Posted on 03/23/2020 8:00:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS - The hunt for masks, ventilators and other medical supplies consumed the U.S. and Europe, as more than 1.5 billion people - one-fifth of the world’s population - were asked or ordered to stay home on Monday to try to blunt the spread of the coronavirus.
Political paralysis stalled efforts for a quick aid package from Congress, and U.S. stocks fell at the opening bell even after the Federal Reserve said it will buy as much government debt as necessary and lend to small and large businesses and local governments to help them cope with the economic damage from the outbreak.
In New York, where a near-lockdown took effect statewide over the weekend amid fears the city could become one of the world’s biggest hot spots, the mayor warned that hospitals are 10 days away from shortages in “really basic supplies” needed to protect health care workers and patients alike.
“If we don’t get the equipment, we’re literally going to lose lives,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN.
The risk to doctors, nurses and others on the front lines has become plain: Italy has seen at least 18 doctors with coronavirus die. Spain reported that more than 3,900 health care workers have become infected, accounting for roughly 12% of the country’s total cases.
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Oh give me a break.
What good is that going to do, with the other 6.5 billion wandering about? We’ll have to quarantine them all, by force.
What a relief this snooz is !
Now if we can convince that other 4,500,000,000+ we’ll have this licked, right ? !
HUGE dieback of the human race. Not from the virus, which though its final mortality rate may be 1-3%, but from the failure of supply chains, many of which lead back to China, and are maintained through continuous transfusions of cash by international corporations. As the international concerns shut down, the cash, as well as the flow of goods and services, cuts back to a mere dribble. It matters not whether there is price gouging, or price controls. The supply is much diminished, and that was essential to maintain life everywhere. People are reduced to killing others for these scarce goods, or dying from their absence, of diseases and conditions not directly related to the coronavirus.
Truly a Chinese curse - “May you live in interesting times.”
Which is why gun sales spiked recently. Especially with police saying they won’t deal with minor crimes like theft.
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