Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Shield Breaker]

Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more

www.vox.com

This is beginning to suck.

Haven't left the house since Friday at 5 pm.

If it were just me and my husband, I would be more like "meh ...." OK whatever ... But don't want to take risks with two little kids and a fetus.

Cases in LA County have doubled in the past couple of days.

Now this is going to go on for the next couple of years?

I am skeptical about this "herd immunity" being that there is not much evidence for it,

Guy who is pushing a new book says something shocking.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Check South Korea and China, which thanks to effective governments, a lack of economic sanctions targeted to murder their citizens, and a functioning healthcare system were able to test populations and respond effectively. South Korea's coronavirus fatality rate is only 5-10 times that of the seasonal flu (although it is more infectious).

Those countries which have been targeted with genocidal sanctions, those countries which don't have effective governments (Italy, US), and which don't have a functioning healthcare system (US) are seeing different outcomes.

China has more deaths than any other country, and has done a terrible fucking job of providing for their citizens.

Italy's death toll exceeds the US by several hundred percent.

You are fucking retarded.

 

[NyQuilninja]

Wow, it's almost like China is rationally retaliating against ZOG ejecting Chinese journalists. How dare the Chinese government actually stand up for the Chinese people?

Your a funny communist khajiit
I think you just need a hug and a happy meal.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more

www.vox.com

This is beginning to suck.

Haven't left the house since Friday at 5 pm.

If it were just me and my husband, I would be more like "meh ...." OK whatever ... But don't want to take risks with two little kids and a fetus.

Cases in LA County have doubled in the past couple of days.

Now this is going to go on for the next couple of years?

I am skeptical about this "herd immunity" being that there is not much evidence for it,

Anytime you see an article by Vox that begins “Scientists Warn...” you can be certain it is complete and utter bullshit. And honestly outside of their individual extremely narrow and obsessively pursued fields of proven expertise, most scientists are complete dysfunctional morons. If a“scientist” is weighing in on a Medical or Public Health issue, they are almost always wrong, but in an overblown and self important way. Vox hunts down these idiots in order to pad out clickbait.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Your a funny communist khajiit
I think you just need a hug and a happy meal.

My current theory is that his wife cheated on him with an American Jew.

 

[simulated goat]

I'm not archiving this one because it has fuck all to do with this thread, but I found this funny:

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A California businessman accused of helping a pair of Utah polygamists expand a biodiesel fraud scheme that ended up stealing nearly $500 million in government funds was found guilty Monday on 10 counts including money laundering and mail fraud.

The verdict against gas station owner Lev Dermen came despite his attorney urging the judge to declare a mistrial based on the contention that jurors shouldn’t be kept in close quarters during the spread of the coronavirus when everyone is supposed to be practicing social distancing..

Why do I think we'll be seeing more lawyers trying to pull of this sort of thing?

Businessman found guilty in fraud scheme with polygamist

A California businessman accused of helping a pair of Utah polygamists expand a biodiesel fraud scheme that ended up stealing nearly $500 million in government funds was found guilty Monday on 10 counts including money laundering and mail fraud.

www.ksl.com

 

[Noideawhattopick]

Your a funny communist khajiit
I think you just need a hug and a happy meal.

And a free Helicopter ride.

 

[CDWLTY]

stop being rational you fool, obviously they're here to round us up into the FEMA death camps

Good luck doing that with a loadout of one live mag, 10 rounds inside, duct-taped closed. They fear another kent state so bad they're essentially kabuki if they show up armed.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

AvE, aka Unclebumblefuck, is having a ball mocking the panic.

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Everybody check-in on your elderly neighbors in this time of crisis. They always have cases of toilet paper to be stolen.

 

[XYZpdq]

they're essentially kabuki

that's up to them but remember the only theater I like is NOH theater

 

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China has more deaths than any other country, and has done a terrible fucking job of providing for their citizens.

Italy's death toll exceeds the US by several hundred percent.

You are fucking exceptional.

per capita NIGGER do you speak it?

 

[It's HK-47]

Check South Korea and China, which thanks to effective governments, a lack of economic sanctions targeted to murder their citizens, and a functioning healthcare system were able to test populations and respond effectively. South Korea's coronavirus fatality rate is only 5-10 times that of the seasonal flu (although it is more infectious).

Those countries which have been targeted with genocidal sanctions, those countries which don't have effective governments (Italy, US), and which don't have a functioning healthcare system (US) are seeing different outcomes.

And yet we somehow never needed to open organ-harvesting death camps, nor have we ever seen the need to choke our citizens in massive clouds of pollution whilst paying them $10 a month to assemble cheap, plastic toys. Of all the countries in all the world to get down on your knees and open wide for, I really can't understand why it would be China.

Maybe it's simpler than that, though. Maybe you're just what the Chinese would call 五毛.

 

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And yet we somehow never needed to open organ-harvesting death camps, nor have we ever seen the need to choke our citizens in massive clouds of pollution whilst paying them $10 a month to assemble cheap, plastic toys. Of all the countries in all the world to get down on your knees and open wide for, I really can't understand why it would be China.

Maybe it's simpler than that, though. Maybe you're just what the Chinese would call 五毛.

How's that water in Flint?

Was the term 'muckraking' invented in your country to characterize reporting on your criminal capitalist classes? I guess not. That must be a GOMMUNIST myth.

Next you'll be telling me you have an independent foreign policy lol

 

[Horrors of the Deep]

An update on the working from home situation. Work for a large corporate with locations across the globe. Normally working from home is fine but had lots of trouble today. The voip app we use just wasn't working, connecting to the company network/VPN was a huge ass pain and kept dropping off. At one point we got a company wide email saying the voip service was stressed by the amount of remote connections and completely broke down for the whole of Europe.

In theory I have a job that can be done remotely but not if the company's IT infrastructure shits the bed. Anyone have similar issues? Any IT people here - can millions of people working remotelly stress consumer grade internet to breaking point?

Very late and exceptionally gay reply:
You didn't "stress the internet" per se, but you certainly can reach capacity limits of service infrastructure which most likely is what happened. Let's say null bought a potato and runs kiwi farms from an old calculator - even a couple of concurrent connections will cause slow responses (web pages load a long time) or, when potato starts to really reach its limits it'll shit the bed with Bad Gateway errors and timeouts.
Now in theory it might be possible to cause a major chunk of internet infrastructure to go down, but a lot of recovery is automated with computer magic like autoscalers and redundancy (you would be surprised just how many times servers for those reliable websites might crash without end users noticing, for those who are interested, you can set up a Kubernetes cluster on your machine with minikube), so, unless you somehow max out the fiber wire the size of your thigh that's lying under the sea, you should be safe.
Edit: To be clear, most likely (don't quote me on that) you will have to have data flow some exabits per second to max that wire out.

 

[It's HK-47]

How's that water in Flint?

Was the term 'muckraking' invented in your country to characterize reporting on your criminal capitalist classes? I guess not. That must be a GOMMUNIST myth.

Next you'll be telling me you have an independent foreign policy lol

The water in Flint's a Hell of a lot better than the air and water quality in all of China's entire continent. To date, it's only caused 14 direct deaths. Can the number of people that have been killed by the pollution in China even be measured anymore, or is that approaching one of those Communist-era rounding errors where we have to give or take a couple million?

 

[XYZpdq]

The water in Flint's a Hell of a lot better than the air and water quality in all of China's entire continent.

I, uhh.
damn.

like have heart, bruh

 

[backfad]

And try to do a little more. Consider boycotting Chinese-made goods, whenever possible.

Does your call for a boycott also extend to Chinese-made masks, Chinese-made ventilators, and Chinese-made medicine?

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

What's the best extrapolation for comorbidities among both former and current smokers?
I recently quit cold turkey so I'm probably at risk.

 

[Vecr]

Does your call for a boycott also extend to Chinese-made masks, Chinese-made ventilators, and Chinese-made medicine?

Well, all my masks are made in the US, but they are relatively high end ones.

Even if you can't do that, other countries that can do cheep labour do exist, such as Vietnam.

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

It's ridiculous that entire countries are shutting down over something that's barely any worse than seasonal flu. Most of the people who die from this were on death's door anyway.

Don't believe me? Look at the data from the cruise ship. 705 cases and 7 deaths. No one below the age of 70 died. Many were completely asymptomatic and the majority only had mild flu-like symptoms. That's a fatality rate of less than 1% in a population with a median age of 59 (boomers love cruise ships).

The reason you're seeing higher mortality rates in national figures is because all the asymptomatic and mild cases are going completely undetected. It's a straightforward sample bias.

We're wiping trillions off the stock exchange and being forced into quarantine because some 80-year-old chain smokers might die 18 months prematurely. It's absurd. The economic fallout from the panic is going to be a hundred times worse than this piss-weak virus.

I hate to say it, but I'm beginning to think there's (some) truth here. The cure is looking worse than the disease; are we going to quarantine for the year or two it takes for a vaccine? Because if so, we're losing more years to quarantine than we would to the coronavirus.