Since my last article on practical safety measures for the 2019-nCoV outbreak, I’ve had further discussions with friends in retail operations, and we realized that there’s some misconceptions about the control measures we’re seeing in the news from Wuhan – so I thought it may help to highlight some of the misunderstandings. A common misconception …
The news today of a confirmed case of novel coronavirus infecting a taxi driver in Thailand is a significant development, as he had not visited China. Until now all confirmed cases had direct links to Wuhan, except for a household person-to-person case in the US. As we all suspected, the valiant efforts in Wuhan and …
As more information on the Novel coronavirus comes in, it’s becoming clear that it’s less serious that SARS but spreads more easily in a similar way to seasonal colds or flu, and in what must be a bitter disappointment to the copy-writers of the popular press it looks like the human race is going to …
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The economic impacts of the Covid-19 virus are still being assessed, but the general view is that the hotel, restaurant and travel sectors will be impacted the most, but manufacturing will not escape the fall-out due to interruptions to global supply chains. Cathay Pacific asked 27,000 staff to take unpaid leave, then issued a profits …
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We’ve always been able to rely on politicians to create a crisis out of a challenge, but with the coronavirus outbreak they have excelled themselves. I understand that they are trying to do the right thing for their people, and like all of us they’ve been hit with a tsunami of miss-information about Covid-19, but …
One Minute Summary Wet market inspired fixtures in modern supermarkets have been a fashion for several years Fish displayed on open ice-beds, bakery products on wooden racks, fresh fruit you can feel Chefs would also visit real wet-markets early each morning to buy their fresh products With Covid-19 being linked to a Wuhan wet market …
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In the future, when a movie producer in a post COVID-19 Great-Depression World is planning a film about how we managed to destroy the world economy in an orgy of panic over a virus, there will be three main players: 1. The Media – driven by the failure of the printed news industry, they realized that …
I’ve not written an article for a while as I thought the last thing people need now is yet another opinion on the pandemic, but I thought a different perspective may be helpful for people involved in business planning in the time of COVID-19. Whilst working with a wide range of businesses all trying their …
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. Elderly and vulnerable people dying in large numbers, …
I watched the WHO Live Broadcast on LinkedIn this week, and the WHO senior team looked exhausted as they explained how challenging they’d found the last year – with endless lockdowns and second, third and fourth waves; but I was thinking that at least they all still have their jobs, unlike millions of people working …
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