Off topic “coronavirus”

[FlyerInHi]

Excellent article by CSIS. I love to watch their talks on YouTube.

We Predicted a Coronavirus Pandemic. Here’s What Policymakers Could Have Seen Coming.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/07/coronavirus-epidemic-prediction-policy-advice-121172

No not to worry, trump says we’re very very prepared. More than ever.

[svelte]

[quote=flu][quote=svelte]I saw a video where some asians, korean I think, were starting to click the sides of their shoes together as a greeting. It looked kinda fun actually![/quote]

yup. retarded imho. but I guess if it floats their boat.[/quote]

Eh, might as well have a lil fun with the situation…can’t change it, might as well lighten the mood!

[Coronita]

[quote=svelte][quote=flu][quote=svelte]I saw a video where some asians, korean I think, were starting to click the sides of their shoes together as a greeting. It looked kinda fun actually![/quote]

yup. retarded imho. but I guess if it floats their boat.[/quote]

My friends and I do the “corona shake”. Put on the latex gloves, shake hands, take off the latex gloves.

[zk]

[quote=zk][quote=svelte][quote=Myriad]Pretty sure Trump’s plan is to ignore it. If it becomes a problem, deny it and complain about the media. That way, it will just spread and no containment is needed.
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It’s a pretty interesting situation when you stop and think about it. Trump and his sheep have disliked the global society concept and have thrown up roadblocks to globalization under the guise of protecting jobs…and then this pops up almost as a proof point that globalization is bad.

Yet, this may be the very thing that dooms his re-election. If the stock market keeps tanking, if production lines stay closed, if thousands of people die, people may re-think whether his cuts to the CDC and other programs were such a wise thing and whether four years of Trump have left them better than before.

Still nine months until the election…if this thing really takes off it really changes the political landscape…

This may end up being a very unique, interesting year.[/quote]

I think the opposite is more likely. The coronavirus doesn’t affect the U.S. any more than SARS did. Everything turns out fine, no thanks to trump. Trump takes credit for everything turning out fine. Trump wins.[/quote]

Now that I think about it, the likely scenario, politically, has nothing to do with the reality of how trump deals with the situation. Or what happens with the virus. No matter what happens, right-wing propaganda will portray trump as the hero, and liberals as the villains. Tens of millions of ignorant, pathetic chumps will, as usual, fall for it

[ocrenter]

[quote=flu]adding insult to injury….hotel used to observe virus collapses

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-07/chinese-hotel-collapses-was-used-to-observe-virus-contacts?srnd=premium%5B/quote%5D

Oh the irony…

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=zk]
Now that I think about it, the likely scenario, politically, has nothing to do with the reality of how trump deals with the situation. Or what happens with the virus. No matter what happens, right-wing propaganda will portray trump as the hero, and liberals as the villains. Tens of millions of ignorant, pathetic chumps will, as usual, fall for it[/quote]

We so do deserve Trump.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=ocrenter]
The need to quarantine 20 mil people is proof that China has been drastically underreporting this epidemic.
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What do you make of 14 million people quarantined in Italy?

[ocrenter]

[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=ocrenter]
The need to quarantine 20 mil people is proof that China has been drastically underreporting this epidemic.
[/quote]

What do you make of 14 million people quarantined in Italy?[/quote]

Italy is extremely underprepared and there’s no question they are undercounting. I would say the only country not undercounting is S Korea.

Of note, had Italy quickly adopted Taiwanese methodology of containment and individualized quarantine, it would not have gotten out of hand. Instead, it followed WHO recommendations which were woefully inadequate.

[Myriad]

[quote=The-Shoveler]So I love how L.A. declares a emergency because of coronavirus then says there is no reason to panic, in the next sentence they say they expect more cases and possible community spread LOL.

DON’T PANIC !![/quote]

Hah, makes me think of this scene from Airplane 2

[Myriad]

[quote=FlyerInHi]We so do deserve Trump.[/quote]

But if it the virus has a serious spread in FL and AZ, Trump can claim he solved the entitlement cost growth of SS and Medicare.

[ltsddd]

Two of the most populous countries in the world reported a total of 35 cases. 31 for India and 4 for Indonesia.
May be they are doing something right, who knows. Heck, Iceland has almost as many cases as India with 26. My gut feeling is it’s not going to end well for these folks if their gov’t’s leadership don’t pull their heads out of their asses any time soon.

[FlyerInHi]

Seems like we don’t need to focus on China. We need to worry about how our own government is managing the health crisis.

Trump’s mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
Current and former administration officials blame the president for creating a no-bad-news atmosphere that stifled attempts to combat the outbreak.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/07/trump-coronavirus-management-style-123465

[FlyerInHi]

Seems like we don’t need to focus on China. We need to worry about how our own government is managing the health crisis.

Trump’s mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
Current and former administration officials blame the president for creating a no-bad-news atmosphere that stifled attempts to combat the outbreak.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/07/trump-coronavirus-management-style-123465

[Coronita]

This virus is going to change the way we work.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/citigroup-traders-joins-other-banks-in-coronavirus-precaution.html

Worked on a plan this weekend to split my team’s work among groups in Florida, San Diego, Mexico City, and UK so we don’t have a single point of failure should we get hit in SD. Two people are also permanently relocating out of state for personal reasons were scheduled to start working remotely at the end of this month, but I’m going to fast track their relocation to beginning of this month.

Hopefully, the money we invested in making the workplace more remote friendly is going to pay off…

[The-Shoveler]

IMO This week is key.
I figure by the end of this week we will know if coronavirus is going to be no big deal here or not being that we now have 1 million test kits available as of this weekend.

I work remotely a good part of the time anyway and have no plans to go into the office this week.

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