A community for discussing events around the World
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
The Trump administration has provided all front line responder organizations with the link to relevant training materials for hemorrhagic fevers.
Inside is a single link to a 123movies mirror for the movie Outbreak.
I got to say, I'm feeling pretty good about this.
The admin is such a clown show that I dont if this sarcasm or if they actually did it.
I can't even tell if this was meant as a joke or not.
We are fucking cooked.
France’s health minister, Stéphanie Rist, said on Tuesday that while it wasn’t currently clear whether the hantavirus strain involved in the outbreak may have mutated, officials were “rather reassured”.
Rist told the National Assembly: “There are things … we do not know about this virus. We do not yet have the complete sequencing of the virus, which allows us to say with certainty today, even if we are rather reassured to date … that this virus has not yet mutated.”
So mutation is a common word associated with a virus ??
Viruses mutate constantly, this is how you get new strains of everything so frequently. I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, apologies, if it was a joke question it whooshed me
If we avoid a bigger outbreak of this it will be luck not because we actually did this right. I am not convinced we should have been taking these exposed people and spreading across the globe and certainly not with very different procedures, only some countries are actually quarantining those who have been exposed. It could still be in the community from one of the people exposed on the plane. Given how slowly this virus progresses it could smoulder for quite a while before we have an epidemic that we recognise.
I really wish the WHO would get over its aversion to saying viral spread is airborne, they still haven't admitted Covid is airborne despite the scientists proving it is and they have called Hantavirus "close contact", which isn't actually a transmission mechanism its either droplet or aerosol and given the exposures where its spread its airborne.
We couldn't handle 14 days in america, but 42 days?? I'm so glad transmission is so infrequent
