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SARS didn't do the markets a lot of good - what about Swine Flu Epidemic
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MiserlyMartin wrote: »All these people who have signs of the disease have returned from somewhere else. Surely it is simple, ban all overseas travel be it rail, air, boat, or chunnel. How much do they want it to spread before they do something?
The extremes you would go to to stop those immigrants coming in, then again you won't be able to send them home
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Does every thread on here turn into one about immigration?"I can hear you whisperin', children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience, children. I'm coming to find you now." - Harry Powell, Night of the Hunter, 1955.0
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Harry_Powell wrote: »Does every thread on here turn into one about immigration?
You think I was serious :rotfl:'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Harry_Powell wrote: »Wouldn't it be a bitter irony if, just as house prices bottom at 70% from peak and we buy our FTB, the human race is wiped out by a germ.
The human race being wiped out is the only way you are going to see -70% slight exaggeration I know. 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Guy_Montag wrote: »Practice being a deadly pandemic bug here
After hours of research & trial runs on the above site I can catagorically state that after a breakout in Mexico the only safe place is Madagascar!
Dreamworks produced an a intelligence information film.Not Again0 -
It isn't a very 'good' virus (sorry of course to thsoe who died from complications). It seems to not be affecting folks badly beyond Mexico. If we all get it, then we will all be immune. Anyway, viruses move around the planet all of the time - every season.0
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Oh my :eek: The stock market doesn't appear to agree with him at the moment.
I trust Brownie has secured the UK a strategic supply of Strepsils (I wonder if O'Leary has shares in Reckitt Benckiser)
The outspoken head of Irish budget airline Ryanair Holdings PLC (RYA.DB) said Tuesday the swine flu outbreak was only a risk to Asians and Mexicans "living in slums."
Michael O'Leary said travelers had little to fear from the deadly virus, and predicted that a couple now being treated in Scotland for the illness after a honeymoon in Mexico was in no danger.
"It is a tragedy only for people living...in slums in Asia or Mexico," he said. "But will the honeymoon couple from Edinburgh die? No. A couple of Strepsils (a brand of throat lozenges) will do the job."
O'Leary, accused by critics of doing anything for publicity, recently caused an uproar by suggesting Ryanair might charge passengers to use toilets on its flights.
The airline doesn't operate flights to Mexico.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
I beg to differ, the UK grows most of her food, but imports a significant portion (c. 40%, up from 30% in 1995).(1)What would you eat? Britain imports most of her food.
Bearing in mind that many of us are overweight(2) & we throw away 30% of all our food(3), probably we could close our doors & "survive", but it would be a bit of a crash diet, until the economy restructured to a poorer, agricultural way of life.
(1)http://www.gecafs.org/documents/PS10Barling.pdf
(2)http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/facts/index55.aspx
(3)http://www.wasteawarelovefood.org.uk/
It would probably do us all good: the damn immigrants would go home*; the benefit scroungers would have to work for their keep; there would be fewer kids knifecriming each other they would be too tired from working in the fields or up chimneys to knifecrime each other, though sicklecrime might start to rise.
*Assuming we open the gates to let them out, or install some sort of one way turnstyle at the end of the chunnel."Mrs. Pench, you've won the car contest, would you like a triumph spitfire or 3000 in cash?" He smiled.
Mrs. Pench took the money. "What will you do with it all? Not that it's any of my business," he giggled.
"I think I'll become an alcoholic," said Betty.0 -
It isn't a very 'good' virus (sorry of course to thsoe who died from complications). It seems to not be affecting folks badly beyond Mexico. If we all get it, then we will all be immune. Anyway, viruses move around the planet all of the time - every season.
Pandemic viruses normally have a very low fatality rate. The worst in recent time (the 1918 flu) had around 2% mortality. Most have less than 1% mortality. The reason they kill so many people is that there isn't any resistance to the disease, and so they go through an entire population.
If you get high mortality, the virus tends not to become a pandemic, because it kills itself off.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
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