https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/doctors-moving-away-ventilators-virus-185207787.html
Other numbers looking bad, and reports of doctors looking for alternative treatments
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson moved to intensive care as symptoms worsen
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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/doctors-moving-away-ventilators-virus-185207787.html
Other numbers looking bad, and reports of doctors looking for alternative treatments
It appears that in reality nobody really knows a thing about the best course of action. Of course it is a good thing that medical professionals question anything that contradicts their empirical evidence and observations.
I am much more interested in what is going on inside WHO. With every hour more and more corruption and strange decisions and guidance are exposed and WHO keeps on handing out guidance that they later on have to walk back. While I am no Trump fan at all I totally agree with him that the WHO - China relationship is very strange indeed and should be investigated after all this is over. For now I am highly suspicious about anything WHO communicates because they have proven to not be on top of things at all.
HK, Korea, and Taiwan demonstrate that proper hygiene and face masks DO contribute to protection levels. Even the usually conservative WSJ ran a long article on the benefits of face masks by observing infection rates in named three countries and had to walk back their earlier assessment that face masks are nonsense. But once someone is infected the best course of action is sadly still unknown. Best to then protect ourselves as best possible to minimize infection risk.
I am much more interested in what is going on inside WHO. With every hour more and more corruption and strange decisions and guidance are exposed and WHO keeps on handing out guidance that they later on have to walk back. While I am no Trump fan at all I totally agree with him that the WHO - China relationship is very strange indeed and should be investigated after all this is over. For now I am highly suspicious about anything WHO communicates because they have proven to not be on top of things at all.
HK, Korea, and Taiwan demonstrate that proper hygiene and face masks DO contribute to protection levels. Even the usually conservative WSJ ran a long article on the benefits of face masks by observing infection rates in named three countries and had to walk back their earlier assessment that face masks are nonsense. But once someone is infected the best course of action is sadly still unknown. Best to then protect ourselves as best possible to minimize infection risk.
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Re overall pandemic
I suspect the situation is far worse than who/China/feds are telling us.
They don't want to panic the public
They don't have any real solution and are flying blind
PM's condition 'improving' in intensive care
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is "improving" after two nights in intensive care with coronavirus, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.
Mr Johnson was now sitting up in bed and "engaging positively" with the clinical team at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the chancellor added.
Mr Sunak also said a Cobra meeting on Thursday would discuss "the approach" to take in reviewing lockdown measures.
It comes as a record 938 daily deaths were reported in UK hospitals.
The total number of UK deaths now stands at 7,097, according to the latest Department of Health figures.
The PM was taken to St Thomas' Hospital in London on Sunday - 10 days after testing positive for the virus - and was then moved to intensive care on Monday.
At the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, Mr Sunak said Mr Johnson was "receiving excellent care from the NHS team at St Thomas'".
"The prime minister is not only my colleague and my boss but also my friend and my thoughts are with him and his family," he said.
Later, Downing Street said the prime minister "continues to make steady progress" but remained in intensive care.
Found this in an scientific article:
"Genetic differences explain why some countries are more affected"
Researchers believe that genetic differences between the inhabitants explain why the coronavirus takes a higher toll in some countries. Research shows that in countries where a specific variant of the ACE1 gene is common, fewer infections and deaths are counted. Specifically, it concerns the D polymorphism of the gene in question, which mainly occurs in Eastern Europe.
The whole world has been hit by Covid-19, but not all countries are hit equally hard. In Scandinavian countries, far fewer deaths have been reported than the average, and the death toll is also relatively low in the Balkan countries.
"Genetic differences explain why some countries are more affected"
Researchers believe that genetic differences between the inhabitants explain why the coronavirus takes a higher toll in some countries. Research shows that in countries where a specific variant of the ACE1 gene is common, fewer infections and deaths are counted. Specifically, it concerns the D polymorphism of the gene in question, which mainly occurs in Eastern Europe.
The whole world has been hit by Covid-19, but not all countries are hit equally hard. In Scandinavian countries, far fewer deaths have been reported than the average, and the death toll is also relatively low in the Balkan countries.
Or you can find a single example to proof you are right, no?
You're asserting that the most common or even a common outcome of a chapter 7/liquidation bankruptcy is something on the order of "In a very short time big pieces of the company, including the employees, were taken over by competitors." In reality that is exceedingly rare. Rare enough that I can count the exceptions on one had when it comes to big companies in the last decade or two. On the other hand, the vast, vast majority of companies that file a liquidation bankruptcy go away pretty much entirely along with most if not all their jobs. You may be thinking about a chapter 11/reorganization bankruptcy vice a chapter 7/liquidation. In a reorganization the goal is to keep the company a going concern and often many jobs are saved.
Not trying to get into a pissing contest, that's just facts when it comes to this particular corner of the economy. Now go celebrate, you learned something new today!
Try to read what I posted. I was speaking specifically about Walmart, not about common outcomes. What is considered as the common outcome does not by definition apply to Walmart. Common outcome means highly probable, but not sure. As a trader you should know the difference.
Your last sentence belongs in a pissing contest. The fact that you don't want to get in a pissing contest confirms you consider it a pissing contest.
I don't feel the need to continue this "discussion", and I will help to protect your ego by saying: you win.
I hope you are happy now.
Chill out there bruddah, supposed to be a friendly discussion. If we're specifically talking about what would happen in a Walmart liquidation we're making so many assumptions that it's almost not meaningful. It would mean that Walmart went right past chapter 11 to chapter 7, which would mean that not only was no-one willing to provide them additional debt, but that none of the current debt holders were willing to take ownership of the company to keep it a going concern. One step beyond that, it means no-one was even willing to buy out a majority of the senior debt holders in order to take ownership of the company to keep it a going concern. But, it would make sense for Amazon or Lidl or Aldi to take over. The universe where Walmart goes from its current situation to that situation probably isn't a universe where Amazon or Lidl or Aldi are going to be in any kind of position to buy and operate Walmarts at a profit when Walmart themselves couldn't.
Thomas Cook is no Walmart, nor were the economic times when Thomas Cook liquidated anything even approximating what economic times would have to be for a Walmart failure. Which I simply think makes Thomas Cook a poor example and the vast majority of other liquidations that have occurred in the past century a much better example of what would happen in a Walmart liquidation. If you think Walmart and current economic times are somehow much more like Thomas Cook then the vast majority of other liquidations, that would be an interesting discussion. If you think that the most probably outcome isn't probable for Walmart, that's a much more difficult argument to make and certainly requires more than throwing out the fact that a big travel agency went broke and their assets were purchased last year to support it.