Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Meriasek]

Wow, our federal audit office noticed and made official something that everyone with two brain cells had known for ages, that hospitals fiddle around with their ICU bed numbers to make more money. Well, apparently they did that in an even bigger fashion than normal: The government gave like 50k€ per new ICU bed, and the hospitals used that fund liberally. Like, 700 million eurodiddeleys liberally, but the 14,000 new ICU beds that that should have entailed are nowhere to be found.
Not to mention that the insurance companies gave like 1.3 billion euros more hospitals in 2020, plus an additional 10.2 billion euros from tax money.
So quite a lot of waste of money, but that's not the weird part. The weird part is that this became so official that even our public broadcasters have to admit that something's amiss now, and usually they were the first in line to dismiss any notion that the ICU numbers were tinkered with.

/edit: Also, federal incidence is below 20. Which was once the big goal to work towards, after which we could open up again. So of course the federal government is now deciding to extend the emergency situation until the federal election later this year. Nothing to see here.

 

[Prester John]

I will forever hold the faggotry that is "believe" in science close to my chest.
The ironic religious dogma is just so fucking delicious, science doesn't need your belief - science just is.

It was once a consensus that the sun revolved around the earth. It was once a consensus that the coronavirus lab-leak hypothesis is a conspiracy theory (signed by very important scientists).
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext

Science textbooks are obsolete within a generation. Science just is... until it isn't. Our understanding is always changing and evolving. Consensus is absolutely inimical to the scientific method; it prevents us from asking questions necessary for scientific growth. I don't want to be lectured by scientific illiterates about the scientific consensus.

Sure, I believe in science, but scientists are human and susceptible to human temptations and failings. If the facts are on their side, then why is their only response to certain questions ridicule?

 

[Meriasek]

Speaking of consensus, our main Branch Covidian priest Christian Drosten proclaimed that the holy consensus in the church of science is that seasonality only reduces transmissibility by maximum 20%.
It's the same dude that claimed that if we don't lock down everything right now in January we'd get 100k new cases per day by June, and who also predicted peak numbers between June and August last year. The acolytes still trust his every word.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Anyone got the source video for this pic? Sanpaku eyes, mask with a black science lady, in a craft store.

 

[Billy Beer]

Today I went to the doctor for non-covid reasons. We were talking about the Coof (I brought it up,not her) and she said she had it back in the fall of 2018, and confirmed that they were seeing cases of it as far back as that.

If it's been around since 2018, ...um.

WTF the reaction in 2020? Saying it was new? Saying it was super-contagious and deadly when if that was the case bodies would have been piling up for two years by then!

I am tired.

My whole workplace, town and parts of the City, all came down with Corona in Dec 2019. When the outbreak kicked off in March 2020, everyone at work was laughing about it because "we've already had it"

A Dr told one of the fellas at work (who coughed a single cough every few minutes for 6 weeks) that "It was like the flu, but a very strong case of the flu"

 

[Vic Viper T301]

My whole workplace, town and parts of the City, all came down with Corona in Dec 2019. When the outbreak kicked off in March 2020, everyone at work was laughing about it because "we've already had it"

A Dr told one of the fellas at work (who coughed a single cough every few minutes for 6 weeks) that "It was like the flu, but a very strong case of the flu"

I'm like 95% sure I had Corona in November 2019. I assumed it was just a bad flu at the time but it had the pneumonia like symptoms and lasted for weeks.

 

[Billy Beer]

I'm like 95% sure I had Corona in November 2019. I assumed it was just a bad flu at the time but it had the pneumonia like symptoms and lasted for weeks.

I think by March 2020 most people had had it.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Where is @Hollywood Hulk Hogan to call you guys #antivax #MAGAtards

Edit: to give a few anecdotes - relative had been fighting cancer for something like 3 years before finally passing last year and it was labeled a COVID death.... I've known several people now who signed up to get tested, went to the testing station, saw the line and backed out only to get a text message hours later saying they tested positive.... and most recently brother in law, mid 30's, got the vaccine and a week after is now on blood thinners.

Why would people go on the internet and tell lies

 

[Blamo]

I think by March 2020 most people had had it.

Perhaps we have died and this is Hell. I should have bought WinRar...

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I'm like 95% sure I had Corona in November 2019. I assumed it was just a bad flu at the time but it had the pneumonia like symptoms and lasted for weeks.

I am pretty sure that I had it in December 2019. I had a flu-like thing that lasted for a week, I felt a bit better, then it got worse again, then better, then worse, etc... had all the symptoms, too (GI symptoms, cough coming from the lungs, etc..)

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

I had it at some point. Probably early November because that's when I noticed smell abnormalities, but otherwise I had no symptoms.

I have not one, but two positive antibody tests to prove it.

Spoiler

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Pretty sure I had it last January too. It was the sickest I've been in over a decade, but I never felt like I was in any danger. My mom was sick too, as were most of my friends, my boss, my boss's baby, and my cousin on the other side of the country. Everyone felt like crap for 2 weeks, most had a lingering cough, and all have been fine ever since.

Both Mom and I have gotten negative antibody tests though, so I dunno. But my Covid nurse friend says his whole unit finally got tested back in the winter and they were all antibody negative after working with Covid patients for 9+ months.

TBF there are still a whole number of viruses floating around the human ecosystem.

The idea that COVID has outcompeted them all to become the only virus circulating is unfounded horseshit.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Only 59 COVID patients in Irish hospitals attributed to vaccine.

archive of that fucking shite

Shitty, fake and gay propaganda from RTÉ, Ireland's scum sucking, pissing money against the wall, all round worthless public broadcaster.

 

[Twitter Hate Mob]

Only 59 COVID patients in Irish hospitals attributed to vaccine.

Shitty, fake and gay propaganda from RTÉ, Ireland's scum sucking, pissing money against the wall, all round worthless public broadcaster.

If it means an end to this interminable hell I don't give a fuck how they report it.

 

[No. 7 cat]

If it means an end to this interminable hell I don't give a fuck how they report it.

Powers extended to at least November. Just have to hope they move on to other things.

 

[Terrifik]

https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1403114158942572553

 

[Salubrious]

https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1403114158942572553

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I swear to God the "conspiracy theories" are more accurate than the CDC/WHO at this point. Hell, QAnon is probably more fucking accurate by accident.

 

[Vecr]

https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1403114158942572553

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Yeah, I've never liked the "one dose fits all" approach of the current vaccines, the current dose is fine for the population most at risk, but it's pretty high for teenagers and children. Pfizer uses the same dose in a 80-year-old overweight man as a 12 year old. I thought the risk was acceptable to me (not as bad as the blood clots of the Ad-vec vaccines, but more common I would think), but go talk to your doctor if you don't know.

 

[JosephStalin]

Two Reason articles.

Can't wait to vote to recall Newsom.

Empowered by Voters, Pennsylvania Legislators Are Poised To End the Governor's 15-Month COVID-19 Emergency

Newly empowered by a constitutional amendment that voters approved last month, Pennsylvania's legislature is on the verge of ending the...

reason.com

https://archive.ph/H4Lv6

What a useless, lying motherfucker Fauci is.

Anthony Fauci Says His Critics Are Attacking Science Itself

"A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science."

reason.com

https://archive.ph/4z6Tn

 

[Mepsi Pax]

I am pretty sure that I had it in December 2019. I had a flu-like thing that lasted for a week, I felt a bit better, then it got worse again, then better, then worse, etc... had all the symptoms, too (GI symptoms, cough coming from the lungs, etc..)

A bunch of people here say this, and I also initially thought the 'flu' outbreak at my workplace in December 2019 may have been the virus... I also had a violent, unusual flu attack around the turn of 2020.

I'm not saying it wasn't the virus in all these cases, because I don't actually know. However, in my case I found out it definitely wasn't when I contracted China Virus in early 2021. CVOID was very distinctive and not like a classic upper respiratory/bronchial infection at all, though it led to what I presume was a secondary bacterial infection as the initial viral effects tapered off (which happened in less than a week from the first real symptoms). My immune response to CVOID was very strong, and the loss of smell/taste was very distinctive.

I'm sure there's plenty of variation in the symptoms, but I wouldn't lay bets that a more typical "flu" someone had in the early stages was actually the virus unless they had distinctive symptoms or conclusive positive test(s). It was flu season anyway and there's plenty of diseases out there. We now know more about CVOID and it does seem to be an unusual disease that attacks the vascular system through ACE2 rather than being a phlegm n' cough kind of illness.