Things have turned very bad for the city of Guayaquil;
Photographs and video footage emerging from this crisis-stricken coastal city look like images from the aftermath of a natural disaster: bodies wrapped in sheets and dumped on the roadside or outside houses; desperate families begging for help after being forced to keep their loved-ones corpses at home for days in temperatures of more than 30C.
I truly think that the world has gone mad. When a virus creates such insanity I hope the prophies of Revelation do not begin in earnest because there will be no one left alive as they will all commit suicide in their states of panic.
Yikes. This outbreak may set the developing world back decades. I can only image how it might tear through slums with no sanitation and few medical resources. There will be lots of stories like this in the coming weeks.
“This outbreak may set the developing world back decades. ”
Which in most instances would mean no change at all.
Equador’s karma.
I would be curious to know how much these countries have sold themselves to China’s belt and road exploitation strategy. There is a probable correlation between the virus and the number of Chinese visitors and workers.
I would bet a lot of the initial spread in Africa could be traced directly to Wuhan. China has greatly increased her presence in Africa in recent years. The Belt and Road initiative is only the most visible part of their expansion.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/25/climate-hero-chinas-ecuadorian-earthquake-zone-dam-paid-for-by-amazonian-oil/
There is a somewhat famous new hydro dam in Ecuador built by China and paid for by loans and oil. Only problem, it’s built near the base of a volcano and on a fault line.
Always look for the CHICOM mark of quality.
That would be funny were it not so tragic.
China is also big in mine development all through South America. So yes, there are probably 10’s of thousands of Chinese workers who went home for New Year and came back to Ecuador with the infection
China has a big foothold in Ecuador, particularly in its oil industry. Also is owed billions by Ecuador.
Many flights to and from there as well. The story doesn’t mention that of course trying to only blame Spain.
Take a bow China.
This is an article in the Guardian which is a commie rag that lies even more than the New York Times.
Pay absolutely no attention to anything it reports except as insight into the “minds” of commies.
My thoughts exactly.
Fred Z – It was the Guardian that told us that (in Canada) “fears about the coronavirus were disproportionate.
‘Air pollution and THE PROLIFERATION OF SUVS ARE FAR GREATER PUBLIC HEALTH RISK to my kids than the coronavirus right now – it’s being completely blown out of proportion,” she said. The total death toll of Sars in Canada was 44, she said. “Last year in Toronto, 41 people got hit by cars’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/28/canada-chinese-community-battles-racist-backlash-amid-coronavirus-outbreak
However, AUSTRALIA APPEARS TO BE FLATTENING THE CURVE and have only 30 deaths compared to 187 in Canada. The excellent chart in this Guardian article shows Australia banned travel from China in late January, Iran in late February and South Korea and Italy in March (a little slow banning Italy). They still allowed outdoor gatherings of 500 people on March 28th!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2020/apr/04/coronavirus-cases-in-australia-map-confirmed-numbers-stats-how-many-cases-of-covid-19-nsw-by-postcode-maps-victoria-live-data-qld-sa-wa-tas-nt-act-latest-statistics
Still you would never see this story in a Canadian paper….and the Guardian did run stories on Italian hospitals…. Which I did not see in any bought and paid for Liberal bag licking media.
Hey, if you don’t like the quality of content here, start your own blog.
My tolerance of people spamming my comments with nonsensical blathering is drawing short.
Unless you can provide evidence that this isn’t happening in Ecuador, STFU.
Kate – Just to clarify, my point to Fred Z was that the Guardian was way off base back in January “however” the Guardian’s more recent article clearly shows that the Australians appear to have flattened the curve by blocking travelers from infected countries quickly. Fairly even-handed for MSM. I should have been more clear. I love SDA.
OK then. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries. Click the table headings to sort by the clicked column. This unknown website is every bit as reliable as the Guardian and Ecuador apparently is not doing too badly.
But, government statistics are inherently unreliable, even here in Canada.
“They said the pandemic wouldn’t be so bad in Latin America because we’re used to illness, because it’s hot, because our population’s young,” added Bukele.
There go our hopes and prayers that the virus will recede in the warmer months like the flu does every year. It was 30 degC. in that city. The virus is ripping through their population quite easily, leaving a trail of sick and dead people.
We are in it for the long haul. Our best bets are going to be to mask up, clean up, maintain social distancing, and hope that one those existing drugs can be found and does work.
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Thank you Kate, for bringing the stories that we need to see.
I will echo RD and say THANK YOU Kate…as well..!!
This Blog is one of a very short list of sources I trust.
As for the Allens & UnMe’s among a few others…?
pah, wanna be failed Liberals.
I third the motion. The experience to date in Africa had seemed to indicate that hot places wouldn’t be as hard hit. If the graunuid has this right (blind squirrel luck) then that narrative needs to be discarded.
Corona deaths in US: 7,000 i.e. 1 in 46,714
Corona deaths in Canada: 208 i.e. 1 in 180,721
The best cure is the Friday prayer at your local mosque!
There’s no Canadian city with the demographics of a NYC or New Orleans.
Just think, if they all had a free armed bunker to hide in like Canada’s Justin Trudeau, they’d all be just fine.
nothing but pandemic porn on this blog … SDA has become worse than the CBC
You know your options….
“Dickman”….eh? Aptly named.
Suggest the Tor Star for REAL News….DICKman
Or the CBC.
Prior to the start of this afternoon’s Metropolitan Opera broadcast, there was a blurb on the CBC’s internet feed about some new-fangled podcast it was hosting as well as that it’s offering what used to be called Newsworld for free….. so that we can stay “current” about the virus.
In other words, all Prinz Dummkopf, all the time. Uh, no, thanks.
Careful don’t want to upset Trudeau’s and the WHO’s favourite friends. We want our 16 tons of medical supplies that Trudeau sent to China back.
Dave
https://gellerreport.com/2020/04/china-flood-europe-defective-ppe.html/
In times of crises — real or imaginary — one can differentiate between those who believe in laissez faire from the GosPlanners.
What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?
Wales Online recently told the story of a Welshmen who devised a way to design and quickly construct a ventilator that can serve as a highly workable device in place of the more scarce and more costly traditional ventilators used in hospital ICUs. Dr. Rys Thomas designed it in three days drawing upon his military and civilian experience with the use of anesthetics and resuscitation; he began manufacturing in partnership with a small private enterprise. It was allowed to be produced with little red tape, fortunately, by the Welsh government. But if Dr. Thomas had had to submit documentation, proof of testing and trials, and a lengthy approval process according to the usual FDA procedures here in the United States, people might have died that are being helped to breathe right now in Wales.
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/what-comes-after-the-coronavirus-freedom-or-despotism/
According to article, about 1500 confirmed cases and 82 deaths in a city with a population of 3.5 million.
Ecuador has almost 18 million and has just over 3000 cases and 120 deaths.
And they are overwhelmed??? That’s a joke. Based on the tone of the article I was expecting thousands dead.
I’ll bet the seasonal flu kills way more every year there like everywhere else.
Agree. Doom porn.
Yeah, and 3,000 people died in Wuhan. Except it’s now thought to be 40,000. And that was wave 1. Get your heads out of the sand.
You can leave, too.
Flu killed 80,000 in U.S. last winter, CDC says; highest toll in 4 decades
Sept. 26, 2018, 1:18 PM PDT
By Associated Press
The U.S. government estimates that 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/least-80-000-people-died-flu-last-winter-u-s-n913486
You cannot make this shit up!
The names of the Equadorean guys who report on this are Lenin Moreno and Stalin Briones. Holy Fn Sht!
Some perspective: Ecuador death rate is a little over 5 per 1000/yr.(quite a bit lower than the US). In this city, population is 1.4 million. Average deaths/yr all causes in this city 7200. Average deaths/yr pneumonia (approx 8%) in this city 576. Total cases in country 3100, total deaths in country 120. I would assume stats are not totally correct (both ways), also would assume they will rise. H
Agree Howard. I looked at population stats for the greater urban area of the city.
Still doesn’t make sense to me how a city of that size – which is bigger than greater Vancouver – is overwhelmed by the current numbers.
If you think a country that can’t clear dead bodies from their streets is reporting reliable data, I have a can of bat soup to sell you.
“Bat Soup” LOL.
To think about the “reliable data” we get out of the CBC and then Ecuador, ah well, I guess there’s no winners in this is there.
I get the feeling you’ve never been to Equador.
Poor people dying in the streets there is a fairly common occurrence. The difference now is there currently is a reason for there to some interest in and scrutiny of a problem that under normal circumstances people don’t really give a damn about.
Your probably right, I know I don’t, give a damn about Ecuador. Not even metro Toronto for that matter. Of course Liberal Toronto begs for victim status whenever they can find it. They found it, yea.
Coastal City?
What happened to burial at sea?
Is this a logistics problem or a cultural malaise?
Our forefathers were “masters of the mass grave” when they had to be.
Pestilence is one of the four horsemen of doom,because these famines,wars and natural disasters are real,recurring and shaped who we are.
So what is todays problem?
Political Correctness?
Or a failure to grasp the gravity of our situation?
Or are we hamstrung by our deference to authority?
Even when that authority fails before our eyes?
And thank you Kate for posting this,I doubt very much I would have discovered this dismal news by accident.
As noted,another thing you will not see on CBC.
I wonder what the real situation is in Venezuela?
No one in Ecuador has a shovel or a backhoe, for Pete’s sake? How bereft of independent thought do you have to be that it never occurs to you to dig a hole yourself?
They’re overwhelmed and shell shocked and are realizing they have nowhere to run… also they are a turd world country, … although used to be a rather lovely turd world country with really nice people.
Our peerless leaders STILL want to bring in Typhoid Marys from countries like Ecuador to do farm work.
No. This is the end. Tell Canada’s “non-essentials” that if they want work, there is plenty of work on Canadian farms, and to show up at dawn tomorrow ready to work.
The same will happen to every Turd World shithole on the planet. None can be helped as we got our own problems now and we barely can handle them.
On second thought we probably should be sending the “better than flu” contingent for vacation in sunny Ecuador. I heard prices are very affordable these days.
China did that to the world, we should never forget.
Ecuador, a lesser province of China whose population can be replaced by Han Chinese overnight.
Chinese “Lebensraum”