Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Singapore Imposes Strict “Stay Home Notice” for Anyone Entering Country from China
February 18th, 2020Via: Straits Times: A new Stay-Home Notice will be introduced for Singapore residents and long-term pass holders returning from mainland China. They will be required to remain at home at all times for 14 days, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong told reporters on Monday (Feb 17). The new scheme will take effect from Feb 18 […]
Boy Scouts Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy – Facing Thousands of Child Abuse Allegations
February 18th, 2020Via: USA Today: Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection early today amid declining membership and a drumbeat of child sexual abuse allegations that have illuminated the depth of the problem within the organization and Scouts’ failure to get a handle on it.
Japanese Health Minister: Avoid Crowds and “Non-Essential Gatherings”
February 17th, 2020Via: AFP: Japan’s health minister on Sunday urged the public to avoid crowds and “non-essential gatherings”, including notoriously packed commuter trains, to prevent the new coronavirus from spreading in the country. Katsunobu Kato warned the nation was “entering a new phase” in the outbreak of the virus, which has infected nearly 60 people in Japan […]
Diamond Princess: Another 70 People Test Positive for Coronavirus on Ship in Japan
February 15th, 2020Via: Reuters: Another 70 people on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases from the vessel to 355, Japanese health minister Katsunobu Kato said on Sunday. The Diamond Princess, owned by Carnival Corp, has been quarantined since arriving in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, […]
White House Considering Tax Incentive for More Americans to Buy Stocks
February 15th, 2020Via: CNBC: As part of a forthcoming package of proposed tax cuts, the White House is considering ways to incentivize U.S. households to invest in the stock market, according to four senior administration officials familiar with the discussions. The proposal, one of many new tax cuts under consideration, would see a portion of household income […]
China Is Disintegrating: Steel Demand, Property Sales, Traffic All Approaching Zero
February 14th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: In our ongoing attempts to glean some objective insight into what is actually happening “on the ground” in the notoriously opaque China, whose economy has been hammered by the Coronavirus epidemic, yesterday we showed several “alternative” economic indicators such as real-time measurements of air pollution (a proxy for industrial output), daily coal consumption […]
China: People Attempting to Spread Coronavirus by Spitting Everywhere [???]
February 14th, 2020[???] Via: Koreana Jones:
China Coronavirus: Extreme Global Supply Chain Problems Inevitable Due to So Much Manufacturing Centralization in China
February 14th, 2020Via: The American Prospect: A substantial amount of what the world produces originates in or is reliant on China. The nation’s presence as a major market, a manufacturing hub, and a source of materials and components can make any shock of this magnitude catastrophic. For decades, world leaders have allowed multinationals to chase lower labor […]
Novel Coronavirus and Infertility [???]
February 14th, 2020ACE2 Expression in Kidney and Testis May Cause Kidney and Testis Damage After 2019-nCoV Infection, Caibin Fan, Kai Li, Yanhong Ding, Wei Lu, Jianqing Wang Via: Medrxiv: In December 2019 and January 2020, novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – infected pneumonia (NCIP) occurred in Wuhan, and has already posed a serious threat to public health. ACE2 (Angiotensin […]
Don’t Worry, Everything Is Fine [???]
February 14th, 2020Don’t Worry, Everything is Fine..! #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/q8nAFdYi8v — Spiro (@o_rips) February 13, 2020
