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Holy crap at the world markets being halted within minutes of opening this morning.

The virus scare was already making the market shaky, but the Russian/Saudi shitshow is going for the jugular.

Yup, for some reason the Russians and Saudis are having an old-fashioned gas war. Used to see such things when I was a kid. Oil's up to $34.13/barrel right now.

Forget me if I sound way saltier than usual but there's been a... fuck it one of my loved ones died in front of me. 100% unrelated to corona. I doubt I should post today but I am thinking of posting a rant with my thoughts on emergency services. But... Honestly I shouldn't. Right now I don't think I remember how to function I should not be posting. But I do think I should express my thoughts on the matter... part of me thinks this is a cry for help. I really just can't remember how to live right now.



Yes it's true. Basically with mechanical respiration you're pumping oxigen into the lungs but as I said on prior comments if the lungs are necrotic, or filled with fluid, or just way too inflamed, then it doesn't matter how much you pump into them at that point because nothing will get to the bloodstream. Further, there are also complications in the bloodstream or other parts of the body and here I get to why I even bothered comenting today, because it's funny in a very dark way how life comes at you.

The loved one I just talked about died due to a brain rupture, their skull flooded with blood, which made it so oxygen couldn't get there. He did get mechanical respiration when the services got to him but, well, nothing in this world could've made that oxygen enter the brain. They died gasping for air with nothing anyone could do about it. I have no issues with spanish healthcare due to it btw, it was too fast and too hard. That's the thing, as I repeated many times when it comes to biology some battles are just lost as soon as they're started. Life just comes at you and the train's got no breaks. So, he's right, some cases can't be fixed by mechanical lungs. I bore witness to that today.



Saying dictatorships get shit done is absolutely exceptional. All mussolinni did is take a country with a broken industrial base and break it further, then declare war on half the fucking planet. Hitler got a country wigh a good industrial base and all he did was drain its resources until their airforce sepukkued itself due to lack of fuel, and mao drove china to famine for literally no good reason other than his own officer's stupidity. Dictatorships just don't work.



Here's hoping your system can take it. But to be honest, american healthcare is the one that worries me in the west, outside of maybe the balkans for other reasons.



To be fair our ancestors were making poems and songs about wanting to bang the personification of death since ancient times, hell greek gods are basically waifus and husbandos, and the egyptians were furries to boot. So really, nothing's changed, people are just weird.

Let me add my condolences to you and your family, as well. Take care of yourself.
 
And to think I was optimistic the outbreak can be contained.

Should've known stupidity and the love for shekels made it much harder.
I don't believe the Western response is containment. If it were, we would have shut down our borders and put people into longer quarantines.

I think the response is controlled exposure. We know the virus can't be contained, we are mostly focused on slowing the spread to avoid overwhelming our healthcare systems.


The best guess of some doctors is that every bed in the US will be occupied by May 8. This is from a presentation by the American Hospitals Association, who do have an agenda (they want more money for hospitals.) There's a recognition that this will tax our resources, the concern is the rate at which they will be utilized.


Good timeline for when things could happen. You have to decide if you're a pessimist and agree with it, or an optimist who thinks a little skepticism is in order.
 
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"Exciting" florida (tampa) news:
-publix has stopped its aprons program temporarily. They wont give out free food samples until the brouhaha passes I presume.
-the starbuckses around my area have stopped accepting refillable cups to prevent contamination
-(rumor from friend who works) Tampa General might have its first case of NCV. Tampa gen is full of old people, homeless people, and stressed as FUCK health care workers from being in the heart of downtown. No one is looking forward to an official diagnosis. At least the hospital is easy to cut off access to since it's on an island if shit gets fucked.

2 deaths, 18 confirmed cases, and 270 under watch: https://archive.ph/HZnX5

Levity (joke news)
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Remember to be good to each other, and stay good yourself. And if you can't be good, dont get caught 👍
 
It's been said before, but I disagree with the sentiment.

Once a plague dies down, the last thing anyone wants to talk about is existential threats. They want to bury the dead and have life get back to normal.

There's a psychology to communal loss. In a way, the more people we lose, the worse it will be for the Left. If the media pushes it too far, people will tune out.
 
Apologies if late, but dead psychic kook Sylvia Browne called it in 2008. THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

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She was always on the Montelle Williams show when I was a kid. My grandma would watch every episode she was on.

Just so people know she's a fraud one of her most famous flubs was her prediction of a womans daughter being dead only for her to be one of Ariel Castro kidnapped victims.

Also buy peanut butter, carbs protein and fats. If you survive until fall you can steal apples from a orchid and have a healthy snack. Enjoy the rest of the apocalypse kiwis
 
According to a doctor I was talking to yesterday, the situation in Spain is getting worse by the minute. He said Spain is right now just as Italy was ten days ago. It's clear that most Western goverments have understimated this outbreak, just look what's happening now.

He is working in Madrid btw

The markets are plunging because investors are high IQ and know what's up -- it's much worse than governments are letting on. But don't worry plebs, says the government: it's just "the flu", no matter what, keep going to work and make the elites more money. If you get sick and die, well, the govt doesn't care, elites dont work or mix with plebs, so they'll be just fine.
 

Brooooklyn coming in with first two confirmed cases along with one in Queens =(

Apologies if late, but dead psychic kook Sylvia Browne called it in 2008. THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

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Damn! It's a shame she's dead. Fuck it! We'll get the next best thing. Get the Pentagon on the horn so they can airlift Ms. Cleo to Atlanta so she can begin advising the CDC immediately.


She was always on the Montelle Williams show when I was a kid. My grandma would watch every episode she was on.

Just so people know she's a fraud one of her most famous flubs was her prediction of a womans daughter being dead only for her to be one of Ariel Castro kidnapped victims.

Also buy peanut butter, carbs protein and fats. If you survive until fall you can steal apples from a orchid and have a healthy snack. Enjoy the rest of the apocalypse kiwis
Nuts to that. I live in Brooklyn and if I survive I'm going to the museum of natural history so I can start drinking my rainwater and moonshine out of a jewel encrusted goblet. Get some nice paintings, maybe one of dem fancy sarcophaguses to sleep in...for my fifth story walk up studio apartment with a narrow doorway.
 
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