Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Does anyone actually know anyone who's died from Covid?

A colleague from my paying hobby died from it. He was in his 70s. A mid-40's college classmate also passed away suddenly from COVID. When another classmate informed me, I was blown away.

I went to the dentist today and on the way I had to fill out a form that I am not sick nor have I came in contact with someone who is sick and I've been told that I had to give that to the doctor.

I had to fill out a similar screening form when I saw my dentist two months ago. As much as my dentist and other doctors' offices seem to discourage people from making appointments unless absolutely necessary, my dentist wants to see me in the new year for a procedure without telling me why it's needed . When I go for my next cleaning, I'll ask for the whats and whys about it.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Also I dont recall 100% of the population being forced to undertake special measures to prevent the spread of AIDS.

I remember having to wear a condom every time I stepped outside for a couple years in the 80s because you couldn't know if you were an asymptomatic HIV carrier, so it would be socially irresponsible not to wear one. Anti-condomers argued the virus was only transmitted by sex so why wear it when you're just walking around having incidental contact with people, but they were largely ignored by the government and the media. The condom became a signal of cooperation in the fight against AIDS, a sign of a virtuous character. People who didn't wear a condom in public were shamed and banned from various locales, even those where an individual had a very slim chance of fucking. Eventually everyone realized that, outside of the situation for which it was designed, it was just a useless talisman and we all agreed not to talk about it lest future generations think us insane.

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/vari-cim102220.php

COVID-19 infection may be part of a 'perfect storm' for Parkinson's disease​

A recently published journal article co-authored by Van Andel Institute scientist Dr. Patrik Brudin explores possible connections between COVID-19 and Parkinson’s disease.

In other Van Andel Institute news:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2019_1219_VARI

Department Of Justice Reaches $5.5 Million Settlement With Van Andel Research Institute To Resolve Allegations Of Undisclosed Chinese Grants To Two Researchers​

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1207854164707024896.html

Van Andel Research Institute to pay $5.5 million for violating the False Claims Act and failing to disclose that 2 of their researchers were also being funded by the CCP/#China under their Thousand Talents (IP, scientific research & trade secret theft) Program.

Van Andel Research Institute was aware that that those researchers were working for China & pretty much lied to the NIH about it.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

Breast cancer screenings in Ireland just resumed on the 27th after being suspended in March. The backlog of 153,000 women is now expected to take three years to clear.

Lock down to save lives!

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40071908.html

 

[Return of the Freaker]

They put Cuyahoga county under code purple.

I really hope I don't end up out of work because of this. I'm not in a position where I can work from home

 

[Übertroon]

Norway just reported no flu outbreaks since may.

Health officials state they think the covid measures is keeping the flu away. The public is not convinced.

 

[Sand]

State may order students back to classrooms in January​

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-ne-schools-online-learning-deadline-looming-20201028-qtrl55v76rfrzj2mst47rrbzia-story.html

According to this article it seems that Florida governor Ron DeSantis might allow the learn-at-home order to expire on January 8th. This would mean all public school children would be required to return to in-person learning. There is hand wringing about how cases are going up (not hospitalizations or deaths, just cases) but the article also notes that more parents are already choosing to send their kids back to in-person learning. I hope he does allow the order to expire. The salt from the covid doomers would be immense. This Sun-Sentinel article is already full of salt.

Tomorrow will mark three weeks since county schools have reopened. People have noticed the lack of mass funerals we were promised.

 

[Unearned Win]

State may order students back to classrooms in January​

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-ne-schools-online-learning-deadline-looming-20201028-qtrl55v76rfrzj2mst47rrbzia-story.html

According to this article it seems that Florida governor Ron DeSantis might allow the learn-at-home order to expire on January 8th. This would mean all public school children would be required to return to in-person learning. There is hand wringing about how cases are going up (not hospitalizations or deaths, just cases) but the article also notes that more parents are already choosing to send their kids back to in-person learning. I hope he does allow the order to expire. The salt from the covid doomers would be immense. This Sun-Sentinel article is already full of salt.

Tomorrow will mark three weeks since county schools have reopened. People have noticed the lack of mass funerals we were promised.

In conversation with friends and family I've pointed out that if Covid was as deadly to kids as the media was saying you would have CNN covering children's funerals 24/7. However we don't see that in the data that's been released. This is not a pandemic this is a mass hysteria. The news is acting like kids getting sick is like its the black death in Renaissance Italy. However what you actually see is a lot of kids getting a mild cold and then get better.
I do blame the mass media for this mass hysteria. The fear of Covid has and will cause more damage than the actual virus.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

How many articles even are there on kids dying? All I remember was one where some kid had a seizure in a bathtub and drowned and the kid supposedly had tested positive and the media blamed it on the virus. And I think another where some girl who was like 12 and severely overweight caught it and died. But articles like that are far outnumbered by all the scare stories of "my friend in their 20s/30s caught it and DIED" the media publishes which always neglect to say how the victim was severely overweight, had another pre-existing condition, etc.

Sounds like they need to step up their game for this propaganda blitz.

 

[Vault Boy]

Norway just reported no flu outbreaks since may.

Health officials state they think the covid measures is keeping the flu away. The public is not convinced.

Right, I'm sure the "experts" aren't just conflating flu cases as Corona cases to bludgeon people with restrictions.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Really love that I'm paying the same amount for tuition despite getting like 1/3rd of the experience that I would've gotten without COVID.

i.e. I have an acting class this semester and if I got a dollar for every time I heard "Normally I would teach this, spend more time on this, do this but because of restrictions..." I'd probably be able to buy everything in the campus bookstore.

 

[Without A Gout]

Really love that I'm paying the same amount for tuition despite getting like 1/3rd of the experience that I would've gotten without COVID.

i.e. I have an acting class this semester and if I got a dollar for every time I heard "Normally I would teach this, spend more time on this, do this but because of restrictions..." I'd probably be able to buy everything in the campus bookstore.

But at least you get a degree where you learned next to nothing and crippling student debt for the next X years.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

But at least you get a degree where you learned next to nothing and crippling student debt for the next X years.

I actually have no debt currently because I've worked since I was 15, manage finances well, and have gotten scholarships. At the rate I go I will not have any debt ever.

Better luck with muh "hahaa college is worthless muh debt so original" on someone else though!

 

[Without A Gout]

I actually have no debt currently because I've worked since I was 15, manage finances well, and have gotten scholarships. At the rate I go I will not have any debt ever.

Better luck with muh "hahaa college is worthless muh debt so original" on someone else though!

Good. That means you're doing it right.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

They put Cuyahoga county under code purple.

I really hope I don't end up out of work because of this. I'm not in a position where I can work from home

https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/public-health-advisory-system

My fellow Ohioan, while Hamilton county was talking the same thing, they didn't go through with it. Check the metrics for both counties, we'd both be orange if it wasn't for the high incidence bullshit. DeWine can fool with numbers all he wants, a good chunk of our 3500 positive tests were months old backlogged tests only reported today, but putting two of the three biggest cities in the state as purple when they don't come close to meeting the requirements is a bridge too far. He may be a greedy, corrupt RINO, but he's not stupid.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I just had a dream where I was at a local restaurant and coronapanic was over. People were taking down yellow caution tape, no one was wearing a muzzle, and people were standing close together. One of them said something like "the pandemic's over".

 

[Willie Thrills]

Yes a simple RNA virus with a 99.8-99.6% survival rate, ~98% chance of full recovery and temporary infection window is the same as a Retrovirus with an almost certain eventual mortality that permanently infects your body.

Also I dont recall 100% of the population being forced to undertake special measures to prevent the spread of AIDS.

We're into late October but its still perfect weather to lay out by the pool. Soak up all that Vitamin D I can to hold me over until spring.
(or at least a warm day in December lol)

99.8% survival rate.

So do you actually need assistance in your day-to-day life or are you one of those daywalking retards who has freedom?

 

[NoReturn]

Dr. Fauci Warns There May Be No ‘Semblances of Normality’ Until 2022​

By Hannah Gold

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has continued to do his job of telling Americans the truth nobody wants to hear, and then letting that shit sink in. This week, the Fauci sound bites were extra depressing. For instance, his speculation that the country may not exhibit “semblances of normality” until 2022. Semblances!

Fauci said during a University of Melbourne panel discussion on Tuesday, “I think it will be easily by the end of 2021, and perhaps even into the next year before we start having some semblances of normality.” He said that while the United States is expected to have a vaccine developed in the next few months, it’s possible a “substantial proportion of people” won’t be vaccinated until the middle of next year.

On Wednesday, Fauci elaborated on his bleak prognosis, pointing to the current surge in COVID cases. “We’re not in a good place,” said Fauci during a Q&A session on Wednesday, gently reminding us the country is witnessing about 70,000 new cases each day. “That’s a bad position to be in,” the doctor added.

CNN reports that 29 states set records in October for most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, according to research out of Johns Hopkins University. The data also indicates that the daily number of new cases this past week is up 21 percent nationwide compared to last week. Cases are rising in more than 40 states as of Wednesday. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has projected the daily U.S. death toll will surpass 2,000 by January 1 if current conditions don’t change for the better.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reported on Wednesday that France and Germany are beginning to implement lockdown measures this week.

Fauci urged Americans to, at the very least, wear a mask in public. “If you don’t want to shut down, at least do the fundamental basic things,” he cautioned. I’d say this man is a hopeless optimist.

Bonus: The author - Hannah Gold
Twitter: @togglecoat
tumblr: thisobscureobject.tumblr.com

 

[Ruin]

Dr. Fauci Warns There May Be No ‘Semblances of Normality’ Until 2022​

If Trump is reelected one of the first things he should do is fire this retard.

 

[american_amadan]

https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/public-health-advisory-system

My fellow Ohioan, while Hamilton county was talking the same thing, they didn't go through with it. Check the metrics for both counties, we'd both be orange if it wasn't for the high incidence bullshit. DeWine can fool with numbers all he wants, a good chunk of our 3500 positive tests were months old backlogged tests only reported today, but putting two of the three biggest cities in the state as purple when they don't come close to meeting the requirements is a bridge too far. He may be a greedy, corrupt RINO, but he's not stupid.

Yeah the setup in Ohio is idiotic and goes with however DeWine is feeling. Cuyahoga County has way less cases per capita than Franklin County, and is meeting less metrics, but still is in the red.

I was laughing so hard when the main doctor in charge (who actually seems very competent in this) said that there's no sign this is spreading in bars or restaurants. Some idiot journalist comes on when questions open up and started bitching about him saying that. DeWine backed him up and said well the doctors were talking to say that nobody in the hospital has been in a bar or restaurant or in contact with someone who has. It was hilarious. The chick wanted to be right so badly and they shut her down completely.