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.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
It would be very inconvenient to become stuck in Hawaii and I wouldn’t care for that at all.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
Italy coronavirus outbreak: Italians empty supermarket shelves as fear of epidemic spreads
This wasn't necessary, but people panic. That's the concern.
― Save us, Covid19 (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
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!
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
(that's supposed to be someone talking in the near future but then twitter invades their universe
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 01:03 (four years ago) link
He should hereby declare a vaccine be ready immediately.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 01:05 (four years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
it will happen very suddenly because they will actually start testing for it.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
really proud of the survivalists in this thread
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
I just hope my cat doesn’t get infected when he eats my corpse
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:01 (four years ago) link
it's just an excuse to mix wine into my water.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:02 (four years ago) link
i am watching the debate and i believe pete buttigieg has the coronavirus, he seems sweaty and disoriented
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:10 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
Good Luck, Joey Corona! future participant on a minimum of 3 reality shows.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
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?
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
More like, "heeeeeeeeeeey, it's me!"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
not going to worry about this
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
Eyy here’s yah boy Joeyyyy Co-RO-naaaah
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:36 (four years ago) link
we'd like to thank the opening band, joey corona's virus -- weren't they great, folks
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
sad lol, my daughter says that's actually his nickname, Joey Coronavirus.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:43 (four years ago) link
first COVID-19 casualty in the US
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
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.
― Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
Goodbye to Joey, the King of CoronaSee you, me and Julio down by the schoolyard
― nickn, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
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).
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link
people like me will probably just get sick and be aight after, people like my dad will probably die.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 04:46 (four years ago) link
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
― Last night I dreamt I watched The Mandalorian (wins), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 07:17 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link
17 cases in Portugal, only one of which turned out to be positive(!). Someone returning on a flight from Milan
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:21 (four years ago) link
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.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
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)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:35 (four years ago) link
xp no no you're fine, I'm not fundamentalist about it!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 11:29 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
Eyjafjallajökull ... you're talking about the volcano, right?
no, we're thinking of the other eyjafjallajökull
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:31 (four years ago) link
hand washing ham or ham washing hand
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
6pm’s always a good time to drop great news, right?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
If by that you mean Trump's scheduled toilet time, then yes. Also, every other hour on the hour.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
Of course, we all know Trump's drops are typically pretty bad news.
The most important thing is whatever they say tonight we know we can trust them entirely.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
ok i'm not worried anymore, apparently this is just a left wing ploy to drive the stock market down
Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape! @CDCgov.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 26, 2020
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
What are the odds on him huffing a big vial of carona to own the libs?
― median punt (gyac), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
it'll be like obama drinking the flint tap water
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
MSDNC ... I've got to admit, I've never heard that one before but it's pretty clever. wherever he got it from.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
Accurate, too
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
possible possible possible
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link