Trump just has beef with China.

The outrage is doublethink. It can't be called the "Chinese virus" because it's vernacular, and we must be scientific, as if linguistic short-hands aren't ubiquitous. It's wrong because it's racist, even though it's clearly a geographical reference.

It's a virus that originated in China, the "Chinese virus" is fine as a description.

ayup and the media started it anyway lmao:

CNN:
“Vaccine for new Chinese coronavirus in the works”
“China confirms Wuhan virus can be spread by humans”

The Washington Post:
“First U.S. case of potentially deadly Chinese coronavirus confirmed in Washington state”
“Chinese coronavirus infections, death toll soar as fifth case is confirmed in U.S.”

The Los Angeles Times:
“Chinese coronavirus outbreak has reached U.S. shores, CDC says”

BuzzFeed:
The First Case Of The Chinese Coronavirus Has Hit The US, CDC Reports

Reuters:
“Japan confirms case of new Chinese virus, spread is ‘concerning’”
“With Wuhan virus genetic code in hand, scientists begin work on a vaccine”

CNBC:
“The CDC and Homeland Security begin screening for Chinese Coronavirus at three major US airports as outbreak spreads in Asia”

BBC:
“China coronavirus ‘spreads before symptoms show”

Foreign Policy:
“The Wuhan Virus: How to Stay Safe”

USA Today:
“Something Far Deadlier Than The Wuhan Virus Lurks Near You”

Bloomberg:
“10-Year-Old Boy Raises Fears Wuhan Virus Could Spread Undetected”

NPR:
“Your Questions About Wuhan Coronavirus, Answered”

Some details about the lockdown that New Zealand will move into in 2 days, for a period of 4 weeks:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12319029

What stood out to me, aside from the wage subsidies, is the following: "all rents will be frozen".

I think that's a very interesting move. What's killing most small business owners and people who just got laid off isnt the cost of groceries for a couple of months, it's the rent. At first glance, it sounds like a huge intrusion into property rights, but realistically: if all life is frozen for X weeks, why shouldnt rent payments also be frozen for the same amount of time? The same would, of course, have to apply to loan rates.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 22 2020 11:17pm

Full on socialism will be needed in a lot of places forealz.

Check dem stats man.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/03/22/michigan-jobless-past-108-000-covid-19/2894660001/



Literally stats two weeks into this and more people out of a job than 2008 already.



https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lamvo/coronavirus-update-charts-unemployment-claims-laid-off-jobs



A lot of those numbers are obviously not up to date and from all states, these are crazy numbers.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-22/fed-s-bullard-says-u-s-jobless-rate-may-soar-to-30-in-2q?utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_source=twitter

all chips on zombie outbreak

This post was edited by A30N0fCH405 on Mar 22 2020 11:57pm

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-03-22-animal-crossing-new-horizons-smashes-sales-records-in-the-uk







UK stats for newest Animal Crossing, 2nd biggest launch than Pokemon if you combine both versions. Incredible sales, UK has a robust sales tracking system for physical copies and is usually a good indication of western sales for titles. This sort of game, I think, could've not had a better launch period.

This post was edited by Helloween7 on Mar 23 2020 12:09am

Cant imagine a better time for a new video game to come out. Whole world locked inside their homes, no sports on TV, no events going on in the city, cant go clubbing, cant go to the gym, and new movies or TV series will also stop coming out soon.

I think Doom Eternal is going to lose out more than forecasted to Animal Crossing because people will be choose a more wholesome experience with the trying times. Especially those with multiple switches at home with kids and all.
One thing is sure, this might be a repeat of Breath of the Wild in terms of crushing sales and going straight to #1 selling title of the franchise in record speed.

And you're right about gaming, twitch has insane viewership right now and Steam keeps beating records. 20 million people online 7 days ago, and then this weekend it went up to 21 million then the very next day broke to 22 million online users.

I've played like 3 hours of Doom Eternal and it definitely doesn't have the spark that Doom 2016 had. The environments all look like plastic and they sped up combat / added more mechanics beyond the point where it's intense and well into the point where it's overwhelming.

I'm very sad.

Then there's them just kinda throwing random lore at you that had no basis in the last game, and it just all feels fake.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Mar 23 2020 12:21am