Eric Loh

5 hours ago, Tounge Thaied said:

Take a look at how Taiwan handled this. They are neighbors with China and did no lockdown at all only 400 deaths. 

A lot to do with early preparations. Taiwan had a very bad experience with SARS and they have prepared manuals and protocols to deal with any future pandemic and there were immensely helpful. They also formed a task force early on 20 Jan and had scientist in form of their VP Dr Chen, a well respected epidemiologist to head. Taiwan had a vigorous public health measures of tracing and isolation. The testing was also done early in January. Taiwan reaping the fast recovery due to early preparation and focus on managing the pandemic without the politics. 

9 minutes ago, hansnl said:

There is only one answer to China and the "business tycoons", STOP BUYING CHINESE PRODUCTS....

NOW!!!!

What about American products made in China. 

Another of Trump’s diversion. Have we not see this time and time again and yet there are people still fall for this. Russia hoax, Ukraine conspiracy, fake news etc etc and now this finding scrape goat for his pathetic mismanagement of the pandemic.   
 

China is no longer the weak country when the countries can simply forced under gunpoint for slice of their territory and took their resources. Xi is a nationalist and he will not back off any fight. The people are nationalistic and united against external threats. They have a large war chest in terms of foreign reserves and gold and most of all their citizens are resilient and willing to scarify for the country. 
 

International institutions provide no meaningful way to force China. The UN Security Council supreme lawmaking and executive body in international law can’t hold China to account because of China and Russia veto power. Even if a court of arbitration was to judge China responsible, they could simply ignore any decision. 
 

China is embedded in the world economy and when China sneeze, the world will catch a cold. Foreign investors didn’t invest in China without a careful evaluation of the risks and costs and rewarded by a high domestic market and cheap production costs which kept US inflation low. US is a country of debts held up by selling treasuries to countries like China. China is an integral and important factor in supporting the dollar. There are much at stake for both economies and the world if they collide. Either Trump is dumb not to know this zero sum game or he is just posturing and really has no guts to follow this through. He is just diverting attention to his failing reelection.

10 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

Science says 500k deaths pa.

 

Never mind the science.

 

 

Stick to science. Non science is what we described as comments made by people more concerned with the response of the audience than in truth and accuracy. There is an unflattering and common word for this but I will be polite and refrain from saying it. 

27 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

yep on the take people 555

 

more customers = more $$$

PNAS has a high reliability because of its access to many expert National Academy of Sciences members-editors. Why am I telling this when recalcitrants never believe in science. Never mind, just deny; it is much easier. 

12 minutes ago, TopDeadSenter said:

As has been pointed out to you before, there is a massive difference between somebody talking about grabbing pussies, and somebody actually doing it. You know this, don't you? The real mystery is why the left and metoo'ers are running defense for Biden, while attacking Trump for a far lesser accusation(without any evidence whatsoever). Worse still, the dems are begging for endorsements from Ms Clinton who enabled and helped cover up many women being molested by her husband. What a mess. But then logic never was a strong point there.

Sexual allegations didn’t hurt Trump neither will it hurt Biden. Goes down to the handling of the pandemic and the economy. Both heading south for Trump. 

7 minutes ago, UbonThani said:

yet it is

very similar

 

Eureka moment. You just solved the vaccine issue for corona virus. Jab all with influenza vaccine. You should be nominated for Noble Prize for medicine. ????

22 minutes ago, nattaya09 said:

If ever there was a herd needing to be thinned, it's Congress.

And a swamp in the White House that need to be drained, 

15 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

Candace Owens would liven things up.

Pool of talent is rather thin unlike the Dems. 

Looks like Trump will have to sack Pence and get himself a female VP to win the woman votes. 

Sign of resistance by McConnell. GOP feeling their senate seats in jeopardy and starting to grow a pair. Day of reckoning coming real soon. 

Finally Trump’s luck ran out. He disregarded his own intelligence briefings in January and February about the impending danger of the corona virus. The warnings from his intelligence in more than a dozen classified briefings known as the President’s Daily Briefing came during a time the President was mostly downplaying the threat of the pandemic. His habit of not reading the briefings and bristles at having to listen to oral summarizes resulted in his failure to mobilize for a major pandemic. By the time he declared a national emergency on March 13, the virus were rising rapidly. I am sure these classified briefings will surfaced soon and put another nail to his re-election. 

If that is not enough, the economy will do

him in. There will be no V shape recovery but a depression that the voters will suffered and reflected in the ballot boxes. Business will never be the same even after the lockdowns are lifted in all states until a vaccine is available for all. 80% of the people lived paycheck to paycheck before the pandemic and will have no appetite to spend after lockdown except for essentials and pay up debts. People will still be scared to move around and travel and that will affect related industries. The world will also be slow to recover and the supply chain will see big changes and take time to settle down. Poor and middle class voters will be the most letdown by Trump’s bailout for the big corporates leaving crumbs for them. The farmers got a double whammy of woes from trade wars and supply disruptions. Meanwhile the GOP senators are not seen helping their own constituents and have seen their funds raising declined while the Dems have record funds raised. 
 

Trump’s approval rating has declined and worse off than last 5 Presidents at around this time. 

Biden really have have things pretty easy for the election. Not the best but enough to beat Trump handsomely. 

11 minutes ago, samran said:

It’s all about diplomatic leverage. Float the idea, let it gain traction. Something for China to have to negotiate against - something that wasn’t there before. 
 

The probe will be an exhaustive battle of words while a boycott will harm Australia in a more tangible manner real quick. If there is a diplomatic win, it would just be words of assurance from China to be more open. We seen this before. China will continue to behave their own way that they deemed necessary for their survival. 

Really a zero sum game for Australia to pursue with the probe. What’s the gain to continue the probe versus loss in GDP when Chinese bypassed them on tourism and education and divert import on mining products. Australia really don’t have that many products that have global branding power.