Saturday, March 21, 2020

We are missing all the interesting news.

After the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic the whole world seems to have taken a timeout and nothing seems to be happening except fighting the unseen virus with whatever is available. In the US, there has been a massive rise in the sale of firearms and ammunition. "Over the past week, gun stores countrywide have seen long lines and a wiping out of inventory as unnerved customers turn to their Second Amendment rights in the bid for self protection." How cute! Americans want to shoot at invisible virus particles. "There has been an uptick in inquiries for firearms training as families seek guidance on the selection, use and storage of a new firearm," Robin Sandoval, 45, executive director of the Austin-based 'A Gun and Gun Women's Shooting League' told Fox News. "Law-abiding Americans want to have access to firearms during times of uncertainty." Perhaps Gun Women in the US have seen women fighting over toilet paper in Australia and men armed with knives looting hundreds of rolls of toilet paper in Hong Kong. Turkey has closed its land border with Greece and Bulgaria. This is enormously ironic because earlier Turkey opened its borders so that Syrian migrants could enter into European Union (EU) territory through Greece. This was in an effort to blackmail the EU to support it in its fight against the Russian-backed Syrian government troops in the province of Idlib. Greece closed its borders, vowing not to let any migrant into its territory. There are allegations of Greek police using live ammunition against migrants, denied by Greece. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared the Greeks to Nazis,, which was condemned by Israel. When Syrian government forces started defeating rebels, linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS, in Idlib province, Turkey sent its troops and tanks to support them. When 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian government forces, Turkey claimed to have killed 309 Syrian soldiers in retaliation. In early March, Erdogan and President Putin of Russia agreed a ceasefire and joint patrols of Turkish and Russian troops to keep the peace. In recent weeks the same rebel forces have been hitting Turkish forces and Turkey has been retaliating against them. Meanwhile, North Korea, sandwiched between China and South Korea, is free from the virus. "Not one novel coronavirus case has emerged," Song In Bom, and official from North Korea's emergency health committee said last month in the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper. To show its missiles are virus free it fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. Trump has offered to help with virus control but Kim Jong Un can't accept because their is no virus. He should know the Gun Women of the US are ready if he should try any tricks. We are missing the interesting news because of the virus. 

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