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Kane Lives said:
First day of lockdown in Malaysia, and people are surprisingly calm about things. That said, there's a lot of confusion and contradictory directives being issued, which led to a mass exodus to the countryside as schools and workplaces close. (lol)

New government doing as well as expected; ie. being an utterly spastic child.
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Ah~ you guys have a new government too? Belgium as well. it's a total mess. We didn't even vote for these fuckers.
 
It's officially a boomer virus:
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Ukraine:
Our government, in their infinite wisdom, have closed metro systems in three major cities, without preparing an alternative and issuing a rule that "no more than 10 people shall ride any given bus/trolleybus/tram and they have to do it in masks".

Today, all the buses were filled up to the brim. Fuck me, I spoke too soon about being in "the best plague ward". Hey, at least I got to work relatively quickly.

I so need to buy a car.
 
Mariposa Colorado said:
Ah~ you guys have a new government too? Belgium as well. it's a total mess. We didn't even vote for these fuckers.
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Yep. Same deal, in fact.

Short story short: a faction of one of the ruling coalition decided he wasn't getting enough power, so swung over to the other side, and plunged the country into a two-week deadlock while everyone searched for a new majority. In the midst of the corona outbreak.

Now the new government belatedly trying to contain everything but it's probably far, far too late and both the measures taken and the impact from the outbreak itself will be enormously crippling. There's probably some form of cosmic irony in that they'll probably take most of the blame for this escalating situation.
 
So we may likely be infected - traveled last week, now have symptoms, including fevers (not that bad, truly) BUT we do not meet the criteria for testing unless we get hospitalized for our respiratory symptoms. So it kind of seems like they are just not testing people to keep the reported numbers lower.
 
In Memoriam said:
So we may likely be infected - traveled last week, now have symptoms, including fevers (not that bad, truly) BUT we do not meet the criteria for testing unless we get hospitalized for our respiratory symptoms. So it kind of seems like they are just not testing people to keep the reported numbers lower.
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What country are you in?
 
Pressing F for you guys. It was never meant to be avoided. Only delayed. Everyone will taste the lips of Corona-chan.
 
My boomer parent was hellbent on getting sandwich supplies yesterday so I ran to the local Winco at 5am only to find it closed until 7 for cleaning.. with a line outside, in 50 degree rain. Came back at 7 and even with the doors open the line extended down the entire length of the strip mall the winco is housed in (~2500') Even black friday lines had nothing on this. I can only imagine how bad it's going to be once we get into the real shortage.

I didn't wait at plague central for over an hour to get some bread. I just baked some instead, it probably took the same amount of time.

DidYouJustSayThat said:
I have couple more

Airborne AIDS
Asian Ailment
Asian Microinvasion
Bamboo Burden
Bat Eating nigga Gook Flu
Bat Soup Croup
Bat-Man Virus
Batbola
Batsoup poop
Beijing Bug
Beijing Bung Lung
Boomer Doomer
Brack Prague
Cantonese Killer
ChinAIDS
China Commie Virus
China's One Corpse Policy
Chinaids
Chinaman Infliction
Chinese Cough Pandemic (CCP)
Chinese Virus
Chinese-Origin Viral Infectious Disease
Ching Chong Chang Flu
Ching Chong Pooey.
Ching-Chong Chang Flu
Chink Flu names
Chinkapoo Lung Chowder
Chinkenpox
Chinkpox
Chinky Fever
Chinky flu
Chinobyl
Chop Fluey
Chop fluey
Chu-Monia
Communist Lung Herpes
Communist Offensive Viral Infectious Disease
Confucian Cancer
Coolie Cooties
Coolie Cough
Coronachan
Dim Sum Diarrhea
Egg Roll Toll
Experimental Bioweapon CW-19
Fatal Acute Terminal Respiratory Symptom (F.A.R.T.S)
Finger Trap Clap
Flu Man Chu
Flu Manchu
Fook Em Yung.
Fu Manchu Fever
Genghis Cough
Genghis cough
Ghengi's Revenge
Gook Germ
Gook Puke
Gooking Cough
Guangdong Gout
Ho Lee Fuk
Holocough
Hong Kong Cholera
Hong Kong Fluey
Hong Kong Fury.
Hubei herpes
Jingpei Jitters
Justa Flu
Kung Flu
Kung pow fever
Kung-Flu
Licken Flied Lice.
Lo Mein Pain
Lung Pao Sicken
Mandarin Malady
Misfortune Cookie Cough
Monarch
Nana-san-ichi Butai no fuku ven
No 32.
Oriental Onset
Ow chi lung
Panda Pandemic
Pangolin Pandemic
Poo flu platter
Rangoon Doom
Rice Rabies
SARS-CoV-2
Seoul Damage Control
Shanghai Shivers
Sicken fried rice
Sino Sneeze
Slant-Eyes' Demise
Slant-eye Sickness
Som Ting Wong
Sweet and Sour Sicken
Sweet n' Sour Sicken
Szechuan Sore Throat
Teriyaki Terror
Terminal Taoism
The Great Sneeze Forward
The Jinping Sting
Tiananmen Toxicant
Tokyo Airborne Torpedo
Unknown Flu Object
WHO Flu
Wet Market Surprise
Wi To Low
Winnie the Flu
Winnie the fru
Wu Flu
Wu ping cough
Wu-Flu
Wu-Ping Cough
WuHu Flu
WuTang Flu
Wubonic Plague
Wuhan Coronavirus
Wuhan Weapon
Wuhan Whatchamacallit
Wuhan Wheeze
Wuhanic Plague
Wumonia
Xi Jinplague
Xi flee
Xinping Cough
Yellow Fever
Zipperheads' Biological Warhead
bamboo shoot poops
dog meat diphtheria
egg roll toll
finger trap clap
gutter oil boils
pu pu pandemic
rangoon doom
rice noodle rickets
teriyaki terror
wonton west nile
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we didn't start the fire
it's always been burning
since the world's been turning
 
Chris Hansen is on the case.
 
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AltisticRight said:
IP is gay and should be abolished. No it doesn't protect creativity or whatever, it's a hindrance to the advancement of humanity.
Sadly we live in cronyism where the state is effectively owned and ran by the biggest shitty corporations. There's big oil, big pharmaceuticals, big banks blahblah. They get to reap the fruits of capitalism while their losses are covered by socialism aka grubbed tax cash.

Good on these people. 3D print the shit out of those stupid $11,000 plastic junk.
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I think rather than purely getting rid of IP protection, a better system might be a royalty system where anyone can produce the product, but does have to pay a percentage of income from that item to the original inventor. Keeps people from price gouging, but also allows the inventing entity to recoup its R&D expenditure. This is especially relevant with medical IPs since R&D can cost billions of dollars, but at the same time it's incredibly easy to gouge since a lot of the products produced are actual needs rather than simple wants.
 
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Nine new COVID-19 coronavirus cases confirmed in Dallas County, three in critical care

Three of the new cases are now in critical care at local hospitals -- including some patients in their 20s and 30s with no underlying medical conditions. Two others are also hospitalized and four others are self-isolating at home.
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Notably, three of the new cases are now in critical care at local hospitals -- including some patients in their 20s and 30s with no underlying medical conditions.
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Kazakh update: it's not getting any better
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Total cases up to 36. Also, state of emergency has been declared.
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A plane from Nur-Sultan just landed in Karaganda. 67 passengers on board, all quarantined.
As for myself: now that yesterday's initial shock has passed, I'm feeling a lot more calm now. As long as Corona-Chan doesn't dance her way over to my city, I should be fine. But knowing my luck, that's exactly what's gonna happen.
 
AltisticRight said:
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I'd like to salute these 2 Italian dudes. Free market wins this round.
So the worst areas in Italy has a death rate of 10%, wew.
Now excuse my use of non-technical language, I know shit about medical stuff.
So the breathing respirators has some kind of disposable air valve that's being used up and the hospital ran out.
Supplier said they can't supply the valves in a timely manner.
So two young entrepreneurs, Racassi and Ramaioli came to help. They made 3D models and printed a bunch. $1 each, opposed to $11,000 from the supplier.

Breathing respirator is now triggered, said they will no longer provide 3D models, wants them to stop, and said they will seek legal revenge, sue them for breach of intellectual property.
Fuck your IP and your overpriced stupid $11,000 plastic shit.

So something is lost in translation, the two guys asked for blueprints which the company told them to go fuck themselves, and they measured the valve anyway to create replicas.

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Volunteers produce 3D-printed valves for life-saving coronavirus treatments

The 3D printed valves have saved 10 patients so far.
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$11,000 for this.
No wonder jobs are going to China and now SEAnigs/Poos.
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I do actually think 3D printing is the future and should become a part of most households. It's also better than Asian slaves and shitty plastics.
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From what I understood from listening to the radio on the subject, the 3D printed parts will wear out a lot lot faster and aren't necessarily "food safe" or medical grade. Meaning they'll break a lot quicker, and may result in some plastic getting in the system.

But if your choice is between a manufacturer who won't fill their fucking orders, or $1 you keep replacing that shit to keep Grandpa Giuseppe alive then you know which choice the hospitals are going for.

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In glorious other news. London is likely to go on lockdown as it pretty much is "the" hotspot for Coronachan in the whole of the UK, while numbers remain more manageable (for the time being) for the rest of the country.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
From what I understood from listening to the radio on the subject, the 3D printed parts will wear out a lot lot faster and aren't necessarily "food safe" or medical grade. Meaning they'll break a lot quicker, and may result in some plastic getting in the system.

But if your choice is between a manufacturer who won't fill their fucking orders, or $1 you keep replacing that shit to keep Grandpa Giuseppe alive then you know which choice the hospitals are going for.

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In glorious other news. London is likely to go on lockdown as it pretty much is "the" hotspot for Coronachan in the whole of the UK, while numbers remain more manageable (for the time being) for the rest of the country.
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If the supplier cant provide and were in a once in a century problem it would be best for the supplier to say something to the effect of "we dont endore the use of these parts blah blah blah we take no responisbility blah blah"
 
Absolute Brainlet said:
Kazakh update: it's not getting any better
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В Алматы подтвердился 18-й случай коронавируса

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Total cases up to 36. Also, state of emergency has been declared.
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67 человек поместили на карантин в Караганде

В Караганде на карантин поместили 67 человек, передает корреспондент Tengrinews.kz.
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A plane from Nur-Sultan just landed in Karaganda. 67 passengers on board, all quarantined.
As for myself: now that yesterday's initial shock has passed, I'm feeling a lot more calm now. As long as Corona-Chan doesn't dance her way over to my city, I should be fine. But knowing my luck, that's exactly what's gonna happen.
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Ah, thanks for reminding me Kazakhstan exists. I have been lookin into central asian cusines as of late and now im officially in the bunker stage I am thinkin of trying a bunch of recipes from that general area in the coming days. Gonna start with this nice looking Uzbek Plov recipe I found and then maybe do those fried doughnutty things that seem ubiquitous from mongolia to ukraine
 
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