The Passionate Traveler

Troops waiting for the inevitable attack! Just like us waiting for the inevitable coronavirus attack We are in a war with an invisible enemy  - French graves in Belgium (my photo) WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES AND DISTURBING FACTS The world is in lock down. The world is also in the grip of a devastating global pandemic caused by a virus which spread to man because of the disgusting eating habits of the Chinese. At times like this, the individual human rights have to give way to the rights of the global population. The Chinese do not have the right to eat anything that moves! Pangolin in a live food market. It is about time that nature hits back! This needs to stop! Truly shocking images from the market in Wuhan The sale and slaughter of wild animals around the world needs to be stopped, not only in China, but all around the world. The current Coronavirus pandemic is all over the news and we are all acutely aware of the origin of this virus from a live food ...

Covid-19. The "One in a hundred year" virus All travel has come to a stop. Even Emirates has stopped flying! 2020 is not going to be a travel year. The world is in Lock down! As of 28 March 2020, about one third of the World's population is under lock down. If there was any doubt that the Coronavirus Covid-19 is not the "One in a hundred year" pandemic at the beginning of the year, this has now been completely dis-proven. This is the dreaded pandemic that many microbiologists and epidemiologists have warned about.  What can man do? Fire out of control! Covid-19 is now like the Australian bush fires. Devastation of Australian wildlife Recently, the major massive bush fires in Australia were all over the news. These fires devastated vast tracks of Australian bush lands and killed millions of Australian's unique wildlife and birds.  These fires were clearly totally out of control and every effort made by man were pretty pointl...

Emirates airlines Life as we know it is about to change. The Covid-19 coronavirus is now well established as the "one in a hundred" year pandemic. The last such pandemic was exactly 102 years ago when the 1918 flu pandemic devastated the world. This Covid-19 is well on its way to becoming as bad, if not worse, than the 1918 flu pandemic. As soon as it was established that the Covid-19 virus is spread by people before they show clinical signs, it was pretty obvious that this was going to be serious. The first reports from China indicated that the mortality rate was not that high. There was a reported 2% mortality rate from China. Yet in Italy, the current mortality rate is around 8.5%. This is significantly higher than the reports from China. Could it have been that China was not 100% honest with the rest of the world? Very likely! This virus is obviously going to radically change the travel industry. This will impact everything, from the airlines, the air crew, hotels, ...