Generational Dynamics World View News

[John]

** 10-Feb-2020 World View: China buying us time

> ... provided we can make greater strides in epidemiology and
> disease control over the next few weeks than we have in the past
> century.

> Christopher Smith: "What the Chinese are doing is
> buying us all time. By holding the tide of this back and the
> spread of this back it's slowing down the rate at which it ramps
> up in certainly that geography, but in connected geographies. And
> the more time we have, the more we can learn about this thing.
> The more we learn about this thing, the more we know how to
> mitigate it. And that would include things like, will a vaccine
> work? Who's vulnerable to this? Who do we need to focus our
> efforts and our attention on to protect them, because they may be
> at higher risk than other people, for example. Pregnant women,
> for example, stand out as people who were very, very vulnerable in
> the SARS epidemic. We would therefore want to consider their
> welfare ahead of all others. We've learned that through the
> experience, and the more time we have, the more we can learn, and
> the better prepared we'll be."

[FishbellykanakaDude]

... 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. ...

... really? ...

[John]

** 10-Feb-2020 World View: Les Contamines Ski Resort

> ... 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. ...

> ... really? ...

• Les Contamines Ski Resort

[FishbellykanakaDude]

** 10-Feb-2020 World View: Les Contamines Ski Resort

> ... 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. ...

> ... really? ...

[im g]https://static2.sno.co.uk/img/limg/mapp ... 12410a.jpg[/img]

• Les Contamines Ski Resort

https://translate.google.com/#view=home ... min%C3%A9s

Contaminés (fr.) --> Contaminated (en.) ...!!

Contaminés Mont joie --> Contaminated Joy Mountain

..incroyable, surprenant, stupéfiant, exceptionnel, ahurissant, inouï...! Mais non?

[John]

** 10-Feb-2020 World View: Les Contamines vs Les Contaminés

> https://translate.google.com/#view=home ... min%C3%A9s

> Contaminés (fr.) --> Contaminated (en.) ...!!

> Contaminés Mont joie --> Contaminated Joy Mountain

> ..incroyable, surprenant, stupéfiant, exceptionnel, ahurissant,
> inouï...! Mais non?

You raise an interesting point, but I was suspicious because
"Contamines" (pronounced kohn-ta-MEEN) is a different word than
"Contaminés" (pronounced kohn-TAH-mee-NAY).

So I did some googling, and found the following in Wikipedia: "The
name of the village originates from ancient local dialect. The word
“Contamines” once meant ploughable land on the squires estate."

[FishbellykanakaDude]

** 10-Feb-2020 World View: Les Contamines vs Les Contaminés

> https://translate.google.com/#view=home ... min%C3%A9s

> Contaminés (fr.) --> Contaminated (en.) ...!!

> Contaminés Mont joie --> Contaminated Joy Mountain

> ..incroyable, surprenant, stupéfiant, exceptionnel, ahurissant,
> inouï...! Mais non?

You raise an interesting point, but I was suspicious because
"Contamines" (pronounced kohn-ta-MEEN) is a different word than
"Contaminés" (pronounced kohn-TAH-mee-NAY).

So I did some googling, and found the following in Wikipedia: "The
name of the village originates from ancient local dialect. The word
“Contamines” once meant ploughable land on the squires estate."

The "ancient local dialect" (of that area) is LATIN.

• contaminate (v.)
  early 15c., "infect with a disease, defile," from Latin contaminatus, past participle of contaminare "to defile, to corrupt, to deteriorate by mingling," originally "to bring into contact," from contamen "contact; pollution," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + *tag-, base of tangere "to touch" (from PIE root *tag- "to touch, handle"). Related: Contaminant (1934).

..of course, the "local" usage MAY be similar to a Spanish usage of the word "polución" meaning: "semen-spilling",.. which is quite probable.

But isn't the "Apropos Poetical" just too "juicy" having the contagion exchange place be named "Joyful Semen-sowing Mountain", or "Joyful Mountain of Purposeful Fecund Contact"?

...and it's right on the transport junction of France, Italy and Switzerland?

And what a great piece of Plowable Land on "the Great Oppressor's" (squire's) estate on which to sow pestilential death, indeed..!


(( And NO, I'm NOT suggesting a conspiracy, but SOME weird occurrences are just TOO clever not to comment on. ))

[John]

** 10-Feb-2020 World View: Dozens more people test positive on Diamond Princess cruise ship

• Cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined off Yokohama, Japan

On Monday, 66 more people aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship,
quaranteed off Yokohama, tested positive for Wuhan coronavirus.

That almost doubles the known cases, bringing the total to 136. There
are 3,600 people aboard the cruise ship. But only 336 have been
tested so far. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday
that it might be difficult to test everyone aboard the ship.

The Diamond Princess departed Yokohama on January 20 and returned on
February 3 after visiting Kagoshima, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Taiwan and
Okinawa. The ship was put under quarantine on February 3. The
quarantine is scheduled to end on February 19, but the surge in new
cases puts that date in doubt.

Another cruise ship, the U.S.-operated Ocean Dream, is set to dock at
Yokohama on Saturday and Kobe on Sunday.


-- Coronavirus infection tally on Diamond Princess hits 136 as tests
for all passengers eyed
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/ ... kIGPiN7l_A
(Japan Times, 10-Feb-2020)

[John]

11-Feb-20 World View -- Syria war escalates into new phase with military clashes between al-Assad and Turkey


Russia will finally be forced to choose sides -- between al-Assad and Turkey

** 11-Feb-20 World View -- Syria war escalates into new phase with military clashes between al-Assad and Turkey
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e200211



Contents:
Syria war escalates into new phase with military clashes between al-Assad and Turkey
Russia will finally be forced to choose sides -- between al-Assad and Turkey


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Turkey, Russia, Syria, Idlib,
Bashar al-Assad, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin,
Tartus naval base, Hmeimim airbase

[Guest]

Could the Wuhan outbreak bring down the Chinese government?

[Xeraphim1]

** 10-Feb-2020 World View: Dozens more people test positive on Diamond Princess cruise ship

On Monday, 66 more people aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship,
quaranteed off Yokohama, tested positive for Wuhan coronavirus.

If you needed another reason not to go on one of these floating disease factories...