China coronavirus: Hong Kong leader adopts advice from medical experts – but draws line at closing border with mainland China

South China Morning Post ^ | Published: 10:43pm, 25 Jan, 2020 Updated: 11:19pm, 25 Jan, 2020 | Alvin Lum

[Zhang Fei]

Gotta wonder when Hong Kong will place China under quarantine, i.e. close the border crossings with China. The economic impact could be something to behold, if border closures start snowballing. Imagine an end to Apple shipments from China. Apple's product shipments go down 90%. And then there's all the intermediate parts currently manufactured in China. It was convenient and efficient to source every single component in China. The problem is what happens when China shuts down.

[Zhang Fei]

[“For the past 20 years, whether it’s avian flu, Sars or swine flu, we … have never closed the border,” Leung said. ]

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Note that China has never imposed a quarantine on a major “city”. The quarantined area is now ~20,000 sq miles. That’s the size of West Virginia.

[dp0622]

Well any kind of skirmish involving half a dozen different countries, and of course all out war, would stop those shipments too.

Hell of a thing depending on a communist country for a Tremendous amount of goods sold in your country.

[Equine1952]

A person could read Edgar Allen Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”. He may be right, it is probably already there. Ring Around The Posey comes to mind, if one is prone to panic.

[JoSixChip]

Hell of a thing depending on a communist country for a Tremendous amount of goods sold in your country.

As a former republican, that is the thing that I am the most ashamed of for ever supporting the gopE.

[Spktyr]

This is why (among other reasons) Apple has been moving production to India and even back to the US.

[dp0622]

Ah, we all bought into the “free trade” bull crap.

Many of us were naive enough to think that a billion person country would be opening its doors to American products.

Now we are conservatives that vote republican because the other option is too horrible to think of.

[Zhang Fei]

Chinese city tries to quarantine the rest of China. It presumably got slapped down by Beijing. The following story was broadcast by Reuters, then reversed. I’m surprised any local Chinese government official had the guts to issue this kind of pronouncement. This modern day plague is making the natives restless:

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China’s Shantou city will not ban cars, ships, people from entering, state media reports
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-shantou/chinas-shantou-city-to-ban-cars-ships-people-from-entering-from-jan-27-idUSKBN1ZP061

[Zhang Fei]

[This is why (among other reasons) Apple has been moving production to India]

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India is a horror show for foreign investors compared to just about any country in the world (although it has to be admitted that India is probably better than Afghanistan or Libya). Apple would be better off manufacturing in Mexico. The term Indian giver assumes horror movie dimensions when applied to dot Indians (vs the original feather Indians).

[Spktyr]

They are doing India for diversifying supply and due to their “build here” laws, to try to further break into their market.

Apple already produces in Brazil as well as considering Indonesia, Vietnam, Mexico and a couple others I can’t recall for future production.

[Zhang Fei]

[They are doing India for diversifying supply and due to their “build here” laws, to try to further break into their market.]

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Foxconn is about to build a plant in Madras. We’ll see how that goes.

[Secret Agent Man]

That’s why they now have a “What to do when your Apple product comes with the Corona virus installed” pamphlet.

[Zhang Fei]

[That’s why they now have a “What to do when your Apple product comes with the Corona virus installed” pamphlet.]

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LOL. Any day now, I expect Corona beer to make a name change announcement.

[shanover]

Originally,America would have been just fine ISOLATIONIST. Now we are go go global.

[Equine1952]

You can’t isolate with porous borders and soldiers world wide and not inoculated. Which a vaccine isn’t here yet. And people flying all over not screened. You either beat it or it beats you.

[HK_Kai_Chung]

The Hong Kong government has refused to close down the border, but decided to convert an unoccupied public estate into temporary flats for quarantine in Fanling.

https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202001/26/P2020012600087.htm

People in the neighborhood are protesting outside the estate right now.

[tinyowl]

"... but draws line at closing border with mainland China"

... when 'drawing a line' means 'not drawing a line' ...

[trebb]

Hard to say if China is exerting extra pressure or if they know the scare stories are spreading faster than the virus - which so far, has the same contagion type factors as the Flu.

[Zhang Fei]

[Hard to say if China is exerting extra pressure or if they know the scare stories are spreading faster than the virus - which so far, has the same contagion type factors as the Flu.]

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China presumably gets flu season, too. I don’t think they’re shutting down 5% of the Chinese economy behind a quarantine because this is just another flu season bug. Then there’s a disturbing video about the dead in Wuhan alone amounting to 90,000 victims:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3811029/posts

[trebb]

Time will tell - the extreme measures may also be part of a cover up attempt...let’s see what the word is a week from now before going all overboard...