From February 4 to February 19, the Diamond Princess cruise ship sat moored in the port of Yokohama, Japan, undergoing a two-week quarantine. Of the more than 3,600 people on board, 621 were diagnosed with COVID-19, a new type of coronavirus that spreads via sneezes and coughs and causes respiratory illness. Passengers had meals delivered to their cabins, and walked the decks a few moments a day, six feet apart, for fresh air. Some were allowed to disembark and serve their quarantine period on land. Protections for the crew weren’t so generous; workers shared living quarters and bathrooms, and ate from buffets. With limited medical personnel and test kits, both passengers and crew members were given thermometers and told to monitor their own temperatures. As the world watched, the sick count ticked up; two people died. The liner became an emblem of the virus: a zone of limited movement, scarce resources, bureaucratic nightmares, and escalating contagion.
Coronavirus has now spread to twenty-seven countries, but 99 percent of the approximately 76,000 cases have been in China, where the disease originated (probably in a Wuhan meat market) and where it has killed more than 1,500 people. Cities in Hubei province have run short of hospital beds and medical supplies; doctors have used raincoats and trash bags for scrubs. Outraged citizens suspect the Chinese government might be more concerned with saving face than saving lives. When cases first surfaced in early December, Wuhan officials downplayed accounts of spreading infection, insisting the virus couldn’t be transmitted between humans. President Xi Jinping avoided mentioning COVID-19 for two weeks after he found out about it.
The virus’s economic cost is high: stalled tourism; interrupted supply chains; closed schools and factories. It’s no wonder China—which also initially underreported SARS—wanted the illness kept quiet. State news outlets have been instructed to focus on reporting relief-effort stories that reflect well on the regime. But citizen journalists have defied the official narrative by using their phones to broadcast images of overcrowded hospital corridors and a bus filled with body bags. In early January, a dissident doctor, Li Wenliang, was reprimanded by police for alerting med-school classmates to the virus; when he died on February 6, Chinese social media filled with candle emojis and free-speech hashtags. Those posts were removed by censors, but not before Dr. Li became a national hero.
makati1 on Tue, 25th Feb 2020 5:11 pm
Not saying that it might end up being serious, but the number of articles pushing the “virus danger” seems to far exceed the ones that warn of the real dangers today: nuclear war, financial depression, loss of freedoms, etc.
Davy on Tue, 25th Feb 2020 5:45 pm
Wake me up when the death toll reaches 1/10th as many people as what the flu virus killed last year in the USA alone.
JuanP on Tue, 25th Feb 2020 5:46 pm
“Not saying that it might end up being serious”
Mak, you and I were so wrong saying the flue is worse and this virus is nothing. This is typical of our wounded agenda
JuanP on Tue, 25th Feb 2020 5:48 pm
I am aWake now the global economy is imploding.
Davy on Tue, 25th Feb 2020 6:03 pm
Are economy was already imploding juanpee
stupid
world grate supremacist muzzies jerk on Tue, 25th Feb 2020 6:17 pm
Are economy was already imploding juanpee
stupid
JuanP on Tue, 25th Feb 2020 6:18 pm
STFU faggot
makati1 on Tue, 25th Feb 2020 6:21 pm
please stop the childish behavior world grate supremacist muzzies jerk and JuanP
forbin on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 1:33 am
I think it’s about time the moderator changed the web site – verified google accounts only . There’s too much trash talk now and the subjects posted are needing scrutiny of a technical nature – not a play ground taunting fit.
or loose more readers – choose wisely
Forbin
makati1 on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 2:20 am
forbin, if ad kliks are money, nothing will change. The owner obviously likes the income. Content to get comments can be anything. Peak Oil as a subject is boring anyway. Just oily guesses and lies.
The sanity, maturity, intelligence, education or mental health of the commenters does not matter. It hasn’t since Davy started it many years ago with his arrogant, immature, uneducated putdowns. There are a few of us who try to post intelligent, relevant comments, but we are fewer all the time. If you cannot ignore the chaos…
forbin on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 3:35 am
hello makati1,
I do wonder if the ad income would increase if the owner/s allowed good strong , robust discussions and I’d posit playground taunting would decrease revenues .
in the end the site will go the way of TOD, if nothing changes.
Forbin
Davy on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 4:41 am
“forbin, if ad kliks are money, nothing will change. The owner obviously likes the income. Content to get comments can be anything. Peak Oil as a subject is boring anyway. Just oily guesses and lies.”
So you flood this place with your personal agenda of hate. LOL What a messed up brat.
“The sanity, maturity, intelligence, education or mental health of the commenters does not matter. It hasn’t since Davy started it many years ago with his arrogant, immature, uneducated putdowns.”
Nope, it is about a community and this community here has been full of all you talk about. I have been attacked by you and your group sometimes 6 at once for having a backbone. You can’t practice double standards and selective membership on an open forum but that is what you assholes want. Nowdays, one of your associates, JuanP, has been using socks and ID theft for 3 years to attack me. This is daily, all day long, and mindless. If I fight back it is to show him this behavior will not succeed. You are part of it too, stupid. Many times you start your morning by attacking me. So who is the mature two faced liar?
“ There are a few of us who try to post intelligent, relevant comments, but we are fewer all the time. If you cannot ignore the chaos…”
LMFAO, not you makato1. Definitely you are not very intelligent and very situationally aware. You scan the web and cherry pick your facts to weave into lies. You dump hate and resentment here and also your immature putdowns. I am here to neuter your shit when you call me out. Most of the time I just ignore you because most all your positions have failed.
Davy on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 4:42 am
“I do wonder if the ad income would increase if the owner/s allowed good strong , robust discussions and I’d posit playground taunting would decrease revenues “
Yea Forbin, and I have asked for this but until it is initiated nothing will stop JuanP from his daily routine of socks and ID theft. This is a minimum that could stop ID theft:
“Cloudflare is one of the last bastions of free speech. It is very sad that the admin of this site doesn’t seem to want to take the trouble to log in to his server dashboard and active a few presets, enforcing posters to post under a unique username/password combination. That doesn’t eliminate garbage under fake identities, but at least it stops identity theft and that would make a hell of a difference. If possible, you could also enforce that one IP-address can only post under a single identity. Please admin, invest an hour of your time to get this right.”
“in the end the site will go the way of TOD, if nothing changes.”
I suspect it will make a return now that the world is falling apart. I am getting an increased following on my realgreenadaptation.blog
world grater supremacist muzzies jerk FGM on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 5:09 am
forbin on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 3:35 am
hello makati1,
I do wonder if the ad income would increase if the owner/s allowed good strong , rob
grate coment forbin imma save or my blog which i start in 10 yars
imma take ur comment and supertard green blog aand make it my own. i’ll plan ahead so i can start in 10 years
ur grate. i appoint u supertard. ur title it “the lover” (of muzzies)
congrats forbin
world grater supremacist muzzies bag day feb12021 on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 7:16 am
Ev7pls respect supertard and his supertard socks fathertard Sullivan and richard guunette
anon on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 7:28 am
so far the only thing that’s been shown to be contagious in this affair is media-pumped hysteria. it’s a flu virus. it’s winter in the northern hemisphere. every year hundreds of millions of people catch a cold. Every year several million people die from a flu virus. several million! no matter what the real numbers are on this particular one, no matter if there even _is_ a particular distinct strain or if they just made it up as spin.. it’s a non-story. but it’s been made into a story , and thats more dangerous than a real virus.
Davy on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 9:09 am
“it’s a non-story. but it’s been made into a story , and thats more dangerous than a real virus.”
AH, so the shut-in of the Chinese economy is a non-story? LMFAO at the delusional people here who can’t see past the biological aspect of the virus to an economic contagion. This is typical of so many people who can’t fathom systemness and collapse. This may not collapse the world but it surely is another nail in the coffin for a future collapse.
Davy on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 7:59 pm
“Scientists Discover HIV-Like “Mutation” Which Makes Coronavirus Extremely Infectious”
https://tinyurl.com/tfavxeb zero hedge
“While mainstream scientists continue to perform mental gymnastics to insist that the new coronavirus wasn’t man-made, new research from scientists in China and Europe reveal that the disease happens to have an ‘HIV-like mutation’ which allows it to bind with human cells up to 1,000 times stronger than the Sars virus, according to SCMP…Recall that at the end of January, a team of Indian scientists wrote in a now-retracted, scandalous paper claiming that the coronavirus may have been genetically engineered to incorporate parts of the HIV genome, writing “This uncanny similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature,” meaning – it was unlikely to have occurred naturally. Fast forward to new research by a team from Nankai University, which writes that COV-19 has an ‘HIV-like mutation’ that allows it to quickly enter the human body by binding with a receptor called ACE2 on a cell membrane…”This virus may use the packing mechanisms of other viruses such as HIV,” they added. For those confused, what the latest scientific paper claims is that whereas the Coronavirus may indeed contain a specific HIV-like feature that makes it extremely infectious, that was the result of a rather bizarre “mutation.” However, since the scientists did not make the scandalous claim that Chinese scientists had created an airborne version of HIV, but instead blamed a mutation, they will likely not be forced to retract it, even if it the odds of such a “random” mutation taking place naturally are extremely small.”
The Importance of Being Earnest on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 8:50 pm
DavySkum-
Any reason in particular why you have been especially skummy of late?
The non importance of a stalker on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 8:52 pm
WackoJuan, That’s what your twisted mind wants.
Davy on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 8:57 pm
This is for juanPee and makato1 because you know its just the flu.
“China Car Sales Continue To Crater, Down 83% For The Third Week In February”
https://tinyurl.com/rsbnckl zero hedge
“Chinese auto sales continue to be a sinking ship on the heels of both an auto recession that has been in full swing for the last 18-24 months – and now the impact of the coronavirus. Though the narrative coming out of China is that the country is attempting to return to some normalcy, the data from the company’s auto market tells us very differently. Retail car sales in the country are down 83% year over year for the third week in February. For the week, the country’s auto sales dropped to 5,411 units per day, according to the China Passenger Car Association.”
makati1 on Wed, 26th Feb 2020 10:58 pm
Car sales all over the world started to tank last year, long before the hyped corona virus. There comes a time when every thing maxes out. When everyone who can afford a car has one. Ditto for cell phones, PCs, etc. As the incomes shrink, “NEW” will not be a selling feature. We seem to have hit that wall.
Depression saying:
Use it up.
Wear it out.
Make it do,
Or do without.
My PC is 9 years old. My cell phone is going on a decade. Both work fine. Why buy a “new” one that might not last that long? (Planned obsolescence) ‘New’ does not mean better, these days, just more money going to the already wealthy oligarchs that rule your life.
Davy on Thu, 27th Feb 2020 12:45 am
“This is for juanPee and makato1 because you know its just the flu.”
Just so y’all no. juanPees and makato1s opinions mean a lot to me. If they didn’t. i wouldn’t care what they think.
I promise to keep stalking both of them until I don’t get as emotional about what they think anymore. Thats a promise y’all can bet on.
Sissyfuss on Thu, 27th Feb 2020 8:57 am
Agreeing with Mak, the global economy’s health was in serious condition before this virus appeared. This looks like the blackest of Black Swans as it shuts down just in time delivery from nation to nation as debt based minigrowth barely kept things afloat. Even if Covid-19 kills a hundred million what is that to a population of almost 8 billion. Eviscerating global trade in a time of debt based growth may be far deadlier in the long run.
joe on Thu, 27th Feb 2020 9:09 am
Culling the herd. Dont you liberals want to save the earth? Did u think that they had a gentle solution in mind???? Ha ha Haha.
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 27th Feb 2020 9:44 am
Roughly 40% of U.S. adults are obese, 10% very much so, CDC survey shows
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roughly-40-of-u-s-adults-are-obese-10-very-much-so-cdc-survey-shows/
Isn’t the tRump vote about 40%?
Richard Guenette on Thu, 27th Feb 2020 6:25 pm
To prevent panic/mass hysteria, turn off and unplug the idiot box. And use your common sense.
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 28th Feb 2020 2:29 am
Corona virus starter pack:
https://twitter.com/KetoAurelius/status/1233047542964871172?s=20
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 28th Feb 2020 2:33 am
Elizabeth Warren was “Stanford’s first woman of color”:
https://twitter.com/Bernie_Or_Vest/status/1232737610700750848?s=20
#Pocahontas
#Idiocracy
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 28th Feb 2020 2:34 am
Sorry: Harvard Law School
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 10:15 am
“Just like the flu”-latest:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8064373/Stock-market-braced-falls-morning.html
“OECD fears worst financial crisis for a decade as Bank of England vows to take ‘all necessary steps’ to protect Britain’s economy from impact of coronavirus”
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 1:09 pm
German news: state commission says that Corona mortality could be 0.3% or lower.
world grater supremacist muzzies jerk on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 1:46 pm
Supertards
I’m kryptonite
I’m impervious to either and none
Horizontal or vertical gene transfer
I enjoy beervirus
ANSAL REAPER on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 3:16 pm
Very interesting articals
Please post more
ANSAL REAPER on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 4:24 pm
the only 1 who benefits from all this is cui bono? who has a blog that generates passive income in 10 years?
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 4:27 pm
Dog Track up big time today!
Fat Boy and the Thugs smiling!
supremacist muzzies jerk on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 4:27 pm
muzzie said karamchin said 1 year ago will conquer rome, russia, france, america
now muzzie hitzbut tahir in illinois said conquer rome, america, because muzzies conquered constantinople
whitey supertard trump roasted anohter muzzie in nigeria. us navy is having a hard time filling posts for muzzies burial at sea experts
still very sad that whitey supertard philip hansen is no more
Davy on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 4:32 pm
It is now official. There is almost 1/8 as many infected people in the US now as there were on that cruise ship.
WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
Anonymouse on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 4:49 pm
What are so worried about dumbass? You are already in a form of self-imposed quarantine there on your horror-story dumpstead. Besides your occasional foray to Walgrens or Walmart to stock up on grits and beans, you have little or no contact with the outside world, aside from this place that is. Even after the internet goes down due to the global pandemic, just keep posting away on PO.coms un-moderated article comments as if everything was the way you remembered it.
You can even blame China for it you like. No one will care, but, pounding away on your dead cell-phones keypad might make you feel better about yourself and it will help remind of the pre-plague world. You know, back when you imagined people actually gave two shits about your stupid turd salads, the cut and pastes no one ever read, your chest-thumping and screeching, and pathetically weak attempts to bully and order everyone around.
I bet you cant wait.
makati1 on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 4:57 pm
Nice post Anon!
fwsmj on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 4:58 pm
supertrd
pls respect supertard
supremacist muzzies jerk on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 5:06 pm
supertrad anon why u so mean to supertard
certainly u do realize u need to respect supertard
even if someone reall believes in permacultism he doesn’t deserve this much disrpect
Davy on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 6:18 pm
The three dumbasses do their daily Davy stalking routine because you know they don’t have a brain in their head combined. makato1, give us some AsiaUp news. juanPee do your lunatic skits. annoy play tough guy and back up your lunatic friend and the senile old man with mindless stalking. LMFAO. Two school drop outs and one who obviously struggled through school.
JuanP on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 6:19 pm
ANSAL REAPER will you suck my cock?
Anonymouse on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 6:19 pm
Ansal, I like cock but Mak might get jealous if I show you some interest.
makati1 on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 6:20 pm
Be my guest Anon, I will watch.
supremacist muzzies jerk on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 6:21 pm
superturds lets circle jerk
Davy on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 6:22 pm
Well, that pretty much covers my point that our dumbasses are mindless
Anonymouse on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 7:14 pm
The only thing that proves dumbass, is how laughable these feeble attempts of yours to pass those ID thefts as genuine truly is. Try to remember, the only one you are fooling with your stalking, pricking and ID theft, is your own dumbass.
Davy on Mon, 2nd Mar 2020 7:18 pm
Wow, you are brilliant annoy, my point made! What a fucking turd!