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Best covid LUNACY that I've seen. And the moron sheep still believe the bullshit (media.patriots.win) 🤡🌎 HONK HONK 🌎🤡
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– twoterms 15 points ago +15 / -0

a little old but holly shit :-p https://web.archive.org/web/20210110232434/https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisonescalante/2020/09/08/why-speaking-english-may-spread-more-coronavirus-than-other-languages/

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– milktoastfencesitter 7 points ago +7 / -0

And the research paper the article is sourced from:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7263261/

Summary: the researchers used covid case counts in each country to draw conclusions as to what languages spread it most easily. Countries where the dominate language uses “aspirated consonants” also had most covid cases per capita.

So a few things:

  1. the paper was first published in June 2020, so not a ton of time to collect accurate data.
  2. why trust each country to be honest with their covid reporting, let alone the problem with diff labs/countries use diff cycle threshold for PCR tests.
  3. The news article headline is a bit sensational, singling out english. The research highlights languages with “aspirated consonants” not just english.
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– Frestpost 6 points ago +6 / -0

From the article:

“ Technically these numbers did not achieve statistical significance, but the observation is interesting nonetheless.”

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– RexCollumSilvarum 4 points ago +4 / -0

Last year the Japanese were congratulating themselves (as they love to do about anything) talking about how English has many more aspirated [p] sounds than Japanese does and how this was spreading covid. More than a millennium ago, Japanese had many more P's, but they changed to F sounds (just like Greek phi did; the spelling of the name of the letter shows how it was once pronounced) and then later to H. (This is why the name of the nation of Japan can be either 'Nippon' or 'Nihon'.)

It was stupid self-congratulatory nonsense and I wonder why English is singled out as the super-spreader language when there are lots of language with aspirated sounds. Chinese certainly has them, right Mister Hsi Chin-p'ing?

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– Mukzn 7 points ago +8 / -1

Jeez, I only looked through for a few moments and almost lost half of my brain cells in the process of trying to comprehend this. Absolute stupidity!

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– somethinga9230k 1 point ago +1 / -0

WTF.

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