People have also been raising the alarms over Chinese wet markets for decades now. Don't forget SARS also came from bats in China too.
I forgot that SARS came from bats as well! Good on your for remembering. Guess they've just gotten away with having those wet markets there for so long. The PRC owes everyone a big apology. And a lot of money!
I saw a clip on TV earlier today. Dr. Fauci said this virus could come back again, like seasonal flu. We better get a working vaccine by then or we are screwed. The world's economy and humanity can't handle another round of beating like this again.
Makes me wonder what differentiates people who succumb to Covid-19 easily and those who don't. Are there some genetic factors in play that make it harder for it to ravage the lungs? After the bubonic plague hit Europe multiple times (particularly in the 14th century), apparently surviving European bloodlines were far more-likely to have genetic factors that made their immune systems more resistant to y.pestis.
Very likely this is the origin of Covid-19 BUT had China come clean about the gravity of the situation when it actually began months ago I suspect we would be in a lot better shape right now.
Absolutely. As much as it is a Chinese societal problem, it's mostly a government problem. They got lucky with SARS. No such luck this time!
I hope 21 days is enough
Been reading a lot of articles about India...their economy is already so fragile & so many people are living in horrible poverty, it's going to be really rough for them. Americans a hard enough time just sitting around on their couches all day, let alone literally having to go outside to survive on a day to day basis.
India's economy simply doesn't include a lot of its most poor. Locking them down will make very little difference to their GDP. It'll make life miserable for people who live in crowded areas since they'll have to carefully control movement of people. But when you're locking down people who already live in crushing poverty, the numbers won't show up on paper so much.
many of them used their tax cuts for stuff like stock buybacks
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: stock buybacks are a leading indicator of a market downturn.
Even as the United States continues to experience its longest economic expansion since World War II, concern is growing that soaring corporate debt will make the economy susceptible to a contraction that could get out of control. The root cause of this concern is the trillions of dollars that...
hbr.org
These buybacks do a lot to help executives/major shareholders, but they don't do much for the health of the company itself. Seems like a weird hack of fiduciary responsibility laws since the temporary rush of increased stock value helps investors in the short term but hurts the company in the long term.
Just got an email. Governor of Georgia mandated all public schools remain closed til until April 24th.
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--reg...-closed-through-april/9k0ortYU6cu1yIWjOfPIjI/
Not surprising but this is going to have repercussion.
I think TN did the same thing.
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