Ashoka

Indonesia might get royally fucked from this. They're a very densely packed country with little or no regard for social distancing. Also their medical standards are far from adequate.

Meanwhile..

Yeah I have my family and my fav ladyboy with me. Only left the house for food, meds over the last 6 weeks.

Tourism is the last thing on people's minds right now unless they are in the tourism industry. It seems like a real downward spiral to me.. people don't spend money, business fail, a business that relies on those businesses suffer, layoffs and they fail.. terrible situation. Our whole system has been exposed as an elaborate facade. A house of cards balanced on a single card (consumer spending). Once that's pulled out everything goes to complete shit. I don't know if the Fed will even be able to crank out cash fast enough to stop the collapse. I think our commerce is going to greatly change, with much less emphasis on producing on the other side of the globe. Some people will do real good.. those that can identify the new trends and go into those lines of business early on. Some businesses like concerts, professional sports, etc. are going to be greatly diminished for the foreseeable future. And if you think we can go back to normal at anytime soon.. you should know a cough travels 20 feet. A sneeze 27 feet. And, at a minimum, half the infected are asymptomatic. Meaning no one will know or stop them from making contact. AKA, any "contact" with other people is going to spread COVID-19. Sure you have a few fanatics showing up at football stadiums but not everyone is stupid. The only way out of this mess is widespread testing and I don't see that happening till at least 2021. And for most of us who lived through the 2007-08 great recession and had to cut spending.. cutting down to bare minimum expenses isn't hard. I've bought $300 worth of things in the last month.. and all of it is food. Besides that my only other expenses have been electricity, gas, water, internet, phone and my healthcare insurance. Tourism is so low on my list.

Could be ready but will it be available to the masses? How will it be distributed? That's a big question. Not everyone has patience. Wouldn't surprise me if superpowers tried to get first in line for vaccine and even then how would they distribute it.

I should add there is something to be very weary off. Viruses MUTATE! And in the case of the 1918-20 pandemic.. what started off as mild, mutated into a deadly form for a second wave. The people who had the mild version were immune to the deadly form as they already had anti-bodies. And judging from where most of New York's cases have come from - Europe (not China directly), it is very likely the disease is mutating into a lethal disease over time. It doesn't have anything else to do except to try and spread copies of itself. It is a virus after all. So be careful out there.

Although Thailand may want to do that, its debatable if the Chinese will actually be able to come en masse after their economy is in ruins and likely will be for the foreseeable future. A few well off to do will travel sure.. but those huge bus tours that annoy the fuck out of everyone? Probably not for a few months I'm guessing.

Trump ‘Playing Politics’ With Lives As FEMA Grabs Ventilators The Federal Emergency Management Agency hijacked 500 ventilators ordered by the state for COVID-19 patients, but Trump restored 100 as a special favor to Gardner in a move that will help the vulnerable lawmaker’s reelection, complained Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.). “President Trump says we will get 100 as a courtesy to Senator Gardner. That means, because the president is playing politics with public health, we’re still 400 ventilators short from what we should have received,” DeGette said in a statement Wednesday. Trump’s “mismanagement of this crisis is costing lives and livelihoods.” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — a Democrat who Trump has frequently targeted because of what he calls her “complaints” — revealed last month that vendors with whom her state had contracted for desperately needed medical equipment were told “not to send stuff,” on orders from the Trump administration. Other states were facing similar problems, she said. While Michigan has received only a fraction of its requests from the national stockpile, Florida, led by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, last month received 100% of two major requests within three days, The Washington Post reported. Several hospitals in seven states surveyed by the Los Angeles Times complained that FEMA officials were showing up unannounced and seizing their supplies, leaving them desperately short and uncertain where to turn for more equipment. How is this not a war against some states?

Seems that we're UNDERCOUNTING the ACTUAL # of Coronavirus DEATHS because not everyone can even get tested to confirm they have it.

Watch this.. it may save your life or a ton of pain. It's better than hoping for the Trump Administration making a ventilator available for you anyways.

I don't mind conjecture but conspiracy theories are nuts. Just look at our POTUS. The CDC called Coronavirus a warning on Jan 8. But he called it "Fake News Conspiracy" Trump held campaign rallies on Jan 9, Jan 14, Jan 28, Jan 30, Feb 10, Feb 19, Feb 20, Feb 21, & Feb 28. He golfed on Jan 18, Jan 19, Feb 1, Feb 15, Mar 7 & Mar 8. And now he's calling us who need medical supplies a bunch of complainers. If we had used the almost 3 months to ramp up production of ventilators and N-95 masks instead of calling it a conspiracy, would we still have a major shortage now?

Social distancing is going to do nothing in baht busses. It's going to be the railings that people grab onto when entering and leaving that will spread the virus. You're better off walking or getting a bike from Big C and cycling from A to B.

Washington Examiner is a hoax site. I would not use them as proof.. infact the opposite. That tends to actually weakening our arguments which make perfect sense based on real facts.

They really have to stop eating bats and snakes.

BTW One thing I found interesting in a Sky sports/ sky news report is that a lot of Valencia fans went to Italy for the CL match and came back carriers of Covid and its wrecking the Valencia region. I don't even know how you prevent something like that without quarantining every traveler. And I myself got MERS (I think) on an Emirates flight. I don't know who else did but I know in my 30's it was really bad for a week.

Yeah me and my fav ladyboy were talking. She was showing me videos of people in Thailand at home in isaan and uploading dancing/ singing together at Morlams yesterday. I told her.. in 2 weeks 1/2 the people there could have covid 19 because they're supposed to be under quarantine. And also if you've seen the videos of how busy Morchit has been/ always is.. its a massive hub for spreading covid-19. The numbers are vastly underrated but the people of Thailand tend to not live very long anyways. 60 is considered an old age in isaan. So it may infect them but they won't have the casualty rate of say Italy or Japan or even the USA.

I hope I'm wrong. I truly do. But I'm very skeptical about the capitalists who look for mass profits out of every situation and they tend to have the politicians in their pocket to make laws that favor them.

You know I can honestly see international travel having more precautionary guidelines in the future like.. requiring 7 day stay in isolation hotel before boarding flights and after arriving from flights becoming the norm. And hotels will make a killing on it so capitalists will be all for it.

Those are only the ones that're confirmed, so most likely they got it a week or 10 days ago. The actual # will be much much higher. Remember people can not show symptoms for up to 14 days or worse not have symptoms but be a carrier.

My fav ladyboy misses "mama noodles". But I've told her no because the shop is in the zone that's worst hit in NYC. I'm seeing pictures on websites saying Elmhurst hospital overwhelmed.. people waiting outside in long queues for treatment and the shop selling her mama noodles is just a block away. I think she'll have to do with rice, omelette and som tam for a while.

I guess there are idiots everywhere.. even in Ireland. Avoid these ones please.. https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-teenagers-coronavirus-covid-tag-elderly-20200324-dhkqeel5orbyjbsylvizvgih7m-story.html

Young people think they're immune. Even some middle age people are like look at that retard who's got a mask and scarf to avoid coronavirus while getting food. Some people are so easily brainwashed by the main stream media. The police sometimes do drivebys with loudspeakers blasting.. this is a health emergency.. go home, go indoors, but 20 mins later, they're back out on the streets partying. Edit: LOL https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/health/kentucky-coronavirus-party-infection/index.html

There's 2 ways to think about that. When they say they locked down.. you can think they seriously locked everything down.. unlike here on the streets where everyone is still outside, blasting music like its a party and not caring. The second thing is they were locked down over 50 days. That's 3.5 cycles of the virus running its course and hopefully no one spreading it to someone else other than the people they were locked down with. BTW ever wonder why Trump won't use the defense production act and he wants to end this quarantine. This is exactly what conservatives have always wanted.. 1. They get rich making states bid against each other for medical supplies. 2. Social security spending goes down as they think hopefully a lot of older peeps will die 3. Those that live will be so in debt with medical bills.. they can use their newly placed judges to seize their wealth and property in the name of debt collection. Woohoo conservatives!

It comes down to if you believe in common sense or do you believe Trump at his word? I'm sure there will be plenty of people still saying coronavirus is a democratic hoax while they're in the hospital waiting for ventilators and they'll still vote Trump anyways. So what can we do? Nothing for them and plenty for ourselves: Wash hands, don't touch your nose/ face. Don't touch anything where another random person has touched in the last 3 days. That means mail, shopping carts, bus/ train hand railings, doors. Use gloves if absolutely necessary like with your mail, and then leave it alone for 3 days.