Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Ozzigy Osbourne]

Am I the only one not buying the media line that the protests aren't spreading Covid?

Yes you are the very first person to call this into question.

 

[Bender]

Am I the only one not buying the media line that the protests aren't spreading Covid?

I'm astonished it took 1746 pages of posts for this to be mentioned for the first time tbh lol

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

So the question is, should I be worrying about virus gestapo coming to enforce quarantine on me? It doesn't seem that this will be enforceable unless you get accosted by a police officer or something, which I don't have to worry about because I'm not a criminal. Seems like this is just a scare tactic, but I'm curious how seriously I should treat my attempts to skirt the quarantine in a way that won't draw any attention to myself. There are a bunch of old people in the building and it is a horribly pozzed township in a horribly pozzed state already, which makes me anxious some faggot will call the police or something because I went to buy chicken and pasta at the store or because I need to do my laundry.

If you take it seriously you'll just look suspicious. Just tell anyone who bothers you that you came from somewhere else in the state and live your life like you always would.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

I'm astonished it took 1746 pages of posts for this to be mentioned for the first time tbh lol

I know I'm late as fuck on that but it just astounds me the reasoning these media outlets give.

"The protestors are wearing masks!"
Masks aren't 100% effective, especially in densely packed crowds.

"They're outside!"
If that makes such a difference why are we told to social distance even outside and avoid public gatherings even in the open air?

"They're young!"
Youth would impact survivability, not infectability. Try again.

"They're diligently washing their hands!"
Nigga, you following them all around and documenting their hand washing habits?

Every bit of logic dictates that these protests should be spiking the diease and yet the media is telling us time and again they're not because of bullshit reasons. I don't buy it, the media has been backing this shit from day 1 and they've got a vested interest in claiming that these riots aren't spreading the pandemic.

 

[General Tug Boat]

So I have a question for the coof-watchers here. I'll be traveling to a pozzed state to finish moving out of my apartment. They just recently passed an order that all travelers into the state have to fill out a digital form with identifying information including address, phone number, etc. The order explicitly says you can not leave your residence for 14 days unless you're going to get a test, or else you have to have a negative test from within three days before traveling. Unfortunately, it's not possible to get a non-antigen test in my state because I'm a normal, non-obese, young, and healthy person. Even if it were, the results would take ~10 days or more to come in. All this means I could not (according to the letter of the law) break quarantine for the majority of the 14 day period without potentially receiving a fine. Plus I would have to pay over $150 for an in-state test after arriving.

But I'm not rich so I can't order food in to my apartment for 14 days, three times a day. Hell, even if I could, the deliverers meet you outside, not at your door, so I couldn't keep quarantine even then if I were attempting to follow the strict letter of the law.

While I'd plan anyways to stay isolated for about a week just because I'll be traveling on a plane, I just don't see how I could keep quarantine. It's not like I'm looking to go to a waterpark or something anyways, just the grocery store or to CVS or something along those lines.

So the question is, should I be worrying about virus gestapo coming to enforce quarantine on me? It doesn't seem that this will be enforceable unless you get accosted by a police officer or something, which I don't have to worry about because I'm not a criminal. Seems like this is just a scare tactic, but I'm curious how seriously I should treat my attempts to skirt the quarantine in a way that won't draw any attention to myself. There are a bunch of old people in the building and it is a horribly pozzed township in a horribly pozzed state already, which makes me anxious some faggot will call the police or something because I went to buy chicken and pasta at the store or because I need to do my laundry.

Just say your protesting, shout I CAN'T READ a few times, and you'll probably end up giving them the blue flu, In all seriousness though it's mainly a scare tactic, and most of these rules are unconstitutional to a great degree. I would have to say if they give you a hassle, give them the "essential services" line. They cannot prove or disprove where you are intending to go and honestly this is America, you have the right to go get fucking groceries. As long as you aren't licking door knobs or sucking autistic cock for some side cash, I think you'll be fine. If you don't have access to a test, then demand a test at worst, and even then they'll give their Ugandan Knuckles stance && leave. The country right now is on fire with non stop protests, I think the cops have bigger problems unless you are in one of those happen chance places where the joggers where expelled in the 60's.

 

[Bender]

I know I'm late as fuck on that but it just astounds me the reasoning these media outlets give.

"The protestors are wearing masks!"
Masks aren't 100% effective, especially in densely packed crowds.

"They're outside!"
If that makes such a difference why are we told to social distance even outside and avoid public gatherings even in the open air?

"They're young!"
Youth would impact survivability, not infectability. Try again.

"They're diligently washing their hands!"
Nigga, you following them all around and documenting their hand washing habits?

Every bit of logic dictates that these protests should be spiking the diease and yet the media is telling us time and again they're not because of bullshit reasons. I don't buy it, the media has been backing this shit from day 1 and they've got a vested interest in claiming that these riots aren't spreading the pandemic.

Maybe it's because all the Black Lives Matter protesters are white people virtue signalling, while the more vulnerable black people are too busy shooting/mugging/robbing each other to attend.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Weird for some reason I thoght that was just for last week but clearly I cant read. you can definitly see that the number of kids dying is low compared to what the media wants people to think. thanks a ton!

That's also 0-24, which is a big age range compared to every other age category. There have been a single-digit number of deaths of children under 10 and IIRC all of them were more likely "died with" rather than "died of".

 

[Sekirodiealot]

Again, in historical context, CV-19 is a complete nothingburger. Yes, it can kill. So can anything falls your immune system is weak enough. I don't understand not forcing vax for flu, but flipping the fuck out over this, if we were to do anything.

The answer i always get from people, including my friends and family is "because covid kills more and people are dying".

 

[I can't imagine]

The answer i always get from people, including my friends and family is "because covid kills more and people are dying".

Here's a little mental game to play:

Think about doing for influenza what we've been doing for COVID-19. Breathlessly count every single case we can, and every death that occurs. Put a big ol' counter on the news every day, on social media, on every government page imaginable.

The number would be lower than COVID, most likely. But still...if you reported it like that, would it matter? Would it seem any less scary if the number was 68,432 instead of 146,789? If the news was saying "another 11 people died of the flu today in L.A. County" or "785 new cases of influenza were confirmed in Nevada today", would it still have impact.

Does it matter that the disease is new and unknown, or does it matter that we're so obsessively chronicling it? Which part of it makes it scary?

At first, I would have said the former, but now, I feel like it's more the latter.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Stunning and brave Portland womxn of color demand that BLIPOX be shunted to the front of the line for ventilators because racism and food deserts.

Under these conditions, “equally” applying a colorblind care rubric is not an act of fairness—it’s an act of unapologetic, litigiously obfuscated structural racism. The rubric is de facto racism cloaked in de jure innocence.


Oregon must do better. Failure to change will be to commit an act of racialized public health violence: systematically choosing white lives over Black, brown, and Indigenous ones. To avoid this, regional ethics committees should immediately open dialogue with leadership from BIPOC-led organizations across Oregon and extend committee membership. And BIPOC organizational leaders must call upon these committees to reconvene the 30+ hospital networks that approved current guidelines and craft a revised rubric rooted in an anti-racist framework that explicitly considers structural racism’s impacts on pre-existing conditions.

Opinion: Racist rubric underlies COVID-19 care guidelines

In the event that COVID cases overwhelm hospitals, decisions about who to treat are determined by a set of guidelines that fail to adequately consider how Black, Indigenous and people of color are disproportionately affected, the authors, who are members of the Multnomah County Public Health...

www.oregonlive.com

They also demand that we not return to normal, because normal kills precious black bodies. Thus we must "reimagine" normal and stay socially distanced, for the blacx and latinx.

As calls for reopening and returning to “normal” grow, we must remember whose lives are most at stake. We have an opportunity to craft guidance that reflects a more robust commitment to racial and health equity. It is an opportunity to reimagine, not return to, “normal”: because the social distance of normal kills—some of us more than others. And we’ll be damned if we let a rationing rubric put a mask on that.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Here's a little mental game to play:

Think about doing for influenza what we've been doing for COVID-19. Breathlessly count every single case we can, and every death that occurs. Put a big ol' counter on the news every day, on social media, on every government page imaginable.

The number would be lower than COVID, most likely. But still...if you reported it like that, would it matter? Would it seem any less scary if the number was 68,432 instead of 146,789? If the news was saying "another 11 people died of the flu today in L.A. County" or "785 new cases of influenza were confirmed in Nevada today", would it still have impact.

Does it matter that the disease is new and unknown, or does it matter that we're so obsessively chronicling it? Which part of it makes it scary?

At first, I would have said the former, but now, I feel like it's more the latter.

It's a mix of both. First they had to hammer the point home that it's a novel disease no one knows anything about and emphasize how dangerous it is and how it kills. Then when it turns out to be not particularly dangerous compared to the initial reports and worst fears, they covered up their mistakes (public health establishment), kept the funding going (public health departments and hospitals), and kept their power trip going (politicians) by making sure everyone stayed panicked. Statistics are notoriously easy to mislead people with. "Dozens of deaths and hundreds of new cases in X City or Y State" sounds shocking, until you put it into context that X City has over a million people and Y state has tens of millions of people. Or how many people die every month or year from the flu in that city or state.

I think the disease name plays a role too. "COVID-19" sounds like a dangerous plague, same as "coronavirus", which most people don't know is just the name of the order of viruses it belongs to, several of which are literally just the common cold (although some research suggests may have once caused epidemics on the level of COVID-19, just mutated into being utterly minor). On the other hand, everyone knows what the flu or influenza is because everyone has had it at least once. You'd have to call the flu by a scary name like H3N2 (a common seasonal strain), or as we found out back in 2009, bird flu or swine flu because that implies it's different. Only then can you put random numbers on the screen like how tens of millions of people have contracted the disease and tens of thousands already dead (like occurs every flu season). In essence, it's difference between water and dihydrogen monoxide.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Stunning and brave Portland womxn of color demand that BLIPOX be shunted to the front of the line for ventilators because racism and food deserts.

They also demand that we not return to normal, because normal kills precious black bodies. Thus we must "reimagine" normal and stay socially distanced, for the blacx and latinx.

What's awesome about COVID is watching all these maladapted Darwinian dead-ends freak the fuck out in fear that their comfy little existence might come to an end sooner than they convinced themselves.

What's sad and scary about it is that they might actually be able to force the rest of us to jump through hoops and change our lives so that Mother Nature wont come to collect her debt with these tards.

 

[Saint Alphonsus]

So the question is, should I be worrying about virus gestapo coming to enforce quarantine on me? It doesn't seem that this will be enforceable unless you get accosted by a police officer or something, which I don't have to worry about because I'm not a criminal. Seems like this is just a scare tactic, but I'm curious how seriously I should treat my attempts to skirt the quarantine in a way that won't draw any attention to myself. There are a bunch of old people in the building and it is a horribly pozzed township in a horribly pozzed state already, which makes me anxious some faggot will call the police or something because I went to buy chicken and pasta at the store or because I need to do my laundry.

Just don't volunteer any information.

Believe it or not, even in California where the Governor never met an infringement on people's liberties he didn't like, the cops aren't gonna blare their horns if they see you maskless. The "public" order really only applies to indoor areas and even then it's a crap shoot if the staff will treat you like shit for not wearing one. The VirusTyrants are counting on VirusSnitches doing their work for them and everyone else being to chickenshit to try to skirt the system. But you should be just as afraid of these quarantine measures as you are of getting caught by the Feds for torrenting.

 

[Jump]

So I have a question for the coof-watchers here. I'll be traveling to a pozzed state to finish moving out of my apartment. They just recently passed an order that all travelers into the state have to fill out a digital form with identifying information including address

Where you are going and where you have been is nobodies business but your own.

 

[Standardized Profile]

They also demand that we not return to normal, because normal kills precious black bodies. Thus we must "reimagine" normal and stay socially distanced, for the blacx and latinx.

Socially distanced for or socially distanced from?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Styx vlogged about the banned couple at a Walmart because their masks have nazi flags for mocking the mandatory masks. Lots of bureaucrats don't have a sense of humor.

These youtubers gived me some chuckles.

Ashish Patel
Everyone should just wear Maga masks. Let's see how quick the dems ban the mask policy.

Johnny Deep
The whole argument of "denying science" is hillarious coming from people who think gender is a social construct

 

[Aib Ld]

That's also 0-24, which is a big age range compared to every other age category. There have been a single-digit number of deaths of children under 10 and IIRC all of them were more likely "died with" rather than "died of".

Weird for some reason I thoght that was just for last week but clearly I cant read. you can definitly see that the number of kids dying is low compared to what the media wants people to think. thanks a ton!

On my own state's site, they listed the infections and deaths as something like 1-30, 31-50, 51-80+. Those age ranges are obviously inflating the panic of paranoid since those age ranges don't even make sense. Just lumping the young with the adults, and because of that, the first range has the highest amount while the last range has the lowest.

 

[It's HK-47]

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"Pay no attention to your lying eyes! Don't trust your ears! We were always at war with Eurasia!"

Oh, I almost overlooked that because I'm not a lunatic: Where's the mask and social distancing, Nadler? You're in the heart of D.C. meeting with absolute strangers out on the streets and you're not even adhering to the basics of that COVID lunacy you've been preaching. Also who the fuck taught this man how to wear pants?

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

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Oh, I almost overlooked that because I'm not a lunatic: Where's the mask and social distancing, Nadler? You're in the heart of D.C. meeting with absolute strangers out on the streets and you're not even adhering to the basics of that COVID lunacy you've been preaching. Also who the fuck taught this man how to wear pants?

Phone posting, I'll see if I can find it later, but I did read that Lawmakers are exempt from DC's mask orders. In Ohio they are so long as they're in the State house. Guess Gov. DeWine got tired of people calling out his hypocrisy.

 

[It's HK-47]

Phone posting, I'll see if I can find it later, but I did read that Lawmakers are exempt from DC's mask orders. In Ohio they are so long as they're in the State house. Guess Gov. DeWine got tired of people calling out his hypocrisy.

Oh, my mistake, I didn't know we passed a law making it illegal for the virus to infect politicians.