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- zaq1
life goes on. daughter tells her father who is in quarantine that she is married
- Hey dad, I need another $500. Five.********
- Cats TV on 4:30.Nairn
- and he's black.moldero
- this seems fake.utopian
- Grandad? Good going if not - must have had her in his 70sFax_Benson
- lol faxfadein11
- best part is when he gets up and pulls down the blinds_niko
- haha nikofadein11
- haha all - definitely Grandad given the "who are you and why are you grinning at me? Go away!" faceNairn
- she's pointing at her middle finger and photo taken moment before folding the other fingersKrassy
- Nah, she’s saying “see? I told you you shoulda put a ring on it.”ben_
- Hey dad, I need another $500. Five.
- Nairn1
uh oh.
If this is to be believed, America's already beginning to outpace Italy.
I mean, of course - it's a much larger population, but... uh oh.
- Holy crap Spain is in some serious trouble...robotron3k
- no one has recovered in US so farzaq
- Wow. US number nearly doubled from the 14th to the 15th, but based on current Johns Hopkins data, has only gone up about ~1k in last 5 days, which is good.SteveJobs
- @zaq, yeah recovery usually takes ~3 weeks according to testimonies I've heard so those figures *should* shift soon. Still a small sample data set to go off of.SteveJobs
- USA #1
Fuck Yeah!!!!!!!!!!utopian - Never count the USA out, we are into to win it. We will take over 1st place with infections and deaths.utopian
- Lolfuturefood
- recovery is not 3 weeks, it's closer to 2 and undermonospaced
- There are reports of people in the Seattle area who have recovered.wordssssss
- utopian0
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Explode. How Long Before the Hospital System Collapses?
https://www.ccn.com/us-coronavir…
"As a bed manager at a large hospital in a major metropolitan area, I will add my thoughts. We are beyond unprepared for this. My advice to anyone reading this is to isolate as hard as you can, for as long as you can. My father-in-law, if he catches this, is a goner. I have seen the chest x-rays of patients here in the ICU. One experienced doctor said he has never seen anything like this before. An ICU bed and proper treatment might save your life, but will the bed be available when you need it? We need many times the capacity that we currently have, and hospitals (at least here) are moving too slowly to make the necessary changes. From my research, we need (nationwide) at least five times the number of ICU beds we currently have. And that will only succeed IF we maintain this high level of quarantine/isolation for the next 3 months.
If you don't isolate hard until the number of ICU beds are boosted, you will be in trouble. We are already out of ICU beds, and this is just beginning."
- pango2
- Greg Graffin?Bennn
- missing a variable - what you've eaten and poop consistency.shapesalad
- haha trueutopian
- 100+ times a day.... i think its got variables covered.pango
- NBQ001
China numbers seem again suspicious. Everyday only 30-40 new cases while rest of the world is in the thousands. Either they really containing it or just bullshitting.
Germany now over 3000 new cases.
- Or maybe they really did mostly eradicate the virus. They took some pretty extreme measures after all.yuekit
- Throughout all of this people accused China of fabricating the numbers, said they engineered the virus in a lab, they were mass burning bodies.yuekit
- Worth pointing out there is zero evidence at this point any of that ever happened.yuekit
- This is racist and needs some more diversity and gender neutrality.shapesalad
- Lock-down is still in effect.Gnash
- Locked down, litle to no avenues for transmission - as soon as they open up again, numbers will rise. Rinse, repeat, until we have a vaccine, etcNairn
- Did China ever mass test? If yes, then yes, they got all the cases because they rushed to it.grafician
- But then again, it's China ffsake. So a 50/50grafician
- shapesalad. because?pango
- Pango doesn’t get the joke. Did you lose the funnies recently ? ;)NBQ00
- It seems to me they did mass symptoms-testing: temperature spot-checks, and so on. Don't know about an actual mass Covid-19 test, though.Continuity
- The 'China returning to normal' story https://www.theguard…webazoot
- And the report from the ground... https://time.com/580…webazoot
- Have they un-welded any of the doors yet?Gnash
- they don‘t register new cases anymore...only new incoming ones..but they stopped spread. now they are cautiously opening parts of the country and see what worksuan
- it‘s new for them too at this scale...but they have some experience because of sars and mers.uan
- and here in the west....it‘s new...you feel it, govs are struggling to contain the spread. society is struggling.uan
- The quarantine/lockdown there is pretty serious unlike the rest of the world. A report from inside: https://bit.ly/33DOh…GRAC
- hard to find it funny when that shit is racism is happening more often in real life.pango
- see if you find it funny when its happening to real people.pango
- China's reported recovery rate is so suspicious as well - nearly 90% ! Do they have a (secret) cure?Krassy
- Krassy, look at the global recovery rate
https://www.worldome…yuekit - Under Closed casesyuekit
- Not only that, Twitter is censoring news coming out of China.Beeswax
- @yuekit I have looked -- the global recovered cases include the ones China reporting. China is reporting 71,150 out of the 90,603 global recovered cases! Hmm?Krassy
- Yeah fair point. However I don't think there is anything suspicious about this. My understanding is that most people who get the disease, first of all theyuekit
- majority are mild cases to begin with. They are not people fighting for their lives. And yes, the vast majority recover.yuekit
- Look at the numbers for Korea. I think it's also around 90-95% recovery rate.yuekit
- The other countries mostly have not been hit by the virus long enough for the recovery rate to be accurately reflected in the numbers.yuekit
- Even South Korea's recovery rate (25%) is still waaaaay lower than China's (90%).Krassy
- Something doesn't add up. Bottom line is: China is either not reporting accurately, or has a cure.. or both. Propaganda machine is in full effect. Grain of saltKrassy
- they built extra facilities to cure the patients. only 1 province was severely hit. after isolation they pulled resources from other regions there.uan
- they watch over the patients (they still got a lot of ill ppl) and assist them with respirators and care to make them survive.uan
- italy (and europe) can‘t just pull ressources from another million ppl region to support the emergency.uan
- I defend chinese because it‘s the only method we know works. there is no magical dna scan print 3d vaccine tech around.uan
- ^ China's propaganda is workingKrassy
- that was the argument in italy 1month ago.uan
- but it‘s not about trust or not trust chinese. it‘s about epidemic management.uan
- How are you getting 25%? If you add up the total recovered plus the people who died in Korea...i.e., all cases that had outcomes, 96% recovery rate.yuekit
- Nairn1
Ah fuck - I've been dithering (for very mundane reasons) on checking with an elderly neighbour (well-known artist guy for anyone paying attention to my shitty posts) - at least to give him my number in case of emergency
I just popped to the shops and noticed an elderly couple up ahead, and blokie was on the floor. I sprint as fast as I could muster to them, as a van pulled up quickly and the driver jumped out and did the same. Gadgie had not taken a bad tumble and seemed ok - his wife was the more shook up, so we help him up and after checking, get on our way.
Wifey was a picture of everything that is wrong with modern society and it totally cut me up - after realising there was nothing more we could do and nothing more they wanted from us I walked off and - I got to admit: I very nearly burst into tears. Pussy that I am.
I hope to God they have friends, family and neighbours who they can rely on.
Anyway, that was what I needed to pull my thumb out of my arse. Doesn't matter what neighbour might think about my approach, it matters that I at least try and do SOMETHING.
All I could think about was my poor old long-departed Gran. Need to try and make her proud.
- GAAAAAY.Nairn
- Can you post this kind of stuff in the "blog" thread and keep this on topic?grafician
- Are you in the UK Nairn?
By Monday I think we'll be starting to go into full lockdown like France.
Saw an old couple at the supermarket last night...PhanLo - This IS on topic, grafician - old people need help - is that not clear?
Also, I'll post in whatever thread I goddamn please, thanks.Nairn - ...whole place was bare and they seemed pretty freaked out.
Looking out for others is commendable man.PhanLo - The old guy next to my mums has been in the pub the last 2 nights, says it's all blown out of proportion.PhanLo
- It would be commendable if I did it more, but as righteous as I think I am, I'm just a selfish cunt like so many others.Nairn
- hmm, I wrote another response that I clearly didn't post - anyway, yes PhanLo: LDN-based, for my sins. Would MUCH rather be in Edinburgh!Nairn
- All I got from this post was that you broke a shit ton of recommendations to prevent the spread of the virus. Are they not explaining how you could kill oldzarkonite
- people by being in contact with them in the UK?zarkonite
- Yeah. you're not wrong, Zark - but there was an old guy who'd fallen on the street and wtf could I do? That was very much going through my mind at the time.Nairn
- Frankly, oldies have been through a lot more shit than I ever have, and if they want to take a walk on the street, who am I or anyone to tell them what to do?Nairn
- Bennn0
In Canada, as of today 500,000 demands for Employment Insurance benefits and leave has been received. Same time last year it was 27,000 ...
- webazoot0
Life in China Has Not Returned to Normal, Despite What the Government Says
Brian Lee has made the two-hour hop from Seoul to Shanghai more times than he can remember. But his last flight, on March 9, will be difficult to forget. On arrival at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport, Lee was told that regulations had tightened while he was in the air and all passengers arriving from South Korea now had to submit to 14 days’ government quarantine due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The New Yorker was driven to a specially requisitioned three-star hotel, where nurses in hazmat suits handed him a mercury thermometer, to self-check his temperature twice daily, and a single plastic trash bag. Meals are left outside his door at 8:30 a.m., 12 noon and 6 p.m. each day. Other than opening his door to pick up his food, he has not seen beyond the drab confines of his room since. “I’m trying to stay active and positive,” says Lee, 27, a business manager for Shanghai-based media platform Radii. “I’ve been doing pushups and trying to do all the reading and writing that I haven’t had time for.”
But even as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda ramps up, the experiences of people like Lee show that life across the Asian superpower remains far from normal. Offices are slowly reopening but central heating banned for fear of spreading germs. Taxi drivers hang sheets of plastic behind the front seats of their cabs to cocoon themselves from passengers. One friend in Beijing returned to work to find “the receptionist in a full white hazmat suit.” Another complained that the incessant spraying of germ-killing bleach had murdered all the office plants. The guy who installed my cable TV has also begun hawking medical masks, which are de rigueur for entering any supermarket. Grabbing noodles with my wife means sitting diagonally across a four-person table to comply with social distancing rules. When I tried to book an appointment with a lawyer, it had to be in Starbucks—her office had banned visitors—and even then the barista chastised her for standing closer than four feet while witnessing me signing documents.
There is growing weariness about measures that are little more than box-ticking. Masks are mandatory outside the home despite huge doubts over their efficacy. A temperature test is required to enter any shop, restaurant building, or even pass certain street corners. But these are so casually administered that people with readings so low as to indicate clinical hypothermia are routinely waved by. On countless occasions I’ve been rudely accosted by a supercilious doorman only for him to point the temperature gun at my coat sleeve. It’s especially frustrating since COVID-19 can spread while asymptomatic, rendering these tests ultimately pointless.
- NBQ002
Good lord. Italy 6000 new cases today, 630 deaths today
- NBQ00-4
HOLY SHIT, NOW IT SAYS OVER 15K new cases today in Italy: https://www.worldometers.info/co…
I hope some bug or something.
- bugBennn
- Yes seems so. Now back to 6K.NBQ00
- peak new infections in Italy will be tomorrow or the day after, should start decreasing in a couple of dayssrhadden
- peak number of deaths another three or four days later, so around tuesday ...srhadden
- And why is that?NBQ00
- https://twitter.com/…grafician
- ^situation updates from Italygrafician
- based on the china numbers ...srhadden
- italy are predicting 2 weeks until peakkingsteven
- NBQ000
lol your favorite boy
- utopian1
China’s coronavirus propaganda campaign is putting lives at risk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/o…
- Krassy6
- ha.MrAbominable
- pretty sure I saw this fucking apartment last yearmonospaced
- lolzRamanisky2
- Map of NYC is considerably smaller.********
- yuekit0
- Meanwhile in China...yuekit
- Public screening, tracing, all good. We can't do this in the West lol
Many people infected travelled around places and spread the virus, we all know thisgrafician - People were asking if China really did have no new cases...after watching this video it does seem possible lolyuekit
- I love how they share a pen in the restaurant @2m55szarkonite
- grafician0
Ok, now it seems the situation in Italy is this worse not because the virus is that dangerous - but it is nonetheless - but because people are scared and the Gov is doing a poor job managing the situation.
https://twitter.com/andreabagnat…
"The tally of cases is broadcast live every day on all media, as if it were a sporting competition. Numbers are presented with no context and no explanation. The vast majority of ppl doesn’t understand that today’s cases were infected 2 to 4 weeks ago, as no one explains it. 10/10"
"60m people have been asked to stay at home for four weeks. No consideration for those who live alone, in abusive relationships, with meantal health issues, or without a computer and an internet connection (yes, there are many). Social and psychological costs not factored in. 2/10"
They didn't actually closed down the workplaces and businesses?! WTF :O
- "today's cases were infected 2 to 4 weeks ago"? Where you getting that data? I've read 1 to 14 days.********
- I quoted that italian guy, but you need about 3 weeks to recover so...grafician
- but I guess most people really think that the virus in killing people in 1 day as daily number increasesgrafician
- "today's cases were infected 2 to 4 weeks ago"? Where you getting that data? I've read 1 to 14 days.
- mg334
Things I am looking forward to living in the Chicago area:
- Warmer temps slowly getting here
- Getting gates put at the corner of my house to fence in my backyard, so my kids can play back there without getting into the front yard.
- Keeping the windows open for fresh air and outdoor sounds when it's warmer
- Grilling and using my smoker
- Setting up our tent in the backyard and doing some weekend camping
- Taking a long ride on my road bike, just to get out and be alone. Biking is my favorite time to do deep thinking, planning, etc.- Cool story, bro. But your bbq in Chicago has nothing to do with Coronavirus stuff in here.NBQ00
- i'm looking forward to getting back into shape for long rides. plus it's a valid escape plan.MrAbominable
- I meant to alleviate the situation we're in.mg33
- The warmer temp will probly get all the 20 years old people get together and spread the virus. School is already over till Fall... they'll get bored very soon.Bennn
- yuekit3
Japan was expecting a coronavirus explosion. Where is it?
- Because Olympics.robotron3k
- Yeah but...you can't cover up thousands of people dying like in Italyyuekit
- Because the work together as a society and follow the rules and didn’t go to spring break with the rest of the bros?_niko
- Because Mothrautopian
- The radioactive seafood is a preventativebezoar
