Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Stoneheart]

but it's going thru the Milwaukee area at a nice rate.

We need to shot everybody with the Virus in that area! Humanity is lost if Rich Evans gets infected and dies...

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

US-Mexico border could be shut down to contain coronavirus: officials

The US-Mexico border could be shut down to contain the coronavirus outbreak — by Mexico, health officials said. Mexico, where there are 26 confirmed cases, is preparing to ban non-essential service…

nypost.com

Mexico is seriously considering shutting down the border.

 

[AgriDrThunder]

We need to genocide Milwaukee.

Should be the policy even without Corona tbh.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Agree that our Scandinavian spacing is an advantage but it is indeed going through the Milwaukee area at a nice rate. The Johns Hopkins map isn't up-to-date.

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Outbreaks in Wisconsin

Outbreaks and Investigations Wisconsin has now seen multiple confirmed cases of COVID-19. And with more testing facilities online, we can expect to see even more cases. Identifying cases allows DHS and our local partners to move quickly to isolate a case and possibly contain spread of the virus...

www.dhs.wisconsin.gov

I feel nice and cozy up in my Northwoods hideout though.

Scandinavian spacing isn't helping the actual Scandinavians, they have significantly higher per capita numbers than us. Indeed, stick them all together and they've got more than we do.

 

[Curious Addie]

I blame the internet.

This all would've never happened if we'd just stuck to smoke signals, ponies, and pigeons.

Speaking of..... I wonder how the Amish will take the hit to their boomer customer base, or just manage the Wu Flu in general. That'll be an interesting study for some autist when this is all over.

Considering that the Amish actually reproduce, they will have a lower proportion of old people and will be less affected than other populations. Also they eat real food and live an active lifestyle, I would bet on the average Amish farmboy without modern medicine over any urbanite.

 

[Green Man]

Even in my little slice of rural hill-country, the hysteria has set in. Went to the store and was glad to find that the ammo looks fine. However, eggs, milk, bread, pasta sauce, paper products, all cleaned out top-to-bottom. Local Amish community is losing their shit [maybe literally] because there is no toilet paper to be found and they found themselves a day late and a dollar short. It's funny because people far away from Amish communities seem to consider them totally apocalypse-proof and self-reliant. Really, you couldn't be further from the truth when it comes to the New Order Amish. They're just disconnected and out-of-touch enough to not know when the shit is hitting the fan, but not self-reliant enough to have enough supplies put back. They go to Walmart, Kroger's or IGA just like everybody else. Only ones that don't are the Old Order/Schwarzentruber 'Dirty/Poor' Amish, and you'll see them occasionally too. In-general, people think that Amish folks are totally isolated and self-reliant, but they definitely aren't. Once upon a time they were, but as time has passed, they've become more and more reliant on English [what they call non-Amish] infrastructure, retail and services. They might fare even worse than the rest of us especially considering genetic diseases already run rampant as a result of inbreeding. As you might imagine, there aren't exactly swaths of people beating down the door to join an Amish church so they've basically been procreating with distant cousins for three or four generations at least. That's a topic for another day I guess.

Perhaps a bit of a PL but I delivered ice to rural Amish enclaves for quite a few years. 2006-2014 or so. It's hard work. Gotta hit about 120 houses every day, some of 'em multiple times a week. In July you'd be working 10-12 hour days, 6 days a week and maybe a short run on Sunday morning. They don't have electricity [though some of them do have kerosene refrigeration] so obviously they won't have an electric refrigerator. So basically at least once a week, they've gotta buy a hundred, maybe two hundred pound blocks of ice, depending on the icebox and how often their kids open up the box to get a snack. Anyhow, I remember a few years back there was a big measles outbreak ongoing in these communities and that shit ran through Amish kids like wildfire. You'd see Amish folks dragging their sickly kids all over the place, and of course, measles is a visible ailment. You could tell if someone had measles. Whereas if someone has COVID-19, you probably won't be able to tell and I doubt the Amish are gonna take this seriously either. Kids were almost dying from fever seizures and they didn't seem to care much. It'll probably be the same here, if it hits their community.

Speaking of it hitting their community, the eastern part of my county [which by far has the largest concentration of Amish] has fifteen people on mandatory quarantine as they've been exposed to COVID. So I'd imagine coronachan might already be wrapping her tendrils around the Deitsch. Going to be interesting to see how it plays out.

As for me, I'm only leaving the house for necessities and almost compulsively sanitizing, washing my hands whenever I come across a sink or get back home. People keep downplaying it here [especially the boomers] but I'm not buying their bullshit that it isn't in my town yet. As I said, fifteen people in the eastern end of the county have been exposed, and at least one person working at the local Wal-Mart supposedly had it and has been quarantined. People want to believe that it can't hit here, or that it will somehow weave around us, but in my opinion they are being delusional or far too optimistic. Nobody is invulnerable to this. My county also has a high population of 50+ folks. Seems like there's seven or eight old folks' homes and senior centers inside of ten miles here. Most of them aren't allowing visitors or non-essential staff right now.

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

Idexx tested thousands of cats and dogs for coronavirus. None had it.

The Westbrook-based veterinary diagnostics firm says the tests confirm earlier assessments that pets cannot contract the disease.

www.pressherald.com

Apparently besides Basketball players the only ones getting tested in the US are cats and dogs. Personally I support testing dogs over overpaid ball jugglers, but think the doctors and first responders should probably still take precedence over both of them.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

I probably slept on closing the clinic because the other MD called me today and he's got something.

This is 100% correct though.

 

[simulated goat]

Happy 800 pages everybody. Remember you can get hand sanitizer at places like Office Max or Staples. Get creative with your panic shopping.

They are out too, went to Office Despot for something else about 10 days ago and observed their cleaning products aisle. Hand sanitizer at triple a grocery store price (let alone a dollar store) was empty. At least around here, they were last-ditch and emptied awhile back. The lol's I am experiencing right now is not because I am sitting on two 3/4 full bottles of sanitizer, etc, but the enjoyment of watching people stupid enough to pay top prices for shit that îs artficially inflated. OMG, history is full of these bubbles, hysterias and scandals, tulipmanias and teapot domes and our era will be known for toilet paper speculation. I am disappoint.

 

[FatalTater]

Ya know, I keep hearing about all the buying but no one's talking about doing any cleaning.

 

[Barnard]

The day's not over yet, but we have crossed the one hundred mark. 36 new cases for a total of 104 and unfortunately a third death is a significant increase, but probably to be expected because the number of tested samples has doubled in the span of 48 hours. On the bright side, 13 coronavirus patients were announced to be "healthy" this evening. We're not sure what does this exactly mean because there's a communication problem on this issue. Recovered from symptoms. Recovered and tested negative? Tested negative and discharged home?

We went from 22 cases to 104 in four days. In comparison, Germany went from 21 to 117 in the same timespan, France from 18 to 130, Spain from 26 to 125. Italy only took two days to go from 20 to 150. In a week or so we should find out if all our protective measures are of any help. While borders are closed, the government is making some arrangements to help citizens currently stranded abroad, preparing special flights for them.

Speaking of, the first two infected people in my region came straight from Norway. Still not a single case in my own city though. Guess it's such a hole, not even Corona-chan wants to live here, but I don't mind that. I went for a short walk today (the area is not exactly bustling with activity so I feel relatively safe spending brief periods of time outside), not much going on, a few people walking about as usual, children playing football (they will have to stop and stay home sooner or later), haven't even heard a single ambulance today. People around these parts and especially further east are generally calm (if not outright meek) and somewhat disciplined. High religiosity, low crime, some sense of community, but also dirt poor and with awful infrastructure (which actually helps because shity, sparse roads and barely functioning public transport outside of large cities don't encourage moving from place to place). If we really have to clench our teeth and stay in, we will.

 

[Third_World_Detractor]

What is the deal with this toilet paper thing? Is really that important in a apocalypse scenario?

 

[TheRedChair]

Ya know, I keep hearing about all the buying but no one's talking about doing any cleaning.

It has been spoken on what to do. Because I have state what needs to be clean several times on this posting.

 

[FatalTater]

It has been spoken on what to do. Because I have state what needs to be clean several times on this posting.

I'm not asking for insructions. I'm just noticing that people will post about the struggles of shopping in these trying times but not the struggles of wiping things down with those precious products they had to have.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

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Second day of quarantine. People's mostly been making jokes. good times all around. Some have taken to the parks and forests, and have been told not to. Personally I think they should be allowed. I mean forests and parks are not where you'll get infected the most unless you do something really stupid. The bars on valencia which refused to close for today (technically quarantine starts monday) were still filled with foreigners which are also refusing to go (technically spain can't tell people to go away against their will, we're not some savages like the USA.)

Also, we have a plane filled with krauts that just arrived in Jerez and the population is a bit angry than we backstabbed the Italians but we're letting Merkel's boys leech off of us like that. We also have a fuckton of britbongs camping south by the by. As always, we're europe's nursery. We'd like that a lot more if it was the countries that actually need it we take care of, not the rich bastards using us as puppets.

So controversy aside, now we go to all the fun. Again I have way too much to post but here's some. First of, a romancero by one of my fellow gaditanos:

Second on our list a family enjoying the best things in life:

Third of in our tour of spain, a neighbor community joined through the power of bingo:

Next on the list, a radio presenter describes a conversation he heard on the supermarket:

I also got an audio of someone describing how the cashier was telling them "you can't possibly eat as much as you're buying! Hipertension and diabetes is what's gonna kill all of you!" But I still don't know how to upload audios so you'll have to wait until I'm home.

On the meantime here's a kid that, in the words of the narrator, won't die of corona but of the bloody smack she's gonna get when she plummets into the streets.

And finally, we decided to copy Italy's iniciative to applaud the doctors at 10 o clock. Won't post video from my window for obvious reasons but over here it was a success, and here's some other examples:

And finally we got some guy taking his chance to make some fun of the situation.

Overall, morale is really high despite some bickering. Shit's good. The effects to the economy and academic issues will be serious but other than that, we're fine.

 

[ultimate_racoon]

I blame the internet.

This all would've never happened if we'd just stuck to smoke signals, ponies, and pigeons.

Speaking of..... I wonder how the Amish will take the hit to their boomer customer base, or just manage the Wu Flu in general. That'll be an interesting study for some autist when this is all over.

Yeah no culture that uses smoke signals has ever been decimated by a virus.

 

[Lost send help]

UK quarantining the Elderly for months and I suspect lock down next week finally, woo fun times

 

[ultimate_racoon]

If you eat your neighbors it's safer to just eat the meat. You're more likely to get kuru if you eat organs like the brain. I'm not really sure what the statistics are or if there's no kuru in your area if it's even something to worry about. It would be a shame to let the organs go to waste.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Iran's chain of command is turning into a stack of jenga blocks

Officially 500, so multiply by 4?

 

[Curious Addie]

If you eat your neighbors it's safer to just eat the meat. You're more likely to get kuru if you eat organs like the brain. I'm not really sure what the statistics are or if there's no kuru in your area if it's even something to worry about. It would be a shame to let the organs go to waste.

Best to feed the corpses to pigs and then eat the pigs.