Ir's a pandemic if it reaches epidemic proportions in a global context but such a concept is not one many here can grasp, evidently.
I actually think it may be time to create a division in forums in which contributions can be classified according to those based on intellectual ability and the means to express them, and those posted by fucking illiterate morons.
But perhaps the imbalance will be too profound given the preponderance of blue collar, bovinely dim lower class oiks.
A lot to be said for people and their weakened immune systems by constantly cleaning and living a sterile type life. I know people that wash and disinfect everything all the time. Funny though, it is those same people who are constantly sick and every year a disease goes around, they get it.
These parents that are forever cleaning their kids with bacteria and virus cleaners are killing their ability to defend them naturally.This generation of kids will be vulnerable to everything that comes along.
You really are a pedantic twat on here, go look at the WHO 6 phase definition and point out where the current outbreak is failing the definition, albeit a transition between phases 5 and 6 is subjective.
It is quite obvious that the reason you washed up in Thailand and are stuck here is because no one who understands English could put up with you for more than 5 minutes - i feel sorry for your bloke, poor chap.
^^Sorry but that is an old wives tale. Bacterial infection confers no immunity to viral contagion or indeed to subsequent bacterial infections.
Immunity depends on congenital factors, health and luck.
You can roll around in as much muck as you want as a child but it ain't going to stop you getting HIV, plague, Green Monkey disease, Ebola or chickenpox. And playing with cow shit ain't going to stop you getting an abscess in your tooth.
You really are an idiot, we don't all live in sheltered accommodation, and live like hermits fantasizing about being a successful businessmen.
I do apologize about being a well traveled person, perhaps one day when your school promote you, from assistant to teacher you may have the chance to travel
Correct. You do though.Originally Posted by Chico
Cool graphic MissKit.
Is this a Coronavirus app?
I want to set my desktop wallpaper to be a live feed graphic of gradually swelling red bubbles of invirulated chinese provinces with tickertape of bodycount numbers on the taskbar.
....edit... managed to find it using google... :-
Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS
First case reported in Majorca.
Coronavirus case in Mallorca is confirmed
Those outbreaks stem from the Singapore Grand Hyatt cluster when a British businessman representing a UK company attended a conference in which a delegate from Wuhan was also present. Several are now confirmed cases and the Brit who subsequently joined his family in the ski resort before returning home to Hove, Sussex transmitted it to the owner of the ski resort chalet and the Mallorcan resident tourist. He spent over two hours in a local pub in Hove and the staff are all in self-isolation awaiting .......
The point is, restricting one's contact with sino looking folk is really quite futile.
The genie is out the bottle and once it takes root in Europe then the pandemic will be the inevitable consequence given there is no way China-style city wide quarantines could be established.
If you have any sense you will dump your equities now when the exchanges are still functioning.
North Korea’s Secret Coronavirus Crisis is Crazy Scary
SEOUL–North Korea’s not saying a word about deaths or illnesses from the coronavirus, but the disease reportedly has spread across the border from China and is taking a toll in a country with a dismal health care system and scant resources for fighting off the deadly bug.
One sure sign of the regime’s fears is that it failed to stage a parade in central Pyongyang on Saturday, the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the country’s armed forces. Last year, Kim Jong Un himself presided over the procession that displayed the North’s latest missiles and other fearsome hardware along with goose-stepping soldiers in serried ranks.
This year, nothing about the nation’s nuclear warheads, much less the “new strategic weapon” that Kim has vowed to unveil. Rodong Sinmum, the newspaper of the ruling Workers’ Party, merely cited the armed forces’ supposed success combating “severe and dangerous difficulties”—and said nothing at all about the parade.
But reports have filtered out about Kim’s subjects falling prey to coronavirus despite the country’s decision to seal its 880-mile border with China, most of it along the Yalu River into the Yellow Sea to the west, and its 11-mile border with Russia where the Tumen River flows into the Pacific.
Among the first to report fatalities in North Korea, the Seoul-based website Daily NK said five people had died in the critical northwestern city of Sinuiju, on the Yalu River across road and rail bridges from Dandong, which is the largest Chinese city in the region and a key point for commerce with North Korea despite sanctions.
Daily NK, which relies on sources inside North Korea that send reports via Chinese mobile phone networks to contacts in China, said authorities had “ordered public health officials in Sinuiju to quickly dispose of the bodies and keep the deaths secret from the public.
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^ one can imagine it being pretty bad in NK.
Hong Kong has pushed Thailand out of the top three, as we'll likely have 1000 deaths tomorrow.
The end of the world is nigh!
Well, for the PRK it might be so every cloud, eh?
Best buy your Tatties in Thailand now, chip shortage coming soon, taken from Sybs rag
China food prices spike 20.6% in January
China’s consumer prices rose at the highest rate in more than eight years, official data on Monday showed, with inflation more than expected on the back of lunar new year demand and a deadly virus outbreak.
The consumer price index (CPI), a key gauge of retail inflation, came in at 5.4% last month on-year, up from 4.5% in December – with prices of pork and fresh vegetables pushing up costs. It’s the highest CPI rise since October 2011.
The report showed that food prices spiked 20.6%, including pork which rose 116% from a year ago, up from the 97% rise in December. The on-month rise for pork was 8.5%.
“People also tend to hoard food and other supplies in this kind of situation. The hoarding will most likely push up prices,” said Lu Ting of Nomura in a research note last Thursday.
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