Panic buying spreading down under. Woolworth is limiting the amount of toilet rolls per customer.
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Fine work sniffing out Fake News Mr. Siege!
Supposedly there are two major strains of COVID19, the more lethal strain called L-COV and the more survivable strain called S-COV. It is believed that the CFR difference inside and outside of Hubei in China can at least in part be attributed to the fact that inside Wuhan and Hubei there is vastly more L-COV than S-COV and that the lockdown of Hubei in late Jan is what slowed down the spread of L-COV to the rest of the Chinese provinences. It is also possible that Iran is hit harder with L-COV strain and perhaps why in the USA even though they are saying COVID has been spreading in Seattle for 6 weeks or more we aren't seeing the massive amount of deaths like what is being reported in Iran with some 10% of its parliment infected etc.... If that is the case, it may be that the situation in the US is not anywhere near as dire as some may have initially predicted, even with CDC inaction and incompetence of the Trump admin it will never get anywhere near as bad as Iran or Italy or Wuhan.
Our Prime minister Scott Morrison two days ago told Australian to use " common sense" when dealing with COVID-19 prevention. No need to change life style, no need for panic buying. But the public with common sense is faced with the fact that winter is coming, now is already autumn. Foods production is coming to a minimum, many farmers have their crops destroyed by the recent bush fires and now by heavy flooding . Australia buy heaps of foods and other daily necessities from China but God knows when the Chinese will begin full production and the time to get them to Australia. With the virus spreading all over the world it is affecting manufacturing, logistics, foods security and supply chains. With all things considered,we can't blame Australian with common sense of panic buying. The common sense population don't trust our politicians that much.
solarz
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Winter is coming!
Yes, its down under, they have their winter when we have our summer. BUT it's still 3 months away! Lol. On the first of March, our spring began in the northern hemisphere, so it's now Autumn down under.
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In terms of dichotomy of duality there is a stark contrasting juxaposition between what is good for the individual and what is good for the government/society as a whole. For example, at least in the US, government focuses a lot on countering terrorisms but dissporportinately less on for example car crash fatalities. Even those as an individual my odds of dying or getting seriously injured in a car crash is orders of magnitude higher than becoming a victim to terror. This is the difference between the macro and the micro. From the government standpoint car crashes are just statistics and unavoidable, its many many micro events in aggregate and although it can make measusre to decrease fatality on the whole, it cannot prevent any one particular accident on any individual level. Yet stopping terror acts are very macro for the government, in that it does have more direct power to prevent from occuring since these are largely infrequent events and garner a lot of publicity... so governments focus on alot more on these things even though as an individual it hardly affects any of us. More people die of peanut allegeries per year than deaths from terror acts etc... Just in my state alone every year there are 3500+ car fatalities, in one state! Compared to one off black swan event like 911 the death toll is much higher.
This is why the US government is running ads telling people that masks are useless. It is not that they are useless it is obviously a tactic to calm the public and decrease the panic demand for masks so that as a resource they can be more strategically allocated to the front line medical folks. The same goes for gun control policies in the US. It is true as a society it would be better that there are less guns, but since criminals in America will likely always have guns and don't care about laws then as an individual on a personal level its safer and better for ME to be armed than not to be armed. So yeah, despite what the government says, masks are better than not having one.
But this dichotomy of duality of inverse relationship of what is good for the individual can often be bad for the whole is a tension that will always exists... America there is a saying tho, its called "F you, got mine!"
This is why the US government is running ads telling people that masks are useless. It is not that they are useless it is obviously a tactic to calm the public and decrease the panic demand for masks so that as a resource they can be more strategically allocated to the front line medical folks. The same goes for gun control policies in the US. It is true as a society it would be better that there are less guns, but since criminals in America will likely always have guns and don't care about laws then as an individual on a personal level its safer and better for ME to be armed than not to be armed. So yeah, despite what the government says, masks are better than not having one.
But this dichotomy of duality of inverse relationship of what is good for the individual can often be bad for the whole is a tension that will always exists... America there is a saying tho, its called "F you, got mine!"
Thanks Chish. But I think you are being way too generous for these illogical behaviour! but human behaviour is the same the world over!
I guess I was just being flippant when I posted that. I was trying to point to the double standards if MSM, when panic buying in Hong Kong was reported as a "Chinese thing". But of course, we can see the behaviour is the same all over the world, but next to no reporting of this as an "OZ thing"!
Phoenix_Rising
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Good news is: Engine of China is roaring again, for example China produced 116 million facemasks, including 1.6 million N95, in a single day of yesterday.
The capacity of production everything is still climbing in every industry. You can count on China for being able to provide everything.
Not so good news is:
After last 3 governments overtly siding with US neo-con policy and constantly rubbishing China…