outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

msnbc reporting Butti-Biden negotiations in recent days, endorsement possibly forthcoming

whoops

coronavirus has endorsed biden!?!?!?

the long-awaited Joey Corona endorsement

Shoulda known Big Disease would back Biden

are you washing and sterilizing your pants everyday?

YES

scene report: runs on various staples and nonperishables in Seattle, people just buying a bunch of stuff in general. Big Asian supermarket was nearly cleaned out of ramen and rice, no TP left at the Safeway up the street.

Scene report London: Harringay Green Lanes Sainsbury's out of 500ml semi-skimmed milk as of this afternoon. Not sure that's corona-related mind you. Will let Matt Hancock know anyway.

I much prefer staying home when I'm sick too, but that's hard to do for a long, lingering illness. This January I was sick for about two weeks, and I stayed home about three days total, when I was feeling the worst, but I couldn't stay home every day. My whole family was sick, and my wife actually thinks it might have been coronavirus, although the idea that it was circulating in the NYC area as early as late December wouldn't really fit with the timeline as it's been reported. She did have the fever and cough, and our son had a milder case. He had it first, and a few parents of his classmates had been in China in November. Anyway, it's hard to even mention this without sounding crazy, I guess.

Australia seems to be decidedly not panicking. Japanese market was a bit low on rice but that could easily just be Sunday. The Chinese and Vietnamese markets a full of the stuff. Didn’t go into Woolworths but my local organic store is out of the tea I like but this has been the case for weeks. They never seem to get their heads round the fact that black tea is more popular than green or herbal and never order enough.

We made a few servings of lentils, so we're good until Tuesday, probably.

Movement afoot to cancel SXSW ...

"Harringay Green Lanes Sainsburys" hey I've been in this market!

not going to cancel my plans to travel to San Miguel de Allende this month

welp it's in FL now!

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/2-coronavirus-cases-presumptive-positive-in-the-tampa-bay-area/67-793f2e15-f24f-4e35-af5c-02857cea4a83?fbclid=IwAR3rCdoc3PdSUAs_yXU36WPa1iM5hbv5Bx84hD0VW1QyKQXROxIo4UN3evI

feel like this is about to start moving very fast over the next week as the testing ramps up.

my medical field buddy says expect the numbers to explode next week

second death in Washington state reported

CDC states run on supplies unnecessary, nobody listening, as per usual.

I mean, I live in Seattle, I'm definitely panic buying because I want to spend as little time as possible in supermarkets when this thing is at its peak.

a new case in manhattan as well

xpost they're concerned about people who don't need masks (i.e., people who aren't already sick) that are making runs on masks, which could cause a shortage for health professionals. most other items will probably be fairly easily replenished since there aren't national shortages.

how am i supposed to go panic shopping without plastic bags

just planning on a lot of hand washing and not touching my face

I’m still grieving all of my friends who died in SF/NY during the AIDS epidemic, I think I can handle this

was reading back on the 2009 flu pandemic and I forgot how widespread it was in the States. 2009 was such a shitty year I guess I just wasn't paying attention.

weirdly I feel the reactions to Ebola in the United States were much more panicked despite the relative small number of infections and difficulty of spread, whereas now clearer heads do seem to be prevailing (or people are too tired to worry about it). we also didn't have an insane person i nthe white house, so..... There was an instance where a teacher was required to stay home because she visited Dallas where there was one case, even though she was nowhere near where that victim was located.

the panic was probably also due to its much higher mortality rate, but we even had "WHAT IF IT BECOMES AIRBORNE" concern trolling from actual scientists during that one.

My wife is still getting over pneumonia (she wasn’t tested for coronavirus of course but she’s responded well to antibiotics so I assume the diagnosis was correct). Anyway she just flew out this morning for a work conference in, you guessed it, Seattle.

ugh

Just booked tickets to San Francisco for the 13th. Living on the edge!

We canceled our Hawai’i trip, mostly so we could avoid going to Seatac

lol i've had that song in my head all day

feel lucky. the past couple of days I've had:

I'm a vector.
He's a vector.
She's a vector.
They're a vector.
Wouldn't you like to be a vector, too?

can't be held responsible
she was touching wins' face

― mookieproof, Sunday, March 1, 2020 10:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

From 2017's Asterix and the Chariot Race.

https://www.telegraaf.nl/images/840x473/filters:format(jpeg):quality(50)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/fb5d1930-5c4c-11ea-b7b1-02c309bc01c1.jpg

The favorite, Coronavirus (real name Testus Terone), quits the race upon learning his co-driver cheated. Replaced by Julius Caesar, who almost wins but is immobilized by a pot-hole.

i was regularly immobilised by pot-holes during my university days

silby, did they let you cancel without penalty?

Yeah, seriously.

I had a layover of 13 HOURS between two 9 hour flights the other day. I fear no airport. Except, I actually do on a normal basis. God I hate flying.

Curious that South Korea has around double the amount of cases of Europe yet still fewer actual deaths so far.

*panic buys kimchi*

S. Korea has best in world screening. They catch most mild cases in their stats, whereas in European countries many mild cases are missed.

Nations with poor medical surveillance, like Iran, will have far higher observed case mortality rates than nations with great medical surveillance, like Singapore or South Korea, even if the actual mortality rates are the same.

Not far off half the cases in S. Korea are memebers of the same church so i would guess they’re probably testing everyone involved with it.

thank god we've got the right person on the job

CAPITOL HILL: @LindseyGrahamSC says @realDonaldTrump "probably knows more about medicine and specifically viruses than any of the so-called scientists at the NIH and CDC. If anyone is going to eradicate this plague it'll be the president." pic.twitter.com/lvQmrBtlwM

— Dan Lyons (@realdanlyons) February 26, 2020

man trump's blackmail material on graham must be dynamite

^^ tweet is "parody" apparently

This is fake. Stop retweeting this account please. pic.twitter.com/9PEGwRimAV

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 2, 2020

noted, but i feel like my point stands nonetheless

well, yeah

Oh my god fuckin fake Steve Jobs there’s a blast from the past

Not far off half the cases in S. Korea are memebers of the same church so i would guess they’re probably testing everyone involved with it.

It’s apparently 60% of all cases! They’re trying to test as many of the 260k members as possible so they’re going to be picking up more mild / asymptomatic cases than anyone else.

I'm beginning to think that maybe it'll be ok for me to go to Seoul in mid April? Though France advises restricted non-EU travel at the moment, they're saying that since the virus is already circulating in France that travel restrictions are no longer needed. have to wait and see, and the talks I'm giving in Seoul may be canceled on their end as the virus develops, but I mean, I'm already circulating in a city where the virus is likely spreading, and South Korea and Japan have great health care...anyway just trying to figure this out. love, Joey Corona

Daegu seems much worse hit.

My company has gone the other direction and banned everyone from going to Italy.

I’m working on the assumption that pretty much every conference, including those in the U.K., will likely be cancelled until May, at least.

the conferences I go to are generally like 30-50 people tops, so I don't think they'll be canceled because of their size (unlike big conventions like the Salon du Livre later this month which has now been canceled).