Posted on 04/29/2020 9:05:49 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
This is a short thread I was involved in today. Notice how one poster tries to steer the language of the discussion, which literally started with the weather. Slight changes were made to remove mild vulgarisms, and to remove screen names, as NextDoor has region restrictions on access.
Rachel: WTH??? It seems mother nature is angry again and taking it out on us, she has decided to fry us like chicken.
Dr. Sivana:She must really be mad at the folks in Georgia, then, it routinely gets to be 100 and EXTREMELY HUMID in the summer. I moved to Phoenix in part because I like hot dry weather. But your mileage may vary.
Dennis: Mother nature wants us to stay INDOOR during the CCP- virus aka Corona virus-19
Rachel: Its official classification is SARS-COV 19
Dr. Sivana: Well, if you are concerned about the CCP-virus, it doesn't like hot weather. Of course, being outside is NOT an issue, being too close to other people who might be carrying it can be an issue. Going for a walk on a sunny day (not in crowds) is fine.
Rachel: Dr. Sivana, please stop calling it CCP-virus, that's not its classification or name
Dr. Sivana: This is Next Door, not a scholarly paper. It is a descriptive term, and I intend to continue using it, as people know what I mean when I say it.
Rachel: Dr. Sivana it is false information, spreading false information is dangerous
Dr. Sivana: Rachel, No. It is not false information. It is more accurate than a sterile number, as the CCP was largely responsible for its early spread by its disinformation and withholding of information ... well documented. Quick, what is the official name of the 1968-1969 Hong Kong Flu? (answer: A (H3N2)). Most of us will continue to call it Hong Kong Flu, lest it be lost in a sea of Hs and Ns. I think I will stick with the accurate and descriptive CCP Virus. You can use the bureaucratic terminology if you like.
Lots of Xibots on the interwebs
Call them out, challenge them
It’s all they have left. The truth finds a way.
It came from China so call it the CCP VIRUS. I will/do.
The official virus name is not CIVID-19. It is SARS-CoV-2.
You were nicer than I likely would have been...I would have asked her if she was the “official speech monitor “
Rachel sounds like one of the types of people I make an effort to avoid in life. The dutiful slave to political correctness. They are never any fun (but fun to needle).
And it’s Kung Flu!
Sorry Doc, Rachel isn’t a “nice” person. She blithely parrots a shibboleth of a tyrannical Communist dictatorship that sealed folks in their homes to starve to death rather than admit they let this get out of hand. Her desire to be a useful idiot makes her dangerous and a threat to liberty. Dear Rachel if you see this please move to Wuhan and stop being so stupid.
I avoid those types as much as possible.
I try not to get into arguments on NextDoor any more. I got into one about a year ago with someone (who is actually an inlaw of an inlaw). She was pushing the “500,000,000 plastic straws in the U.S. every day” story.
Asked for source, said it couldn’t be possible (the math).
Someone defended her, said it is the principle, not the facts, that mattered.
I just stay out of that stuff now. You did well with Rachel, IMO.
Good for you. My neighborhood is chock-full of “Rachels” who are continually surprised when I return fire to their BS. They live in a PC bubble and are taken aback when others don’t subscribe to their doctrine.
“...but too much exposure to Chicom talking points ...”
Democrat talking points.
Rachel is not a bright person. She’s a marionette for the communists and globalists.
Wanna make her really mad?
Call it the XiVirus
Rachel sounds like a “Karen”.
Hi.
You have much patience.
M Kehoe: (Joker’s voice) Wait till she gets a load of me.
5.56mm
They’ve got good little apparatchiks on my Nextdoor to.
Had one guy spewing that we needed to push for mail-in voting and all the Karen’s jumped on board.
Guy was an obvious DNC plant.
liberals hate America more than they love their own children.
My local Nextdoor.com states that,”...with guidance from WHO”, the only acceptable name for the virus is Coronavirus or Covid19. Any other posted description is subject to being deleted.
Soooo, with the consent of Nextdoor,our acceptable speech is being guided by WHO.
BeGood/Ross
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