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Reply #75 - May 18th, 2021 at 5:50pm
 
aquascoot wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 12:32pm:
you looked it up , did you.

how about the lancet  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes


Employment and income
People working in sectors that are dependent on international supply chains, or which export a large share of their production, are especially at risk. The importance of an adequate income and employment for good health and access to health-sustaining goods and services is well established.21 Equally, falling into poverty, losing work, and financial insecurity can result in physical and mental illness.22 Other people at great risk include those living in border areas, especially if there is extensive cross-border trade.23 The World Bank estimates that the contraction in global economic output as a consequence of the pandemic, and in particular the collapse of the many global supply chains on which workers in low-income and middle-income countries depend, will push between 88 million and 115 million people into extreme poverty in 2020.24
Food security, nutrition, and unhealthy commodities
Declining trade could undermine food security as a result of changing access to nutritious food sources. The UN World Food Programme estimates that the number of people experiencing acute hunger will almost double by the end of 2020 as a result of the pandemic, adding 130 million people to those already at risk.25 A loss of seasonal labour and the effect of supply-chain collapse on small farms in low-income countries is expected to have some negative consequences for outputs, whether for export or domestic markets.26 In high-income countries, the effect on food outputs might be small, at least for staple products, because much food production is now mechanised and requires fewer workers than elsewhere.
Yet rising food insecurity is not necessarily due to falling production.27 One alternative cause is the growth of restrictions on agricultural trade.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30291-6/fullt...


You havent read this article, have you? These are estimates from early 2020. I've highlighted them. Here's the conclusion:

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It is a cliché to say that every crisis is an opportunity. Yet the scale of disruption caused by the current pandemic provides renewed opportunities, not only for entities that seek to exploit the situation in ways that threaten health, as has often happened in the past,39 but also for governments, acting in the interests of their people, to reassess globalisation and design trade instruments that are conducive to good health.


Your article is saying global trade needs to take the health of citizens into account. (Sounds suspiciously leftist to me). Here's what followed your article's World Bank projections, made in April:

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The recovery in merchandise trade began in June. By the end of the year, global COVID-related trade losses had been made up, with growth in merchandise exports up 7.8% year-on-year in December.


https://trade4devnews.enhancedif.org/en/op-ed/global-trade-rebound-suggests-some...

The prognosis?

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Prospects for a quick recovery in world trade have improved as merchandise trade expanded more rapidly than expected in the second half of last year. According to new estimates from the WTO, the volume of world merchandise trade is expected to increase by 8.0% in 2021 after having fallen 5.3% in 2020, continuing its rebound from the pandemic-induced collapse that bottomed out in the second quarter of last year.


https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres21_e/pr876_e.htm

All these articles put the contraction in global trade in early 2020 down to some protectionist jitters as countries moved to protect supplies on top of the impact of Trump's trade war with China.

The developed world has not put its shutters up. Global trade has rebounded. Your noble Gurkha is getting his same bowl of dirt a day. No, he's not coming to Australia to work, but that's not your argument, is it?

You're saying the leftard Deep State stopped trade with the developing world, forced the noble Gurkha into starvation and said tough titties, you lose.

You're saying the despicable leftist chodes banned clothes from Bangladesh, rice from Thailand, pharmaceuticals and call-centre services from India and the Philippines, etc, etc, sending all those workers home to starve.

What actually happened is countries briefly moved to protect their own supplies in the middle of a pandemic, with global supply chains already in doubt due to US tariffs.

Trade has resumed, as seen in our own economy. Toilet paper is back on supermarket shelves. Global workforces have proven remarkably resilient. Call centre workers are now working and eating their bowl of dirt a day at home.

So yes, I'm curious. Where are you getting your facts from?
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Reply #76 - May 18th, 2021 at 5:59pm
 
you obviously havent tried to get parts for a kubota tractor lately
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Reply #77 - May 18th, 2021 at 6:16pm
 
aquascoot wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 5:59pm:
you obviously havent tried to get parts for a kubota tractor lately


Oh, I see. You were referring to the fat chodes in Japanese heavy manufacturing, were you?

No worries. Have you considered buying one off a Gurkha?

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Wholesales growth was positive across Tractor, PV, 2W and CV segments. Retail sales growth was positive in Tractor, PV and Cargo CV segments.

PV sales stole the show as Tata Motors Ltd was an outlier recording 119% year-on-year growth. “February 2021 sales have been the highest ever sales for Tata Motors PV in nearly 9 years (107 months)," said the company. In the CV segment, Tata Motors registered a 22% year-on-year growth in domestic sales. Not surprising, the strong momentum meant Tata Motors stock prices gained more than 5%, hitting 52-week highs on Tuesday.


https://www.livemint.com/market/mark-to-market/riding-on-tractor-pv-sales-moment...
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Reply #78 - May 18th, 2021 at 6:53pm
 
An equipment dealer says parts and new equipment are much more difficult to get this year.

Kevin Sommer is part of the ownership group with Service Motor Company, which operates six Case IH, Case Construction, Kubota, Claas, and Kinze dealerships.  Sommer says it’s not as easy to get machinery and parts now compared to early last fall. “We’re just seeing extreme difficulties to be able to get parts, get components to be able to keep those machines running, and it’s not just us. It’s our competitors, and it’s a lot of other brands that are out there that are all experiencing the same thing right now.”

Sommer says the supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID pandemic are being experienced everywhere. “It is all over the world, and our parts come from all over the world, and our machines come from all over the world, so yes, it is definitely a global problem that we’re experiencing right now.”



EQUIPMENT DEALER SAYS PARTS & EQUIPMENT SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES ARE SERIOUS, WORLD-WIDE

April 23, 2021 By Larry Lee
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Reply #79 - May 18th, 2021 at 7:02pm
 
aquascoot wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 1:44pm:
whilst i'm not a big fan of tony (he is a bit "ra ra') there is no denying that the poor children of the world have been sacrificed to protect the interests of the wealthy old people in the west.

self development says that we should aim for a win/win.

the sooner we get back to flying to bali, the sooner the poor in bali can have some prosperity and then we dont have failed states on our doorstep.

trade is the key to our and their prosperity.

fortress australia, as the noble woman at virgin airlines identified is a non starter


When I complained about the government banning foreign travel, you told me to eat an orange. Think of the fridge, you said.

Yes, I said, but this is crazy, we're locked in. How long can this go on?

Until they come up with a vaccine, you said. A vaccine for the sniffles. Typical. You threw in a yawn.

Okay, so they make a vaccine, I said, then what?

Oh, I won't be taking that, you said, that's for the chodes. The Superior Man uses herd mentality...

Immunity.

Yes, herd immunity. He embraces the evolutionary blowtorch, you see, he loves a challenge. I shall catch this virus, you said, and practice gratitude.

It might kill you, we said.

All the better, you said. I shall die in grace, bathed in the heavenly light from the fridge. Besides, I could use the downtime to learn a new language.

And the vaccine?

Gone, you said. Down the toilet - no, I shall send it to the poor. They need it more than me.

The government's making it free.

Trust them to do that. Okay, I shall send it to a poor, hardworking fellow over in Pakistan. He could use it more than me. He must have mouths to feed. Take the noble Gurkha - he works all day, never a grumble.

He's in Nepal.

He doesn't mind the cold. Just think, he climbs Mount Everest for a living.

Hang on, how are you going to going to take the vaccine off the nurse, put it back in the bottle and send it off to Nepal? You can't send liquids, you know.

Well, I shall deliver it myself.

They've locked down the borders! That's what I'm telling you!

Typical socialists. Okay, I'll send it over through some charity or something.

What sort of noble Gurkha is going to take your half-used vaccine - one dose - and let some foreigner shoot him up?

I'll get them to drop it in the river. Your noble Gurkha's an enterprising fellow. He'll find it, take it to the local market and sell it. There, you see? An extra bowl of dirt for his poor, starving children. You won't see the leftard virtue signallers doing that, oh no, but I, a noble righty...

They haven't even invented a vaccine yet!

Doesn't matter, they will. And mark my words, I won't be touching it.

I say, Aquascoot, what's changed?
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Reply #80 - May 18th, 2021 at 7:08pm
 
Karnal,
This is dialectics. It’s very simple dialectics: one through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions.

You can’t travel in space, you can’t go out into space, you know, without like, you know, with fractions!

What are you going to land on: one quarter, three eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here

to Venus or something? That’s dialectic physics, okay?
This is the way the world ends. Look at this poo we’re in man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper, and
with a whimper, I’m splitting, Jack.



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Reply #81 - May 18th, 2021 at 7:15pm
 
aquascoot wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 6:53pm:
An equipment dealer says parts and new equipment are much more difficult to get this year.

Kevin Sommer is part of the ownership group with Service Motor Company, which operates six Case IH, Case Construction, Kubota, Claas, and Kinze dealerships.  Sommer says it’s not as easy to get machinery and parts now compared to early last fall. “We’re just seeing extreme difficulties to be able to get parts, get components to be able to keep those machines running, and it’s not just us. It’s our competitors, and it’s a lot of other brands that are out there that are all experiencing the same thing right now.”

Sommer says the supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID pandemic are being experienced everywhere. “It is all over the world, and our parts come from all over the world, and our machines come from all over the world, so yes, it is definitely a global problem that we’re experiencing right now.”



EQUIPMENT DEALER SAYS PARTS & EQUIPMENT SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES ARE SERIOUS, WORLD-WIDE

April 23, 2021 By Larry Lee


Brownfield, Wisconsin, eh?

I say, that wouldn't be one of those states caught up in the noble Donald's trade wars, would it?

Now let's see. Covid 19 or a 25% tariff on imported steel tractor parts?

What do you think's the most likely cause?

Here's something to inform your reply:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-trumps-steel-tariffs-failed-11621288859
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Reply #82 - May 18th, 2021 at 7:16pm
 
Bobby. wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 7:08pm:
Karnal,
This is dialectics. It’s very simple dialectics: one through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions.

You can’t travel in space, you can’t go out into space, you know, without like, you know, with fractions!

What are you going to land on: one quarter, three eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here

to Venus or something? That’s dialectic physics, okay?
This is the way the world ends. Look at this poo we’re in man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper, and
with a whimper, I’m splitting, Jack.





I already answered that. I said you - no question mark.
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Reply #83 - May 18th, 2021 at 7:32pm
 
Karnal wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 7:16pm:
I already answered that. I said you - no question mark.



I know Karnal,
tell me -
are you the sock puppet of chimp logic?

Do you miss the master?
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Reply #84 - May 18th, 2021 at 8:05pm
 
Bobby. wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 7:32pm:
Karnal wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 7:16pm:
I already answered that. I said you - no question mark.



I know Karnal,
tell me -
are you the sock puppet of chimp logic?

Do you miss the master?


I am that I Am, dear one.

So it is as it were so be it.

Forgiven.

He is in our every breath.
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Reply #85 - May 18th, 2021 at 8:55pm
 
Look, I'm not asking for a lot. I'd be happy if I could, just for once, get an answer to this.

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The shutdown of the global economy due to covid has resulted in an increase in third world populations living in abject poverty from 7 % to 9 %. thats about 150 million people who have been impoverished because the west, europe and places like australia have closed borders .


Where do thoughts like this come from?

Anyone?
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Reply #86 - May 19th, 2021 at 5:49am
 
Karnal wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 8:55pm:
Look, I'm not asking for a lot. I'd be happy if I could, just for once, get an answer to this.

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The shutdown of the global economy due to covid has resulted in an increase in third world populations living in abject poverty from 7 % to 9 %. thats about 150 million people who have been impoverished because the west, europe and places like australia have closed borders .


Where do thoughts like this come from?

Anyone?


agh, that came directly from the mouth of doctor tedros.

ou know, the guy in charge of the WHO  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
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Reply #87 - May 19th, 2021 at 7:34am
 
Lot of selfishness going round these days...
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Reply #88 - May 19th, 2021 at 9:04am
 
Carl D wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 8:39am:
Now I'm convinced you've really lost the plot.  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy


aquascoot wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 9:18am:
Why would you be convinced that

The United nations has already said that over 100 million poor people will die as the result of reduced economic activity
Not as a result of the virus itself

If we care about those 100 million poor people
We owe it to them to get the economy moving again
And that involves reopening the airports

Thank god there are selfless individuals such as Jane running Virgin Airlines
Who may yet save these children from starvation

Certainly the I'm alright Jack attitude of many Australians
Is resulting in a humanitarian crisis in the third world


I wasn't aware that any airports in Australia were actually closed?

Certainly not Perth Airport where I've heard probably close to 50 planes taking off in the distance over the past hour and a half (its just after 7am here).

The majority (probably about 95%) would be the daily FIFO flights leaving for the north west of WA so the workers can dig up that defective iron ore  Cheesy that's been keeping "Fortress WA" and, to a lesser extent, "Fortress Australia" economically 'afloat' during this pandemic.
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Reply #89 - May 19th, 2021 at 11:51am
 
aquascoot wrote on May 19th, 2021 at 5:49am:
Karnal wrote on May 18th, 2021 at 8:55pm:
Look, I'm not asking for a lot. I'd be happy if I could, just for once, get an answer to this.

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The shutdown of the global economy due to covid has resulted in an increase in third world populations living in abject poverty from 7 % to 9 %. thats about 150 million people who have been impoverished because the west, europe and places like australia have closed borders .


Where do thoughts like this come from?

Anyone?


agh, that came directly from the mouth of doctor tedros.

ou know, the guy in charge of the WHO  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes


Why don't you say it came from the Queen?

You don't have a quote for her either, dear.
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