Off topic “coronavirus”

[spdrun]

^^^ Unknown. Many people are exposed to various pathogens and don’t get clinically significant symptoms.

[FlyerInHi]

Flu, SARS was not an economic problem for China or Asia at all.
You don’t know but you talk shit.

All the negative projections on China ever posted here have been wrong. There’s no history of accuracy except for my take on China for the last few years. I have been a China bull since before 2001 when they joined WTO, and their economic growth has well exceeded my expectations. Even the Economist and the Financial Times have been wrong.

[The-Shoveler]

State department travel advisory — China Level-4 Do not travel , delta suspends all flights to China.

Singapore bans Chinese travelers.

Singapore said on Friday it was suspending entry to travelers with a recent history of travel to China and suspending visas for Chinese passport holders, to stop the spread of the coronavirus,

[Coronita]

and yet no widespread infection outside of China.

[Myriad]

Doesn’t this type of crisis usually drive companies to diversify their supply chain even more?

Also, no school in Hong Kong until March!

[FlyerInHi]

Yes, diversifying the supply chain is smart and good for the world.

I wonder what the repercussions is a major earthquake in the Bay Area would be.

I read a WSJ articles about why tech likes to cluster in expensive urban areas.

I take it that It turns out that despite the promises of the internet, nobody wants to live far away and telecommute so small towns are dying. Even digital nomads cluster in certain hubs around the world.

[Coronita]

Wow. Trump adminstration just restricted entry for Chinese visas holders and imposed a mandatory 14 day quarantine for people coming from affected region.

I don’t like him as a person but he’s got this one right

[The-Shoveler]

I love Telecommuting LOL.

Maybe people don’t want to live in small towns that are really remote.

SD Suburbs work for me.

[The-Shoveler]

Shortages?
Consumer price increases?

It takes about three weeks for a container ship to cross the ocean so I figure we still have not yet felt the effects of this.

Could be a world wide issue (just the economics) IMO.

I have always heard that if the US stops all biz for three days we would have a severe recession I cannot imagine how this will effect China.

[Coronita]

New discovery. The virus can be found in people’s shit.

So, especially in China you can get it easier if you use one of those squat toilets, which in China is completely messy and gross. Or you wipe your ass and forget wash your hands and touch everywhere and touch everything. Of if you use one of those toilets on those ancient trains in China, which is basically a hole that empties directly into the train tracks when you pee or shit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-01/coronavirus-lurking-in-feces-may-reveal-hidden-risk-of-spread

[Coronita]

Speaking of bathrooms, and unrelated. In my crude survey…. 8.5 out of 10 women hate this new gender neutral concept of bathrooms in California.

Why? Because many biological men are simply gross slobs that stand up to pee, who don’t lift up the toilet seat, and who end up peeing all over the seat in a public restroom.

Most biological men, even the anal retentive ones that are OCD, can put up with the slobness pigness of other men simply because even if the bathroom and toilet is completely filthy , most of the time you can just remain standing , aim, and (mis)fire….

Biological women, on the other hand always has to sit down whether they are doing a #1 or #2. So that’s why women only bathrooms in the past has been 100x cleaner than men’s bathroom…. No one wants to sit on anyone elses pee or poo, so there is this hidden code among women to keep the bathroom clean out of respect for each other. Well guess what? Now with these gender neutral bathrooms, women have to deal with a gross toilet all the time… Many have mastered the art of squatting.

If I were to have a bathroom rules,.I wouldn’t have done it this way. I would have split the restrooms into two categories:

“Sit down toilet only, no standing” and I would have made the urinal with a low ceiling that would make it impossible to remain standing.

“Standing or sitting toilet”
which basically is an anything goes toilet.

[svelte]

In a 2019 Netflix special, Bill Gates said that the thing that held the most potential to kill millions of people was a pandemic, and thought a likely place for one to start would be a wet market in China.

How prophetic.

Bill Gates predicted coronavirus-type pandemic could ‘kill millions’ in 2019 Netflix documentary

[svelte]

[quote=flu]Speaking of bathrooms, and unrelated. In my crude survey…. 8.5 out of 10 women hate this new gender neutral concept of bathrooms in California.
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And this is a major reason the Equal Rights Amendment never passed. I’m serious. The anti-ERA crowd was able to convince many women that passing ERA would lead to unisex bathrooms.

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[spdrun]

Why not just have a long corridor with stalls with full-length doors on one side and sinks on the other? Some stalls would contain toilets, the others will contain urinals. The advantage would be that one could wash their hands after touching the door latch.

[Coronita]

Side effect. US won the trade war…

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/01/coronavirus-updates-china-cancels-tariffs-on-us-virus-prevention-products.html

China cancels tariffs on virus prevention drugs….

If US wanted to do a powerplay, now would be a time to extort more trade concessions while China is on its knees. Tie the availability or virus drugs to increasing trade concessions on consumer electronics. Their economy in the short term is screwed up anyway. ours will be fine. It would be the Machiavellian to do. It’s not personal it’s business.

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