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Devil Child's Journal#BloombergIsRacist Trends As Second Resurfaced Clip Shows Dem Candidate Saying...
Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg is under fire after two clips of him defending his highly controversial "stop and frisk" policing strategy have circulated on social media, with the hashtag #BloombergIsRacist trending on Twitter.
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But the former mayor's record on championing a policing policy that disproportionately targeted minorities has angered many voters. Although the billionaire apologized for the policy before launching his campaign, the resurfaced clips show that he was ardently defending "stop and frisk" as recently as a few years ago.
"They just keep saying it's a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethnic group. That may be, but it's not a disproportionate percentage of those who witnesses and victims describe as committing the murder," the wealthy businessman, with an estimated net worth of $60 billion, said in a 2013 interview with WOR. "In that case incidentally, I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little."
Those old remarks also counter his recent comments, in which he has claimed that he worked to end the targeting of minorities at the end of his tenure as mayor. As he left office at the end of 2013, the resurfaced clip shows that he was still strongly defending police specifically going after minorities in the final year of his mayorship.
https://www.newsweek.com/bloombergisracist-trends-second-resurfaced-clip-shows-dem-candidate-saying-we-disproportionately-1486722
MSM has picked this up from the twitterverse.
Coronavirus: Hong Kong imposes quarantine rules on mainland Chinese
Source: BBC
Hong Kong has begun a mandatory two-week quarantine for anyone arriving from mainland China, in a fresh effort to contain the deadly new coronavirus.
Visitors must isolate themselves in hotel rooms or government-run centres. Residents must stay inside their homes.
Anyone caught flouting the new rules faces a fine and a prison sentence.
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The 60-year-old US citizen, the first confirmed non-Chinese victim of the illness, died on Thursday at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, according to a US embassy spokesman in Beijing, who did not give details.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51419015
Hong Kong implements quarantine rules on visitors/travelers from mainland China. Also noted in article, a US citizen has now been killed by the illness.
White House asks scientists to investigate origins of coronavirus
Source: ABC
The White House on Thursday asked U.S. scientists and medical researchers to investigate the scientific origins of the novel coronavirus, as misinformation about the outbreak spreads online.
The director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in a letter to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, requested that scientific experts "rapidly" look into the origins of the virus in order to address both the current spread and "to inform future outbreak preparation and better understand animal/human and environmental transmission aspects of coronaviruses."
The national academies consist of private, nonprofit institutions charged with providing scientific support to the federal government.
The director of the OSTP, Kelvin Droegemeier, wrote in the letter to the president of the National Academy of Sciences, Marcia McNutt, that a widely disputed paper on the origins -- subsequently withdrawn -- had shown the urgency for accurate information about the genesis of the outbreak.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-asks-scientists-investigate-origins-coronavirus/story?id=68807304
I will not be surprised if the virus is found to have originated in a Chinese bio-weapons laboratory. Wuhan possesses such a facility.
Coronavirus Live Updates: Wuhan to Round Up the Infected for Mass Quarantine Camps
Source: New York Times
A senior Chinese official has ordered the authorities in the city of Wuhan to immediately round up all residents who have been infected with the coronavirus and place them in isolation, quarantine or designated hospitals.
Sun Chunlan, a vice premier tasked with leading the central government’s response to the outbreak that is centered in Wuhan, said city investigators should go to each home to check the temperatures of every resident and interview infected patients’ close contacts.
“Set up a 24-hour duty system. During these wartime conditions, there must be no deserters, or they will be nailed to the pillar of historical shame forever,” Ms. Sun said.
The city’s authorities have raced to meet these instructions by setting up makeshift mass quarantine shelters this week. The shelters are meant for coronavirus patients with milder symptoms, the government has said. But concerns are growing about whether the centers, which will house thousands of people in large spaces, will be able to provide even basic care to patients and protect against the risk of further infection.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html
Another troublesome update coming out of China. Their criticism of the US's Chinese traveler restrictions looks quite hypocritical to me.
Coronavirus: US bars entry to foreigners travelling from mainland China, declares public health emer
Source: South China Morning Post
The United States will deny entry to foreigners travelling from mainland China to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading after declaring a public health emergency on Friday.
President Donald Trump’s order will require US citizens, permanent residents and immediate family members arriving in the country from China’s Hubei province – the epicentre of the contagion – to be quarantined for 14 days starting Sunday at 5:00pm Eastern time.
The measures were announced by the White House task force on the coronavirus led by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. The order came as US health authorities confirmed the seventh case of the contagion – officially known as the 2019 novel coronavirus – in Santa Clara, California.
The move by Washington follows similar restrictions put in place by Japan and Singapore on incoming visitors from mainland China.
Read more: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3048510/coronavirus-us-declares-public-health-emergency
Also saw this reported on CNN twitter feed. About fucking time.
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