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2020-03-25 India-Pakistan
India's prime minister orders lockdown of country of 1.3 billion people for 21 days
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Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-03-25 08:26|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top

#1 I wonder how Dron is faring?
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-03-25 13:35||   2020-03-25 13:35|| Front Page Top

#2 A 20 billion+ US dollar aid package is being prepared by the Indian Government. It will see direct payments into the bank accounts of 100 million poor and to businesses affected by the lockdown. The Indian Government has also ordered the development of ICU ventilators "on a war footing". The Indian Defense Research Agency is repurposing flow sensors and pumps used in aerospace applications to ventilator use. Both large public sector and private companies being roped in. Other companies have been instructed to shift production towards medical personal protection equipment like gloves, masks and gowns. Exports of drugs used to treat Covid-19 has been banned, with production ramped up. Other Indian companies have begun vaccine production and preliminary trials. https://i.imgur.com/gN2mwl5.jpg
Posted by John Frum 2020-03-25 14:27||   2020-03-25 14:27|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Just like Pakistain is doing

/Just kidding
Posted by Frank G 2020-03-25 14:55||   2020-03-25 14:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Pakistan used the occasion of a South Asian Leaders teleconference on the Wuhan Coronavirus to bring up the issue of Kashmir. SMH
Posted by John Frum 2020-03-25 15:04||   2020-03-25 15:04|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 So, there won't be a shortage of Hydroxychloroquine in USA?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-25 15:10||   2020-03-25 15:10|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ No shortage, but your Angle Fish may have a visibility problem.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-25 15:13||   2020-03-25 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Lost me Besoeker.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-25 15:19||   2020-03-25 15:19|| Front Page Top

#8 The same drug is used to clean fish tanks. Two darwin award laureates took a dose equivalent to several grams and have departed this earth
Posted by John Frum 2020-03-25 16:25||   2020-03-25 16:25|| Front Page Top

#9 "India will continue to supply pharmaceuticals to Israel despite the ban on drug exports. The ban was lifted following a special request by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
Posted by John Frum 2020-03-25 16:28||   2020-03-25 16:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Golda Meir sent arms to India during the 1971 war and Israel shipped PGMs and artillery shells from its own war stocks to India during the 1999 Kargil war so Netanyahu can call in the favor.
Posted by John Frum 2020-03-25 16:33||   2020-03-25 16:33|| Front Page Top

#11 And we'll continue to supply you with humanitarian staff too. Not being facetious: when you have Muslims for neighbors, the staff we supply IS humanitarian.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-25 16:35||   2020-03-25 16:35|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL
Posted by John Frum 2020-03-25 16:53||   2020-03-25 16:53|| Front Page Top

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