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Singapore's relative relaxed approach seems to have not worked as well as as expected. Infection rates rising consistently with a new record of 386 last night.

We have a problem here in the foreign worker dorms where it seems to be rampant.

Take care Baloo!
keep safe.
 
The problem in China and other developing countries is that wet markets can also include live animals slaughtered on site - in particular wild animals which is probably the vector that the virus jumped into humans. It's the wild animal/live animal trade here that's the problem.

Slaughtering them live negates the requirement for the vendor to have refrigeration.
 
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A wet market is typically where fresh meat, fish, poultry is sold. South Melbourne Market is a wet market. No country will ever close all its wet markets.

The problem in China and other developing countries is that wet markets can also include live animals slaughtered on site - in particular wild animals which is probably the vector that the virus jumped into humans. It's the wild animal/live animal trade here that's the problem.
Evidently the sale of live animals is banned in China in these markets at the moment but they can be exported.... I don’t think we have see the end of this issue yet.
 
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This is a snippet of footage edited by the HK media and released by the HK media to capture your attention with an anti-China headline that they likely intended to achieve all along when setting up the interview.
The WHO official almost certainly ended the call because the journalist couldn’t honour prior interview conditions. He gave her a warning, she persisted with her hunt for an off-topic, anti-China headline. The WHO official probably ended the call because he correctly identified what was happening.

Beyond mere media bias, the sheer bigotry and hatred is shocking. I’ve seen several supposedly well-adjusted HK university students launch animalistic racial tirades on social media about China.

All Chinese or Hong Kong reporting about the other should be viewed through the lens of a dangerous, ongoing Hong Kong / China identity war.
Thanks 123, that's really interesting and didn't occur to me. Can you give us the link where you got all that info please?

Social media brings out the worst in some people irrespective of their formal education or social status.
 
There's only so much they can do. There's about 200k foreign workers living in dorms in Singapore. The large majority being youngish (below 40) and fit (all manual labourers). People with the virus are being constrained to assigned rooms within the dorms as quarantine. Rest of the people are just sitting around. In some ways this might be a test case for herd immunity.

Biggest issue is more an emotional/psychological one. But as long as they keep supplies coming in, medical care and today's most needed commodity (a sim card with credit), it should be manageable. Not ideal, but manageable.
Thanks Baloo.
 
Singapore's relative relaxed approach seems to have not worked as well as as expected. Infection rates rising consistently with a new record of 386 last night.

Singapore and Japan (which had 20 deaths yesterday => 143) might be battling to keep it under the thumb after positive early signs, leaving Taiwan and Hong Kong as the shining examples from the region. A cautionary lesson for Australia and NZ.
 
Interesting that the NSW Police Commissioner has attributed the Ruby Princess outbreak to someone working with food. Is it actually safe to order home-delivered meals, as we've been assured repeatedly?
 
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Interesting that the NSW Police Commissioner has attributed the Ruby Princess outbreak to someone working with food. Is it actually safe to order home-delivered meals, as we've been assured repeatedly?

I think they were assuming he was serving food, and thus leaning over a lot of people as he served it, rather than the food itself.
 
The challenges all sports face including ours. Good article by Sports Illustrated.


Yep, that pretty much cancels the 2020 season. The only hope would be if Australia successfully implements an eradication strategy and then quarantines itself from the rest of the world. The probability of that? Well maybe <0.1, in fact well less than 0.1 I would think. Australia has some very slim hope of trying this. But the USA? Forget it, apart from land borders their health system, the weirdness of their different levels of government (remember they are not a federation, they are a union of states, not the same) and the idiot in charge all mean no chance.

What a bummer, we should still be a great team in 2021 but 2020 is looking very very unlikely to be a season of any sort.

DS
 
Maybe the locals receive a fuller picture from their news services rather than the slanted snippets we're treated to.
Nah. I know plenty of Americans and all but a couple think he is a moron as well.
Rather unkindly I have one friend who calls Trump winning an election a triumph for the “Deliverance vote”
 
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Case count excluding China (updated 11:30pm)

1,936,154 cases
124,721 deaths (6.44%)
51,441 severe (3%)
1,345,923 mild (70%)
414,069 recovered (21%)
 
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Sadly it's not so much that he's a moron. .... Surely the bloke is unhinged!
Still thinks this is some sort of **** reality TV show.
How's about his tweet from a few hours ago, threatening Governors if they don't fall at his feet.


Did you see some of the press conference yesterday? The previous day he had retweeted a post that included the hashtag #firefauci. He was asked about this and he said he respects him and works well with him, asked again that he had retweeted this and he said something along the lines of, I retweet this and that, I don't know.

He's either not in control of his twitter and someone in his campaign is doing it, or he is completely unhinged and most of the time just wings it and does what he feels at that time. My guess its the latter.
 
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