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Leonard Helplessness said:
What I was always told is that Catholic doctrines have a specific exemption for if burial of the deceased would constitute a hazard, such as during a plague. I'm guessing that exemption is in full force right now.
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If God didn't want us to burn people he wouldn't have made them so flammable.

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Judge Holden said:
Ever heard of the Jack London novella The Unparalleled Invasion?

Its an old timey speculative future story from the pre-WW1 era in which an ascendant china begins threatening other world powers, and after they defeat the french army and kick the shit out of the japanese so hard the entire nation retires from world politics to focus on creating anime* the USA, British Empire, Germans, Russians, Italians, Austro-Hungarians, Turks and for some reason the Greeks meet together and resolve that the only logical and moral conclusion is to straight up murder every chinaman on the face of the planet.

To this end they march their armies to central asia and siberia to seal off the border, have their navies blockade china from the sea.....then bombard every square inch of china with biological weapons, and afterwards have the assembled armies go full einsatzgrupen on any survivors. Then China is settled by europeans and becomes Burgerland 2. Then WW1 happens in the 1990s.

Reason I bring it up, other than the novelty of a book which unironically has mass genocide by biological weapons as a happy ending, is because I wonder whether various world leaders from drumpf to putin are at this stage considering the cost-benefit ratios of jointly pulling out of china and cutting them off from the world economy, while bombarding their infrastructure with every plausably deniable cyberhaxxing effort they have in their arsenal until the government collapses.

* I am not even joking. This is explicitly spelled out in the text
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That is an awesome bit of speculative history that may have felt more appealing minus China's turn to communism. As is I get the feeling that the powers that be will need more to sabotage the state.

Now if they were to talk about being rid of their central bank THEN we may see some real blowback, but that certainly will not be happening.
 
Hey so I think I can find answer as to why Italy's funeraries are collapsing. See. I decided to go ask the hospital staff because I couldn't understand it.

So, turns out in spain at the begining of the emergency many funeraries' haulers mutinied due to lack of PPE. Which I find irresponsible but can't really blame them, I know how it feels honestly. Point is in response the government sent people who wouldn't mutiny to fill the gaps. Namely the army, we've had armymen hauling corpses and taking orders from civilians since before the alarm state was declared.

Italy had the same issue with haulers saying getting corona ain't worth the pay. And instead of sending the army to haul corpses they... waited until they could find haulers to replace them. Yeah. That... ehm. Wat.

So as it turns out while my math made no sense, indeed, taking into consideration a backlog of corpses caused by lack of transport, well, yeah that'd explain why the funeraries have collapsed. Good old stupidity.

Seriously people, the army has a department literally trained to fill roles in case of emergency, here it's the UME but all countries have their version. Their job is literally to get called in to fix logistical, infrastructural and sanitary emergencies when shit hits the fan. Maybe, just maybe, when shit hits the fan, you should actually try giving them a call. It's their god damned job ffs!
 
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Autistic lurker said:
Things in India are about to explode. Panicking people fleeing from cities to countryside in hopes to escape from the coronavirus.
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"A sea of people"

"Fleeing the coronavirus"

I don't think Indians have quite understood how to avoid infection. Oi, streetshitters! The virus isn't scared of being outnumbered!
 
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behavioral swamp thang said:
this thread is kinda reddit-y
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Right? Now when I saw "Fuck China" I need to give a three reply response to what I mean and consider how many Asian Americans feelings I've hurt 🙄
Newbies - Give the people on this thread the benefit of the doubt that we're talking about the CCP and not the Chinese people because guess what?

China still lying, people STILL dying.

I don't got time for this "Hug a sad Asian day" bullshit when I'm laid off of work and don't have enough money to survive in the future. Racism sucks but my grandma is dying from drowning in her own mucus right now, so I'm kind of busy.
 
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Rabidcolombian said:
Right? Now when I saw "Fuck China" I need to give a three reply response to what I mean and consider how many Asian Americans feelings I've hurt 🙄
Newbies - Give the people on this thread the benefit of the doubt that we're talking about the CCP and not the Chinese people because guess what?

China still lying, people STILL dying.

I don't got time for this "Hug a sad Asian day" bullshit when I'm laid off of work and don't have enough money to survive in the future. Racism sucks but my grandma is dying from drowning in her own mucus right now, so I'm kind of busy.
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The Chinese people are worse than if you combined the most extreme stereotypical Joo and Gypsy into a single uber-greedthief.
 
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Gustav Schuchardt said:
That NYU dean dancing.

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“The Dean of Tisch sent this as an attachment to the email saying they won't give us our money back. Embarrassing. https://t.co/Q63x5GqsJm”
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720p because I've got a feeling this may end up on TV and I want her nasty skin and dead eyes to be clearly visible.

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Archive of the NBC New York article

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People pay $80K a year to go to a finishing school in the faint hope it will get them a job as a writer on SNL and now, with in-person classes canceled they can't get a refund. LMAO. Honestly, people like this deserve to have their parents' money taken away.
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For those of you not on your phone who want to add fun music to her dance, Losing My Religion (maybe Tuition?) is 118 beats per minute. Same as I Wanna Dance With Somebody and Bad Romance.
 
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Kane Lives said:
Given the state of squalor of the average Indian (urban) poor lives in, I doubt staying put would be any healthier.
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It's not the fact they're fleeing I'm criticizing. It's how they're doing it.

Twinkletard said:
They should be flexing that superpower status they recently got.
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Corona is also not scared of poop.

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It's a horoscope. All signs say "you'll stay home for quite a while.



Ladies, in these days of confinement I believe we should be solidary with each other, and I for example have proposed myself doing no sport during these days, I don't wanna be hotter when this is all over, I think it's abusive. So I hope you join me and stay home but without doing anything, don't be a bitch, 'cause there's some hoes out there that are getting hot as fuck.
 
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MrBlueSocks said:
Is it population density and mass transit?

Not American, but (on TV and Films) LA always seems like a spread out car city, the poor still live in houses with small gardens, but New York is older, denser with lots of taxis and subway , the poor live in crowded apartments.

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I'd also add that much of NY infrastructure is quite old and built to the logistics of an older time, halls and starways are narrower and shared ventilation shafts are also common. Most of CA is (with a few exceptions) built post 1920 and in a much more rambling pattern. Outside of condo towers for the posh in the city centers, it is rare anywhere on the west coast to have an apartment building taller than three stories and they generally are fairly separate, often with outdoor access for each unit and independent from each other with little to no directly shared airways or plumbing .

There are other places with similar density to NY, Chicago in particular also has century old multi story tenement style apartments. I'm curious how thing will fare there

ETA: Who knew our horrible soulless cheap stucco apartments might actually be a good thing? This is truly upside-down world.
 
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Twinkletard said:
They should be flexing that superpower status they recently got.
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India is no superpower. Not even a great power. Never has been. Never will be.

India, like Brazil, is a "country of the future". Unfortunately, both countries will always be "countries of the future".

Believe once the ChiCom Flu gets going in India the death toll will be very heavy.
 
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YOUR MOM said:
Over 10,000 in Italy and Catholics aren't supposed to be cremated. Where will they all go?
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It's always amazing the amount of insane and fake information that gets spread around about Catholic beliefs and practices. Catholics have no problem with Cremation. You're just not supposed to scatter the ashes or leave them in a closet at home. They are to be interned at a Cemetery or church Columbrarium (sp?).
 
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