Intrepid
Major
Values from today (deaths per 1 million population):
Belgium = 419
Spain = 409
Italy = 367
France = 275
UK = 202
Netherlands = 193
Switzerland = 148
Sweden = 132
USA = 103
Ireland = 98
The outbreak hasn't reached its top!
Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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Belgium = 419
Spain = 409
Italy = 367
France = 275
UK = 202
Netherlands = 193
Switzerland = 148
Sweden = 132
USA = 103
Ireland = 98
The outbreak hasn't reached its top!
vesicles
Colonel
I do apologize if my tone was too patronizing. I have been very frustrated by some of my own friends who seem to have this misconception that total freedom should take precedence over everything else. When the Houston mayor issued the stay-at-home order, one of my friends actually said “I would rather die than someone else tells me when I can leave my own home”. We tried to persuade him to follow order and he responded that he’s not used to live in a police state, even though his wife and kids were all scared. He was “forced” to change his mind when his wife threatened to kick him out the house... So he now officially lives in a police state. And he is planning a revolution, I guess...
I was feeling kinda good for a while until the Michigan protest happened yesterday. What were those people thinking?!
vesicles
Colonel
Well, every country has their share of smart people and stupid ones. I happen to have some stubborn friends.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
The US can rob supplies from small NATO countries but they can't rob them from China.
American Shipments of Coronavirus Supplies Stranded in China Under Export Restrictions
American companies have seen their shipments of coronavirus medical equipment, such as face masks and test kits, stranded in China after the country implemented new export restrictions this month.
The shipments of personal protective equipment and other medical equipment currently remain in warehouses in China, unable to obtain the new clearances required to be shipped out of the country.
About 1.4 million coronavirus test kits made by Massachusetts-based PerkinElmer are not able to leave the company’s Suzhou factory under the new restrictions, according to a State Department document by the Wall Street Journal.
The document also noted that Minnesota-based 3M was told by a Shanghai vice mayor that Shanghai “relies on 3M’s locally produced N-95 respirators for its Covid-19 prevention efforts and lacks viable alternatives.” Lifting the restrictions would require permission from the upper echelons of the Chinese government, the mayor indicated, according to the State Department.
American Shipments of Coronavirus Supplies Stranded in China Under Export Restrictions
American companies have seen their shipments of coronavirus medical equipment, such as face masks and test kits, stranded in China after the country implemented new export restrictions this month.
The shipments of personal protective equipment and other medical equipment currently remain in warehouses in China, unable to obtain the new clearances required to be shipped out of the country.
About 1.4 million coronavirus test kits made by Massachusetts-based PerkinElmer are not able to leave the company’s Suzhou factory under the new restrictions, according to a State Department document by the Wall Street Journal.
The document also noted that Minnesota-based 3M was told by a Shanghai vice mayor that Shanghai “relies on 3M’s locally produced N-95 respirators for its Covid-19 prevention efforts and lacks viable alternatives.” Lifting the restrictions would require permission from the upper echelons of the Chinese government, the mayor indicated, according to the State Department.
Western societies emphasized way too much individual freedoms and nothing on personal responsibilities. Individuals don’t exist in a vacuum in a society. We need to cooperate with each others for societies to exist. Sometimes that means we have to make sacrifices.
yes but it also give fuel to supporters of moving supply chain out of the china.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Supporters of that don't need fuel; they run on bullcrap all day long LOL. China produces the best quality product in the fastest time for the money and they still want to move so let them howl all they want as usual. Those people generally don't run businesses or run small scale failing/inconsequential ones anyway. China's not the only one. Mexico recently declared that if a US PPE factory wasn't making PPE for Mexico, then it wasn't providing an essential service to Mexico and must close down. That's how America deserves to be treated for trying force overseas producers to export all products to the US leaving none for the locals and snatching shipments headed for other countries.
Hokkaido controlled and fought covid19 until it was down to 1 or 2 a day and thought they managed to hold it at bay.
And then they took a breather and relaxed just that little little bit.
And I see the D declaring with his typical leadership that he won and wanted folks to get back to work.
European countries with new cases still numbering in thousands thinking they won?
or even by the hundreds that they won?
Or even by 2 digits that they won?
And Hokkaido got down to 1 or 2 a day!
Opening up as demanded by D and European politicians is a sick joke to me.
they do need the fuel, even if someone was lukewarm to the idea, the supporter will just drag them in now. ppl looking for scapegoat more than ever due to this crisis.