Coronavirus
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I must admit that I was wrong to be sceptical about factories switching to producing ventilators. It’s not turned out to be just another of Boris’s publicity stunts.
Building a factory in ten days shows what can be done in an emergency and how quickly socialist society will be able to clear up the mess inherited from capitalism. And it’s good to have examples from other than the military, though in the early days of socialism the disarmed forces could have a useful role in quickly building airfields and using their drones to drop medical supplies instead of bombs.
In fact.Chinese product ion medical production is still in marks law unto system that as a Chinese I must explan.Is stand for
oppression worker you can translate this
by google
A comrade who understands Chinese has said that this is what the link says:
”It’s about the hospitals that were built in double-quick time to cope with coronavirus victims: apparently many of the migrant workers employed to build them haven’t been paid.”
We hadn’t thought of that but, this being capitalism, perhaps we should have taken into account who the workers who actually built that hospital were and their terms and conditions.
They had done the same thing by building apartments complex and some of them have collapsed, because they have not been built properly and trying to save money they have not used the proper concrete mixtures, and they are cutting corners to produce more profits by the construction companies, schools and public building also collapsed during an earthquake in 2008 due to poor construction and lack of safety, they used more sand than concrete. China is a capitalist nation like any other capitalist nation and profit is the main concern, leftwingers will applaud the measures taken by the Chinese government but they never talk about the conditions of the workers, and the high level of exploitation. They use foreign labourers because they pay is lower than the pay given to Chinese workers and many times they do not get payment of their wages. Some of these schools and buildings constructions are called Tofu Projects by the Chinese workers and parents of school children
But millions of peoples continue worshipping him like a god or a cult, he has been blessed by the Evangelicals as the chosen one, and millions of peoples believe that too and then, they are talking against the cult of personality of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. There was a Senator who said that he is willing to risk his life to save the economy. He can go ahead and kill himself but other human beings do not have to follow him like sheep going into a corral, but it is all flattery, they do not have any dignity, and they are just a bunch of cowards who will do anything to save their jobs and careers
“The guy is insane”
His business empire is centred on hotels and golf.
His personal wealth is particularly vulnerable to lock-downs and restrictions on travel.
As always, he is looking after Numero Uno
And casinos, and Real estate, and both sectors are also in troubles, and in the brink of collapsing. He is an expert in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, probably, he would force to use that federal court system again
Many islands in the Caribbean region who depend on tourism and hotel business are in a difficult situation, many peoples are going to be laid off, and those nations depend in that income to pay their huge debts with the IMF
The USA government does not want to show to the US workers their dependency on medical products and equipment that are made in China, and the tariff war affected the importation of medical supplies toward the USA
A worrying development. Some countries are stopping the export of food and beginning policies of stock-piling reserves
Vietnam halts export of rice, the country’s major hard currency earner.
Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest shippers of wheat flour, has suspended exports of buckwheat, wheat and rye flour, sugar, potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets, onions, cabbages, sunflower seeds and oil.
Russia has suspended exports of processed grains such as ready-to-eat buckwheat, rice or oat flakes from March 20 for 10 days,
Kyrgyzstan banned the exports of basic food products for six months. Kyrgyzstan will stop the exports of wheat and meslin, wheat flour, rice, macaroni products, vegetable oils, eggs, sugar and almost all types of feed for agricultural animals.
Ann Berg, an independent consultant and veteran agricultural trader who started her career at Louis Dreyfus Co. in 1974.
“You could see wartime rationing, price controls and domestic stockpiling,” Berg said, “it’s the least-developed countries with weak currencies that get hurt the most.”“We’re starting to see this happening already – and all we can see is that the lockdown is going to get worse,” said Tim Benton, research director in emerging risks at think tank Chatham House “If governments are not working collectively and cooperatively to ensure there is a global supply, if they’re just putting their nations first, you can end up in a situation where things get worse,” He warned that frenzied shopping coupled with protectionist policies could eventually lead to higher food prices – a cycle that could end up perpetuating itself. “If you’re panic buying on the market for next year’s harvest, then prices will go up, and as prices go up, policy makers will panic more,” .
“Given the problem that we are facing now, it’s not the moment to put these types of policies into place,” said Maximo Torero, chief economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. “On the contrary, it’s the moment to cooperate and coordinate.”
Half the population of the UK may already be infected according to this Oxford study. If true this could be significant: “If the results are confirmed, they imply that fewer than one in a thousand of those infected with Covid-19 become ill enough to need hospital treatment”
XR distanced itself from stickers purporting to be from the campaign group which state: “Corona is the cure, humans are the disease.”
While the State repression continues for Julian Assange who had his bail application again refused
Has anyone come across updated information on the mortality rate of the virus? I keep coming across conflicting information. So much depends on what proportion of the population infected are asymptomatic or only mildly affected. Many may not be aware they are infected and depending on how many that makes quite a big difference. To know how many requires large scale testing whereas I believe countries like the UK only test those who arrive at a hospital. South Korea is the outstanding example where there has been large scale testing and tracing contacts and this has helped quite a lot in reducing the rate of increase in infections
COVID-19 – the class connection
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52023147
“The social class who is ill at the moment are the upper-middle and upper classes, and that’s why we haven’t yet seen a sustained transmission rate,” says Dr Beatriz Perondi, who heads the disaster and emergency committee at São Paulo’s Hospital das Clinicas, the largest public hospital in Latin America. “Once they start spreading the virus to the middle and lower classes, that’s when we are going to have issues with quarantine. With lots of people living in the same room, that could cause huge transmission problems.”
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