Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[VomKriege]

Ecuador is supposedly getting really bad, but that's videos on social media...

Apparently the UK is racing to French levels too. Hoped it would took a bit longer.

[Pennywise]

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1245325035943784448

Thank you for saving our people President Trump 

Pretty sure they've got plenty of spare tulips they can send as thank you.

[nachobro]

so is there any reason in particular why florida's governor wants to kill as many floridians as possible

have you been to florida? i'd be okay killing a bunch of them too

[Fifstar]

Swedish death cases doubled from yesterday, looking very close to the UK right now. Who knows what measures are responsible, but they don't test enough for sure.

Germany is currently doing a study in the heaviest affected region. Testing how the virus spreads. One early take away is that the virus seems not be transmitted from surfaces. While traces of the virus can be found on smartphones, handles etc. the virus was apparently never able to reproduce itself from those samples. So smear infections seem not to be a big factor at all.

[BisMarckie]

Cui Bono ?
German bio-weapon ?

Germany is currently doing a study

[BisMarckie]

German SPD is asking for a one time extra tax for the wealthy to mitigate the economic effect of the corona crisis. Libertarian FDP is throwing a fit

[Pennywise]

German SPD is asking for a one time extra tax for the wealthy to mitigate the economic effect of the corona crisis. Libertarian FDP is throwing a fit

They should close the borders before those fuckers can escape.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1245352575521755136

What the fuck UK.

[Akala]

this is gonna run through evangelical religious types but being real (if you actually believed) wouldn't you believe god would take care of you? if not why are you giving this pastor all this money?

haven't read up, but imagine a lot are starting to pivot from 'we can save' to fire and brimstone/blame the gays versus throwing up hands and saying 'god's plan', etc.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/1245036261095673857

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1245360156256460800

https://twitter.com/jc_bradbury/status/1245156585304985606

[Propagandhim]

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1245360156256460800

https://twitter.com/jc_bradbury/status/1245156585304985606

 
 

[VomKriege]

Ecuador struggles with collecting corpses 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ecuador/ecuador-struggles-to-collect-the-dead-as-coronavirus-spreads-idUSKBN21I03Q

[Ghoul]

Dark filler likes are back.

[Clockwork5]

Has any company been tone deaf enough to try an April fool's joke yet?

Square-Enix
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ff7r-now-available-in-store-in-australia.178437/

April fools may not have been their intention but the results have been glorious.

[BisMarckie]

Only a Dutch oven, amirite guys?

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/uhhhhmad/status/1245078214764093440

[Nintex]

This is life now:

- Wake up
- *cough* GOD I HAVE THE CORONA I'M ALREADY DEAD WHAT DAY IS IT
- Open Twitter to read the daily tweet storm of POTUS
- Check and run all device updates and game updates
- Shit
- Play #lockdown music playlist
- Morning ZOOM meeting
- Follow up ZOOM meeting
- Breakfast
- Trying to find files on cloud drive
- Lunch
- Exercise with Beat Saber
- Midday ZOOM meeting
- Help someone else to find files on cloud drive
- Afternoon ZOOM meeting
- Wait for the daily numbers of corona deaths to roll in
- Send 'oh god I hope you still ok' chat messages across various communication channels
- Dinner
- Call with a worried relative/friend
- Drink, play vidya, watch some Netflix, VR and/or StayhomeHub
- Sleep

In between all dashes read some reddits/socials, casually look at some titties/thots and partake in discussions on the internet 
Try to survive going outside to take out the trash or do shopping once every 3 days.

[VomKriege]

End of lockdown to "likely" be only partial or in steps, according to the French PM. Details TBD.
 

[james]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1245385582949302272

[Dickie Dee]

https://twitter.com/NYCHealthSystem/status/1245008300518801408

Musk sent them a bunch of old sleep apnea machines

[james]

[Nintex]

Mark Rutte calls it an intelligent lockdown.

Also tomorrow belgium will mediate between him, Spain and Italy about Eurobonds, which he demands be removed from the table on a 'agree to disagree' basis as he will veto any European corona aid package that contains Eurobonds.

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So Elon is the guy who told Trump to LET IT RIDE

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/TheKafkaDude/status/1245315633560109056

[VomKriege]

French PM is being questioned so French stats may drop later but the number of new ICU admissions is stable today (450 to 458 yesterday), that's the criteria the authorities think is the most tangible. Will need to confirm in coming days.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1245401810032041984
https://twitter.com/WoodfordinDK/status/1245374856398548992
https://twitter.com/fox12oregon/status/1245357635035168769
https://twitter.com/NeilPasricha/status/1245356682915561473
https://twitter.com/PonkotsuAudi/status/1245348773770833920

[thisismyusername]

https://twitter.com/fox12oregon/status/1245357635035168769
https://twitter.com/NeilPasricha/status/1245356682915561473

Narrator: Boomer Remover™ removed lonely Boomers dating at border crossing.

[BisMarckie]

People that age aren’t Boomers, generational labels are fucking stupid btw.

You should also tone down your misanthropy a little

[Don Rumata]

This is life now:

- Wake up
- *cough* GOD I HAVE THE CORONA I'M ALREADY DEAD WHAT DAY IS IT
- Open Twitter to read the daily tweet storm of POTUS
- Check and run all device updates and game updates
- Shit
- Play #lockdown music playlist
- Morning ZOOM meeting
- Follow up ZOOM meeting
- Breakfast
- Trying to find files on cloud drive
- Lunch
- Exercise with Beat Saber
- Midday ZOOM meeting
- Help someone else to find files on cloud drive
- Afternoon ZOOM meeting
- Wait for the daily numbers of corona deaths to roll in
- Send 'oh god I hope you still ok' chat messages across various communication channels
- Dinner
- Call with a worried relative/friend
- Drink, play vidya, watch some Netflix, VR and/or StayhomeHub
- Sleep

In between all dashes read some reddits/socials, casually look at some titties/thots and partake in discussions on the internet 
Try to survive going outside to take out the trash or do shopping once every 3 days.

Beats being a farmer in 1300's.

[Nintex]

We sit inside and all borders are closed and the economy is dead because those elders are 'vulnerable' and they go out in the open with the risk of spreading the virus across the borders. 

[Madrun Badrun]

People that age aren’t Boomers, generational labels are fucking stupid btw.

You should also tone down your misanthropy a little

misboomeropy

[Svejk]

[team filler]

[Madrun Badrun]

At this point, half the people I see are just finally getting an excuse to do fetish shit in public. 

[brawndolicious]

A lot of people have a hard time wrapping their heads around imperfect info and are quick to blame malice instead of "incompetence".

You're talking about the top leaders in big business and government. To call it malice would assume they earned their way up. Some people just need to believe in the system.

[Ghoul]

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hoarding, in a lil rascal, bag on head. Let them die.

[bluemax]

https://twitter.com/benbbaldwin/status/1245407745244909569

Still a ways off from curves flattening.

[Ghoul]

Today on the news they used "squash the sombrero” I was very confused by that term.

[Madrun Badrun]

UK right?  I genuinely heared the sombrero thing on The Last Leg.  They need to express their somewhat abstract ideas in racist terms in order to disseminate it to the general public.  I hear that instead of using 'social distancing' they are saying 'pretend the person in front of you smells like curry' and 'work from home' is 'work like a Pole'.

[VomKriege]

A lot of people have a hard time wrapping their heads around imperfect info and are quick to blame malice instead of "incompetence".

You're talking about the top leaders in big business and government. To call it malice would assume they earned their way up. Some people just need to believe in the system.

Weird flex but OK.

[team filler]

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hoarding, in a lil rascal, bag on head. Let them die.

let them eat cake 

[Nintex]

Couple next door is fighting. Go away, go outside!
No I can't 

Sounds like they ran out of doors to slam or one of them is dead 

[shosta]

The first patient has arrived at the Central Park overflow facility, meaning at least one hospital has run out of beds. We're not even at the height of the crisis yet.

I try to wear a humorous mask on here at all times but this is making me sick to my stomach just thinking about it.

[Nintex]

DOW down 1000 points, it's all falling apart

Stay strong!

[Akala]

I try to wear a humorous mask on here at all times but this is making me sick to my stomach just thinking about it.

[VomKriege]

The first patient has arrived at the Central Park overflow facility, meaning at least one hospital has run out of beds. We're not even at the height of the crisis yet.

I try to wear a humorous mask on here at all times but this is making me sick to my stomach just thinking about it.

Not much to do other than trying to avoid it for yourself and your relatives, or at least it avoid it now when hospitals are jammed.
I know at least of one confirmed death and one positive case (immunodeficiency but probably out of the woods according to his doc) at... One degree of separation ? Second circle ? It still feels kind of unreal, despite thousands dying, apart from the paranoia everyone you cough or have an headache. I guess that's very wartime like (I read that some people in Beyrouth found this lockdown better than the one during the civil war...), you still try to live your life.

[team filler]

The first patient has arrived at the Central Park overflow facility, meaning at least one hospital has run out of beds. We're not even at the height of the crisis yet.

I try to wear a humorous mask on here at all times but this is making me sick to my stomach just thinking about it.

try wearing a humorous grocery bag instead 

[Akala]

https://twitter.com/thecajunboy/status/1245431923868131328

https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1245398331821412352

[VomKriege]

UEFA is delaying matches planned in June.
I guess they expect that large gatherings, travel or just normal sport activity (even crowd free) won't be resumed by then in Europe.

[Nintex]

UEFA is delaying matches planned in June.
I guess they expect that large gatherings, travel or just normal sport activity (even crowd free) won't be resumed by then in Europe.

From what I've gathered the plan in Europe is to do a 2 months lock down on / 1 month lock down partially off sequence of sorts for the remainder of the year on a national level.
This gives the national economies some breathing room and people some relief to organize limited social gatherings. But this will only be done if the healthcare systems can manage it and under the assumption that higher temperatures have an impact on the virus.

Unless something happens that removes the need for such measures I don't expect borders to open and air travel to resume until after August/September when they'll likely have enough surplus tests and production of tests to test anyone prior to boarding a plane.

[Don Rumata]

I try to wear a humorous mask on here at all times but

Double Down.
JUST DOUBLE DOWN DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!

[VomKriege]

UEFA is delaying matches planned in June.
I guess they expect that large gatherings, travel or just normal sport activity (even crowd free) won't be resumed by then in Europe.

From what I've gathered the plan in Europe is to do a 2 months lock down on / 1 month lock down partially off sequence of sorts for the remainder of the year on a national level.
This gives the national economies some breathing room and people some relief to organize limited social gatherings.

Unless something happens that removes the need for such measures I don't expect borders to open and air travel to resume until after August/September when they'll likely have enough surplus tests and production of tests to test anyone prior to boarding a plane.

That's an idea thrown into some Imperial College paper (granted, a lot of Euro government consulted an expert there) but I'm skeptical about it. I don't think most small business can just turn on / off like that, a lot of shit that got disrupted will take over a month to untangle. I think people, provided the bare minimum of necessities can be met, would actually prefer a longer lockdown than going in and out for a year.

In theory that's not impossible even if the economy get destroyed, I suppose : It would be wartime life, miserable but doable. I want to believe there's a better way to do this but at this point in time it's difficult to tell : We're still in the dark about the virus, the CFR, how potent is the immunity (reinfection has not been entirely ruled out even if deemed very unlikely), medication is on trial, fast tests are still in development and a vaccine is more than a year away.

[VomKriege]

The presidents for the region Great East and PACA in France confirms that "US buyers" are trying to outbid them even as the cargo is about to arrive. Sometimes they win, sometimes they don't.

It's apparently the same circus in the US with several states, the Feds and FEMA doing bidding wars on ventilators.

Efficient free market ?
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[Fifstar]

I'm hopeful a total lockdown isn't needed when we have more far spread testing, better data on rate of people who were infected through antidote tests, smartphone data and a well thought out balance of social activity and staying at home. South Korea seems to do fine without a lockdown of the country, although I suspect social compliance is more pronounced there vs. western societies.

The difficulty will be to balance social activity and business needs.

[Nintex]

There's the added problem of civil unrest if this lockdown continues and drags on. The economy will be ruined and a lot of people will still lose relatives.

Business people and investors are now tweeting and writing op-eds about how the economy is going to shit and this just isn't worth it.
They say we should just isolate the weak and vulnerable instead. Now these voices are muffled by the daily high death reports but in a month the situation will be very different as people are fired from their jobs and all the measures have taken effect hopefully reducing the death toll. They'll be sitting at home jobless and buried in bills, elections will be postponed and police and healthcare understaffed. It'll also be very unequal as tech companies and people able to work from home will still be able to make a living.
Imagine what happens to the US if Trump understandably postpones the elections until March or May 2021?

Entire industries like travel and events are going to collapse within the next 3 months and after the first 6 months governments the world over will either have to bailout everybody with hopes of avoiding hyperinflation or opt to introduce austerity or tax increases.
Chances are that if you open up after 2 months for a bit the spending temporarily soars as people can partake in activities they couldn't before. Still, the economic damage of this thing will be felt for years perhaps even decades.

Our prime minister today said that people who expect the world to return to the way it was before the corona virus are 'living in an illusion' and the government will play a bigger part in all our lives going forward.

[who is ted danson?]

Media need to stop using logarithmic graphs. 99.9% of people don't geddit.

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/bradschrade/status/1245451739597242373



This was always going to happen eventually, even if cutting off visits, but damn.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1244398935315275784

 

[VomKriege]

The presidents for the region Great East and PACA in France confirms that "US buyers" are trying to outbid them even as the cargo is about to arrive. Sometimes they win, sometimes they don't.

It's apparently the same circus in the US with several states, the Feds and FEMA doing bidding wars on ventilators.

Efficient free market ?
         /
 

Not to whitewash France : when the order to requisition medical supplies came, 4 millions masks that were transitioning in Lyon from the Sweden manufacturer to Italy and Spain was seized. The authorities concerned accepted to release half of it for shipping after the Swedish government appealed directly.

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1245458786791370754

Trump admin is finally taking leadership for supplies !