youngwilliam Loc: Deep in the heart

You need to becone a fiction writer, you come up with some real winners. Don't watch FAO-chi much.
Heard of g**n of f******n research. Even fao-chi is starting to admit it came out of the w***n lab. Unbelievable some the crap you come up with. Poor old sod.

moldyoldy

There is no evidence of that, no matter how much you want to make it so. China would not intentionally hurt themselves, only republicans do that.

youngwilliam Loc: Deep in the heart

OMG you ARE dense. I didn't say it was released on purpose, someone or more were contaminated when they walked out. Why continually defend the CCP flu. Are you a CCP AGENT? You're certainly not American.

moldyoldy

You want to blame China when there is no evidence. You are trying to provoke me into calling you what you are, but I will resist.

moldyoldy

You are in the bottom of a pit and you keep digging.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Sure........ how many wetbacks have you and your party cut loose here? Yea..... ,shut up, you have nothing to say about that.... while your v**e k**ls babies and promotes f*g policies thats k**led 40 million Americans.

Shut up..... you are the one doing the k*****g.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

No...we blame you and your mentally defunct party..... defend china, great move.

Call me what i am......... and thats" spot on".... absolutely right for short.

Rose42

Thats propaganda.

moldyoldy

Even as his Administration’s response to C****-** has evolved, one part of President Donald Trump’s reaction to c****av***s has remained consistent. More than a week after he prompted outcry by retweeting a supporter who called the novel c****av***s the “China v***s,” photos from Trump’s Thursday press briefing about the v***s showed that “c****a” had been crossed out and replaced with “Chinese.” The President and his team have defended the use of that language—despite the World Health Organization making a point of not naming the disease after the place where the outbreak began, and despite advocates arguing that such terminology fuels the risk of h**e crimes against people of Asian descent, who have already reported a surge in discrimination.


While Trump may have his own political reasons for describing the v***s as foreign, he’s also part of a long history of associating diseases with certain countries—a tradition that experts say has led to ethnic and racial discrimination, stymied efforts to effectively handle public health crises, and distorted public historical memory.

Take the so-called “Spanish flu,” a p******c in 1918 and 1919 that k**led up to 50 million people worldwide. Many Americans, including Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, seem to believe—as the name implies—that this influenza outbreak began in Spain. However, the first recorded case was in Kansas. As the flu spread through the U.S. and European countries during World War I, fighting nations actively censored coverage of the outbreaks. Spain, which was neutral, stood out because it accurately reported the outbreak, leading to the perception that the flu was concentrated there. (Meanwhile in Spain, it was known as the “French flu.”)

The name “Spanish flu” may have also reinforced a conflation between immigrants and disease at a time when w***e A******ns descended from northern Europe held strong biases against immigrants from China and parts of eastern and southern Europe, including Spain. Just a couple of years before the 1918 flu outbreak, Italian immigrants on the East Coast were blamed for a polio outbreak, though in fact there was no evidence of an outbreak either in Italy or at Ellis Island. And for decades, w***e A******ns associated Chinese immigration with a host of diseases, and used public health as an excuse to discriminate against them.

“America has a long history of immigrant exclusion on the basis of disease,” says Kim Yi Dionne, a professor of political science at the University of California-Riverside who has written about how politicizing disease can shape public attitudes about immigration. “Chinese immigrants to California were treated as medical scapegoats for years, and their exclusion based on disease threat was actually codified in the 1882 Exclusion Act.”

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The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was the first federal law to create a distinction between “legal” and “illegal” immigration, and it came after decades of stereotyping Chinese immigrants as more likely to carry diseases like cholera and smallpox. Cholera was sometimes called “Asiatic cholera” because it was first detected in India, even though it also flourished in European countries like Britain. As for smallpox, it had originally come to the Americas through European invasion. Together with other new infectious diseases, smallpox k**led millions of Native people.


Even after the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Scott Act of 1888 heavily restricted Chinese immigration, w***e A******ns continued to blame them for the spread of diseases. In 1900, there was a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco. A doctor first identified the disease in a resident of Chinatown, which led to the quarantining of Chinese Americans and immigrants in the district. Yet tellingly, no one quarantined white people who had recently been to Chinatown, says Nayan Shah, a professor of American studies and ethnicity and history at the University of Southern California-Dornsife and author of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Some people, including the governor of California, didn’t really think white people could even get the bubonic plague. That year, the Surgeon General Walter Wyman described it as an “Oriental disease, peculiar to rice eaters.”

These discriminatory views and actions hurt the Chinese community and failed to stop the spread of the disease. Shah says the plague “was probably spreading to lots of different people all over the city and around San Francisco; it’s just that certain deaths were thought of as being bubonic plague.” In other words, white people may have been less likely to think white deaths could have been caused by the plague, and therefore less likely to identify white plague victims. (This was also complicated by the fact that the city and the state of California were actively covering up the outbreak.)

This biased way of associating immigrants with disease continued throughout the 20th century. A 1957-58 flu p******c that was first identified in China became known as the “Asian flu,” and a 1968-1969 flu p******c first identified in Hong Kong became known as the “Hong Kong flu.” Yet the 2009-2010 H1N1 flu that the CDC says was first recorded in the U.S. didn’t become the “American flu.” Instead, it gained the misleading name “swine flu” because scientists at first thought it was similar to v***ses that occur in North American pigs, although further testing has complicated this theory. Much of the media coverage around this flu emphasized that it may have come from Mexico, which had by then become the focus of American immigration anxiety.


In fact, many Americans still seem to think of H1N1 as a foreign v***s. On Wednesday, Republican Senator John Cornyn falsely claimed China was the source of “swine flu.”

This type of conflation not only encourages r****t harassment of people perceived to be linked to disease, experts say, it also gives people who buy into it a false sense that they are safe if they are not part of the group in question, putting everyone’s health at risk.

“Research shows that when ordinary citizens see a disease threat as foreign, it can lead those ordinary citizens to not take action,” Dionne says. “So if someone sees this as a quote ‘Chinese’ v***s, they might not be as likely to take up important hygiene behaviors like handwashing or social distancing.”

Shah thinks it’s particularly interesting that Trump and many of his allies are doubling down on C****-** as the “Chinese v***s” at a moment when the disease is a global p******c unconfined to any one region. Fear, he says, may be linked to a desire to fix the blame on someone else. That’s a repeating pattern in U.S. history—and so is the damage it can cause.


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meridianlesilie Loc: mars

moldyoldy

Your point is?

currahee506

The commentators you mentioned were c*******ts who believed in a "one-world order." They lied about the Viet Nam War and sided with Tip O'Neal who persuaded Congress to impeach a president that gave an executive order to furnish the South Vietnamese Army with the tanks it needed to resist the Northern c*******t forces at the DMZ. When President Nixon was impeached, there went his executive order and the Southern Army was left with nothing for its defense. The New York news media led by the lies of Cronkite and the C*******t Daniel Ellsberg and Tip O'Neal lost the war in Viet Nam, a ten-year war in which the American Forces beat the hell out of the North.

Snoopy

Wood: AND, you think OPEN BORDERS has NOTHING to do with C***D rise in those states?

Snoopy

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

Anyone who actually still believes that's how the Sweet'n'Sour Sniffles started deserves a special kind of award......Buddy, you earned this!

DamnYANKEE

You need to be taken off your life support , and fast heh heh heh