Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Potato]

Fuck China. Burn that whole fucking place down.

My cousin works there and when he described the "stinky tofu" that was enough for me.

stinky tofu is great.

In light of this week's market trends can we have a companion thread for Great & Depressing: Wuhan Drift?

The type that is fermented in human shit? Cause that's what he was shown.

[OnlyRegret]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-stinky-tofu-in-china-can-be-stinkier-than-you-may-think_1965059.html

In 2012, for example, Sina News ran an article with the confession of a stinky tofu maker:

“Every time nature calls, I put my excrement in plastic buckets instead of the toilet—it’s like treasure. After adding water, I put the tofu in it for two or three days. This tofu smells like nothing else. If I don’t do it this way, it’ll take too long for the tofu to ferment naturally—how am I going to make money that way? But all the same, lots of people likes the stinky tofu I made, saying it’s plenty stinky and has a strong taste. It’s definitely weird.”

 

[Great Rumbler]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-stinky-tofu-in-china-can-be-stinkier-than-you-may-think_1965059.html

In 2012, for example, Sina News ran an article with the confession of a stinky tofu maker:

“Every time nature calls, I put my excrement in plastic buckets instead of the toilet—it’s like treasure. After adding water, I put the tofu in it for two or three days. This tofu smells like nothing else. If I don’t do it this way, it’ll take too long for the tofu to ferment naturally—how am I going to make money that way? But all the same, lots of people likes the stinky tofu I made, saying it’s plenty stinky and has a strong taste. It’s definitely weird.”

 

Also China: Why is everyone getting sick?

[Kunai With Chain]

and here I thought the 'virgin boy egg' was going to be the worst Chinese delicacy I read about this month.

[Nintex]

[Don Rumata]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/27/woman-catches-coronavirus-twice-confirming-scientists-worst-fears-12311492/

this is just bullshit. 

[nachobro]

2020 is real fucking rad so far

[Nintex]

2020 is real fucking rad so far (Image removed from quote.)

And the best is yet to come!

[Pennywise]

https://twitter.com/VGC_News/status/1233149812364591106

 

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1232311996105682944

[Tripon]

the uae tour has been canceled mid race, which is a uci pro tour. rumor is one of the staff members for a team tested positive for the virus and now all riders and staff will be monitored and tested. endurance athletes -- and all athletes for that matter -- have exercise-induced immunodepression which makes them highly susceptible to getting sick, especially cyclists in the midst of a multi-stage race.

and now rumor has is that the milan san remo and strade bianchi are canceled, my precious classics/monuments



this doesn't bode well for the nba :'(

The NBA starting an international incident by being pro Hong Kong was intentional in order to avoid a multi Chinese city trip.   

[TEEEPO]

imaging a world without the classic/monuments, giro, tour de france, vuelta, uci worlds and the olympics

and then imaging a world without the nba 

[Akala]

I played plague inc for the first time earlier today and the tutorial kicked off in china. 

[TEEEPO]

on the bright side, the latest gran turismo sport championship finals were incredible -- seriously, watch it. so i  guess there is always esports, though tbh i might just opt for death

however imagining if corona kills a star player from every team save for wizards, hmmm   

[bluemax]

My work has banned employees from trips to Italy, Japan and China for the time being. Also the people who were going to go to GDC on my team are not going anymore.

My brother teaches English in Japan, yesterday I asked him if he was worried but he said everything was semi normal. Then a few hours later they cancelled a monthly meeting and a few hours after that they cancelled school for the remainder of the semester.

Of course he has to go in still.

[Momo]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/27/woman-catches-coronavirus-twice-confirming-scientists-worst-fears-12311492/

this is just bullshit. 

we're all fucked

[team filler]

  only battle angel tulsi can take down corona-chan

[Bebpo]

they cancelled school for the remainder of the semester.

Of course he has to go in still.

This is so Japan.

No school!
but come to work every day anyhow and sit and do nothing and get paid for it.

[Pennywise]

https://twitter.com/Ketflix_Pills/status/1233123628428021768

[Himu]

Lmao workers moved people from quarantine without protection exposing others to the virus. This fucking country. It always disappoints. In fact, I think that's the only thing it's capable of doing.

[EVOL]

Good article on the fuckery going on in S. Korea atm

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-south-korea-cults-conservatives-china/

For the first four weeks of the outbreak, South Korea marshaled high-tech resources to respond aggressively while promoting transparency. The government tracked the movements of travelers arriving from China, for example by tracking the use of credit cards, checking CCTV footage, or mandating they download an app to report their health status every day. For those infected, the government published an extremely detailed list of their whereabouts, down to which seat they sat in at a movie theater.

...

That all came to a crashing halt last week thanks to the 31st case. Patient No. 31, discovered on Feb. 18, was a member of a quasi-Christian cult called Shincheonji, one of the many new religious movements in the country. Founded in 1984, Shincheonji (whose official name is Shincheonji, Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony) means “new heaven and earth,” a reference to the Book of Revelation. Its founder Lee Man-hee claims to be the second coming of Jesus who is to establish the “new spiritual Israel” at the end of days. The cult is estimated to have approximately 240,000 followers, and claims to have outposts in 29 countries in addition to South Korea.

tl;dr Government was doing a pretty good job till literal cultists fucked it all up, conservatives are blaming it all on... China?

 

My area isn't too affected with only 13 confirmed cases, but people are definitely frightened. Masks everywhere, less pedestrians, less traffic etc.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1233361454948143104

 

[Great Rumbler]

rip nintex

[Raist]

RIP Rumbler


https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1511332-20200228.htm?spTabChangeable=0

[james]

On my flight to Savannah and no one is wearing a mask rip

[bork]

Heard that all Japanese schools have shut down and canceled classes through April now.

Over here, starting to see some of the first signs of panic setting in- we went to the supermarket last night and my wife wanted to buy some hand sanitizer.   They were cleaned out.  No masks either.  Checked Amazon and that stuff is being sold by third party sellers for like $100 now.

they cancelled school for the remainder of the semester.

Of course he has to go in still.

This is so Japan.

No school!
but come to work every day anyhow and sit and do nothing and get paid for it.

Ah, memories of summer vacations as an ASL.     I would just "go for lunch," then go home or to stores or whatever and come back in time for the day to end. 

[Bebpo]

Yeah I stocked up on hand sanitizer since it kills this stuff, but don't have any masks because why

[ToxicAdam]

So, it's like reusable shopping bags? It's not actually helping, but it makes the person feel good while they are doing it.

[james]

So, it's like reusable shopping bags? It's not actually helping, but it makes the person feel good while they are doing it.

Go fuck yourself

[Pennywise]

Over here, starting to see some of the first signs of panic setting in- we went to the supermarket last night and my wife wanted to buy some hand sanitizer.   They were cleaned out.  No masks either.  Checked Amazon and that stuff is being sold by third party sellers for like $100 now.

My gf went shopping and they sold out fucking toilet paper.
Sanitizer as well, but even normal cleaning stuff. Tinned food nearly sold out.


Got an e-mail from my university stating that one of the employes is being checked for the virus and that they might close it.
 

[Nintex]

Patriot cured by a *cough* miracle
Ready to *cough* buy some *cough* stocks to keep *cough* winning!

https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1233439635944148993

[james]

Google has fallen

Yahoo gang wins again

[shosta]

a dog in Hong Kong has tested "weakly positive" for coronavirus

[CatsCatsCats]

Stay safe, Rumbler

[OnlyRegret]

[TEEEPO]

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1233456859635384322

[nachobro]

sounds great, give me that good shit

[kingv]

I believe that American prisoners make less than that for their work.

Edit: yep, typically <$1/hour.

[TEEEPO]

say goodbye to all your gains 

[OnlyRegret]

closed cases (recovery or death)
currently like 2:1 recover to death rate in pastaland right now, gesture with your hands your condolences

[Coax]

The masks are mostly useless for people not infected.   Quite the grift though.

Respirators that filter that level of particulate (ie: N95/international equivalents) and form a proper seal are more ideal but good luck a) getting people to wear them for appearance reasons and b) finding them in stock after preppers have bought them all

There are important differences between facemasks and respirators. Facemasks do not seal tightly to the face and are used to block large droplets from coming into contact with the wearer’s mouth or nose. Most respirators (e.g. N95) are designed to seal tightly to the wearer’s face and filter out very small particles that can be breathed in by the user.

A US-Chinese team of researchers created a simulated examination room with mechanized mannequins spaced 6 feet apart to represent coughing and breathing humans. They found that flu viruses floated between the two and were "inhaled" by the breathing mannequin, but that an N95 respirator sealed to the mannequin's face stopped 99.8% of them.

A poorly fitted respirator or a loose-fitting surgical mask, by contrast, blocked only about two thirds of the virus particles.

[OnlyRegret]

[G The Resurrected]

Second case in California with unknown origin. El Camino Hospital system in Santa Clara Ca. That’s the same hospital the other two cases were diagnosed at and released to home quarantine.

That’s the hospital I go to....

[TVC15]

There’s a pretty solid chance that even domestic travel is going to be weird by the time I go on my trip in like 12 days, isn’t there?

[G The Resurrected]

At this point TVC it’s looking like that will be the case. Next week will be the real tell of the outbreak around these parts.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1233603833613475840

[benjipwns]

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/5wpr-survey-reveals-38-of-beer-drinking-americans-wouldnt-buy-corona-now-301012225.html

5WPR's survey found that:

38% of beer-drinking Americans would not buy Corona under any circumstances now

Among those who said they usually drink Corona, only 4% said they would stop drinking Corona, but 14% said they wouldn't order Corona in a public venue

16% of beer drinking Americans were confused about whether Corona beer is related to the coronavirus

"There is no question that Corona beer is suffering because of the coronavirus. Could one imagine walking into a bar and saying "Hey, can I have a Corona?" or "Pass me A Corona," said Ronn Torossian, Founder and CEO of 5WPR. "While the brand has claimed that consumers understand there's no linkage between the virus and the beer company, this is a disaster for the Corona brand. After all, what brand wants to be linked to a virus which is killing people worldwide?"

YouGov's buzz score reported that Corona beer's buzz score — a net score based on whether U.S. adults have heard anything negative or positive about the brand — decreased among those who have an opinion of the brand, from a high score of 75 at the beginning of January to 51 as of late February, 2020.

[TVC15]

God, the homeless are going to be even worse disease vectors than ever. It’s all over for the entire west coast by now. Everybody already has it. It’ll just be like 2 weeks before we start showing symptoms. I hope some of you have honed your survival skills. I’m going to play some vidya before the impending chaos causes the power grid to collapse on civilization for the last time.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1233614534998450181

[benjipwns]

Let me know when there's Ebola cases.

[Himu]

I was going to Colorado in April. Guess that's cancelled?

[Joe Molotov]

Let me know when there's Ebola cases.

There’s Ebola cases.

[benjipwns]

Pretty sure Ebola was disintegrated by like phasers on the kill setting or something, look, I'm not a scientist so I won't fall for your scientism.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1233423437286211585

[TVC15]

You know, aside from minor annoyance colds, I haven’t been ill sick since I was in my early 20s and abusing my body way too much. My immune system may be supercharged. I have a bunch of chronic health problems but those don’t count.

[Himu]

I was going to Colorado in April. Guess that's cancelled?

I mean up to you.

I’m expecting my work trips to be postponed but I bet airline travel will be real cheap lol

Amazon just announced employees are being told to cancel all “non essential” travel.

I was going for a Roger Ebert film thing. It's something Ebert started doing in Colorado every year and they still do it. So I was saving for a trip to go. I hope they don't cancel. If they do I might still go for the weed.

[eleuin]

Y'all think they're editing out all the corona in Fast & Furious 9? 

[TVC15]

I was going to Colorado in April. Guess that's cancelled?

I mean up to you.

I’m expecting my work trips to be postponed but I bet airline travel will be real cheap lol

Amazon just announced employees are being told to cancel all “non essential” travel.

Fuck. I can probably count on the order Monday, if it hasn’t been posted since I left work. I guess I can check.

I really wanted to go down. This is going to put a big dent in my moving plans. I’m bummed. I was motivated about this and excited. I felt I was doing something good for my life and some of the problems in it

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/joshnathankazis/status/1233477029510762499

[TEEEPO]

https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1233503444838862854?