Pestilence of the day
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- Nairn1
DING, DING, DING, DING - ROUUUND THREEEE!
"A fourth person in a fourth US state has mysteriously contracted a deadly South Asian bacterium without leaving the continental US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday."
- We'll be wearing masks for the rest of our lives. One of these variants will be lethal enough to wipe out a huge chunk of humanity.CyBrainX
- Mankind is hell bent on its own destruction. Meanwhile, New Zealand went into lockdown because of their 1st case in months. Can you imagine the US doing that?CyBrainX
- tank02-2
not deadlier than the flu fyi.... drama queens.
- It’s exactly this kind of hubris that the wuflu is counting on.Gnash
- You got a source for that? it has a higher infection rate and the death rate is ~2%, as opposed to around 0.1% for seasonal flu.Nairn
- Only plus side as I can see is that there have apparently been no child or infant fatalities so far.Nairn
- We'll 'probably be ok', at least in health terms. I'm concerned for my parents, and I'm concerned for my business more than anything at the moment.Nairn
- Also, supply chains are beginning to get shat upon - of course, this might in the long-term be beneficial, relying less on China as a single point of failure.Nairn
- Like the flu it takes the older and already sick. I'm annoyed that the media is acting like its 'the flu' from The Stand. The biggest problem is that when thetank02
- shit wil really hit the fan we will all be numbed out by a sensationalism in the press. Btw, got the flu right now, together with wife and son. Just was coughintank02
- in the postoffice. That was fun. I was almost bagged like that scene from monsters inc.tank02
- still thinking the same way tank?imbecile
- Look how idiotic this looks now and yet some are still saying things like this.CyBrainX
- PhanLo0
- Those olympic display drones + big net = solution?shapesalad
- srhadden3
We released our album THE PEST this year. The day we were supposed to have our release concert (friday the 13th)(of march) the country went in lockdown
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You better listen to this shit, like us on facebook, put it in your Spotify playlists, share it on Twitterface or request it on Ellen or else we're naming our next album THE COMET !
- Nairn0
Has there ever been any sci-fi postulating the idea of a disease or condition that decimates everyone over a certain age? Like, most everyone who's hit puberty?
It's a thought that popped into mind the other day and I've been mulling it over since, trying to envision how that might pan out (and, trying ever so hard not to descend into Lord of The Flies).
How long would it take for kids to work out how everything works again? What if the only surviving adults were idiots or evil?
/inairnity™
- https://upload.wikim…Gnash
- huh, cool. I'm pretty sure there must be something else i've encountered over my years that i've thoughtlessly secreted away, only 'thinking of' now, as my ownNairn
- that's a great cover though. minds me of the sort of thing i'd read in the 80s that would terrify me.Nairn
- Oddly enough, I was thinking about this earlier today...right after I checked my grandma into a new nursing home in Seattle, Washington.GM278
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- The White Plague by Frank Herbert (author of Dune) is about an engineered virus that only kills women.zarkonite
- logan's run?
soylent green?
that other one i can't remember
tho i guess it's not a pestilencehans_glib - ^ those are more about culling the very old from societyGnash
- The girl with all the gifts
https://www.youtube.…Bluejam - All I'm wondering now is how I can get "(author of Dune)" after my name.
Like an OBE or whatever.Nairn - Hollyoaks?Fax_Benson
- Haven’t watched it but, I think it looks like this: https://m.youtube.co…brothernoah
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- lol faxMrT
- shapesalad1
Taiwan, still only 6 deaths. Population 23.78m
UK population 66.65m, so if we followed Taiwan's procedures we could be looking at 16, maybe 17 deaths.
Instead... 26097 deaths.
Taiwan is geographically a lot closer to Wuhan than the UK.
- brandonp-2
^ tank is correct. My wife is a nurse practitioner and has been saying flu is WAY more dangerous from the outset. Same goes for all of the docs I've spoken with. For Nairn, here's what I pulled from the top of a simple search query.
"So far, 16,000 people have died and 280,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC."
- Could it be that the flu is more dangerous simply because it's more widespread? If this spreads everywhere, it will almost certainly kill more people than that.yuekit
- well, there's no vaccination for Covid-19, won't be for years, there IS a higher % mortality rate and the infectious capacity's higherNairn
- I'm sorry, but I've been reading a lot from people way smarter than I am and they're generaly 'quite concerned'.Nairn
- https://www.ncbi.nlm…Nairn
- I've read reports concerned about 40% of entire populations becoming infected - if that came to pass in the states, tha tcould equate to 2.4 MILLION deaths.Nairn
- Granted, 40% is for slightly dysfunctional states - but the concern is about a pandemic overwhelming health authorities. There's only so many ICU bedsNairn
- In the vast majority of cases, there will be no need for an ICU bed, or any inpatient care. Rest and liquids will cure almost all cases, just like the flu.monospaced
- hello Nairn, concern is good. But media is getting in to a frenzy. Just got a newsflash here. HOTEL IN BENIDORM IN LOCKDOWN. Than you see the people chilling,tank02
- Aye mono, but in the small but significant number of cases that need an ICU to survive, not having one will result in an additional needless deathNairn
- Neither of those two positions are contrary, tank. If they're Brits (I assume they are) they've just got a paid-for extension to their holidayNairn
- what does your nurse wife say now?imbecile
- Nairn0
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Another data aggregating site.
Seems to show a slow-down in Chinese cases, so thie authoritarian measures are presumably taking effect. Now witness the dissolution of historical Western supremacy as all the democratic nations flounce around with their hands waving spastically in the air as absolutely-preventative measures remain uninvoked and everyone dies.
- Yes, because that's what usually happens in cases like this.MondoMorphic
- Perhaps, just maybe - not take my posts in this tone quite so literally.Nairn
- Nairn2
I think way to look at this is in how China reacted, and with that in mind realise that here in non-Authoritarian states - we probably can't institute the same level of control - the thought of a major city in the UK being effectively cut off from the rest of the country is... beyond my capacity for imagining.
Obviously China was shitting itself about this from not long after it came into being - China's not [completely] run by idiots, so their level of concern must in and of itself be very telling.
Given we have spread by non-symptomatic people, over a fairly long timespan (3+ weeks) coupled to a high rate of infection - basically we have the makings of a bit of a clusterfuck.
We've been culturally-prepared for this scenario by a few decades of panic-instilling media (movies and books and such) and we have pretty much a hundred years ago evidence of how a global pandemic effects itself - and that, in an age when their weren't literally millions of people criss-crossing the, within hours, every day.
I dearly hope that this all passes without too much effect and those of us who are concerned about it feel a bit foolish - but at some point, there WILL be a global pandemic of SOMETHING - so why not this? Why not now?
- *criss-crossing the globeNairn
- <monospaced
- yup that's the difference between china and the west. guests who were supposed to be quarantined in a tenerife hotel thought "fuck it" and went swimming anyway.hans_glib
- but then again, h5n1... or whatever it washans_glib
- MondoMorphic0
I'm working on a project for the CDC right now and though Covid-19 is getting a lot of hype, in their opinion the flu is still a much bigger concern. While Covid-19's death rate is currently higher, it will settle to a point less than that of the much more prevalent flu.
- Of course right now, flu should remain a major concern - I'm curious to know what the basis is for the expectation of a lower settling in time?Nairn
- Also sounds from here: https://twitter.com/… that the CDC isn't exactly unconcerned...Nairn
- I can't say I know their entire rationale, but part of it is likely to do with a better understanding of how to treat and contain.MondoMorphic
- The CDC is definitely doing things (e.g., every one of their conference rooms is taken with coronavirus-related activities)...MondoMorphic
- ...but as much as anything they are responding to the hype and hysteria.MondoMorphic
- The flu death rate is 0.1% so how could the new virus be a point less?yuekit
- You're taking my post too literally. Read "point" as degree, level, etc...MondoMorphic
- sted0
Yaravirus
- robotron3k-2
- agreedutopian
- I'd love to see how Donald Trump would deal with such a crisis.
'just blow it up'!Ianbolton - What do they have to live down? It's a disease, not an inflammatory statement caught on mic.i_monk
- Soon, in the USA, we'll have to "live down" a slew of outbreaks due to anti vaccination idiots, which does seem to be uniquely American.monospaced
- We'll soon all be extinct, like the dinosaurs.deadsperm
- i thought you said they weren't extinct?Nairn
- I thought I could trick you guys into believing that with pretty pictures. But ya'lls too smart and rational.deadsperm
- ArchitectofFate1
We just got a request by one of our chinese clients for us to source mouth covers...
- They sold out at Home Depot across USArobotron3k
- It's a conspiracy!deadsperm