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[mikemichael2] 15/4/2020 15:43

Think next trip will be Cape Town again, fabulous country if you have some dosh,great food and very cheap last year at 18 sar to the pound, now it's 23 to the pound!!!

[crossing_the_rubicon] 15/4/2020 15:27

Over in Europe, as Spain and Italy start the process of sending more workers back to work, European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said EU countries should use a "gradual tailor-made approach" to lifting lockdown restrictions. EU countries must make sure they meet three important preconditions before re-opening can proceed:



Significant decrease in the spread of the coronavirus

Sufficient health system capacity

Adequate surveillance and monitoring capacity <----------------------


"Wonder what this latter one is going to be!!! Have my suspicions but I'd hate to see them crystalised"

[patientcapital] 15/4/2020 14:30

Might an intense trade war ensue? Where will Apple make their phones?"The World Health Organisation's shortcomings should be looked at but China was not taking responsibility for its failures on coronavirus, a former MI6 chief has said.Sir John Sawers, 64, spoke out after President Trump last night halted American funding for the WHO and accused it of "severely mismanaging and covering up" the initial outbreak of Covid-19 in Hubei province, China.Mr Trump said that the United Nations agency "willingly took China's assurances at face value" about the transmission of the virus and "pushed China's misinformation".Sir John, who was Britain's permanent representative at the UN before he led MI6 between 2009 and 2014, acknowledged flaws in the WHO's passive response to China's disinformation campaign. He said, though, that criticism should be focused on Xi Jinping's administration."There's deep anger in America over what they see as having been inflicted on us all by China, and China is evading a good deal of responsibility for the origin of the virus, for failing to deal with it initially," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme." - The Times

[alphorn] 15/4/2020 14:09

WHO - corrupt
EU - corrupt

..........WTO - wonderful?

They are all run by career diplomats. You will remember that Trump also wants to cut off WTO funding.

As I have posted the only supporters are here on this thread. Lol

[poikka] 15/4/2020 14:08

And Minnie - obviously corrupt(ed).

[ladeside] 15/4/2020 14:02

Looks like more of us will have already had this virus than what most people believe.

Figures in from Scotland now confirm that over 40% of care homes in the country have had at least one recorded case of Coronavirus.

"The first minister reiterates that the government is moving as quickly as possible to expand testing so that all symptomatic patients are tested.

She says the government is working really hard to support care homes in terms of prevention and control.

Not all 433 affected care homes will still have the virus, however that number represents about 40% of care homes having had it as some stage".

[minerve 2] 15/4/2020 13:57

BORIS CORRUPT.
TRUMP CORRUPT.
BREXITERS CORRUPT.

And on and on and on....

[minerve 2] 15/4/2020 13:56

The head of the WHO is not acting in capacity as a politician. The fact he was a politician before doesn't reflect on his new responsibility other than showing the experience, knowledge and contacts that he has or once had.

He has been warning Trump and Boris for months and it has fallen on deaf ears.

Trump and Boris are to blame for the mess we are in here in the UK and in the US. WHO has nothing to do with it.

[poikka] 15/4/2020 13:53

WHO - corrupt
EU - corrupt
Too many large unaccountable organisations.

[poikka] 15/4/2020 13:52

"Tedros's candidacy for WHO director general was opposed vigorously by several Ethiopian parties, due to his career in the violent Communist Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The TPLF provided millions of dollars in financial support for Tedros's candidacy in WHO."

[crossing_the_rubicon] 15/4/2020 13:52

@Poikka,

Mugabe is a Communist.
As is Tedros.

Mugabe should have been deposed the odious mofo that he was.

He utterly destroyed Rhodesia.

[poikka] 15/4/2020 13:50

"On 18 October 2017, Tedros announced that he had chosen President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to serve as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador to help tackle non-communicable diseases for Africa. He said Zimbabwe was "a country that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the centre of its policies to provide health care to all".

Yeah, right.

[ignoble] 15/4/2020 12:40

What is a Bank these days?

Just a hard drive in a back street of India
Lol

[maxk] 15/4/2020 12:34

h/t to md2

[minerve 2] 15/4/2020 12:30

Poikka

The whole world is corrupt. It isn't just Africa.

[aljm] 15/4/2020 12:19

if the Banks actually 'ONLY' lent money they had, we might not be in so much trouble, all they do is manufacture money for loans, type a few zero's in your account, there is your loan,

[poikka] 15/4/2020 12:19

The question to be asked is: what would the world look like without the WHO, and how would individual nations take up any slack?

My own take on it is that there'd be less opportunity for certain African (for example) leaders to engage in corruption.

[minerve 2] 15/4/2020 12:17

Alphorn

Maybe the US machinery have decided to bring action to the fore rather than just relying on Trump mouthing.

The support for US airlines was actually a good one IMO with the use of warrants. Tax payers complain that it should be existing shareholders that cough up but judging by what has happened so far this year that is just providing a conduit for massive PE to get in on the cheap.

Almost everyday, all the best opportunities are getting swallowed by PE, we are just left with the dregs.

[poikka] 15/4/2020 12:16

Minnie - "The head of the WHO is not a politician."

You are joking? Maybe not a politician in the strict sense of the word, but politics put him where he is.

[dexdringle] 15/4/2020 11:55

Man deposits £1 million in a savings account.

Bank lends that £1 million to a business as a Covid loan.

Business fails to pay the bank back.

Bank contacts man who deposited the £1 million to say "sorry Mr Depositor but we lent your money to a company that went bust so we can only give you back the £800,000 that was guaranteed by the government...."

Except it wont be like that will it. Mr Depositor will get back his full £1 million and the banks shareholders will lose the £200,000. When will people realise that banks aren't in the business of risking capital. This isn't Dragons Den !