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New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister shuts down Covid denier: "Sorry sunshine, wrong place" | Boing Boing
merelygiftedNew Zealand Deputy Prime Minister shuts down Covid denier: "Sorry sunshine, wrong place" | Boing Boing
New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was taking questions after giving a speech in Tauranga when a man with a whiny North American accent demanded that the Deputy Prime Minister prove that the Coronavirus was real. Peters' response was recorded by SBS:
"Where's your evidence that there's a virus that causes the disease?" the man said, before being interrupted by Mr Peters.
"Sit down, sit down, sit down," Mr Peters said.
"We've got someone who obviously got an education in America. 220,000 people have died in the US, where there are eight million cases to date. We've got 79,000 cases just today, probably in India, and here is someone who gets up and says 'the Earth is flat'.
"Sorry sunshine, wrong place," Mr Peters said, to applause.
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New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister shuts down Covid denier: "Sorry sunshine, wrong place" | Boing Boing
merelygiftedNew Zealand Deputy Prime Minister shuts down Covid denier: "Sorry sunshine, wrong place" | Boing Boing
New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was taking questions after giving a speech in Tauranga when a man with a whiny North American accent demanded that the Deputy Prime Minister prove that the Coronavirus was real. Peters' response was recorded by SBS:
"Where's your evidence that there's a virus that causes the disease?" the man said, before being interrupted by Mr Peters.
"Sit down, sit down, sit down," Mr Peters said.
"We've got someone who obviously got an education in America. 220,000 people have died in the US, where there are eight million cases to date. We've got 79,000 cases just today, probably in India, and here is someone who gets up and says 'the Earth is flat'.
"Sorry sunshine, wrong place," Mr Peters said, to applause.
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Trump administration told elite, conservative donors the virus would be much worse than they let on
merelygiftedTrump administration told elite, conservative donors the virus would be much worse than they let on
They didn’t tell them directly that they should readjust their portfolios. But they sent a very clear message, early on, that needed no further explanation.
As reported by the New York Times,
Trump administration officials in late February strongly hinted to the
Hoover institute, a conservative think tank that represents, among
others, key Republican donors and business interests, that the COVID-19
pandemic in actuality presented a far more dire threat to their economic
interests than that being conveyed to the American people at the same
time, when the worst public health crisis this country has experienced
in over a century was still a mere blip on every else’s radar. ...
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