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Amazon is reportedly working to find a cure for the common cold
Amazon disrupted the books, grocery, and shipping business, and now it's set its sights on viral infections. The tech company has apparently tasked a team of employees to research and develop a cure for the common cold, a CNBC report indicates today. Under an effort called "Project Gesundheit," three people familiar with the effort tell CNBC that Amazon is specifically looking to develop a vaccine that would stave off cold infections. This small team exists under the broader Grand Challenge group within Amazon, CNBC says.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @06:39AM (8 children)
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:03AM
Nothing wrong with stigmatizing the Chinese or anyone else. The disease originated there. They deserve the stigma.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:35AM (3 children)
Agreed but I guess the point is that you shouldn't make what looks to be general comments against us nerds when it is just one person making these bad comments. Direct your attention towards the bad comments and not towards the rest of us. Comments like
"We're supposed to be nerds who care about science. Let's please get shit like this right at the very least!"
seem to target too general of an audience on this blog.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:44AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @03:37PM (1 child)
It looks like most of the racist comments got modded down. So the record was set straight. As far as the non-racist jokes I see nothing wrong with a little humor. As far as conspiracy theories go I don't see anything wrong with them being discussed. Sure many of them are silly and you are free to refute them but I think the much bigger danger is attempting to restrict free speech like many mainstream sources do (mainstream sources now include Facebook and Google/Youtube aside from sources like CNN). I think one of the benefits of smaller forums is the freedom to discuss unpopular views. I find those that are intolerant of views they disagree with from being discussed to be far more extreme than those that wish to consider and discuss the possibility of a crazy conspiracy theory no matter how crazy. I find the mainstream sources, with their efforts to restrict free speech, to be the extremists. I work with the assumption that most people are competent enough to distinguish a reasonable viewpoint from a silly one if they are exposed to arguments on both sides.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @04:28PM
(same poster) I also work with the assumption that mainstream sources are no more competent than the rest of us in determining what should be discussed and what shouldn't when it comes to openly discussing various topics. The extreme view here is to assume that some mainstream source is able to determine, better than me, what I should be allowed to read and what I should not be allowed to read and what is and isn't true.
(Score: 2, Troll) by barbara hudson on Sunday March 08 2020, @08:15AM (1 child)
It's not racism to say that the Chinese culture of live meat markets is both fucké and to blame. And cruel. And that they should stop stealing and eating other people's cats and dogs [theguardian.com].
Is it a racist stereotype when it's true? I don't think so.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @05:16PM
but they're "good at math" so lets fill all grad programs with them and put them in all the uni jobs
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday March 08 2020, @11:43AM
The aspect of this situation that stigmatizes the Chinese is not that the disease started there, but that they sold test animals from a level 4 bioweapons lab in a meat market to make a few extra kuài. That is a fatal level of dumb-assery for which they deserve all the scorn they're getting. Also, they deserve scorn for not teaching their kids basic hygiene like washing your hands, not spitting on the floors of restaurants, cleaning things that are dirty, and refraining from urinating and defecating on public streets and squares.
Washington DC delenda est.