Wuhan Virus

[Grey Havoc]

The Pentagon is preparing to house up to 1,000 people at military sites who may need to be quarantined due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

The Pentagon is preparing facilities at four military installations to hold up to 1,000 people quarantined to prevent the virus from spreading.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ing-in-feces-may-reveal-hidden-risk-of-spread

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...res-hong-kong-medical-strike-set-virus-update

 

[Grey Havoc]

Coronavirus: Cement mixers become celebrities in China lockdown

With millions of people indoors, livestreams of building sites have become surprisingly popular.

www.bbc.com

 

[TomcatViP]

Thailand 'cures' coronavirus with anti-HIV drug cocktail in 48 hours

A Chinese woman infected with the new coronavirus showed a dramatic improvement after she was treated with a cocktail of anti-virals used to treat flu and...

www.dailysabah.com

 

[Richard N]

"A country that YouTubed itself into a 21st Century measles outbreak ...."

 

[Orionblamblam]

Chinese authorities threaten to kill pet cats and dogs over coronavirus fears

Officials have told locals to "deal with" their animals after an expert warned pets could spread the deadly virus to humans - despite the World Health Organisation (WHO) saying that's not true

www.dailystar.co.uk

As if there wasn't already reason enough to hate commies.

 

[Richard N]

"The Unparalleled Invasion" by Jack London, written in 1910 about an ascendent China and biological warfare.

The Strength of the Strong:The Unparalleled Invasion

 

[Richard N]

Updated 9:45 AM ET, Wed September 4, 2019

"Hong Kong (CNN Business)African swine fever has wiped out a third of China's pig population. Now government officials are discussing dramatic steps to stabilize the world's largest pork market."

By Laura He, CNN Business

China could release emergency pork reserves after losing 100 million pigs to swine fever

African swine fever has wiped out a third of China's pig population. Now government officials are discussing dramatic steps to stabilize the world's largest pork market.

www.cnn.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Coronavirus | Yahoo - Latest News & Headlines

Get the latest news, photos, videos, and more on Coronavirus from Yahoo - Latest News & Headlines.

news.yahoo.com

Risks Mount for Hong Kong After Economy Shrank in 2019

(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The hits just keep coming for Hong Kong.In 2019, there was the escalating U.S.-China trade war, which squeezed exports. Then came violent protests beginning mid-year, with...

news.yahoo.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Wuhan Coronavirus Looks Increasingly Like a Pandemic, Experts Say (Published 2020)

Rapidly rising caseloads alarm researchers, who fear the virus may make its way across the globe. But scientists cannot yet predict how many deaths may result.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Coronavirus: China accuses US of causing panic and 'spreading fear'

The US is denying entry to all foreign nationals who have visited China in the past two weeks.

www.bbc.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Coronavirus Hammers Bulk Shipping

(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus crisis in China has hammered many markets this month. None may have felt a bigger impact than freight. Rates for giant Capesize ships, typically used to carry raw materials such...

gcaptain.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Coronavirus: China shares in biggest fall in four years

The Shanghai index closes nearly 8% lower as investors weigh the impact of the outbreak.

www.bbc.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

China to allow in U.S. health experts as virus shows no sign of slowing

(This Feb. 3 story corrects paragraph six to show possible cut could be 500,000 bpd, not one third)

www.reuters.com

‘NO REASON’ FOR TRAVEL CURBS

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking in Geneva, again said travel bans were unnecessary.

“There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade,” he told the WHO’s Executive Board.

“We call on all countries to implement decisions that are evidence-based and consistent.”

I have a sneaking suspicion that the WHO may be looking for a new D-G in the near future.

Trump says U.S. has 'shut down' coronavirus threat; China shuns U.S. help

The United States has taken decisive action to protect Americans from the threat of a fast-moving coronavirus while offering help to China, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, but a key adviser said Beijing had not accepted the offers of assistance.

www.reuters.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

In virus-stricken Wuhan, animal lovers break into homes to save pets

A 43-year-old native of Wuhan, a central Chinese city ravaged by a coronavirus outbreak, said he climbed up rusty pipes to the third-floor balcony of an apartment to gain entry into the home of a middle-aged couple.

www.reuters.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Virus fears wipe $393 billion off China's stock market despite government support moves

Investors erased $393 billion from China's benchmark stock index on Monday, sold the yuan and dumped commodities as fears about the spreading coronavirus and its economic impact drove selling on the first day of trade in China since the Lunar New Year.

www.reuters.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

February 3, 2020 coronavirus news

edition.cnn.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Watch China use 'talking drones' to warn citizens amid coronavirus outbreak | CNN

Officials in China have started using drones equipped with speakers to warn citizens to wear masks as coronavirus continues to spread in the country.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Pakistan resumes flights to and from China, screens passengers for virus

Pakistan said on Monday it was resuming flights to and from China, three days after it suspended them because of the coronavirus outbreak in China.

www.reuters.com

China said on Saturday its foreign minister, Wang Yi, had raised travel restrictions in a telephone call with Pakistan’s foreign minister.

Far from virus epicentre, China's Wenzhou city scrambles to curb outbreak

Far from the coronavirus epicentre, the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou, a major commercial hub with a population of about 3.5 million, is scrambling to contain its own local outbreak.

www.reuters.com

 

[Orionblamblam]

"A country that YouTubed itself into a 21st Century measles outbreak ...."

Modest important difference: anti-vaxxers in the West are individuals... *not* an all-powerful government.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Tents set up as a coronavirus precaution at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County

Eleven U.S. coronavirus cases have been confirmed.

www.sbsun.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

How Congress is responding to the coronavirus outbreak

Some members want even harsher restrictions on travel to and from China.

www.axios.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Stocks rally as China markets reopen, dollar gains

The dollar strengthened and a gauge of global stocks jumped on Monday, lifted by an unexpected rebound in U.S. manufacturing that helped temper fears that caused stocks overnight in Asia to plunge on the potential impact of the coronavirus in China.

www.reuters.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

China to allow in U.S. health experts as virus shows no sign of slowing

(This Feb. 3 story corrects paragraph six to show possible cut could be 500,000 bpd, not one third)

www.reuters.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

World coronavirus updates: No active cases in New Zealand community again

See where it has spread.

www.axios.com

Brazil to declare emergency, quarantine people returning from coronavirus-hit Wuhan

Alarmed by the growing risks of a new coronavirus, Brazil has decided to repatriate Brazilians from Wuhan, China, and will declare a national health emergency, Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

 

[DWG]

"A country that YouTubed itself into a 21st Century measles outbreak ...."

Modest important difference: anti-vaxxers in the West are individuals... *not* an all-powerful government.

Just because they're individual idiots doesn't make them any less idiotic, or less morally culpable for the harm they do.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Just because they're individual idiots doesn't make them any less idiotic, or less morally culpable for the harm they do.

Sure. But there remains an important difference between a *national* idiocy, and a nation that allows individual idiocy. The former is all bad. The latter is actually generally a good thing.

 

[Arjen]

Doctor got into trouble for warning colleagues.

The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about coronavirus

When Li Wenliang warned about a Sars-like virus at his hospital in Wuhan, authorities tried to silence him.

www.bbc.com

 

[kaiserd]

Just because they're individual idiots doesn't make them any less idiotic, or less morally culpable for the harm they do.

Sure. But there remains an important difference between a *national* idiocy, and a nation that allows individual idiocy. The former is all bad. The latter is actually generally a good thing.

A rather moot point if you or a loved one suffered, maimed or died because of idiocy.
And this a distinction that largely exists in your own head (wtf is “national idiocy”?) and is a near complete irrelevance and side-show to the actual topic.

 

[Orionblamblam]

A rather moot point if you or a loved one suffered, maimed or died because of idiocy.

Not really. It's an issue of national or governmental policy vs individual choices. Just as a loved one getting whacked by a street thug is quite a different thing than them getting rounded up by the secret police and sent to a death camp. A tragedy either way, but very different otherwise.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Dept says Irish citizens should consider leaving China

The Department of Foreign Affairs is advising Irish citizens in China whose presence "is not essential" to leave the country, amid the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.

www.rte.ie

Coronavirus: Window of opportunity to act, World Health Organization says

Experts say China's recent measures have created a chance to stop the virus becoming a global crisis.

www.bbc.com

This could go south for the World Health Organization in a hurry.

 

[DWG]

Just because they're individual idiots doesn't make them any less idiotic, or less morally culpable for the harm they do.

Sure. But there remains an important difference between a *national* idiocy, and a nation that allows individual idiocy. The former is all bad. The latter is actually generally a good thing.

Depends how it works out. *cough*Brexit*cough*

 

[Grey Havoc]

California husband and wife infected with coronavirus ‘suddenly much more ill’

The couple was taken to a hospital in San Francisco for treatment.

thehill.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Coronavirus: Chinese targeted as Italians panic

Italy's leaders condemn a series of incidents affecting Chinese students and tourists.

www.bbc.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

Coronavirus: UK tells all Britons to leave China 'if they can'

The government is to charter another flight on Sunday to evacuate UK nationals and their families.

www.bbc.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

China virus claims second life off mainland, Macau casinos told to close

The coronavirus outbreak claimed its first life in Hong Kong on Tuesday, compounding the international financial centre's problems after anti-government protests, and Macau, the world's biggest gambling playground, urged casinos to shut their doors.

www.reuters.com

iPhone shortages predicted to hit US as coronavirus causes chaos in supply chain amid quarantines and axed flights

A TOP tech analyst has predicted that Apple could be hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, slashing his estimate for iPhone sales in the first quarter. Ming-Chi Kuo, known by some as the world̵…

www.the-sun.com

 

[Orionblamblam]

iPhone shortages predicted to hit US as coronavirus causes chaos in supply chain amid quarantines and axed flights

A TOP tech analyst has predicted that Apple could be hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, slashing his estimate for iPhone sales in the first quarter. Ming-Chi Kuo, known by some as the world̵…

www.the-sun.com

Oh no! Cheap consumer crap might become slightly more difficult to obtain! The west might be forced to build up its own industrial capability in response!

 

[kaiserd]

Sure. But there remains an important difference between a *national* idiocy, and a nation that allows individual idiocy. The former is all bad. The latter is actually generally a good thing.

Depends how it works out. *cough*Brexit*cough*

Sure. The UK willingly signing on to become a vassal state of the EU was national insanity, but they seem to have finally hauled themselves out of it. Consequently, the UK may well be in a better position to deal with new pandemics since they now might have some measure of control over their borders and immigrants/visitors.

A classic of example of why it’s better not to engage with trolls (especially far-right trolls) on the Internet.

 

[DWG]

The UK willingly signing on to become a vassal state of the EU was national insanity

Just like Texas joining the US?

The Russians must be laughing into their vodka at what the useful idiots like Farage and Rees Mogg have wrought. Remember, Boris still hasn't released the dossier on Russian funding of the Conservative Party (though it was supposed to come out in January).

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I think this topic has run its course. It's very off topic, and now is going off-topic from the off-topic.