Re:Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus...
by OJFord on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:59AM
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> since it first started being reported in Western media around Jan 20
It was on Canadian television news just a few days into the new year, at the latest. I'm sure of it because I was away in Canada and that's where I first saw it.
It's been bothering me because every article a British newspaper runs since (and I thought The Times had covered it while I was in Canada, but couldn't say for sure) seems to include a graph of infections or death toll since outbreak compared to Sars, and puts day zero at around Jan 20 (can't remember exactly) like you said.
Surely it's not rampant disinformation, just an unstated definition of 'outbreak' that isn't familiar to me or matching my layman's one, but I don't get it.
It was on Canadian television news just a few days into the new year, at the latest. I'm sure of it because I was away in Canada and that's where I first saw it.
It's been bothering me because every article a British newspaper runs since (and I thought The Times had covered it while I was in Canada, but couldn't say for sure) seems to include a graph of infections or death toll since outbreak compared to Sars, and puts day zero at around Jan 20 (can't remember exactly) like you said.
Surely it's not rampant disinformation, just an unstated definition of 'outbreak' that isn't familiar to me or matching my layman's one, but I don't get it.