Note a complaint from a TRNC expat that a fish truck has appeared near their home: “who knows where it’s been and where it’s going?” Not sure whether this is more or less hazardous than our produce truck - which actually hasn’t been by today so may not have been legal, or simply not on a regular schedule. Considered the produce truck no more dangerous than a grocery store. Someone has to stock it and take the payment but few customers at a time and they space themselves well. Probably less handling of items not purchased. Possible to wear gloves but probably best to simply wash hands well. Also, everything we saw on the produce truck (well, except for the almost inevitably Chinese garlic) likely to have been grown locally, so presumably handled by a relatively small number of people.
One would have supposed that economists would be the least inclined to overdramatising of all professions but they often don’t seem to be, or maybe it’s only that the journalists who report on them compensate for their disappointment at not being given more glamorous front line assignments. Thus “COVID-19 to send almost all G20 countries into a recession” from The Economist has an apocalyptic ring to it, but considering that the definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters with a drop in GDP, and that the drop could, presumably, be a very small one, this dire pronouncement seems pretty obvious and something any layperson might have guessed.
One would have supposed that economists would be the least inclined to overdramatising of all professions but they often don’t seem to be, or maybe it’s only that the journalists who report on them compensate for their disappointment at not being given more glamorous front line assignments. Thus “COVID-19 to send almost all G20 countries into a recession” from The Economist has an apocalyptic ring to it, but considering that the definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters with a drop in GDP, and that the drop could, presumably, be a very small one, this dire pronouncement seems pretty obvious and something any layperson might have guessed.
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