The Dow has plummeted another 1190 points today, it’s dropped 3200+ points in a mere week.
Remember back in the day (January) when da woke be screaming it wasn’t as bad as the flu & any criticism of the Wuhan virus was xenophobic?
Oh the lolz.
This isn’t a fucking Identity Politics issue you woke clowns, this has always been a public health emergency and economic meltdown moment, we didn’t need Chinese repression to hide this, we just needed virtue signalling woke activists to censor it.
TDB and Damien Grant were pointing out from the beginning that a novel virus being covered up by an authoritarian regime with a history of lying and an appalling human rights record had all the ingredients of an unstoppable pandemic.
Well boom, here we are.
China has been lying about the mortality rate, lying about the infection rate and now are facing double infections, infection from no contact and more cases outside China than inside it.
The pandemic will have multiple waves peaking during flu season and vaccination isn’t due for another 12-18 months while Tehran’s mortality rate is a staggering 11%!
If you aren’t seriously worried about the impact of a global pandemic killing 45million+ in the space of a year, you aren’t paying attention.
Philosophically, this is the death of free market globalisation and remember, because of the climate crisis, viruses jumping species to humans because of habitat depletion and cheek to jowl over population is our future, not unique one offs.
Meanwhile the fucking NZUSA are demanding fee paying Chinese Students be allowed entry to NZ because – wait for it folks – because the continued travel ban is Xenophobic!!!???
FUCK THE FUCK OFF!
The woke will be the death of us!
Grant Robertson’s optimism that this will just be a short sharp shock to the economy is delusional. We need to shut the bloody borders now!
Everyone keeps pointing to the Spanish Flu and its impact on the stock market as an insight to how markets will bounce back now, but we weren’t nearly as globally connected then and people’s awareness via social media will change behaviour in a way 1918 communications couldn’t.
The pandemic is tomorrow, what the hell are we doing right now to prepare for this? What are the plans for quarantine? What are the plans for shutting schools? How will we cope with the increase at hospitals? Where are we storing all the bodies?
Pretending this isn’t going to be a full blown pandemic is just wishful thinking now.
From the top kids, as TDB was pointing out when it was unfashionable, Wuhan Virus ain’t nothin to fuck with…
Here is one basic link on “How to Prepare”: Live Science Coronavirus How to Prepare
Yes and quite right,… this is a nation preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. The pragmatic approach is to prepare NOW.
Ignoring the ridiculous pleas of ”XENOPHOBIA !!” , ”RACISM !!!”
No. Simply a nation taking some very , very wise precautions.
Isolation techniques, quarantines, screening and the like are standard operating procedures in a threatening global pandemic. And this is what we need to be doing now. Never mind the politicization’s of the ‘some’, – we are interested in the many. If they want to risk their own or their family’s health for those political ideals,… well good luck to them and I hope they come through…yet they will never be turned away from adequate medical care in this country. That’s just not how we roll.
But until then, and until a working vaccine is developed to combat this thing, we need to return to the basics, which are isolation , quarantines and screening.
It is just good common sense.
Respectfully yours BB. But is MSM, and alt media hyping this? Not to discount the seriousness. Does the public trust anything the media says?
Folks are confused and depressed. Where is the honest broker? Vote for ME 2020!
Maybe the people in Iran died from US sanctions? Also who were the four doctors who supposedly leaked this information about the common cold deaths? They are anonymous unlike the sweaty and sickly looking Pompeo who is publicly demanding Iran look after it’s people. The shills over at Bloomberg news are suggesting that WHO should send in a team to monitor disease control, that “Iran’s wilful mismanagement of the crisis can no longer be overlooked” and “Iran can’t be trusted to deal with coronavirus” (Ghosh, 2020). De Luce (2020) at NBC wonders whether “this episode raised questions about how Iran is managing the crisis and whether officials are failing to disclose information to the public”. Suddenly the US is the moral voice on protecting human life, information disclosure and transparency.
0.0002% of the Chinese population have died from this disease (really a good enough sample to extrapolate to the world as a model for potential spread) while with 26 deaths, only 0.00003% of the Iranian population has succumbed (10 times less per capita). I would rather live in Iran.
De Luce, D.(2020). Why is Iran’s reported mortality rate for coronavirus higher than in other countries? Retrieved from
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/why-iran-s-reported-mortality-rate-coronavirus-higher-other-countries-n1142646
Ghosh, B. (2020). Iran can’t be trusted to deal with coronavirus. Retrieved from
https://nz.yahoo.com/finance/news/iran-t-trusted-deal-coronavirus-063027518.html
A sobering and compelling article from China’s greatest living author about the how Chinese Communist Party has chosen its own survival over its citizens and rest of the human race:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/26/the-reaction-to-the-outbreak-has-revealed-the-unreceonstructed-despotism-of-the-chinese-state
I’m so delighted New Zealand’s shameless political class and their greedy big and agro-business mates have allowed our country to become beholden to these rapacious murderous dictators.
Buy the dip! 😉
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Hey I hear Lotto has jack potted to $50m apparently.
Might be enough time to build an hermetically sealed bolt hole to lay low in, and then take it all with me when I pop my clogs. I reckon I can probably get Uber Eats to deliver too for a bargain
Gee, aren’t they gonna look silly
Totally agree, be drastic now, close our borders and prepare for the worst.
I’ve always wanted to die laughing but this is ridiculous.
You, beating up on farmers?
Fools.
“Once the belly’s full? All else is art.”
Who’d a thought? The last laugh as being such a lonely thing.
Coronavirus cases soar in Italy as authorities scramble to find patient zero
“Rome (CNN)Italian authorities have announced sweeping closures in the country’s north as they scramble to contain Europe’s biggest outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Italy’s confirmed cases surged from three on Friday morning to more than 200 by Monday.
The majority of coronavirus infections are concentrated in mainland China (with more than 77,100 cases), followed by Japan (840) and South Korea (833). Italy’s spike now marks the biggest outbreak outside of Asia.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/23/europe/italy-novel-coronavirus-spike-intl/index.html
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