I feel like an asshole for laughing in a thread about a serious illness but some of y'all are funny as fuck

the virus hit Jamaica as well but the outcome has been amazing: traditionally due to colonial situation of white/Black/Chinese peeps, Black peeps and Chinese peeps have some internalized colonial dislike yet to dissolve. it takes time

and yet no one here is bashing Chinese peeps. flights are restricted but zero anti-Asian hate on the ground. fucking incredible

Dengue is a way worse issue here, over the past year a ton of people have died

getting better since they are mosquito spraying constantly but the smoke is toxic to cats and kills bees, which will have a massive impact on the farmers who are the real economy outside of tourism

but what to do? people are dying from this. I got it a while back but obviously survived. a woman I work with got it too and we both agreed, it's like getting hit by a truck. Zika (got that too, was just like a bad cold) is nothing compared to that

but really cool to see this country breaking the colonial mentality. this nation is an entirely different place than it was 15 years ago. all it took was Seaga to die. not trying to make this political, just amazing what can happen when a nation has an opportunity to change, for the better

so proud of how JA is handling this

wish everyone health, pass by my place if in need of pedialtyle popsicles, guineps and tofu

3 days later.

https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-ne...hnk/index.html

""Getting groceries delivered through Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has become a different experience in China since the coronavirus outbreak. After a Saturday order on Alibaba's grocery site, a message popped up on my phone:

"Hi, I am your deliveryman and my body temperature is normal today. Wearing a mask, I am on my way to deliver your order. Please be ready to receive it at the designated time."

Many residential compounds in major cities across China, including the capital, are now strictly limiting access to residents only. Delivery people are no longer allowed in.

Recipients usually have to go outside to pick up their orders. In my compound, delivery people have taken to pushing grocery bags through the gap between a now-locked side gate and the floor.""

The numbers of victims are fake. Either intentionally lowered, or they are artifically lowered due to bandwidth reasons in that they can only test so many people. There is currently 400 million chinese under some form of quarantine. I've read that on average 30k people in china die every day between accidents, old age, illnesses, etc. 50 daily from pneumonia alone. You do not quarantine 5% of the earths population for 600 dead. It's far worse.

This being said, the issue the rest of the world is already beginning to see is supply chain. Just about every fucking object in front of me that I pick up has "made in china" written on it somewhere.

We have a dental clinic and are about to open another one. All the medical warehouses are out of medical masks and we don't have a single case of the virus in our country. Starting to run out of gloves too. I managed to order some online but the price was 2-3x normal. All of this shit is made in china...

I think its somewhat worse due to lack of kits and communication but mostly its just a big over reaction where the economic fall out will be far greater than the human cost.

Australian business are freaking right now as many can't get supplies already

Good read here
https://www.scmp.com/business/compan...ment-stop-work

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh . . .

So you were wrong about your doom and gloom predictions of 1-2 million deaths, and now you're switching to "economic fall out will be far greater than the human cost."

That's great news because that most likely will not happen. It will probably just be a blip on the economic radar when looking back in the yr 2020.

You have a lot of faith in The Chinese Government's released stats that I don't share.

14th is the date they set for most factories to go back to work, if they don't meet that deadline supply problems start.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/w...rus-china.html

6 more on that cruise test positive, 5 of them were crew members... dats not good.

I have more faith in you picking the wrong outcome :1orglaugh

here let fox news explain it

Coronavirus to axe $280B from global wealth engine

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...-wealth-engine

but that's Murdoch's news..

And besides, the global economy is like 100 trillion. That's not much.

The apocalypse is no fun without zombies.