Easy for politicians: take the stick, point to the other guy and say "It's his fault!" and then repeatedly apply the stick to his head with great force and rapid frequency.
That's how you solve 21st century problems.
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Coronavirus Outbreak May Halve China's Smartphone Sales in First Quarter
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Easy for politicians: take the stick, point to the other guy and say "It's his fault!" and then repeatedly apply the stick to his head with great force and rapid frequency.
That's how you solve 21st century problems.
Calm down little girls. Nobody is choosing sales over safety with this article.
It's interesting you should use that example. You do remember what happened at the end of that story, don't you?
The wolf eventually shows up. Just like all of those Category 4/5 hurricanes are going to miss major population centers and fizzle out so that everyone who takes advice to evacuate are mere lemming fools... until a Hurricane Katrina hits and they're drowning their attics.
Enjoy your superiority.
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It's the same reason Vox Media continues to republish their 2015 article (Ebola - if you check Google history, it's the same article but now that people caught on, they changed the headline, the subtitle, as well as key points in the article) about how travel bans don't work (Coronavirus) even though in the very same article, their sources claim that in previous cases such as SARS, travel bans delayed the spread of the virus, giving researchers time to develop a cure/vaccine. Vox cares more about "diversity"/immigration and trade/business more than they do safety, health and the truth. But of course, that stupid article is being cited as fact now by websites like The Independent, etc.
Of course they're not, but there might be a bright side to that deception.
It seems strange that the fatality rate outside of China is so low (so far) when it's actually quite significant according to official Chinese numbers. One way that could happen is if they've vastly underreported the number of infections either because they don't want anyone to know how massively it spread or because they just don't have the means to do an accurate count and are only reporting the most serious cases that are at risk of developing life threatening complications.
This is so dumb. You realize nearly all of those didn’t escalate because of the precautions and attention given by governments, the CDC/WHO etc right? Even with Y2K months of work was put into preventing anything from happening.
So you’re essentially complaining that people did their jobs too well and contained these things.
Then there's this argument that was widely used to claim they 'fixed' Y2K ^^^
Predictable, as always. Y2K was a hoax that was so laughable that the worst that could've happend was some dates being wrong on bank statements. Yet we had Y2K Compliant refrigerators and claims of secret missle silos launching Nuclear ICBMs and the like. It was hilarious. Ironically my old IBM PC XT just defaulted to Jan 1 1980 and I reset the clock.
90% of the doom about Y2K couldn't have happened anyway. Like cars not starting--the PCM of an automobile doesn't use dates or a real-time clock. Washing machines, deep freezers the same thing. I never will forget the stickers on all the appliances at the Kmart though.
Predictable, as always. Y2K was a hoax that was so laughable that the worst that could've happend was some dates being wrong on bank statements. Yet we had Y2K Compliant refrigerators and claims of secret missle silos launching Nuclear ICBMs and the like. It was hilarious. Ironically my old IBM PC XT just defaulted to Jan 1 1980 and I reset the clock.
90% of the doom about Y2K couldn't have happened anyway. Like cars not starting--the PCM of an automobile doesn't use dates or a real-time clock. Washing machines, deep freezers the same thing. I never will forget the stickers on all the appliances at the Kmart though.
People still have to go to work and keep living, don't they???? Or should we all just hide in bunkers and disconnect from everything?
Maybe some good will come of this? Perhaps the comeback of Made in USA? Less consumerism and environmental waste with a new phone release? A guy can hope...
Would normally agree with you, but in this case 8,000+ people die daily (and accelerating) and emissions from the crematorium running 24/7 in Wuhan shows up in satellite data. Don't ask me how I know, just sit back and see for yourself as it starts to unravel.
I will just say that another new disease will be killing us all come Jan/Feb 2021...Hey! I can predict the future!
What about the 'thousands' dying from so-called Swine Flu? OF course the real 'normal' flu kills more than that. But we hear nothing from the MSM about it. News hasn't been the same since Cronkite left. It's all about FUD, conspiracy, orange man (or bush man), and sensational hype.
What about the 'thousands' dying from so-called Swine Flu? OF course the real 'normal' flu kills more than that. But we hear nothing from the MSM about it. News hasn't been the same since Cronkite left. It's all about FUD, conspiracy, orange man (or bush man), and sensational hype.
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I can't believe the amount of stupid in this thread.
I shouldn't be surprised, though.
I shouldn't be surprised, though.
Up until the virus started hitting, I was checking every day to see if the new iPad Pro was announced. I was getting a bit upset that it was not. Now that people are getting sick and a very small number are dying, it's just a bit of metal and glass.
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The point is to prevent a new flu from becoming a permanent thing. Contain it, give those infected the care that they need, let it burn out.
I've noticed in many recent videos from China that there are body temperature check points all over the place . Some with People's Armed Police and doctors in scary looking biohazard combat suits clearly intended for the military . So , obviously there is a connection with a rise in body temp and corona virus .
Maybe Apple should give all their factory workers an iPhone with one of those health apps they always talk about and have the worker's body temp data sent to the factory office in real time ?
That should greatly reduce infections and allow iPhones and other products to be manufactured .
I see what you’re saying, but it’s ok to be excited for a new iPad and feel bad for the people getting sick / losing their lives. It’s definitely sad what’s going on, but I’m sure everyone in China wants things to go back to normal ASAP. Even those who have factory jobs. Gotta make a living.
Until that lemming becomes you...
Then you‘ll be screaming for a cure.
Why would they when there's a hot new virus to dominate headlines now?
Like how CDC's BSL-4 lab is on the campus of Emory University in the middle of Atlanta? Or Boston University's BSL-4 NEIDL is in the middle of Boston? Or National High Security Laboratory in downtown Melbourne ? How about Bernhard Nocht Institute in Berlin?