WASHINGTON: Americans defied pleas from state and local officials to stay home for the Thanksgiving holiday in the face of the surging coronavirus pandemic, triggering fresh warnings from health officials with the release of vaccines still weeks away....
Spiraling infections typically result in a rising death toll weeks later. Coronavirus deaths reached 2,157 on Tuesday - one person every 40 seconds - with another 170,000 people infected, as millions of Americans disregarded official warnings and travelled for Thanksgiving.
Nearly 1 million passengers a day have been screened at airport security checkpoints for the past week, with Sunday's total of 1.047 million being the highest number since the early days of the pandemic in mid-March. Reuters
With 12m cases going 13m by end of the week and nearly 300,000 death, the brave Americans are taking Covid19 in their strides. They are going home for Thanksgiving reunion come what may. Nothing can stop the American spirit from choosing freedom or death. They will do what they want and no one in the world would be able to do anything or say anything to stop them even knowing that the millions infected by Covid19 will become carriers and spreaders of the disease.
This is American Exceptionalism at its best. Who dares to whisper to ban the Americans from entering their country knowing that they are the greatest spreaders of Covid19, even with all the evidence pointing to the Americans for starting this deadly and infectious disease? The might of the American Empire would snuff out anyone who would dare to point the finger at the Americans. And any country that dares to ban the Americans from entering their country would be banned and sanctioned by the Americans and be isolated by the Americans, and the rest of the world would just do what the Americans said.
And since the rest of the world cannot do anything about the reckless and irresponsible behaviour of the Americans to spread this deadly virus, the world might as well celebrate this American Exceptionalism and cheer and clap as the Americans go home for Thanksgiving and party at home. Just keep the virus at home, in American homeland.
Yes, it is so nice to be able to celebrate Thanksgiving with loved ones at home. The Chinese were stupid to lock down Wuhan and Hubei Province and not allow them to go home for annual reunion during Chinese New Year. This is lack of freedom. They should have followed the American way, just go and celebrate, Covid19 or no Covid19, never mind, it will go away miraculously one day. If China would have let the Chinese people have the same freedom to celebrate reunion dinner, today it would have 30m or 50m or more Chinese being infected by Covid19 and the whole China would be locked down, and no country would want to let a single Chinese into their country. China does not have the same rights and privileges as the Americans, no Chinese Exceptionalism.
After Thanksgiving the Americans would be celebrating 13m, 14m or more Covid19 cases. Only the Americans can enjoy having more infections and bragging about it as if it is a badge of honour. And they would be welcome all over the world with no bans against them trampling all over the world.
This is what an Empire is all about. The Empire has its privileges. Long live the American Empire. Long live Covid19. After Thanksgiving there is Christmas around the corner to make bigger splashes and throw bigger parties. The lucky Americans should continue to enjoy life for as long as they can, a blessed people. Covid19 can do no harm to them or to spoil their good life.
PS. What is Thanksgiving Day? To the white Americans, it was the day they celebrated the first harvest from the land they seized from the native Americans after massacring them. To the native Americans, it is a day of National Mourning of their forefathers being massacred and genocided by the white Americans and their land stolen. Some of the more sensitive white Americans understood the meaning of this day and the feelings of the native Americans and wanted to stop this celebration. But the insensitive and white supremacists did not see anything wrong with it, nothing wrong about massacring native Americans and stealing their land and to celebrate this event.
Thanksgiving Day is not just about the killing of native Americans, but also about the killing of the poor turkeys. The white Americans celebrate, the poor turkeys die.
This 2020 Thanksgiving has another significant development. The Covid19 viruses are laid in waiting, to ambush the white men coming home for Thanksgiving. After the celebration, the virus would have a feast, the first harvest of the Covid19 virus on Thanksgiving Day.
Covid-19 - A Global Problem That Requires A Global Solution
ReplyDeleteNo country is safe until every country is safe from the spreading of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
If the Diseased USA is proliferating the spread of their exceptionally-chosen Covid-19 disease, no country in the world can be safe, nor saved.
The only way for the world to be safe and saved, is to ostracise and stop all Americans from entering their country, as well as to stop buying goods delivered from the Diseased-Proliferating USA.
But USA is not the only country that is proliferating and unable to contain the disease. Countries like Brazil, EU, India and Russia are also seeing the escalated risk of the disease spreading wider, further and deeper. Some countries have already started the 3rd Wave, like running the marathon.
There is no central co-ordinating authority to ensure a coordinated concerted effort across the globe to tackle this disease as a whole. Each country is trying to tackle it by its own whims and fancy way. Exceptionalism or extra-stupidism will only make matters worse and worse.
This disease cannot be eradicated piece-meal. It has to be confronted at the global level.
The UN alone is unable to do much by itself without the political will and willingness of all countries to submit to its directions and instructions, except to monitor the global situation and issue warnings after warnings.
There is no lack of early warnings but only lack of political will and good political leadership to effectively catch the bull by its horns.
Most countries are trying to outsmart the COVID-19 coronavirus by lying and lying to their country-folks and the world at large. These are countries run by incompetent fly-by-night pseudo political hacks/hags.
The COVID-19 coronavirus does not only infect the lungs. It can also infect and weaken multiple organs in our body - especially the heart, brain, kidneys, liver and lungs.
The COVID-19 is not a short-term disease like the common flu. It is a long-term disease. Even if one has recovered from the initial infection, one still can be re-infected again and again.
Moreover, once infected, one carries the virus within the body for life. There is no way of getting rid of the virus from the body, even though you may have recovered.
Vaccines do not protect you from getting infected. It only helps your body to be prepared for the COVID-19 coronavirus intrusion into your blood circulatory system and triggers your immune system to fight it. How you fare from this fight is all dependent upon the existing state of your immune system. If your immune system is weak, in one way or another, you can still easily succumb to the disease and suffers the consequences.
So, the best thing to do is bear in mind that "Prevention is Better than Cure!"
DON'T ALLOW EVEN AN IOTA OF CHANCE FOR THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS TO TAKE A FOOTHOLD IN YOUR HEALTHY BODY!
Take good care of your own health. Don't depend other people or things to take care of your health for you.
May All Be Healthy,and Wealthy And Well!
Today is a beautiful day for Australian wine exporters as China slaps duties of up to 212 per cent on Aussie wine imports.
ReplyDeleteThe whacking of Australia is for all the little silly countries to see and to learn to be smart, not to trifle with China.
ReplyDeleteChina has been very tolerant and patient with those little silly countries until they think with the Americans carrying a big stick and standing over China, China would not dare to hit back.
ReplyDeleteChina will hit back when it decides enough is enough.
The Americans have been pushing all the silly little countries to knock their thick heads against the Great Wall of China and telling them not to worry, Americans are standing behind you, carrying a very big stick.
ReplyDeleteBut when the little silly countries got hit by China, the Americans would say not to worry, we are still standing here, carrying a big stick. And there will always be dumb suckers to do the bidding of the Americans and got their backside whacked.
In a calculated snub, Australian officials only learnt of the wine tariff hit when it was published on the Chinese Commerce Ministry's website – there was no prior warning at the diplomatic level.
ReplyDeleteThat's the way to deal with these racist gangsters.
ReplyDeleteHaving lived with exceptionalism for all their lives, they do not fear the virus. We should not fear for them because it is their lives to play with. It is democracy at work, with human rights paramount and how many more deaths just a secondary issue. Or should I say, just collateral damage on home ground if another half a million kick the bucket.
ReplyDeleteTrump does not care. After all, during the last year he did in fact supported opening up and called on supporters not to be afraid of the virus. Now the time bomb is in Biden's hands and will the blame will be Biden's to handle.
But let's be honest. Whatever credit there is, Trump will say it is due to his watch that Wall Street is now at all time highs. Did anyone hear Trump taking credit for the COVID19 world topping highs in infections and deaths?
That is Trump's version of 'Art of the Steal'. It is taught in Trump's University.
If anyone thinks USA election is not a farce, it is a mistaken belief. It is not. Both parties are as dirty as the other. The only saving grace is that neither wants to make this a big issue as it is a shame on the democratic system. They do not wish to be the pot calling the kettle black. That would be the mother of all jokes for Putin, Xi and Kim to crack to each other.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, if Trump does go further in his accusations, he will end up like John Kennedy. Trump knows well enough what the CIA can do. Preserving all semblance of a working Democracy in a country touted to be the bearer of that title is important. Trump is expendable. He is giving way for this reason, but still insisting that he won because the election was rigged.
Aussies are racist gangsters is not without merit. After all, they are all descendants of criminals sent by the UK to the Penal Colony that is Australia.
ReplyDeleteGenerations after that they are still descendants of gangsters, as blood of criminals still run in their veins. No more needs to be said.
Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said he believed China would keep Australia in the freezer for some years to come. “In the short to medium term I don’t think anything is going to be resolved,” he said.",
ReplyDeleteAnd this idiot and his organisation are exactly some of the parties that caused the Oz- China relations to be in such dismal state by overhyping the China threat. Hardly surprising since yhe ASPI is mainly sponsored by the US State Dept and US arms industry.
Delete"Kill the Chicken to scare the Monkey"
ReplyDeleteIn folktale, a street entertainer earns a lot of money with his dancing monkey. One day, when the monkey refuses to dance, the entertainer kills a live chicken in front of the monkey and then the monkey resumed dancing.
Australia is the chicken. Canada, UK, New Zealand are the monkeys.
China’s plans to roll out the home-grown C919 passenger jet next year could be severely disrupted as the Trump administration restricts US companies from doing business with the state-owned conglomerate developing the plane.
ReplyDeleteUS suppliers would be required to seek special licenses to sell commercially available items to the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac). In Comac’s case, the C919 depends on a series of components made by American companies, including flight controls and jet engines.
Analysts speculated that the Trump administration may be targeting Comac as a way of pressuring Beijing into authorising Boeing’s troubled 737 MAX to resume flying in China.
This month, the US Federal Aviation Administration lifted its ban on Boeing’s 737 MAX, after being grounded for more than 20 months following two deadly crashes.
Last week, China’s aviation regulator reiterated that there is no timetable for the return of the Boeing 737 MAX to Chinese airspace, and that it will not consider approving the aircraft until there is a clear outcome to investigations into the two accidents associated with the plane.
Boeing 737 Max airplane software was written cheaply by Indians
"It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software mistakes leading to a pair of deadly crashes. Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.
The Max software -- plagued by issues that could keep the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week revealed a new flaw -- was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India.
In offices across from Seattle’s Boeing Field, recent college graduates employed by the Indian software developer HCL Technologies Ltd. occupied several rows of desks, said Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer who worked in a flight-test group that supported the Max.
The coders from HCL were typically designing to specifications set by Boeing. Still, “it was controversial because it was far less efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code,” Rabin said. Frequently, he recalled, “it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly.”
Boeing’s cultivation of Indian companies appeared to pay other dividends. In recent years, it has won several orders for Indian military and commercial aircraft, such as a $22 billion one in January 2017 to supply SpiceJet Ltd. That order included 100 737-Max 8 jets and represented Boeing’s largest order ever from an Indian airline, a coup in a country dominated by Airbus.
Based on resumes posted on social media, HCL engineers helped develop and test the Max’s flight-display software, while employees from another Indian company, Cyient Ltd., handled software for flight-test equipment.
HCL, once known as Hindustan Computers, was founded in 1976 by billionaire Shiv Nadar.