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I'd like a Coronavirus beer with a wedge of Lyme disease, please...
Are any of us dead yet? The plague is coming, you know ...
I suspect this is going to be the usual routine where the panic does more damage than the virus itself. I have a tendency to be skeptical of anyone who tells us we need to be afraid. Nevertheless, I guess it's time to stock up on some dry goods and other supplies.
As always ... all conspiracy theories will be considered unless debunked to satisfaction.
The only thing I am afraid of is authorities causing great harm in order to contain a virus that is already uncontainable. Say, Jack gets infected, and the government kills all his cows just in case the cows are carrying the virus.
girlfriend and co-workers are coughing regularly. A longhair in a denim jacket with a smiley-face button is walking around the place glaring at people.
According to Chinese officials ... the Covid-19 virus, which is 96% identical to bat coronavirus, didn't escape from the level-4 biolab that was experimenting on bat coronavirus. And it didn't spread via the crowded seafood market located 918 feet away from the lab ... a marketplace that they have now demolished.
And if that's what the Chinese officials say, then we can trust them, right?
I didn't know there were nine deaths in the USA, it is up to 11 now.
I use this interactive map: (not text based)
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
There is a selection for mobile as well.
Tue Mar 03 2020 11:23:40 AM EST from LoanShark
girlfriend and co-workers are coughing regularly. A longhair in a denim jacket with a smiley-face button is walking around the place glaring at people.
Nice reference
+5
As of last evening there were circa 100 deaths in the UK, where the population is in excess of 60 million.
Also for reasons I cannot fathom, people are panic buying toilet roll. We live in a world where as time passes, I understand less.
As for "Will CORVID-19 kill me?" As with everything, the odds are essentially even, either it will, or it will not.
Of all the things... bags of rice and black beans I would understand. But TP...
By the way, with the exponential growth of this thing it is apparently a matter of time before health-care systems are overwhelmed. Makes sense to contingency-plan for some time at home.
Do you have facial hair?
This chart details which style of facial hair work with masks and which facial hair styles don't work with masks.
https://www.gq.com/story/cdc-facial-hairstyles
USA is up to 17 deaths, 16 in the state of Washington and one in California.
It looks like panic is setting in around here. People getting supplies from the suppermarket as if they expected to have to withstand a long ter quarntine. Some member of an ethnic minority managed to ignore quarantine instructions and infected some villages, so know hell is broken loose.
So much panic for what ammounts to a bad flu virus.
Good news is that I also have supplies and ammo in case things make a turn for bad. But I suspect panic is going to kill more people than the virus.
There is no doubt the panic is going to do more damage than the virus itself. Social distancing is intended to slow down the spread, to flatten the curve so that the population can be impacted at a manageable rate, so that herd immunity is built, and for health care facilities to be able to handle the patient load.
But we live in a world where IG's First Rule Of Everything still applies: people are stupid. All they know about pandemics is that all viruses are airborne and have a 100% fatality rate, because that's how it goes in the movies. (And there are people with agendas, but I'll leave that in the politics room.)
Many of us are going to get sick -- some worse than others. For many young healthy people it will be a fever and tiredness for a day or two. For others it will be flu-like symptoms. For an unlucky few it will be pneumonia. There is no doubt that a lot of people are going to die, but this isn't going to bring about The Collapse (tm) even though Tom Icom is probably hoping and praying for that.
Panic buying has created a gap between the two ends of the supply chain. But the supply chain is still moving. Eventually everyone will have more toilet paper and hand sanitizer on hand than they can use.
Meanwhile, just wash your f***ing hands. And bleach everything down.
People are stupid.
2020-03-18 10:17 from Ragnar Danneskjold
So people aren't buying canned goods. They're buying fruit, milk,
meat, toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
People are stupid.
I have been pointing tat that for long.
I have also seen people who is in bad medical condition (paralyzed in a wheel chair, arms inmobilized) that prefer to stay cripple of conditions that are treatable rather than go to the doctor and get exposed to the virus.
Mankind is very fucked up.