Tuesday 10^th March, 2020 2115

So this morning Italy closed. Suddenly the Chinese way may just be the right one.

Supermarket shelves are being stripped in countries relatively unaffected and where the people are allegedly more developed and more educated.

Don't make me laugh! I am not the only one guffawing at the panic in the “developed countries”, so are the Chinese people - and rightly so. No shortages here. I can wipe my arse.

Which country has been hardest hit? Which one has stamped on it? I am now wondering if it will be safe to go abroad in summer instead of staying here! Now there's a thing.

Some arseholes (to be honest they were all Americans of course) have opined that China wasn't prepared. Funny that, the country could expect something that had never happened before? Let's forget about the fact they have done something no country has ever done before in history and it is WORKING! And America is totally unprepared so......well

Meanwhile, I have great enjoyment seeing people in “developed” countries buying enough toilet rolls to wipe the arses of an army regiment for three months and enough pasta to choke Italy for a month.

40,000 Americans were killed by guns wielded by other Americans last year, 10% of that number have died of this virus worldwide. And there is panic?

Italy has done the right thing. The people need to follow orders. It has worked here at great cost. So the stock markets are crashing? How many of my readers are losing money on the Dow Jones or the FTSE? I'm not.

Are we going to see this with every pandemic? Because as sure as eggs are eggs it will happen again in ten or twenty years time. Might start in Paraguay or England or France or anywhere.

I am not Chinese and never will be but looking at the way the west is dealing with it, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, which is why I never ran away.