we were talking here today, where our anachronistic government has outdone Mr Trump and his 4th world mind and the other nutter trumpets, that there might be a BIZARRE up side to this....
The moot point was : what is happening in areas of war and strife (Syria), political instability (Iran) and /or where terror groups are very active (parts of Africa / Boko Haram in Nigeria etc). In those many areas where war and contests of power have been THE focus of those environments. Now, there is something that really OUT stares war and conflict on a political level - any level.
Is there any evidence that in those areas they all suddenly start to cooperate or "cooperate". A mild example of this is how very opposing political parties, who in December were calling each other all sorts of names, are now as one in supporting the government's actions. I have to explain that a few minutes ago on a TV news cast one of the virulently (sorry a pun I know) opposition party leaders in our parliament was addressing a press conference and in extreme support of the Government.
So, there was the question, are conflict zones going into a program interrupt? If not then Man there must be some hard-headed groups out there. And, once this is "over", will we ever be rid of it, will the just return to the pig-headed politics?
We are still moving around here, and I was on a flight today with a group of incoming or at least tourists in the middle of their trip. I suspect that we are at the point where exponential growth could begin, the hope here is that we can flatten the curve and contain things, based on the experience of real nations not the toybox land of Trump. There is large scale voluntary shut down, our currency is in the toilet once again (which we should be used to by now anyway). Our president said earlier that the economic impact is going to BIG and HARD (well its in the toilet anyway). I can only hope that the politicians remember their statements of today once the economy starts to seek recovery, and stay they sensible.
Prediction around our discussion : the big reset is happening and the economies and financial transactions are going to be distinctly different - the wish - as long as the politicians stay out of the planning and formulating of that....
Now that's all off my chest....Go well in Europe, Malasia, India, UK, everywhere else, wake up America, - Africa awaits ....
I wonder : What was Spain like (in particular as an apparent origin point) after the 1903 'flu - the world wide death toll then was something like 18million.
