outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

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.

Goodbye to Joey, the King of Corona
See you, me and Julio down by the schoolyard

Japan does seem to have cocked things up a bit but Indonesia is still insisting that there are no cases despite a whole bunch of people returning from Bali with corona virus (also a popular place to Chinese tourists and locals and tourist from around the world to mix).

people like me will probably just get sick and be aight after, people like my dad will probably die.

Announcing my intention to go out panic buying, not because I’m worried or anything, but because all those other idiots are probably gonna go out panic buying, the idiots

DO IT. As long as you do first in first out whatever on food you eat anyways, it's not a waste. These are staples we always have enough of for at least a month for two people: black beans, chickpeas, sardines, frozen salmon, canned tomatoes, dry pasta, quinoa, rice, nori, cheerios, protein powder, flour, nut butters, water, soy milk. It' preparedness but honestly also partly because when you don't usually drive to grocery stores you take opportunities to stock up on heavy stuff when you can.

17 cases in Portugal, only one of which turned out to be positive(!). Someone returning on a flight from Milan

17 suspected cases that should say. only 1 actual case

This is reminding me a lot of the Eyjafjallajökull event as regards sorting out people who can conceptualise "Maybe I can't / shouldn't travel by plane for a while" vs those who are absolutely clear that reality should bend to them.

Does 'I'm scheduled to leave the country and my lease/tenancy agreement is about to expire and I can't afford to get quarantined in an Airbnb, especially in this housing market' count as expecting reality to bend to my will? Never mind, it probably does.

This is reminding me a lot of the Eyjafjallajökull event as regards sorting out people who can conceptualise "Maybe I can't / shouldn't travel by plane for a while" vs those who are absolutely clear that reality should bend to them.

https://fcbayern.com/binaries/content/gallery/fc-bayern/homepage/saison-18-19/profis/lewandowski/190107_lewandowski_get.jpg/190107_lewandowski_get.jpg

He's ready (to not travel by plane for a while)

xp no no you're fine, I'm not fundamentalist about it!

Eyjafjallajökull ... you're talking about the volcano, right? That's an outright natural disaster that was physically disruptive, it's kind of a different thing, isn't it?

Honestly not entirely sure why/when avoiding air travel should be considered (unless you're possibly sick already). Maybe not to (relative) epicenters like China right now, but the real concern is people already infected coming *from* those places, right? Do they even know how it's spread yet? Not through the air, just by contact, right? So unless you plan on avoiding all people everywhere for a while, go hand washing ham and I imagine you're about as safe as anyone. I don't want to get sick, and I sure don't want to die, but the numbers (so far) don't indicate either is any more a pressing possibility than the plane crashing. Or maybe more like a car crash, or the flu, or all sorts of other stuff.

Eyjafjallajökull ... you're talking about the volcano, right?

no, we're thinking of the other eyjafjallajökull

hand washing ham or ham washing hand

i am also mad at wins for subtweeting me

Lol, no, not the "other" Eyjafjallajökull, but I had to google it to make sure there wasn't, like, some famed disease that wiped it out in the 1800s or something that I didn't know about.

Double lol, looked at the WaPo just now and it seems that Trump thinks the media is simply stoking fear and has demanded a press conference to clear things up. If anyone should be able to assuage concerns with his reasonable tone, clear grasp of the facts and calm insight it's this asshole, right?