Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Shield Breaker]

Senate Republicans have unveiled their relief plan for dealing with this mess.

Cash payment of 1,200 dollars per person
500 dollars for dependent children
Full stop delay of all tax payment for the 2019 tax year until October of 2020 with no penalties.

A non-interest loan to all companies under 500 employees up to 10 million dollars

Now here is the big one. The Government will also offer to buy stock options in all businesses up to 425,000 dollars. To include private small businesses. In return, the US Government will be entitled to a share of future profits in the businesses commensurate to its stock stake in the companies for the next 2 years or until the buy in is fully discharged. Basically you can sell stake in your small business to Uncle Sugar for the next 2 years, and after those 2 years you can buy back the difference in the stock if Uncle Sugar has not made back in full what was given.

And assorted cash payouts to hard hit industries like the airlines.

Total appropriation is 1 trillion dollars.

I am actually more okay with Trump doing this, because it is more likely to be temporary just because he has a lot of businesses to pass on to his kids. Basically, I am hoping greed will make him roll it back.

 

[Fatrick Hamlinson]

Warren blurs out Chinese, Twitter troll helps her out by fixing it.

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[Agent Abe Caprine]

I think at this point the the hardcore libertarians are all hiding in their prep bunkers and won't be around to screech about this. Because holy shit this essentially means the US Government is about to nationalize the economy. We've not done this since World War 2.

It's World Wu Flu.

 

[DoodleBerry]

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.

Morons, they left the real stuff we should be hoarding.

 

[roxitp0w3rwuzdabest420]

If you can speedrun a game you can beat this virus. Late I know but still, I got stuff to do. Also my cousin can't get tested, was sent home from his job the other day, can't go back until monday. Dr. told him no test for you construction man.

 

[DoodleBerry]

Looks like a patient in the Psycho hospital in Washington state got it. Let's see if they release all the crazies along with all the criminals now.

Patient at Western State Hospital tests positive for COVID-19

A patient at Western State Hospital in Lakewood tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Washington Department of Social and Health Services.

www.kiro7.com

 

[2021Murder]

Basically the governor of California admitted a million people will die before July just in his state. to put that in perspective, only 3 million people total died in all of the US last year. so much for "just the flu" the way shits looking, i'd start getting my estate planning in order if i was over 80, especially in california

 

[No_one]

Sounds like the ministry can fix this with a single decision, so I think they will. Would be incredibly stupid not to.

I hear the Czechs will be buying supplies from China (not alcohol, but protective wear and tests) and we were supposed to get something from them too, any news on that?

Nothing new apart from the promises China made 2 days ago. Apart from the legendary right-wing cowboy WC (I guess one could call him our equivalent of Alex Jones and the others, maybe slightly less crazy) saying that

This aid is dangerous. China lied and is still lying about the virus. The Chinese tests were not effective. The genetic sequence of the virus they sent to the WHO and EU is suspicious (better to do it by ourselves). And the Chinese health ministry said something like this: First we'll flood you with coronavirus, and then we'll stop the delivery of pharmaceutics. China is attacking and this is a war not brotherly aid.

I'm very skeptical about this guy and can't really take him seriously, but China is not trustworthy at all.

 

[Fareal]

Spouse decided that despite this being a week of annual leave, he absolutely had to go into work (NHS, frontline) “to rally the troops‘ morale, to make sure I and not my director am seen as the leader in this crisis, to burnish my leadership credentials”

Twat. This afternoon, eldest toddler who I have carefully been socially distancing for three weeks now spiked a 39 deg fever. We all get tested tomorrow.

Add to the list of known risks for infection, ‘living with a cunt with a hero complex’.

Mad on the Internet because my little ones are sick and the rational part of my brain is being drowned out by animalistic dread.

 

[roxitp0w3rwuzdabest420]

If this really came from a wet market. When this is all over and the world doesn't demand asia to shut them down we're fucked. It's the second time in 2 decades that we've had a pandemic because the chinese think keeping a cat from south america next to a bat from africa is a good idea.

 

[Non-Expert!]

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.

I think that as far as having "issues" .... It is a tie between Texas, California and New York.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Edit: If you didn't guess it by now, yes, CNN twisted the story around.

CNN realizes that their standard operating procedure of lying only works if they do it to one side, right? If they do it to both sides everyone is going to be in agreement that they lie.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Here's a rundown of the Swedish response to the Chinese Virus (subtitles available):

"The Corona Pandemic: What do the reactions to the crisis say about the Swedish culture?"

I don't think he blinks once through the video and his body language is very artificial. Creepy.

That's without question a Lizard wearing a human skin.

 

[Not Really Here]

if people were only buying for this week and next, grocery aisles would not be picked clean.

Yes, they would.

Your local store keeps 72 hours or fewer of stock at normal traffic levels.

 

[Stoneheart]

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,

how is this number so low? its a very easy and widely used method. you can also scale it up very easy. there are thousands of people out in the wild that have used the method plenty of times. its something every biology student has to do.

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.

thats a major problem in the Lab. they fucked up badly and they are lucky that they didnt made tests for something realy ugly.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Basically the governor of California admitted a million people will die before July just in his state. to put that in perspective, only 3 million people total died in all of the US last year. so much for "just the flu" the way shits looking, i'd start getting my estate planning in order if i was over 80, especially in california

He was talking about the half the homeless population getting sick and flooding the hospitals.

Modeling has shown that more than 60,000 homeless people could become ill with the coronavirus in California over the next eight weeks, badly straining the healthcare system, the state governor said on Wednesday.

Hospitalization rates for those infected with the flu-like disease was about 20%, creating a requirement for additional hospital beds that could quickly overwhelm hospitals if the modeled predictions come true, Governor Gavin Newsom said. “Over the next eight-week period, we have modeled that of the 108,000 unsheltered Californians that are out on the streets, if you had an attack rate of about 56%, you’re looking at 60-plus thousand individuals that may have COVID-19,” Newsom, a Democrat, said in a Facebook address to the state. “That creates a deep point of anxiety for the existing population but moreover for our healthcare delivery system, our capacity to move people in and out of the shelters safely without contacting other people and putting them at risk as well.”

CNN fucked up the story and didn't include the homeless mention.

 

[mindlessobserver]

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Twitter is dropping hot takes and red pills, Ilhan Omar is now on team MAGA and the Republicans want to send free money to every American.

Where are those flying pigs I have heard so much about?

 

[Non-Expert!]

Does not matter, this kind of talk discourages all preparation and will kill people, just because there is 0,001% of people, who get too much toilet paper, is not an excuse to advocate people to potentially kill themselves by going to shop too often.
Your just-in-time access to TP is not as important as people's lives. Learn to do without or prepare like sane people.

You do know, that you are preaching to the converted ....

 

[Smug Cat]

Does anyone have any info yet on how this might be spreading? Is it airborne or purely direct contact? Theres so much of this thread to go through and so many reports to catch up on. It's making me dizzy

It is both airborne and spread through direct contact. Latest info is that it can survive in the air for 3 hours, can survive on surfaces for days.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Twitter is dropping hot takes and red pills, Ilhan Omar is now on team MAGA and the Republicans want to send free money to every American.

Where are those flying pigs I have heard so much about?

They grew wings and just flew over my house!