Coronavirus: Nature magazine apologises for
reports linking Covid-19 with China
South China Morning Post,
by
Sarah Zheng
Original Article
Posted By: konocti95,
4/10/2020 12:34:43 PM
British scientific journal Nature has apologised for associating Covid-19 with China in its reporting, saying that early coverage of the global health crisis by itself and other media had led to racist attacks on people of Asian descent around the world.
In an article published on Tuesday, the publication said that the World Health Organisation’s announcement on February 11 that the official name for the pneumonia-like virus would be Covid-19 had been an implicit reminder to “those who had erroneously been associating the virus with Wuhan and with China in their news coverage – including Nature”.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
konocti95 4/10/2020 12:36:17 PM (No. 375174)
Chi-Com propaganda machine in full swing.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/10/2020 12:41:01 PM (No. 375187)
It doesn't take propaganda for self-hating Westerners to deny reality.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Namma 4/10/2020 12:44:31 PM (No. 375193)
Its the Chinese Government Wuhuan viris
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/10/2020 12:49:45 PM (No. 375205)
China doesn't need to defeat the West militarily. All they have to do is buy us.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
slab 4/10/2020 12:55:16 PM (No. 375214)
I call it Wu Flu no matter who I'm talking to.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/10/2020 12:59:04 PM (No. 375222)
I had the Asian flu in 1957. No one ever said that was Xenophobic. I was 13 then and don't even know if that word existed then. Just like the word "woke". I hate it's usage, must have been some idiot millenial who dreamed up that nonsense word.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/10/2020 12:59:29 PM (No. 375224)
#5. I call it the WuHuFlu. Now it is the Antarctica Sniffles.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/10/2020 1:06:19 PM (No. 375237)
Once the sun never set on the British Empire. Now the sun has set on England
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TLCary 4/10/2020 1:06:28 PM (No. 375238)
"erroneously"... want to back up that claim?
Who is stupid enough to by this? Oh right.. NYT called it the "Trump Virus".. We know who.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NancyD 4/10/2020 1:39:01 PM (No. 375267)
In my house, we use Wuhan Wipes. I will call disinfecting wipes Wuhan Wipes until the day I die.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
golden 4/10/2020 1:40:22 PM (No. 375268)
The Kung Flu came from Wuhan. Please prove otherwise. No apology needed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mathman 4/10/2020 1:44:32 PM (No. 375273)
Oh. I see. The single-strand RNA virus which jumped from bats to humans did so in China. But that does not mean that we can call it a Chinese virus. It must be called a bat virus. Just because the bats lived in China does not make them Chinese bats.
Nature is just batty.
So much for German measles. Or Polish kielbasa. Or Egyptian mummies. Or French bread. Identifying things by their country of origin is now politically incorrect.
No more Russian borscht. No more American pie. No more Japanese Samurai. No more Tibetan monks. No more Chilean Andes. Nope. Nope. Nope. Any reference is now racist.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Tusker 4/10/2020 2:00:58 PM (No. 375289)
Oh give it a freeking break! Bats and dogs my royal red backside.
The ChiComs foisted this bio-weapon on the world, aiming specifically at the U.S., the rest is "gravy".
The ChiComs are, to date, not being held responsible for their assault upon global civilization in the name of global dominance. One is holding out that the ChiComs WILL, one way or another, be held responsible and ground into the dirt of history where they belong, right along with their Soros sucking sychophants; ground into the dirt of history.
Today is Good Friday staring down a prohibited Easter celebration . Now, what good is a locked up Church? And really, a "virtual Church" is no better than phone "relations" professional.
Good only for the godless ChiComs and the Soros sucking sychophants.
So fellow pilgrims: RESIST! Never give in to the ChiComs and the godless leftists.
And never forget when the The Church was locked and you were prohibited from going into The Church.
Never forget and never forget who is responsible: The godless dog eating ChiComs and the Soros sucking sychophants.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/10/2020 2:26:59 PM (No. 375310)
Boo freaking hoo!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
happywarrior 4/10/2020 2:30:17 PM (No. 375314)
More people died from political correctness than racist attacks during this pandemic. Florence, Italy urged people to "hug a Chinese" which most likely resulted in thousands dying. Likewise, NYC urged people to go to Chinatown, WuHan Nan urged people to visit SF Chinatown and lastly, the Mayor of New Orleans held the Mardi Gras celebration to give the finger to President Trump for enforcing the Chinese travel ban which sickened and killed hundreds in that city. Now she blames him.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kono 4/10/2020 2:42:09 PM (No. 375337)
How's this any worse than the deceptive reporting of our enemedia? For over a month they've attacked as racist anybody having the temerity to attribute the virus to China (or more specifically to the "wet markets" in Wuhan). The CCP has tried to start rumors that the virus was released there by visitors from some other country, including that American bioweapons researchers, or Chinese construction labor bringing it back from Italy.
Sorry ChiComs, the disease's vector seems to originate deep inside you. No apologies will be offered (nor even begrudgingly given) for calling it the Wuhan Flu.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 4/10/2020 2:52:59 PM (No. 375349)
Apologizing for telling the truth.
Nature is not a trustworthy source of information.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/10/2020 3:10:43 PM (No. 375369)
So, who's getting paid off by the dog eating, godless, communists?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
zoidberg 4/10/2020 3:16:06 PM (No. 375371)
I call it the Chicom virus.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
red1066 4/10/2020 3:16:34 PM (No. 375372)
We all know where the virus came from, and who hide the details about it. No amount of Chinese propaganda will change that.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/10/2020 3:54:29 PM (No. 375398)
But, but, but . . . what happened to the "science"??
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Foghorn 4/10/2020 4:26:40 PM (No. 375413)
After the word was out that China was at fault they threatened to shut off medication to America. They provide 80% of the USA pharmaceuticals to the USA. It is clear that it is China's fault along with W.H.O. that the virus severity was increased exponentially by not accurately reporting the threat. China controls much of the tech equipment manufacturing, computers, telephones, and almost any electronic device you can name is made in China or a country controlled by China. The steel industry has almost disappeared because America bought steel cheaply from China. China subsidized steel or manipulated money to keep steel at low cost. All of these factors reduced the security of the United States.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
OCJim 4/10/2020 5:33:56 PM (No. 375469)
Evidently in their nature to be intellectually dishonest and dishonest in their reportage. Done with them.
And BTW, pity the planet that lets China prevail.
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Ok. Then stop calling blacks African Americans, Hispanics Latinos, Asians Asian Americans and so on. Dems divide everyone into groups but don't like titles?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
paral04 4/11/2020 9:37:26 AM (No. 376058)
What a pack of idiots.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/11/2020 10:14:32 AM (No. 376093)
It is 'settled science' to name viruses with the location they were found. Ebola virus emerged somewhere along the Ebola river in Zaire. Should we pretend otherwise with that virus too?
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