outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

IRLLOLZ

there were reports yesterday that Tianjin University had developed a promising vaccine candidate. I didn’t see it get much coverage so maybe a furphy.

Elon's going to invent a giant Snowpiercer-styled ship that jettisons all rich people into space, where they will be safe from coronavirus.

im planning to go the Philippines and Japan from the US for a family and tourist trip in march. should i freak out and cancel my trip or am i overreacting? I'm worried about being quarantined or not being able to fly home if there are more cases in those countries.

So far it does not seem to be spreading in hot/tropical climates. I dunno, of the concerns you listed I guess, yeah, I'd be more worried about quarantine or flight issues than actual illness. But I guess it's wait or see how things escalate, if they do.

Suspected cases of COVID-19 in Philippine hospitals down to less than 100

Any travel this year has an element of crapshoot.

Coronavirus update: There's no way to tell when the White House is telling the truth. Also, the nation's most important news publisher, Facebook, makes money by disseminating falsehoods. Good luck everyone.

— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) February 25, 2020

i went to costco to prep. not for the disease, more like how when i know a snow storm is coming i make sure i don't have to shop the day before it comes because i don't like to be in the grocery store with all those dumb snow storm shoppers. i only had 4 rolls of toilet paper left and it was causing me anxiety. i got a big box of oats and 10 lbs of roman beans just in case.

^sardines

i got tuna. and eggs. i need some oranges to prevent scurvy.

using coronavirus as an excuse to pickle a bunch of eggs c/d?

classic! i might can my beans.

I just came back from the grocery with tuna, peanut butter, carnation instant breakfast, a box of individual shelf stable milks, cereal, instant oatmeal, hand sanitizer, a few other things. I'm probably going to hit Trader Joe's for a bunch of snacks and frozen food stuff tomorrow.

I'm pretty much on the same page, if people start to lose their shit or some kind of quarantine happens, I want enough stuff to survive for a few days.

I doubt I can survive more than a couple of days without restaurant food. 🤷‍♂️

Should probably make chili this weekend and buy some extra rice.

I bought tortilla chips today, should be good to go.

I literally cannot imagine a health scenario (in this country, at least) that would require self-quarantine and/or food stocks. And if such a thing ever came to pass, good luck with those jars of PB, because that's probably the end of civilization. Like, I have a good friend who grew up hunting, so has guns in the house. He's no nut, but he did mention to me once how they provide some assurance that he could protect his family in the case of cataclysm. And my response was basically if it ever came to that, that's the end of the road, because what kind of world are you saving them for?

Anyway, just wash your hands a lot.

we just don't want to go to the grocery store. we aren't buying buckets of jim bakker end times cheese.

Heh. Yeah, well, this virus can be asymptomatic for days/weeks. They already walk among us!

if such a thing ever came to pass, good luck with those jars of PB, because that's probably the end of civilization.

I can see you've let your imagination run wild really thought about this.

I’m concerned about my lack of shelter-in-place preparedness but that’s bc of volcano and earthquake risks not epidemic viral disease

xps. He's no nut, but he did mention to me once how they provide some assurance that he could protect his family in the case of cataclysm. And my response was basically if it ever came to that, that's the end of the road, because what kind of world are you saving them for?

postlapsarian steampunk primitivist utopia?

i share this concern, silby.

This is #Iran’s deputy health minister, who we now know has #coronavirus, giving an interview about #COVID19 on state TV last night. The anchor says to him “you are coughing” he says “maybe I should cover my mouth like this” pic.twitter.com/2A7xRrCkTv

— Ali Arouzi (@aliarouzi) February 25, 2020

I can absolutely imagine people making a run on groceries because it happens every time a hurricane or similar weather event threatens.

China just quarantined some 100M people, a quarantine doesn't seem completely out of the realm of possibilities.

that's what i mean, i'm not worried about getting the actual virus at the store lol

xp to silby: Mt. Rainier (or Mt. Hood) will clear it's throat before any big eruption, so it won't be any sudden cataclysmic surprise. The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, otoh, is worth taking the need for prior readiness seriously. It won't warn us ahead of time. This virus is potentially more of a global rough passage, not any kind of civilization-level apolcalypse.

i mean when I make a run for food, it's because shit like if truckers or distribution gets sick or they need to stay home to take care of family because schools are closed or caretakers are sick. Just be prepared with food you would eat anyway. It's not hard.

Oh, I can imagine people making a run to the grocery just to have stuff, I was just doubtful anyone will actually *need* to have ready the full prepper-roni. I've never experienced first-hand, though, bare shelves and whatnot due to panics. Even with the worst, say, blizzard forecast here.

And China quarantining millions of people ... I mean, well, yeah. Authoritarian regimes love locking people up. But beyond that, the overwhelming majority of cases, by huge numbers, remain in China. Though that can change, I guess.

I've experienced bare shelves because people panic and start pillaging and then they don't have shipments coming in.

also fyi since you will be going to hawaii, amazon prime doesn't exist. It ALLLLLLL takes a week or more.

It would be very inconvenient to become stuck in Hawaii and I wouldn’t care for that at all.

Italy coronavirus outbreak: Italians empty supermarket shelves as fear of epidemic spreads

This wasn't necessary, but people panic. That's the concern.

it's important at this time to try to set politics aside so that decisions can be madeohnononofuuuuu@realDonaldTrumpCryin’ Chuck Schumer is complaining, for publicity purposes only, that I should be asking for more money than $2.5 Billion to prepare for Coronavirus. If I asked for more he would say it is too much. He didn’t like my early travel closings. I was right. He is incompetent!

(that's supposed to be someone talking in the near future but then twitter invades their universe

He should hereby declare a vaccine be ready immediately.

Based on the pattern we've seen in other countries, it seems likely that when the outbreak happens in the US it will happen very suddenly (most likely reaching outbreak status within a day or two of the first cluster being detected) but it will be limited to a specific region initially. If that specific region is a smaller town or group of towns rather than a major metropolis, it seems possible an attempted quarantine could be put in place, much like what has been done in Italy.

it will happen very suddenly because they will actually start testing for it.

really proud of the survivalists in this thread

I just hope my cat doesn’t get infected when he eats my corpse

it's just an excuse to mix wine into my water.

i am watching the debate and i believe pete buttigieg has the coronavirus, he seems sweaty and disoriented

Man, one of my kids just told me there is a boy in her art class named Joey Corona, and their current project requires them to all wear face masks. Tough break.

Good Luck, Joey Corona! future participant on a minimum of 3 reality shows.

joey corona i'm sorry about what's happened to you, but could you please say "hey it's me! joey corona!" whenever you walk into a new room?

More like, "heeeeeeeeeeey, it's me!"

not going to worry about this

Eyy here’s yah boy Joeyyyy Co-RO-naaaah

we'd like to thank the opening band, joey corona's virus -- weren't they great, folks

sad lol, my daughter says that's actually his nickname, Joey Coronavirus.

first COVID-19 casualty in the US

I'm normally not one to worry about this shit, but I have a bad feeling about this, mostly due to how contagious this appears to be and how ill prepared our leadership is. Going to stock up on rice, beans, and pork that can be put in the freezer. I'm not worried about catching/surviving the virus, more the upheaval that will occur if the virus punctures the thin veil of societal control.

Basically, if a lot of people are too sick to come to work, all at once, things will get very dicey for a while. It's not like we'll all die squalid deaths, but even a small amount of social chaos would suck balls until things came back to a semblance of normal. If I were a healthcare worker, I'd be nervous about what my next six months might look like.