Speaker Pelosi: "GOP Leader must delete this tweet and apologize immediately."

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Nancy Pelosi ✔@SpeakerPelosi

Bigoted statements which spread misinformation and blame Asians and the Asian American community for #coronavirus make us all less safe. @GOPLeader must delete this tweet and apologize immediately.



6:58 PM - Mar 10, 2020

Good!!

[dewsgirl]

1. On top of that the CDC isn't keeping up with the stats on

their website. They are iffy at best. Earlier today, they were reporting 630, while BNO and Worldometer had long moved on and were up to 950.

[Ananda62]

7. Another website

I had used the Johns Hopkins website, but more recently, I use this more frequently updated website https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

[gopiscrap]

11. thank you

[MuseRider]

2. I saw this earlier

and thought that this is exactly what I, and probably most of us, thought would happen. I also believe this is exactly what Trump wanted to happen too. Now he has another racist voice to thrill the racist masses every day.

Seriously, I read it twice. I could not believe it and even now it just jangles my nerves.

Edit because I cannot type well............

[dweller]

3. on the CDC site it states

"This page will be updated regularly at noon Mondays through Fridays. Numbers close out at 4 p.m. the day before reporting."

so keep that in mind

✌🏼

[maxrandb]

4. Nancy needs to play hardball

Start pulling committee memberships and censuring some members.

Everything down to the office supplies should be on the table.

Briefings with only Retrumplicans?

Racist tweets?

Donnie Shit for Brains and Retrumplicans are acting as if the Democratic Party doesn't exist.

It's time to show them we do.

[Amaryllis]

6. She can't pull commitee memberships for Rs, only Ds.

[Iliyah]

5. And this is the minority leader of the House Republicans . . .

Republicans in congress are all on the same wave length. I wonder how McTurtle feels about this . . . crickets . . .

Anyone in the Republicans senate? Collins?

[MyOwnPeace]

8. I heard that

Senator Collins "has concerns........"

[PupCamo]

10. Screw her and her concerns

the sooner November comes and she's voted out the better

[AZ8theist]

13. NO!!!

Her threat level is ORANGE, not Yellow.....

[MyOwnPeace]

14. DAMN, that's good!!

[AZ8theist]

15. SO HAPPY you liked it...

I finally figured out how to insert images into my posts. I used to use tiny.url, but they went under. Now "cubeupload" seems to do the trick.
MORE TO COME!!!!!!!

[MyOwnPeace]

16. Good stuff!

Keep 'em coming!

[dalton99a]

9. And that Putin whore McCarthy lives in California

[Gerbilvamp]

17. I disagree with Nancy on this

McCarthy is a....not good guy....(self edited) but I feel this specific criticism is unwarranted.

Does what he said demonstrate "a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices"? Well, that's him every day of the week and twice on Sunday but he doesn't demonstrate that behavior here.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot

Does he spread misinformation here?
No, he directs people to the CDC.

Is calling COVID-19 "Chinese coronavirus" misinformation? Well, it is from China and it is a member of the coronavirus family. Is saying "Spanish flu" bigoted or misinformation?

Does he actually blame anyone in his post? No, he doesn't.

There is a metric ton of stuff to put on McCarthy but this isn't it.

Go Joe!

[SilasSouleII]

18. You're using your 1st post to side with and defend Kevin McCarthy??

Hummm

[LanternWaste]

24. What is the precise and specific use and relevance in labeling the virus with a geographic location?

in this instance, there is none. It assists neither diagnosis nor prognosis of the individual or the collective population.

Hence, using that labeling is an overt and conscious decision rather than educational, assisting or for clarity. Rationalizing its usage as benign is some pretty weak pretense.

[fleabiscuit]

20. It demonstrates that mccarthy is an asshole racist, like a large faction of the republican party.

[Ms. Toad]

21. Are you aware of

(1) how carefully the name of the virus was chosen to intentionally avoid associating it with a place or ethnicity?
(2) the racial targeting that is being done as a result of this virus?

Calling it the Chinese coronavirus is both intentional and racist. Period.

https://time.com/5797836/coronavirus-racism-stereotypes-attacks/

[dalton99a]

22. +1

[Ms. Toad]

31. As to the first you are wrong -

And as to the second, which you acknlowledge, it sounds like you are OK with him being racist. Using racist tendencies to drive fear and compliance is not acceptable. Period.

As to the first, the name was expressly chosen to avoid identifying a country or ethnicity with it. Nothing to do with science, it was a political/social decsion to avoid a name that would have racist connotations.

The names have to be generic, based on science-y things like symptoms or severity—no more places (Spanish Flu), people (Creutzfeld-Jacob disease), or animals (bird flu). As Helen Branswell wrote in Stat in January, Hong Kong residents in 2003 hated the name SARS because they saw in the initialism a specific reference to their city’s status as a Special Administrative Region in China. And leaders of Saudi Arabia didn’t much like it when Dutch researchers called a coronavirus HCoV-KSA1 ten years later—that stands for Human Coronavirus, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its eventual standardized name, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, still ended up sounding like it was blaming the entire region.

The result of all that rulemaking and political sensitivity is the anodyne Covid-19. “We had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also pronounceable and related to the disease,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference Tuesday. “It also gives us a standard format to use for any future coronavirus outbreaks.”

[KY_EnviroGuy]

25. Besides him parroting the GOP talking point, McCarthy is wrong about.....

"everything you need to know" being on the CDC website.

Prudent citizens around the U.S. will stay abreast on news from their local authorities and if they so chose to further educate themselves, from dozens of other web sites such as news sites around the globe and medical authorities such as Harvard Medical, Cedars-Sinai, etc.

This is simply the GOP trying to completely control the public's exposure to news and data.

Sorry, Kevin - we're much smarter that that............

[Travel Hat]

26. Will Chief Justice Roberts say anything about this

Like he did with Schumer?

[OhNo-Really]

27. GOP never mia a chance to publicly shame & hate a group. Dedicated bigots

[DBoon]

30. During the middle ages, Jews were though responsible for the Black Death

Many Jews were massacred during the resulting pogroms