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Burnwinter

It's a very difficult resource problem. Doctor friends of mine have pointed out that if the virus were to spread far in Australia, the rate of patients requiring ventilation (as high as 25% in some claims I've read) would wipe out ICU facilities here. That's as opposed to the fatality rate, but you'd quite possibly see deaths or bad health outcomes for other critical care patients as a result.

flobaba

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-link-china-biowarfare-program-possible/

flobaba

This is what I suspect happened. A biological weapon improperly handled.

Mirth

Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

KingslandBarge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51520622
Maybe they were planning to release it on Muslim minorities too

Mirth

It's actually astounding how quickly the internment of Uighurs has been normalised.

arsedocmd

washhington times os a breitbart type rightwing rag

jones

Another right wing extremist attack in Germany last night. This time not even 15 miles from where I live, eleven dead including the shooter. Apparently a bank clerk who's left a manifesto talking about having to remove peoples who can't be deported any longer.

Used to be "only" in cities where neo nazis were rampant now in Hanau a city with a similar ethnic makeup as Frankfurt ie large diversity.

KingslandBarge

Terrible terrorist attack. Hope you're ok mate, along with your dear ones.

arsedocmd

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/25/delhi-rocked-by-deadly-protests-during-donald-trumps-india-visit

🙁

Asterix

This is being reported today in the Sydney Morning Herald:

"Arsenal insisted on all training ground visitors filling out medical forms yesterday in the first sign of concern among Premier League clubs over coronavirus.

Journalists and members of staff were told to declare if they had recently attended any risk area countries and whether they were experiencing any symptoms."

banduan

Joe Biden's Muslim Outreach Coordinator is a Modi supporter.

https://muslimmatters.org/2020/02/27/meet-joe-bidens-muslim-outreach-coordinator-a-supporter-of-narendra-modi-and-his-islamophobic-hindu-nationalist-agenda/

Qwiss

Mirth wrote:
It's actually astounding how quickly the internment of Uighurs has been normalised.

And slave labour now https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/nike-apple-among-dozens-of-major-brands-implicated-in-report-on-forced-labour-20200301-p545ud.html

Asterix

It's amazing to remember that Australia's terrible bushfires were only a few months ago. The world is turning on it's head. This article shows the geographical extent of the areas burnt.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-19/australia-bushfires-how-heat-and-drought-created-a-tinderbox/11976134

KingslandBarge

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/polish-parliament-delays-decision-on-new-abortion-restrictions

Neoconservative forces in the Polish government tried to sneak a bill completely banning abortion (even due to rape,incest) and failed this afternoon. This after thousands of women protested in 2016 to dismiss the same bill. Fuck them.

jones

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/12/blackrock-eu-environmental-rules-for-banks

these people have no shame at all 😆

Claudius

They’ll have Chinese walls. But even when these things function well, there’ll always be an external perception that they don’t work.

jones

Claudius wrote:
They’ll have Chinese walls. But even when these things function well, there’ll always be an external perception that they don’t work.

You can't seriously believe that Claude. Whether it's during the GFC 08/09 with American TARP, TALF and PPIP programs where by some coincidence BlackRock would buy billions in undervalued assets off Bear Stearns, AIG, Freddie or Fannie which it had just recently assessed by federal order, or in the Euro crisis from 2012 with virtually the whole financial sector of Ireland or Greece, the idea to trust a self-governing shadow bank with a rapsheet like BlackRock to keep up Chinese walls is stuff for fairy tales.

Claudius

I don’t think it’s clever for BlackRock to be in two businesses that could create conflicts of interest. Nor do I think it’s clever of the EU to employ them when there would be immediate suspicion this would be the case.

But because the perception exists, I think they would go out of their way to put in processes and practices that would prevent leakage between divisions. Basically what the ends up looking collusion is just the coincidence that two groups of smart people on either side of the Chinese wall end up seeing the same sets of opportunities or being involved in similar sectors. More that than actual insider trading

Mirth

I guess the question isn't so much about the effectiveness of Chinese walls as much as whether it matters if the end result is the same?

I do agree that a portion of it is people educated in the same doctrine and driven by the same interests will, given time, behave in the same manner regardless.

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