Here in the Philippines, some of the restrictions initially put into place for the lockdown are coming off. My particular area has been on lockdown for 55 days now. This coming Friday, we’ll see if we get to go back to a more normal life. We’ll still have to wear masks when going around to do business but at least the stores and other establishments will have a chance to reopen and get some cashflow back. The Philippines is already a poor nation. Suffering through almost 2 months of lockdown has forced many businesses to make drastic changes, some will never open again. Also, the lifeblood of the Philippine economy, the Overseas Foreign Workers (OFW) have for the most part been called home. OFWs constitute a quarter of the nation’s GDP every year.so having them out of work is a big sting on the economic life of the Philippines.
Personally, I need a haircut and I need to get out and feel the tropical sun on my skin without someone asking me to see my quarantine pass (which the government provided only one per family so only one person at a time can be out). As the world starts to return to normal, let’s hope that we don’t see this type of thing ever again. Thank goodness some scientists have started to speak out on how lockdowns do little to stop the spread of the disease and how that keeping healthy people isolated only increases the risk for more disease outbreaks by lowering the immune system. Also, keeping healthy people locked down creates new places for the virus to spread because a lot of the new cases of late have come not from people outside, but from within families who have been on lockdown. Precautions must be taken but panic, as we have seen in the past two months, is NOT the answer.
Flyingsword
4 years ago
Should have never been a lock down in the first place. Should have quarantined China and gotten on with our lives. Now all nations and business need to leave Communist China and never return. Know it won’t happen but a boy can dream.
@Flyingsword – Agree with you 100 percent, and I’ll go a little farther by saying that a new Cold War should ensue against the CCP. The Chinese have been feeling their oats way too much recently and it had nothing to do with the superiority of the Communist system. It had to do with Deng’s liberalization of the economic market. So, if anything, capitalism has saved China from becoming another failed experiment in a system that has proven time and again not to work.
myyellowbike
4 years ago
India is trying to woo US companies (other countries too?) to move to India. So, for me, that’s totally agreeable.
Here in the Philippines, some of the restrictions initially put into place for the lockdown are coming off. My particular area has been on lockdown for 55 days now. This coming Friday, we’ll see if we get to go back to a more normal life. We’ll still have to wear masks when going around to do business but at least the stores and other establishments will have a chance to reopen and get some cashflow back. The Philippines is already a poor nation. Suffering through almost 2 months of lockdown has forced many businesses to make drastic changes, some will never open again. Also, the lifeblood of the Philippine economy, the Overseas Foreign Workers (OFW) have for the most part been called home. OFWs constitute a quarter of the nation’s GDP every year.so having them out of work is a big sting on the economic life of the Philippines.
Personally, I need a haircut and I need to get out and feel the tropical sun on my skin without someone asking me to see my quarantine pass (which the government provided only one per family so only one person at a time can be out). As the world starts to return to normal, let’s hope that we don’t see this type of thing ever again. Thank goodness some scientists have started to speak out on how lockdowns do little to stop the spread of the disease and how that keeping healthy people isolated only increases the risk for more disease outbreaks by lowering the immune system. Also, keeping healthy people locked down creates new places for the virus to spread because a lot of the new cases of late have come not from people outside, but from within families who have been on lockdown. Precautions must be taken but panic, as we have seen in the past two months, is NOT the answer.
Should have never been a lock down in the first place. Should have quarantined China and gotten on with our lives. Now all nations and business need to leave Communist China and never return. Know it won’t happen but a boy can dream.
@Flyingsword – Agree with you 100 percent, and I’ll go a little farther by saying that a new Cold War should ensue against the CCP. The Chinese have been feeling their oats way too much recently and it had nothing to do with the superiority of the Communist system. It had to do with Deng’s liberalization of the economic market. So, if anything, capitalism has saved China from becoming another failed experiment in a system that has proven time and again not to work.
India is trying to woo US companies (other countries too?) to move to India. So, for me, that’s totally agreeable.
Hey! On the topic of India, they had that factory accident the other day, Gas leak, see story: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-05-09/protesters-demand-closure-of-lg-polymers-plant-in-india-after-toxic-gas-leak The owner of the company is LG Polymers. I looked that company up, it seems like it is based in South Korea. Multi-National company? I know little about it.
Have a good weekend all.
Q: Who killed more indians than Custer?
A: LG Polymers
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=289272
Moon’s New Deal is full of shit. Calling it now.
ROK witchhunt continues.
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=289426
Back to square one in Area IV for COVID19.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200521006600315?fbclid=IwAR0xxwST0w8BRfD-P90jxCI-zu3QIYwgmhYCvewYn5UmhkRYUZvEibiQUEc