Pongo Waring Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Lots of news stories about this 'White Lung" virus hitting the world. Is this scaremongering or should we be worried? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sidcow Posted December 1, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2023 GET HOLD OF THE BOG ROLL. NOW!! 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 I hate threads like this . The Covid thread came back to bite me on the arse when I posted on the first few pages in that. You never know what’s scaremongering and what isn’t but I know the world likes to scaremonger a lot so hopefully that’s all it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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trekka Posted December 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2023 22 minutes ago, sidcow said: GET HOLD OF THE WHISKY. NOW!! Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 6 minutes ago, Pongo Waring said: He plays to a certain audience nowadays. I saw a video pop up of him giving a lecture on cancer, he’ll latch on to anything to keep his popularity high . He’ll probably blame the vaccines for the outbreak of pneumonia. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted December 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2023 There's no reporting of a 'white lung virus'. This the result of China finally easing COVID controls and experiencing the same fallout from that that everyone else did - a sharp increase in respiratory illnesses (notably flu viruses and chest infection causing bacteria) particularly among children, who had been prevented from mixing to combat COVID who were now getting hammered by every illness they'd avoided for 3 years. This isn't anything to worry about. The thing that made COVID bad was it was a completely new virus that spread incredibly efficiently and where it affected people badly it was took significant amounts of care to support them and was reasonably deadly for a virus of its type (though could have been worse). This isn't that, it's a lot of viruses and illnesses we know about hitting a vulnerable population with a vengeance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 1, 2023 Moderator Share Posted December 1, 2023 It’s like the added context wasn’t read 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted December 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 1, 2023 14 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: He plays to a certain audience nowadays. I saw a video pop up of him giving a lecture on cancer, he’ll latch on to anything to keep his popularity high . He’ll probably blame the vaccines for the outbreak of pneumonia. When your livelihood has come to rely on your reporting on things that relate to a virus that has a nice chunky 'skeptic' audience as well, it's in your interest to keep that audience buying. He rapidly became a joke. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, Chindie said: When your livelihood has come to rely on your reporting on things that relate to a virus that has a nice chunky 'skeptic' audience as well, it's in your interest to keep that audience buying. He rapidly became a joke. Yeah I think it was you who pointed him out to me when I asked why he’d changed sides from pro vaccine to against it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 2, 2023 11 hours ago, Rugeley Villa said: He plays to a certain audience nowadays. I saw a video pop up of him giving a lecture on cancer, he’ll latch on to anything to keep his popularity high . He’ll probably blame the vaccines for the outbreak of pneumonia. Very much like Michael Moseley, who has to come up with some radical new health/diet 'breakthrough' every year or so to plug his latest book. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 2, 2023 This new illness seems a bit racist to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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