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China’s Ports Brace for Second Hit as Virus Spreads
New York Times ^ | 4/1/2020 | New York Times

Posted on 04/01/2020 3:29:10 PM PDT by Vermont Lt

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To: Vermont Lt
This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on this site.

You don't get out much, do you?
21 posted on 04/01/2020 3:53:37 PM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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To: a fool in paradise

But you felt the need to comment on what your “intuition” told you about the article?

It is about the ports and how they are starting to get back on their feet, but that a lack of buyers is impacting the cargo coming out.


22 posted on 04/01/2020 3:55:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: a fool in paradise

Don’t the Red Chinese cargo container ships all return to Red China riding high in the water?


23 posted on 04/01/2020 3:56:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Vermont Lt

You tricked everyone!

You usually post about the virus. ;)


24 posted on 04/01/2020 3:59:35 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Vermont Lt

Dear Chiner,

Don’t need your crap, don’t want your crap.

Well get back to you on your CCP-19 virus soon enough.


25 posted on 04/01/2020 4:02:01 PM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Oh dear! The CCP is reaping what they have sowed. The CCP acted stupidly.
26 posted on 04/01/2020 4:04:19 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: redshawk

“ I wonder how many citizens were murdered by their government?”

I have reliable 2nd hand information that in Wuhan, when an apartment building had an outbreak of the virus, Chinese police/military would just weld the door and windows shut and put an armed guard out front.


27 posted on 04/01/2020 4:05:20 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: henkster

It’s not so cut-and-dry as you post.

1) You can delay being infected so that recoveries free hospital resources for you, in case you need them.

2) You can delay being infected until drugs like the HCQ are available which might save you from death.

3) You might never become infected, at all. Not good odds, but I would expect possible. This would be the “herd immunity” stopping the disease from reaching you.


28 posted on 04/01/2020 4:06:32 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Vermont Lt

I sincerely hope once this mess is calmed down a bit, as I don’t think we’ll be rid of it completely, that China’s ports are really closed because we’ve pulled our manufacturing back to the USA.


29 posted on 04/01/2020 4:06:53 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Vermont Lt

I’d think a simple tracking of out bound shipping from SE China would be a good indicator.

They were cash poor due to the tariffs prior to the virus. They need to “sell” and ship to raise cash.

Beware of the wounded tiger.


30 posted on 04/01/2020 4:06:58 PM PDT by llevrok (Avoid the virus. Don't touch strange knobs.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I’m not clicking through to NY Times.

Verify they are not saying it is a second wave of virus hitting China.


31 posted on 04/01/2020 4:07:00 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Vermont Lt

“as Virus Spreads”

implication is 2nd wave of virus.

you redacted a several thousand word article down to 50. you do know you can use up to 300 words.


32 posted on 04/01/2020 4:09:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: ifinnegan

2nd round of “effects”.

2 months of economic shutdown in America is also going to have ripple effects regardless if the virus ends globally tomorrow.


33 posted on 04/01/2020 4:13:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: jdsteel

Thankfully, I have not spotted any welders in my neighborhood.
I wonder if Rush would say it’s time to panic yet?


34 posted on 04/01/2020 4:16:22 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: a fool in paradise

The second “hit” is the drop off of shipping because the world isn’t buying Chinese products...the first “hit” in terms of context was the drop in manufacturing because of the disease in China....now that they are making stuff, there is no one who will buy their stuff. That is the second “fit” that this article is referring to.


35 posted on 04/01/2020 4:20:04 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: henkster

“Until there is either a “herd immunity” or a vaccine, that’s just how it is.”

The only other thing that will ease the problem is antiviral drugs like hydroxycholoquine or similar immunosuppressants.

From what I understand, most of the deaths that are occurring are not directly from the virus itself but from the response of our immune system to the virus. It goes crazy and start attacking not only the virus but normal cells as well, which lead to death. Kind of like an autoimmune response. They call it a cytokine storm.

By appropriately suppressing the immune system, you can keep it from destroying the good cells while still allowing it to develop antibodies that take care of the virus. After a while (a week or two) you can stop the immunosuppressant and you will be immune to the virus because you will have developed an immunity against it.

In other words the live virus itself will have acted like a vaccine, while the antiviral drugs protected you from your raging immune system.


36 posted on 04/01/2020 4:21:28 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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"they can no longer suppress the internal numbers as they have been."

It's one of the reasons they kicked out certain U.S. journalists. They only kept the ones they knew would tow their propaganda line...like CNN. It was CNN who decided not to report on the known atrocities of Saddam Hussein, so they could keep their Baghdad office. More than likely, they're operating the same way in China.

37 posted on 04/01/2020 4:24:13 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: dfwgator

[It’s not up and running at all. Propaganda spoon-fed by their MSM lackeys.]


If you’re able get your made-in-China small appliances and gadgets, it’s up and running. These things don’t grow on trees. Masks and social distancing work. It’s not perfect, but places like Hong Kong and Singapore (similar to NYC in terms of population density) are recording per capita deaths two orders of magnitude lower than NYC.

N.Y.C. Virus Death Toll Nears 1,400 as a Key Date Looms: Live Updates
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html

Singapore has recorded 3 deaths, to date. Hong Kong’s number is 4.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103601/singapore-coronavirus-active-cases-breakdown/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105425/hong-kong-novel-coronavirus-covid19-confirmed-death-recovered-trend/

By the end of this pandemic, NYC’s (pop. 8.6m) total covid-19 deaths may be 1,000 times bigger than either Hong Kong (pop. 7.6m) or Singapore (pop. 5.6m).


38 posted on 04/01/2020 4:34:30 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Oh, so your not reading is my fault.

Just take the loss.


39 posted on 04/01/2020 4:43:39 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I like to keep you on your toes. Lol.


40 posted on 04/01/2020 4:44:27 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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