sendler2112 said:
"COVID-19 presents the world with an insoluble dilemma: unplug the networked economy to fight the pandemic, or power on through it?
China has largely unplugged, in an effort to stop the spread of infection and minimize mortality. But this massive effort—closing businesses and factories, enforcing quarantines across cities and provinces—is itself having a huge impact not just on China’s economy, but on the entire global system. Supply chains are being disrupted, and not just for cars and smart phones, but also for medical equipment and pharmaceuticals. This is the main reason world stock markets have crashed in recent days.
Recent satellite images show a massive drop-off in nitrogen dioxide emissions from China. While we don’t yet know the full economic impact of the virus in China, especially when things are changing so quickly, we do know from historical data that there’s a nearly 1:1:1 correlation between energy usage, CO2 emissions, and GDP. China’s carbon emissions have dropped 25 percent, so that may mean their economy has contracted accordingly. Even without further disease contagion, the global economy may be on track for financial and economic turmoil simply as a result of China’s efforts to contain the virus."
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https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-03-03/covid-19-the-black-swan-is-circling/
Yep it's all interesting. Apparently one of the major China TV manufacturing panel makers made only 50,000 panels in the last month when they normally make close to 1 million, or numbers something crazy like that.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4329320-dont-panic-chinas-manufacturing-pmi-falls-off-cliff
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/manufacturing-pmi
Pollution monitoring satellites have detected significant decreases in nitrogen dioxide over China. There is evidence that the change is at least partly related to the economic slowdown following the outbreak of coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1234185262290415618
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146362/airborne-nitrogen-dioxide-plummets-over-china?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASA&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=83339381
NASA is usually dubiously cagey with their pollution satellites, they have a bunch of them up in the air that can monitor many GHGs including CO2 levels, but they don't ever release much from them. I think they are hiding something.
This is the best COVID19 vs common flu death rate chart I have seen yet. So it now makes sense why China did quarantine/block entire cities and mass anti-germ fog everything, because the death rate for the COVID19 is higher.
I don't know about stockpiling toilet paper "level higher" but definitely higher.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coronavirus-compared-to-flu-mortality-rates-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
Saw this meme since all the local news/social media videos of folks buying up all the toilet paper in the super-markets.
This was snapped in Sydney, Sorbent and "Coles" in the background are oz brands