Topic: What N America and Europe need to start on now! (Read 922 times)

People should be prepared for this. Everything in the world is cyclical. From cycles of economic and social recovery, to collapse and disasters. Everything has different levels and gradations.
But over the course of life, each person faces global ups and downs, and he must prepare for this. After all, this is inevitable and can happen at any time.

All your points and all your "we must" rest on one thing - everyone wants to be programmers/managers/entrepreneurs/etc and no one wants to be a plumber/warehouse worker/conveyor worker/[any other "low-skilled" profession]. People do not want to get their hands dirty and are used to all the "non-prestigious" work being done for them by others. "Higher education is necessary for everyone!" they were talking, and they were running up student loans. "You should create your own business, not working for your Uncle Sam," they said and they after they increased loans rate too.
A person SHOULD be able to get his hands dirty and not consider that he is losing face. If people will think that working as a gardener/garbage man/shop assistant is for losers we will never get economy back

Amazing Article , I think you should actually try and get your government listen to these facts. 
I do think at this time of quarantine small farmers and other small business owners are getting affected a lot , therefore soon it would be a very bad situation for them , I think government should start giving them incentives or leave the middle man and transfer the vegetables and fruits from them to the people in need .
One needs to make a local website and the local authority should actually monitor it and people could actually exchange services there since the import and export is now banned .
The small businesses should actually gain a lot of support so that the local ecosystem could flourish on its own.

Yes, wish the best for our world. After witnessing the situation of more than tens of millions of people in America who were unemployed and had to beg for food to survive, I felt so sorry for them. But this is just an "economic" pandemic. This virus will soon be under control and our assets will still be there. We just owe it and when we get the job back, we'll be able to pay it back quickly.

I don’t think that building infrastructures is appropriate now because there are shortage in budgets so the more buildings the more expenses and this cannot be afford by the dropping economy
Printing money is never a good action because this will only bring down more the economy and that is what happening in other falling countries now.
At least you have already answer your own advice mate.

I agree this is almost impossible. Unless a really serious cataclysm or a third world war will overtake us.
I hope that neither one nor the other will happen and we will be able to adequately get out of the current situation by improving our standard of living.

I believe Americans and Europeans will do it soon if Covid 19 is well controlled. They have even stepped up further lowering interest rates so that businesses have money to maintain and do not need to pay taxes on some industries badly affected by the disease. Don't worry too much about economic policies, they're good enough to recognize and know what they should do next. The important thing now is to be aware of the people. they should know to isolate themselves at home and that will help the economy in the future a lot.

Manufacturing in China is not cheap. China have expensive workforce. And with constant GDP growth it is getting more and more expensive.  Cheap workforce is in Southeast Asia and in Africa. Also in parts of South America.

Seriously you say the truth, but I won't really blame most companies that want to manufacture all their products in China lol.
It is not that other countries can't manufacture all those things by themselves, but the thing is that there are lots of low-wage workers and companies are manufacturing there to be able to get production on a low cost. But, I believe that the coronavirus outbreak has taught us all a good lesson that we shouldn't always be relying on one country for everything, we should try as much as possible to do things by ourselves.

The health sector is very important for the government to put their focus on. If they don't focus on the health sector and keep developing it as much as possible, in a situation like this it would be a difficult case to handle, though I don't hope for such a thing to repeat itself.

Developed countries compromised their quality by manufacturing and exporting from China, now they are spending more money than the actual expense for the quality product.

But now countries seems work up.Companies are preparing to move their manufacturing plant to other part of Asia where cost of the product is still effective hope China will learn their lesson from this covid spread.

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China continues its lies, still spreading its filthy propaganda blaming the USA.  

Yet who was it shutting down Wuhan Airport to Chinese domestic flights while allowing flights to/from other countries?

Who does not let anyone into Wuhan's virology lab to look around?  The CCP could allow Western scientists in while being escorted if they are paranoid about secrets (and just what would those secrets be?).

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Bring back pharma and precursor production to the USA (and Europe!), looks like medical equipment (PPE for medical people) from China is garbage as well

Start producing rare-earths here as well as Europe (yes, they have some in Sweden and Estonia, also India, Brazil, Canada and Australia)

Bring back production of electronic components (hearing me Apple?)

Again, I understand all of the above would be very costly, but XiFlu has costs us some $6 trillion and counting..........


Would be delighted to hear about other industries that would be important to bring back as well.

For me, I would say that the op has a really good idea here. The world seems to be relying on China for almost everything.
A lot of things I buy these are usually made in China, like seriously, it should be like that. We shouldn’t be relying on just one country for everything we want to do, we ourselves should also producing most of these things we need, especially in the area of pharmaceuticals.

It is going to be painful but we have to do it. Ever since this Coronavirus started spreading, China has been dominating in sales of all things health related. If other countries were producing these things by themselves, they wouldn’t have to rely on China to do it for them.

Simply, Chinese is an economic scoundrel, while America is a thug bastard. Facing the world with colonialism. Starting from colonialism 1.0 to colonialism 5.0. We know in the world there are two economic models, on the left side there is socialism and on the right side there is capitalism.

Countries that dominate the world continue to compete for the survival of their respective nations. To survive, they annex other countries and prevent all means, no guilt, no hard feelings. But strangely, many governments in the world see the colonial state with open arms. China, through the OBOR project, turned nearly 70 countries into extended quasi-territory, with financial debt traps. China is the winner in the dominance of the financial world.

America lost some of its domination compilation coz being challenged by China. This finally pushed America to strengthen its MILITARY DOMINATION. America chose to use thuggery to mess up the world, including its biological warfare so that the world is unclear, chaotic, and needs to control the world called America.

Most of people believes that China created the virus to gain some of their interest politically and economically but if that's the case then they should have not make their own country as the epicenter, if their target is America or Europe they could have just easily transported it carried by stealth aircraft and drop it somewhere. Even without pandemic, China is the main producer of all, don't you ever wonder they have the biggest economic step from the previous years?

Seems like you're angry about anything that involves China huh, but I think you are just so bored that thinks of this way. Come on.

China won't need it if they don't let people go outside, or just of most of them. 100 million mask per day would costs too much for the government to manufacture, that's quite impossible to do at all, aside having total lock down would really help deescalate the situation, so why not use the solution that requires not that much money?

I doubt that China does it so that everyone would have to buy from china or even they are probably not doing it so that Americans and Europeans can't protect themselves or anything like that. I hate Chinese dictatorial government that basically kills anyone who opposes them and anyone and their whole family as well, however if you think with a bit of logic you will realize that China has all those places for themselves first, if you need masks would you allow your own manufacturing factories to build some for Europeans or would you force those places to make it for you?

China probably needs like 100 million masks per day at least, you can't use the same mask all day as well if you are a doctor so probably even more, which means they need ALL the mask factories they can get their hands on.

Considering the globalisation and capitalism i simply don't understand how something so indispensable like food and the labor involved in it is paid first then a worker in Fintech company. I believe we should review our values and understand that we are not the center of the universe. Perhaps in the new economy we will value more the nature and the resources around us. This is what Europe and N America should do.

I just read a news saying that China does not allow American companies in China to make medical devices out of China. It is clear that China wants to make it difficult for the United States and European countries to lack medical protection for doctors who are treating patients. Obviously, the world sees the ugly face of China. The US is investigating whether this virus COVID-19 comes from a Chinese laboratory. If that is the case, then China must pay billions of dollars in damages to countries around the world. The best solution is that the US and European countries should withdraw their factories to other countries that have cheap and friendly labor costs, such as Vietnam, Taiwan, India ...

Take care of people is the keyword. Not only physically but also mentally. Each country needs to campaign for covid-19 anti-propaganda so that the mentality of its people is also healthy. WHO's global health emergency with lockdown solutions creates a mechanism of economic warfare sustained by fear and intimidation, with devastating consequences.

Second is to take care of people's economy, not only the government but each individual is responsible for the people around them who are struggling. Top managers & CEOs are awaited by their brilliant thinking in driving the economy when a pandemic occurs. Make real innovations in the name of humanity. Is not management already embedded in your blood. Get out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Learn from China in handling the second wave of covid-19. China combines management science, technology, leadership to prevent the massive spread of corona back in China without turning off its economy. China now really keeps a close eye on anyone who comes from abroad, even though it's its own citizens. Corona suspects and corona sufferers are also accepted in China both Chinese citizens and other citizens provided they are willing and must follow strict quarantine procedures in force. In the end, the transportation industry & hotel industry can start running again.

I don't think that this month is the recovering period because there are still a lot of countries where the number of cases due to Covid-19 is still increasing over time. The spread will be not that easy to stop as people are really transmitting the virus from one person to another gradually.

We have no idea when this pandemic will end, we have no idea what to do with next months. Hoping that our scientist quickly develop a vaccine or cure as soon as possible so that the recovery period will happen. In China we can't say if they have already the vaccine because they cases there become stable but we have no proof yet.


This pandemic is really a misfortune for us, it affects a lot of sector such as agricultural, economy, business and etc. The government should really support those families who have nothing to support its members, people who are not that wealthy enough to sustain lives of their loved ones.

Government should have make a precise and proper planning and allocate some funds for its people to survive this quarantine. Many lives are taken by this virus because of its uncontrollable life-threatening effect, most especially to our elder people. Hoping that the people should follow what the government told them, always stay at home and never go out without errands.


Each country should focus first on how they will fight this virus before focusing on their economy, they should take care first the health of the people and never waste time to those nonsense things like military power. They should use all their funds for the sake of people, to support their country so that somehow they can feel the recovery and complacent to this pandemic.

At present pharmaceuticals are needed to guard the health of the people This disease has made us all understand how important it's to other things Many countries are going to be ready to control the disease sooner if we make different health care tools.