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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:15 AM Mar 2020

Kansas GOP official says lack of Chinese people has spared his state from coronavirus

Published 1 min ago on March 20, 2020
By Brad Reed

A Republican official in Kansas this week said that his state has been spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic so far because it doesn’t have as many Chinese people as other states and countries around the world.

The Kansas City Star reports that Marvin Rodriguez, the Republican Chairman of the Riley County Commissioners, said that Kansas’s problems with the virus would be much worse if it had a large number of Chinese immigrants like they have in Italy.

“There’s a garment industry and a lot of Chinese,” Rodriguez said of Italy. “If we were like Italy, we’d have it already.”

Rodriguez also seemed to suggest that he believed China intentionally put out the virus.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/kansas-gop-official-says-lack-of-chinese-people-has-spared-his-state-from-coronavirus/

What an absolute f**k wad..................... put two and two together....................

I just wonder if he knows where the 1918 Spanish Flue came from.................

While it’s unlikely that the “Spanish Flu” originated in Spain, scientists are still unsure of its source. France, China and Britain have all been suggested as the potential birthplace of the virus, as has the United States, where the first known case was reported at a military base in Kansas on March 11, 1918. Researchers have also conducted extensive studies on the remains of victims of the pandemic, but they have yet to discover why the strain that ravaged the world in 1918 was so lethal.

https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-flu

It may have originated in fucking KANSAS........................put two and two together ................

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Kansas GOP official says lack of Chinese people has spared his state from coronavirus (Original Post) turbinetree Mar 2020 OP
The "Spanish flu" started in his backyard dalton99a Mar 2020 #1
Yepper spot on.................... turbinetree Mar 2020 #5
How seriously F'ed up. He should be nowhere near government and never given a platform to speak RKP5637 Mar 2020 #2
Kicking this to show the stupidity. GemDigger Mar 2020 #3
Ignorance must really hurt. Kansas must be in convulsions. defacto7 Mar 2020 #4
I don't know what's worse...... marmar Mar 2020 #6

RKP5637

(67,107 posts)
2. How seriously F'ed up. He should be nowhere near government and never given a platform to speak
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:22 AM
Mar 2020

his Idiocracy!!!

marmar

(77,078 posts)
6. I don't know what's worse......
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:37 AM
Mar 2020

.... that an "official" is this fucking ignorant or that he feels secure enough in his position to say that.
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