symptoms, type (virus, bacteria, parasite?) and transmission vectors please
and how the forget did it get this bad without being even noticed? you would think that somebody would find that something is not right by the time 1000 were infected.
Taxes on essential goods (food) are lowered and the military institutes quarantines throughout the cities. The Ministry of Health investigates the nature of the disease and studies the patterns of those afflicted. Due to the reallocation of government resources to mitigation of the disease, the navy's anti-piracy patrols are scaled back.
Experts brown townyze that the cause was partly due to an incomplete sanitation system as part of the breeding ground. Mosquitoes and rats are found to be common in areas where the disease was most potent. Because of the large number of institutions, publicly-funded projects and military upkeep, particularly naval, the tax burden fell to the disproportionately small population, which couldn't properly pay for the goods that were being provided. This caused a spread of poverty and decrease in wages, meaning workers would have to work longer hours. This resulted in poor upkeep of areas that had not received sanitation improvements. Many people couldn't afford toilets, for instance, so old methods were still in use in places. It had gotten bad when it spread to 1,000 people, but with late spring rains, the disease spread rapidly. Efforts were made to try and contain it, but it was found to be futile. Those away from the rivers and the coast are less affected. The symptoms start with a light cough. In about two days, a fever and a nearly uncontrollable cough take root. If untreated, the victim will die in about 6-8 days. Bodily fluids are contagious.
The disease spreads to Vlast and Kyrev, although with distinctly less severity.
Arcon offers its aid in keeping Serisian interests safe in these tough times. You provided naval assistance before, so we want to pay you back. We're not going to promise to go to war or anything, but we'll protect you from pirates.
Firstly, please clarify "heightened importance on similar programs; I'm not sure what that means exactly and can't address it until I do. Thanks. Also it seems backwards that food prices would go up when more food is being produced as a result of mechanized farming and fertilizer.1
Chancellor Walter addresses the nation in a public address in Nazgar, which is published in newspapers across Avalonia. He commends the Avalonian people on their industriousness, cites the camaraderie and willingness to help one another displayed by wealthy Avalonians as extremely praiseworthy, and lauds the spirit of ingenuity and hard work that brought Avalonia from a collection of off and on feuding city states to a powerful actor in the international community. He calls on the Avalonian people to continue to be their best, and assures them that the Avalonian government will do likewise: "I well know that we are a naturally conservative people, that change is not close to our hearts. I know that the change in currency, that the troubles in Seris, that a lot of things can replace the confidence within us with fear, with panic. But I stress to you this day that it is not these things which we should fear; these are external; these things alone cannot harm us; the only thing we have to fear is fear itself! This alone can harm our proud nation."2
Following this, former chancellor Vjornsberg, beginning to show signs of age but still displaying the vigor which helped to make him so extremely popular, takes the stage. He starts by reiterating his personal commitment to the Avalonian people, and notes that the people should in turn support their neighbors in these trying times, "from the rich industrialist, to the sailor abroad, to the urchin on the street", Avalonians should not harden their hearts to the suffering of one another, nor capitalize on the disadvantaged state of others, nor steal from his neighbor, and expresses his shame that any Avalonians have been reduced to stealing, and that even a small minority has become violent. He notes that he is suspending, for the time being, his higher aims of scholarships and libraries, to divert his fortunes to employing those who would work for their bread, for a time, on personal projects like the improvement of his lands, and encourages others of means to do similarly. "Now is not the time to abandon that which raised us to our zenith simply because we have slipped from it."2
Less publicly, Avalonia raises import tariffs slightly on finished goods, particularly those already produced locally, and lowers its consumption tax slightly to increase consumer spending. The Avalonian government reaffirms its position on unions, expressing that it respects the right of workers to organize in a way that does not affect public safety to negotiate wages and working conditions or to do so individually, it likewise respects the right of businesses to hire scabs, relocate, or temporarily close their gates, and will continue to try to act as a mediator should it be desired by both parties. The Avalonian government also expresses its willingness co cooperate with foreign investment.3
1. Prices would have gone up because A) not all farmers would be using the machinery yet, and B) they would have gone down, but they would have also gone back up because of farmers simply trying to preserve their gains. If the depression wasn't making it hard on people anyways, then it wouldn't have been too much of a burden. And the issue was confronting the spreading of large public works programs, but more importantly, through trade with Seiris and some foreign investments that were tied down south.
2. The populace is very much encouraged by these words and get right to work.
3. These measures help to improve conditions internally, at the very least stabilizing the depression so that is wouldn't decline any further. Unions are happy that Avalonia has their backs, however, calls for more action as many employers are turning out employees, as they cannot afford them.
With Sonodine now able to see some pride in itself again, resources begin to be poured into the restoration of Sunyong. While proper legal systems are restored, small military elements are moved in to enforce the law. Abandoned buildings are temporarily reoccupied as court houses.
Things in Sunyong begin to settle down. It will take some time for it to be taken care of in full.
Scotia joins the efforts to eliminate pirates, and uses its light ships to patrol the seas and protect merchants.
Much appreciated. I have also received note from grunter to also aid.
The Arconian begins sending out frequent patrols, using Mt. Aegis as its base. Scotian and Conservatian forces are granted permission to use Mt. Aegis as a port for its military vessels. Within a fortnight, a patrol destroys a pirate vessel sailing off the Scotian coast.
Work begins on incorporating a proper naval force into the Romekate military. For now this largely means paperwork for the government as ships are not yet commissioned, in part due to the lack of proper shipbuilding facilities.
What?
Government action summary
germ theory
chlorinate the water
clean the water
antipollution ordinance
no stuffting in the water and street ordinance
improve food containment
research pesticides
remove trash (trash pickup)
wash your hands
wear mask to prevent airborne infection
wear goggles
wear earmuffs
cremate bodies
exterminate pests
keep patients isolated from each other
study patterns
reduce population density
discourage crowding
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realize that plagues prevent protests5
increase medical funding via the military6
take in orphans under government guardianship7
kill looters
kill Jews
nobody leaves their house so all goods are bought via courier8
toilet proliferation
tax credits if you renounce your right to free speech (temp)9
adopt bolt action with metal cartridge and volley gun for crowd control10
Metal cartridge for revolvers
contemplate revenge due to the obvious abandonment with no apology
4. All of these are put into practice and the spread of disease slows down somewhat significantly.
5. Not with 100% certainty.
6. Reapportionment? If so, ok.
7. The Serisian government finds that the number of orphans is steadily rising, and that the government can't exactly manage all of them with any significant degree of efficiency.
8. People begin to get angry at this and take to the streets in more of a passive-aggressive demonstration measure by enjoying a night on the town, going to bars. In most cases, they don't get very rowdy. In other less common cases, small property damages or theft takes place, nothing major.
9. Even if it's a temporary measure, few follow suit as many view it as a slippery slope. Those that do renounce ask the government for bonds that might prove that their right has been temporarily surrendered, and to provide a date on which they may speak freely again.
10. Just wondering but how did you obtain this? I don't remember seeing you post about them and Arcon didn't share them with you because we are under contract with Conservatia and kept them a carefully-guarded secret for many years.
yeah sure do that
hm yes we also look to do this!!!!
Valbrandsvåg and Grúzia-Nec, although in both cases a select few have caught the disease, prepare ahead.
I'm not in a civil war. Nice to see the threadmaster is paying attention.
On the contrary, I was paying attention.
The battle lines are actually drawn now.
Mind explaining how this wasn't vague? I could care less for the lip, as well.
Arcon adopts similar measures as Avalonia did to the Serisian trade. It will not halt trade by any means, but it wishes that Serisian traders weigh all goods coming into Arcon, and triple-book the records, one for Seris, two for the Arconian customs house. Inspection of Serisian perishables to enter Arcon is also to take place. Thorough washing of used containers is to occur and containers with holes and leaks are to be disposed of. Containers used on trade routes to and from Seris are to be strictly used in Arco-Serisian trading.
Arcon calls for production of the Arco-Conservation Bolt Rifle to hit production on a larger scale. Conservatia is called to work with Arcon in another joint training exercise in 1846.
The East Frisian Cotton Company acquires the Saccrenian National Bank, the central banking system of Saccren. Several Saccrenian bank leaders are rumored to have committed Self Delete. Mine managers seem to be leaving the country.
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