nobodysfriend

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

“The magnitude of the economic impact will depend on how the outbreak evolves, which remains highly uncertain,” it said, adding that a “range of scenarios” had to be considered. 

Prepare for the worst ...

All mass gatherings facilitate the potential spread of the virus .

But what about supermarkets , airports , train stations , restaurants , immigration offices ...?

My thai wife gets her little metal food containers when she goes to pick up some food from a street stall , No need to use plastic .

If all that plastic rubbish simply would not be produced anymore , people would find alternatives ...

Even a lot of stuff that you can buy on Lazada etc ( made in China ) is of such a low quality that it will end up in the rubbish very soon .

Don't waste your money on something very cheap from China , buy better quality and more expensive , in the end it will be cheaper .

I would like that they put big rubbish containers near the supermarkets where people can dispose off the plastic rubbish they just bought . I bought a box of cookies recently , and every f****ing  single cookie was wrapped in plastic . Won't buy that anymore .

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

Yeah, longest average life expectancy in human history, lowest poverty rates, greatest number of folks living in democracy, human rights, yeah dude, what a buzz kill capitalism is. 

 

 

Pollution everywhere , toxic air , destroyed ecosystems , egocentric people , everything good enough just to make some profit ...

Lowest poverty rates ? Go tell that to millions of people starving ... Democracy ? may be Thai style Democracy ? Or US style ?

Do you really think that Capitalism is something beneficial to the world ? Uncapped Capitalism has done way too much damage already , Dude ...

P.S. : Vote for Bernie ...

On 3/5/2020 at 8:38 AM, nobodysfriend said:

The Virus at work ... do not forget it firstly appeared in people because of the way they treated animals . Mother Nature's answer to people ... Prepare for more and more deadly ones if humans do not immediately stop to slaughter and torture wild animals .

News today : " Shenzhen has introduced a draft regulation to ban the eating of cats and dogs as part of a nationwide drive to implement a "total ban" on the consumption of wild animals following the Covid-19 outbreak. "

18 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

instead of netwhinging about Western capitalism

Well , Capitalism and the eternal search for profits has brought us to where we are now .

Profit thinking leads to greed . Greed leads to destruction . ( Cutting the amazonian rainforest for that some farmers profit , oil and pollution etc ... ) .

The times are changing fast by now ... hope you can catch up with that ...

Of course , many people being in close contact to each other facilitates the spread of the virus , well known ... but what about supermarkets , immigration offices , airports and train stations , local food markets ... coming into close contact ( +- 2m ) with somebody increases the risk of being infected .

Will be difficult to avoid all this ...

5 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

well that is part of what keeps the world fed, so maybe its important

Well , the world would still turn around without that ... food can be produced without damage to the environment ... and without these crazy profits some people make . In Europe a farmer gets 7 cents for a kilo of oignons which are sold for 150 cents , ( 1 euro 50 cents ) in a supermarket ...

3 hours ago, webfact said:

with a loss to the industry of about 7.4 billion euros ($8.23 billion).

That is what they all care about , nothing else matters .

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The new projection is based on expectations that the virus impact will end by June,

Very optimistic ... Reality will probably tell a different story .

and the fear of a recession ... Recession ? so what ? there is one to come , that is sure , but if the virus and it's impacts will be gone soon ... I doubt it .

COVID-19 will be around for a long time , even closing borders etc can only delay the spread of it , not prevent it ...

This outbreak is the result of the relationship between people and wild animals , as people are taking away their habitats around the world and now we see many more zoonotic infections .

17 hours ago, webfact said:

give students the opportunity to directly participate in Parliament “to adjust injustice” in society

" To adjust injustice ? " Why not try to eliminate it completely ...?

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

opposition parties must try to resolve the misunderstanding among themselves, so that they can work together in the future, adding that the job of the Opposition is to monitor the Government’s performance and this should not be confined to parliament alone and should be in cooperation with the people.

That is right . And it will make some members of the government feel very uncomfortable .

Most have something to hide , find it and publish it , fair enough ...

1 hour ago, allanos said:

Unfortunately, there are a number of countries in Africa where unrestricted hunting and consuming of "bush meat" is rife.  Such animals who are close to the human species - monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees, etc - are prized, and killed and eaten in large numbers, with an accompanying health risk.  There has long been speculation that HIV/AID's made the jump across the barrier between animals and humans in just such a way, and started in Central Africa.

 

You are right , in Africa as well ... If that ' bushmeat ' practice does not stop , the viruses will not stop to re-appear , and the consequences will be devastating .

10 hours ago, watthong said:

 

Really SheryL? You whose words most of us on this forum take as words from the (medical) Bible. Please take a look at this:

 

 

Also for the rest of us the hoi polloi, I spare you having to wade through the thick corona-related info/misinfo soup so just watch this clip:

 

 

Concise and helpful (especially the second half coming precisely at mid-point with a second panel). No political BS, no propaganda, no agenda and for once showing a real concern for the survival of the human race. Courtesy of the down under no less.

So, this time we have the community spread , ( that we did not have with SARS or MERS ) , what makes it much more difficult to control the spread of the disease .

She says that COVID-19 will be around for a long time , even closing borders etc can only delay the spread of it , not prevent it ...

She says as well that that this outbreak is the result of the relationship between people and wild animals , as people are taking away their habitats around the world and now we see many more zoonotic infections ... ---> " we cannot achieve human public health without veterinary public health and without paying attention to the environment " <---

So , that means , as long as we treat the animals the way we do now , we will get more viruses , because " there is an enormous reservoir of pathogens in animal hosts " ...

Clear , no ?

No more markets to sell wild animals . We have to treat animals better and leave their natural habitat intact .