Posted on 03/05/2020 6:36:57 AM PST by Red Badger
HSBC has evacuated parts of its Canary Wharf headquarters after a worker tested positive for coronavirus.
The bank's research department was cleared this morning and will now undergo a deep clean as staff work from home.
The employee is believed to have fallen ill at the weekend after returning from an affected area overseas before receiving the positive test.
It is the first case of COVID-19 in one of London's major financial institutions.
The banking giant employs around 10,000 people at its Canary Wharf headquarters and 40,000 people across the UK.
An HSBC spokesperson said: "We have been informed that one of our employees has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
"We are deep cleaning the floor where our colleague worked and shared areas of the building.
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HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company. It was the 7th largest bank in the world by 2018, and the largest in Europe, with total assets of US$2.558 trillion (as of December 2018).
If Hot Toddy man is to be believed..this has been circulating since November. So all of you that got the worst flu of your life this winter might have gotten it.
Good news..you survived.
You can have it and not test positive because the viral load isn’t high enough. Then your body either fights it off or it doesn’t...and then you test positive
“after returning from an affected area overseas”
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Can’t for the life of me figure out why people take vacations and cruises in 3rd world hellholes (which is most everywhere 5 miles outside of US territorial waters).
“This is starting to look ‘biblical’..................”
My thoughts exactly, in addition to stocking up on food and spirits, saying a few prayers to the Holy Spirit wouldn’t hurt. imo
I may buy a bottle of everclear to make some potent hand sanitizer.
The Hong kong Shanghai Banking Corporation is the premier Money Laundering Facility for Illegal Arms and Drug Profits for Governments Worldwide, sounds like a lot of Illegal Cash is going to be stockpiled somewhere until they can get back to work.
Again, I ask the question. What would the coverage of this had been if a Democrat were in the White House instead of Trump?
Sounds like the old BCC Bank of the 70’s and early 80’s.................
In what way is this looking “Biblical”?
Little to nothing. It’s their last gasp shot at ending his presidency. Wonder how many of them still think that makes Hillary president?
So does this deserve the coverage and hysteria it’s getting?
If I am not mistaken you can look at Exodus in the Old Testament. Should give you some idea.
Yes. The ramifications are huge. Especially economic.
Another cruise ship has become a disaster.
Still many unknowns. Including what long lasting repurcussions will be for those that survived.
This is an escaped bioweapon. Likely not intentional. Likely not perfected
But I encourage those of you that feel it is no big deal and that you are immune to volunteer to help those that are quarantined.
They will be needing it.
You can even do it with no protective gear. You are invincible.
Well there are plagues but this isn’t that. I suspect things during the real end times will make this episode look pretty lame.
Well, I just asked a simple question. You’re awful defensive with your response. Not sure why.
It’s not a ‘we’re all going to die’ virus.
It’s a gut punch to the economy though.
People really don’t have any idea just how much of a single point of failure China has become to the economies of the developed world.
They will find out this coming month though.
It will accomplish what Trump wants to do with repatriating important industries though. Just more of a ‘bandaid off quickly’ approach...those usually take some hide with them.
My elderly mother was in Hobby Lobby yesterday looking for a gift for a niece. She called me in disbelief...because she had never really noticed before. ‘Everything is Made In China’!.
Yup.
Probably because I get idiots who claim I am trying to influence the stock market because I am a trader.
It’s like another stalker idiot I get who says I post about Nascar trying to influence the bookie line in Vegas because I sometimes bet on Nascar.
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