04-13-2020, 02:11 PM
** 13-Apr-2020 World View: Wuhan Coronavirus in other countries
What you're written here is very right and very important. In America,
the UK and Europe, the media assume that the West is isolated from
the rest of the world, and within a couple of months everyone will go
back to work, and normalcy will return.
The West is going to be heavily affected by what's happening in the
rest of the world. You've given one small example where you're
sending money to your in-laws in the Philippines so that they can buy
a little rice. There are going to be billions of situations like
that.
Al-Jazeera has been reporting on how different countries
are coping. I took a few notes:
Xeraphim1 Wrote:> Big News doesn't cover what is happening in developing countries
> very well. My in-laws in the Philippines have been on lock down
> for more than two weeks and probably will be until the end of
> April. Most people there don't have savings and depend on day to
> day work for money. My in-laws haven't had any work for a couple
> weeks and while they thought of ways to make things for sale, no
> one has money to buy them. They're going to be okay since we're
> sending them money to at least buy rice, but others are eating
> boiled bananas to survive. In comparison, people here and in
> Europe have it very easy. It's going to be the same story for some
> three quarters of the world's population. After a while
> desperation will exceed the possible risks of disease and the lock
> downs will have to end.
What you're written here is very right and very important. In America,
the UK and Europe, the media assume that the West is isolated from
the rest of the world, and within a couple of months everyone will go
back to work, and normalcy will return.
The West is going to be heavily affected by what's happening in the
rest of the world. You've given one small example where you're
sending money to your in-laws in the Philippines so that they can buy
a little rice. There are going to be billions of situations like
that.
Al-Jazeera has been reporting on how different countries
are coping. I took a few notes:
- Ecuador has streets filled with bodies.
- Spain has eased lockdown restrictions, even though the number of
deaths is growing.
- South Korea, which has been held up as a model of successfully
combating the virus, is suddenly seeing a resurgence of infections --
which some people are call "reinfections" or "reactivations" in people
who have previously been sick and recovered.
- Japan is refusing the impose any lockdown restrictions. Tokyo is
being described as a new "hot spot," like NYC.
- Russia has reported the largest daily increase in infections yet,
and Vladimir Putin is saying that the armed forces may have to be
involved, whatever that means. Russia is a vast country, and the
lockdowns will be different in different regions. China is closing
its border to Russia.
- Nigeria is a huge country, where most people are extremely poor
and need to work every day to feed their families. And now, the
government is demanding that people stay at home and stop working for
at least two weeks. Nigeria's problems are exacerbated by the fact
that their principle export is oil, and the price of oil has
crashed.
- Turkey's Erdogan refuses to impose total lockdowns. Instead, he's
imposing weekend lockdowns. That should work great.
- New York government Andrew Cuomo says that "the worst is over," as
long as people continue to follow the lockdown rules.
- In Uganda, thousands of people are living in crowded refugee
camps, having fled from the war in South Sudan. As Covid-19 begins to
spread through the camp, the World Food Program (WFP) is being forced
to cut rations in half, because of lack of international
donations.
- China is the same and, as usual, everything that Chinese officials
say is completely full of crap.
