Thanks a bunch

“Does” not “dies”

Sorry MawB when I posted it seemed to be a civilised thread, I missed that it had been taken down.

I wondered where it had gone. Pathetic!

Totally missed all that . What is the matter with people?
Yes I hope we Learn from mistakes made this time, and also hope for more cooperation between countries

I read about that virus too, in the light of the current pandemic my heart sank and I thought it was a scary prospect. I think we’ve still got to evaluate the lessons learned from Covid-19 but it seems that we should make every endeavour to prepare for another pandemic.

There are some nasty comments on this site some of the time I'm sorry to say. What you've read may well be perfectly true.

I believe that many Chinese people feel massively let down by their government who they think downplayed the virus with obvious consequences.

I spotted the thread this morning but had lots to do so thought I'd have a proper look at lunchtime.

Gorn down the plughole!

Ha - lessons will be learned Lucca sure I've heard that somewhere before.

Sodapop yes indeed.....

I saw the thread earlier and it seemed measured and informative. On another thread someone commented on a particularly unpleasant response that they would not ask for it to be taken down; better that people see what was written, and who by. There is some merit in that, the only problem being that I now ignore posts and threads by those posters, which has the desired effect of stifling debate.

I'm sorry, Maw. I was going back to read it again after telling DH about it. It was fine when I initially read it!
GN should have left it up and shamed the racists!

What is wrong with some people? ?

I m the same as Mary read it started to answer but don’t think my post went through so I thought I d do it later but not there any more

The thing is I d like to know who the racists are I don’t see why they should be protected by GN if they ve got something derogative to say let’s see it so we can see what we are up against and can answer in opposition

Another deleted thread?

I have heard about this new flu possibly from pigs that has started in China. I just hope it will be contained.

I am glad I didn't see the racist comments MawB that sabotaged your thread.

Is it an entirely strain or a mutated form of swine flu?

Weren't we offered vaccinations against swine flu? Or was that bird flu? or Australian flu or .....

If it is a flu rather than a completely new strain of virus then perhaps a vaccine will be found more quickly.
However, the scientists recall very busy at the moment researching COVID19

Not recall.

Will all be busy

I too thought it was an interesting thread Maw and I saw an item on the same subject on the BBC’s website.
I was going to read both properly later.

I don’t agree with GNs removal of the thread. I agree racist posts should be removed, of course. However we need to be able to have a discussion on this important topic.

I didn’t see your thread MawB ....are you allowed to start another one and hope it goes well this time??

I saw it but didn't comment, but I have now.

Perhaps I could transfer my post, sans typos, to another thread if you start one, Maw

It is important and very worrying.

Someone I work with was horrified at the thought of me eating Chinese for my birthday. I just could not relate to her on any level. I find it really tough to deal with things like that face to face. I just laughed and said "don't be silly".

I have reached saturation point with bad news. I can't start thinking about another pandemic. On a serious note, in 1969/70 30 - 40,000 people died in this country from Asian flu. This statistic does not seem to have drawn any comparisons with today, or at least none that I have read, and the article described this as a 'relatively low death rate.' Does this seem odd to anyone else?

Yes it seems odd to me Rosina

The main thing about the 1968 Hong Kong flue epidemic was that the country wasn’t put into lockdown unlike this one.

I think one of the differences though is that some of the population had immunity to that flu unlike this virus which we haven’t encountered before.

MawB why not start another thread on your subject and hopefully it will remain a sensible discussion as you had hoped.

Isn’t it possible for just the unpleasant comments to be removed?

It seems rather an overkill to remove the whole thread.

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