Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Egregious]

A little concern at the hospital today. They had a doctor for a meeting to answer questions about the virus, we're not checking staff's temperatures because we don't have the means (we can take a temp of all of your visitors though?), if a patient comes in then tests positive after staying at the hospital we are instructed to "self monitor" as we still work with other patients, and they will "update" the plan when a patient comes in that tests positive as to what to do with workers who were exposed. Kind of making some of the nurses nervous since they know this virus can by asymptomatic.

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Kind of thinking that hospital staff is sadly going to help spread this more.

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Hillary has a shit ton of money, why doesn't she pitch in herself and help out hospitals instead of tweeting?

 

[Ivan Shatov]

Question: how does one determine whether or not they have already had the Coronavirus?

Neighbor works at a hospital as a physical therapist. She says testing revealed she already had the virus and recovered without symptoms.

How does anyone test for that? I consider her trustworthy but wonder if she's being fed a line.

 

[NyQuilninja]

Found this video very interesting.

Has anyone seen anything talking about these so-called 'vaping illness' clusters from late 2019?

. Nice try, communist Khajiit, there have been warnings for years that China has been selling dangerous E-cigarettes
Why don't you finally stop sucking emperor Pooh's dick, and learn to have some humility your country is a filthy shithole and your fellow communist scum helped spread the disease.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/...garette-boom-lacks-oversight-for-safety-.html
Now when you learn to to be an actual human being you're welcome to join in the discussion

 

[captkrisma]

A little good news out here in Texas: Governors are trying to pass a bill allowing booze to be delivered with food. Not the best of ideas, but fuck it.

 

[Shitpiss Babylord]

Kind of thinking that hospital staff is sadly going to help spread this more.

A reasonable fear, over 8% of the infections in Italy are healthcare workers
Edit=misread the report initially, changed for accuracy.

 

[Stoneheart]

A little good news out here in Texas: Governors are trying to pass a bill allowing booze to be delivered with food.

What the hell is wrong with Texas? why is that illegal atm?

 

[DidYouJustSayThat]

A reasonable fear, over 8% of the healthcare workers in Italy have already been infected.

Really need a status update on Italy. @Niggaplease and any other Italian farmers - just because all of your countrymen, including your loved ones, are dying from the Winnie the Fru, does not give you an excuse to keep us in the dark.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Risked one last trip (I realised I had no onions). Shelves were stripped clean, lots of shift workers wandering around looking for anything they can take home. Lots of angry people. This morning, I'm reliably informed, there was a queue at the place from 6am, that stretched all the way out of the parking lot, when it opens at 7. The place has an alleged limit of two of each item per customer and they still managed to strip the place clean.

All that was left was the booze.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Been keeping track of the 3D printed ventilators. Just thinking about all the thingy printers going brrrr while making ventilator parts makes me all giddy. Anyway, here's some thingy printer go brrrr news.

Open-source project spins up 3D-printed ventilator validation prototy…

archived 19 Mar 2020 22:00:29 UTC

archive.fo

 

[Non-Expert!]

Did some looking around and shopping today. Allowed by the local NKVD during "shelter-in-place".

This morning walked through discount grocery store No eggs or tard cum. No water. A little meat. Don't believe they have been restocked.

Just got back from Costco. Busy. Item limits on eggs and tard cum. Saw water available, didn't look for paper products.

On the way back went to the commissary. Big sign out front with letter signed by garrison commander. No guests allowed. Military ID card holders only. Caregivers for disabled can come in with signed letter of authorization. Only one shopping cart per shopper.

Item limits on some water. tard cum available. Almost no eggs, but more due in Friday. No toilet paper or paper towels. Almost no tissue. Item limits on paper products. Little bread. Low on some soda and some chips. Plenty of produce available. Employees busily restocking. Employee told me Tuesday morning huge line waiting to get in. Police had to be called. Place was crazy. Things were okay today. Another employee told me of seeing the same people coming in over and over, buying the same things. Only so much that can be done.

So would say we are seeing item limits on certain items in all stores. Would hazard to say that supplies of in-demand items are starting to come back. My guess - supplies of most in-demand items back to normal in a couple of weeks.

Seriously, WWII Americans would laugh their asses off at those going nuts with panic buying. Think they would also laugh their asses off at a country scared shitless about a disease that's caused less than 175 deaths while pretty much ignoring the 22,000 dead of the "regular" flu since 29 September.

Seriously?

This is not pandemic airborne Ebola. At its core, this is a respiratory virus. Yes, it kills people. But it would actually kill less people, if they were not intimately corralled in front of grocery stores in moist temperate conditions, flipping the fuck out, over asswipe, and their kids not getting their snowflake brand of chicken dino nuggets.

The only "wars" we as civilians are experiencing right now, is a fight for supplies among each other, which are made scarce because of people's hoarding.

Medications are in shorter supply, same with food that is palatable for kids. Medical supplies are also being hoarded in people's garages, basically to rot, while healthcare workers and ffirst responders worldwide have limited supply.

Anyway, just perplexed by the fact that we don't have supplies, not because of systemic instability, but because of the Karens.

Risked one last trip (I realised I had no onions). Shelves were stripped clean, lots of shift workers wandering around looking for anything they can take home. Lots of angry people. This morning, I'm reliably informed, there was a queue at the place from 6am, that stretched all the way out of the parking lot, when it opens at 7. The place has an alleged limit of two of each item per customer and they still managed to strip the place clean.

All that was left was the booze.

Case in point ... just need one stinkin' onion.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Testing in the US is finally kicking into gear. https://infection2020.com/ We are at +50% confirmed cases in the last 48 hours, over 13K now.

Question: how does one determine whether or not they have already had the Coronavirus?

Neighbor works at a hospital as a physical therapist. She says testing revealed she already had the virus and recovered without symptoms.

How does anyone test for that? I consider her trustworthy but wonder if she's being fed a line.

Ideally a test would also show if her body had antibodies for cornavirus. I have no idea if the current tests can do this or if they are drawing enough blood to test both, since she works in the medical field they may have tested both to be safe. If she tested positive for antibodies but not for the virus itself it would mean her body had already fought it off.

 

[Arctic Fox]

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Okay, canceling student debt is one thing, but having free college would be way too expensive in the long run. Why can’t Bernie be more sensible and promote alternatives to college? Not everyone should be going to college quite honestly.

Oh yes, dying in the military, or-working a food service job in an over-cramped shithole coastal city until the day you die, or until you're replaced by a machine and need to gon on unemployment or starve to death. Great alternatives there. It's not like we spend nearly a trillion dollars every fucking year to blow up sandniggers and topple governments we don't like.

If only he said trade schools should be tuition free. Conservatards like trade schools.

 

[moocow]

I guess bug chasing is just in their genes:

https://www.7ummitmagazine.com/late...es-have-since-tested-positive-for-coronavirus (archive)

The Winter Party Festival, an annual, weeklong LGBTQ event held in Miami, drew thousands from across the country when it kicked off earlier this month. But though it ended March 10, in the week following the event several attendees have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to festival organizers.

 

[Computer Boy]

To be fair, robots don't need those things

 

[DidYouJustSayThat]

Seriously?

This is not pandemic airborne Ebola. At its core, this is a respiratory virus. Yes, it kills people. But it would actually kill less people, if they were not intimately corralled in front of grocery stores in moist temperate conditions, flipping the fuck out, over asswipe, and their kids not getting their snowflake brand of chicken dino nuggets.
The only "wars" we as civilians are experiencing right now, is a fight for supplies among each other, which are made scarce because of people's hoarding.
Medications are in shorter supply, same with food that is palatable for kids. Medical supplies are also being hoarded in people's garages, basically to rot, while healthcare workers and ffirst responders worldwide have limited supply.
Anyway, just perplexed by the fact that we don't have supplies, not because of systemic instability, but because of the Karens.
Case in point ... just need one stinkin' onion.

This kind of talk and shaming will kill people. Keeping one's interactions with the outside world to the bare minimum will save lives - meaning getting supplies for couple of weeks, so one does not have to go out, is a responsible and sensible thing to do. Fuck the Karen, or random granny who at worst hast to starve or use her old socks to wipe her ass for 3 days and can get her specific brand of mince meat, she absolutely has to have, couple of days later.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Oh yes, dying in the military, or-working a food service job in an over-cramped shithole coastal city until the day you die, or until you're replaced by a machine and need to gon on unemployment or starve to death. Great alternatives there. It's not like we spend nearly a trillion dollars every fucking year to blow up sandniggers and topple governments we don't like.

If only he said trade schools should be tuition free. Conservatards like trade schools.

Lol calm down

Spoiler: To not derail the thread

The problem with introducing free schooling in america is that it is not fixing the underlying issue. Government grants are half the reason college is so ridiculously expensive (in the years after government grants started being implemented, the cost of schooling shot through the roof and never stopped, anytime grants are increased in size so do college costs) in the first place, so logically throwing even more government money at the problem is only going to make cost overruns WORSE. Look how much money the military wastes on a daily basis. Fiscal conservatives dont want to just throw more money we dont have at the problem when said education should cost 1/10th of what it currently costs, and the colleges are too busy spending cash on fancy new buildings and bloated administrations instead of actually educating students.

People like Bernie would just throw government funds at colleges and drive costs even higher, they have no plan when questioned on where they are going to find this money, or occasionally they will let out a gas expulsion that lines up with "we are going to increase taxes" which will never fly with the general public, so they just leave that pesky detail out.

People who are going to be baristas or servers in restaurants do not need college educations, and the skilled trades are desperate for people. We need truck drivers and machinists and road maintenance workers, none of those require trade skill either.

 

[XYZpdq]

local talk radio just namedropped Lung Pow Sicken

 

[Feline Supremacist]

I feel for the people that actually live in the Hamptons, the ones living there year-round. The wealthy fled there and descended upon the place like locusts. If it gets any worse that's where we'd see looters for sure.

‘We should blow up the bridges’ — coronavirus leads to class warfare in Hamptons

Every aspect of life, most crucially medical care, is under strain by the sudden influx of rich Manhattanites panic-fleeing, bringing along their disdain and disregard for the little people — and i…

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[Barnard]

70 new cases in Poland today, roughly 350 total. The current growth means we're still trailing behind forecasts and probably won't reach the arbitrary 1000 case threshold until next week. No new deaths either and I haven't heard about anyone being in really bad shape in a long while, though naturally there are fewer details available on individual cases as time progresses. After a very old, critically ill woman was cured with chloroquine, hospitals will be getting it in fairly large quantities. We also have 10,000 ventilators, plenty of beds, entire hospitals being converted into dedicated corona treatment centers. On this front, we're solid.

Basic resources and personnel remain the weak point. Numbers of tested samples are >1500 daily and slowly growing, theoretically with the capacity to reach 3000, but that's far below what @Ponderous Pillock says the British NHS is capable of. And (presumably) lacking protective supplies means that staff is getting infected. That's why a main lab and at least one hospital are currently shut down, staff under quarantine or already infected. And the improving weather seems to be relaxing people's discipline somewhat, although I'm hearing dissonant reports about this. Pictures of empty streets on one hand, stories of crowded parks on the other. Definitely more people outside where I live, but then our city is still almost completely untouched (the only person confirmed to be infected offed himself yesterday).

I wonder what will happen when I finally catch this. On one hand, I'm scrawny, not very active, with a sunken chest. On the other, I've had a rather thorough check-up last year that failed to show any underlying health problems and I somehow almost never get sick. Haven't even had a flu in a good fifteen years. Also blood type 0, which makes me supposedly less likely to catch this particular bug. Well, guess I'll live.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

I lick doorknobs and bathroom faucets. AMA.

What about windows?

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Now, more than ever, It's Her Turn.