Coronavirus scare causing markets to fall

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Originally Posted by Tickford.

China is getting back to business. People are back on the streets. The reason they (and other Asian countries like S.Korea, Singapore, Vietnam for eg) have been able to beat this virus in a quick(ish) manner is due to the extreme measures they have taken and implemented.

If anyone has seen the videos on social media, it was military like armies of cleaning staff, sanitizing, disinfecting, etc. The procedures and methods they used would not be acceptable in a western country like Australia. It would not go down well with the litigation society that we are.

For that very reason, we need to be much more proactive in containing and eliminating this ****. Because we cannot do what China, S. Korea are doing to get rid of this virus. We have to be more careful - and what would seem like extreme measure to most, have to be taken. Australia needs to go into full lockdown mode asap. If not, just watch the number increase sharply over the next few weeks. Italy for example, went from 200 cases to over 17'500 cases in just 20 days.

Lets get this straight......
We are in this position because of certain "habits" for caging / handling / storing / selling and consuming specific types of animals under extremely stressful conditions for the animals involved over long periods. It disrupts their immunity and allows for certain types of viral infections to be transferred between animals that should never be in such close proximity for prolonged periods in the 1st place.. What should be acceptable and what isn't is very clear here....and its got nothing to do with being a litigation society. As confronting as this is, many countries are forced into positions that aren't culturally acceptable to them due to questionable / unregulated / unmonitored processes and habits cultured in other parts of the world.

Despite the huge amount of education and concern surrounding all of us at the moment, only today I caught someone rinsing their mouth in the kitchen sink at work as part of a culturally acceptable practice....... another cultural bridge headwind we need to deal with in a time of great uncertainty...

China getting back to business is a good thing as long as they have learnt a valuable lesson and we dont see a COVID mutation genesis in the same way it started in the 1st place. Spraying and military style cleaning intervention makes great TV footage but its REACTIVE and not PROACTIVE and not dealing with the issue at its root cause to prevent a future outbreak.