Quote (Saucisson6000 @ Apr 23 2020 01:59pm)

'A nation of moaners'



clean yourself

Quote (ofthevoid @ 23 Apr 2020 14:20)

Prime example of economic ripples. People that keep saying savings lives is more important than saving the economy have a one dimensional understanding of how the world works.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-21/starvation-s-toll-tops-virus-risk-for-poorest-nations-un-warns

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 23 2020 08:47am)

However, let's not be disingenuous: neither Trump nor conservatives, nor you and I, give a damn about poor people in developing countries.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 23 2020 10:47pm)

Very true. Like some commentator said: "In the first world, lockdowns mean that you go home and apply for unemployment benefits. In the third world, lockdowns mean you go home with an empty stomach.


However, let's not be disingenuous: neither Trump nor conservatives, nor you and I, give a damn about poor people in developing countries. Their fate shouldnt be weaponized for domestic policy disputes.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 23 2020 08:47am)

Very true. Like some commentator said: "In the first world, lockdowns mean that you go home and apply for unemployment benefits. In the third world, lockdowns mean you go home with an empty stomach.


However, let's not be disingenuous: neither Trump nor conservatives, nor you and I, give a damn about poor people in developing countries. Their fate shouldnt be weaponized for domestic policy disputes.

Quote (Plaguefear @ Apr 23 2020 08:58am)

I signed up to sponsor a child for nearly 2 years, i stopped getting letters after about 18 months, i asked why the letters stopped and they said the child had died 3 months earlier but that they were happy for me to sponsor a new child, i declined.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Apr 23 2020 09:28am)

That blade cuts both ways. We don't care about starving 3rd world plebs but others care about 80 year old with health issues dying?

Economies are so integrated that what we do in the first world impacts the 3rd world just as much.

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As the new coronavirus took root across America, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent states tainted test kits in early February that were themselves seeded with the virus, federal officials have confirmed.

The contamination made the tests uninterpretable, and—because testing is crucial for containment efforts—it lost the country invaluable time to get ahead of the advancing pandemic.

The CDC had been vague about what went wrong with the tests, initially only saying that “a problem in the manufacturing of one of the reagents” had led to the failure. Subsequent reporting suggested that the problem was with a negative control—that is, a part of the test meant to be free of any trace of the coronavirus as a critical reference for confirming that the test was working properly overall.

Now, according to investigation results reported by The New York Times, federal officials confirm that sloppy laboratory practices at two of three CDC labs involved in the tests’ creation led to contamination of the tests and their uninterpretable results.

Quote (fender @ Apr 22 2020 12:27pm)

there are multiple countries starting clinical trials for possible vaccines this week. i know for a fact that germany and switzerland did...