Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Ndnd]

Looks like the greedy fucks at Princess Cruises are finally doing the right thing and suspending operations for 60 days. Or maybe they’re just laying low after all the disastrous issues with the Grand Princess and Diamond Princess.

Princess Cruises: Voluntary 60 Day Pause of Global Ship Operations - Notices & Advisories

www.princess.com

 

[Spawn]

Well hell stocks hitting a circuit breaker and royal Caribbean shutting down globally for 60 days. That's interesting. Verry interesting.

 

[Fascist Ferret]

Lol thanks facebook... for telling me to wash my hand and fact checking satire, i mean fake news...

Spoiler

 

[Male Idiot]

It is generally better to get vitamins in pill forms. Much better dosage control and does not spoil. Vegetables and fruits are all nice when there is not a pandemic.

But now people can coof on your carrot, and a big ole bag of pills can be kept way beyond rotting age and takes up less space, so it may be more expensive but it is much better suited to quarantine.

Alcoholic hand sanitizer is impossible to find, and tp rans out from supermarkets before noon now in Hungary.

For once my people are smart, they leave the "organic" and "super duper skin care" sanitizers rotting on the shelves and alcoholic and antiviral ones are long gone.

 

[fuckass]

Yesterday roughly an hour after pandemic status was announced, traffic was hell. Almost got in a wreck by the supermarket, this bitch in an Acura suv pulled in super fast as I was driving by and I had to slam the breaks. She was stuck in the middle of the road, literally no more room in the parking lot for the store. People parked at nearby restaurants. Panic shopping got nuts

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

UK figures as of 12th March.

29,764 tested.

590 positive cases (+134 from yesterday)

Health Minister Edward Agar has also now begun self quarantine after having a dinner on Thursday with positive case Nadine Dorries.

So that now means two of the ministers of health in the UK have caught it.


Sadly looks like things are keeping steady trajectory and I expect events etc to begin to be cancelled.

 

[Longjack Attack]

Wuhan Megathread anthem:

 

[afternoon_tea]

Small update on the retail front: there was a lineup of 50 people waiting for us to open, people are panicking now.

I went to buy a bag of flour and another can of Lysol on my lunchbreak (things I need to buy anyway) and my boss grabbed them out of my hand and said I couldn't buy them because "the customers" need them, as if the people who work here and spend our money here don't need things as well. I'm pretty livid.

 

[Jeffrey Epstein]

Small update on the retail front: there was a lineup of 50 people waiting for us to open, people are panicking now.

I went to buy a bag of flour and another can of Lysol on my lunchbreak (things I need to buy anyway) and my boss grabbed them out of my hand and said I couldn't buy them because "the customers" need them, as if the people who work here and spend our money here don't need things as well. I'm pretty livid.

you should quit.

 

[LolNoIPLeaksEvenLMFAO]

you should quit.

Even better kill your boss so he doesn’t get sick or prevent other employees from buying fucking flour.

 

[AprilRains]

Haaretz claims Israel has developed a Corona vaccine. (archive)

 

[Not Really Here]

The Fourth German Reich disapproves of Trump acting without consulting them-

Press corner

Highlights, press releases and speeches

ec.europa.eu

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Defense Health Agency (US military health department) "town hall" live webcast is about to start.

DVIDS Webcast - Defense Health Agency (DHA) Town Hall

Defense Health Agency (DHA) Town Hall at Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ), Falls Church, VA.

www.dvidshub.net

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

Quarantined couple die of coronavirus two hours apart in Italy

An elderly Italian couple who had been married for 60 years died two hours apart of the coronavirus while under lockdown – and their son is heartbroken that he was not allowed to visit them one las…

nypost.com

Elderly Italian couple dies at home within two hours of each other. Their son wasn't allowed to visit them.

 

[Dirty Mug]

News from a couple SE Asian countries:

The Philippines
Duterte announces Code Red Sub-level 2 in National Capital Region (archive): restrictions on domestic travel, "community quarantine", class suspensions up to postgrad level. There are 52 confirmed cases as of this post. 2 deaths according to the article. In his press conference he had to emphasize the lockdown isn't martial law lmao

University of the Philippines' Philippine Genome Center develops its own testing kits, can supply at least 6,000 of it (archive) to major government hospitals across the country.

Singapore
9 new COVID-19 cases (archive), including two who attended mass religious gatherings in Malaysia. 187 total cases as of this post, 96 recoveries.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Since everyone is talking about their situation level I'll add mine:

I'm currently staying with friends in South Texas right now (Beanerville) and I wouldn't say there's any panic at the stores right now. The local grocery chain (HEB) is only out of hand sanitizer and masks, while I got the last clorox wipes. HEB is very well stocked on water, and all these dumb mexicans only bought out the cheap handsoap and toilet paper. Of course right now the only infected folks are in Houston, so who knows how long the peace will last. Either way I'm good.

Same situation in Alabama; though I imagine that will change soon due to there being cases in TN and GA, or that church group from Cullman that’s either in or is just leaving quarantine in Israel, or the fact that a few of those idiotic boomers on the Diamond Princess were from here. I wonder which major city will see cases first here? Birmingham is the largest and has fairly bad infrastructure. Huntsville plays home to major NASA facilities and Redstone Arsenal (US’s main place for aerospace testing and R&D) and is thus home to some very good engineering programs, and thus exchange students/spies. Mobile is a major port and has probably the biggest Mardi Gras celebration besides New Orleans. All of my cousins went into nursing and my brother’s GF is in premed, so I’m hoping things don’t go off the rails here.
Edit: Birmingham at least has very good water quality, and they’ve said they’re not turning off water if people aren’t paying due to the wuflu.

 

[Iuz]

Haaretz claims Israel has developed a Corona vaccine. (archive)

"The development process requires a series of tests and experiments that may last many months before the vaccination is deemed effective or safe to use. "

Guess, we will find out in 6 months.

 

[tuscangarder]

Online anti-Semitism thrives around coronavirus, even on mainstream platforms

Even while blaming Jews for coronavirus, extremists expressed hope that Jews would fall victim to the disease.

forward.com

Online anti-Semitism thrives around coronavirus, even on mainstream platforms

 

[Houraisan Kaguya]

Defense Health Agency (US military health department) "town hall" live webcast is about to start.

DVIDS Webcast - Defense Health Agency (DHA) Town Hall

Defense Health Agency (DHA) Town Hall at Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ), Falls Church, VA.

www.dvidshub.net

"We're going to have to make fast decisions, some good, some not so good. We're going to make mistakes, and you're gonna need to get over that. For the next slide, I included a funny little cartoon that kinda helps explain the situation."

I had to turn this off, my anxiety is skyrocketing.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

I hope this plague forces people to realize how dumb flying halfway across the world for in-person meetings is in a world of web cams and wireless internet.

Yesterday roughly an hour after pandemic status was announced, traffic was hell. Almost got in a wreck by the supermarket, this bitch in an Acura suv pulled in super fast as I was driving by and I had to slam the breaks. She was stuck in the middle of the road, literally no more room in the parking lot for the store. People parked at nearby restaurants. Panic shopping got nuts

God people are dumb. This thing was a pandemic a month ago. Suddenly the WHO remembers what the definition of pandemic is and everyone goes nuts.

If you were gonna start hoarding TP the time was awhile ago, not now.