Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: John m on March 12, 2023, 02:01:04 pm
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Rumour on the dark web says there is a NEW Flu in China ?
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This is so New the Artificial Intelligence dosent know about it YET ...new china flu?
I believe you are referring to the COVID-19 virus, which was first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019. It is also known as the novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic in March 2020, and it has since spread globally, causing widespread illness, death, and economic disruption. It is important to note that using terms like "China flu" can be stigmatizing and contribute to discrimination against people of Chinese or Asian descent. It is recommended to use the proper scientific name for the virus.
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This is so New the Artificial Intelligence dosent know about it YET ...new china flu?
I believe you are referring to the COVID-19 virus, which was first detected in Wuhan, China in late 2019. It is also known as the novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic in March 2020, and it has since spread globally, causing widespread illness, death, and economic disruption. It is important to note that using terms like "China flu" can be stigmatizing and contribute to discrimination against people of Chinese or Asian descent. It is recommended to use the proper scientific name for the virus.
Even the AI is tellin ya to mind your language......as trump said ...it came from China therfore its the chinese flu ....
I never understood the term Spanish flu wen it allegedly originated in america
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Ah I can tell you .Spain Was Neutral in WW1 .So the Newspapers were told not to Refer to it as American Lord Beverbrook from the Daily Mirror coined the Term Spanish Flu to stigmatize the Spanish just in case they decided to choose sides .Neither side would want them as Allies .
I wonder if this non existent flu in China has anything to do with Bird Flu .Or will it be like the other non existent Covid Flu .
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I hope it hits while Dr. Leo is still in command. €350/week... bring it on!
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Ah I can tell you .Spain Was Neutral in WW1 .So the Newspapers were told not to Refer to it as American Lord Beverbrook from the Daily Mirror coined the Term Spanish Flu to stigmatize the Spanish just in case they decided to choose sides .Neither side would want them as Allies .
I wonder if this non existent flu in China has anything to do with Bird Flu .Or will it be like the other non existent Covid Flu .
I don't know if any of yu noticed ....but the song birds have disappeared...
Thers only seagulls now , crows, starlins an masses of magpies
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Heard a load of birds singing yesterday?
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Heard a load of birds singing yesterday?
Wer ? Coola ..choir at mass ?
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1,800 Disease Medical experts have a conference. Only 30% wore masks and about 10% of the total got Covid! oops
CDC conference cursed by Covid outbreak, 181 infected (https://boingboing.net/2023/05/31/cdc-conference-cursed-by-covid-outbreak-181-infected.html)
Of the approximately 1,800 people who attended the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in late April, 181 reported that they became infected with Covid. While most of the attendees, who are disease detectives, say that they had been vaccinated, only 30% wore a mask.
From The Washington Post:
The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers and alumni — the disease detectives deployed to identify and fight outbreaks — met April 24-27 at an Atlanta hotel. The conference drew 1,800 in-person attendees, the first in-person Epidemic Intelligence Service gathering in four years. Like many conferences, it was crowded, with much face-to-face contact, many events held in small rooms and lots of socializing, according to attendees. About 70 percent of participants who responded to a CDC surveysaid they did not wear masks at the event.
The outbreak of covid-19 cases at the conference underscores the persistence of an evolving and highly infectious virus.
Another CDC global health meeting is scheduled for the same hotel in early June; about 300 to 400 people are expected to attend in person, said one CDC employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak.
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Again the taxi grapevine was on to this in March ....Last week when a Chinese senior health adviser projected 65 million COVID-19 cases per week in China by June, some health experts sounded the alarm.
China has been facing a new COVID-19 wave fueled by the XBB variant since April. Data from Zhong Nanshan—a respiratory disease doctor who was among the first to confirm COVID-19’s easy transmissibility—provided a rare insight into how the disease could possibly be spreading in China almost six months after Beijing abruptly ended its draconian zero-COVID strategy.
Since pivoting to “living with the virus” policy from early December, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention stopped updating weekly infections. But the sudden relaxation of anti-epidemic protocols also led to an estimated 37 million new infections a day weeks later. By January, experts said they believed almost 80% of China’s 1.4 billion population had already been infected in this first wave.
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Ah I can tell you .Spain Was Neutral in WW1 .So the Newspapers were told not to Refer to it as American Lord Beverbrook from the Daily Mirror coined the Term Spanish Flu to stigmatize the Spanish just in case they decided to choose sides .Neither side would want them as Allies .
I wonder if this non existent flu in China has anything to do with Bird Flu .Or will it be like the other non existent Covid Flu .
I don't know if any of yu noticed ....but the song birds have disappeared...
Thers only seagulls now , crows, starlins an masses of magpies
The Wren, Stonechat, and Field Pipit are all in my local field. Sparrows and Starlings galore. Alas, they going to bulldoze it for virtually free gaffs.
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They have nice fields like that near me .Full of Datsuns and old Fords the rare rusted Renault and the even rarer Bikeframe or legendary Hoover Twintub there is a nesting pair .
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They have nice fields like that near me .Full of Datsuns and old Fords the rare rusted Renault and the even rarer Bikeframe or legendary Hoover Twintub there is a nesting pair .
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..... I don't know if any of yu noticed ....but the song birds have disappeared...
Thers only seagulls now , crows, starlins an masses of magpies
I have noticed, usually in the morning when I finish they do be all belting it out like a Metallica concert, but recently I would barely hear them, also the common housefly is a rarity to see these days.
Good news really fer the basic homo sapien as none of us are too fond of birds chirping in the morning or house flys, but not a good sign overall to see these natural habits changing.....
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I hope it hits while Dr. Leo is still in command. €350/week... bring it on!
rofl
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..... I don't know if any of yu noticed ....but the song birds have disappeared...
Thers only seagulls now , crows, starlins an masses of magpies
I have noticed, usually in the morning when I finish they do be all belting it out like a Metallica concert, but recently I would barely hear them, also the common housefly is a rarity to see these days.
Good news really fer the basic homo sapien as none of us are too fond of birds chirping in the morning or house flys, but not a good sign overall to see these natural habits changing.....
The singing in the mornin is died down Ken cause they bird coples hav had ther nookie an the eggs hav hatched an ther busy feeding them little cnuts don't stop eatin ......they also don't be given away ther location I imagine .....
But i definitely noticed it's got quieter .....
In other news today .....
Ther was this robbin in me ma's garden past cople yers .....I fed it everyday an got it to feed from me hand .....anyway cople weeks ago I went out fed em .....an I trew the bit brown bread on the ground under the table which I never do normally.....anyway I came out next day an
He normally flies over to me after few minutes an then I seen it .......a bunch of robbin feathers on the ground wer the bread was .......the fukin cat ete him .....
I'm besides meslf wit the guilt ......
I murdered the poor cnut :'(
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I'm a bit of a bird feeder myself and often leave out a few bits fer them rather than put it in the bin.
Last weekend while doing a very rare bit of day work I saw Hillbillys fried chicken restaurant open and went in fer a munch parking illegally in the taxi rank beside it, got me grub and took a seat outside in the sun, along comes this butch looking young girl with doc's and tatoo's (I'm guessing her name was Stacey or Stace !) and she gives me the evil eye down through her nose-ring while taking the table next to me probably thinking to herself; "Waz dis old fart doing in ma town and ma space".
I have only a small meal as in just 2 pieces of chicken while 'Stace' has 2 large boxes of food. The table next to us is vacant and along comes Mr Crow (Big fooker, over 12 inches tall with a long sharp grey beak) and takes a perch on the back of a seat staring longingly at my fried chicken dinner, so I throw him a small piece of chicken from just a meter away and make a bollicks of my throw but miraculously Mr Crow still manages to grab it in mid-air which was very impressive.
Next I put a piece of chicken on my table and say to Mr Crow; "You gotta come and get it now guy ?".
Stace looks over at me very unimpressed as she chows through her trough of fried food.
Mr Crow won't come to my table to get the chicken so again I throw it to him, then along comes Misses Crow, Uncle Simon Crow and cousin's Joe, Peter, Johnny, Mary and Kate all perched on the back of the seats in front of me and directly behind Stace. I see her getting a tad agitated and turn to her to say; "Don't worry, they have their perimeter of about a meter and they won't break that", Stace replied; "I'm not worried".
I continue to feed the crows the last few bits of chicken and then the dopey pigeons arrive at ground level and are brushing against both mine and Stace's ankles under the tables. I finish up my meal, throw the litter in the bin and walk the 20 meters back to my cab, I look back at Hillbilly's and Stace is long gone ....... !!