Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

SH probably not happy he didn’t get a mention...

 

Apparently the arsonists accept they need to take a more scientific approach. They will settle whether the blame lies with 5G using ducking-stools.

 

Good to see UK health workers, the ones Boris and Matt have been clapping, finally getting the PPE they need - even if they have to make it themselves out of bin-bags.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52145140

“Who the f*** are South Korea?”

 

Jacob Rees-Mogg‘s investment firm is accused of exploiting worldwide market volatility caused by the coronavirus panic to rake in huge profits.

The MP owns 15 percent of Somerset Capital Management, whose chiefs appear to be investing in businesses hit hard by falling stocks.

Executives have told clients the international crisis is providing a ‘once in a generation’ chance of earning ‘super normal returns’, the Sunday Mirror says.

SCM managers are swallowing up businesses expected to ‘bounce back’ if the world economy recovers. There are potential gains of 500 percent.

Investments include private hospitals in Brazil, pharmacies in South Africa, and a Chinese firm behind a device which checks if people are wearing masks.


Mark Asquith, an SCM boss, wrote to investors: ‘History has shown us that super normal returns can be made during this type of environment.

 

It is the job of those running investment companies to obtain the best returns possible for their clients, which includes many pension funds. They would failing in their in not doing so.

 

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

Every other investment fund around the world will be doing exactly the same. It is called looking after their clients.

 

No, it's called trashing the economy even further and profiteering from human misery.

The fact you applaud it is disgusting, as usual. PL footballers are getting vilified in the press for not taking pay cuts and we have vermin like Mogg making money on the side. Anyone profiteering from this situation in a position of power should face jail and serious financial penalties.

 

use him as a guinea pig , might be his only useful contribution to society

 

You clearly have little idea on how pension funds invest to best look after those that depend on the proceeds. Picking up low value shares in a depressed market is usual business. It is how stock markets and investment funds operate around the world.

 

Of course I do, why do you always think you know best? Your lack of education and insecurity is quite funny to see.

My point was about Mogg making money off the situation. It shouldn't be allowed.

I'm not going to bother answering you again, just **** off and ruin a different forum.

 

Right we have had the whinge about this individual, so before this takes off into SH and his investment opportunities, let's try and get back on track.

 

There are reports of football matches and picnics taking place in parks being broken up by the police, and the car park at Cassiobury Park in Watford having to be closed because of the numbers turning up. What is it with these people? Are they just not concerned to do what is requested for the good of all, or is it possible they just don't know. I do know people in England who change channels as soon as the news comes on as it is always the same, and they would rather watch a game show. It seems hard to believe that this is going on for whatever reason.

 

I was very annoyed at the Police statement that people will get 'frustrated' with the lockdown and start flouting self-isolation rules. If they end it after 3 weeks the whole thing will have been a massive waste of time, unless they think their new 'hospital' and handful of ventilators are enough to keep the deaths down, and going back to the herd immunity plan.

 

They'll want to implement that asap , Dyson is part of that , tory super hero saves economy. .....blah blah

 

politics again!!!

 

An interesting piece on how government has worked in Germany, that has a better record of dealing with the crisis than many.

As the coronavirus crisis tests the resilience of democracies around the globe, Germany has gone from cursing its lead-footed, decentralised political system to wondering if federalism’s tortoise versus hare logic puts it in a better position to brave the pandemic than most.

Under German federalism – which has roots going back to the Holy Roman Empire but was entrenched after the Nazi era to weaken centralised rule – key policy areas, such as health, education and cultural affairs, fall under the jurisdiction of the country’s 16 states, or Länder.

At the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, such a highly devolved system of governance made the woman nominally in charge of the country look oddly powerless: even when Angela Merkel announced the first raft of social-distancing measures, she could only make recommendations that the federal states were free to implement or ignore.

A week and a half into the de facto lockdown, however, Germany is beginning to discover the upsides of a system which distributes, rather than centralises, power.

The country suddenly finds itself being held up as the model to be emulated for its high rates of testing – seen by many as the only strategy for being able to navigate a route out of lockdown measures.

 

According to the official statistics Germany has tested 918,460 people - this is 10,962 for every million population. The rate has gone up to 50,000 per day, and a further ramp up is planned. However, Italy's rate of testing is just as high, and these are not the highest in Europe. Norway has tested 19,528 from every million and the respective figures for Switzerland and Austria are 17,729 and 12,038. This gives more credibility to the 'new cases' figures than in eg. the UK or France. Judging by the statistics coming in Austria, Switzerland and Italy look to be past the peak in terms of new infections, and Germany is at its peak now. High levels of testing appears to be one of the answers, and particularly fast testing with quick results. You have to break down the time lapse between infection and testing as much as possible. As far as federalism is concerned, this has come under the microscope in recent weeks - the fact that Germany has gone into lockdown is no result of central government, but rather that Bavaria took the lead and the others followed - rather reluctantly in the case of NRW. So cafes were closed earlier in Bavaria than in NRW. Interestingly Bavaria appears to have taken its lead from Austria rather than from Berlin.

 

We know how you shy away from politics. Have you ever posted to a football thread?

 

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