Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big
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Because this is a messed up world.
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Yeah any place resembling a first world city that may attract and/or already have foreigners living it in is basically a hellscape when it comes to peak transport. Getting onto a bus or train/metro is like compressing a bunch of files. I can understand job providers and people that have been married for a long time... but there's 1.4 billion that's mainly living and working in several provinces. Unlike America, China has less habitable land. Some countries might look big but aren't at all when it comes to livable spaces, luckily Australia's population is that of Shanghai 10 years ago, totally fine, though more than 50% of our land can't be used for living unless something is done that will inevitably trigger greenies.
On another note, two of my friends are diagnosed with the virus. This shit is getting worse. I also caught a stupid cold from the rapid weather change. I'll just stay in my fucking cave.
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Wacky conservathot Faith Goldy is convinced that the coronavirus is part of the VATICAN II CONSPIRACY to stop Catholic priests sticking their hands in people's mouths.
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Yup. Happened in England. Not aware of any Asians here being hassled/attacked due to the virus. Not their fault. Heck, some of them may have lost relatives over there due to the virus, or have sick relatives, or are worried to death about family members welded into their places.
If you really wanted to go after the people behind the virus, you'd have a way to go to get to the Wuhan Biological Warfare Facility. Look for the people who didn't follow procedures, or the CCP hack who insisted things be done his or her way, and fuck the rules. Least that's what I believe.
Oil's $29.55/barrel now. What the fuck. Incredible. Won't do us much good where I live; state tax on gas is about 75 cents a gallon.
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you know, AIDs meds seem to be good at fighting this, maybe you end up imminue if you have a shitload of STDs, and thats the main reason it kills off the old,
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They're next to the manufacturing source.
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Seeing claims on Twitter/Telegram that the plague carrier was a 'walls for me but not for thee' type- an 'Alan Berger'.
Berger is a 55 year old Yehudi from Englewood, NJ, which matches the media reports. Might just be spergs running searches until they found one that matched, might be a leak from someone who's been told.
It should be interesting to see whether tests are made available to attendees. Will regular CPAC attendees be considered valuable enough to be allowed to test, or is the reason they're emphasising that the carrier was hanging out in the backrooms to avoid needing to offer them tests?
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Saw all of three semis at the distribution center. Toilet paper stocks were good, but bleach, hand sanitizer, masks are all gone. Hotdogs and mac & cheese were also heavily hit. Stuff I was after (some caulking, a roll of plastic sheeting, some garbage bags, and some canned food since I helped out a neighbor who can't get to stores easily). was pretty much there.
Good times.
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Smile at yourself in the mirror.
Hug/Touch a family member (No bad touch, no hitting)
Pet a fuzzy animal that won't bite you.
Do 5 pushups, 5 situps.
Keep your spirits up, Kiwis. Things could always be worse: You could be being anally mastered by a rabid moose.
Joke of the Day: How many flies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two, but beats me how they got in there.
Good times.
Remember:
Smile at yourself in the mirror.
Hug/Touch a family member (No bad touch, no hitting)
Pet a fuzzy animal that won't bite you.
Do 5 pushups, 5 situps.
Keep your spirits up, Kiwis. Things could always be worse: You could be being anally mastered by a rabid moose.
Joke of the Day: How many flies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two, but beats me how they got in there.
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Everything you say is so loaded I can't take you seriously. I know you have some good information to add, but your knowledge is useless if you can't sell it.
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I'm aware of that you utter sped. Did you ever consider that there may have been a reason why?
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Italy to hike spending in 'massive shock therapy' against coronavirus - PM
Italy's government will further increase spending in a "massive shock ...
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Remember kids: A Coof a day lets Corona-Chan stay!
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Does mechanical ventilation/ICU help much? Yeah it does, to a point. What he says is correct, with viral pneumonia you’re keeping the body alive so it can deal with the virus, but if you just need a bit of help, ventilation can make a big difference. There’s a thing called ECMO (extra corporeal membrane oxygenation) whoch gets around the physical forcing issue by taking your blood out, oxygenating it and putting it back in. Obviously not many beds for that - uk can do it for 15 or so people at once. There are some people it’s not going to make much difference for and some who it will. If you’re an otherwise healthy 25 year old with asthma and you end up needing ventilation for a day or two, it’s going to help you. If you’re catastrophically Ill for weeks, less so. A LOT of people are going to need care of the ‘bit of extra oxygen’ level - I suspect that’s one reason why Iran is in such a bad way, they may not have the capacity to pipe oxygen to every bed.
This will kill some young people - everyone has a different genetic background, different immune system and some people are weirdly resistant to stuff and susceptible to others. I’ve never had norovirus- even when everyone else I was with was spraying it everywhere. Some people just don’t get it. Other people get it at the drop of a hat. That’s genetic variation for you.
MOST young (by that I mean under 60) people will be Ok. If you smoke, stop. Take vitamin D if you’re in a northerly latitude. Take your vitamins and eat your veggies and some protein. Wash your hands. Seek care/testing early if you’re genuinely poorly.
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Pressure builds to limit big gatherings over coronavirus
Number of confirmed cases on island of Ireland rises to 33
This gathering larger than 1000 people ban is a joke. Either you ban all gathering and tell people to keep their distance from other people as much as possible or there isnt much of a point. I get they want to do something but half-assing it wont do anything.
Coronavirus: Egypt tightens curbs in tourist hub
Mass screening of guests, workers in Luxor as country records first fatality
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On Sunday, Egypt said that a German man, who had visited Luxor, died in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada from the Covid-19, becoming the country’s first such fatality. Some 48 among a total of 55 infections recorded in Egypt were detected on a Nile cruise ship in Luxor, prompting stricter health steps there.
Six more coronavirus infection cases found in Latvia | Baltic News Ne…
archived 9 Mar 2020 08:44:37 UTC
In an interview to LTV programme Rīta panorama, SPKC Infection Risk Analysis and Prevention Department director Jurijs Perevoščikovs stressed that the five latest patients are tourists from the same group. They were infected in Italy. All five infection cases are related to a resort in Cervinia, located in Italy’s north not far from the Swiss border.
All five of them arrived in Latvia on Saturday, 7 March, on board aiBaltic flight BT-630. An epidemiological investigation has commenced.
3-yr-old among 43 coronavirus cases in India - Rediff.com India News
archived 9 Mar 2020 08:52:51 UTC
The number of coronavirus cases in India rose to 43 on Monday with four people, including a three-year-old child in Kerala who had returned from Italy, testing positive for the disease, health ministry officials said on Monday.
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Rooftop Koreans 2.0: Chinese BoogalooHmm, so the coronavirus is a 2A advocate.
Fearful of a Coronavirus Backlash, Some Asian Americans Are Stocking Up on Guns
Outbreaks in Washington and California have motivated first-time gun buyers — many of them Asian Americans worried about racist attacks stemming from fears about the virus.www.thetrace.org
Fearful of a Coronavirus Backlash, Some Asian-Americans Are Stocking …
archived 7 Mar 2020 23:35:08 UTCarchive.vn
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to multiply, many Americans are emptying store shelves of hand sanitizer, bleach, and canned goods. But there’s an acute fear among Asian-Americans that the virus’s origins in China will spark a violent xenophobic backlash. Along the West Coast, where the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the United States have occurred, those fears seem to be spurring a surge in gun sales.
“People are panicking because they don’t feel secure,” said David Liu, who is Chinese-American and owns Arcadia Firearm and Safety, just east of Los Angeles. “They worry about a riot or maybe that people will start to target the Chinese.”
Liu said his store had seen a fivefold increase in sales over the past two weeks. He’s sold out of Glock handguns, and some customers have asked to buy his entire inventory of ammunition branded for home defense. “They think it’s Costco,” he said.
According to Liu, his customers are overwhelmingly of Chinese descent. They worry, he explained, that in the event of mass panic, they might face violence because of their ethnicity, and be easy victims because of historically low rates of gun ownership. Surveys of gun ownership don’t usually track Asian-Americans separately, but instead include them in an “other” category that is typically very small.
As The Los Angeles Times has reported, since the first novel coronavirus outbreaks in the United States, Asian-Americans have experienced intensifying venom, including bullying, racist comments, and harassment. And, on February 24, a man of East Asian descent was assaulted in central London. One of the assailants reportedly said, “I don’t want your coronavirus in my country.”
“The main thing I’m hearing is that they don’t want to get jumped because of their race,” said Cole Gaughran, the internet sales manager at Wade’s Eastside Guns in Bellevue, Washington. Gaughran said his store has seen a sixfold increase in sales in the same two weeks. His new customers, most of them first-time gun owners, were almost entirely of Asian descent, he said. Bellevue is just a 15 minute drive from Kirkland, where 11 people have died from the virus.
There’s no way to get an accurate accounting for how many people buy guns on a weekly basis, or in real time. However, in Washington, local police departments do process background checks for most first-time gun buyers. In Bellevue, police say they’ve registered the spike in demand. Meeghan Black, the Police Department’s public information officer, said that since August of last year, the department has processed a steady average of around 158 checks per month. But in the first four days of March, they handled more than a hundred.
“The officer who processes these checks said he’s been processing the last ten years, and has never seen anything like this in his life,” she added.
In nearby Lynnwood, Washington, the local police department saw no such increase in firearm sales. But at least one local gun shop did.
Tiffany Teasdale, the co-owner of Lynnwood Gun and Ammunition, said she, too, has seen a sixfold increase in sales over the past two weeks, predominantly from Chinese-American customers. “We’ve had a line of customers before opening Thursday through Sunday, and customers in the store until 10 to 15 minutes after closing.” she said. “We used to sell from 10 to 15 firearms in a weekend. [We sold] 60 firearms just [last] Saturday.”
Teasdale said that nearby stores had seen increases as well, and her distributors had run out of 9mm ammunition. “It’s been happening for the last four or five days,” Teasdale said.” A lot of our distributors nationally are saying that all of their warehouses are empty. None of them know why.”
So far, police departments and civil rights groups in cities experiencing increased gun sales have received no reports of violent attacks against Asians, they say. The Bellevue Police Department said it hadn’t received a single complaint since the first U.S. case of coronavirus made headlines.
Robin Engle, a spokesperson for OneAmerica — a Seattle-based nonprofit focused on immigrant rights — said that while the organization was aware of people avoiding Asian restaurants, it had not heard about any hate crimes in the Seattle area.
When told about the reports from gun-store owners, she said, “It is alarming that people are afraid that that can happen to the point that they’re going out and buying guns.”
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It's slowly creeping into Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria and Tunisia (last three being 1 case each)...that's publically reported anyway.
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The same as with India, I strongly doubt that we can get any reliable information about these countries. After all, people die over there all the time of this or that exotic disease, so it's likely that the death toll of Corona is just drowned out in the background noise. Combine this with very limited resources African countries have for treating or even testing the disease, and the result is that the numbers we get are mainly an approximation of how much corona affects the most wealthy part of their populations, i.e. those who actually have access to any kind of medical treatment.
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Quick update from Italy.
- Here you can find an interview to the doctor who works in a hospital in Bergamo (somebody posted about him a few pages ago). Archive here.
- The stock market is free falling. We're probably even more fucked than we already were before this whole mess.
- More than 9000 people returned to Apulia from the North. The president of that region is really pissed off and is imposing a two week quarantine for them. Keep in mind these are the people who actually told authorities they were coming from the North, I'd expect numbers to be much higher. Archive here.
- The president of Veneto, one of the regions whose provinces are quarantined, is trying to fight the presidential decree. He wants Veneto's provinces to be excluded from the red zone because since last week in Veneto contagions have only tripled, whereas in Lombardy the virus spread 7 times more within the same period of time. He thinks that the way Veneto is handling the situation much better and putting the region in quarantine is too much. Granted, Lombardy has twice the population of Veneto and the red zone is far bigger but the rate with which the virus spread in the two regions is remarkable. Archive here.
- Here are the new guidelines that are to be followed by the red zones and the whole country. Essentially if you travel between provinces, on the highway, if you take the train or an airplane you have to fill out a self-certification stating why you're travelling there. If you don't respect the decree you can either be fined up to 206€ or go to jail for up to 3 months. Archive here.
- Speaking of jail, 3 inmates have died in Modena's prison, two others are in intensive care. Two prison guards have been taken as hostages in another prison in Pavia (Lombardy). I hope it doesn't reach the prison in Opera, one of the highest security prisons in the country where they usually hold mafiosi and people like that.Archive here.
- As far as I know, there have been no racist episodes in the country (except one but I can't find it right now). If any fucking stupid SJW tries to pull the RaCiSm card tell them to fuck off and stay home so as not to infect everybody with their idiocy.
As always, use deepl.com to translate stuff. Here are some more Italian newspapers: L'Espresso (usually good for investigative reports), Il Sole 24 ore (for financial and economy stuff), La Stampa (left leaning), Il Giornale (right leaning).
Edited to explain myself better. Hope that everything makes sense.
- Here you can find an interview to the doctor who works in a hospital in Bergamo (somebody posted about him a few pages ago). Archive here.
- The stock market is free falling. We're probably even more fucked than we already were before this whole mess.
- More than 9000 people returned to Apulia from the North. The president of that region is really pissed off and is imposing a two week quarantine for them. Keep in mind these are the people who actually told authorities they were coming from the North, I'd expect numbers to be much higher. Archive here.
- The president of Veneto, one of the regions whose provinces are quarantined, is trying to fight the presidential decree. He wants Veneto's provinces to be excluded from the red zone because since last week in Veneto contagions have only tripled, whereas in Lombardy the virus spread 7 times more within the same period of time. He thinks that the way Veneto is handling the situation much better and putting the region in quarantine is too much. Granted, Lombardy has twice the population of Veneto and the red zone is far bigger but the rate with which the virus spread in the two regions is remarkable. Archive here.
- Here are the new guidelines that are to be followed by the red zones and the whole country. Essentially if you travel between provinces, on the highway, if you take the train or an airplane you have to fill out a self-certification stating why you're travelling there. If you don't respect the decree you can either be fined up to 206€ or go to jail for up to 3 months. Archive here.
- Speaking of jail, 3 inmates have died in Modena's prison, two others are in intensive care. Two prison guards have been taken as hostages in another prison in Pavia (Lombardy). I hope it doesn't reach the prison in Opera, one of the highest security prisons in the country where they usually hold mafiosi and people like that.Archive here.
- As far as I know, there have been no racist episodes in the country (except one but I can't find it right now). If any fucking stupid SJW tries to pull the RaCiSm card tell them to fuck off and stay home so as not to infect everybody with their idiocy.
As always, use deepl.com to translate stuff. Here are some more Italian newspapers: L'Espresso (usually good for investigative reports), Il Sole 24 ore (for financial and economy stuff), La Stampa (left leaning), Il Giornale (right leaning).
Edited to explain myself better. Hope that everything makes sense.
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