Wuhan weathered Covid-19. But can it survive what comes next?
Updated 0915 GMT (1715 HKT) April 24, 2020
It was just three months ago that Mr Wang was paying the workers at his Wuhan restaurant their Chinese New Year bonuses and celebrating his third year in business.
Now, after 76 days under lockdown in the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, he has been left mentally and financially drained, with his business facing ruin.
The lockdown on Wuhan was lifted on April 8. But two weeks later Wang's restaurant is still not allowed to fully reopen, due to restrictions on eat-in dining.
Coronavirus: medical experts denounce Trump's theory of 'disinfectant injection'
Doctors warn US president’s musings on disinfectant as a cure for coronavirus could lead to death
Donald Trump has stunned viewers by suggesting that people could receive injections of disinfectant to cure the coronavirus, a notion one medical expert described as “jaw-dropping”.
At Thursday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, the US president discussed new government research on how the virus reacts to different temperatures, climates and surfaces.
“And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute,” Trump said. “One minute! And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that. So, that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”
IPHONE TEXT 'BOMB' CAN CRASH IOS 13 WITH JUST A STRING OF LETTERS
A Sindhi character and the Italian flag emoji can break phones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches
A new Apple text "bomb" forces iPhones that receive it to crash.
The innocent-looking message – which is made up of the Italian flag emoji and a Sindhi character – overloads the device and forces it to shut down.
It works on Macs, Apple Watches and iPads as well as iPhones and there is hardly anything that can be done to stop the damage.
The bug seems to exploit a problem in the message notifications on the phone, which means that it is unable to display the notification about the new message and crashes the app.
Great plague of Marseilles, the price of imports
Gentle commerce and brutal trade
Montesquieu should have paid more attention to the relationship between trading and infection — where goods go, disease follows — because as a young man he lived through Europe’s last major outbreak of plague, in Marseilles in 1720.
by Alain Garrigou
‘The most influential exponent of the doctrine of le doux commerce [gentle trade] was Montesquieu. In L’Esprit des lois he states... “it is almost a general rule that wherever the ways of man are gentle, there is commerce; and wherever there is commerce, there the ways of men are gentle” ’. When economist Albert O Hirschman wrote about 17th- and 18th-century thinkers proposing the pursuit of material interests as a way to overcome humanity’s propensity to go to war, he overlooked their blind spot: they failed to see that trade was not always as gentle as they claimed.
The Dawn of a New EraA Paradigm Shift Accelerated by the Coronavirus
Even before the arrival of COVID-19, humanity found itself stuck in several crises at once. The current shock delivered by the coronavirus could accelerate a paradigm shift that was already underway. It may result in a better and more sustainable world.
I. The Crash
The world that we still considered to be "normal" back in February has collapsed in an historically unprecedented crash. Half of humanity is currently adhering to some form of lockdown protocols and every single continent has been affected - poor regions and wealthy regions, urban areas and rural ones. Huge portions of the global economy have come to a grinding halt and 180 countries around the world that just a few weeks ago were experiencing economic growth and rising prosperity have now plunged into a deep recession.
OPINION
Why Trump, the Bonaparte of our times, is likely to reign for another four years
What’s social distancing mean, asked Donald Trump this week. It means washing your hands. "People have done it!" Another day, another clown show.
US history has seen nothing like these tweets and media briefings. It’s as if Franklin Roosevelt had provided daily commentary on World War II, larding his remarks with attacks on Washington opponents and urging the end of wartime rationing. Or as if George W Bush had spoken daily on his disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, throwing in gun rights and pledging victories within weeks.
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