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COVID-19 milestone

Journal by khallow
Sometime today, there will be more active, reported coronavirus cases outside of China than inside. The cat is out of the bag for sure. I think at this point, it's only a matter of time till a good portion of us catch the disease, barring a vaccine in the next few months. Good luck to you and your loved ones.

Moving on, this appears to me to be a real world test of various countries' public health systems, with such things as how accurate the above reports are, or how many people are infected or die due to this coronavirus.
 

Reply to: Re:Scapevirus to blame for everything

    (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @11:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @11:04PM (#968317)

    The global supply chain has collapsed and demand will not be picking up any time soon. The combined stupidity of offshoring production to a single country and refusal to isolate that country by putting global travel restrictions in place made global economic collapse inevitable. Lessons learned - supply chains will be diversified and China will end up in a massive recession. The geopolitical question is, will we relive the swinging '20s with a decade of hedonism before an economically struggling China goes on a war footing or not?

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