Corona virus impact on China's production

[Ouroboros]

It is bad here. Stress is why I am up in the middle of the night.

All the schools and universities are closed. Store shelves
are empty.

One of my sons' girlfriend is Chinese and live in Hong Kong. It's all a very scary situation right now.

 

[Audie]

One of my sons' girlfriend is Chinese and live in Hong Kong. It's all a very scary situation right now.

I hope things work out for them.
It is far more a big nuisance and economic
problem than it is life threatening.
What part of town does she live in?

 

[Revoltingest]

Thanks C. We are well stocked, and do not really go out.
Repulse Bay is not a high density area.

I will be fine.

Repulse Bay.....I like the name.

 

[Ouroboros]

I hope things work out for them.
It is far more a big nuisance and economic
problem than it is life threatening.
What part of town does she live in?

I'm not sure, but she seems to be okay and safe.

 

[Audie]

Repulse Bay.....I like the name.

Its nice here, check google images

it is NOT the one in Canukistan

 

[Audie]

I'm not sure, but she seems to be okay and safe.

Just wondered, maybe you can find out.
I'd be interested.

 

[Ouroboros]

Just wondered, maybe you can find out.
I'd be interested.

Will do.

 

[Dave Watchman]

Fore warned is fore armed. There are things we can start doing now that will at least make things easier down the road.

Stocking up on food and other necessities, picking up or putting together a monster first aide kit (hospitals in some of the worst infected areas are already turning away all but the most seriously sick or the injured), learning first aide ( YouTube) and keeping a handbook (recommend an EMT training text), networking with your neighbors before hand, stocking up on water filtration/ purification equipment and having an emergency or alternative power source or two . . .

Going to try and make another thread about all this.

I don't know what to tell you Mr Mire.

I'm such a Bible Tard, I look at all this with those lenses.

Like if this IS the Black Swan Event that leads to the Biblical end of the world, I won't win it with LED flashlights and cans of tuna fish.

I thought the world was going to end a year ago in January. So I already have bags of rice, barrels of dried corn, a 55 gallon drum of kerosene and fishing poles and tackle. I thought I would feed the cats with perch and sunfish, saving the lake trout for myself.

But what you said about "keeping a handbook" is a good idea. I've got to keep notes. If the NET stops working, I'm not smart anymore. I need to make a physical note of this recipe to purify water.

There's a recipe for disinfecting questionable water with the dry SHOCK type of pool chlorine. Some people use bleach, but bleach gets weak in storage. Pool shock is so effective that it has to be pre-diluted, and then diluted again. Put a teaspoon into two gallons of water, and then use 1 part of THAT solution to disinfect 100 parts of water.

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And get some grey blocks to make an outdoor rocket stove. Make it like the girl did in the video but add one more brick on top. Making that vertical riser longer improves the burn.

You can boil water fast.

Pressure cookers are the way to go.

Rice, beans. Whatever. The pressure cooker seals the heat in.

The food cooks faster.

But be careful not to get too caught up in all the prepping, and lose focus on the matter at hand.

See to it that you are not caught up in dissipation and the cares of this life.

Like after all the prepping, I might have to run out of here with tarp and a sleeping bag under my arm.

 

[Shad]

The headline is misleading and sensational, but the information in the story is not.

‘Like Europe in Medieval Times’: Virus Slows China’s Economy

Workers can’t return to their jobs as supply lines get snarled, extending the forced holiday and fracturing the country.
...
More than two weeks after China locked down a major city to stop a dangerous viral outbreak, one of the world’s largest economies remains largely idle. Much of the country was supposed to have reopened by now, but its empty streets, quiet factories and legions of inactive workers suggest that weeks or months could pass before this vital motor of global growth is humming again.

The global economy could suffer the longer China stays in low gear. It has been hampered by both the outbreak and its own containment efforts, a process that has cut off workers from their jobs and factories from their raw materials. The result is a slowdown that is already slashing traffic along the world’s shipping lines and leading to forecasts of a sharp fall in production of everything from cars to smartphones.
...
Major companies said their factories remained closed or were running slower than usual. Ford Motor said that its joint venture with one of China’s biggest state-owned firms was restarting some production, but that it would “ramp up our production over the following weeks.”

General Motors said that it would reopen the first of its huge assembly plants in China only on Saturday, and would gradually reopen the rest over the following two weeks, “based on local employees’ safety readiness, supply chain readiness and product inventory needs.”
...
The municipal government in Shanghai, home to more than 20 million people and a vast array of businesses, said that only 70 percent of the city’s manufacturers were taking steps to resume production. Few have actually received permission to do so.

Businesses “want to protect staff, but also nobody wants to get caught offsides when it comes to the labor law or the daily announcements from the government,” said Ker Gibbs, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

It is not yet clear how the ripples from China’s slowdown will affect the United States. Businesses that rely on assembling a lot of different parts from various suppliers could become the hardest hit. At the top of that list is the auto industry — a single car may require as many as 30,000 parts from various suppliers.

Standard issues with any disease or virus outbreak really. Same issue happened with SARS when it hit domestic animal product industry in BC. Work stopped in certain locations. Whole farms (mostly industrial types) that raised chickens destroyed resulting in lost profits and investments.

 

[Quagmire]

I don't know what to tell you Mr Mire.

I'm such a Bible Tard, I look at all this with those lenses.

Like if this IS the Black Swan Event that leads to the Biblical end of the world, I won't win it with LED flashlights and cans of tuna fish.

I thought the world was going to end a year ago in January. So I already have bags of rice, barrels of dried corn, a 55 gallon drum of kerosene and fishing poles and tackle. I thought I would feed the cats with perch and sunfish, saving the lake trout for myself.

But what you said about "keeping a handbook" is a good idea. I've got to keep notes. If the NET stops working, I'm not smart anymore. I need to make a physical note of this recipe to purify water.

There's a recipe for disinfecting questionable water with the dry SHOCK type of pool chlorine. Some people use bleach, but bleach gets weak in storage. Pool shock is so effective that it has to be pre-diluted, and then diluted again. Put a teaspoon into two gallons of water, and then use 1 part of THAT solution to disinfect 100 parts of water.

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints | UNSEALED DISCUSSION BOARD​

And get some grey blocks to make an outdoor rocket stove. Make it like the girl did in the video but add one more brick on top. Making that vertical riser longer improves the burn.

You can boil water fast.

Pressure cookers are the way to go.

Rice, beans. Whatever. The pressure cooker seals the heat in.

The food cooks faster.

But be careful not to get too caught up in all the prepping, and lose focus on the matter at hand.

See to it that you are not caught up in dissipation and the cares of this life.

The whole point of prepping is so you don't have to worry about any of the what-ifs (aside from the fact that it's fun).

Like after all the prepping, I might have to run out of here with tarp and a sleeping bag under my arm.

Can prep for that too (found a nice down sleeping bag at a thrift store for $5 today, incidentally).

I'm learning how to build a solar oven. Already know how to build a solar still and an impromptu water filtration system, and have a fair grasp of the local wild edibles. I'm pretty good with a slingshot and have two decent ones (you never run out of ammo)

I know from experience there's this immense sense of security from going off into the woods with almost nothing and knowing you still have everything you'll need.

 

[Dave Watchman]

It was a couple of spooky hours just now reading up on the corona materials.

Video of three little kids being placed into an adult body bag.

Is it even for real?

Why would they fake it?

But then the numbers are late in coming out.

Like an hour and a half late.

My screen goes from 45000 cases to 60000.

And 1118 deaths to 1360.

A big increase for the day.

Too big, I bet on a mistake in the page itself.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 60,161 Cases and 1,365 Deaths from the Wuhan China Virus Outbreak - Worldometer​

But nope, the official report finally came in and confirmed.

It's not slowing down yet.

Then somebody said that the factories wouldn't open up until May 1st.

AC from Canada took the words right out of my mouth:

"It's accelerating FULL BLAST while the city is under quarantine and total lockdown! No other country in the world could do a lockdown like China. We are f'ed.

"This is going to touch us all soon

https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message4239933/reply77695186​

 

[Dave Watchman]

Data from http://windy.com shows a massive release of sulfur dioxide gas from the outskirts of Wuhan, commonly associated with the burning of organic matters. Levels are elevated, even compared with the rest of China.

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