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hey there, it's just a 'simplified term' - totally not an artificial and coordinated effort for political reasons. they just naturally all started to call it the 'chinese virus' at some point...

at least according to santa and some other hacks who keep denying obvious truths...

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Mar 19 2020 03:07pm

Quote (fender @ Mar 19 2020 02:46pm)

again, for the slow crowd: "corona virus" / "covid-19" are the terms that everyone was using - INCLUDING the people who are now pushing the "china virus" label. so your little 'this is just a simplified term for the accurate description' pivot simply doesn't make any sense.
this is clearly a coordinated effort for political reasons, that actually stokes fear and mistrust against asian americans, and if you weren't so biased and stubborn, you'd be able to realise and acknowledge that.

your moronic 'you think everything trump does is bad, so i don't even have to address the issue at hand' approach is an intellectually lazy and dishonest way to dismiss any criticism leveled against him. again, context matters. this is not trump saying 'the sky is blue', or him curing cancer. you just suffer from an extreme case of confirmation bias (and butthurt). you might not be a cultist yourself, but you're certainly embracing their talking points and anti-intellectualism.

CV19 is the disease that SARS-COV-2 causes, kind of like how HIV causes AIDS and coronavirus is a generic term that not only relates to the current outbreak, but also SARS and MERS. But I'm glad the president is under your skin and living inside your head. Does he pay you rent? Don't talk to me about being biased, hack.

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Mar 19 2020 03:29pm

Quote (Santara @ Mar 19 2020 12:20pm)

Me on FB this morning:

There's already an incentive for the producer to provide more of it, that's why it was there in the first place.

If you tell a producer "I'll buy 50 at price X" and they only have 5, there's already an incentive to produce more, because you have more demand.

The idea that producers need incentive to produce more hand sanitizer, etc. etc. is ridiculous. It's a matter of how much can be produced, not a matter of their willingness to produce it.

The better argument is that price hikes decrease demand, and therefore stabilize supply. Still, that can be accomplished with limitations on how many people can buy at a time. My wal-mart did still have some toilet paper on the shelf a few days ago and they were refusing to sell more than one pack to a person at once.

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Mar 19 2020 03:33pm

Quote (Thor123422 @ Mar 19 2020 04:29pm)

There's already an incentive for the producer to provide more of it, that's why it was there in the first place.

If you tell a producer "I'll buy 50 at price X" and they only have 5, there's already an incentive to produce more, because you have more demand.

The idea that producers need incentive to produce more hand sanitizer, etc. etc. is ridiculous. It's a matter of how much can be produced, not a matter of their willingness to produce it.

The better argument is that price hikes decrease demand, and therefore stabilize supply. Still, that can be accomplished with limitations on how many people can buy at a time. My wal-mart did still have some toilet paper on the shelf a few days ago and they were refusing to sell more than one pack to a person at once.

Not just existing suppliers, but encourages more suppliers to do it. Like how breweries are shifting alcohol production to hand sanitizer.

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Mar 19 2020 03:56pm

Quote (Arsenic_Touch @ 19 Mar 2020 21:24)

https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/03/GettyImages-1207670368.jpg

The dreaded sharpie!

He's winning the trade war. I guess it's real, he wrote "chinaco" ?

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Mar 19 2020 03:59pm

Quote (Saucisson6000 @ Mar 19 2020 04:56pm)

He's winning the trade war. I guess it's real, he wrote "chinaco" ?

lowercase 'ese'

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Mar 19 2020 04:02pm

Quote (Santara @ 19 Mar 2020 22:59)

lowercase 'ese'

ahh ye there's "virus" after the "corona", well it's just getting worse, it's not even "china virus" or "china coronavirus" but CHINESE virus :rofl:

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Mar 19 2020 04:11pm

Quote (Santara @ Mar 19 2020 04:33pm)

Not just existing suppliers, but encourages more suppliers to do it. Like how breweries are shifting alcohol production to hand sanitizer.

The fact that bars are closed probably also had something to do with it. Also, those breweries are making the shift now without a retail increase in the price of hand sanitizer oh, so that fact kind of works against your point

There's ways to artificially get the benefits of the market without screwing over poor people. Most of the time the markets regulation of supply and demand is adequate but in extreme times the mechanisms can be replaced with better Solutions

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