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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:27 AM Jul 2020

Avoid This Kind of Coverage Like the Plague

ULY 10, 2020

JIM NAURECKAS



“Bubonic Plague Found in a Herder in Inner Mongolia, China Says,” read the New York Times headline (7/6/20). “A city put control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages,” the subhead elaborated. The story’s lead described the case as “a reminder of how even as the world battles a pandemic caused by a novel virus, old threats remain.”

In the article’s last paragraph, Times Hong Kong correspondent Austin Ramzy acknowledged that cases of the plague are not so novel:

Plague cases are found in limited numbers across much of the world. In the United States, about seven cases, usually the bubonic form, are reported on average each year, most often in rural areas of Western states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

The Times was not the only Western outlet to see the Inner Mongolian plague case as a story. Bloomberg (7/5/20) seems to have kicked off the coverage, in a story originally headlined “Does Bubonic Plague Still Exist? China Confirms Case.” The Bloomberg report noted:

While the ailment is treatable, unlike the novel pathogen which has caused the ongoing pandemic, Chinese health authorities are wary of any infectious disease spreading after a hard-fought containment of the coronavirus outbreak.

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Avoid This Kind of Coverage Like the Plague (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2020 OP
Jesus Christ Judi!!!! Glamrock Jul 2020 #1
Did you miss this part Glam my Man? mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #3
Apparently I did.... Glamrock Jul 2020 #4
Judi is the best ... mr_lebowski Jul 2020 #5
At least we know how to treat bubonic plague. We don't know how to raccoon Jul 2020 #2
Yeah. Despite the horror of the Black Death, bubonic plague is easily Aristus Jul 2020 #6
August, 2017 and I'm on my way to Wyoming to see the eclipse. 3Hotdogs Jul 2020 #7

Glamrock

(11,781 posts)
1. Jesus Christ Judi!!!!
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:48 AM
Jul 2020

There's not enough shit on our plates, already? Bubonic plague now? Fucking really? C'mon 2021! I don't think I've ever prayed for a year to end! May we live in interesting times as the curse goes....

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. Did you miss this part Glam my Man?
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 06:15 AM
Jul 2020

"Plague cases are found in limited numbers across much of the world. In the United States, about seven cases, usually the bubonic form, are reported on average each year, most often in rural areas of Western states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says"

It's always been on our plate ...

Glamrock

(11,781 posts)
4. Apparently I did....
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 06:21 AM
Jul 2020

And my most profuse apologies to our wonderful Judi Lynn for all her hard work keepin us sinners edumacated! In me own defense, you see a headline and it's, "aaaahhhhh fuckitall! "

raccoon

(31,091 posts)
2. At least we know how to treat bubonic plague. We don't know how to
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 05:46 AM
Jul 2020

At least we know how to treat bubonic plague. We don’t know how to Treat COVID-19.

Aristus

(66,093 posts)
6. Yeah. Despite the horror of the Black Death, bubonic plague is easily
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 08:05 AM
Jul 2020

curable. Give it some doxycycline, and it folds like a cheap card table.

3Hotdogs

(12,209 posts)
7. August, 2017 and I'm on my way to Wyoming to see the eclipse.
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 09:08 AM
Jul 2020

I stop at Badlands National Park..(wonderful) and on the road is a colony of Prairie Dogs --- cute as hell.


AND there is a sign saying plague exists in the colony. Do Not Enter.

Of course, there are a couple of people with cameras, traipsing merrily among the mounds.

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