I'd be interested to hear how the press in other countries is treating this and reference to China in general?
In the UK I'm not seeing much/any mention of China in relation to the virus now (though I dont go out of my way to read every news source).
Is this still an sjw dont be racist thing? All a bit ridiculous, especially since the Chinese propaganda machine is now highlighting imported cases and those stinky foreigners.
They're just not mentioning it. Nobody is. Everyone knows, they're just not screaming "Chyna" because the UK didn't have the same beef with the chinks as the US did.
I'm mostly wondering what will happen ten years hence when supply line resilience and need to reduce carbon footprints for length of supply chains becomes a thing.
I wish the UK was as sensible, but the tories are terrified of anything that might look like universal basic income in case people realise it's actually a pretty sound idea. Instead, if you're employed you get 80% of your salary up to 2,500 a month, if your employer is honest and wants to do the paperwork. Otherwise, he can choose to fire you, or reduce your hours to 0 a week and not apply for the government help, and you're screwed. If you're self-employed (or fake self employed like Uber drivers) you currently get 94 a week if you fill out a load of forms. There's talk that maybe they'll start paying them based on the average income of their previous three years or bollocks like that. And if you just work for cash in hand (think buskers, casual labourers, drug dealers), you get nothing at all while forced under penalty of law not to leave your house. So that'll be nice for them, in a few weeks from now.
Honestly, they should just have given every single person a payment large enough to compensate for being deprived of the ability to earn a living. Every single person is suffering the same loss of liberty and opportunity, every single person deserves the same compensation. That just doesn't compute to the Tory mindset. It would be 'rewarding lazyness' or something.
UBI does not work. Period. They tried it in Finland a few years ago, giving everyone within one province a flat income. They announced this pilot scheme loudly and proudly. It got quietly dropped not too long after as it turns out
it does basically fuck all and did nothing they expected it to.
Also, yes, it would reward lazyness. Our benefits system is already bad enough discouraging those on lower incomes to just not bother with working. My mother (God rest her) had to deal with those kinds of idiots all the time, the ones blatantly gaming the system so they don't have to work ever again.
The problem is people think they need more than they do. I lived for a few years cutting things very thin and excluding mortgage/rent and electricity/oil you only need like £50 a week.
The other day the BBC had some woman saying £94/week isn't enough because even excluding rent she still has £950 of essential bills a month. What the fuck?
The BBC always finds folks like this. Like how they find nurses in food banks despite a starting salary for them being £24k a year. They're the kind of morons who consider a holiday to the Seychelles or the Med once a year an essential.
In fairness, a friend of mine's "essential bills" come out to about that, but he's running his own business which is now going super lean due to people cutting back. He seemed incredulous that I suggest he live leanly for a while and cut back on all unecessary expenses like I'm now doing.
Where on earth are today's UK numbers? I know they've been getting later every day but this is new.
They were not published until midnight nearly today. Could be people are asking for more autopsies to be performed or something.
UK Dailies for Wednesday:
97,019 Tested (+6583)
9,529 Positive (
+1452)
463 Deaths (+41)
3,247 London Tracking Figure (+814)
London
alone is now responsible for just under half of all England cases (7,973)
The UK also believes it will have home testing kits relatively soon. One Scientist quoting as "within days" which probably means it being approved by Oxford within days, while govt ministers are more that it's going to be a bit longer to actually make them.
