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COVID - why terminology really, really matters

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
drmalcolmkendrick.org
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:17 UTC

When is a case not a case?

Since the start of the COVID pandemic I have watched almost everyone get mission critical things wrong. In some ways this is not surprising. Medical terminology is horribly imprecise, and often poorly understood. In calmer times such things are only of interest to research geeks like me. Were they talking about CVD, or CHD?

However, right now, it really, really, matters. Specifically, with regards to the term COVID 'cases.'

Every day we are informed of a worrying rise in COVID cases in country after country, region after region, city after city. Portugal, France, Leicester, Bolton. Panic, lockdown, quarantine. In France the number of reported cases is now as high as it was as the peak of the epidemic. Over 5,000, on the first of September.

But what does this actually mean? Just keep to the focus on France for a moment. On March 26^th, just before their deaths peaked, there were 3,900 hundred 'cases'. Fourteen days later, there were 1,400 deaths. So, using a widely accepted figure, which is a delay of around two weeks between diagnoses and death, 36% of cases died.

USC suspended a communications professor for saying a Chinese word that sounds like a racial slur

Robby Soave
Reason
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:29 UTC

Greg Patton is a professor of clinical business communication at the University of Southern California. During a recent virtual classroom session, he was discussing public speaking patterns and the filler words that people use to space out their ideas: um, er, etc. Patton mentioned that the Chinese often use a word that is pronounced like nega.

"In China the common word is 'that, that that that,' so in China it might be 'nega, nega, nega, nega,'" Patton explained to his class. "So there's different words you'll hear in different cultures, but they're vocal disfluencies."

But because the Chinese word nega sounds like nigger, some students were offended and reported the matter to the administration. Patton is now suspended, according to Campus Reform:

Comment: Apparently context doesn't matter anymore, only "feelings". See also:

Up to 90% of people who test positive for Covid barely carry any virus & are not contagious. Every stat about the disease is bogus

Peter Andrews
RT
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:34 UTC

© Getty Images / Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times
Clinicians from 360 Clinic are administering the test kits, but citizens will do their own sample taking

It has been revealed that the standard tests being used in the US to diagnose Covid-19 cases are far too sensitive, with the vast majority of people marked down as being positive actually turning out to be negative.

Top US virologists have been stunned by revelations about the laxity of the US Covid testing regimen. It turns out that tests that deliver a simple binary "positive or negative" result are not fit for purpose, as they tell us nothing about the contagiousness of each person.

Data from three US states - New York, Nevada and Massachusetts - shows that when the amount of the virus found in a person is taken into account, up to 90 percent of people who have tested positive should actually have been negative, as they are carrying only tiny amounts of the virus, are not contagious, pose no risk to others, and have no need to isolate.

This means that only a fraction of the daily "cases" being reported so hysterically in the mainstream media are actual, bona fide Covid-19 sufferers, and need treatment and to separate themselves from others.

Comment: See also:

Welcome to the hypocrisy zone: CNN complains about Fox News being chosen to host debate; 'Network has pushed disinfo, conspiracy theories'

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:01 UTC

CNN, the network that for the best part of 3 years pushed the conspiracy theory that President Trump colluded with Russia, and attacks Trump constantly every day, is now complaining that it isn't fair that the network hasn't been chosen to host a Presidential Debate.

CNN host Brianna Keillar noted Thursday that "The presidential debates are set and Fox News' Chris Wallace will monitor the first between President Trump and Joe Biden."

"The debate commission giving the September 29th face-off to Fox despite propaganda, dishonesty, and the fact that some Fox hosts advise President Trump," Keillar added.

Comment: See also:

Colorado woman assaults 12-year-old boy over his Trump sign, police say

Jordan Lancaster
Daily Caller
Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:10 UTC

A Colorado woman allegedly assaulted a 12-year-old boy Monday over a Trump sign, police say, according to multiple reports.

Police say that around 3:00 PM, a woman on a moped attacked a boy riding a bicycle brandishing a Trump sign, according to The Denver Post.

Comment: From the Denver Post, police have released a composite sketch of the assailant:

© Boulder Police Department
Boulder police released this sketch of a woman who is suspected of assaulting a 12-year-old boy who had a Trump banner on his bike.

"Russians" are the dumbest idiots on the planet!

The Saker
The Saker
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC

Russians are dumb. Hopelessly stupid. They are amateurs of the worst kind. Ignoramuses on steroids. Why?

Well, for one, their so-called super-dooper biowarfare agent "Novichok" seems unable to kill anybody. The Russians must have realized that. This is why, when they tried to kill Skripal (after freeing him from jail) they put that Novichok thing all over the place: on the bench near Salisbury, on Skripal's door handle, even in some bottle of perfume a local addict found in the trash. Probably all over the Skripal home, and this is why the Brits initially said that they would tear down the extremely toxic place (yet both the Skripal cat and their hamster survived - tells you how utterly useless that pretend biowarfare substance really was...).

One would have thought that after this total cluster-bleep the Russians would have learned their lesson.

Comment: See also:

AG Barr SCHOOLS Fake News CNN Live on Racism, Antifa, Mail-in-Ballot Fraud

Nicholas Fondacaro
mrcNewsBusters
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC

AG Barr

In a wide-ranging and in-person interview on Wednesday with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Attorney General William Barr turned the set of The Situation Room into a classroom to school the network on everything from accusations of systemic racism in the justice system, to Antifa's cross-country violence, to how people were "playing with fire" in the form of mail-in-ballots.

After shooting down Blitzer's accusations about him just being a lapdog for President Trump, Barr was pressed from the left with allegations that the justice system was racist. Blitzer was actually confused when Barr point out the fact the Blake and Floyd cases were very different incidents and tried to argue Blake wasn't armed (Click "expand"):

'Corona World' game backed by German public TV dehumanizes lockdown resisters & kids - but sure, what could go wrong?

Helen Buyniski
RT
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:56 UTC

A new online game lets the player stomp 'Covidiots' - those who oppose lockdowns and mask mandates. As scapegoating dissidents becomes ever more socially acceptable, those who ignore history are making us all repeat it.

Scoring points for flattening small children who are demonized as walking contagions? Physically assaulting a neighbor for seeking fresh air during lockdown? What sounds like a sick social experiment is also an online game financed by German public broadcasting fees.

In 'Corona World,' a recent offering on the German taxpayer-funded 'Funk' gaming platform, the user plays a nurse tasked with shopping for groceries in a world fraught with coronavirus hazards, from small children they're told are "highly infectious" (never mind that science has indicated the virus mostly leaves kids alone) to joggers and "party people" selfishly spreading the virus while trying to stay healthy and enjoy life, respectively (how dare they!).

Northeastern University dismisses 11 students who gathered in same hotel room, orders COVID testing for all

The Star
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 23:52 UTC

Northeastern University said Friday it has dismissed 11 freshman students for the fall semester for violating campus social distancing guidelines after they were discovered in the same hotel room.

The students were given 24 hours to leave the Boston campus and were ordered to undergo COVID-19 tests, the university said in a statement. It said any who test positive would be moved into isolated wellness housing rather than sent home, to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Northeastern said the 11 people, whose names were not released, were part of an international experience for first-year students. It said they were among more than 800 students housed in two-person rooms at the Westin Hotel not far from the main campus.

Mushroom cloud erupts out of UK factory amid series of massive explosions

RT
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 08:14 UTC

Smoke pours from the fire at an industrial building in Kent

Residents of Medway, Kent, endured scenes straight out of an apocalyptic nightmare on Friday after a series of large explosions at an industrial building sent mushroom clouds towering above their homes.

An enormous blaze broke out at the building in the early hours of Friday morning and locals reported being woken by a series of bangs.

The fire strengthened over the course of several hours and by sunrise huge plumes of smoke could be seen for miles around. The local fire brigade said that 10 fire engines rushed to the site to battle the inferno.

Video footage from the scene captures a huge pillar of smoke bursting out of the blazing building and sprouting into a mushroom cloud that sits ominously over the area. It was just one of several explosions that took place during the massive fire.

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dom38

Here's a nice tune for a war criminal. [Link]

frankchapeau

The dude is now on his own way to Hell.

dom38

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LindaMay

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Society's Child

COVID - why terminology really, really matters

USC suspended a communications professor for saying a Chinese word that sounds like a racial slur

Up to 90% of people who test positive for Covid barely carry any virus & are not contagious. Every stat about the disease is bogus

Welcome to the hypocrisy zone: CNN complains about Fox News being chosen to host debate; 'Network has pushed disinfo, conspiracy theories'

Colorado woman assaults 12-year-old boy over his Trump sign, police say

"Russians" are the dumbest idiots on the planet!

AG Barr SCHOOLS Fake News CNN Live on Racism, Antifa, Mail-in-Ballot Fraud

'Corona World' game backed by German public TV dehumanizes lockdown resisters & kids - but sure, what could go wrong?

Northeastern University dismisses 11 students who gathered in same hotel room, orders COVID testing for all

Mushroom cloud erupts out of UK factory amid series of massive explosions

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