Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

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[Aib Ld]

Already posted and archived yesterday.

How do you guys keep track of what's already posted? Of every hundred posts of doomers here, there's one post with actual information in the middle of the trash. You guys scare me sometimes.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Totally misunderstand me. But that is part of posting on an anonymous forum.

Who is pontificating about how this is going to kill everyone and be the end of the world? Not one person has said that. Not a single one.

And lots of people are saying that this is bad. That this is an uncharted territory. Experts in the field, governors, heads of state.

No we aren't all gonna die. Most of us will, in fact survive. Nobody has said any different.

One of the traits of lolcows is the inability to recognize their own behavior and reflect upon it.

How do you guys keep track of what's already posted? Of every hundred posts of doomers here, there's one post with actual information in the middle of the trash. You guys scare me sometimes.

Pure, unfiltered :autism:

 

[Not Really Here]

How do you guys keep track of what's already posted? Of every hundred posts of doomers here, there's one post with actual information in the middle of the trash. You guys scare me sometimes.

I see you haven't bothered reading the thread.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

It’s fascinating how different people have such different (or no) symptoms.

It's fairly interesting to me as well since you have asymptomatic carriers and then people who get the vent and never to be extubated before they pass.

There's probably something we're missing here unrelated to cytokine storms.

 

[Slap47]

How do you guys keep track of what's already posted? Of every hundred posts of doomers here, there's one post with actual information in the middle of the trash. You guys scare me sometimes.

People should just accept the late ratings and move on.

 

[simulated goat]

All this doomsaying and not one mention of zombies. tsk.

That's the indian strain. We're a few weeks out from catching it here.

 

[Pomeranian bitch]

The situation is getting worse in Mexico, much worse than the government is saying, someone I knew from friends of friends, has got “pneumonia” and was prescribed hydroxycloroquine but the pharmacies have been scrubbed clean of it since at least a week ago, pleads to find the med have been shared in fb and whatsapp with no success. The medicine is prescription free in Mexico so people could easily get it and stockpile, leaving tons of people with lupus and other illnesses now having trouble to find it.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

It's fairly interesting to me as well since you have asymptomatic carriers and then people who get the vent and never to be extubated before they pass.

There's probably something we're missing here unrelated to cytokine storms.

Non-medical guess, its down to people's different inflammation responses. Some people's lungs are not inflaming that badly in response to corona, so little they dont even notice, while others can barely breathe, others can breathe but the inflammation causes months-long coughing fits. Yet others have inflammation responses that go overboard and cause symptoms in other areas.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

So, let me paliate the mood a bit further with a recomendation. Hell. A promise and a petition too.

I want to recommend you Moscatel from Chipiona. Specifically from Chipiona. See. Moscatel is a type of grape, it's also two types of liquor obtained from said grape. Thing is, the original is from Chipiona, Cadiz, and uses a particular process which made it unrecognized as wine until relatively recently. In malaga they just used normal fermentation which this type of grape, and this is what got copied by the rest of the world, specialy Portugal and Italy, but the original method, which involves adding non-fermented juice to fermented liquor (both obtained from the grape) is both more alcoholic and much better tasting too.

Thing is, Moscatel from Chipiona is my favorite alcoholic beverage, by a lot. And I'm quite lucky in a way. See. I told you here in spain farms and food producers can't export everything, and so they send the remaining product to cheaper shops locally, which they get the money from directly and without so much transit, hence, good quality cheap foodstuffs are easy to find if you know your shit. Well, Chipiona is in Cadiz, and in Cadiz capital we have one such shops devoted to selling Moscatel. It even has a discount where so long as you bring the jug it's cheaper. So even when I live outside when my family visits or I visit my family I asked them to buy a few jugs (yes, JUGS, it's that cheap) so I have stocks for a while.

Thing is. As I told you I celebrated today watching Agatha Christie and playing multiplayer games. And I got out one of my Moscatel jugs. That's what gave me this idea.

I promise when this is all over I'll post a picture of the glass of Moscatel I'll drink, and I ask you to do the same with whatever your favourite drink is, so we can all celebrate the end of Corona-chan's reign of terror and memes. Cheers!

 

[Barnard]

Poland as of today has 1862 cases (+224) and 22 deaths (+4). Another hot spot in a nursing home (12 cases among the staff, 40 residents are being tested). Also, some new restrictions are incoming in the next few days. And supposedly we'll reach peak infection in 3-4 weeks.

So fewer than yesterday as predicted, we're back on the trend of slow growth in terms of daily detections but slow decrease/stagnation in percentage growth. They tested 100 people in a hospital and another nursing home in a nearby town and fortunately all came out negative. It's amazing how there's still practically no cases in my city. It's supposed to be a major city, but I guess it's just a hole.

It's interesting how this virus can reduce people into raving maniacs. In addition to all the doomers here I've seen some other, seemingly reasonable and healthily skeptical people turn into preachers of the apocalypse, shouting at the top of their virtual lungs about how the government is covering up a disaster, the labs should start testing 1.5 million samples per week right now, and you should spend all your life disinfecting hands and knobs and never go outside without a suit of power armor.

Maybe a few of us here will die, some others will be miserable for a time as we enter economic depression, then we will rebound and hopefully change for the better. I'm worried too. But I'm a hypochondriac with obsessive thoughts, I was sure this whole thing is going to drive me insane. Can't believe I'm still holding up while people stronger than me go apeshit. Take the advice of one of the wise Kiwis above and take solace in that nice green "Recovered" number (gonna be 150 thousand by tomorrow). You deserve a breather.

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

@Non-Expert! Look. I am a bit of a lolcow. I get angry easily, overshare, ramble endlessly, so... I sure am not the most apropiate to say this but.

You need to learn to relax. You've been sharing a lot of personal info, getting on discussions, refusing to concede anything and getting offended. Those are traits that delve dangerously close to what we call a lolcow.

Now, that doesn't mean you are. Hell, as described above I'm dangerously close myself. But what keeps your average autist from going full lolcow is our capacity to look back, relax, say "yeah that was stupid" and move on. You're letting the situation get on your nerves, please reconsider before it's too late.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

I promise when this is all over I'll post a picture of the glass of Moscatel I'll drink, and I ask you to do the same with whatever your favourite drink is, so we can all celebrate the end of Corona-chan's reign of terror and memes. Cheers!

Once new cases of coronavirus peak and start to drop off I'm gonna get myself some Chipiona Moscatel. So by Q4 2020 at the latest.

 

[It's HK-47]

And lots of people are saying that this is bad. That this is an uncharted territory. Experts in the field, governors, heads of state.

There's nothing remotely uncharted about this. Humanity's gone through plagues that wiped out way fucking more of the total population of the planet than the Panda Pandemic could ever hope to accomplish even in its absolute worse-case scenario. The Black Death potentially killed 1/3rd of the entire human population on the planet in 1350 for Christ's sake. The problem with the Shaolin Sniffles is that a modern society has completely lost its ability to gauge perspective and it's lost all respect for what we had to go through just to make it to where we are today.

Tuberculosis, dysentery, malaria, diphtheria, flu, typhoid, smallpox, syphilis, polio, tetanus, or even just basic-bitch, run-of-the-mill infections all used to be extremely commonplace and before the invention of vaccines and antibiotics, odds were basically a guarantee that at some point, some random disease would take you out of the picture well before your hair started to turn grey, and more likely would kill you sometime before you even turned 5.

The history of our entire species is steeped in death and rampant disease, and most third world countries still live like this. Did you ever wonder why it's so common for families in these impoverished nations to have so many kids? It's because most of them are going to die. If you go to rural villages in India or China or Africa you will still find people afflicted with "old world" diseases that modern society pushed to the fringes.

But that push is recent. It's so recent that you can still find people who were afflicted with these sorts of things walking the streets (Well, figuratively) in America today. Mitch McConnell had polio when he was a kid. There are still people who are living out what's left of their lives in an Iron Lung. Western societies are barely a generation removed from all of these afflictions and yet most of the people living in these societies act like they're all something that happened 1,000 years ago and have nothing to do with the modern world, completely oblivious to the fact that taking your malaria medication is a routine way of life in most undeveloped countries, and drinking the water from the village well has a significant chance of infecting you with a parasite or a virus that's going to make you shit yourself to death.

In the grand scheme of things, COVID-19 with even a 5% mortality rate is nothing. It would barely even be worth mentioning in the history books if it didn't cause a brief, economic crash from all of the panic. The only reason that people are losing their minds is because Western civilization has gone for so long without having to care about infectious diseases on a larger scale. That sort of thing is something that happened in the history books or something that happens in some tribe of Tongue-Clickers in the middle of Africa, not something that happens to "me."

Diseases have done a Hell of a lot worse to us in the past. Wash your damned hands and you'll be fine.

 

[Dave.]

You know if there's one thing I've noticed about this COVID-19 is shit these already reviled companies do to their employees:



That and my roommate apparently has to still go to work despite the fact that there was a CONFIRMED CASE OF COVID WITHIN THE MANUFACTURING FLOOR. I've also been hearing that a texas company is cutting pay $1,200 (this is a rumor I can't confirm) and Albertsons is not even giving their employees latex gloves or masks and forcing them to work.

Meanwhile my company, which I won't be specifying, has shutdown the HQ and the manufacturing facilities and is slowly and gradually bringing more employees in as they have social distancing protocol with free hand sanitizer that they're giving away like candy. And, to top it all off, they're still paying for the shutdown time per weather policy and giving us a 20% increase in wage per 'situational pay'. So make what you will of that.

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[Revo]

Interesting piece on how the North Korean economy is being affected by the ChiCom Flu. FYI... one US dollar equals 900 North Korean won, at the official exchange rate.

The North Korean Economy: Coronavirus Measures Causing Economic Anxiety | 38 North: Informed Analysis of North Korea

Grassroots media reporting and market price data from inside North Korea suggest there is considerable economic anxiety following the government’s…

www.38north.org

Archive of 38North article: http://archive.li/9VAuL

102-year-old Italian Woman Recovers From Coronavirus
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"Doctors say her case impressed them so much that they decided to study it deeper.

102-year-old Italian Woman Recovers From Corona virus: http://archive.li/u5xMZ

"33 yr old in Perfect Health" as the article stated.

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If he's been in a coma for a month and he's still this fat, he was a fucking fat fuck.

Archive of Daily Mail article : http://archive.li/ZYlKp

Shams Charania on Twitter

“New York Knicks owner James Dolan has tested positive for coronavirus.”

twitter.com

New York Knicks owner James Dolan has tested positive for Coronavirus

Archive of Shams's tweet: https://archive.vn/b1jxE

RI would win. NYPD is all getting the coof.
4,300 called out sick today. 1000 more then a few days ago. 700 tested have already tested positive.
A few more weeks of this plus shortages of food and a few warm days and your going to see things really kick off in NYC.

Harlem Detective Is First NYPD Officer To Die From Coronavirus; Nearly 700 Members Test Positive

The NYPD is mourning the loss of one of its detectives who passed away from the coronavirus.

wcbs880.radio.com

Archive of wcbs880 article : http://archive.li/FPhZM

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Archive of New York Post(NYP) article: https://archive.vn/P0oaw

"Big government is needed to fight the covid-19 pandemic."

I like the responses to that tweet.

1.Archive of The Economist's tweet: https://archive.vn/OQFhr
2.Archive of The Economist article: https://archive.vn/etZGN

Well, the doctor says as many as 200,000 Americans could die of the ChiCom Flu.

U.S. could face 200,000 coronavirus deaths, millions of cases, Fauci warns

Hmmm...over 600,000 Americans die every year of heart problems. Another 600,000 die of cancer. About 720,000 die of diabetes, falls at home, auto accidents, infections acquired at hospitals, suicide, and other stuff.

The top 10 leading causes of death in the United States

Just 10 diseases account for almost three-quarters of all deaths in the U.S. Heart disease is the biggest killer, followed by cancer, then chronic lower respiratory disease. The tenth disease on the list is suicide. This article looks at the facts and figures and asks whether any of these...

www.medicalnewstoday.com

And the CDC says since 29 September 2019 there have been 39,000,000 cases of the "regular" flu, with 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 dead.

Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report (FluView)

A weekly influenza surveillance report prepared by the influenza division.

www.cdc.gov

Taking all this into consideration, I fail to see why we need large-scale "shelter-in-places". Do this only for the areas with the most cases. These areas seem to be more apparent every day. Just go ahead and do it. Get the country going again. Pretty soon people will just start ignoring these orders anyway.

1.Archive of MSN article: https://archive.vn/j3eWM
2.Archive of Medical News Today article: https://archive.vn/QZcqZ
3.Archive of cdc.gov page : https://archive.vn/sPpUP
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[Fareal]

Tfw when you fed the entire a family a meal mostly comprised of lentils, sweet corn and black beans and then remembered you don’t actually have a TP hoard

 

[LordofTendons]

White House briefing coming up, if you can stand it.

 

[Arctic Fox]

I really don't get all the bitching. This thread moves about fifteen pages a day. That's like twenty minutes of reading posts, maybe another five or ten checking links.

Most of the people here were neets before being laid off. Seems people are just too lazy to bother reading.

 

[Aib Ld]

I really don't get all the bitching. This thread moves about fifteen pages a day. That's like twenty minutes of reading posts, maybe another five or ten checking links.

Most of the people here were neets before being laid off. Seems people are just too lazy to bother reading.

I don't know, most of the posts I see are basically doomer-posting that adds nothing of value even if I skim through them. Sure, there's some educational posts here and there but there's a huge difference from how the thread is now and the thread in the early days.