Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

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Which states other than Arizona and Florida have the sun in their official identity?
 
Just got an Apple news update about corona Chan. I bet the stores are gonna be packed more than ever now.
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Just got an Apple news update about corona Chan. I bet the stores are gonna be packed more than ever now.
i've fucking had it with these apple ads telling me to go buy shit, i'll just sit on my ass and die like the government is suggesting instead. goddamn capitalism
 
Costco was oddly calm but I left work early to get in and out. Still many people we’re panic buying, they were nearly out of Lysol spray and Clorox wipes when I got there. Flour, rice, bottled water etc was really low on the floor. Canned goods were still in stock but almost everyone had cases of green beans, pineapple, spam etc in their carts. Many families were going through with 2-3 carts. I got what I wanted and headed to the grocery store to buy meat to freeze.

Found a 3m p95 respirator and some cartridges, not at HD, so all in all a good run.
 
Jesus. This thread is possibly the fastest growing I seen. Any highlights?

All I know is that my country seems safe atm. Although I saw some foreign students on campus wearing masks, which isnt common here.
If you search for @Yotsubaaa's posts in the thread, he normally posts updates containing the big news items from the thread.
 
Mossberg 590M 12 gauge. It has an internal magazine, but can also take removable box magazines. Get 4-5 10 round mags.

To all the people acting like guns are hard to learn, no. They're not. You can learn how to run any modern weapon system in an afternoon. Here's the first and most important lesson, don't put your finger on the trigger unless you are ready to shoot. Other than that, don't point it at stuff you don't intend to shoot, and watch some youtube videos or something. If an inner city teen can do it, so can you.

If you have an afternoon of shooting under your belt and you're in a gunfight where you have to expend 40-50 rounds of buck towards the bad guys coming to steal your fish antibiotics, you're either about ready to be very fucking famous or very fucking dead.

Guns are difficult to learn how to use and take more than an afternoon at a range to learn. If you do hold this opinion, I certainly hope you're not my fucking neighbor, because I don't want a fucking random slug coming through my wall because you're blasting all of creation with your 10-round shotgun box magazines.
 
Considering how basically all of them have shitty health, anyone wanna bet on how many cows we're gonna lose to Corona-Chan?
I know Tommy Tooter's definitely going down, maybe Yaniv too
The Fat Acceptance/Fatgirl Cow threads are really going to thin out (hurr hurr) if Corona-chan's US tour is a smashing success. Most of those fatties already have sleep apnea and are generally unhealthy; a few have taken to falling apart at a truly alarming pace as of late. Pneumonia's a big killer of the morbidly obese as it is.
If you Doom bots get your wish, you're not flying out of anywhere. Or do you mean escape to the countryside? On behalf of country fags everywhere, allow me to ask you to stay in your contaminated petri dish. We aren’t going to be taking in city tards who are not kin to us. The nicer of us will tell you to fuck off, we're full. The less hospital ones will just shoot your ass if society has collapsed.
I had a conversation with somebody earlier today on just this topic. A fellow cityfag, who hasn't even gone camping since he was a Cub Scout, with no relatives who aren't also cityfags, was thinking that maybe he could just leave the city if things got really bad.

I asked him where he would go, where he would find shelter, and what he would do to take care of himself for weeks on end. After all, all of that "empty" land far out beyond the suburbs or in/over the mountains is owned by somebody--maybe a private citizen, maybe a government body--and they aren't going to want you there.

Everything you said? That's what I told him. He got kind of panicky-looking as he realized there was no magical safe place in the country to run away to, but I gave him some of my standard advice on prepping to shelter in place, which is what he'd have to do after a major earthquake, and that seemed to help. I hope it did, anyway.
So, if this thing gets worse, would it be better if you live in a US city to try to leave if it looks like it might get quarantined, or stay put? Asking for a friend
Where would you go? Do you have family elsewhere?

If you go somewhere else, and have no pre-existing ties to that community, why should the locals take you in?

What will you do when (not if; when) they refuse to take you in? How would you survive?

If you live in a city, you already understand its culture. You know what resources are available. You know how to navigate it. You can lock your door and enjoy a basic level of physical safety and comfort. If you get sick, the hospitals may be overcrowded, but you'll still get a better level of care than a rural hospital that's stretched thin and overburdened even at the best of times.

Buy some extra food and supplies and stay in the fucking city; there really is nowhere else to go.
 
@It's HK-47 At this point it might make sense to seperate the prep advice and the coronavirus subject into two different threads so people who just want to focus on the coronavirus news can do so while there is a thread for people to prepare if they feel the need to; What do you think?
I think that trying to sift through what will be a 500 page thread in the next 1-2 days in order to separate Doom Panic and Not Doom Panic is something that does not sound the least bit fun. It's probably a good idea, but I think it might be a little late for it now. At least we'll get a front-row seat to whomever can whittle the most buckshot out of squirrel bones for their garage-built pipe-shotgun, I guess.
 
You guys watch too many crappy horror movies. Most likely she has a condition that is suppressing her immune system antibodies or she was re-infected between testing negative and being discharged.
This part, right here, is what is so..odd...about this disease.

Normally, when you get a cold/flu, you are immune to the rest for the year. The antibodies made keep you safe from other strains, since the various strains evolve together at the same time and are usually very similar, unless you get a year of having 2 very distinct flus running around.

But to be re-infected with the same strain? Outside of immunocompromised patients, that is extremely rare, especially so soon after having it the first time, when antibody production is still high. That's part of the reason some are jittery around corona-chan, because the death rate of 3% becomes a lot more threatening if you can get it repeatedly, with a 3% chance each time, in the span of a few weeks in between, suggesting any number of horror theories of rapid mutation or lingering, persistent infection.
 
Normally, when you get a cold/flu, you are immune to the rest for the year.

I wouldn't say that. Last year, for example and actually around this time, I had the serious flu. Throat closed all the way the fuck up. Got better and then what happened? Two months later I was sick with the flu again. It happens sometimes and the work environment I was in was spreading that stuff around all over.
 
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