Author Topic: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis? (Read 1211677 times)

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #2520 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:06:26 PM »

Here's another good point people don't consider when thinking about this virus and the potential to overwhelm hospitals:

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“When our hospital systems are overwhelmed, that means if your are having a birth that you are planning, if you are in a car accident and need your hospital, if your have a stroke or an MI, even if you never get coronavirus, people in this country can die from something other than coronavirus,” said Acton.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2521 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:09:49 PM »

I have hardly seen any party politics in Canada since this started.

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #2522 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:23:08 PM »

Quote from: VomKriege on March 17, 2020, 01:48:43 PM

20k deaths would be "reasonable" according to the UK official expert interrogated by the Parliament.

i suppose its better than the 250k they were thinking was reasonable the other day

EchoRin · « **Reply #2523 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:24:14 PM »

Quote from: Svejk on March 17, 2020, 11:56:23 AM

In actuality, Murca should have enough food to supply the whole world 3 fold... We waste around 90 million tons of food annually... if only we were more resourceful... $:-\$

Those pictures of Walmart dumping carts upon carts of food

VomKriege · « **Reply #2524 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:30:45 PM »

Pictured : Not Donald Trump's physician

So this dude is Pr. Raoult, a mediatic and competent French microbiologist/infection expert, and he has become a bit of a meme for advocating like a motherfucker that chloroquin (used in some anti-Malaria medication ) might be a good treatment for COVID19. He's also a climate change skeptic, because I know that looking at him you already wondered if he isn't a Wank Dad.

He's not the only one to have think of Chloroquin, IIRC (China is also conducting tests with it) but he's over the moon about the results he got on a small sample of patients (a little over twenty, if I understand correctly) he supervised in Marseilles and claim that 75% of patients recovered in under a week (only 10% for those without). This sort of anti malaria medication is not advised for pregnant woman, can be toxic at high dosage and not everyone in the medical community is sold on it but apparently there will be wider tests.

Any treatment shortening the medical cycle would be a literal life saver...

VomKriege · « **Reply #2525 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:47:29 PM »

https://twitter.com/weijia/status/1239923246801334283

Pennywise · « **Reply #2526 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:50:47 PM »

Quote from: VomKriege on March 17, 2020, 02:30:45 PM

Pictured : Not Donald Trump's physician

So this dude is Pr. Raoult, a mediatic and competent French microbiologist/infection expert, and he has become a bit of a meme for advocating like a motherfucker that chloroquin (used in some anti-Malaria medication ) might be a good treatment for COVID19. He's also a climate change skeptic, because I know that looking at him you already wondered if he isn't a Wank Dad.

He's not the only one to have think of Chloroquin, IIRC (China is also conducting tests with it) but he's over the moon about the results he got on a small sample of patients (a little over twenty, if I understand correctly) he supervised in Marseilles and claim that 75% of patients recovered in under a week (only 10% for those without). This sort of anti malaria medication is not advised for pregnant woman, can be toxic at high dosage and not everyone in the medical community is sold on it but apparently there will be wider tests.

Any treatment shortening the medical cycle would be a literal life saver...

Yeah.
There are a few that are running clinical studies.
I mentioned Remdesivir once, it was supposed to be against Ebola but didn't really work out.
Hardly any side effects and they can skip 2 phases that you would naturally have when working on both vaccine and medicine.

Hopefully those studies are gonna be effective and all those clinics will be able to control those situations alot better. Scaling the shutdowns and closures down will be another really important thing.
We'll see. We're supposed to get infos on Remdesivir in two weeks.

team filler · « **Reply #2527 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:56:11 PM »

https://twitter.com/opinionsondanba/status/1239980841716944897

Akala · « **Reply #2528 on:** March 17, 2020, 02:56:35 PM »

my allergies are freaking me out. $:-\$

EchoRin · « **Reply #2529 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:05:37 PM »

Quote from: filler on March 17, 2020, 02:56:11 PM

https://twitter.com/opinionsondanba/status/1239980841716944897

Grrrrl is you hi rite nao?!

james · « **Reply #2530 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:09:18 PM »

NYC might be locked down tonight

Himu · « **Reply #2531 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:10:35 PM »

Quote from: Akala on March 17, 2020, 02:56:35 PM

my allergies are freaking me out. $:-\$

You're telling me, man. Flowers have spread their seed all over my car. I got my car washed on Sunday and it's decked in flower cum again already.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2532 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:24:59 PM »

Ontario - 92% of cases are related to travel. 26% coming in from the US.

james · « **Reply #2533 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:36:01 PM »

They just cancelled the rest of the semester

No more mini skirts and crop tops on the first day of spring

Himu · « **Reply #2534 on:** March 17, 2020, 03:59:22 PM »

When you live in an allergy haven city and there's a pandemic and you don't know if you have allergies, the flu, or corona.

Then there's the fact allergies make your face itch and you're not supposed to touch your face.

It's like the worst time possible for this to be happening down here in the souf.

Himu · « **Reply #2535 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:02:07 PM »

FYI this is the pollen we are dealing with during this pandemic.

My car looks like this

james · « **Reply #2536 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:03:39 PM »

Te guy in the background is gold

team filler · « **Reply #2537 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:25:28 PM »

Quote from: james on March 17, 2020, 04:03:39 PM

Te guy in the background is gold

nicca look like boomer chad warden

Nintex · « **Reply #2538 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:30:30 PM »

Today was surreal. It has sunk in that this thing won't last days or weeks but months or years and that our strategy of herd immunity is very bold without a vaccine.
I'm trying to motivate our employees the best I can and got heart warming calls from clients, vendors and partners who all praised my can do attitude and optimism that we will win this fight.

As always Dutch directness is prevailing over panic.

On the upside my 30 minute drive to the office took 12 minutes today.

team filler · « **Reply #2539 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:32:43 PM »

dat dutch direct commute time

Leadbelly · « **Reply #2540 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:37:05 PM »

Quote from: shosta on March 17, 2020, 01:01:51 PM

Toilet paper is going $18 for six rolls. thank you free market

Also thank God I love grapefruit

I've been using kitchen roll for a couple of days. lol

Nintex · « **Reply #2541 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:44:50 PM »

There were stacks of toilet paper rolls in the supermarket this morning.

A sign said: limit of 2 packs per customer. But 1 pack holds like 18 rolls by default so if you strategically use it those 2 packs would last you until the end of the summer at least.

james · « **Reply #2542 on:** March 17, 2020, 04:46:17 PM »

Ok now society is actually collapsing

https://twitter.com/NorbertElekes/status/1240011858846855169

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2543 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:05:48 PM »

https://www.twitter.com/SayemAhmd/status/1239878928635920384

Himu · « **Reply #2544 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:28:17 PM »

It's definitely allergies. Damn that pollen!

Don Rumata · « **Reply #2545 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:28:53 PM »

Quote from: filler on March 17, 2020, 02:56:11 PM

https://twitter.com/opinionsondanba/status/1239980841716944897

So she wasn't acting in Spring Breakers...

Clockwork5 · « **Reply #2546 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:38:47 PM »

All of these countries imposing travel bans on their neighbors.

james · « **Reply #2547 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:40:14 PM »

Taking the train home for the last time in awhile. Starting wft tomorrow.

I haven't seen the movie, but presumably this is what the last train the busan feels like

BisMarckie · « **Reply #2548 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:46:59 PM »

It will be like snowpiercer, but this time the train is powered by burning stonks.

Himu · « **Reply #2549 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:51:20 PM »

Quote from: BisMarckie on March 17, 2020, 05:46:59 PM

It will be like snowpiercer, but this time the train is powered by burning stonks.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #2550 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:51:44 PM »

Kevin Durant infected too

VomKriege · « **Reply #2551 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:53:05 PM »

Nationalisations on the table in France. No more details.

Is Corona-chan going to roll back 50 years of neoliberalism ?

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #2552 on:** March 17, 2020, 05:55:02 PM »

maybe it wasn't a chinese bioweapon but a marxist one all along

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #2553 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:06:23 PM »

https://twitter.com/LeeOnFilm/status/1240015374764179473

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #2554 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:13:38 PM »

https://twitter.com/emtothea/status/1240020633179893760

Potato · « **Reply #2555 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:25:30 PM »

Did I miss something? What did she say?

EchoRin · « **Reply #2556 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:27:07 PM »

Quote from: Potato on March 17, 2020, 06:25:30 PM

Did I miss something? What did she say?

Nothing. A boring ramble of whop de doo like why isn't this over yet blah blah blah.

Her career is not over by any stretch.

She just came off like a drunk college girl.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #2557 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:32:28 PM »

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/health/coronavirus-statistics-undetected.html

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for every confirmed case, there are most likely another five to 10 people in the community with undetected infections. These often-milder cases are, on average, about half as infectious as confirmed ones, but are responsible for nearly 80 percent of new cases, according to the report

EchoRin · « **Reply #2558 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:37:02 PM »

Eh... I'm gonna go for a run when it's nice on Thursday. That isn't gonna cause anyone to get sick balcony geniuses.
It's people being packed together that's the issue

BisMarckie · « **Reply #2559 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:37:56 PM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on March 17, 2020, 02:09:49 PM

I have hardly seen any party politics in Canada since this started.

Yeah, if anything positive comes from this, it‘s that people put differences behind them and come closer together (metaphorically

).
Seen lots of signs and acts of solidarity in my neighborhood recently.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2560 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:44:12 PM »

Most people have even stopped talking about Alberta's oil crisis as well. It's honestly really nice.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #2561 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:47:35 PM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on March 17, 2020, 06:44:12 PM

Most people have even stopped talking about Alberta's oil crisis as well. It's honestly really nice.

Kenney's budget planning on healthcare cuts in the year and a pandemic rolling in is enough a topic.

VomKriege · « **Reply #2562 on:** March 17, 2020, 06:56:57 PM »

Learned from a colleague that one of my former supervisor lost someone to the virus.

I think this will get real soon enough to everyone.

VomKriege · « **Reply #2563 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:05:52 PM »

To add up to my post on the previous page : Pharma company Sanofi is gifting to the French authorities anti-Malaria Plaquenil medication for 300k people, after the first pilot tests for its use against COVID19 appeared promising.

Clockwork5 · « **Reply #2564 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:07:27 PM »

https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/atlanta-furry-convention-canceled-due-to-coronavirus/?utm_source=reddit.com
Apparently masks won’t protect you.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2565 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:13:00 PM »

Fuck, I was going to yiff the sick away.

Lonewulfeus · « **Reply #2566 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:22:14 PM »

My state just closed all malls and amusement parks indefinitely.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #2567 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:31:32 PM »

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1240055544850743297

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2568 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:41:53 PM »

Everything I see about the American situation is terrifying. We can't close the border on you animals fast enough.

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In all seriousness it's pretty terrifying. It seems like only a quarter of the population is taking it seriously. You guys are way too far behind this thing to still be in the getting people infromed and concerned stag.

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demi · « **Reply #2569 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:44:04 PM »

i think i'm most excited to have more opportunities to jerk off at home. hell yeah. corona rules

Akala · « **Reply #2570 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:46:10 PM »

I saw something locally one parent or another was trying to schedule a playdate so that a bunch of children could craft pictures/dolls whatever and send the local elderly care packages since the nursing homes are closed.

In other news I found out there is a strong chance starting next week I may have more time around the house than I am prepared for.

$:-\$

VomKriege · « **Reply #2571 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:54:48 PM »

Lives saved from the air pollution reduction might actually be outpacing excess deaths from the virus (as of now) :

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/new-evidence-shows-how-covid-19-has-affected-global-air-pollution/ar-BB11jGwt?ocid=ientp

Y... Yay ?

Nintex · « **Reply #2572 on:** March 17, 2020, 07:59:13 PM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on March 17, 2020, 07:41:53 PM

Everything I see about the American situation is terrifying. We can't close the border on you animals fast enough.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
In all seriousness it's pretty terrifying. It seems like only a quarter of the population is taking it seriously. You guys are way too far behind this thing to still be in the getting people infromed and concerned stag.
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The experts were wrong, working with faulty models on risk and spread or they knew the governments wouldn't take them seriously if they told them millions would die.
Maybe everyone just assumed best case scenario's?

Tripon · « **Reply #2573 on:** March 17, 2020, 08:01:56 PM »

https://twitter.com/YaiSor/status/1239864382571544576

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2574 on:** March 17, 2020, 08:21:17 PM »

Saw $1.60 gas today.

mormapope · « **Reply #2575 on:** March 17, 2020, 08:52:02 PM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on March 17, 2020, 07:41:53 PM

Everything I see about the American situation is terrifying. We can't close the border on you animals fast enough.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
In all seriousness it's pretty terrifying. It seems like only a quarter of the population is taking it seriously. You guys are way too far behind this thing to still be in the getting people infromed and concerned stag.
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It's really dependent on the state, for example in my State:

https://www.channel3000.com/wisconsin-now-has-72-confirmed-coronavirus-cases-experts-seeing-evidence-of-community-spread/?fbclid=IwAR35nOcy57oRE1ZQo0flC_hdxbgNU-U63w7NCXgLxn7va8Jg0hnDyv-pGJw

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Gov. Tony Evers is ordering a statewide moratorium on events with 10 or more people effective today at 5 p.m. Transportation, childcare, hotels, military and law enforcement, hospitals, food pantries, utility facilities, courts, job centers and long-term care facilities are exempt from the order.

Evers also said bars throughout the state will be closed at 5 p.m. today. Restaurants will only be able to provide food through take-out or delivery services.

“What we’re saying folks is as simple as this: stay home if you can,” said Evers.

Although the governor’s office expects residents to follow this new moratorium, Evers’ legal counsel said local police departments will be enforcing it. Penalties would be a $250 fine and/or imprisonment for 30 days.

Evers has also expanded the statewide school closure order until further notice. The order originally said until at least April 6.

Evers said he is asking the state legislature to immediately take up legislation to repeal the state’s one week waiting period for unemployment compensation insurance. He plans to issue an order on Wednesday that will ensure that people affected by the virus who are out of work can get benefits.

State of Emergency was declared last week, there's tons of precautions going to clinics or urgent care. We're at least trying here.

Also, I work in a grocery store and have type 1 diabetes. So I'm expecting shit to get funky for me.

Leadbelly · « **Reply #2576 on:** March 17, 2020, 08:55:03 PM »

Again, my understanding of it wasn't that they were just going to ignore all measures, only that they were only going to do them when it became necessary and at the right time when it is most effective. And they never actually said to do nothing. Only they didn't follow suit right away with shutting down schools or banning public events, etc.

If you don't already know by now, a lot of epidemiologists believe this may not go away in the summer. You have a highly contagious virus that is very difficult to contain. There is no vaccine to control it. Which is the idea behind getting some 'herd immunity'. A certain amount of tolerance to the virus in the population will potentially slow the spread right down. This idea didn't come from Boris Johnson.

Now it's too early really to know what will work best I suppose, but it is clear these ideas weren't just pulled out of someone's ass. lol

If you haven't already, watch this interview. You will have a better idea of the problems we now face.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2577 on:** March 17, 2020, 09:24:13 PM »

Quote from: mormapope on March 17, 2020, 08:52:02 PM

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Right but the issue is that if states ignore it, and if you are not going to shut down domestic travel, then its only going to slow the problem for so long. It amounts to the same thing as one state doing gun control while its neighbors do not.

nachobro · « **Reply #2578 on:** March 17, 2020, 09:31:15 PM »

wfh begins tomorrow

when the big boss said it started as soon as payroll was complete it magically got done in one day

gonna get some real dumb calls tomorrow when the truly computer illiterate have to use remote desktop $:-\$

mormapope · « **Reply #2579 on:** March 17, 2020, 09:31:23 PM »

Quote from: Madrun Badrun on March 17, 2020, 09:24:13 PM

Quote from: mormapope on March 17, 2020, 08:52:02 PM
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Right but the issue is that if states ignore it, and if you are not going to shut down domestic travel, then its only going to slow the problem for so long. It amounts to the same thing as one state doing gun control while its neighbors do not.

That's very true and a National lockdown on state to state travel would help immensely.

News:

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