outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

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).

my son has a month-long camp in seoul scheduled for mid-july.. feelin pretty 50/50 about our chances

Can We Get a Vaccine Early? How the Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus

One co-founder of a major hedge fund, who asked not to be named discussing his plans, said he’d run in the other direction if his peers start fleeing into doomsday bunkers. He might fly to a house he has in Italy, a country that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises Americans to avoid. Widespread panic, he added, would only make plane tickets cheaper.

Charles Stevenson, an investor who was the longtime board president at a Park Avenue co-op that’s home to several billionaires, has been staying in Southampton.

“I don’t feel concerned at the moment -- it’s not near me right now,” Stevenson said. “If people in the village have coronavirus, I’d get out of here.” He’d fly to Idaho and close himself off in a cabin, he said, and his family could join him if they wanted. “That becomes a personal choice of theirs.”

silby, did they let you cancel without penalty?

― Yerac, Monday, March 2, 2020 6:08 AM (four hours ago)

I just went through the standard cancellation form and paid my $125 per ticket to cancel and get a voucher back, which is an improvement over my initial plan of not bothering to cancel the flights at all, and a tolerable price to pay for not having to speak to anyone on the phone about this.

Looks like 5 dead in WA from this now.

I guess 6

https://kuow.org/stories/live-blog-coronavirus-updates-in-seattle-area

Not surprising given it evidently broke out in a nursing home.

Woz the fuck?

Checking out Janet’s bad cough. Started Jan. 4. We had just returned from China and may have both been patient zero in U.S. (@ West Coast Sports Institute in Santa Clara, CA) https://t.co/MRNHqithEU

— Steve Wozniak (@stevewoz) March 2, 2020

Dear god in heaven, I'm so accustomed to presidential pressers in which Trump's sentences look like blown tires covered in Cheeto vomit that Mike Pence sounds like FDR at the moment.

I wonder how long the Trump anti-afterglow will last. How many cycles before normal sounds normal and not like FDR?

don’t listen to them speak

^^ extremely otm

listen to whatever epidemiologists or public health officials are saying. they are the experts and know things. Pence is just a mouthpiece who'll edit and spin the info for maximum political expediency.

Is the Woz the last person on Swarm?

I'm not "listening" to them, I happened to be channel surfing. Nothing will ever "normalize" the Trump administration.

You still have channels?

Cold lookin' for that hero

I'm in Seattle, and it seems like there's a really broad range of reactions to the outbreak. I went to the store today and bought enough food that I hopefully shouldn't have to step inside a store for a long time. A few of the shelves showed signs of panic buying (no yogurt!), and I've been seeing pictures of empty shelves on social media. But almost everyone I talk to in the city is like, "Oh, we'll see, it'll probably turn out to just be a bunch of hype." It really seems like most people are just going to go about their lives as usual until further notice. At least I've finally convinced my parents to take it seriously and lock themselves down as much as possible; my dad has asthma and I really don't want him to get this.

I called the mosaic studio where I have a membership to see if I could put it on hold, explained that I'm trying to be extra-cautious about the coronavirus, and the woman was like, "Well, do you think you'll feel like resuming the membership in April?" HOW DO I KNOW????

the absolute worst thing is having medical professionals in the US call it a "hoax". That is completely ridiculous.

Medical experts at the White House have to patiently explain to Trump that his idea of using the flu vaccine to address the coronavirus will not work. pic.twitter.com/acghVStSvK

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 2, 2020

someone should say to his face that he's very stupid and cruel

just like some CEO he invites

What the absolute fucking goddamn motherfuck.

'How about Pepto-Bismol? Will that cure Caronavirus? Maybe some Tums? I'll just tell the American people to choke down some Tums, they'll be fine.'

no, one network of pharmacies will try and appease him because everybody's oh so afwaid of him and CVSs will release "coronavirus" vaccines that are just leftover flu vaccines and they'll claim it has a 65% success rate and anybody who gets sick they will say is part of the 35% failure rate.

Today, China reported 7 new infection cases imported from Italy in Zhejiang.