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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 16, 2020 3:26:44 GMT
At least I can do my Geography assignment. I have to choose one of the various themes that we have studied in the class. I’m going to choose the Fall of the USSR. Honestly sounds like a History class sort of topic, wonder why it is categorised under Geography? |
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Post by Admiral RaizoTanaka on Mar 16, 2020 4:22:17 GMT
Just a little perspective on this "panic" demic that's known as coronavirus. Death toll worldwide is 6,500 and cases at around 150,000 out of a population of 7.2 BILLION. The Influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million so unless I am mistaken this thing isn't quite the deadly killer it's made out to be. Heck more people probably die crossing the street, smoking for certain, playing with snakes, bungie jumping, or skipping rope while chewing gum. Yet the whole world is trembling in fear. Interesting! Quarantine is alot like martial law. Powerful way to rob you of your freedom to even leave your home isn't it? Can be indefinite too. Just food for thought.
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Post by Navia Lanoira on Mar 16, 2020 5:11:16 GMT
Just a little perspective on this "panic" demic that's known as coronavirus. Death toll worldwide is 6,500 and cases at around 150,000 out of a population of 7.2 BILLION. The Influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million so unless I am mistaken this thing isn't quite the deadly killer it's made out to be. Heck more people probably die crossing the street, smoking for certain, playing with snakes, bungie jumping, or skipping rope while chewing gum. Yet the whole world is trembling in fear. Interesting! Quarantine is alot like martial law. Powerful way to rob you of your freedom to even leave your home isn't it? Can be indefinite too. Just food for thought. But it makes us safe. |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 16, 2020 7:05:20 GMT
Perhaps those measures are the things preventing the situation from worsening? You have to keep in mind, with the focus on the Great War and with erratic troop movements the Spanish Flu faced little restrictions on travel or quarantines, and could spread rampantly before mankind realised it was too late. Our own COVID-19 might potentially produce the same devastating results, but its up to national governments to clamp down on them
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Post by Seger on Mar 16, 2020 8:58:35 GMT
Perhaps those measures are the things preventing the situation from worsening? You have to keep in mind, with the focus on the Great War and with erratic troop movements the Spanish Flu faced little restrictions on travel or quarantines, and could spread rampantly before mankind realised it was too late. Our own COVID-19 might potentially produce the same devastating results, but its up to national governments to clamp down on them It isn’t preventing it from getting worse, it’s getting worse and fast. In the last 24 hours 250 people died in Italy alone. And it’s only going to spread like I said before: we can expect outbreaks in the USA, south-Asia, Africa and South-America. It’s important not to underestimate the disease, yes the death rate is between the 2-4% but that’s with good healthcare and without overflowing hospitals. An outbreak in the USA could cause thousands if not millions of deaths and I don’t even want to think about India or africa |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 16, 2020 10:28:56 GMT
Perhaps those measures are the things preventing the situation from worsening? You have to keep in mind, with the focus on the Great War and with erratic troop movements the Spanish Flu faced little restrictions on travel or quarantines, and could spread rampantly before mankind realised it was too late. Our own COVID-19 might potentially produce the same devastating results, but its up to national governments to clamp down on them It isn’t preventing it from getting worse, it’s getting worse and fast. In the last 24 hours 250 people died in Italy alone. And it’s only going to spread like I said before: we can expect outbreaks in the USA, south-Asia, Africa and South-America. It’s important not to underestimate the disease, yes the death rate is between the 2-4% but that’s with good healthcare and without overflowing hospitals. An outbreak in the USA could cause thousands if not millions of deaths and I don’t even want to think about India or africa When I define worsening I mean a state of chaos and unimpeded spread. Yes, it is currently obviously impossible to ensure a complete containment, but there are sufficient measures still to reduce the chances of the worst-case unthinkable happening. |
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Post by ambitiousace on Mar 16, 2020 10:48:10 GMT
There is a special announcement later from the gov..Rly bad that it should be about the lockdown..
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Post by Gone on Mar 16, 2020 11:59:23 GMT
At least I can do my Geography assignment. I have to choose one of the various themes that we have studied in the class. I’m going to choose the Fall of the USSR. Honestly sounds like a History class sort of topic, wonder why it is categorised under Geography? It’s classified under Political Geography. To do Political Geography, you also have to do History. It’s not only saying how was the Fall of the USSR. I also have to analyze the Soviet politics, which are the main reason why the USSR fell. The Soviets focused too much on their external policy and they didn’t bother to upgrade their internal policy, because that very same policy had led the USSR to the position of one of the world’s superpowers. Therefore, they believed that it shouldn’t be changed, and they didn’t listen to the people, because if the people made changes, the Union would collapse. However, they learned on the hard way that there is no such thing as a perfect policiy and that it needs to evolve. Unfortunately, the Soviets realized that way too late, and when Gorbachev introduced the reforms, which were rushed, they weren’t effective enough to stop the USSR’s collapse. In fact, the reforms only worsened the situation. Glasnost allowed the very angry republics to start pushing for independence, and Perestroika allowed the workers to demand higher wages and for the people, desperate to escape poverty, sell their products at high prices. This caused the inflation to go up dangerously. If the reforms had been introduced earlier, perhaps the USSR wouldn’t have collapsed because the people wouldn’t have been angry enough to start pushing for independence and to desperately escape poverty. |
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Post by Navia Lanoira on Mar 16, 2020 13:26:17 GMT
Perhaps those measures are the things preventing the situation from worsening? You have to keep in mind, with the focus on the Great War and with erratic troop movements the Spanish Flu faced little restrictions on travel or quarantines, and could spread rampantly before mankind realised it was too late. Our own COVID-19 might potentially produce the same devastating results, but its up to national governments to clamp down on them It isn’t preventing it from getting worse, it’s getting worse and fast. In the last 24 hours 250 people died in Italy alone. And it’s only going to spread like I said before: we can expect outbreaks in the USA, south-Asia, Africa and South-America. It’s important not to underestimate the disease, yes the death rate is between the 2-4% but that’s with good healthcare and without overflowing hospitals. An outbreak in the USA could cause thousands if not millions of deaths and I don’t even want to think about India or africa The real goal of the measures is to prevent the spread, but the problem is the people and the timing. |
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Post by Seger on Mar 16, 2020 13:51:34 GMT
It isn’t preventing it from getting worse, it’s getting worse and fast. In the last 24 hours 250 people died in Italy alone. And it’s only going to spread like I said before: we can expect outbreaks in the USA, south-Asia, Africa and South-America. It’s important not to underestimate the disease, yes the death rate is between the 2-4% but that’s with good healthcare and without overflowing hospitals. An outbreak in the USA could cause thousands if not millions of deaths and I don’t even want to think about India or africa The real goal of the measures is to prevent the spread, but the problem is the people and the timing. The goal in Europe isn’t preventing the spread anymore we’re just trying to slow it down because we otherwise don’t have enough IC places |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Mar 16, 2020 14:47:20 GMT
The real goal of the measures is to prevent the spread, but the problem is the people and the timing. The goal in Europe isn’t preventing the spread anymore we’re just trying to slow it down because we otherwise don’t have enough IC places You naturally slow it down by preventing the spread lol |
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Post by Admiral RaizoTanaka on Mar 16, 2020 15:52:45 GMT
Just a little perspective on this "panic" demic that's known as coronavirus. Death toll worldwide is 6,500 and cases at around 150,000 out of a population of 7.2 BILLION. The Influenza pandemic of 1918 killed an estimated 50 million so unless I am mistaken this thing isn't quite the deadly killer it's made out to be. Heck more people probably die crossing the street, smoking for certain, playing with snakes, bungie jumping, or skipping rope while chewing gum. Yet the whole world is trembling in fear. Interesting! Quarantine is alot like martial law. Powerful way to rob you of your freedom to even leave your home isn't it? Can be indefinite too. Just food for thought. But it makes us safe. I respect your view but I am already and always safe. My safety comes from within me, not from some outside force or source. Now if this thing gets like The Stand, 28 Days Later, or I Am Legend then I'll start panickin! |
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Post by Admiral RaizoTanaka on Mar 16, 2020 16:00:12 GMT
Perhaps those measures are the things preventing the situation from worsening? You have to keep in mind, with the focus on the Great War and with erratic troop movements the Spanish Flu faced little restrictions on travel or quarantines, and could spread rampantly before mankind realised it was too late. Our own COVID-19 might potentially produce the same devastating results, but its up to national governments to clamp down on them It isn’t preventing it from getting worse, it’s getting worse and fast. In the last 24 hours 250 people died in Italy alone. And it’s only going to spread like I said before: we can expect outbreaks in the USA, south-Asia, Africa and South-America. It’s important not to underestimate the disease, yes the death rate is between the 2-4% but that’s with good healthcare and without overflowing hospitals. An outbreak in the USA could cause thousands if not millions of deaths and I don’t even want to think about India or africa Fear is taking over now. I'm unable to comply with joining it's ranks. Soon it will be where a twig snapping causes the whole herd to stampede...sorry guys. I'll sit this one out in my zen tranquility and I wish everyone wellness and calm! |
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Post by Navia Lanoira on Mar 17, 2020 8:56:25 GMT
I respect your view but I am already and always safe. My safety comes from within me, not from some outside force or source. Now if this thing gets like The Stand, 28 Days Later, or I Am Legend then I'll start panickin! Well, that may be a challenge for us. |
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Post by Seger on Mar 17, 2020 9:13:09 GMT
The goal in Europe isn’t preventing the spread anymore we’re just trying to slow it down because we otherwise don’t have enough IC places You naturally slow it down by preventing the spread lol There’s a difference out government wants to create community immunity so about 50-60% (that’s 10 million people ) of the population should get covid-19 but just not all at once |
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