Wuhan Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Quarantines, Cancellations

I agree with the idea of immediately sacrificing the weak in times of disaster because I am not a member of the weak.

I'm being facetious, of course. Call me crazy, but I kind of don't want my older family members or my friends with pre-existing health conditions to die or get severely sick. For once, I'm not gonna bash my government.
 
Well, France is on lockdown since noon. You need a slip like this one to go outside, and present it to the police / army when you get controlled alongside your ID and other proof justifying your trip.
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Basically says, "I, ..., certify that my trip is related to one of the following motives allowed by the article 1 of the decree of March 16, 2020 limiting movement to fight against the spread of the virus Covid-19 :

1. travel between home and the workplace, when it is necessary to exercise your professional activity that can't be done online from home
(you need a permanent proof from the workplace).
2. travel to make first necessity purchases in authorised shops near your home
3. travel for a health-related motive
(meaning hospital / doctor)
4. travel for an emergency family motive, to lend assistance to vulnerable elderly family members or to care for a child
5. brief travel near your home to exercise a physical activity without any other people around, or related to the needs of domestic animals"


I for one fled from Paris to the countryside like most of my young, affluent friends, so I can only speak for the French Riviera, but starting noon, we already had police on the Croisette asking for the reasons why you're outside and sending people home.

Apparently, but this isn't confirmed yet since the total confinement just barely started, the police will keep your authorisation slips to see how much you go out, and if you're bullshitting them, basically. Again, this is unconfirmed so far, but they did take my friends' authorisations earlier today.

And thus, in under two weeks, France lost more freedom than Russians did to communism.
 
The "they're taking urr freedomz" take is the stupidest thing I've read since the latest quote from DSP. Every medical professional from every conceivable side of politics is recommending people stay the fuck away from each other to limit exposure and spread. This advice is based on hundreds of years of science and study on disease behavior. COVID-19 is new and comparatively little is known about it so going to a baseball game is ill-advised regardless of your political views. The virus doesn't give a shit. If you're still screaming about your right to linger on some street corner without realizing that said right is not being taken away and that the responsibility to reduce exposure falls on everyone then I think you're beyond help.
 
The "they're taking urr freedomz" take is the stupidest thing I've read since the latest quote from DSP. Every medical professional from every conceivable side of politics is recommending people stay the fuck away from each other to limit exposure and spread. This advice is based on hundreds of years of science and study on disease behavior. COVID-19 is new and comparatively little is known about it so going to a baseball game is ill-advised regardless of your political views. The virus doesn't give a shit. If you're still screaming about your right to linger on some street corner without realizing that said right is not being taken away and that the responsibility to reduce exposure falls on everyone then I think you're beyond help.

Oh, I agree. And I firmly believe France should've taken all these measures way sooner, when the virus was just starting to spread on our territory. Hell, to this very day, we still haven't closed our own national borders, even though the EU ones are.

It's just amusing to compare this intense policing done by the State to Soviet Russia. At least that's what my parents have been doing all this time, and they've survived it.
 
If Italy is a shithole country, what is rural USA? Shitholer? What is balkanland? Shitholest? And we have not even touched countries that Trump would call shitholes.

Italy was 1st world like 10 years ago.

Plus we got a right wing ethnostate here. If only it was a far right authotarian ethnostate, I would gladly give up my rights for it.

When you say horrible horrible 1930-s, we called that the peak good times. So much so that it is a food fad.

Italy has only been 1st world in the nato sense. You are basically spain or greece tier. The midwest is much better then you think since they can actually grow crops.
I know the EU fucked your AG industry sry bro
 
If this just the flue bro, why are all the goverments going batshit panicking?

That is what nobody answers. If this is just a coverup to take dem rights, why risk the economy? One glownigger shooting at X minority can do that without the economic fallout.

Italy has only been 1st world in the nato sense. You are basically spain or greece tier. The midwest is much better then you think since they can actually grow crops.
I know the EU fucked your AG industry sry bro

I am not Pizza Person. I am hungarian, we are the low end of the second world. Think worse health care than China, on around Iran level.

Plus with us, it is the goverment panicking.

Tl,dr , the population thinks we are too STRONK and too WHITE for this virus to harm us.
So they are just thinking the goverment is being tricked by foreigners to hurt our THUNDERING economy.

Most dumbasses here think it only effects not pale people. You must be this white (slav white, so pale skin, but hair can be dark) not to get Corona. Yes I know its fucking dumb, almost as the chingshills here.

People with masks are still gawked at.
 
The "they're taking urr freedomz" take is the stupidest thing I've read since the latest quote from DSP. Every medical professional from every conceivable side of politics is recommending people stay the fuck away from each other to limit exposure and spread. This advice is based on hundreds of years of science and study on disease behavior. COVID-19 is new and comparatively little is known about it so going to a baseball game is ill-advised regardless of your political views. The virus doesn't give a shit. If you're still screaming about your right to linger on some street corner without realizing that said right is not being taken away and that the responsibility to reduce exposure falls on everyone then I think you're beyond help.
They are just the Democratic version of the people in Communism who let people starve over looking at problems in their ideology. Well, that or they are just angry this "nothingburger" hurt "Trump's markets".
 
The "they're taking urr freedomz" take is the stupidest thing I've read since the latest quote from DSP. Every medical professional from every conceivable side of politics is recommending people stay the fuck away from each other to limit exposure and spread. This advice is based on hundreds of years of science and study on disease behavior. COVID-19 is new and comparatively little is known about it so going to a baseball game is ill-advised regardless of your political views. The virus doesn't give a shit. If you're still screaming about your right to linger on some street corner without realizing that said right is not being taken away and that the responsibility to reduce exposure falls on everyone then I think you're beyond help.
I don't have as much of a problem with banning baseball games as they ban baseball entirely. Baseball can't even play in empty stadiums with healthy players. This paranoia has made it so you can't even play baseball with friends in front of an audience who knows the risks and doesn't care.

It's fucking hilarious how this thread has people absolutely leaping to defend collectivism (give away your freedoms and rights for their sake) and imposition of totalitarian rule over something which is barely anything. Why not just give away another 25 percent of your tax money so we can have Medicare for All? You don't need that money, the poor and suffering do. Just like how no one can have their freedoms and everything must be closed down because chain-smokin' granny and her bugchasing grandson might have a little worse cough than the normal flu.
I am just thinking down to the level of ya'll chinese paypigs who say it is just the flue. Just like antivaxxers or flat earthers there is not much else to do.
Yes, because /pol/ and the megathread here are fantastic sources of information and total not full of fearmongering or blatant lies and total are statistical experts. But hey, might as well trust the people who say all the elites at the DNC rapes kids in some random DC pizza parlor.
 
It's fucking hilarious how this thread has people absolutely leaping to defend collectivism (give away your freedoms and rights for their sake) and imposition of totalitarian rule over something which is barely anything. Why not just give away another 25 percent of your tax money so we can have Medicare for All? You don't need that money, the poor and suffering do. Just like how no one can have their freedoms and everything must be closed down because chain-smokin' granny and her bugchasing grandson might have a little worse cough than the normal flu.
can you make Mario jumping sounds the next time you make a leap in logic like that

i think there's a step or two between "hey maybe not gather in groups" and "were going to take away all your money to pay for some 102 year-old's iron lung" bing bing wahoo yipeeee

no one cares about a slippery slope argument in a crisis, either
 
Argentina here, classes of all levels are suspended until march 31. President asked for the country to stop for 10 days, people are being told the usual thing of keeping their distance and wash their hands. Those over 60 or at risk (diabetes, hyper tension, lung diseases, etc) can and should absent from work and stay home.

One instathot who was in europe recently broke quarentine and bragged about it on social media, neighbors freaked out and called the police on her.
Similarly, a guy coughed on a journalist and claimed he had corona, was promptly detained.

With all the stuff about quarentine and avoiding great concentrations of people, the galaxy brains running the trains decide to start maintance work and reduce the frequency of trains, making wagons full

That said, with the classes cancelled and a lot of people not working or doing so remotely, traffic is a lot better, buses are less crowded, yet I notice lot more cars in circulation. Business are still open but hardly anyone goes.
Big supermarket chains (walmart) were picked clean over the weekend, some of them are opening exclusively for people 65 and up from 7 to 8am, only 200 people are allowed at once on markets and other similar places. Small markets (chinese supermarkets) were stocked
 
I don't have as much of a problem with banning baseball games as they ban baseball entirely. Baseball can't even play in empty stadiums with healthy players. This paranoia has made it so you can't even play baseball with friends in front of an audience who knows the risks and doesn't care.

It's fucking hilarious how this thread has people absolutely leaping to defend collectivism (give away your freedoms and rights for their sake) and imposition of totalitarian rule over something which is barely anything. Why not just give away another 25 percent of your tax money so we can have Medicare for All? You don't need that money, the poor and suffering do. Just like how no one can have their freedoms and everything must be closed down because chain-smokin' granny and her bugchasing grandson might have a little worse cough than the normal flu.

Yes, because /pol/ and the megathread here are fantastic sources of information and total not full of fearmongering or blatant lies and total are statistical experts. But hey, might as well trust the people who say all the elites at the DNC rapes kids in some random DC pizza parlor.
???? But the actual experts are saying countries need to self-isolate immediately. Don't tell me you think Bill "buy the dip" Mitchell is the real expert here.
 
I don't have as much of a problem with banning baseball games as they ban baseball entirely. Baseball can't even play in empty stadiums with healthy players. This paranoia has made it so you can't even play baseball with friends in front of an audience who knows the risks and doesn't care.

It's fucking hilarious how this thread has people absolutely leaping to defend collectivism (give away your freedoms and rights for their sake) and imposition of totalitarian rule over something which is barely anything. Why not just give away another 25 percent of your tax money so we can have Medicare for All? You don't need that money, the poor and suffering do. Just like how no one can have their freedoms and everything must be closed down because chain-smokin' granny and her bugchasing grandson might have a little worse cough than the normal flu.

Yes, because /pol/ and the megathread here are fantastic sources of information and total not full of fearmongering or blatant lies and total are statistical experts. But hey, might as well trust the people who say all the elites at the DNC rapes kids in some random DC pizza parlor.

Dude, bro, dudebro, brodude.

We went from it is just the flu to Epstein did nothing illegal in a single post here.

Damn, either you are the best of shitposters, or just less smart than Chris-chan.

At least do not defend the goverment elites sexcapades in the same thread where you go full sovcit for freaking baseball of all things.

Baseball>granny is the dumbest argument I ever heard. At least the economy makes a ruthless type of sense.
 
i think there's a step or two between "hey maybe not gather in groups" and "were going to take away all your money to pay for some 102 year-old's iron lung" bing bing wahoo yipeeee
Explain how that is a leap in logic. You think it's a good, totally acceptable think to give away my freedom for other people over absolutely nothing. I don't care if I get sick (and neither should the vast majority of people). Why should I and so many other people have to suffer for a small minority of people? And this literally does take away people's money. Look at all the people who can't work because of this paranoia.

Imagine how jealous every past dictator and social engineer would be if they knew that in the future a few more people coughing than normal would be enough to institute totalitarianism and have mainstream support.
 
Explain how that is a leap in logic. You think it's a good, totally acceptable think to give away my freedom for other people over absolutely nothing. I don't care if I get sick (and neither should the vast majority of people). Why should I and so many other people have to suffer for a small minority of people? And this literally does take away people's money. Look at all the people who can't work because of this paranoia.

Imagine how jealous every past dictator and social engineer would be if they knew that in the future a few more people coughing than normal would be enough to institute totalitarianism and have mainstream support.
>forcing personal views and mandates on others and ignoring consequences
>claims to hate totalitarianism

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Thank god the paranoid majority has allowed the government to force their views onto hundreds of millions of people.

Why would the goverment need a plague?

They could engineer any other crisis that is not damaging to their economy.

So why damage the economy? They could just do a fake terror attack by Y group against X group and use that excuse.

They could blame gamers, nazis, commies, jihad, niggers, racists, whatever they want. Look at New Cuckland, they are looking over transactiona for 14.88 dollars spent over a minuscule amount of dead kebabs thanka to Tarrant chan without any economic dent.


People gave up convenient air travel after 911. You do not need a plague and dead economy for what you think the goverment wants to do.
 
Denmark officially going full shut it down mode. All gatherings above 10 people will be banned from tomorrow, both indoors and outdoors. Gyms, hairdressers, restaurants, night clubs, bars, shopping centres etc. also shut down. Only grocery stores are excluded. Dentists also shut down all non-critical operations. Current number of confirmed infected at 977, but obviously this is a gross underestimate.
 
It is beyond retarded to think that all medical experts the world over, in addition to governments, big businesses, and everyone else with everything to lose from a shutdown are doing it just on uninformed panic. You wanting it to be just the flu doesn't make it so.

If you don't believe the medical experts, fine. It's retarded, but lots of people are retarded about that shit for some reason. Governments are corrupt and inept, so whatever.

But big businesses only care about money. They make decisions based on what gives them the most money, and nothing else. They don't give a flying fucking shit about human life, and they have enormous resources at their disposal to model exactly what they can do to maximize their money. If they could push a button to kill all boomers they would do it if it maximized their profits. Do you really, really think these niggers are taking the financial hit of shuttering everything for a few weeks for no actual reason? Because if so you're so dumb you should probably be in a care home of some kind.
 
The "symptoms ain't that bad" argument is also asinine because even mild ones are enough to knock you on your ass and medical professionals in the West are getting sick even with careful precautions. This thing likes to leap from person to person and it does so very well. We still don't know how long it can survive on most surfaces. Limiting exposure is smart because the alternative is 25% of things like domestic shipping out sick for a week, which is where the real nightmare begins.
 
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