Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Flaming Carrot]

From where? Sale of them is banned on Amazon and Ebay. Most local stores are closed other than the grocery store. Tell me where the fuck am I supposed to get a mask from.

You make them. Here's a couple of options for handmade masks -

No-Sew Pleated Face Mask with Handkerchief and Hair Tie

Make a reusable, pleated face mask under 2 minutes. No sewing required.

blog.japanesecreations.com

No-Sew Pleated Face Mask with Handkerchief and Hair Tie

archived 3 Apr 2020 02:33:37 UTC

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Where to buy the materials to make masks at home

Some experts are recommending wearing masks out in public during the coronavirus outbreak. Here's where you can get materials to make them.

www.usatoday.com

COVID-19: Where to buy the materials to make masks at home

archived 4 Apr 2020 00:06:53 UTC

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There's also a ton of people selling cloth masks now. Etsy alone has dozens of sellers offering masks. Here's how Czech Republic and Slovakia have been doing it -

Czechs get to work making masks after government decree

Republic and Slovakia are only countries in Europe to make coronavirus mask-wearing mandatory

www.theguardian.com

Czechs get to work making masks after government decree | World news …

archived 30 Mar 2020 16:33:35 UTC

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[MrJokerRager]

Some of my family have gotten into conspiracy theories that Coronavirus was started by elites in America and China to reduce the world population because of scarcity of food and 5G is part of the conspiracy as well. Any thoughts on this?

 

[New & Improved Username]

What the fuck is a landlocked peninsula?

Michigan?

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Dude. One size doesn't fit all. Why should people in sparsely populated areas/rural areas/etc. , need to be on house arrest? Why does every state have to fuck their people and their economy over? Try using some common sense once in a while.

Fauci: 'I don't understand why' every state hasn't issued stay-at-home orders

https://archive.vn/051t2

Because they don't want some states (the red, rural ones) to not be affected as much as others (the blue, urban ones). Specifically, they want Swing states to not get ahead during this, because Trump would get credit for that.

Plus, no one wants to be the governor that pulled a New York and didn't react "properly."

 

[Non-Expert!]

Hey is anybody starting to lose weight from:

a) restaurant food being (literally) off the table?
b) needing to ration every can of beans that crosses your threshold?
c) only "some" of every food item to go around during meals?
d) not being able to get together with friends and family for potlucks and coffee and high-calorie cake?
e) boredom-induced cleaning and organizing binges?
f) increased cleaning due to the sheer number of people in the house 24 hrs a day?
g) more rest?

Just wondering.

 

[MrBlueSocks]

Some of my family have gotten into conspiracy theories that Coronavirus was started by elites in America and China to reduce the world population because of scarcity of food and 5G is part of the conspiracy as well. Any thoughts on this?

Yes. Some of your family are tards.

 

[The Last Stand]

Detroit bus driver who complained about a passenger coughing has died

Detroit bus driver Jason Hargrove, who complained about a passenger coughing without covering her mouth, has died of the coronavirus.

abcnews.go.com

A bus driver in Detroit, who had complained about a passenger coughing without covering her mouth and feared people were not taking the novel coronavirus pandemic seriously, has died after contracting the virus, officials said.

Jason Hargrove, an employee of the Detroit Department of Transportation, recorded a Facebook message on March 21 criticizing a woman who he said got on his bus and coughed multiple times without covering her mouth.


"We out here as public workers, doing our jobs, trying to make an honest living to take care of our families, but for you to get on the bus and stand on the bus and cough several times without covering up your mouth … that lets me know that some folks don't care. Utterly don't give a f---, excuse my language," Hargrove said in the 8-minute video.

He said that he felt violated not only for himself, but for the other few passengers who were on the bus.

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Jason Hargrove is seen in a screen grab from a video he posted on his Facebook page.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said on Thursday that Hargrove had died.

He encouraged Americans to watch Hargrove's Facebook video, cautioning that it includes multiple expletives.

"I don't know how you can watch it and not tear up. He knew his life was being put in jeopardy, even though he was going to work for the citizens of Detroit every day, but somebody just didn't care," Duggan said in a press conference. "Somebody who didn't take this seriously and now he's gone."

The Amalgamated Transit Union commemorated Hargrove in a statement. The union said he had been a member since 2016 and left behind a wife.

Glenn Tolbert, the president of the union for Detroit Department of Transportation, called on city leaders to better protect bus drivers. Tolbert told ABC Detroit affiliate WXYZ that out of the 530 drivers in the department, 100 were in quarantine and seven drivers had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Mayor Duggan said that when he heard bus drivers went on strike on March 17 because they felt unsafe, he implemented new measures, including only allowing people to get on from the back doors and no longer collecting bus fares. The strike lasted just one day.

In Hargrove's message, he urged people to keep safe and take the pandemic seriously.

More than 6,000 people in the U.S. have died after contracting the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 245,000 people are infected in the U.S. and more than a million across the globe.

"Y'all be safe. If you ain't got to go out, don't go out. If you go, cover up your face, put some gloves on your hands. Please," Hargrove said in the video.

Some woman was on a Detroit bus, coughing erratically, and then killed a bus driver for doing his job. FFS, people are so careless.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Piss off? How about you show some gratitude toward your country and your armed services for expediting the ship's repairs and getting it out to sea early to help your ungrateful ass? They changed the screening process? GREAT! What screening process was that again? Oh right, the screening process for the US Navy ship that showed up at your docks to help, the one you people have been bitching about non-stop since before it arrived. The ship type of which we only have two and you got one of them!! Florida didn't get it. Louisiana didn't get it. You got it!

Once again, they don't have to help you and your ire is better directed at the state and local level; you know, the ones that neglected to prepare in the first place. Maybe your time would be better spent saying "thank you" to the Navy doctors and nurses that are there to help. But that's not going to happen. You fucks don't even say thank you to the farmers that supply your glittering den of degeneracy with the food you need to survive or the hicks that operate the power stations (and eat the pollution) two states away that keep your glitter going.

Piss. Off.
And be safe, I love you. But I'll rural-urban split your ass.

You mad Army made you look bad. Again. Should give those ships to the Coast Guard who know how to navigate in the USA.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Michigan?

That is not land that is just trash from Detriot.

 

[feral cat #6385]

Mask | Etsy

Check out our mask selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our masks shops.

www.etsy.com

A lot of people on Etsy have picked up on cranking out reusable masks, or if you're handy with a needle or a sewing machine, they're so simple to make that you barely even need a design, so you could hop into the fray and start making them yourself. It's just two elastic straps and a piece of cloth that's been accordioned a few times.

Thanks. I want a plague doctor mask.

 

[furūtsu]

So uh, nursing home dietary aide update here.

Spoiler

We now have 3 confirmed cases, 1 recovering resident in their 50’s and two faculty members. No one else showing symptoms yet. Kitchen is on full lockdown (we can’t interact directly with CNAs, RNs, LNs or residents, nor can we go into their units) and several people have taken sabbaticals or hiatuses due to their fears of the virus. (Meaning, they aren’t infected but are taking leave of absences, and will come back to work post-lockdown. This place is too desperate for help to fire them or lay them off). I was told if even one of us gets infected, the entire kitchen must be shut down entirely to prevent the potential spread to residents.

Everyone in the kitchen is losing their mind. Most of us skew a bit young since it’s considered a college kid’s job, but we have a couple gen Xers and a few boomers. My boss is a boomer. Every day a bit more light fades from his eyes and I worry. This dude could lose the job he’s held and loved for over 20 years because of this.

Not gonna lie guys, this shit is getting scary, and sad. If this spreads here-and that looks all but inevitable-it’s gonna tear through the residents like tissue paper.

 

[Sped Xing]

You are so full of shit it's coming out your ears. It wasn't a 'glitch in the computer systems.' It was a wily retired general that realizing most of the rules for OPFOR were to make sure the BLUFOR won. Rules like not being able to turn the search radars for his anti-ship missiles off. Ever. Even when there were no ships in range. The Navy's vision for this exercise was a flight of the valkyries wave of anti-radar missiles destroying every anti-ship missile site hours before their precious ships were in range and declaring victory. Because that's realistic. The first couple hours of the exercise didn't go to plan with flights of hornets and prowlers finding no active radars and no targets. Then everyone's threat board light up like a christmas tree and, boom, 15 minutes later no more strike group. Naturally, the navy was not thrilled with this outcome. They replaced the retired general and restarted the exercise citing the fact no one on BLUFOR got any meaningful experience out of the exercise. I'd say thousands of Sailors and Marines experienced a simulated death, but nobody asks me.

Fuck you for making me write this Mr 'third hand anecdote.'

What the fuck is a landlocked peninsula?

I'm so glad we spend hundreds of billions to protect the feelings of ezceptional admirals.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

To everyone claiming that just because it would be extremely fucking exceptional for Xi to intentionally piss off the US navy. This is your reminder than this is Xi we're talking about. He is exceptional.



It's not really lack of regulation. In fact you're escalating much slower than the model, the curve is being flattened, this is how "success" looks like in epidemiology. It's normal as lockdowns go to have more healthcare personnel infected proportionally. Because not even the best safety regulation can protect you 100% while you're shoving tubes down people's throats, because not even the best training and discipline can keep doctors from doing small fuckups as the turns get longer and the organization gets more and more strained, because no PPE is 100% efficient, and because once one little fuckup gets a single nurse infected, they're gonna unknowingly carry the virus into areas less defended, including their homes, and poland seems to have as strong of a family unit and as traditional a mindset as spain, meaning professions tend to run in the family, so healthcare professionals tend to live with other healthcare professionals.

Remember our first outbreak here. 1 stupid patient and his dumb wife got infected while being treated for traumatic injury. Result was 50 infected, most of which were healthcare personnel. Just a little fuckup like not noticing that guy's cough and the one or two nurses that get infected can quickly spread it to their colleagues even in the best of cases.

I'd say you're doing great all things considered. It may look bleak to the untrained, but, this is how epidemics always go. 14 deaths a day is honestly not that bad at all. Just for comparison, now that we've hit peak we're at 900 a day. And that's without triage. I'd say it won't get as bad for you but, 900 for us is what relative success looks like. Failure would've been substantially bleaker.

I swear I remember someone linking an intel profile here on Xinnie months ago for some other autistic slapfight the Chinks got into long before this catastrophe. Referred to him as a “princeling” who seemed to believe he was owed things by basically everyone. Does anyone remember that, or have it? It painted a picture that made him out to be every bit the petulant egomaniac that the media likes to make Trump or Putin into.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Dunno if this was posted yet but.

Oh hey that ship we sent to new york to help? Yeah Beruocratic Restrictions means it isn't doing shit.

https://archive.vn/dfs1f

 

[Non-Expert!]

Some of my family have gotten into conspiracy theories that Coronavirus was started by elites in America and China to reduce the world population because of scarcity of food and 5G is part of the conspiracy as well. Any thoughts on this?

My thoughts:

Lunacy. Nobody would deliberately release a contagious disease, unless it is a suicide mission. Political, economic, loss of life ....

There is no scarcity of food. There are, however logistical barriers (let's just leave it at that) to distributing it to genuinely hungry populations.

Chinese and American elites or any elites for that matter, stand to lose the MOST from a disease that kills and maims, and tears up trade routes, and brings about a global recession.

That is because, like it or not, the elites have something of a parasitic relationship with the rest of us. For example, a world wide plague that takes out 80% of the population won't make the CEO of Amazon.com or a Chinese industrial baron any richer.

 

[ADHD]

Hey is anybody starting to lose weight from:

a) restaurant food being (literally) off the table?
b) needing to ration every can of beans that crosses your threshold?
c) only "some" of every food item to go around during meals?
d) not being able to get together with friends and family for potlucks and coffee and high-calorie cake?
e) boredom-induced cleaning and organizing binges?
f) increased cleaning due to the sheer number of people in the house 24 hrs a day?
g) more rest?

Just wondering.

"Eat less, move more" has always been the way weight loss works, so yeah, that shouldn't be surprising.

Of course, those pounds will come back if you go back to eating the way you used to after this is over.

You can read his letter here

Exclusive: Captain of aircraft carrier with growing coronavirus outbreak pleads for help from Navy

The captain of a nuclear aircraft carrier docked in Guam with more than 100 coronavirus-infected sailors aboard pleaded Monday with U.S. Navy officials for more resources. Capt. Brett Crozier, a Santa Rosa native, says the entire crew of more than 4,000 should be isolated to avoid possible...

www.sfchronicle.com

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I do feel kind of bad for Crozier though. He did what he could to protect his crew, even though he probably knew he was gonna get canned for it by some cunt sitting behind a desk. Sometimes the captain has to walk the plank for the good of the crew I guess.

Attaching an archive of the pdf.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Some of my family have gotten into conspiracy theories that Coronavirus was started by elites in America and China to reduce the world population because of scarcity of food and 5G is part of the conspiracy as well. Any thoughts on this?

5G is fuck all to do with this and the virus is probably natural. Though it might have leaked out of a Chinese lab because the lab got their PPEs off TaoBao and it's all crap. The US probably should have stopped flights and locked down a bit earlier but then that applies to pretty much all governments. China covered up the seriousness of the outbreak, a bit like the USSR covered up the seriousness of Chernobyl.

tl;dr - it's more of a cockup than a conspiracy. The CCP should be fucking obliterated but that was true even before coronavirus.

Hey is anybody starting to lose weight from:

a) restaurant food being (literally) off the table?
b) needing to ration every can of beans that crosses your threshold?
c) only "some" of every food item to go around during meals?
d) not being able to get together with friends and family for potlucks and coffee and high-calorie cake?
e) boredom-induced cleaning and organizing binges?
f) increased cleaning due to the sheer number of people in the house 24 hrs a day?
g) more rest?

Just wondering.

Yeah, I've lost a couple of kilos. The main reason is that shelf stabilized or frozen food is bland as shit and you only eat what you need. Also, I've got loads of protein by not much in the way of carbs. It's probably not an unhealthy diet actually, so long as you take multivitamins to avoid getting fucking scurvy or some other medieval/third world shit.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Trump talked up his efforts to close the borders.

Eugene "Just a flu" Gu spergs per usual
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Has he done enough stupid things yet to warrant his own thread?
You'd think after the first time getting fired for his twitter rants about Trump he'd learn, but I guess not.
Do you think that his current employer cares that he's constantly picking fights online touting his medical degree? It's not very professional.....

 

[Coleslaw]

I was just passed this graph so I'll post it:View attachment 1214230

I knew I should have brushed up on my Spanish.

 

[Non-Expert!]

Yeah, I've lost a couple of kilos. The main reason is that shelf stabilized or frozen food is bland as shit and you only eat what you need. Also, I've got loads of protein by not much in the way of carbs. It's probably not an unhealthy diet actually, so long as you take multivitamins to avoid getting fucking scurvy or some other medieval/third world shit.

Scurvy can be avoided by eating a citrus fruit daily. Nuts and seeds have a lot of proteins and minerals in them that are beneficial to your well-being.

My question actually WAS serious .... I am wondering if this pandemic stuff isn't going to take a couple of layers off the obesity epidemic. Somebody mentioned the possibility earlier in the thread. But it also came with speculation that the heaviest might succumb to Corona and put a dent into the average person's BMI that way.

OK this is my thinking ... lots of people are being laid off and those who are lucky are having their hours reduced. Unless you work in some mission-essential field.

That means that there is a lot less extra money to go around, and less extra resources, including food. So even if you are a big-time eater, you might not have access to extra food like you did. So even if you are not into it, out of necessity you might have to ration your food carefully.

Also every time you go out it is risky right now. So you kind of have to do your shopping in large errands. And that store might not have all of the items you want ....

I am actually hoping that some folks come out with healthier habits. These "health at any size and "fat acceptance" mantras are just excuses for folks to avoid practicing portion control, when it is not forced on them.