New coronavirus spreading rapidly.
All of our regular suppliers in China are saying 'Monday start work'. I've been hearing the same for the last few weeks. But they seem to be somewhat more certain now, perhaps owing to its being a new month and not just a new week, I don't know.
I'm not overflowing with confidence, yet hope springs eternal in the human breast and all that.
Anyway, enjoying a few days in Thailand, hoping to have something to do when I resurface in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.
I'm not overflowing with confidence, yet hope springs eternal in the human breast and all that.
Anyway, enjoying a few days in Thailand, hoping to have something to do when I resurface in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
^ This.springrain wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 6:49 pmThe BBC is spreading more panic, faster than any virus possibly could.
As, indeed, are many more 'news outlets'.
Some positively scream out headlines.
Modern media relies on clicks. Everyone loves a frenzy. Markle, flood, ISIS nutter, gay celebrity etc etc.
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If governments and the media reports often on the virus case situation and suggests precautions to protect yourself and your family they get blamed for "fear mongering" for ratings. But if the pandemic gets much worse than originally thought those same people will blame the government and the media for "covering up" and withholding "the real information" on the severity of the situation "to allow old people to die and decrease the population which was their plan all along", etc.
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Er, no. Only in your stupid tiny (illiterate) brain.
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Rumor has it there are about 65 quarantined at Khmer Soviet hospital. Not sure if these are positive cases or this is out of precaution.
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Is anybody running a book yet on the first 440 member to succumb to it
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I'm not confident either, but I am getting indications from clients in China that things will begin again next week as well...which tracks with the recent statements by the Chinese Surgeon General.slavedog wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 7:18 pmAll of our regular suppliers in China are saying 'Monday start work'. I've been hearing the same for the last few weeks. But they seem to be somewhat more certain now, perhaps owing to its being a new month and not just a new week, I don't know.
I'm not overflowing with confidence, yet hope springs eternal in the human breast and all that.
Anyway, enjoying a few days in Thailand, hoping to have something to do when I resurface in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.
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Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
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Pardon my engrish, thanks you.
That is hopeful but it is still unclear if recovered patients can't become re-infected. There is unconfirmed chatter (link below) that antiviral drugs may weaken the immune system in case of reinfection leading to heart problems. It may be reinfection, or a problem with the testing kits showing that a patient has recovered but in actuality is producing a false negative test.raendi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:28 amMainland china, total recovered 36,042.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps ... 7b48e9ecf6
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3879345
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I've just been looking into those pandemic bonds. $115 million was spent on setting them up. Money which was initially allocated by the WB for the same poorest countries the bonds are to supposed to help. The bond documents are 360 pages long, and an apparent minefield when it comes to deciding what causes their triggering. The Chinese have spent $10 billion building hospitals etc to try to contain the virus. The countries the bonds are aimed at have a combined population of well over that of the whole of China, and the maximum payout will be $196 million - 8c per person.
Meanwhile, the WB has $82 billion every three years to help countries that are suffering from things including pandemics. Which was the whole point of setting the WB up in the first place - to mitigate disasters globally. It's a kind of socialist idea of the 'society of the world', if you have bothered to read their guff.
Good podcast by a health official dealing with pandemics and macroeconomist who worked in the markets and WB.
https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0c ... IARAI&ep=6
Meanwhile, the WB has $82 billion every three years to help countries that are suffering from things including pandemics. Which was the whole point of setting the WB up in the first place - to mitigate disasters globally. It's a kind of socialist idea of the 'society of the world', if you have bothered to read their guff.
Good podcast by a health official dealing with pandemics and macroeconomist who worked in the markets and WB.
https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0c ... IARAI&ep=6
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Yes, the pressure is definitely on to make people stop thinking about the virus and get back to work. My company is on me to go to a tier 3 city in Zhejiang where hospitals are 3rd world standard. They can't guarantee evac to Shanghai in case of an emergency so I've refused to go. Would rather be kicked out than enter the plague zone unless USS Carl Vinson shows up at the coast ready to rescue me, which is unlikely.Pecahead wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:14 pmCCP lying through their teeth. The Party needs the appearance that all is getting back to normal in order to co-opt people back to work or risk tremendous economic dislocation, perhaps implosion (leading to social disorder and regime change at its extreme).Dahon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:16 pmThe Chinese Surgeon General states on public TV that he expects the peak explosion phase at the end of February. He has also publicly stated on CCTV that people must go back to work for the sake of the economy. It is accepted in China that the virus will spread and some sacrifices will have to be made.
This is in Chinese so it flies under the radar in western media.
Wifey says most Chinese have enough savings to be able to stay home for months so coersion is necessary.
Hmmmmm, wonder if millions of workers assembling in plants going to full production could induce a secondary outbreak?
Tonight I'm hitting the supermarket to load up en masse on food.
No, they've stopped production due to a parts shortage but security updates will be handled by the R&D organization.
Cambodia - tickets booked, moved on to mission planning DONE
Mission completed, reported to Col Braddock. DONE
Now ranting about the experience ONGOING
Mission completed, reported to Col Braddock. DONE
Now ranting about the experience ONGOING
You’re getting things arse about face as usual.
Those bonds (that and another IW (Insurance Window of $320 million) are for(re)insurance costs for the WB’s PEF (Pandemic Emergency Finance Facility) which is the fund set up for these countries you mention by the WB (it’s how they make money on shit).
They were created to offer investors returns and China was in mind when they did it. That’s all bonds do. They are not taking money away from any country or beneficiary.
If you want me to explain the two classes (A and B) notes I will.
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A long read, cherry picked a bit: https://time.com/5792180/southeast-asia ... ronavirus/
In Cambodia, which has increasingly gravitated into China’s orbit, Prime Minister Hun Sen insists he won’t cut air travel, beyond suspending the six weekly flights from Wuhan. He also refuses to evacuate citizens stranded in Wuhan, as other countries have done. While Beijing chided the U.S. for banning Chinese travelers, saying it “set a bad example,” Hun Sen earned plaudits when he flew to China earlier this month.
“A friend in need is a friend indeed,” he wrote on his official Facebook page.
But Hun Sen’s vehement denial of the disease’s risks has stoked fears that Cambodia, a tourism hotspot with limited health resources, will become yet another vector of transmission.
“The cost of his decision is the health of his people,” says Sophal Ear, an expert on Cambodian politics at Occidental College in California. “Cambodia has become the weakest link: a country with poor health care, poor disease surveillance, and a long rap sheet of non-reporting.”
Earlier this month, a study by five researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health concluded that it is statistically implausible that Cambodia and Thailand do not have more cases, and virtually impossible that Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, has not reported a single one. Based on its direct flights from Wuhan, the archipelago should have at least five patients by now, the study found.
The U.K.’s National Health Services has already seemingly made the leap. Anyone returning from Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos with symptoms, however mild, is advised to call the NHS hotline. Global risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft warns of “extreme risk” in Indonesia and Cambodia based on those countries’ ability to respond to a pandemic.
In Cambodia, which has increasingly gravitated into China’s orbit, Prime Minister Hun Sen insists he won’t cut air travel, beyond suspending the six weekly flights from Wuhan. He also refuses to evacuate citizens stranded in Wuhan, as other countries have done. While Beijing chided the U.S. for banning Chinese travelers, saying it “set a bad example,” Hun Sen earned plaudits when he flew to China earlier this month.
“A friend in need is a friend indeed,” he wrote on his official Facebook page.
But Hun Sen’s vehement denial of the disease’s risks has stoked fears that Cambodia, a tourism hotspot with limited health resources, will become yet another vector of transmission.
“The cost of his decision is the health of his people,” says Sophal Ear, an expert on Cambodian politics at Occidental College in California. “Cambodia has become the weakest link: a country with poor health care, poor disease surveillance, and a long rap sheet of non-reporting.”
Earlier this month, a study by five researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health concluded that it is statistically implausible that Cambodia and Thailand do not have more cases, and virtually impossible that Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, has not reported a single one. Based on its direct flights from Wuhan, the archipelago should have at least five patients by now, the study found.
The U.K.’s National Health Services has already seemingly made the leap. Anyone returning from Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos with symptoms, however mild, is advised to call the NHS hotline. Global risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft warns of “extreme risk” in Indonesia and Cambodia based on those countries’ ability to respond to a pandemic.
Bringing the news. You stay classy, nas, Cambodia.
Does anyone have any confirmation of this or more info?Wayward Woods wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:24 amRumor has it there are about 65 quarantined at Khmer Soviet hospital. Not sure if these are positive cases or this is out of precaution.
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