What am I going to do!? Does this mean I'm going to die of it!?
No. That would be stupid.
The chances of catching it is negligible and the fatality rate is 2%.
The virus has, however, caused a rise in racism. And in stupidity. The Daily Show Correspondent Ronnie Chieng highlights the issue:
But what, I hear you ask, has the Coronavirus and stupidity got to do with cars?
I refer you to the most popular comments under this BBC story and its equivalent Daily Mail story.
The story is about Jaguar Land-Rover flying in car parts in suitcases as they prepare to run out of Chinese-manufactured parts produced in factories that have been temporarily shut down due to Coronavirus.
That pink one has a couple of alternators in it. Hope they don't get an excess charge.
All of the BBC and Mail Gammons are saying that we should be manufacturing the car parts in the UK and adding that this is proof that it will be OK after Brexit because we aren't getting our car parts from Europe after all.
OK, except buying British parts would currently make the cars more expensive and therefore uncompetitive. A reason the Chinese parts are cheap (ignoring the crap wages and conditions) is that they come in at EU tariff rates - this differential (that's in the yellow suitcase) may well come down after the Brexit Transition period but we'll still be producing uncompetitively priced cars.
Oh, and if you think the term "Gammon" is racist, remember Boris is in charge now SO WE CAN ALL BE AS RACIST AS WE LIKE - SUCK IT UP SNOWFLAKE!
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