Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by p38arover

I've noticed a lot of LR parts are merely marked "Made in the EU"

A bit vague eh Ron?? Maybe parts from Rumania may be as good as the Lucas "used to be", then again, maybe not.


Does the supplier buy them from WhereverLand in Asia? It shouldn't need to be like this but hey ho, that is the world we appear to exist in today.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

For those who were worried about their Virgin Rewards points, I see Virgin Rewards, which is separately owned and not in administration, is owed $150 million in a loan to Virgin Australia, which it is trying to recoup.

Also notice that about 9000 Virgin Australia employees are owed $451 million in entitlements by the company.
I don't think the government should buy Virgin Australia, but I do think it should ensure the employees are looked after. Maybe it could buy the $451m in employee entitlements and require any purchaser of Virgin Australia to buy back the employee entitlements, to ensure the employees are looked after.

Virgin Australia owes almost $7 billion to more than 12,000 creditors who are meeting via video-link today
Virgin Australia owes almost $7 billion to more than 12,000 creditors - ABC News

How about ****ing NO!
Government doesn’t buy anything - we the taxpayer do.

Sorry people, you lost your annual leave etc, that sucks.
I’ve been in business before and had hundreds of thousands of dollars ‘stolen’ when businesses went bust. As a small business owner how do you think that goes?

I hope it all gets sorted out for them, and wish them all the best.


Virgin is just yet another business in the common model.
Run at marginal operating and massive debt.
Accrue more debt than can be managed.
Tank when something doesn’t work out.
Administration
New owner with minimal debt
Run for umpteen years
Go back to step 1 and repeat.

Originally Posted by Tombie

How about ****ing NO!
Government doesn’t buy anything - we the taxpayer do.

Sorry people, you lost your annual leave etc, that sucks.
I’ve been in business before and had hundreds of thousands of dollars ‘stolen’ when businesses went bust. As a small business owner how do you think that goes?

I hope it all gets sorted out for them, and wish them all the best.


Virgin is just yet another business in the common model.
Run at marginal operating and massive debt.
Accrue more debt than can be managed.
Tank when something doesn’t work out.
Administration
New owner with minimal debt
Run for umpteen years
Go back to step 1 and repeat.

Agree 100% - don't want a cent of my tax spend bailing out a company that can't manage its books...

What we don't know about coronavirus. The effect on lungs is well documented, but it effects the brain, kidneys , heart and just about every major organ. And no one knows why. This is scary stuff, an update from The New Yorker.


What We Don’t Know About the Coronavirus | The New Yorker

Russia is now the 2nd worst effected area , behind the USA.


Remote, Forbidding, and Infected: The Coronavirus Is Spreading in the Russian Arctic | The New Yorker

Originally Posted by bob10

Russia is now the 2nd worst effected area , behind the USA.

Really death numbers are the only decent comparison and then they are a mess as not everyone is reporting all death.

In order highest "trend" of current deaths per capita (per million).

Belgium 647
Spain 519
UK 384
Italy 457 (higher than UK currently, but further along on the curve)
France 369
Sweden 243
Netherlands 274
Ireland 241
USA 184
Australia 3.5

Originally Posted by Red90

Really death numbers are the only decent comparison and then they are a mess as not everyone is reporting all death.

In order highest "trend" of current deaths per capita (per million).

Belgium 647
Spain 519
UK 384
Italy 457 (higher than UK currently, but further along on the curve)
France 369
Sweden 243
Netherlands 274
Ireland 241
USA 184
Australia 3.5

Russia now has more than ninety thousand reported cases of the virus, with a curve that is still growing steadily upward; the pace of new infections is the second highest in the world, behind only the United States. (Russia’s growth rate has slowed some in recent days, settling at seven per cent per day.)

You left out Canada. 53021 cases, 3180 deaths. The infection rate in Russia is second only behind the USA.
Canada..…...…………………………...… ………...……………………………….. .……...………;

21,198

Active Cases
28,643
Currently Infected Patients

28,086 (98%)in Mild Condition


557 (2%)Serious or Critical

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Closed Cases
24,378
Cases which had an outcome:

21,198(87%)Recovered / Discharged


3,180(13%)Deaths

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US intelligence reports the coronavirus was" Not man made or genetically modified." The jury is still out on whether it was started thru contact with infected animals, or an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan. It must be pointed out that the Wuhan laboratory is not a secret, but one of many level 4 laboratories set up around the World to investigate various dangerous viruses that could pose a threat to mankind. In Wuhan, they were studying the sars-2 [ think that's it, the one before the current one] and in Australia it is the Hendra virus. In the USA I believe it is the Ebola virus, and so on around the World. Nothing sinister there, no secret labs in that lot.


U.S. intelligence says coronavirus "not manmade or genetically modified"