DJP
Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Disregard the last message, I worked out how to unsubscribe from the emails. There’s a subscribe / unsubscribe option on the front page of every sub-forum..
Britain wants compensation from China. Fat chance of that happening
Well, some “think tank” has written a report saying that. Probably some things are not worth giving the oxygen.
Did we out-do China in building a new hospital?
I’m surprised at an SPGB’r using the nationalist ‘we’. But anyhow, no – the structure was already built they just bought the equipment in. .
If anyone else was intrigued by that Sucharit Bhakdi video, I’ve found an interesting critique. It’s in German but the Google translate version is readable.
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/coronavirus-faktencheck-bhakdi-100.html
Seems it wasn’t so accurate after all, he is using figures that are far to low. We really should be wary of anything pushed the conspiracy and anti-vax industry right now…
Looks like another post I made has been stuck in pending. Whatever spam protection you’re using it’s no good..
As far as I understand it I think the thing with asymptomatic carriers of the virus is that they could be spreading the virus around without realising it. It’s another factor that contributes towards complicating how hard it is to know how many people may have already had the virus, which would be needed to be known in order to work out the seriousness of it all.
You need to make ReCaptcha apply to new forum registrations, and on the comment form. Otherwise it won’t do anything.
I think Dave B is making a fool of himself and over-egging it a bit and pushing dodgy sources. A hoax is something that is *totally* false and deliberately engineered. And what on earth is this “Swiss Propaganda Research” place he keeps pushing?
Of course, it is interesting to hear critical voices with backgrounds in epidemiology, the video from Professor Sucharit Bhakdi was interesting – I’m not sure fully what to make of it yet. But for now, I think the sensible thing is to maintain social distancing.
Here’s an article debunking the headline that 50% of the UK population may have already had covid19: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coronavirus-infections-oxford-study-immunity
I have been doing some online courses about the virus:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/covid-19/
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/covid19-novel-coronavirus
Coronavirus are a group of viruses, given the name because of the shape (‘corona’ means crown). There is no such thing as “the” coronavirus, the word refers to a group.
“But CO2 emissions are really just a proxy for industrial development.”
That’s not really the case though is it? Maybe when fossil fuels were the only viable option, but not now. For example, China’s move away from fossil fuels and towards renewables doesn’t represent an industrial regression.
This article is just twaddle from a bunch of climate change deniers, why give them the oxygen?
But how to oppose it without taking sides in an internal capitalist dispute? There’s also our principle that a socialist party should campaign neither for or against a reform (but only for socialism). Vote Remain in referendum on a personal basis? A socialist couldn’t vote for the LibDems could they, especially as their tactics are likely to provoke a no-deal Brexit? Or any other capitalist party for that matter.
Yes I agree that we can’t “take sides” in the sense of joining the Brexit party or standing in the street dressed as an EU flag. But I think the anti-nationalist and socialism argument should be made clearly that there is nothing for the working class to gain from Brexit, and that the forms of Brexit that are being put forward are an assault on immigrant (and emigrant) labour and something that will threaten peoples family life, much like the windrush saga. From that, if there where another referendum, people can make there own mind up how to vote.
But with regards to the voting strategy, in absence of a mass socialist movement, it’s of little significance how socialists do or don’t vote. I think there are some situations where tactical voting *against* something could be a sensible option. In this context is voting Lib-dem or Labour that? Probably not.
ALB Wrote – “But why should we take sides?”
Because a Brexit that puts limits on freedom of movement and makes it harder for people to come into the UK will have a negative effect on the thousands of people who have trans-national family lives. Reason enough to oppose it. But of course it all depends on what “Brexit” actually comes to mean..
I thought this video, also on the MHI, wasn’t too bad. If it hasn’t been mentioned before:
“However, capitalist reality is keeping large populations in poverty and so uneducated, and this in turn results in those populations’ proliferation.”
But the birth rate has already rapidly fallen *the world over*. Population is increasing not because more people are being born but because more people are living longer.
Watch this film for up to date information:
“It is wishful thinking to say that humans are any different from fruit flies in their reproductive patterns in societies that do not provide sufficient education. Where is the scientific basis for such assertions?”
Where’s the scientific basis for saying that human reproductive patterns *do* follow this pattern? Which historical examples can you give?
