Last year, when more information came out about their massive concentration camps?
Communism is an economic system. Party dictatorship is a political system. China has one but not the other.
Communism required that power to impose. Communism gave them that power. They didn't give up that power when the "economic miracle" happened. Their continued power hinges on continuing to get credit for "the economic miracle." They are still the Communist Party. Communism is why they still have that power.
The CCP's power hinges on controlling the security apparatus and the military, same as in any other dictatorship. The only communism in the CCP is in the name.
No one really knows yet, but there's a paper from Nature that gives a bit more insight:
The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 - Nature Medicine
www.nature.com
"The genomic features described here may explain in part the infectiousness and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."
www.livescience.com
How does making an improvised mask deprive medical professionals?terrible way to draw a conclusion from that data. Just look at the bubble tea vs no bubble tea comparison. it's just as accurate.
I'd like to see a PCA. Some moron drawing circles around 2 factor charts and labeling them as variables that aren't even part of the data set is horribly incompetent. And, in this case, dangerous.
People that suck at data shouldn't be advising people as to what data means.
Also, we aren't Asian countries. We don't have the culture and infrastructure where the best advice would be the same. Here, we live in a different reality. People on average don't know wtf they are doing--that still hasn't changed in one month. Because our infrastucture was never where it needed to be, we could never tolerate every American running around with masks. It simply doesn't make sense. Magic doesn't exist in the world. We can't give everyone masks. They belong on the front lines in the hospital and the EMS. That has never changed. It's the same now as it was back in January.
depleting the supply of masks from the sectors that need them the most actually makes this worse for everyone. It just does. Simple asceptic behavior when in public, when you absolutely can't avoid it, is going to give you 90-95% of the protection that a mask will give you. When you accept this plain truth, and together with the fact that the same masks should be in the hands of medical professionals, we could begin to flatten this thing.
We won't get there if laymen continue to tout shit arguments from data they plainly don't understand.
...and damn it--now I've wasted 2 posts on this mask nonsense. Get it together, people!
Per CDC, about 25% of infected people may have no symptoms.Yike.
"A significant portion of COVID-19 patients may never show coronavirus symptoms at all — a key factor aiding the spread of the virus, according to a top U.S. health official."
Up to 25% of people with COVID-19 may not show symptoms
The data is prompting the CDC to reconsider who should wear face masks.
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