outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

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/

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 27 February 2020 1:21 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

Wow, Japan is literally closing all of its schools until April?!

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

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, February 27, 2020 11:07 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah that's where i'm at too

Seriously, I don't see how it's practical to close am entire nation's schools for a month. If all those millions of kids are sent home, then someone has to stay with them, which means people not going to work, etc., which is tantamount to millions and millions of people home sick anyway.

just ftr, i am not afraid of dying of coronavirus or something. and i totally get worrying or just being annoyed about the panic, the indirect effects, and not the thing itself.

i think i am just oversensitive to this kind of thing because of the fine lines between good and bad faith arguments. basically, the great climate change internet comment section wars of 2007-2010 destroyed my ability to differentiate between the two

Karl has largely made my point for me, thanks Karl - my impression was that Josh skimmed the article with the informative graph, wanted to be told that it wasn't as serious, and picked up and rebroadcast 'graph wrong!'

(and my mother is recovering from double pneumonia, has poor function in at least one of her lungs, is on oxygen every night and probably will be permanently - if and when she catches this, that will almost certainly be it for her, so I'm a little twitchy about "oh yeah but it's low mortality")

Seriously, I don't see how it's practical to close am entire nation's schools for a month. If all those millions of kids are sent home, then someone has to stay with them, which means people not going to work, etc., which is tantamount to millions and millions of people home sick anyway.

it's about containment. school is a hotspot for contagious diseases.

sad lol I didn't even skim the article.

I think the Japan thing is huuuuuge. I know why they did it, although I thought reporting was that kids were the *least* affected so far.

i would guess it's not so much to directly protect the kids, it's that they can still carry the virus, and without visible symptoms (during the incubation period)

As an out-of-work teacher, this is the first time I've been glad about the out-of-work part. In the first year or two of teaching, you get everything that's going around, because you don't have immunity yet. No one has immunity to this, and kids apparently get very mild cases, so a lot of teachers and school staff are going to be infected.

Yeah I'm also not super afraid of the virus at this point -- maybe it's naive, but I'm pretty healthy and have a history of weathering illnesses pretty well. I'm slightly more concerned for my parents and inlaws. Agree however about being concerned about the panic, and also concerned that Trump admin will bungle the response. At least I live in NYC/NYState which seem to have slightly more competent govts than the US right now.

Perhaps anyone without kids hasn't considered how massively disruptive it would be to, say, close all of America's schools for a month.

t/s: closing schools to help contain a pandemic vs keeping schools open and hastening a pandemic