Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Super-Chevy454]

In an earlier post, I mentionned how long before someone said Corona-chan is racist? Well, it's happened from a post I read on this forum.

Btw, that guy nicknamed Black Hammer, I wonder how he'll react if karma bites him back just like it did to XXXTentacion?

 

[Rudy Russo]

This is not "I" "I" "I". You stated that you believes this would affect those other then you. So go fuck yourself, trying to gaslight on this forum like some chink redditor.

Lighten up Francis.

 

[that jerk over there]

Interesting development out of Mexico.

How the coronavirus lockdown is hitting Mexico's drug cartels | DW | 04.04.2020

The global coronavirus lockdown is making it hard for Mexican drug cartels to operate. With borders shut and limited air traffic, cartels are turning on each other. Sandra Weiss reports from Mexico City.

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"There has also been a rise in looting in recent weeks. And turf wars have broken out once more in Guerrero and Michoacan state between different drug cartels. Javier Oliva, a professor of political science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, expects tensions between cartels to grow amid the coronavirus lockdown, and also predicts a spike in street crime and burglaries."

Archive, this shit might get even more interesting.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

My local Wal-Mart is closed, and has literally barricaded its doors.

 

[Exbein]

flipland summary as of April 4,2020

 

[ditto]

My local Wal-Mart is closed, and has literally barricaded its doors.

as walmart goes so goes middle america.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

Just go to the bad part of town where one store sells like 5 different phone plans and everyone is paying in cash because they don’t want to pay child support. Also because they’re drug dealers, but that’s how you know you’re in the bad part of town. The person selling you the phone should ideally be from India or Egypt and that’s how you know you’ve found your shithole.

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[millais]

Some of the latest numbers for the North Texas conurbation (minus Fort Worth and its satellite suburbs)

Positive cases of COVID-19

• 921 in Dallas – 90 are new
• 227 in Collin County
• 325 in Tarrant County
• 254 in Denton County
• 5 in Kaufman County
• 10 in Rockwall County
• 25 in Ellis County

Hospital reports
Twelve hospitals reported ventilator and bed capacity numbers to Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson's office

• Total beds: 4,763
• Beds occupied: 2,365
• Total ICU beds: 717
• ICU beds occupied: 413
• Total ventilators: 838
• Ventilators in use: 245

I believe it's still one month until the predicted peak for the entire state of Texas, so it may be doubtful whether the capacity in this portion of the state will be able to keep up with the new cases at peak.

 

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You're overblowing the threat from CCTV when buying a burner. Yes, you should avoid being caught on cam while acquiring such a thing if at all possible.

But, in terms of 'not being assraped by Peter Thiel', your real high priority threats look more like this:

1. Logging into a Google account linked to you in any way at all (in descending order, ties to another phone number, simultaneous logins with another account, etc)
2. Logging into a Google account on a phone without turning off the location history
3. Not turning off location services
4. ...
5. Google comparing the IPs you connect to from your burner phone's WIFI connection to those your regular phone uses
6. ...
7. Cell tower triangulation
8. ...
9. CCTV in Prajesh's 7/11

Do you need to have a phone with you while wandering around? Do you need to turn on cellular data or location services? Do you want to risk linking your burner with your regular phone (use a VPN at the very least)?

If in doubt, don't take it, if you must take it, turn it off.

 

[Rudy Russo]

2 employees at Walmart in Evergreen Park die after falling ill to the…

archived 5 Apr 2020 02:05:41 UTC

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Evergreen Park,Cook County, Illinois
2 employees at Walmart in Evergreen Park die after falling ill to the coronavirus

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Perhaps a "Batty" rating?



And to think I was worrying they'd inadvertently receive some patients who'd tested false negative. Like before thinking about malice/idiocy I honestly thought the incubation period was what would fuck those ships up. SMH

Dr. Drew has been trying to scrub this evidence of his smug "just a flu" statements from the internetz. Enjoy:
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Shiiiiit, I used to love me some Drew and Adam back in college, but seriously Fuck Him.

Nice case tracker/map that lists cases by county, similar to the John Hopkins world map

Experience

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Why the FUCK can't someone make this for NY?

Well, people in my area sure the fuck aren't taking this remotely seriously. Neighbors have barbecued three days in a row, 15+ people there each day and most of them are old. Parks and playgrounds packed, Walmart was packed. Heard from some former coworkers that the local Amish were thick there and having fucking cookouts in the parking lot. Amish still having weddings with three hundred plus people in attendance, some of whom came from upstate New York.

To be fair, they set out on their wagon journey from NY like in February.

My local Wal-Mart is closed, and has literally barricaded its doors.

Not trying to get you to powerlevel here, but can you at least tell us the state? Because Jesus Christ.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

Some San Diego stats from the county Corona-chan website. Population's around 1.4 million in the city proper and 3.3 million in SD county.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Not trying to get you to powerlevel here, but can you at least tell us the state? Because Jesus Christ.

All I can say is that it's just Appalachian country.

 

[moocow]

Coronavirus patients delivered to hospital ship Comfort in New York by mistake: US officials
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-patients-delivered-comfort-ship-new-york-mistake (http://archive.vn/dlWLd)

"By mistake" my aching ass. They've been bellyaching about the ship's acceptance procedures and precautions since before it arrived. They did this to try to get the camel's nose in the tent.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

All I can say is that it's just Appalachian country.

Hope you have some other local grocery stores, or you're gonna be relying on National Guard food drops like a Third World diaster zone.

Calling it now: if the lockdowns go into May they will close most Walmarts besides ones that are Federalized as regional food banks.

 

[afternoon_tea]

In an earlier post, I mentionned how long before someone said Corona-chan is racist? Well, it's happened from a post I read on this forum.

Btw, that guy nicknamed Black Hammer, I wonder how he'll react if karma bites him back just like it did to XXXTentacion?

I would expect nothing less from good old Gazi Kodo. He has a thread here.

 

[deeplyhigh]

Palantir's dirty secret is that they are just a consultancy like ThoughtWorks that have targeted the glowies. They've built this mystique but there's nothing they would do better than an Google or Microsoft.

Palantir can’t be reduced to “just a consultancy,” though they do consult occasionally on projects. They’ve written several platforms that correlate and synthesize public data sources to make them easier to search and tie together citizen behaviors and movements. Gotham is the platform aimed at three letter agencies and police. Metropolis is the platform mostly aimed at financial customers to detect insider threats via machine learning.

 

[pwnest injun]

Dr. Drew has been trying to scrub this evidence of his smug "just a flu" statements from the internetz. Enjoy:

There's so many doctors out there who are still living in the last century, before every single institution had been completely hollowed out, and they think they can trust the WHO or the news, or even universities to be on the level. Really, they don't get that they've been in a false reality for decades, and everything "official" is little more than a front, like on a movie set. There's nothing behind the walls anymore. It's all bullshit.

 

[ditto]

Palantir can’t be reduced to “just a consultancy,” though they do consult occasionally on projects. They’ve written several platforms that correlate and synthesize public data sources to make them easier to search and tie together citizen behaviors and movements. Gotham is the platform aimed at three letter agencies and police. Metropolis is the platform mostly aimed at financial customers to detect insider threats via machine learning.

Those platforms remain controlled by Palantir and any non-trivial work needs to be done by their field technicians. That's why I said consultancy and not defense contractor.

 

[deeplyhigh]

Those platforms remain controlled by Palantir and any non-trivial work needs to be done by their field technicians. That's why I said consultancy and not defense contractor.

Got it. Seems like a fairly typical relationship between a software company and its customers though? Even for a software company working with military and three letters...I’ve never known one to be considered a defense contractor, but perhaps I’m missing something there. Palantir wrote the platforms and sells access to them, with the data correlation being the key value. I was differentiating between a more pure consultancy practice like a Deloitte or Accenture vs. a software company like Palantir, Google, or Microsoft.

FWIW, I‘m not a big fan of what Palantir has built and sold to agencies. It’s pretty frightening stuff because even if all the data is technically public, being able to easily search and correlate movements, social media posts, etc in one application is wildly powerful.

ETA: For those interested in the sorts of things that Palantir’s platforms are capable of assisting with, the Intercept has done a series of articles about them.
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