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While those videos are interesting and concerning you need to take anything you see and hear on social media with a grain of salt.
You trust the stats that the Chinese government is releasing more than you do our CDC? You think countries shut down air travel, rail travel, bordering countries shut down their borders, giant hospitals are built in a matter of days, sports arenas are being used as make shift hospitals due to something similar to the flu? You think a country shuts down it’s entire economy for weeks for a disease that is similar to the flu? Can we all just drop the flu comparisons as it’s insulting and ridiculous and defies the existence of common sense. I seriously don’t understand why smart people choose to be naive when there is a mountain of evidence showing how serious something is.
You might be 100% right. I never said action against the coronavirus is wrong. But we need to keep away from fear tactics.
Facts are facts. The Chinese have lied about EVERYTHING in regards to this disease. Virtually every person on the ground in China that can get out is getting out. Companies are shuttering their businesses. The Chinese government is threatening prison time for people that post on social media about how the disease is spreading. One of the most respected medical journals (Lancet) says that most likely 78000 people are infected in just one region. Looking at evidence and being realistic is not engaging in fear tactics. What is more dangerous is people that trivialize and are dismissive of something that has almost certainly killed thousands of people. No country on the face of the Earth would react to something even twice as bad as the flu as whats going on here.
Okay again, on NPR they interviewed an American student quarenteened there in China. He seemed less convinced than you. I could be wrong.
I think that China is a country whose economy is largely dependent on foreign investment, tourism, foreign companies having a presence there. If they release actual numbers about what the virus is doing—they don’t have to worry about a bad economic quarter or two—they have to worry about a potential long term erosion of a lot of their economic fundamentals. They have an interest to downplay the severity of the crisis and their words do not match their actions at all. Scientists and experts in virology are saying that the numbers they are claiming are low—-and no other country seems to believe them as travel restrictions are popping up right and left. When was the last time anybody ever implemented travel restrictions on us-even though the flu numbers are exponentially worse than what’s being reported now?
Restrictions, probably never, but the economic impact means nothing if their entire country gets taken out. We would never build a hospital in 10 days. In fact, I don't see how good that could be. Economics would be my last worry no matter what nationally I am. Humans are humans. In crisis money doesn't matter unless you are real evil.
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Armadillos can carry leprosy. That's biblical stuff and they're just running around all over the place.
Fun fact: Pablo Escobar brought in a couple hippos to be part of his zoo in Colombia. Those 2 have now become more than 80, and they are now an invasive species, effing up the local lakes and rivers with their prodigious amounts of waste.
I doubt anyone cited the data on “they kill on average 5,000 people a year in Africa alone.”
folks can say what they want about cruises sucking balls, and i tend to agree ... but that customer to staff ratio is fabulous
Yeah, I check that site every day. I guess the lower % increase is good if it is to be believed. Just wondering if there is a date range when it could be expected that numbers actually start to go down?
I was hugely anti Cruise but got dragged on one with the folks for their 70th bday. Can't say no.folks can say what they want about cruises sucking balls, and i tend to agree ... but that customer to staff ratio is fabulous
I love cruising. It’s not exclusively how we vacation but it’s nice to mix it in to have relatively low stress on planning/traveling/etc. Hard to beat docking in places like the BVI and waking up and seeing those views too.folks can say what they want about cruises sucking balls, and i tend to agree ... but that customer to staff ratio is fabulous
