Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Disgruntledgoat]

Takes us 10 years.

Forced labor, no safety standards and a totalitarian government able to do as they please a hell of a thing

 

[Toast]

Forced labor, no safety standards and a totalitarian government able to do as they please a hell of a thing

Don't build footy grounds as well do they ?
We could be on the docks for next season.

 

[Groucho]

I see there’s 2 UK cases

 

[Tubey]

In all fairness I’m half joking. It’s probably because of the proximity of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine without them being in the centre of Liverpool.

It's a cold though, not malaria.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Forced labor, no safety standards and a totalitarian government able to do as they please a hell of a thing

I know a few builders who can build a house in a couple of days. However it will probably fall down very soon after.

 

[Tubey]

I dono. Doesn’t China tend to not give a bollox about safety and stuff. Why would they shut down cities if there wasn’t anything in it?

China rule with an iron fist because they're afraid of losing control, like all authoritarian governments.

Therefore, an epidemic is a danger to that control. If they are seen as weak and unable to act decisively to control such an outbreak, then it kills millions, there will be the potential of an uprising. Given the population of that country, any uprising is deadly to the relative minority of the ruling class. It's why they execute people for minor crimes - zero tolerance, no risks. You aren't going to try and rebel if you can be executed for so much as stealing a loaf of bread.

Therefore, it's in their interests to exert power and control over the situation. It's a show of strength to do it.

 

[Paris]

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has seen its first case of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus inside the country, a health official said on Friday, as it raised its total number of cases to 19, the second-highest after China.



The first patient to contract the virus inside Thailand is a Thai taxi driver, said Tanarak Pipat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control.



"(He) ...does not have the record of traveling to China, and it is likely that he was infected (by) a sick traveler from China," Tanarak said.



Authorities have conducted virus scans on 13 people, including three family members, who the taxi driver came into contact with. They said that initially none of them had tested positive for the virus.



"The overall risk of infection in Thailand is still low, but people should take precautions to protect themselves," Tanarak said.



The taxi driver is one of five other coronavirus cases confirmed in Thailand on Friday.



Seven of the 19 cases have recovered and gone home while 12 are still being treated at hospitals. All but two of the cases are Chinese tourists visiting the country, the health authority said.



The vast majority of the almost 10,000 cases identified have been in China, mostly in and around the virus' epicentre of Wuhan, and health authorities worldwide are seeking to keep the infection from spreading.



There have been at least nine cases of human-to-human transmission in five countries outside China: the United States, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and now Thailand.



The World Health Organization is looking closely at cases of person-to-person transmission outside of Wuhan, which would suggest that the virus may have the potential to spread further.

Uhoh.

 

[DanEFC92]

Swings and roundabouts

 

[Paris]

I know a few builders who can build a house in a couple of days. However it will probably fall down very soon after.

Are they Chinese?

 

[Paris]

Swings and roundabouts

The Thai authorities have refused to stop all flights from China because of the $$$$. Disgusting, tbh. Human life be damned.

 

[Groucho]

It's a cold though, not malaria.

They’re involved with the infectious disease department in the Royal over the road mate.

 

[peteblue]

Mate will you [Poor language removed] off

Wow, the first stages of symptoms include having a humour bypass...you should get yourself checked out.....

 

[peteblue]

I see there’s 2 UK cases

It was inevitable really....

 

[Barry Rathbone]

The code is "I like biscuits" if you meet.
Don't get confused and say "cake" or he'll slit your throat

 

[AndyC]

Forced labor, no safety standards and a totalitarian government able to do as they please a hell of a thing

A fair percentage of the 'forced labour' are likely to be convicts.
They can get their sentences reduced by agreeing to manual labour tasks like construction, Chinese funded construction projects in Africa have loads of convict labour gangs.