Xiamen, in China's Fujian Province, has launched a lottery system for mask purchases through its official WeChat account Friday as China grapples to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
"You should bear the consequences of your actions. Do not implicate us ordinary folk. Now we are bearing the brunt of it, and we are being sacrificed..."
2019 saw US population growth at its lowest percentage level in US history aside from the pandemic years of 1918/1919 (when the Spanish flu took the lives of nearly 700,000 Americans)...
Stock markets shrugged of the Coronavirus yesterday, and staged a buy-the-dip rally. Are they right to discount the threat? Its not about infection rates or mortality - the economic damage is already very real.
"In human history, we have been chasing infectious diseases one after another," says Zhou, "but bats appear to be a 'super-mammal' to these deadly viruses."
Portugal's radical move to put an end to the carnage should prove an example to other countries dealing with similar problems, especially the United States...
Ravenous locust swarms, "the size of cities," are consuming crops at a staggering pace... potentially causing famine unlike anything we have ever seen before...
...economic theory suggests the possibility that extreme measures such as sealing off a city, a travel ban or quarantines may actually make things worse...
