NYT's Farnaz Fassihi shares video of Iranian child struggling on street w/ breathing problems

[Dennis Donovan]

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Farnaz Fassihi ✔ @farnazfassihi

Iran coronavirus
Terrifying videos emerging of people- here a kid- collapsing in public with breathing problems.#کرونا

Ehsan monajati @Ehsanmonajati

در خیابان یوسف آباد (تهران این پسر وسط خیابان بی?حال افتاده بود و نفس سخت می?کشید و ....
خیلی از مردم اصلاً اون را نمیدیدن و حتی وقتی از حال میرفت از کنارش رد میشدن، با اورژانس تهران تماس گرفتم و خوشبختانه خیلی سریع رسیدن.
کمی بیشتر به همدیگه توجه کنیم🙏🏽
In Yousef Abad Street (Tehran) this boy was lying in the middle of the street and was breathing hard.
Many people did not see her and even when she was passing by, I called the Tehran Emergency and luckily it was very fast.
Let's pay more attention to each other

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2:54 PM - Feb 29, 2020

I don't think she'd risk her reputation by posting something false. And Google translator seems to have a problem with pronouns.

On edit: it appears to be legitimate. Christ.

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[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[hlthe2b]

2. May that child be at peace and cared for. It is damned devastating and even more so

because so many won't care (Trumpsters) because it is "Iran"... But even more so because so many in this country are vulnerable. It is not impossible we could see this here or at least the possibility of finding the ill and isolated dead in their homes with no insurance access to health care or those to care for them.

[Leghorn21]

3. Ms. Fassihi is a great source, Dennis - I just discovered her a few days ago (NYT journalist) -

Remember the videos coming out of China “back in the day”? (mid-January) - The CCP disappeared them, apparently...but they all resembled this poor child’s desperation

I do hope all these horrific videos are staged, but...well, I think we’re fixing to find out how real they are on our on streets

[Dennis Donovan]

4. The video seems to be legit. The Iranian government, true to form, is effing this up as well

Theirs is even dumber than our present one!

[Dennis Donovan]

5. She just tweeted this: "two people we know arrived from Iran through LAX in past 2 days..."

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Farnaz Fassihi ✔@farnazfassihi

Iran coronavirus travel to US:
At least two people we know arrived from Iran through LAX in past 2 days & were not screened or tested for virus.#Iran

4:33 PM - Feb 29, 2020

[Leghorn21]

6. No doubt this is true, and there was a post here last night about two young women who just

flew into NY from Italy, and were appalled that they weren't screened or tested or anything