COVID-19 'Pandemic'

petros

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Coronavirus: The fake Bill Gates post and other claims to ignore

By Jack Goodman, BBC Monitoring & Trending

BBC Reality Check

28 March 2020 Reality Check


Whether it's a post on your uncle's account or an image your friend forwarded, fake coronavirus stories seem to be everywhere.

To help, BBC teams are verifying and fact-checking the latest and most widely-seen examples of fake and misleading information.

A fake Bill Gates message

A long message attributed to Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, encouraging people to reflect positively on their lives during the coronavirus outbreak has been shared thousands of times in multiple countries. It made it on to verified accounts, national newspaper websites and the Instagram account of Naomi Campbell, the supermodel.

https://www.bbc.com/news/52039642
 

Blackleaf

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Even more tragic for the poor dog considering they can't even get coronavirus.
 

Blackleaf

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A new take on an old classic...

The original:

The new version:
 

Blackleaf

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Flu deaths in the UK 2008/09: 13,000

Average number of global flu deaths per year: 500,000

I hate to sound... right... but let's put things into perspective here, calm down, stop the hysteria and urge our governments to let things go back to normal.


I can't be the only one to see that things have got rather daft now - ****ing up our economies and allowing millions to lose their jobs just because a few people have got the sniffles.


This has to stop.
 

Blackleaf

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Does everybody who dies from flu do it in the same month?

Around 30,000 people have died from coronavirus... or so the figures say, but we don't know how reliable they are because countries have different methods of recording so-called coronavirus deaths.

Italy's death toll is likely exaggerated because the authorities there record anyone who has died with coronavirus merely in their system as having died from coronavirus, when most have actually likely died from something else.

Germany's death toll is very low, and likely more accurate, because it seems to be recording only those who have actually died from coronavirus as having died from coronavirus.

So that 30,000 coronavirus deaths is hugely exaggerated.

Meanwhile, 500,000 will die of the flu this year.

We're ****ing up our economies, losing people their jobs and causing great harm to people's health and wellbeing by keeping them at home all the time for no good reason.


Mind how you go...
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Around 30,000 people have died from coronavirus... or so the figures say, but we don't know how reliable they are because countries have different methods of recording so-called coronavirus deaths.
Italy's death toll is likely exaggerated because the authorities there record anyone who has died with coronavirus merely in their system as having died from coronavirus, when most have actually likely died from something else.
Germany's death toll is very low, and likely more accurate, because it seems to be recording only those who have actually died from coronavirus as having died from coronavirus.
So that 30,000 coronavirus deaths is hugely exaggerated.
Meanwhile, 500,000 will die of the flu this year.
We're ****ing up our economies, losing people their jobs and causing great harm to people's health and wellbeing by keeping them at home all the time for no good reason.
Mind how you go...
It's probably all a Great Big EEE-vil Plot to Stop Brexit.
 

Ocean Breeze

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Final tally for 03/28/2020:

In terms of actual cases:

World: 663,000
USA: 123,500
Canada:5,650

Deaths:

World: 30,851
US: 2,211
Canada: 60

Cases/million:

US: 373
Canada: 150

Deaths/million:

US: 7
Canada: 2

New cases today:

US: 19,372
Canada: 898

notes:

-NYC residents trying to flee city, are turned back by state troopers in Rhode Island
-the pandemic is beginning to hit the red states hard (Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, etc)
-the only city that has been hit hard thus far in Canada is Montreal
-Canada with a record 900 new cases (most from La Belle province)
Thanks for updating the numbers.

appreciate it.
 

Blackleaf

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Whilst we're at it, why don't we post the daily flu death figures on here?

Posting coronavirus death tolls daily doesn't somehow make the disease especially severe. More people are still dying of flu.
 

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Flu deaths in the UK 2008/09: 13,000
Average number of global flu deaths per year: 500,000
I hate to sound... right... but let's put things into perspective here, calm down, stop the hysteria and urge our governments to let things go back to normal.
I can't be the only one to see that things have got rather daft now - ****ing up our economies and allowing millions to lose their jobs just because a few people have got the sniffles.
This has to stop.
Mass hysteria is more infectious than the Xi virus.
 

Blackleaf

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Mass hysteria is more infectious than the Xi virus.

We've seen it all before.

In 2009 the Brown Administration told Brits that tens of thousands will die of bird flu during that year.

Only 500 died.

I still recall, however, everyone still being allowed to go about their daily lives as normal.
 

Blackleaf

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Of course you are, dear. When have you ever not been? Run and tell Mummy what a clever lad you are.

I wish I could go and see my mother. Unfortunately I can't because scaremongering idiots like you are preventing me from doing so. I couldn't even visit her on Mother's Day.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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I wish I could go and see my mother. Unfortunately I can't because scaremongering idiots like you are preventing me from doing so. I couldn't even visit her on Mother's Day.
Poor you. Poor, poor you. Everybody's so mean to poor li'l Blackie.

It's OK. Someday you'll show 'em all! They'll be sorry they were mean to you!
 

JLM

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Around 30,000 people have died from coronavirus... or so the figures say, but we don't know how reliable they are because countries have different methods of recording so-called coronavirus deaths.

Italy's death toll is likely exaggerated because the authorities there record anyone who has died with coronavirus merely in their system as having died from coronavirus, when most have actually likely died from something else.

Germany's death toll is very low, and likely more accurate, because it seems to be recording only those who have actually died from coronavirus as having died from coronavirus.

So that 30,000 coronavirus deaths is hugely exaggerated.

Meanwhile, 500,000 will die of the flu this year.

We're ****ing up our economies, losing people their jobs and causing great harm to people's health and wellbeing by keeping them at home all the time for no good reason.


Mind how you go...


Yep, Corona virus pretty well takes the hit for everything.