outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

I can't quite follow what the point actually is here but there's a cryptocurrency that gets more valuable as more people die BUT it gets destroyed every couple of days so it's not meant for investing?
( coronatoken.org )

the media is supposed to stoke only certain categories of fear

Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen is seizing this opportunity to take the EU to task for supposedly preventing member states from closing their borders.

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Here's the clip of Azar not assuring Rep. Schakowsky a covid-19 vaccine will be affordable to all. pic.twitter.com/Z8aNd4wLWj

— Michael McAuliff (@mmcauliff) February 26, 2020

My medical microbiologist friend who has, up to now been pretty sanguine about this sent out a group text this morning saying now was the time to start stocking up on food and medicine, in a few extra items in the basket kind of a way.

I just spent about $70 to reinforce our fairly well-stocked pantry. As long as we have running water and electricity we'd have no great difficulty with sheltering in place under tight restrictions on freedom of movement. Just boredom and a longing for fresh vegetables.

I'm not bothering, I'm a single bachelor and will probably die some other way this year.

If it goes full zombie apocaplyse I've got a full 2000L rainwater tank, although nothing to make it sake to drink and the only food I have in quantity is rice and Kimchi.

Welcome to the 2020s fam

CDC recommends shaving facial hair to protect against coronavirus https://t.co/O5V7Y64Rai #KMOV pic.twitter.com/z7kY5pSW4s

— KMOV (@KMOV) February 26, 2020

nothing to make it sake to drink and the only food I have in quantity is rice

hmmm. maybe this could help: https://www.hobbyhomebrew.com/how-to-make-sake-at-home/

Grave over shave!

If you don't want to go down the shaving route you can always go do the positive air pressure respirator route

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nothing to make it sake to drink and the only food I have in quantity is rice

hmmm. maybe this could help: https://www.hobbyhomebrew.com/how-to-make-sake-at-home/

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A very me slip on my part. Perhaps I should investigate some home brewing if I get locked in for a few weeks. And the rainwater tank is ideal, probably too much iron in Australian town water.

sake is really easy, speaking from experience! all you need is koji, wine yeast, rice, and clean water. you don't even have to seal it and basic sanitation is sufficient unlike beer.

Shave your sac and butts too men

That CDC facial hair chart is 100 percent hilarious.

always thoght the toothbrush 'stache sent out the wrong message but gotta do what you gotta do

Also long as you accompany it with Chaplin-style slapstick you should be fine.

What do any of you know about those UV cell phone cleaners? Are they at all effective? I imagine cell phones are tremendous vectors in the best of circumstances.

wheeeeeeeee

Coronavirus vs SARS/MERS/Ebola/Swine Flu 😬 pic.twitter.com/iRmeV0kWoI

— Dave Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 (@WelshGasDoc) February 25, 2020

I'm not sure you heard what our esteemed president said last night. It's getting smaller, not bigger.

xpost Apparently that graph is misleading?

no shit

At least I glanced at the replies, and the implication is it's taken out of context.

ooh i love fearmongering via incomplete or decontextualized information, hook me up to a drip of it

Okay, here you go: we're all gonna die. You're hearing it more and more these days.

Remember that you heard it on ilx first though.

At least I glanced at the replies, and the implication is it's taken out of context.

Love to live in a connected world where Josh being dumb as a post can help kill my mother.

Idk why twitter moments needs shit like “2 more people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK”. Deeply irresponsible.

That graph is stupid as fuck, no shit something that spreads far more easily than the other diseases kills more people.

I've been meaning to start a rolling 'Real Romania' thread for a while now. I don't think I will in the end, but this – relevant – video goes some way towards compensating for that lack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiM5ZUs9s68

The graph isn't making any claims about it killing more people though, just that it has of late an amazing speed of spreading.

Never mind, that video is from a year ago. I'm not sure that makes it better.

Why am I dumb as a post ... ? I mean, generally, sure, but specifically in this case?

Now is the time in our mid-pandemic meltdown when we ad hominem!

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The graph isn't making any claims about it killing more people though, just that it has of late an amazing speed of spreading.

Hang on, I have to brush some puppy off my shoes (sorry Josh, that was cranky even by my standards)

No prob! I didn't know if I missed something, because I had just time enough in a parking lot to glance at the post, pop over to twitter and skim the responses, many of which implied the original post was irresponsible because it/the graph/video was taken out of context.

this thread is going to give me a heart attack

what is wrong with the graph, again? that it shows coronavirus spreading rapidly? and that's misleading or fearmongering? incomplete or decontextualized information?

the graph shows the number of deaths for each virus, clearly, with the % of deaths per case. the graph is showing, correctly, that coronavirus spreads much more rapidly than the previous epidemics, while, also having a lower mortality rate. it's the perfect complement to all of the hundreds of articles from recent days explaining that the long incubation period (~2 weeks before showing symptoms), combined with the relatively low mortality rate (~2%), means that it's in the sweet spot where it can spread quickly without people knowing, and without mass deaths (a la ebola) to serve as an indicator.

we're about 2 seconds away from someone in itt doing the "but it's no more dangerous than the common cold!" argument

fine i'll make that extremely stupid argument

I know I'd rather catch coronavirus than ebola!

xp the it's no more dangerous than the common cold one?

please don't make that argument

i'm not being serious!!!!!

my position is that the panic scares me more than the virus

otm

It’s gonna be 9/11 all over again but with an emerging infectious disease instead of terrorism and China instead of the middle east

9/11 was not that big of a deal and yet we lost our shit over it