[OFF TOPIC] Coronavirus Pandemic

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Singapore becomes the 6th nation to exceed the 100 confirmed cases mark after China, South Korea, Japan, Italy and Iran.

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

So apparently Pakistan is reopening it's border with infection zone Iran and resuming flights to infection zone China. That sounds like a move made by someone who's IQ is lower than the temperature in Pakistani winters  

 

actually I think that was the right decision. first Pakistan has no "real control" over its borders, if someone really wants to cross the border he does. better let people do it legally and at least monitor them to see if they are infected or not.

 

beside that, I'm quite sure almost nobody from Iran travels to Pakistan, it's not like Turkey or Iraq where people have business there or travel for holidays, even Afghanistan has lots of cultural similarities with Iran, but Pakistan ? no way. all of those guys were Pakistanis in Iran and after all Pakistan had to let its own citizens in.

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Ecuador has announced their first confirmed case.

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1 hour ago, MHSN said:

 

actually I think that was the right decision. first Pakistan has no "real control" over its borders, if someone really wants to cross the border he does. better let people do it legally and at least monitor them to see if they are infected or not.

 

beside that, I'm quite sure almost nobody from Iran travels to Pakistan, it's not like Turkey or Iraq where people have business there or travel for holidays, even Afghanistan has lots of cultural similarities with Iran, but Pakistan ? no way. all of those guys were Pakistanis in Iran and after all Pakistan had to let its own citizens in.

 

 

While I think the open border between oak and Iran is not a heavily trafficked border..... 

 

But Pakistan and china must be having a large number of visitors as china is heavily invested in infrastructure projects in Pakistan...... With still a huge number of new cases being reported in china, allowing flights between china and pak seems very stupid....... I predict pak could become the next new epicenter...  

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With 239 new cases confirmed so far today, Italy has now exceeded the 1000 mark in terms of total confirmed cases and just the third country to do so after China and South Korea.

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100 cases now in France.

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17 minutes ago, Bohemia said:

100 cases now in France.

The 7th country now to breach the 100 mark.

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I badly hope this is fake - at least the story behind it..

 

 

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7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I badly hope this is fake - at least the story behind it..

 

 

 

Nope that's not fake. exaggerated yes but not fake . but you should not follow that twitter account, I checked it and that belongs to some anti IR groups. they are even worse in term of having no shame in spreading lies and rumors. they are supporting the son of former Iranian dictator Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi and they want to bring "democracy" by installing another dictator. they use every single opportunity to create chaos.

 

apparently there were rumors in the town that they are transferring patients directly from Qom to Bandar-Abbas and into that clinic, some people stupidly believed that and got angry, they threw few things and set a fire, it's not like they burned down the building . but if someone checks the map, Qom and Bandar-Abbas are more than 1000km away from each other ! you have to be extremely stupid to believe such rumor. yes of course Qom is running out of hospitals but first they are creating mobile hospitals and even if they want to transfer patients, they will send them to Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, there are LOTS of big towns closer than Bandar-Abbas.

 

but yes that's true, people are panicking and obviously people don't trust the government and believe rumors easily (specially after that Ukrainian plane story) and I guess some of those stupid guys didn't want somebody sick from Qom in their town ! even though their beloved city is already infected. but no matter what, that was obviously disgusting

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46 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

Nope that's not fake. exaggerated yes but not fake . but you should not follow that twitter account, I checked it and that belongs to some anti IR groups. they are even worse in term of having no shame in spreading lies and rumors. they are supporting the son of former Iranian dictator Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi and they want to bring "democracy" by installing another dictator. they use every single opportunity to create chaos.

 

apparently there were rumors in the town that they are transferring patients directly from Qom to Bandar-Abbas and into that clinic, some people stupidly believed that and got angry, they threw few things and set a fire, it's not like they burned down the building . but if someone checks the map, Qom and Bandar-Abbas are more than 1000km away from each other ! you have to be extremely stupid to believe such rumor. yes of course Qom is running out of hospitals but first they are creating mobile hospitals and even if they want to transfer patients, they will send them to Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, there are LOTS of big towns closer than Bandar-Abbas.

 

but yes that's true, people are panicking and obviously people don't trust the government and believe rumors easily (specially after that Ukrainian plane story) and I guess some of those stupid guys didn't want somebody sick from Qom in their town ! even though their beloved city is already infected. but no matter what, that was obviously disgusting

 

Thanks, again! I don't follow any account by myself, but on a big Dutch forum people follow the whole coronavirus thing and this got posted there, so I thought I'd ask here