Contents:
Turkey sends tanks across border into Syria to confront al-Assad regime in Idlib
The Turkey-Russia Astana agreements and Syria's de-escalation zones
Turkey, Syria, Russia: The next steps in Idlib
Russia is really weak in terms of conventional forces. Russia couldn't defeat little Chechnya(they had to Chechenize thew war to keep a lid on it), how can they defeat turkey? They can't. What is Russia going to do, nuke Turkey? GTFOH.
Just blast the Syrians into next week. The Syria army is a rabble. Problem solved.
Easy.
Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 6:38 pm
by John
** 09-Feb-2020 World View: Coronavirus: The Big Clinical Iceberg
Christopher Smith of Cambridge University was interviewed on the BBC
about the global Wuhan coronavirus emergency and what he called "The
Big Clinical Iceberg."
The number of reported cases in China seems to have leveled off at the
high 3,000s per day, at least for the time being. If they have
leveled off, then it's because of extreme draconian measures taken by
the Chinese -- with millions of people effectively under house arrest
-- measures that would not be tolerable in any other country.
Outside of China, only 280 cases have been reported, in 24 countries.
It appears that the safest place in the world to be is Africa, since
there have been no reported cases there. But that's because no one is
being tested. If you don't look for cases, then you won't find any
cases. (And Smith didn't mention this, but Africa has a number of
Chinese enclaves, thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).)
Even in the UK, there's only one place (Heathrow) where any testing is
done. If you enter the country with cold symptoms, they'll ask you
whether you've been to China or eight other countries in the last 14
days, and if you haven't, then they'll let you right through. No
formal testing will be done.
So he says that every other country is in the same state of denial
that China was in about six weeks ago. If there is even a small
outbreak somewhere, then it could spread very fast. The incubation
period is 14 days, and each person who has the disease spreads it to
3-4 other people. So a small outbreak could spread to a very large
outbreak very quickly.
That's why the 280 cases outside of China that have been reported may
be only the tip of a very big clinical iceberg.
The draconian measures that China is taking have done the rest of the
world a favor. Not only have those measures slowed the spread of the
disease within China, but also they've slowed the transmission of the
disease outside of China, and that has bought the rest of the world
some time, time to figure out how to mitigate the spread once it
starts.
Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:34 pm
by John
** 09-Feb-2020 World View: Possible 'Super-spreader' contracted virus in Singapore
How one 'super-spreader' spread virus around the world
An early example of the "clinical iceberg" described in the previous
article may have occurred in the form of a British man attending a
conference in Singapore from January 20-23.
He then visited a ski chalet in France in the French Alps, in Les
Contamines-Montjoie, near Megeve, from January 24 to 28, where he
infected at least seven other people.
Five Britons who shared the ski chalet with him were diagnosed over
the weekend, and hundreds of residents of the town are now undergoing
tests.
The "super-spreader" then returned to Briton on January 28, but during
the last five days, people in other sites in France and Spain who had
been visiting the same ski chalet have been diagnosed.
At least 40 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Singapore.
The corona virus also spread in my neighborhood in South Korea. Many shops are closed or fully disinfected. The shopping mall identifies and sends customers through thermal images.
Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:36 pm
by Guest
Guest wrote:The corona virus also spread in my neighborhood in South Korea. Many shops are closed or fully disinfected. The shopping mall identifies and sends customers through thermal images.
Same here in Hong Kong, we might need to stay home for months. Unfortunately my mom need to do radiotherapy in hospital everyday, that’s really make me concerned. Thermal imaging is useless. People who have no fever can still infect others. Stay away from crowds and buildings with central ventilation if you can.
Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:10 am
by Guest
Oh, this is just great. But don't worry. The authorities know exactly what they are doing...
Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:08 am
by Nathan Redshield
John wrote:9-Feb-20 World View -- Turkey sends tanks across border into Syria to confront al-Assad regime in Idlib
Contents:
Turkey sends tanks across border into Syria to confront al-Assad regime in Idlib
The Turkey-Russia Astana agreements and Syria's de-escalation zones
Turkey, Syria, Russia: The next steps in Idlib
Sounds in a way like the year 1913 in the Balkans. What happens if things escalate and Erdogan finds he has to continue to up the ante--or Israel feels it must Do Something. But all depends on who does what. This will probably fizzle into another genocidal disaster most can ignore because ignoring it suits the most people.. We'll see...
Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2020 4:56 am
by Guest
Virus symptoms ' can take nearly a month to show'
Reports in China suggest the virus' incubation period might actually be 24 days - 10 days longer than previously thought.
Research by leading expert Zhong Nanshan in China suggests symptoms show on average after three days, but can take as long as 24 days.