Potential Positives to Look forward to
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@Salacious-Crumb said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@canefan said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
I don't know what the odds are for a diabetic. I'd imagine if she is otherwise fit and healthy and not elderly she is pretty safe. Weak tickers and bad lungs along with general poor health are worse
The CDC study of the first 44,000 in China put the mortality rate for diabetes at 7.4%. It’s right there with heart & lung disease. They don’t break down the difference(s) between Type 1 and Type 2, but it is a chronic auto-immune disease, Type 1 especially.
It would be interesting to see the breakdown. Non-insulin dependent diabetics often tend to be generally in poor health due to the lifestyle issues that helped to get them there. I know both reduce the chance of fighting infections but in my minimal experience Insulin dependent patients are generally the more healthy of the two
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@Hooroo said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@JK said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
I'd love to get the provincial rugby thing humming again. If no super rugby then get the all blacks back in to club rugby and then out for the provinces. Could be an exciting competition even if we have to watch it from the couch.
Oh dammit! You've just reminded me of one I left out of the first post.
This could kill off super rugby a bit and inject a whole lot of life into the NPC. Imagine full or near full NPC games because people have missed rugby so much! Even I could get back into that. Auckland v Canterbury at Eden park with 50,000 people as there were no AB tests etc! That would be wicked!!
Drive it Waikato!!!
It would be like Apartheid era Currie Cup. No tests, provincial rugby is everything.
I'm for that, not the Apartheid bit, though.
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Without wanting to get too political, I hope that this results in the world (the West especially) re-considering their dependence on Chinese manufacturing, logistics, money etc. and, instead, moving at least some of that back onshore (or at least to a number of other countries to spread the risk).
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@junior said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Without wanting to get too political, I hope that this results in the world (the West especially) re-considering their dependence on Chinese manufacturing, logistics, money etc. and, instead, moving at least some of that back onshore (or at least to a number of other countries to spread the risk).
Yeah, that's a fair question. I wonder what changes, if any, will come about for Brexit on the back of this. I think they will be substantial.
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@junior said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Without wanting to get too political, I hope that this results in the world (the West especially) re-considering their dependence on Chinese manufacturing, logistics, money etc. and, instead, moving at least some of that back onshore (or at least to a number of other countries to spread the risk).
The Western capitalist model calls for reducing costs by outsourcing to the cheapest place to maximize profits. Covid19 is exposing a fatal flaw in that strategy
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@canefan said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@junior said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Without wanting to get too political, I hope that this results in the world (the West especially) re-considering their dependence on Chinese manufacturing, logistics, money etc. and, instead, moving at least some of that back onshore (or at least to a number of other countries to spread the risk).
The Western capitalist model calls for reducing costs by outsourcing to the cheapest place to maximize profits. Covid19 is exposing a fatal flaw in that strategy
And that's precisely my point. I don't doubt that, over the long term and as people's memories of COVID 19 fade, this POV will win out and that China will remain a significant offshoring location for Western companies. However, my hope is that in the short- to medium-term, a lot of companies start moving part of their Chinese operations back home and / or to other low-cost countries who present far less of a health, strategic and economic risk than China.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback Hopefully a small proportion of the military budget will go to developing new antibiotics ans vaccines.
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@Tim said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback Hopefully a small proportion of the military budget will go to developing new antibiotics ans vaccines.
Problem is, until something like this happens, general science research which is the bedrock of developing stuff like that just isn't as sexy as a brand new stealth fighter
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@junior Some of countries enormous defence and security budget should be diverted to medical security. Medical independence so to speak.
Indeed and where our points overlap is perhaps this will also result in the medical industrial complex of western countries (big pharma, government etc.) manufacturing new and existing medicines and equipment in their home countries rather than in China.
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@junior said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@junior Some of countries enormous defence and security budget should be diverted to medical security. Medical independence so to speak.
Indeed and where our points overlap is perhaps this will also result in the medical industrial complex of western countries (big pharma, government etc.) manufacturing new and existing medicines and equipment in their home countries rather than in China.
Seems a bit strange to have a post with the words "big pharma" and not have an immediate reply from Winger
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Anyone suspect there will be a lot of babies born in December /January? 🤣
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@R-L said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Anyone suspect there will be a lot of babies born in December /January? 🤣
Not in my household thats for sure!
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@Virgil said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@R-L said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Anyone suspect there will be a lot of babies born in December /January? 🤣
Not in my household thats for sure!
Maybe that should be divorces then...
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@R-L said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@Virgil said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
@R-L said in Potential Positives to Look forward to:
Anyone suspect there will be a lot of babies born in December /January? 🤣
Not in my household thats for sure!
Maybe that should be divorces then...
😂