Shouldn't be too hard, there are lots of whores in Bradford. Strangely the virus seems to be discriminatory and is affecting ethnic minorities more.
BAME groups hit harder by Covid-19 than white people, UK study suggests
Early research into the first patients critically ill with Covid-19 in UK hospitals indicates that black and Asian people are more likely to be badly affected by coronavirus than white people.
China gave us a few masks and PPEs right. What about their quality ? As piss-poor as this or worse ?
China is stressed with demand, even when every country is vocal against China they are still placing orders with China. This high demand will obviously impact quality and fraudsters too will try to take advantage by sending wastage and whatever they could find.
When Indian pharma was booming years back some fraudsters started shipping fake medicines. This started to happen at major level and India's image started to go down. Government then put strict regulations including bar coding of every pack, which helped in maintaining quality.
In this unprecedented stressed crisis faulty equipment is expected, part of business. West is out right stealing, impounding medical supplies meant for other countries is not ethical either.
Not defending China, they must pay dearly for underreporting cases, lying to world and putting lives of millions at danger.
I have a domestic requirement of 1 bag pasta.
Seriously, I haven't seen a bag in 3 weeks.
Whatever you say hobbit.
Tally as of 11:59 pm on 9/04/2020
As of now we've already reached 6900 cases which means we've crossed 1000 cases per day in terms of rate of infection.
The Chinese have screwed up their reputation in every way possible.
Locking yourself at home is a privilege. Most ethnic minorities in foreign countries cannot afford that privilige.
Not everybody can be Indians after all.
Chinese reputation and export business, export led growth model is coming to an end with this Pandemic. Make no mistake we will be witnessing new world order. Already US India friendship was getting stronger with BJP at helm now it's going further deep. Look at my above tweet, official White House Twitter handle is now following Narendra Modi, pmo, President of India, US embassy in india, India in US, out of 19 it follows 14 are American handles. Already Narendra Modi conveyed japanese premier Mr. Abe of support and he announcing shifting of Japanese companies out of China.
China has screwed up big time....
Nepal’s Ailing Oli In A Soup As Row Erupts Over His Decision To Import Medical Equipment From China To Combat Covid-19
By Jaideep Mazumdar - Apr 10, 2020, 1:19 pm
Nepal’s Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Snapshot :
- Oli is seen as being close to Beijing and, hence, the controversial decision to import Chinese medical equipment is being directly attributed to him.
An aborted decision by the Nepal government to import medical equipment to combat the coronavirus pandemic from China has landed ailing Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli in a soup and emboldened rivals within the party to sharpen their knives.
Nepal’s Health Ministry had awarded the contract bypassing all norms and without any competitive bidding to a private company run by the sons of Defence Minister Ishwar Pokhrel and Oli’s chief adviser Bishnu Rimal as well as Prime Minister’s IT consultant Asgar Ali.
The multi-million dollar contract awarded last month was for the supply of 19 items, including personal protective equipment (PPEs), testing kits and reagents. The contract was cancelled early this month after a huge controversy erupted over the bidding process.
Grave concerns were also raised over the price of the equipment and their quality in light of many European countries rejecting similar imports from China.
But that was just the beginning of troubles for Oli, who underwent a second kidney transplant early last month. His health condition is stated to be fragile and he is on immunosuppressants.
The Prime Minister’s very high chances of getting infected by the coronavirus due to his health condition has kept him indoors and precluded his holding strategy sessions with aides to ward off the political challenge being mounted on him by his party rivals.
Oli’s principal rivals within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) — his co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior party leader Madhav Kumar Nepal — have started gunning for Oli. Nepal has been extremely critical of the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
A second controversy erupted immediately on the heels of the one over the award of contract for import of medical equipment from China. An online news portal— kathmandupress.com — which broke the news about the awarding of the contract reported the news item being forcibly removed from the site by the website’s developers.
The portal alleged that the site’s web developers had taken down the news item on the instructions of Oli’s IT consultant Asgar Ali. Ali is co-founder of an IT firm that owns the accused web developing company.
The removal of the item triggered widespread condemnation from media bodies, including the Federation of Nepali Journalists. The federation’s general secretary Ramesh Bista issued a condemnation that reportedly had the blessings of NCP co-chair Dahal. The matter snowballed when Oli’s press adviser Surya Thapa called up Bista and allegedly threatened him.
The government then awarded a fresh contract (after the cancellation of the original contract) to the Nepal Army to procure the required medical equipment through government-to-government deal. But that too ran into controversy.
The Nepal Army has often been accused of being very opaque in matters of procurement of defence equipment and does not have the mandate or the capacity to select and procure medical equipment.
The government’s decision to engage the army has come in for severe criticism from even some ministers, who said that the last cabinet meeting did not even discuss the issue.
Ruling party leaders, including Surendra Pandey, Pampha Bhusal and Mani Thapa, have publicly criticised the decision. Many ministers have taken umbrage at having been kept in the dark and have alleged that the minutes of the cabinet meeting were altered at Oli’s behest by bureaucrats to insert the decision (to engage the army to import medical equipment).
These controversies have emboldened Oli’s detractors led by Dahal and Nepal to step up their covert offensive against the ailing Prime Minister. Party leaders have started demanding a meeting of the party secretariat to discuss these controversies and review the decision to engage the army for medical equipment imports.
But with Oli being unwell and his doctors saying that risks of his being infected are high and can be lethal, the Prime Minister can attend such a meeting only at the risk of his own life. This suits his detractors who would like to see resentment brew up against Oli and finally spill over.
Oli is seen as being close to Beijing and, hence, the decision to import Chinese medical equipment is being directly attributed to him.
Jaideep Mazumdar is an associate editor at Swarajya.
Nepal’s Ailing Oli In A Soup As Row Erupts Over His Decision To Import Medical Equipment From China To Combat Covid-19
The world is pretty shameless. They will suck up to china once everything settles down. End of the day it's the deep states in their respective countries that run them.
Once the Covid19 cloud passes all the economies will be severely affected and in pretty bad shape, neither countries will have the patience to go after China. Instead, they would prefer to work with them in the dark rather than creates another manufacturing and logistics void which will pull their own economies even deeper.
Once the Covid19 cloud passes all the economies will be severely affected and in pretty bad shape, neither countries will have the patience to go after China. Instead, they would prefer to work with them in the dark rather than creates another manufacturing and logistics void which will pull their own economies even deeper.
