Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Sam Losco]

Massachusetts, woman in her 20s traveled to Italy with a school group. Second case for that state.

https://twitter.com/WBUR/status/1234679669816885250

 

[Childe]

What the fuck is up with all the spergy corona threads lately?

 

[MediocreMilt]

What the fuck is up with all the spergy corona threads lately?

we're all gonna die

 

[break these cuffs]

What the fuck is up with all the spergy corona threads lately?

It's babbies first hysterical media scare. Granted this one actually has some teeth to it, but this isn't the first time that kids/young adults started paying attention to the wider world around them and concluded that it was ending because a bunch of hacks screamed about how the sky is falling.

 

[spannerslob]

Blog update: Finally went outside again today (Shanghai area) and it seems like things are slowly picking up again. A few more stores and restaurants have reopened, I got a haircut and some fruit and such. Seems like the streets are a lot busier and people are out walking their dogs and such. There are still travel and entry/exit restrictions in place here but it doesn't feel quite so much like 28 days later.

 

[RodgerDodger]

My first thought was "If these are the exceptional individuals in charge of our response, we're all going to die." My second thought was "If these are the exceptional individuals in charge of our response, we deserve to."

These are the UN. They aren't actually in charge of anything. They just like to pretend they are. Mostly all they are is a mouthpiece for dictators, corruptocrats and other hellholes on earth that think they should be able to dictate to others. The actual job of protecting us falls to organizations such as the CDC, NHS, NIH and whatever the actual National Agencies are. Those nations that have these safeguards in place so far seem to be managing. Those that don't recently gave a press conferance that may actually eclipse Baghdad Bob in terms of surreal denial of reality.

The sad thing is Iran used to have not just the best Doctors in the region of the Middle east, but easily some of the best in the world. With a true World class training system. They all beat feet when the Ayatollah's showed up. Minor Powerlevel, but when I was growing up a friends father was one of them. He was one of the worlds best surgeons. One of if not The first to successfully re-attach a severed limb. He used to sometimes tell us about getting out. And tell us how in the span of a week or two, every single Doctor in his hospital headed for the exits for fear of the coming purges.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Why would the power grid start to fail when the US has enough fuel for utility level electricity for hundreds, maybe thousands of years? Why would the US run out of food when we're the breadbasket of the world and the current climate change models say the inevitable climate change effects in a worst case scenario will actually increase growing seasons in most of the US? Why would we have to refurb shit when we have the ability to shift manufacturing virtually anywhere in the world?

Your idol is a retard. The reason the system works is because it is so durable. The interconnected links are so that whenever one fails another picks up. Chinese factories are basically shut down, as you can see by
However factories in Vietnam, Korea, and India are working overtime to pick up the slack. Yes there will be supply issues, but you know what happens a year from now when everything is back to normal? A bunch of rich assholes will go "if this happens again we may go bankrupt, so let's diversify our manufacturing by building more factories in more countries." America and Canada did exactly this in 2006 at the head of the "peak oil" crisis when people were legitimately terrified of the developed world running out of oil entirely. Oil was at absolute record highs and people were paying $5 and $6 a gallon for gas on a good day. You know what happened? The US invested heavily in greener energy and research and development. What we got was flex fuel engines that can run E85, genetically modified corn to produce extremely high ethanol concentrations, gas engines that doubled fuel efficiencies over less than a decade, and technology that made shale oil and oil sands viable energy sources, opening up the pathway to exploit tens of billions of barrels of oil.

The system works. People are resilient. Prepping in the sense that you should have emergency food, water, shelter, and ammo for weeks or maybe months is a good idea, however this pepper fantasy of living on your own off the land and off the grid forever and for always is retarded and always has been. Humans are social animals, we work together to accomplish great tasks. The greatest achievements of mankind have been cooperative endeavors. The best prep you can have is living in a community that isn't shit and having the right kind of friends.

The power fantasy of rising from the ashes with your shit ranch in fuckoffville is never going to happen. If things are so bad that even human nature begins to break down, you don't have enough bullets and MREs to stop the shitstorm at your property line.

 

[Longjack Attack]

Ya know this shit would make great for a fanfiction story.

 

[remiem]

This has been all over the news.

This coronavirus suit protects you inside a literal bubble

It’s a hazmat suit for the urban commuter. And even though it’s just a concept, it can’t be realized soon enough.

www.fastcompany.com

So are you supposed to just walk in these all day?

I just want super durable of versions of those water walking balls- giant human hamster balls. Life would be infinitely more entertaining if everyone was rolling around in bubbles.

 

[Drunk and Pour]

It's in the North East US now? Great. I was out with my sister and her friend on Sunday who was like, this Corona virus is nothing, there have been many corona viruses, nothing is going to happen. I was like, yet. I'm such a laid back person, I tell people not to panic until I start to panic. Shit is starting to get real here, and if the deaths and confirmed infected keep exploding like they are, we're fucked.

 

[XYZpdq]

The biggest concern I have taken out of this specific incident is how far ahead of the curve the fucking Kiwi Farms thread has been compared to the American CDC and the UN and a host of other "authoritative" bodies. Why are we consistently right and ahead of the curve every time?

because you can say "shut up dumbshit" here
the origins of this place in stalking and archiving CWC's antics built a foundation that generally doesn't like claims without evidence and won't hesitate to call you a great big dummy for making things up

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Does the fact that I'm already sick of hearing about corona despite it being a potentially real worldwide threat prove that I'm some sort of hipster?

 

[Dom Cruise]

It's worrying, to be sure.

 

[Still Anonymous For This]

What he found made him so fucking terrified that he sold all his shit and moved his family to a cowtip area of rural Massachusetts to live off the land.

Anyone who is telling you that the world is ending, but they still live in fucking Massachusetts, is selling you a huge crock of shit they don't believe in.

Civilizations have relied on trade since civilizations existed. If anything the global economy allows us to source products and resources from multiple locations, like @A Cardboard Box said. We are not fucking Bronze Age Babylon where if the tin trade from Germania is fucked over then we are fucked.

 

[The Spice boi]

She’s obviously trying to look smug as she walks back her objectively incorrect statement. She says “sanitizer will do nothing for the coronavirus,” and then defends herself in the replies saying “soap and water is more effective therefore I’m right.” Except that “hand-washing will protect you against Corona more effectively than weak alcohol sanitizer” is not at all the same claim as “sanitizer does nothing.”

Philosophy of science people sometimes joke about “scientism,” a sort of secular religion which treats science as holy revelation and scientists as its priests. It’s embodied in remarks like “science tells us ______,” or “science is making the world a better place.” Science can’t tell you anything or do anything, because science isn’t a person or an organization. Science is a set of academic norms. A few scientists have decided they like being priests, though, and thus like to use “scientist” as a sort of claim to authority.

Science is a social activity carried out by university and lab employees. As the replication crisis has shown us, it’s not always done with a spirit of honesty. Best to assess claims more on their merits, instead of on the credentials of the speaker.

This has been all over the news.

This coronavirus suit protects you inside a literal bubble

It’s a hazmat suit for the urban commuter. And even though it’s just a concept, it can’t be realized soon enough.

www.fastcompany.com

So are you supposed to just walk in these all day?

Me and the street eggs will rule the streets of Wuhan

 

[Dom Cruise]

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

Man well rip to me, I work in downtown Atlanta and I take the MARTA. Pour me out ones boys.

 

[break these cuffs]

Does the fact that I'm already sick of hearing about corona despite it being a potentially real worldwide threat prove that I'm some sort of hipster?

No, it means you care about it if you live in a city or work/live around chinks. Life will get disrupted and people will spergout. Make sure to hold up in a shack in the woods if you're a baby or 65+ years old.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Man well rip to me, I work in downtown Atlanta and I take the MARTA. Pour me out ones boys.

Don’t take MARTA, besides the Africans, there’s a virus going around out there.

I saw a blowup on next door (neighborhood app) about someone sick getting on a local bus and not staying home. Should have said something in the moment but still, if this causes people to shame those who go to work sick then I’m all for it.

 

[TwinkLover6969]

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