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A small distillery in Tennessee has switched over from making whiskey to hand sanitizer. Can you imagine that? What a waste, everybody knows we need whiskey too to combat the virus. See peace of mind thingy. Oh how will some of us cope without drinking the hand sanitizer?

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Trump has called out the pathetic, politicised World Health Organisation for its pro China stance on the Chinese coronavirus. He should cut their funding immediately. The USA pays 20% of this Chinese fan club's annual funds, whilst it's main political puppet master, China, pays 1%. Time for Trumpy to straighten the record. The leader  of the WHO is nothing but a Chinese mouthpiece and puppet.

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Sorry to hear that Tommy. Thought you might have a quad or something to get out back with. Even a truck to get around with is better that staying in the lodge all the time. Might be a bit mucky though with all this rain.


You mentioned "walk" hence my response re: my old sports injuries haunting me now. I have a Chevy pick-up & a Polaris Ranger to get around in the bush. We are not "primitive" down here ya know.


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Never let a good crisis go to waste, especially one you created yourself. China is now rationing medicines and using them as a political weapon. They have intentionally rationed critical medicines so as to corner the market in them. A White House spokesman has said that when you have intentional premeditated, cold blooded action, like you have with China, this could be considered as first degree murder. Strong words indeed. If a western company wants to set up shop in China they have to agree to a Chinese government presence, in the form of a government spy, to be unambiguous, who is there to monitor your company and steal any intellectual property that the government might want. At the beginning of January the Chinese government knew this pandemic of their making was out of control and they prevented Honeywell and 3M amongst others, from exporting certain medical equipment, whilst clandestinely importing much needed supplies from around the world to combat it at home, including from the EU, when nobody really knew the full extent of the crisis. Had these countries been legally and morally informed, they would never have let it go. This crisis is a loud and clear wake up call to the west now, that short term monetary gain and greed by hawking your industries over there has got to be stopped. These vital industries need returning home and China needs taking down a peg or fifty.

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You mentioned "walk" hence my response re: my old sports injuries haunting me now. I have a Chevy pick-up & a Polaris Ranger to get around in the bush. We are not "primitive" down here ya know. What about a quad bike Tom

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Trump has called out the pathetic, politicised World Health Organisation for its pro China stance on the Chinese coronavirus. He should cut their funding immediately. The USA pays 20% of this Chinese fan club's annual funds, whilst it's main political puppet master, China, pays 1%. Time for Trumpy to straighten the record. The leader  of the WHO is nothing but a Chinese mouthpiece and puppet.


More FOX Trash news Major. Trump is blaming the WHO for not declaring it an emergency and a pandemic sooner and China separately for the same.  Trump has never taken the blame for anything he has done wrong and choses to blame it on someone else. That's what he is doing here. He may have mentioned them both in the same breath, but that's all. Did you hear Trump thank the WHO for sending 3000 ventilators to NY city. No I didn't think so because he never bothered to. The world can't be without the WHO because it monitors the united nations countries and is an early warning system to them all. Educate yourself and read up on what they do.

You didn't mention that the guy in charge of keeping track of that 2 trillion dollars the WH just got to pay out was let go and replaced by a Trump insider. That's were American eyes right now should be. Making sure the money is used for what it was intended for and nothing else.


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Trump has called out the pathetic, politicised World Health Organisation for its pro China stance on the Chinese coronavirus. He should cut their funding immediately. The USA pays 20% of this Chinese fan club's annual funds, whilst it's main political puppet master, China, pays 1%. Time for Trumpy to straighten the record. The leader  of the WHO is nothing but a Chinese mouthpiece and puppet.


More FOX Trash news Major. Trump is blaming the WHO for not declaring it an emergency and a pandemic sooner and China separately for the same.  Trump has never taken the blame for anything he has done wrong and choses to blame it on someone else. That's what he is doing here. He may have mentioned them both in the same breath, but that's all. Did you hear Trump thank the WHO for sending 3000 ventilators to NY city. No I didn't think so because he never bothered to. The world can't be without the WHO because it monitors the united nations countries and is an early warning system to them all. Educate yourself and read up on what they do.

You didn't mention that the guy in charge of keeping track of that 2 trillion dollars the WH just got to pay out was let go and replaced by a Trump insider. That's were American eyes right now should be. Making sure the money is used for what it was intended for and nothing else.



Facemask Warriors are a group of local women who are sewing & donating facemasks to people in need in my rural area because of the coronavirus. The lady who started the group said sewing for troops is part of our American heritage going back to the Revolutionary War after the British had taken Charleston South Carolina & Philadelphia Penn. The populace was in a panic & colonial women leaped into action by sewing uniforms & repairing clothes for the troops. Originally called the Philadelphia Ladies Association, & popularly referred to as Washington's sewing circle. 

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My hat's off to your Warrior women, Tom.  I think we have a group here too, making masks.  Women have always come to the fore in an emergency.  By nature, they are protectors.
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This just doesn't sound right but apparently FEMA has taken over the destitution of medical supplies that are received from foreign countries and those made at home. They hand out about a half of it to different States and then put the other half on the open market which the different states have to then bid on to get. 


U.S. to seize exports of masks and gloves amid coronavirus crisis.

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - The United States will seize exports of key protective medical gear until it determines whether the equipment should be kept in the country to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, two federal agencies announced on Wednesday. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will hold exports of respirators, surgical masks and surgical gloves, according to a joint announcement made with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA will then determine if the equipment should be returned for use in the United States, purchased by the U.S. government or exported.

President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on Friday that directed federal agencies to use any authority necessary to keep the highly sought-after medical supplies in the United States.

Governors, mayors and physicians have voiced alarm for weeks over crippling scarcities of personal protective gear for first-responders and front-line healthcare workers, as well as ventilators and other medical supplies.

The move to seize exports will include N95 respirator masks, which filter airborne particles and are used to protect against COVID-19, the potentially lethal respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.

The U.S. manufacturing company 3M Co, a leading producer of the masks worldwide, said on Monday that it had reached a deal with the Trump administration that would allow it to continue to export the masks to Canada and Latin America despite the new restrictions. The company had said days earlier that ceasing exports to those regions would have "humanitarian implications."

A federal regulation that outlines FEMA's procedures for seizing and vetting the exports will go into effect on Friday and remain in place until Aug. 10, according to a draft version posted online.

FEMA will aim to make decisions about exports quickly and seek to minimize disruptions to the supply chain, the draft regulation said.

Some state and local government officials have accused FEMA in recent days of confiscating shipments of masks and other supplies coming from overseas.

An official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who requested anonymity to discuss the matter earlier this week said half of the protective gear brought to the United States on U.S. government flights can be redirected to high-need areas around the country, but disputed the idea that the equipment had been seized.

FEMA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.



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Freeland won’t say if Canada has seen U.S. intel flagging Chinese coronavirus data

Can Chinese coronavirus data be trusted?

That is the question emerging again and again in headlines around the world as repeated U.S. government leaks cast doubts on the official case numbers from China, which muzzled early scientists raising alarm bells about the virus and tried to cover up the 2003 SARS outbreak.

But Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland isn't saying whether Canadian officials have seen any of the intelligence data behind the reports and questions -- questions that Health Minister Patty Hajdu claimed last week were simply fuelling what she called "conspiracy theories."

"Of course we do share intelligence information through the Five Eyes ... we have very frequent security and intelligence conversations with the United States," Freeland said on Wednesday.

"A reason we are able to have those conversations — which are very important in the crisis that the world is experiencing today — is because those conversations happen in private and so I am not able to share details of what is discussed in those conversations."

Freeland also said Canada relies on the data its scientists get from the World Health Organization.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also sidestepped questions last week on whether Canada had seen the intelligence and whether he trusted the Chinese numbers.

The coronavirus outbreak was first identified in China's Hubei province in December 2019.

Scientists so far have suggested it likely jumped from bats to a secondary carrier animal before making the leap to infect humans at a Wuhan wet market.

China has reported 82,000 cases and 3,300 deaths from the coronavirus.

But those numbers are under scrutiny as they pale in comparison to the recorded tallies in other countries, including the U.S., where 189,000 people have tested positive and more than 4,000 died.

Italy, as well, has reported 139,422 cases and 17,669 deaths.

Bloomberg first reported on April 1 that the American intelligence community concluded in a classified report for the Trump administration that China's reporting on coronavirus cases and deaths was faked.

That report cited three U.S. intelligence officials calling the data from China "intentionally incomplete."

The following day, the New York Times reported that the CIA had been warning the American administration since early February that China's coronavirus tallies could not be trusted.

The intelligence officials cited in that report said a likely cause was that health officials in Wuhan had been hiding the real numbers out of fear of losing their jobs.

U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence has also said China likely knew about the cases at least a month before they shared them with the rest of the world, while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged China to let U.S. scientists work directly with labs in Wuhan to try to get more accurate numbers.

A report by ABC News on Wednesday further expanded on the questions being raised, citing four U.S. officials who said American intelligence was warning back in November that China had lost control of a contagion sweeping through Wuhan.

That intelligence called the contagion a potential "cataclysmic event."

Research published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet back in January also said there was evidence of human-to-human transmission in China in early December.

Those early patients, the research noted, were moved into hospital before the Wuhan wet market was identified as a possible source of transmission and shut down in January.

China reported the existence of the virus to the World Health Organization on Dec. 31, 2019.

Since then, it has infected 1.5 million people around the world and killed more than 83,000.

In Canada, there are more than 17,880 cases and 380 deaths so far.

Public health officials warned the government in February that there were no resources to impose a mandatory quarantine on the 20,000 people coming to Canada from China each week at the time.

In recent days, federal ministers have pointed to China as a key supplier to Canada of medical gear like personal protective equipment, shipping millions of the items in the last roughly two weeks.


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More FOX Trash news Major. Trump is blaming the WHO for not declaring it an emergency and a pandemic sooner and China separately for the same. Of course he is and the rest of the sane world, not in the pay of the Chinese. Don't include Turdope in the sane world, he's just another China arse licker. So what's your complaint in 128? That Trump is stopping highly sought after medical goods from leaving  the country? If Turdope allowed Canada's medical supplies to go to other countries at the expense of Canadians, you'd applaud him would you? Did you hear Trump thank the WHO for sending 3000 ventilators to NY city. No I didn't think so because he never bothered to. The world can't be without the WHO because it monitors the united nations countries and is an early warning system to them all. Educate yourself and read up on what they do. You told me a few days ago it was the Chinese Trump should be thanking for the 3000 ventilators, now it's the WHO. Firstly, how would you know he's not thanked anybody? Because he isn't in front of a TV screen doing it? He's not Turdope of the bent eyebrow you know, the drama queen who practices his acting in front of a mic and camera and can't do anything without both. With the money the US gives the WHO, they could buy a 10 million respirators, so who should be thanking who, or should I say WHO should be thanking the US.

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Pete, 129 is absolutely correct, the Chinese were lying through their back teeth and their commie obsession with secrecy has and will cost tens of thousands of lives worldwide. 'Face' is worth any amount of lives to the Chinese and as for this wet market shite, that will be proven to be crap, this has come from a Chinese laboratory.

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So let's take a look at the World Health Organisation and especially it's Chinese stooge at the head of it, Dr Tedros Adhonom. First of all, he isn't a medical doctor, in fact, he's the first none medical doctor to lead the WHO in its 72 year history, a fact the mainstream media have yet to inform the public of. He has never saved a person's life in his life but he has been responsible for getting rid of quite a few. He is a self confessed communist academic and politician, who hired a US company called Mercury public affairs to help him secure the post at the WHO. They organised a professional presentation and lobbying campaign and with the backing and pressure of the Chinese, he got the job. His performance in answering questions from the floor of the WHO is lamentable. He held a number of offices in the government, from health ministerIn Ethiopia he backed the communist revolution and in the Addis News, a fellow politician penned a column saying that Tedros had politicised the Ethiopian health service and left it crippled. Of course he politicised it, communists politicise absolutely everything. This resulted in massive western foreign aid pouring into Ethiopia once again. Whilst he was only responsible for causing the death of his own people, he was an official in the TPLF, which is the Tigre People's Liberation Front, which is Ethiopia's communist party. It always makes me smile when I hear those two words, liberation front (reminds me of the scenes in Life of Brian) liberation fronts are there to steal your liberation. The TPLF was so brutal in its dealings with people, that the USA declared it a terrorist organisation back in the 90's and is still listed in the global terror database for its continued raids in rural communities. Tedros's office oversaw the forced relocation of 15,000 rural farmers and their lands sold off or given to government officials for free. Those farmers ended up begging in the streets, which reminds you of Rhodesia and Mugabe, who I'll get to. This action by Tedros office sparked massive demonstrations in the streets, which led to the brutal regime in government killing hundreds of their own people. Tedros was part of that government and said that the world community had blown the reports way out of proportion. So what he was saying is, yes we killed lots of people, but not as many as you say. He got into a heated argument with the Human Rights Watch, saying that they were responsible for encouraging the riots in the first place. His record of supporting dictatorships was not restricted to Ethiopia either, when the president of Kenya was sent to trial at the Haigh by the International Criminal Court, Tedros rallied the dictators of Africa and put out a common statement to say that they had rejected the wests approach to double standards of justice. He told the world that sitting heads of sate should not be prosecuted whilst in office. As I said, China was mainly responsible for getting him the job at the WHO, as they see a man they can comfortably use for political purposes. The Washington Post journalist, Frida Ghitis wrote of his appointment and remember, the Washington Post is a left wing newspaper..... China worked tirelessly behind the scenes to Help Tedros defeat the candidate from the UK for the WHO job. Tedros victory was also a victory for Beijing, whose leader Xi Jinping has made it his ambition to flex China's muscles in the world. So, he gets the job and what's the first thing he does? Obvious to anybody isn't it? He appoints despot Robert Mugabe as a WHO goodwill ambassador! HA! He's had thousands murdered, destroyed a once wealthy country, the breadbasket of Africa and robbed it blind. Why Mugabe? Because China told him to, as China has been the key, along with North Korea, in keeping Mugabe in power and the Chinese just about rule there from the shadows. I'll carry on below, not enough room here.

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You can only put so much in one posting, as the site only allows so many words per box. On January 14th, Tedros under obvious instruction from China, reported from the WHO that Chinese authorities had found no clear evidence of people to people infection from the virus. That was a cold blooded lie from China and Tedros should have refused to parrot phrase it. You wonder why people didn't act sooner, when Tedros didn't even call it a pandemic until March 11th, probably after getting his orders from China. As if all this isn't bad enough, the New York Times has also accused him of a cover up programme to hide several cholera epidemics in Ethiopia when he was health minister. There is a global petition running right now with over a million signatures to get shut of this Chines glove puppet. It's the governments of the western democracies who should throw this murderous crook out right now. I absolve Turdope from this action.

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Unemployment rates as expected have gone through the roof. 16.8 million in the States in the past 3 weeks, and 3+ million here. 

The recovery is going to take a lot longer than planned by the looks of it.

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You told me a few days ago it was the Chinese Trump should be thanking for the 3000 ventilators, now it's the WHO. Firstly, how would you know he's not thanked anybody? Because he isn't in front of a TV screen doing it? He's not Turdope of the bent eyebrow you know, the drama queen who practices his acting in front of a mic and camera and can't do anything without both. With the money the US gives the WHO, they could buy a 10 million respirators, so who should be thanking who, or should I say WHO should be thanking the US.


Because WHO does the coordinating. Because the real news said he hasn't. You seem to be a little jealous of Trudeau, especially because he doing a better job right now that your PM is and to be honest always has. 

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Unemployment rates as expected have gone through the roof. 16.8 million in the States in the past 3 weeks, and 3+ million here. 

The recovery is going to take a lot longer than planned by the looks of it.


Pete, you posted with apparent glee about the DOW crashing but haven't mentioned a word about the current rebound? 

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Because Tommy there is no true rebound in the markets for quite a while yet. If you watch them they are down more than they are up. The only ones throwing money at the markets are wishful thinkers or high risk gamblers. Not until better and more testing is done will the markets even start to stabilize. Like they say the virus is the one that will dictate when the markets will make a come back not the President or throwing money at it. They are forcasting hard times for at least a year or maybe more. And if you take into consideration the unemployment in both our countries and what this virus will cost us all before it passes, it's scary.

Not to be all Grim Weeper, the market will come back eventually and they always have but many businesses large and small won't be able stay the course in this one and will have to fold. They will have no other choice. Even the housing market which had been doing better may end up like it did last down turn. Most people can't even afford low interest mortages right now or car payments.The only way I've been able to sleep at nights is because the majority of what I have is locked in for the next two years in GIC's. They are only paying just over 2% but at least I'm not losing anything.

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Because Tommy there is no true rebound in the markets for quite a while yet. If you watch them they are down more than they are up. The only ones throwing money at the markets are wishful thinkers or high risk gamblers. Not until better and more testing is done will the markets even start to stabilize. Like they say the virus is the one that will dictate when the markets will make a come back not the President or throwing money at it. They are forcasting hard times for at least a year or maybe more. And if you take into consideration the unemployment in both our countries and what this virus will cost us all before it passes, it's scary.

Not to be all Grim Weeper, the market will come back eventually and they always have but many businesses large and small won't be able stay the course in this one and will have to fold. They will have no other choice. Even the housing market which had been doing better may end up like it did last down turn. Most people can't even afford low interest mortages right now or car payments.The only way I've been able to sleep at nights is because the majority of what I have is locked in for the next two years in GIC's. They are only paying just over 2% but at least I'm not losing anything.


Oh really, so the bottom wasn't falling out either then? Not based on your biased reporting for the last month, thought is was 1929 all over. Now it's not true rebound........maybe a fake rebound then? 2% eh, seems like chump change. No sell, no lose in the market right now.

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You posted with apparent glee about the Dow crashing but haven't mentioned a word about the rebound.


Because Tommy there is no true rebound in the markets for quite a while yet. If you watch them they are down more than they are up. The only ones throwing money at the markets are wishful thinkers or high risk gamblers. Not until better and more testing is done will the markets even start to stabilize. Like they say the virus is the one that will dictate when the markets will make a come back not the President or throwing money at it. They are forecasting hard times for at least a year or maybe more. And if you take into consideration the unemployment in both our countries and what this virus will cost us all before it passes, it's scary.

Not to be all Grim Weeper, the market will come back eventually and they always have but many businesses large and small won't be able stay the course in this one and will have to fold. They will have no other choice. Even the housing market which had been doing better may end up like it did last down turn. Most people can't even afford low interest mortgages right now or car payments. The only way I've been able to sleep at nights is because the majority of what I have is locked in for the next two years in GIC's. They are only paying just over 2% but at least I'm not losing anything.


Oh really, so the bottom wasn't falling out either then? Not based on your biased reporting for the last month, thought is was 1929 all over. Now it's not true rebound........maybe a fake rebound then? 2% eh, seems like chump change. No sell, no lose in the market right now. As I said above I don't see this as the true rebound that you think it is and are looking for. The markets right now are up one day and down the next. The slightest thing said will cause them to go either way. There is no real confidence in the markets still. It wasn't that the Dow dropping was great for me, it was good that I had my money in places that it didn't hurt me like it did people who were into higher risk investing. The higher the risk the bigger the gain or the bigger the loss. It's a gamble and the older you get you can't afford to gamble with your retirement savings even though many people do. True 2% is chump change if you are comparing it to what you can make on the markets but when you lose on the markets you lose your investment plus that 2% you could have made. You can't lose any of your investment with GIC'S. The markets were down 20+% at one time so how long will it take you to regain that 20% unless you add another 20% and top your portfolio back up to what it was before the down turn.


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If Charles infects Canada's Queen, it sure will be.


I'm looking at the death counts in both Canada and the States and using by method of a 10 to 1 ratio of our populations. Canada today has 30 deaths so far and the States has 898. The States should only have 300 deaths using the ratios, not 898. Every Canadian would say that's because we have a better healthcare system set up and we do but there is also probably another consideration that has to be mentioned and that is Canadians are spread out further apart than Americans are. I also looked at how many Canadians and American were brought home from foreign countries after this virus caught hold. America brought back 9,000 travellers and Canada brought back 55,000 travellers.

A lot of Canadian companies seem to be stepping up and producing medical supplies. Actually more than I expected. The Province of Ontario just recieved 300 more ventilators from one and the Canada Goose clothing company known for producting winter wear have gone into producing masks and protective wear.

I guess my question would be to all, why is our death rate so much lower and how can the States try to curve theirs.


Well, there you go again Pete with a flawed system & #'s. Better to look at the survival #'s.


It is a bitter irony of the current pandemic that Passover is a holiday about plagues, visited by God on the Egyptians in order to persuade pharaoh to let the Jewish slaves go. Passover refers to a sign, marked in lamb's blood on the doors of Jewish households, to instruct the Angel of Death to pass over their houses as God unleashed his 10th plague, the slaying of the first born.


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It is, Tom, and I noted that too.  I started a little research on plagues in history.  But then came the boils and the buboes.  There is a fine line between being an empath and a hypochondriac.
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If Charles infects Canada's Queen, it sure will be.


I'm looking at the death counts in both Canada and the States and using by method of a 10 to 1 ratio of our populations. Canada today has 30 deaths so far and the States has 898. The States should only have 300 deaths using the ratios, not 898. Every Canadian would say that's because we have a better healthcare system set up and we do but there is also probably another consideration that has to be mentioned and that is Canadians are spread out further apart than Americans are. I also looked at how many Canadians and American were brought home from foreign countries after this virus caught hold. America brought back 9,000 travellers and Canada brought back 55,000 travellers.

A lot of Canadian companies seem to be stepping up and producing medical supplies. Actually more than I expected. The Province of Ontario just recieved 300 more ventilators from one and the Canada Goose clothing company known for producting winter wear have gone into producing masks and protective wear.

I guess my question would be to all, why is our death rate so much lower and how can the States try to curve theirs.


Well, there you go again Pete with a flawed system & #'s. Better to look at the survival #'s.


It is a bitter irony of the current pandemic that Passover is a holiday about plagues, visited by God on the Egyptians in order to persuade pharaoh to let the Jewish slaves go. Passover refers to a sign, marked in lamb's blood on the doors of Jewish households, to instruct the Angel of Death to pass over their houses as God unleashed his 10th plague, the slaying of the first born.



New numbers for deaths as of 11 Apr 2020. I wish they were but unfortunately these numbers aren't flawed Tommy.

Canada- 653

Britain- 9,875

States- 20,000+

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GB is heading for 20,000+ along with Italy, Spain and France, Germany fifth. Not unexpected as we five have the largest populations in Europe. I suspect China and Iran are well ahead but aren't saying so.

Other European countries with high death rates per head of population are Belgium, The Netherlands and Switzerland.

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Heard a bit more bad news because people that had the virus and who tested negative after it are testing positive again. It has happened in both South Korea and Spain so far.

The doctors figured that they should have had immunity for at least 18 months after having it. Sure hope the virus hasn't mutated.

Also people can carry the virus but show no signs of having it. Only making so many test kits won't be good enough.

Our seniors homes are taking a beating. A lot of the problem there is our health care workers were working in more than one home and probably spreading it. That has been put to a stop now.

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Heard a bit more bad news because people that had the virus and who tested negative after it are testing positive again. It has happened in both South Korea and Spain so far.

The doctors figured that they should have had immunity for at least 18 months after having it. Sure hope the virus hasn't mutated.

Also people can carry the virus but show no signs of having it. Only making so many test kits won't be good enough.

Our seniors homes are taking a beating. A lot of the problem there is our health care workers were working in more than one home and probably spreading it. That has been put to a stop now.


Could it be the "end time" Pete? Then the "rapture" comes & the believers are taken up to heaven to be with the "Father," Hope you aren't the one left standing on the hill, Pete. Repent now, there is still hope.

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Heard a bit more bad news because people that had the virus and who tested negative after it are testing positive again. It has happened in both South Korea and Spain so far.

The doctors figured that they should have had immunity for at least 18 months after having it. Sure hope the virus hasn't mutated.

Also people can carry the virus but show no signs of having it. Only making so many test kits won't be good enough.

Our seniors homes are taking a beating. A lot of the problem there is our health care workers were working in more than one home and probably spreading it. That has been put to a stop now.


Could it be the "end time" Pete? Then the "rapture" comes & the believers are taken up to heaven to be with the "Father," Hope you aren't the one left standing on the hill, Pete. Repent now, there is still hope.


Don't be silly Tommy, I'll be the one with the flashlight shinning the guiding light for you.

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Dr Fauci (Director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases) has openly announced that China gave the world misinformation about their Wuhan virus. Shock horror! They have had to admit to harvesting and testing the corona virus in a laboratory. Now we also find out that Obarmy gave the Chinese $3.7 million to conduct coronavirus research, with NO oversight as to what they were doing and how they were doing it and who was the director of the National Institute at the time? Dr Fauci. Fauci bares a great deal of the responsibility, along with Obarmy for ever considering allowing the Chinese to do this and actually pay for it. I have said all along on here and to anybody who would listen to me, this virus came from a Chinese laboratory, it was then covered up by the Chinese government to save face, whilst they tried to contain it. They refused all international help and even threw out the western press to keep what they up to a secret. Had they not suffered from this mental disease of 'face' there may have been a chance to contain it but they threw away that chance and are now responsible for mass murder and a global economic collapse. The lefty US haters have jumped all over this, telling the world how the great satan USA (meaning Trump) are responsible for this as much as the Chinese but none of them has mentioned Obarmy's name in conjunction with it yet. I'm telling you, this virus escaped from a bio-warfare lab and China's useful idiots are running around the world, as tens of thousands are dying, making sure that the words virus and China are never mentioned in the same sentence, otherwise you get the racist finger pointed at you. The Chinese are the new blacks. And talking of blacks, notice how the black racist industry has spotted an opportunity out of this carnage? They are asking the question, why are a larger percentage of blacks dying of it? I can tell them why, because the corona virus is racist.

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Dr Fauci (Director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases) has openly announced that China gave the world misinformation about their Wuhan virus. Shock horror! They have had to admit to harvesting and testing the corona virus in a laboratory. Now we also find out that Obarmy gave the Chinese $3.7 million to conduct coronavirus research, with NO oversight as to what they were doing and how they were doing it and who was the director of the National Institute at the time? Dr Fauci. Fauci bares a great deal of the responsibility, along with Obarmy for ever considering allowing the Chinese to do this and actually pay for it. I have said all along on here and to anybody who would listen to me, this virus came from a Chinese laboratory, it was then covered up by the Chinese government to save face, whilst they tried to contain it. They refused all international help and even threw out the western press to keep what they up to a secret. Had they not suffered from this mental disease of 'face' there may have been a chance to contain it but they threw away that chance and are now responsible for mass murder and a global economic collapse. The lefty US haters have jumped all over this, telling the world how the great satan USA (meaning Trump) are responsible for this as much as the Chinese but none of them has mentioned Obarmy's name in conjunction with it yet. I'm telling you, this virus escaped from a bio-warfare lab and China's useful idiots are running around the world, as tens of thousands are dying, making sure that the words virus and China are never mentioned in the same sentence, otherwise you get the racist finger pointed at you. The Chinese are the new blacks. And talking of blacks, notice how the black racist industry has spotted an opportunity out of this carnage? They are asking the question, why are a larger percentage of blacks dying of it? I can tell them why, because the corona virus is racist.


Very true re: the U.S. partial funding of the Chinese lab which goes back to the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic in China & efforts to create a vaccine via research. BTW there was also funding back then to numerous U.S. universities to do the same. The question remains if this is linked to the current pandemic which has been denied by the Chinks. Suggestions that some infected bats from these studies were sold to the so-called wet markets & were consumed by customers. There is no doubt that there was no oversight by U.S. authorities to what the Chinks were doing in the labs.

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Dr Fauci (Director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases) has openly announced that China gave the world misinformation about their Wuhan virus. Shock horror! They have had to admit to harvesting and testing the corona virus in a laboratory. Now we also find out that Obarmy gave the Chinese $3.7 million to conduct coronavirus research, with NO oversight as to what they were doing and how they were doing it and who was the director of the National Institute at the time? Dr Fauci. Fauci bares a great deal of the responsibility, along with Obarmy for ever considering allowing the Chinese to do this and actually pay for it. I have said all along on here and to anybody who would listen to me, this virus came from a Chinese laboratory, it was then covered up by the Chinese government to save face, whilst they tried to contain it. They refused all international help and even threw out the western press to keep what they up to a secret. Had they not suffered from this mental disease of 'face' there may have been a chance to contain it but they threw away that chance and are now responsible for mass murder and a global economic collapse. The lefty US haters have jumped all over this, telling the world how the great satan USA (meaning Trump) are responsible for this as much as the Chinese but none of them has mentioned Obarmy's name in conjunction with it yet. I'm telling you, this virus escaped from a bio-warfare lab and China's useful idiots are running around the world, as tens of thousands are dying, making sure that the words virus and China are never mentioned in the same sentence, otherwise you get the racist finger pointed at you. The Chinese are the new blacks. And talking of blacks, notice how the black racist industry has spotted an opportunity out of this carnage? They are asking the question, why are a larger percentage of blacks dying of it? I can tell them why, because the corona virus is racist.


The Americans were working there also Major until Trump removed them. If they had been there then you would know exactly what happened. The over site was there but removed by Trump so I don't know why you are blaming Obama. They were all working on viruses that could be passed from animals to people. Look at the other ones that have already been passed like Aids, Sar's. Swine flu and the list goes on. 

Trump is responsible for the higher death rate in the States because he was warned about it and failed to act until it had really caught hold. He had it in writing from his intel on his desk and gave the excuse that he was too busy to read it. He was too busy because the impeachment was going on so he spent his time golfing in Florida. 

His news briefing yesterday was a joke. He kept saying we didn't have any cases in January and showed time lines on a screen, so why would I shut the country down. The Reporters kept asking him so what did you do in February about getting supplies to the infected area and why didn't you shut the national down to stop it's spread then. His answer was your not good reporters and will never go far. Look how I saved millions of lives already and does anyone thanked me.

Now he wants to open up the country again too soon say all the Different State Governors. He said he will over ride them and do it anyway. A reporter said you can't do that Mr. President, it's against the law. He said we are looking at ways right now how to change the laws. He is mad because the approval rating for the Governors are almost double what they are for him.

Getting people back too some to work has already come back to haunt South Korea, Spain and China and these countries are getting a second round of it.

He says well some States aren't infected as bad as others and can go back to work but doesn't mention a lot of them live in their home State but travel to work in others.

For Trump it's all about himself and getting elected again.

The Hispanics and Blacks are getting it because they are at the bottom of the pole. No different when any pandemic strikes. It's the poor that die first. Same with any communicable diseases like the Black Plague, Spanish Flu etc. Living in cramped conditions, poor hygiene, no proper medical care. If there wasn't Hispanics and Blacks living in American then it would still be the poorest people their dying first. I think America's name for them is Trailer Trash.

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He certainly does get rattled when posed with questions he can't bluff his way out of. His understanding of the Constitution also seems a little sketchy. Keep telling the folks it'll be OK and one day they might believe you appear to be his tactics.


How can the world be laid low by a bug that can be tackled by the simple act of washing your hands. 

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