coronavirus

WILLSAN said:no new cases for china?

WILLSAN said:blog making a well sourced argument for 'its only/not even the flu'.

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR2cK8pAQVxf6C5_gzqfrv-5Ng9QWwacoSNHg1WovsMI2dBk-Yz908IiLeQ

has the world just committed economic harakiri because it was scared of the common cold?

matthewvc said:
the longer the lockdown the more severe the immediate unrest (see southern Italy)
and the deeper the economic depression . We need to stop this idea the economy is going spring instantly back like a factory after a 2 week summer hols shutdown.
The tinfoil hat wearing cynic in me is starting to think the government are delaying antibody testing because of the ramifications if it aligns with that oxford uni epidemiology paper - namely: this has infected a significant proportion already and the death rate is nowhere near 3-4%.
I can imagine there’ll be a huge risk of social unrest if it turns out we’ve all been locked down for weeks, lost jobs, businesses, and likely signed ourselves up for the mother of all austerity for the next decade over something little worse than the flu.
Disclaimer: this is public perception of ‘just the flu’- as I posted earlier, the normal boring seasonal flu at peak causes 1000+ deaths a week and strains the NHS like nothing else, so another similarly destructive epidemic hitting it on top is going to overwhelm it - there is good argument to be extremely defensive against covid

WILLSAN said:blog making a well sourced argument for 'its only/not even the flu'.

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR2cK8pAQVxf6C5_gzqfrv-5Ng9QWwacoSNHg1WovsMI2dBk-Yz908IiLeQ

has the world just committed economic harakiri because it was scared of the common cold?

WILLSAN said:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/stacks-of-urns-i...

no new cases for china?

The_Lone_Wolf said:
How much do you think they’re not telling us?
Lots of info suggesting that they tried to cover this up at the start, people who were whistle blowing have been purged, cases being covered up etc etc...
Of course, with no pun intended, there will always be lots of Chinese whispers, but with Donald calling it the China virus, there is a large population of people solely blaming China for this.

The Chinese have given up on containing the virus. They have decided to let the virus spread through their population and let the chips fall where they will. This is why the Chinese expelled The Washington Post, The Times and the Wall Street Journal. With what is coming they do not want the press around to see the body bags and other things. Simply put unless a vaccine is developed this is the storm. China has already passed over a million dead and after that what is the point in counting. The Chinese are lying about things not to deceive the west but to try and hold their own country together long enough for something to change. If the Chinese people understood there is no cure and no real way to stop the biological weapon their scientists and the Russians created. Well I will let you use your imagination. The problem is this weapon mutates and each new solution only results in only dealing with an increasingly small subset in the epidemic. The Chinese, Americans, and Russians are working behind the scenes to keep things under control and the lies and noble. There is far more a stake here than the truth. The increasing danger now is with the pandemic reaching dangerous levels in the U.S. someone will become unhinged and doing something unsound.

The Chinese and Russian scientist who created this monster will hopefully burn in hell.

WILLSAN said:
unrest in china..

when was the last time you saw chinese citizens fighting against the state like that?

WILLSAN said:
couldnt agree more.
the only thing I am certain about is the economic storm that is coming.

luki said:
I'm not sure there will be the storm expected. Post War economies tend to go into massive borrow and build. Its why the USA is always at war, building weapons, planes, vechicles.
Less martial countries could come out of this and start building hospitals, invest in heathcare training and infrastructure and medical equipment production to stimulate employmnet straight away. The spirit alchohol industry here has already converted to hand sanitizer.
Capitalism is good at adapting. Lets just hope the government doesn't start bailing out banks with taxpayers money and tying us into propping up the old stalwarts of the stock exchange. Trump is nuts for not letting the deadwood companies die. No bank bailout 2.0.

WILLSAN said:
we cant borrow our way out of this. the world has been on the the greatest debt binge humanity has ever seen. a system has been created which does not work under normal economic rules. its all gone now and its not coming back. the worlds currencies will debase themselves into oblivion and the only solution will be a global currency reset. and God willing a return to the gold standard.
what I see coming is a time of great change which will be hard for everyone who cannot adjust quickly to events or cant accept that what once was, will not be again. however, as you say captalism is adaptable - I have seen many examples of it already in this situation. these kind of times bring opportunity and after a lot of hardship we have the potential to create a much fairer system than the one we have lived our lives under until now.
I could be wrong but this is what I am now preparing for.

Wayne_Cowdrey said:Saw the trail of an aeroplane today, which surprised me.