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dewsgirl

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5. I am having the hardest time differentiating real from fake

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:53 PM

Feb 2020

news when it comes to this. With domestic issues, if I can understand the other sides agenda, it just seems much easier. I'm following day traders, cryptocurrency people, even a few gamers, people I never would have followed before. The situation is damn near impossible with China having such a strict clamp down on information coming out of Wuhan. I'm even frustrated with MSM pushing this flu narrative, you don't lock down 30 million people for the flu.
Sorry, had to get that off my chest.

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Video purportedly shows medical team boarding flight from Japan to HK - "7 people had a fever" [View all] Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 OP

So the announcement in Japanese says oregonjen Feb 2020 #1

The person who tweeted it, while not verified by twitter, seems legit Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 #2

Wait they were leaving Japan? How many in Japan have it? dewsgirl Feb 2020 #3

Good questions. Since posting this yesterday... Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 #4

I am having the hardest time differentiating real from fake dewsgirl Feb 2020 #5

Especially when people post unsubstantiated stuff here. Tipperary Feb 2020 #6

It's incredibly frustrating, because many of the accounts dewsgirl Feb 2020 #7