Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[2021Murder]

The US decided on an 18 month contract with 3m for masks. Which should already tell you at minimum they expect to deal with this during flu season next year, at its worst they expect us all to live like this the next year and a half (not actually quarantined. We will be doing what china did. Come late June we celebrate theaters open back up a few mild cases and deaths from a small 2nd wave, october we get a few warnings, then the election happens and then the US gov says "oh yeah that flu's back" sometime around January if they care more about businesses than people. And then we get to go through all this again. But sort of differently because everyone is sort of prepared now. And then it goes away rather quickly around may. And that extra 4 months is to replenish stockpiles.

 

[Archeopthryx]

I guess we would be following Japan's facemask culture from now on.

You think Trump would make MAGA masks?

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

Spain morning news roundup! So yesterday Chanel 4 from A3media had some chink propagandist blaming Fernando Simon for everything and the spanish right wing has gone right back up to "chinanumbah1" "fernando simon did everything wrong", and still trying to keep the private from doing anything.

So it was no real surprise when it turned out Fernando had contracted corona and was hospitalized. This is exactly what they did last time. Hilariously enough though, this has pressed our government to backstab china and the non-A3 media to basically run a "china sucks" campaign. So it's obvious who we're sending our volunteers to once cold war 2 chink boogaloo turns into ww3 a chink bat fucked me.

If you ask me the right's trying to protect their chink factories, they're globalists after all. Anyway, aside from that, not much new. Number of positives in Puerta del Mar goes up to 8, but things are going predictably, news today said spain's tally for doctors dead in the line of duty is as of today 5 medics and 1 nurse, and we got over 10000 confirmed positive healthcare profesionals, so that gives you a better estimate of what a deathtoll with 100% testing in a healthy population would be. As I told y'all a thousand times, boomers are fucked, deathfats are fucked, HIV cunts are fucked. Amongst young healthy people it's not that lethal.

Overall. Morale is high, things are overall fairly normal despite lockdown, outside of madrid at least. And this is a usual level of political bollocks. I do like the hipocrisy of the PP still claiming that Podemos is breaking Spain for having to fight the president to get a tax break for small businesses yet they are the ones licking china's butthole and keeping the government from telling our large factories to make more medical gear. Everyone aside from the crazier radicals seems to have noticed it this time, and even most right wingers I know are saying this is the death of the PP and they'll vote vox next time. So, protip necons, when you've based your entire fucking political campaign on claiming your enemies are commies, maybe you shouldn't get caught siding with the COMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA against TRUMP.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

The Chinese government has stopped the majority of RNA tests in China, including all tests on people arriving from other countries. Most international flights have also been cancelled. All flights to Qingdao are cancelled, and any of the remaining flights will be extremely limited to Shanghai.

I have this information from multiple people, but unfortunately I am worried about the crackdown and backlash. At least they are scared of it, and I share this fear.

I also have heard from a friend that wet markets are back open in China. (This is more of a rumor, but I know definitely that the RNA tests have stopped)

If even an iota of this is true, then I want Trump to issue a permanent travel ban to AND from China whenever all of this is over. Suspend any trade deals indefinitely, too. I want the country to be absolutely SHUNNED like Cuba was until Obama decided to make nice with those commies a few years ago.

One positive thing about this, though, is that I'm seeing a lot of nations within the past week starting to sing a very different tune about China (especially after China has shipped them medical items with atrocious, unusable quality ... Including innacurate tests!). The world is pissed, and I've found that more and more countries are becoming unafraid to hide it anymore, political correctness be damned. That's what I call some progress.

Fuck China, fuck its government, and fuck its culture.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Some encouraging news for the United States:

Louisiana sees Coronavirus curve start to flatten (archive)

Louisiana has been one of the "hot spot" states with one of the larger death tolls. The data explained in this article suggests that a curve is already showing signs of flattening in the state.

To me, this gives a pretty good outlook for several other states, if enough people can start listening and do what's right for their fellow Americans. If Louisiana, a state that got hit pretty hard, can start showing positive results due to getting their shit together, then it's going to start looking good relatively soon for many other parts of the country-- Probably by June, I predict.

This also kind of reinforces my beliefs on the outlook for the entire country in terms of a timeline. I believe that the majority of the country will be over this in a matter of a few months, whereas your densely populated areas like New York and California are going to continue getting the absolute worst of it. Those two states are going to be dealing with this for at least the entire Summer, and probably well into Fall.

EDIT: Another interesting piece of info from this article is how the data was broken down with the deaths in Louisiana. The average age of deaths in the state is 70, and 41% were diabetic. More data to suggest that age + underlying conditions continues to be the trend with who this virus attacks the hardest, and that there are outliers (just like the flu and pneumonia).

No, I'm not saying "It's just a flu, bro." I'm just saying that the people most vulnerable to the flu are the same people who are, on average, also the most vulnerable to the WuFlu. The stories about the few "young and healthy" people who have sadly passed away have been sensationalized to get people more panicked. They're outliers. Doesn't mean that young people can be stupid about it, but it's not some death sentence at random.

 

[No. 7 cat]

All eyes on the Swedish coronavirus experiment - UnHerd

Their more moderate response is as much about politics as science

unherd.com

This prolly was posted. Sweden doing it differently. Now, part of me suspects it's because the 'New Swedes' get enraged when asked to follow any rules other than Allahs.' Yet part of me thinks it might work.

 

[Lurker69]

Here is a great article about India and how their poor are doing during this Corona crisis, I suggest reading the entire article if you're interested:

In India, social distancing is a privilege of the middle class

For two days, Jeetender Mahender, a 36-year-old Dalit sanitation worker, has not dared to leave his family's shanty in the Valmiki slum of northern Mumbai, India, except to go to the toilet.

edition.cnn.com

India coronavirus: Social distancing is a privilege of the middle cla…

archived 30 Mar 2020 10:51:55 UTC

archive.is

TL;DR: We like to joke about pooinloos, but the truth is that the poor there are absolutely fucked unless their government takes some more measures to help them. Some slums have 30x more people per square kilometer than NYC, some places have only 1 toilet per 1440 people. Let's just hope that this virus doesn't spread as well in higher temperatures, otherwise we might start seeing bodies pile up there.

 

[Judge Holden]

TL;DR: We like to joke about pooinloos, but the truth is that the poor there are absolutely fucked unless their government takes some more measures to help them. Some slums have 30x more people per square kilometer than NYC, some places have only 1 toilet per 1440 people. Let's just hope that this virus doesn't spread as well in higher temperatures, otherwise we might start seeing bodies pile up there.

There is a reason why so many here like to view indians, and indeed most third world dwellers, as nothing more than living walking memes of filth and depravity.

If we start viewing them as actual people then the godawful and despicable shit inflicted upon them on a daily basis by their sociopathic overlords, be they local thugs and warlords or national leaders and elites, becomes really fucking depressing.

 

[Seed Pod Tits]

Here is a great article about India and how their poor are doing during this Corona crisis, I suggest reading the entire article if you're interested:

In India, social distancing is a privilege of the middle class

For two days, Jeetender Mahender, a 36-year-old Dalit sanitation worker, has not dared to leave his family's shanty in the Valmiki slum of northern Mumbai, India, except to go to the toilet.

edition.cnn.com

http://archive.li/CxzFL

TL;DR: We like to joke about pooinloos, but the truth is that the poor there are absolutely fucked unless their government takes some more measures to help them. Some slums have 30x more people per square kilometer than NYC, some places have only 1 toilet per 1440 people. Let's just hope that this virus doesn't spread as well in higher temperatures, otherwise we might start seeing bodies pile up there.

It's spread through shit, so I don't see this ending well......

corona virus can be transmitted through faeces

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Corona-chan infected a lot in Turkey, let's see how Erdogan will cope that.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/least-500-000-coronavirus-infections-142714139.html

COVID-19 turned into a global pandemic

because this novel coronavirus could spread weeks without detection. There are several data points that indicate that 20-50% of all coronavirus infections are asymptomatic. Almost all countries are merely reacting to the virus rather than proactively working on preventing its spread. Turkey is one of these countries. It is as if the new coronavirus came out of nowhere. Just 11 days ago Turkey had only 2 coronavirus deaths. The death toll skyrocketed 4500% to 92 in just 11 days. This means it is now too late for Turkey to prevent the spread of the virus.

I published an article on March 20 and calculated that 2 million people in the USA had coronavirus as of March 20. The model I developed estimated that the death toll in American will surpass 800 by March 26 and 20 thousand by April 15th . On the morning of March 26, the number of coronavirus deaths in America was 1042. In other words, the model I have developed produced actually very conservative estimates (i.e. the actual number of deaths and infections are higher than what we predicted).

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

Poland and Albany sends aid to Italy and even medical professionals, and like the Czechs did to Spain, they do it without grandstanding and bullshit, without asking for money, and without sending defective shit. East Europe is Best Europe. China eat your heart out, ang germany/netherlands/france get fucking ready, everyone now knows who is pushing this cart.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

In Ireland there are 2,615 confirmed cases and 46 dead. 88 in ICU. There were 200 new cases last night, which is actually down a bit from the days before. 10 new deaths, 8 of which were men. I can't find a chart but from reports from other days, men do seem to be dying at a higher rate than women even though cases are split pretty evenly. The average age of diagnosis is 47, it's going up probably due to the clusters in nursing homes. There is concern that nursing homes are running low on PPE.

The good news is that the numbers we're seeing are significantly below projections so the containment measures do seem to be working. At the moment a peak is expected around mid-April, possibly the 10th-14th but obviously it's hard to say. The government is preparing a quarantine and step-down facility with space for around 750 people on the outskirts of Dublin, and clinical assessment hubs outside of hospitals. They say they're working on a contact tracing app but need to figure out some details on how they're going to work around GDPR. Having used the train and bus apps from the government, I'm not expecting this to work very well if it ever sees the light of day. They've almost doubled the number of ICU beds in the country but we're still below the EU average. There's been a 45% reduction in A&E visits and a 97% reduction in people on trolleys, record lows all week. Testing capacity is up to 5000 a day.


New chart on hospitalisations, now with deaths, they still don't mention comorbidities.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

People are taking videos of empty hospital waiting rooms and parking lots under the hashtag #Filmyourhospital . Americans went from "its just the flu" to "holy shit its the apocalypse" and then circling back to "its just the flu" in like a week. They're only accepting serious cases, visitors aren't allowed, and doctors aren't allowed to film patients. No shit the lots are empty. Unless you live in WA or NY they aren't going to be full. I thought we might've been able to get this in control but, people like this are going to fuck it up for everyone.

Edit
They also forget that most hospitals have huge indoor multi-level parking garages, most patients aren't even parked in the lot.

They are also not getting that right now shit is being set up and hospitals are turning down non critical/elective surgery cases in anticipation of the coming wave.

Well they've set up tents for corona patients in central park, in addition to the Javits center and whatever other retrofitting of buildings is going on. That's scary.

Massive field hospital for coronavirus patients going up in Central Park

An evangelical Christian relief organization on Sunday began setting up a massive field hospital in Central Park to help New York City cope with the crush of patients sickened by the deadly coronav…

nypost.com

These are the temp hospitals set up so far or are being set up in and around NYC:
-Central Park
-Javitts
-SUNY Stony Brook
-SUNY Westbury
-CUNY Staten Island
-NY Expo Center
-Brooklyn Cruise Terminal
-Aqueduct Racetrack
-USS Comfort
-Westchester Convention Center

Also overflow morgues have been set up at:
-Bellevue Hospital
-Elmhurst Hospital (which has also been dediated to Corona patients since at least 3/25)

Outside of NY there are temporary field hospitals set up or being set up in:
-McCormick Center, Chicago (largest convention center in the US)
-Century Link Center, Seattle
-TGF Center, Detriot
-St Francis Hospital, Hartford CT
-Middlesex Hospital, Middletown CT
-Danbury Hospital, Danbury CT

These are just the ones I know of, there may be more.

 

[Beetus Knuckles]

It surprised me that the US government passed a stimulus that benefits the average citizen, until you realize that this money flows up and into the hands of the elite. The curve will flatten, the checks will hit the bank, Apple will drop a new iPhone, and all will be well in the good ol’ USA. I hope that first-world countries learn they need to manufacture more of their own shit, especially medical supplies.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

Kazakh update: Another (not) witty subtitle

Последние данные по коронавирусу в Казахстане. Онлайн

Брифинг об общей обстановке в Казахстане на 30 марта в связи с коронавирусом и режимом ЧП, с участием министра информации и общественного развития

tengrinews.kz

294 cases. 20 recoveries, no new deaths.
Personal update: my city's on lockdown! People are not allowed to go outside, with the only exceptions being:

1. You're taking out the trash.
2. You're walking your dog (even then, you cannot go any further than 100m away from your home).
3. You're going to and from your workplace.
4. You're going to the store.
5. You require immediate medical attention.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Shit is getting real dicey over in New York City. I am hearing reports that gang recruitment is soaring as they offer refuge for people with nothing to lose. The video footage that has leaked out is even more concerning as young men are doing what they feel is necessary to get what they need for their families. I am not sure how the city is going to recover from this. Worse still is that as bad as it is for young men, young women are going to get caught in the middle of a lot of this shit. We will be feeling this for a generation or two.

Spoiler: NSFL

 

[Reverend]

Has anyone's company applied for the TrumpBux Small Business Loan and gotten it? Any status on that aid package and people getting that sweet sweet gov't handout?

 

[verissimus]

Some encouraging news for the United States:

Louisiana sees Coronavirus curve start to flatten (archive)

Louisiana has been one of the "hot spot" states with one of the larger death tolls. The data explained in this article suggests that a curve is already showing signs of flattening in the state.

To me, this gives a pretty good outlook for several other states, if enough people can start listening and do what's right for their fellow Americans. If Louisiana, a state that got hit pretty hard, can start showing positive results due to getting their shit together, then it's going to start looking good relatively soon for many other parts of the country-- Probably by June, I predict.

This also kind of reinforces my beliefs on the outlook for the entire country in terms of a timeline. I believe that the majority of the country will be over this in a matter of a few months, whereas your densely populated areas like New York and California are going to continue getting the absolute worst of it. Those two states are going to be dealing with this for at least the entire Summer, and probably well into Fall.

EDIT: Another interesting piece of info from this article is how the data was broken down with the deaths in Louisiana. The average age of deaths in the state is 70, and 41% were diabetic. More data to suggest that age + underlying conditions continues to be the trend with who this virus attacks the hardest, and that there are outliers (just like the flu and pneumonia).

No, I'm not saying "It's just a flu, bro." I'm just saying that the people most vulnerable to the flu are the same people who are, on average, also the most vulnerable to the WuFlu. The stories about the few "young and healthy" people who have sadly passed away have been sensationalized to get people more panicked. They're outliers. Doesn't mean that young people can be stupid about it, but it's not some death sentence at random.

Well that's really encouraging compared to the nonsense I heard from a news channel last night. I kid you not, that one of their anchors/"reporters" said that the death toll in the US could rise up to 200,000. Last I checked, the number was about 2,000.

 

[captkrisma]

I hope that first-world countries learn they need to manufacture more of their own shit, especially medical supplies.

There's already tax incentives in the works for businesses that produce over a certain percentage of medical supplies per year.

 

[That Ho Over Here]

I guess my adolescent experience of being a bullied shut-in kicked in and now days slowly bleed into one another and fly faster like a speeding bullet. It's going to be three weeks now since my city metro service has been terminated and almost two since only essential personnel for the city, on selected routes is accepted on remaining public transport.

Just a bit over a month of quarantine left. I wonder if my boss pays me since I didn't do that much.

I hope it doesn't last more into May. Otherwise, we'll actually have to start fighting for our survival. This time it will be worse than after the fall of the USSR.

I WANT MY NORMAL LIFE BACK! ALL BECAUSE SOME MAINLANDER HAD TO EAT A FUCKING BAT. CHINA STRONK, SUKA BLYAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I mean we're talking about a country that has a festival where they cook dogs alive, what did you expect?

Not to mention the whole fetus pill controversy, I'll look for the articles but suffice to say a few years ago China was exposed for microwaving aborted fetuses, grinding them up and putting the powder into capsules that are supposed to grant 'eternal youth'.

I mean I'm a woo woo Pagan type but that's some next level psychosis right there.

EDIT

y'all thought I was joking

I wish I was

nuke china when?