily. The country lacked essential equipment. Ventilators, protective clothing for doctors and coronavirus tests are still only just being sourced. China has gone from villain to saviour, as equipment and tests pour in – much of it brokered by the same Chinese immigrant community that has closed shops and shut itself away to avoid a racist backlash.
The virus has laid bare, too, deep faults in the Spanish care system. Private old people’s homes must turn a profit while charging people prices they can afford – which may be a basic pension of just over €9,000 ($9,900/£8,200). As a result, these were understaffed, unprepared and quickly overwhelmed, with death rates of up to 20%. The army was sent in, and found some people lying dead in their beds.
Spain has a magnificent primary care system, but its hospitals have been hit by a decade of austerity since the financial crisis. It has only a third of the hospital beds per capita that are provided by Austria or Germany. Yet that is still more than the UK, New Zealand or the US. (Got that Bozo Johnson and Mr Ignorant Dump?)
When Sánchez announced that he would be invoking emergency powers, he took more than 24 hours to put them in place – by which time part of the population of Madrid and other cities had dispersed across the country.
Poor coordination meant that the regional government of Madrid had closed universities and schools earlier that week, provoking a holiday atmosphere in which bars and parks were full and many families left for their beach homes.
The lockdown that began on 14 March has been efficiently enforced with police fines and popular pressure (including eggs hurled from balconies). As a result, Spain’s ghastly curve of fatalities will begin to flatten soon and ministers say measures should start being relaxed when the month-long quarantine ends on 11 April. Yet no one expects a return to normality.When this is over, Spain will be extremely fragile. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, unemployment soared to 27%, public debt leapt upwards and the nosedive into recession was among the worst in Europe. Much the same will happen this year.
The solutions imposed a decade ago – austerity, jobs losses and salary cuts – will not be tolerated. The economist Toni Roldán has calculated that Spain needs a €200bn loan from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). That, however, must wait. For the moment, Spain must beat the virus. This has been the toughest moment so far, but there may be worse to come.
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3 hours ago, ULIZOS said:
What’s the point of this? So you were right, congrats?
Most people making such comments here just didn’t want people to panic when we had little to no information and data. I don’t recall anyone flat out saying this is all a hoax / I’m not going to take this seriously / I’m going to take the coronavirus challenge and lick a toilet for you to compare them to Trump.
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Vatican's Treasurer Cardinal Pell High Court appeal hearing date set for March 11
in Politics and World Events
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But of course
Pathetic
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/06/australia/australia-cardinal-pell-high-court-hnk-intl/index.html
Brisbane, Australia (CNN)Cardinal George Pell has been freed from prison after Australia's High Court unanimously overturned his conviction on five counts of historical child sex abuse.
The momentous decision, handed down Tuesday by Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, ends a five-year legal battle that started when a man in his 30s approached police alleging Pell had abused him as a child in the mid-1990s.
At the time, Pell was Vatican Treasurer and the highest ranking Catholic official to ever be publicly accused of child sex offenses. Pell strenuously denied the charges, which he dismissed in a 2016 police interview as a "product of fantasy."