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- utopian1
The "curve" is going to balloon to unforeseen portions in the USA by mid April. Expect to know multiple people (including loved ones) who have either contracted the virus or died from it.
- nb1
I love how commenters are all instant experts these days. New York's rate of growth of new infections changed and commenters everywhere are like "oh, look at the trend, they reduced new cases in one day they should be able to eliminate it soon!" This of course during a week when the city is basically a ghost town.
It's one single data point compared against three or four others. But sure, you have it allll figured out for us. Thanks, internet! Thank you, reddit! You should all be Mayor!
- SteveJobs0
1) I predict we will confirm a treatment in the coming days or weeks.
2) FDA approval procedures will be truncated or bypassed altogether.
3) Hospitals will begin administering treatment based on supply. 3.A) Meeting the immediate demand will be the next logistical hurdle
4) There will be federal, state, or city mandated orders that every US citizen will need to be tested and treated where necessary. There will be community-wide zones allocated for these tests to streamline the process.
5) As these steps are carried out, the gaps between will see tens of thousands of deaths well into late April or early May and then those figures will drop suddenly due to both treatment and the remainder of individuals succumbing to following best practices due to death of loved ones and friends.
The suggested idea of flattening of the curve will have been implemented but not to anyone's satisfaction - largely due to the country's lack of preparedness for novel pandemics, and citizens not heeding the advice to quarantine and practice social distancing and other measures.
6) Soap and disinfectant labels will begin to include language on efficacy against bacteria and viruses and sales will continue its trajectory for the next 5+ years.
7) Social standards will likely see some change. People will be encouraged to refrain from shaking hands or other common social gestures. Companies will update employee handbooks to include safe-guarding measures borrowing from these current best practices. Higher health standards will be established in schools, public places, and retail establishments. Public transportation messaging will caution travelers to follow best practices when traveling internationally. This type of messaging will begin to crop up everywhere.
8) For a while things will feel very different in the aftermath of all of this. People will gain a new sense of what life means to them. Their personal values will become more clear and they will make better use of the time they have on this earth, because finally, that idea of time has been given context.. but at a very great cost.
- the treatment / trial was confirmed yesterday was it not? (1-3)kingsteven
- soap is soap to a certain degree it's effectiveness is what it does on a molecular level rather than what it contains. diminished sales of fancy soap maybe?kingsteven
- Was it? I thought it was still in trial phase.
And yes you and I know that but your average consumer probably doesn't.SteveJobs - ahh sorry it was india that passed it for treatment, US still pinning its hopes on Gilead unfortunately.kingsteven
- ^ did a chris columbus... india? yeah sure, it'll do...kingsteven
- what about factoring in herd immunity?Krassy
- nb1
Prediction:
By April 1st (i.e. sometime in the next five days): the US will have a higher number of confirmed (reported) cases of COVID-19 than China.
- Possibly, but we still don't know how accurate China's numbers are.SteveJobs
- ^ this.Krassy
- That's why I added "reported"nb
- And you don't KNOW that China is lying.nb
- Also, we know in the USA that most people – even those with symptoms who show up at a hospital – are not being tested at this time.nb
- So we can be certain our numbers aren't accurate, either.nb
- With testing in NYC, they should already know which borough, which neighborhood, street, stores and shops this came from.robotron3k
- Not sure that has anything to do with what I'm talking about.nb
- Regardless, all NYC hospitals are refusing tests to people with mild symptoms. Most of those cases recover on their own, they will likely never be tested.nb
- What nb said.monospaced
- Damn, can't believe I said Apr 1st. Could hit this sometime tomorrow...nb
- Why would anyone assume China is more likely to lie about the total of Corona cases than the US?CyBrainX
- Because they're China, that's what they do.monospaced
- BustySaintClaire3
With many salons closed, we will soon see an epidemic in bad hair and many failed attempts at do-it-yourself cuts. A new trend may emerge.
- i got my hair cut just 3 days before it start last week or so, and got them shorter than i do normally. i'am ok till MayBennn
- i shall surviving suchBennn
- 5cm long beard and long hair already. Will keep both going forward.grafician
- I own a hat.nb
- Covid-19 loves long beardsi_was
- https://66.media.tum…Gardener
- My big hair is down to my tummy now :) shower is good, clean up is a mess :)helloeatbreathedrive
- Been cutting my own hair for years. Philips rotating hair clippers and a couple mirrors, easy.shapesalad
- https://www.youtube.…prophetone
- My wife is asking repeatedly to “just give me a trim”. “Fuck no you’ll look like watermelon cat and we will divorce.”ben_
- PhanLo0
Wonder if governments will push for a cashless society after Corona? just before all the shops started closing everything was going card only to cut down on human contact.
- Only supermarkets are cashless now. The small non-stop shops are still cash. Also is way better to have cash if the system brakes down.grafician
- they should remove or up the £30 limit on contactless - i can give the correct cash but grossed out by keypads!kingsteven
- get Revolut or Monero or any digital card - you can set your own limitsgrafician
- can do that with my bank, works in certain shops but still hard limit in supermarkets for some reason!kingsteven
- Revolut offers a free contactless cardgrafician
- utopian0
Health care systems and hospitals alike in the United States will collapse by September 2020.
- and someone will change their tag to dystopianBustySaintClaire
- soon.gifutopian
- dystopian died in 2016, utopian is the only possible way to see the future.sted
- monoboy3
1. Governments that handled it as best they could will try to re-build after 6-12 months of massive upheaval and thousands of deaths.
They'll manage it because the population has trust in them and everyone came together. Sweeping new laws and a re-set of the financial system to one that's more inclusive heralds a new era, with huge investment in R&D and a new renaissance. Hooray!
2. Those that handle it badly, will see social unrest and a complete collapse in political support as the bodies start to pile higher than other countries. Probably ending in some sort of martial law lockdown until order (and democracy) can be restored. Politics will polarise to extremes. Decades of instability will ensue leading to a full-scale uprising.
- Also, dinosaurs. It wasn't a meteor was it?monoboy
- Dinosaur extinction is a lie. Wake up sheeple!deadsperm
- I fully expect the US to have it worst.monoboy
- it was COVID-1Bennn
- If only Trump had managed to build his wall, we couldn't all chipped in and put a lid on it too.monoboy
- *could'vemonoboy
- live and learnutopian
- 3. Some messy middle area across the full spectrum, just as we've been for the last few decades.inteliboy
- autoflavour0
Oh at locusts.. they are still a thing.
- autoflavour-1
Then with most people unemployed or under employed, they will start ramming thru all this crazy laws which would normally have people in the streets, but the lockdown and curfews will restrict uprising.. martial law.
Eventually rioting
After that wave breaks the population will be mostly reliant on the government for everything with their entire world collapses around them.
It is in these conditions money will be abolished, quarantine and vaccines will be mandatory to continue to get payments (already a thing most places.. ie can’t get childcare payments in Australia if kid isn’t immunized) so expanding that to everyone under the guise of combating virus will force people with nothing to accept it.
The state of emergency is already declared.. parliament means nothing.
These is a violent and devastating storm about to hit, and people have no idea.. or if they do, they are trying to not see it..
People haven’t realized yet, the cliff ended a few weeks ago, we are in free fall at the moment
California is said to peak in 8 weeks.. Australia today said they are cancelling testing because it will fall during our peak.
It’s just arranging the pieces now in preparation for impact
Bleak I know.
The pieces are all moving .. this isn’t tin foil.. it’s unfolding Each day- Testing NAPLAN children at schools I mean..autoflavour
- Which is 8 weeks time, but also in our flu seasonautoflavour
- autoflavour0
Watch society unravel when mandated flu vaccinations are rolled out.. peak is modeled to be due 6-8 weeks from now in US and they said tonight they are cancelling Naplan based on it starting when Australia is set to be peak infection..
6-8 weeks
They are staggering the lockdown because they know instant announcements will create chaos.
2 weeks from now they will close schools.. you watch..
- Bennn-3
May 2020
Population in Europe and USA are at the end of their patience. Many jobs cuts, businesses closing, people need money to pay bills and eat.June 2020
Social chaos. People are taking the streets, break into stores, fires, demonstrations. The Army is called.July 2020
Army turned their back to the official Gov in some countries and official Gov are starting to fall, Armies are taking the power. Many people flee cities and try to live in the wild.August 2020
Internet grids are starting to fall, electricity and other energy plants are starting to fall. Communication become problematic.September 2020
The World go dark except China and Russia. No more internet or electricity in America and Europe. Social chaos and surviving mode, people are killing each other for food. Groups are forming and clans.- You need to stop watching disaster movies.Continuity
- its not serious, obviously. lolBennn
- But.... ;-)Bennn
- I really think the patience of the population will have an end and it will become a problem...Bennn
- Nairn0
Yout' and Army on the streets in LDN, May, leads to wannabe gangbangers looting getting shot.
- Never. Gonna. Happen.Morning_star
- Oh? You missed the riots then?Nairn
- I was talking about this with someone much more street and LDN than I am and he agreed with me - although he thought plastic bullets.Nairn
- Mind you, I suppose there may come a point when there's nothing on the shelves to loot, so you may be right.Nairn
- It was the 'shot'. It implies dead people. The last time the british army shot civilians caused such a fucking nightmare live rounds won't be given out for...Morning_star
- ...public order. Plastic bullets, maybe. Water canons, maybe.Morning_star
- Sure, but when was the last time our country faced what it is apparently now? Society would have no problem with looters and spivs getting it where deservedNairn
- I disagree. The army being judge and jury and killing people on the streets of LDN will never happen. The simple fact is that whilst the public may beMorning_star
- ...sympathetic to a baton to the head or sneaky rubber bullet to the guts it would be a completely different matter if there were dead kids left of the streets.Morning_star
- Let's hope i'm wrong.
Do you live here, by the way?Nairn - ..after the riot. The army cannot be judge and jury, just look at Bloody Sunday.Morning_star
- I'm in the UK not LDN though. Deepest darkest Birmingham.Morning_star
- Ah yeah, I forgot you were another of QBN's resident Brummies. Your experience of the riots may well have been similar to mine, then. Cunts, all of themNairn
- Tru. There's a certain category of cunt that inhabits large cities. I hope they don't take it upon themselves to 'help themselves' as there are more than a...Morning_star
- ...few business owners who learnt a valuable lesson last time and keep a baseball bat and machete close by at all times.Morning_star
- Yeah, there's a lot of Turkish around where i live and I was bemused/heartened by their coming out in force and patrolling their Manor. Fun times.Nairn
- Same here. Lots of Sikhs, Polish and Egyptians. Awesome community, awesome food. Wouldn't get on the wrong side of any of themMorning_star
- Bennn0
A mass vaxxxinashun will end it all... in a few months
- 'til some missed statistical discrepancy unveils itself many months later when half the world's population promptly drops dead.Nairn
- It takes about 10 months to get it properly tested. That's why the US thinks it will need 18 months to fight this...grafician
- But if the current situation keeps going, in 18 months there will not be any more US to save.grafician
- Or Western world for that matter at this rate.grafician
- @grafician nah, dude! as tough as it promises to be, we'll go through this and rebuild.Krassy
- grafician0
Whatever country recovers fastest from this economical nightmare, it will influence the world affairs for many years to come.
China seems keen on recovering fast and taking over Asia - at least!
- China isn't recovering, it's covering. Covering up the truth.shapesalad
- ^ yup! All China is doing is serving up propaganda!Krassy
- robotron3k-6
$1000 for adults + $350 for kids = OrangeMan2020
- so why isn't your side calling him a socialist? also watch the bailouts come in... and continued silence from the Obama hating crowd. fkn mouth breathers.inteliboy
- These times are unprecedented. It's global in scale and things will improve. But when and how will be hard to answer.robotron3k
- Also, who knows if USA is over reacting or not?? China, Japan, S Korea haven't released enough data. If we had more data we could adjust reaction.robotron3k
- utopian0
Trump and his Republitard cronies will bailout the banks, corporations and elite top 1% as soon as the economy collapses. Leaving the working class to fight over the left over scraps.
Well-connected' go first on coronavirus tests,
Trump acknowledges: 'That's been the story of life'
- Chimp0
The banned the 3 season of Utopia because it was too close to being a documentary