The COVID-2019 Thread

[jabir]

China Announces Coronavirus Epidemic ‘Passed Its Peak’ as It Sends Leftover Medical Supplies to Italy

That’s some good news.

Excellent news, might help stabilise the panic selling more than whatever Trump and the Euroclowns came up with.

[beachbound]

China Announces......

Anything said after those two little words has to be taken with a grain of salt.

[Troy]

^

I feel sorry for these folks. The Thai economy is so shite that they go abroad where they are treated terribly by the Koreas, often cheated out of wages, can't get Korean healthcare then head back to Thailand (often in debt) to no jobs, unable to pay their bills. The junta have really slaughtered these folk. But, yes, they should either stick to the airport quarantine (I was told they were taken to Chonburi for two weeks) or self-quarantine (how effective is that with all the data saying the virus can stay in your system for a very long time undetected and also after you have recovered from infection?).

Wife told me yesterday that Prayut had originally put them under quarantine but conditions were atrocious. He changed it to sending them home where they need to self isolate. Word has travelled fast about which local villages they are in and people are avoiding as much as they can.

[Luigi]

Justin Trudeau's wife tests positive for COVID-19

[NamPikToot]

FTSE is near back to where it was 10 years ago, still some way to go i think.

[Luigi]

Not many OAP's complaining about the 800k 'tied up' in the bank now.

[NamPikToot]

I wonder if Tezza has gone bush in survival mode.

[Stumpy]

The Dow Jones down within a whisker of 10% ... it's largest one day fall since the GFC

Midday optimism with that spike, but fell away towards the close with heavy selling (volume) towards the close.

Plus, it closed on it's lows which is usually not a good sign for the next day trading.

Man I got a few " Fuk " and Shit emails from friends today. One buddy said "I was set to retire in 2 years. This Tank has set me back 10 years if it remains low and a slow recovery"

Almost all the gains people had recognized over that last 5 or so years are gone. I suspect it will continue to drop maybe not as much but downward as nobody has any confidence that its nearing a peak or end and of course Trump has offered absolutely zero confidence to his "Fellow Americans".

How ya doing now Fish.....

[Cujo]

Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus in Australia | World news | The Guardian

[Pragmatic]

Dirty Farangs

]Government health minister: Watch out for "dirty farangs" spreading the virus in Thailand
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Thailand's Minister of Public Health and Deputy Prime Minister has taken to social media in a savage attack on Westerners.
]Many will see his aggressive words on Twitter as a racist assault on legitimate visitors to his country, notes Thaivisa.
He called "farangs" dirty people who don't shower.
He blamed them for fleeing Europe and coming to Thailand potentially spreading the Covid-19 virus.
He advised his countryfolk to avoid them especially as "not a single one was wearing a mask" on a trip he made to Chiang Mai.
Last month, Anutin ranted against a foreigner who wouldn't accept his offer of a free mask in Bangkok.
Now via his Twitter account - Anutin_C - not just renewed his attack on Westerners but gone much, much further.

Thai Rath in their headline referred to this as "Sia Noo's comeback". Sia Noo is the minister's nickname.

He said on Twitter that he had been to Chiang Mai and found there to be virtually no Chinese tourists, just farangs. He said that 90% of Thais in the northern city were wearing masks but not a single "farang" was wearing one
]This is why "their" countries are so badly affected by coronavirus, he claimed.
He advised that Thais should be more wary of Westerners than Asians.

He continued his rant by saying that it is cold in Europe and this is affecting the spread of the virus.

Referring to Westerners with the dismissive term "phuak nee" (this lot) he said that they were fleeing the virus and the cold and coming to Thailand.

]Many are shabbily dressed, he said, and they don't take showers.

"We must be careful about them," he said, suggesting that the Westerners had closed off their countries and were avoiding each other.
He also referred to his words last month in condemning foreigners implying that his comments had come home to roost.

Source: Thai Rath

[PlanK]

[HermantheGerman]

China Announces Coronavirus Epidemic ‘Passed Its Peak’ as It Sends Leftover Medical Supplies to Italy

That’s some good news.

Sorry misskit but this is total bullshit news coming from a shit source.
Since people like to play the numbers game, I want to play too.

The article said:

The news comes as Italy announced China was sending a charter flight with 31 tons of medical supplies, including respirators to help Italy deal with its crisis.

1. A cargo plane has a max. payload of 250 tons. So we can both agree that its peanuts.
2. What exactly was on that plane? Respirators can be face masks and not the urgently needed systems to keep a person breathing.
3. Since when does China help anyone ? Unless there is money to be made.
4. The only Peak that has peaked is their dirty communist lies !

[HermantheGerman]

Dirty Farangs

He continued his rant by saying that it is cold in Europe and this is affecting the spread of the virus.

Referring to Westerners with the dismissive term "phuak nee" (this lot) he said that they were fleeing the virus and the cold and coming to Thailand.

Good luck Troy! But don't say I didn't warn U !

By the way....where is the dirty sausage?

[Neverna]

I'm just curious how many people go through in a day ....

I have good quality ones that I put on before I leave the house and keep on until I return home.

I don't wear them. I haven't worn any yet.

[HermantheGerman]

The U.S. is getting too close for comfort

Germany 2,079

U.S. 1,663

...the race is on, and we can expect some more stand up comedy from The President of the United States Donald John Trump.



Anyone see the comedy show yesterday with the Irish Prime Minister?

[harrybarracuda]

Norway shutting down.

The entire country of Norway is 'shutting down'

[David48atTD]

I never saw this coming ...


Nepal shuts Mount Everest ahead of climbing season amid coronavirus fears

Nepal says it will ban foreigners from climbing Mount Everest this year in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Key points:

• The peak climbing season is from March to May and attracts a large number of Australians
• Nepal makes more than $5 million a year just from the permit fees it charges climbers each year
• Clearing Everest of climbers may allow local authorities to clean up the rubbish and place new ropes on the routes

The move will devastate the nation's economy and stop thousands of adventurers from visiting the tourist hotspot.

Nepal shuts Mount Everest ahead of climbing season amid coronavirus fears - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[Dragonfly]

well the good news is that COP21 could actually happen with the stop of world pollution and CO2 emission

[Seekingasylum]

Dirty Farangs

These creeps certainly do occupy a strange and cloistered niche here in Thailand where they are oblivious to their own filth and detritus that is so prevalent within any urban or rural Thai community distinguished by stinking, overflowing, blocked drains, poisonously polluted klongs, vacant lots acting as ad hoc rubbish tips, sois littered with bursting plastic refuse sacks ripped open by scabrous soi dogs, the stench of urine pissed by motorcycle/taxi mafia in trucs off any soi, practically anywhere, and the rats gnawing on the food remnants dispensed by the myriad food carts blocking the footpaths littered with any manner of spilled liquids feeding scurrying cockroaches the size of locusts.

But on matters of personal hygiene it is perhaps a matter of some note, and one that has seemingly been overlooked by this buffoon, is the not entirely insignificant fact Hepatitis A is endemic in Thailand because it is so utterly filthy and incapable of constructing a functioning drainage infrastructure.

And of course their open air air markets selling raw meat, replete with rats and flies, and the backstreet kitchens preparing the day's doggy bag lunches are all monuments to public hygiene and over a million Thai do not seek medical assistance annually for stomach upsets.

But the real kicker is of course most health professionals the world over do not regard face masks as a significant prophylactic against infection but the key word here is of course "professional"....

[David48atTD]

Aussie Market was down 500 points just after the open but finished up 235 or 4.42%

Mainly because the US Futures are positive ...

Enough to give you whiplash!

[Bettyboo]

Europe building impressively; over 20,000 cases and, apart from Italy, it hasn't even got to the explosive stage yet... Can Europe reach 50,000 by the end of the month, 100,000?

[jabir]

Aussie Market was down 500 points just after the open but finished up 235 or 4.42%

Mainly because the US Futures are positive ...

Enough to give you whiplash!

As DOW futures went positive from -4% there was a spurt at this end, never seen anything like it, stuff that was minus double digits went green within minutes.

I still don't feel we've hit bottom, could be fatigue overwhelming fear to boost sentiment.

[harrybarracuda]

Bias virus hits New York Times as double standards infect coverage of Covid-19 lockdown measures in China and Italy

Bias virus hits New York Times as double standards infect coverage of Covid-19 lockdown measures in China and Italy — RT Op-edDisgusting reporting from the alleged, Leaders of the free world's mouthpiece .

The fucking chinkies created this mess by lying about the outbreak and letting millions of infected tourists and workers go off spreading it around the world.

Now HoHo thinks we should be lauding them for doing what they were *forced* to do to stop their country grinding to a halt.

Do get fucked with this propaganda nonsense HoHo, they'll be back to munching pangolins in a couple of years as if nothing ever happened, and as a result they'll probably be the source of the next global pandemic too.

[Stumpy]

they'll be back to munching pangolins in a couple of years as if nothing ever happened, and as a result they'll probably be the source of the next global pandemic too.

I absolutely agree HB. I have no doubt that this will all be forgotten until the next time a pandemic is released from China (and it will). They are consistent and have zero intentions of changing anything. Its all about basic living in their eyes.

[harrybarracuda]

Strewth.

Peter Dutton: Australia minister tests positive for virus

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51866343