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"US, Europe May Face Food Riots Amid COVID-19 Crisis"

https://sputniknews.com/world/202004...vid-19-crisis/

The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to take a toll globally, as the number of confirmed cases has climbed to more than 1,270,000, with over 69,450 deaths.

Millions of people around the world who are forced to stay inside due to the COVID-19 quarantine are running out of money and patience. Here’s a closer look at how the situation around the fallout of the coronavirus may further unfold in Europe and the United States.
FAO Calls For Reducing Food Supply Risks

In a statement last week, Qu Dongyu, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), called for more measures to be taken “to minimise potential impacts [of the coronavirus] on the food supply” amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns.

He also stressed the need “to contain ‘panic buying’ and the hoarding of food and other essential items”.

The remarks came after Vietnam, one of the world’s top three rice exporters, suspended its global market supplies of the cereal, while Kazakhstan imposed a ban on the export of wheat flour, buckwheat, and vegetables, including onions, carrots, and potatoes. Russia has also suspended supplies of buckwheat and rice abroad, with Belarus moving to postpone buckwheat, onion, and garlic exports.
Risk of Riots in Italy

In Italy, the European country hardest hit by the coronavirus, a nationwide lockdown, which was originally scheduled to end on 3 April, has now been extended to beyond Easter.

Palermo Mayor Leoluca Orlando warned last week that the risk of riots in southern Italy is very high because citizens’ anger over the COVID-19-related food woes may be used by criminal structures seeking to "destabilise the system”.

“We must give basic necessities to those who are hungry and we must do it immediately, without bureaucratic complications. The south will implode first and then other Italian regions. Contagion will arrive in the south later, but the social emergency will erupt here first due to the fragile conditions”, he said in an interview with the newspaper La Repubblica.

Orlando was echoed by Italian Minister for the Southern Regions Giuseppe Provenzano, who pointed to increasing social tensions and the possibility of civil unrest in the country’s poverty-stricken regions.

“I am afraid that concerns by large part of the population over health, income and the future amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis will turn into anger and hatred”, he told La Repubblica.

The remarks came after the newspaper reported that in Palermo and Naples, the police had to safeguard local supermarkets following several incidents of looting.
Matter of Time?

Some American experts have, meanwhile, voiced alarm that the situation around COVID-19 in the US will soon follow the “Italian scenario”, given the current food shortages, soaring unemployment rate, and disruption of public services in the country.

NYU Langone Health Assistant Professor Alison Bateman-House said that she was seriously concerned about “where we see [coronavirus case] spikes happening right now”.

“The latest I’ve seen is we anticipate spikes in Boston, which has a relatively good health care system, Detroit, [and] New Orleans. These are places that have already been hit hard for numerous reasons over the last decade or so, and now to have a public health epidemic on top of everything. I’m deeply concerned”, she was cited by Yahoo Finance as saying late last month.

This view was shared by Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, who told CNN that as far as New Orleans is concerned, “it putters along and you think you’re OK, then it starts to go up a little and then bingo — it goes up in an exponential way; that’s what’s happening in New Orleans right now”.

Harvard Global Health Institute Director Dr Ashish Jha, in turn, predicted that the coronavirus outbreak “is going to hit every city in America”.

“There is no question about it. New York is going first. Will [the spread] be at the same ferocity? It may or may not in different cities. […] I am incredibly worried about Louisiana, and specifically New Orleans. I am very worried about Atlanta”, he argued.

There are already more than 304,800 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US, with over 7,600 fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University’s latest estimates.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202004...vid-19-crisis/

https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?709263-US-Europe-May-Face-Food-Riots-Amid-COVID-19-Crisis

 

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"[h=1]A tiger at the Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus"[/h]
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/05/us/tiger-coronavirus-new-york-trnd/index.html

 

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Japan: Number of infections surge...declares month long state of emergency:

"The COVID-19 outbreak is now rampant and rapidly spreading, threatening people's health, their daily lives and the economy, Abe said."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/japan-declares-state-of-emergency-ramping-up-virus-battle-1.4885889

So the Japanese leader is requesting people stay home...in order to save the economy.

"He urged everyone to cut contacts with others by 70-80% for one month, calling the coronavirus pandemic "the biggest postwar crisis.

...Earlier, Japan sought to curb infections by closely monitoring clusters of cases and keeping them under control, rather than conducting massive testing as was done in neighbouring South Korea. That strategy appears to be failing given the sharp rise in cases not linked to previous known infections.

As is true in many places, there are fears over shortages of beds and ICU units for patients with severe symptoms.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/japan-declares-state-of-emergency-ramping-up-virus-battle-1.4885889

 

[Mobdeeper7239]

14-month-old boy in India's Gujarat state dies after contracting coronavirus.

 

[Mobdeeper7239]

UK PM Johnson is breathing without a ventilator, Foreign Secretary confirms.


Good news. Trumps doppelgänger is alive and breathing on his own. Thank the heavens.

 

[Mobdeeper7239]

China ended its lockdown of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic began.



People won’t be happy with this. But...

We’ll see how long this goes on for....

 

[X-Files]

In the news recently there have been quite a few stories similar to the following report, such as a number of people spitting on food in markets. A grocer i was in the other day had, for the first time ever, a sign up telling people to wash the cut fruit that was there.

"Man with coronavirus spits in train passenger’s face, then drops dead

...Horrifying video shows a coronavirus-stricken man spit in the face of another traveler in Thailand before boarding a train and dropping dead.

...Before embarking on the journey, Sahoh was seen on surveillance footage spitting on an unidentified man buying tickets at the Bang Sue station in Bangkok, the outlet reported.

He then passed a mandatory temperature check to board the train, where he was seen vomiting and coughing, the outlet reported.

Sahoh later fatally collapsed in front of a toilet when the train reached the Thap Sakae district station, the report said.

Medical personnel performed tests on him that confirmed he had been positive for COVID-19, the outlet reported.

Thakoon Intrachom, the director of Thailand’s State Railway, said they’re now trying to track down the straphanger who was potentially exposed to the man, according to the report.

“We are now worried about a man that was spat at in the security camera footage,” he said. “Initially, we coordinated with the railway police but they have not found him yet. We want to announce that if anyone knows him or if he has heard about the news, then he should please go to the hospital immediately.”

https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/man-with-coronavirus-spits-in-train-passengers-face-then-drops-dead/

 

[Mobdeeper7239]

I’m watching Rover Federer bounce a ball against a wall for 55 seconds. I know I’m losing it.

 

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"At least two infants are believed to have died as a result of COVID-19 in the U.S.

Current data suggests that Canadians younger than 40 represent one third of all reported cases.

Those aged 20 to 30 made up 29 per cent of the reported cases and four per cent are under 19.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/clean-n95-mask-covid-questions-answered-1.5522593

 

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"At least two infants are believed to have died as a result of COVID-19 in the U.S.

Current data suggests that Canadians younger than 40 represent one third of all reported cases.

Those aged 20 to 39 made up 29 per cent of the reported cases and four per cent are under 19.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/clean-n95-mask-covid-questions-answered-1.5522593

Corrected mistake in above article.

 

[Albatross]

UK PM Johnson is breathing without a ventilator, Foreign Secretary confirms.


Good news. Trumps doppelgänger is alive and breathing on his own. Thank the heavens.

Fake News

 

[Willie99]

where are all those reports about the doom and gloom reports being consistently and significantly overstated?

Might have to start using different sources, or at expand you sources

 

[~Falco~]

Racist Misogynist failed businessman with zero political experience Donald Trump inexplicably elected president of United States.

 

[StevieRay]

Racist Misogynist failed businessman with zero political experience Donald Trump inexplicably elected president of United States.

Political forum is at the bottom

 

[Mobdeeper7239]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1178776

 

[StevieRay]

“its rare but serious — and potentially fatal — side effects.”

every Freakn med has side effects that can kill you , ever watched a commercial for one? The list of side effects and may cause death lasts longer than the info on the med itself

 

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"A leading forecasting model used by many states and the White House now estimates tens of thousands fewer covid-19 deaths by August. But a separate report to the White House by a panel of medical experts finds that the coronavirus is unlikely to significantly wane with the arrival of summer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/08/coronavirus-latest-news/

 

[REDEYE]

Racist Misogynist failed businessman with zero political experience Donald Trump inexplicably elected president of United States.

and look what political experience has got us......

 

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"A leading forecasting model used by many states and the White House now estimates tens of thousands fewer covid-19 deaths by August. But a separate report to the White House by a panel of medical experts finds that the coronavirus is unlikely to significantly wane with the arrival of summer."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/08/coronavirus-latest-news/

"Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease official, said Wednesday that “now is not the time to pull back at all” on social distancing; rather, “it’s the time to intensify.” A CNN poll, however, found that almost half of American workers are still regularly leaving home for work."

 

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"Eighty percent feel the worst of the outbreak is yet to come..."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/cnn-poll-coronavirus-april-8/index.html