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Entry Team To TOC said:
It's times like this I'm glad to be living somewhere up north in the States and out in the boonies, comparatively speaking. I'd be surprised if this shit got over my way. Now watch as talk like that ensures I go down with lungs full of gunk and choke to death.
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I was thinking the same. Full-on Red Dawn scenario. Preppers unite to fight off the wheezing zombie hoards.
 
There’s still very little concrete data on the virus itself. Whether something will become a lethal pandemic or not depends on a number of things. Incubation period, severity of initial illness, lethality, and number of people infected per case (this number is called r0. An r0 less than one will fizzle out. 1 is stableish and above 1 will spread, in very simple terms.) a virus that’s airbourne will spread further than one that needs direct contact. A virus with a long incubation period will spread further than one you fall sick immediately. A virus that kills you fast n nasty like Ebola is actually a poor pathogen because it’s easy to quarantine. It’s too lethal in a way. The andromeda strain type stuff will have a high r0, long incubation, and kill at high frequency. A new flu is ideal.
Going through media reports it seems like this virus is more contagious than SARS, which had an r0 of 4 (each case created on average four new ones) For context, measles is 18, Ebola is 2. BUT it seems less lethal, which is good. Worrying developments would be extremely widespread transmission (1/3 of the world was infected with the 1917 flu) or an increase in lethality (1917 flu killed 10-20% of those that it infected, so roughly 3-6% of the population of the planet died, in an era before air travel but also before decent nutrition was widespread and before modern medicine.)
It’s hard to say how this will pan out, but from what we see now it’s not horrific. But it could be horrific with a few tweaks if anyone has any hard epidemiology data it would be good to have.
 
Ahriman said:
Now this I can't be upset about. Quite the contrary.
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people should not be excluded from activities based on their race, country of origin, or recent travel if they do not have symptoms of respiratory illness," LA County Public Health said in a statement.
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But...the virus literally originates from one region of one country. Why would any sensible person NOT exclude others based on that criteria for an insanely virulent disease?
 
So chums, if shit goes bananas how are yall planning on profiteering?

Will you hoard material like masks/goggles and sell for niggabux? Or will you create your own miracle cure to sell to the billions of terrified rubes?

Because im personally thinkin of going with the latter. My "PATENTED CORONA CULTURED KIMCHI" water, based on ancient chinese healing technique, is scientifically proven to be an ultra-probiotic and fully capable of hardening up your immune system against any known disease, and it can be yours for a very modest price of $148.8
 
Mr. Faget said:
But...the virus literally originates from one region of one country. Why would any sensible person NOT exclude others based on that criteria for an insanely virulent disease?
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You are completely forgetting just how retarded our state is, Caliboi.

We in this for the long run.
 
Garth said:
I was thinking the same. Full-on Red Dawn scenario. Preppers unite to fight off the wheezing zombie hoards.
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Call 'em Wheezers, Killer Coughers, whatever.

It's always gonna be Zeds for me.

Judge Holden said:
So chums, if shit goes bananas how are yall planning on profiteering?

Will you hoard material like masks/goggles and sell for niggabux? Or will you create your own miracle cure to sell to the billions of terrified rubes?

Because im personally thinkin of going with the latter. My "PATENTED CORONA CULTURED KIMCHI" water is scientifically proven to be an ultra-probiotic and fully capable of hardening up your immune system against any known disease, and it can be yours for a very modest price of $148.8
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It's time to put all that time in Stalker: Call of Pripyat to good use. Oh yeah, it's SCAVENGER TIME.

BULLETS OF ANY SORT FOR 50 INFECTED TOOTHS! GUNS WILL COST YOUR ASS DOUBLE THAT AMOUNT!
 
Otterly said:
and number of people infected per case (this number is called r0. An r0 less than one will fizzle out. 1 is stableish and above 1 will spread, in very simple terms.)
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well those numbers are pretty china focused right now. normal people dont spit on the street and wash their hands-
 
dopy said:
california's already got ya covered there, bud. good thing, too, since that's where the obvious infection vector will be (chinatown in san fran, LA, etc)
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California finally does something good, thanks man
Otterly said:
There’s still very little concrete data on the virus itself. Whether something will become a lethal pandemic or not depends on a number of things. Incubation period, severity of initial illness, lethality, and number of people infected per case (this number is called r0. An r0 less than one will fizzle out. 1 is stableish and above 1 will spread, in very simple terms.) a virus that’s airbourne will spread further than one that needs direct contact. A virus with a long incubation period will spread further than one you fall sick immediately. A virus that kills you fast n nasty like Ebola is actually a poor pathogen because it’s easy to quarantine. It’s too lethal in a way. The andromeda strain type stuff will have a high r0, long incubation, and kill at high frequency. A new flu is ideal.
Going through media reports it seems like this virus is more contagious than SARS, which had an r0 of 4 (each case created on average four new ones) For context, measles is 18, Ebola is 2. BUT it seems less lethal, which is good. Worrying developments would be extremely widespread transmission (1/3 of the world was infected with the 1917 flu) or an increase in lethality (1917 flu killed 10-20% of those that it infected, so roughly 3-6% of the population of the planet died, in an era before air travel but also before decent nutrition was widespread and before modern medicine.)
It’s hard to say how this will pan out, but from what we see now it’s not horrific. But it could be horrific with a few tweaks if anyone has any hard epidemiology data it would be good to have.
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Thanks for being on the forum. I see your medical post across the boards and they're always wonderfully informative, from trans issues to the brain dead. :)
 
With regards to the hospital building going on, I'm sure I saw somewhere that during the SARS epidemic, hospitals were built specifically to house those patients only. One of the news sites showed pictures of one of the abandoned hospitals. Although, it being a cover for mass graves is also plausible at the moment.

A massive overreaction for global PR points from China, and to show their citizens they're in control, or a too late attempt to prevent a pandemic? Hoping for the former, but I'll make a few preparations in case it's the latter.
 
Judge Holden said:
So chums, if shit goes bananas how are yall planning on profiteering?

Will you hoard material like masks/goggles and sell for niggabux? Or will you create your own miracle cure to sell to the billions of terrified rubes?

Because im personally thinkin of going with the latter. My "PATENTED CORONA CULTURED KIMCHI" water, based on ancient chinese healing technique, is scientifically proven to be an ultra-probiotic and fully capable of hardening up your immune system against any known disease, and it can be yours for a very modest price of $148.8
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Optimally, make my roommate buy us a six month supply of corona and drink it in the course of a week. If we live through the liver failure, cool, if not, we went out on our own terms, Florida man style.
 
I see disposable N95 and P100 masks are out of stock everywhere online. Probibly wont be back for a long time since most are made in china.
 
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With these HAZMAT suits on, how will we know if the site has been infiltrated by infected CIA agents?

I used to look for Macho Man avatars, they were a dead giveaway.
 
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