Completely unsubstantiated Coronavirus Rumors

[kander]

and that tweet is gone.

[randomq]

quote:

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Originally posted by kander

and that tweet is gone.

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Looks like all that users tweets blame the US over China for the origin. Interestingly the account was created in August 2019, right before the alleged US origin, and has no other tweets. So did China plan, or at least know about it, since last summer?

[PaulW]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/healt...taste.html

On Friday, British ear, nose and throat doctors, citing reports from colleagues around the world, called on adults who lose their senses of smell to isolate themselves for seven days, even if they have no other symptoms, to slow the disease’s spread. The published data is limited, but doctors are concerned enough to raise warnings.

“We really want to raise awareness that this is a sign of infection and that anyone who develops loss of sense of smell should self-isolate,” Prof. Claire Hopkins, president of the British Rhinological Society, wrote in an email. “It could contribute to slowing transmission and save lives.”

[randomq]

Good tip PaulW. Might want to promote that in the other topics too, since it seems more than a rumor!

[terracore]

Not worthy of it's own thread and not sure where else to put it. This one seemed the best. It's an article about "which generation" is emotionally best capable of dealing with this situation:

https://parade.com/1011986/korinmiller/g...ronavirus/

[randomq]

More fake twitter accounts plugging the "it started in the US in September" theory. Their followers are mostly from China, and they were all created in August 2019. Very suspicious.

[PaulW]

The panic buying of hand sanitizer leads me to conclude that some people think it's preferable to washing your hands. It isn't.
It should only be used when you can't wash your hands.

I saw a post online, could be fake, but it was a photo of a severely burned arm and the message that she had applied hand sanitizer just before approaching an open flame on her stove top. It is a possibility, with all that alcohol in it. Be careful and please don't use hand sanitizer at home!

For everyone's sake: Stay home, wash your hands.

[kander]

Randomq, yes I have been watching these sock puppet accounts pushing their propaganda. I watched the Chicom sock puppets push nearly every fake news story we have had to endure the past 3-4 years. Unfortunately many folks still think they are real.

I think china rolled the dice on this virus, and its starting to burn out quicker than they hoped it would before their end results were gained. Its still bad economically but not nearly as bad as it could have been.

Or the virus is as bad as they say, and were all going to die.