outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

xpost So people who purchase *now*, fully aware of all this stuff going on, get reassurance that they can change their flights without penalty. But people who purchased months ago, with no idea any of this would be going on, get screwed? If United is acknowledging that people purchasing now might want to change flights out of precaution, then why wouldn't that same safety concern apply to everyone else? That's like saying people booking a room in a burning hotel can get a refund, but those already staying there get penalized for leaving.

They’re doing it to drum up business not out of safety concerns

Yes. It is not a huge mystery why they might treat people whose money they have differently from people whose money they want tbh.

Well, out of safety concerns, but yeah, $$$.

What if the money's infected

Then the joke's on them, because they have our money. The fools.

This #panickbuying just went to a whole new level. I just don’t get it. #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/lNiE3RdZL0

— Auntie Pegg (@AuntiePegg) March 7, 2020

France is a few days from declaring itself to be in stage 3 epidemic levels. It's not really clear what difference that will make locally, but I imagine it will add us to lists of places to which travel is not allowed.

xp jfc how much are these arseholes planning on shitting

Stores should be placing limits on high demand items.

The government here has put price limits on hand sanitizer (3 euros per 100mls) and is allowing pharmacies (which are everywhere) to make their own for selling in addition.

Yet more proof that Macron is a dictator.

with the strikes in public hospitals right now, the epidemic is going to make things delicate.

don't most average people go through, at max, one roll of toilet paper per person a week?

I’m used to doing most of my pooping at the office so we def will need more around here

josh, are you staying in an apt or hotel? I think there is only one person infected in o'ahu and they were on that cruise ship.

men use 4 a day iirc

depends how often they are planning to masturbate

nothing comes out of my butt when i masturbate.

omg

xpost new board des......wait, nah

i bet everyone in the usa wishes they had japanese toilet seats now.

been wishing for that for a while tbh

also I have been led to believe americans throw it over each others front gardens for some reason

um, it's called "Greeting the Moon"

I think there are 6 cases now in chile, all from people who traveled to e asia, mostly italy. It's hot as shit here right now and very dry so I wonder how that will affect transmission. everyone is still out protesting.

We're staying in an airbnb, so not packed with tourists.

This is full of all sorts of handy stuff:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

My bathtub is 1 ft from my toilet. And I hate half measures. I maybe go through a roll every two months.

wait, what does your bathtub being in proximity to your toilet have to do with how much toilet paper you use

yeah i think we go through one normal (non-plushy) roll for 2 people here a week usually. I think some people have toilet paper insecurity though? is that a thing?

xp I don't think we want to know that.

About a roll a month for me. Portable bidet, people.

Don't use more than 1 square of toilet paper to dry off when you get out of the tub

My tub is right by the toilet as well and was thinking, not so seriously but actually it would mean there were options if there was no paper. That would be TMI but it's only hypothetical.

bideting is totally fine.

i left a full kirkland package (30 rolls) at my apt when I moved and my friends moved in (2M). I came back to visit like 4 months later and went looking for toilet paper in the closet and noticed new charmin instead. I asked oh, did you not like that toilet paper brand or something." THEY HAD USED IT ALL ALREADY. I think some people just very much like to make an oven mitt whenever they wipe their butt.

Many of the squat toilets in much of Asia have spray hoses nearby. It all depends on one's standard of cleanliness.

bidet is better

i feel like squat toilets were really beneficial in having older asians maintain a lot more mobility than western counterparts. I am trying to look this up but it looks like no one has really been able to research it with a control group--- why certain ethnicities can hold deep squats longer/more easily.

it was only a matter of time before someone involved waffle stomping doctrine itt

xp crut:

I find that offensive. Rick Santelli here is perpetuating the lie that "it's just another flu". I've been pushing the opposite line here and elsewhere since epidemiology stats came out in early Feb. Given containment is no longer possible, if mitigation measures are successful, we can get US CFR under 0.6% (for 30% attack rate, ~ 600k dead), much lower if some effective antivirals prove effective). If everyone in the US got it now, all who require critical care, and most who require serious care, would die. 3% of the population (10 M dead). Santelli's call is one of the most irresponsible things I've seen from any broadcast journalist, ever. Santelli should lose his job over this.

There's been a run on toilet paper at a lot of Costco locations, apparently. But Costco also carries bidet attachments you can buy for a conventional toilet. Then again, if you are so paranoid you're also stocking up on bottled water, clearly you have no faith in our plumbing system, anyway, so bidet attachments are out. But what good is all that toilet paper if you don't think we're going to have running water?

I assume the people stocking up on bottled water don't drink tap water in the first place.

My figures above aren't that outlandish.

James Lawler, MD, MPH, U Nebraska
https://i.insider.com/5e62a449fee23d58c83a9e62?width=800&format=jpeg

It's not the flu.

why certain ethnicities can hold deep squats longer/more easily.

lol it has nothing to do with ethnicity, and it's not just for using the toilet in Asia, Russia, all over the world.

xpost It's definitely not the flu. But even if the flu is not as deadly, that doesn't discount the thousands of people who die from the flu every year without dominating the headlines the same way. If there is one good thing that comes out of this it will be reaffirming for the millionth time the importance of washing your hands.

ohhhh, what do you think it is. I was trying to figure out if it was some physiology thing. This was the first article that popped up for me. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/can-you-do-the-asian-squat/555716/

xpost

I was out last night, and I'm stuck in a mall for a while right now, and I have yet to see anybody who seemed even the bit concerned. I don't know if that in and of itself should be concerning.

It's not the flu.

The world's public health officials only freak out about the flu when especially uncommon and virulent strains appear. Their universally high levels of public warnings and unusually drastic interventions should be an excellent clue to people that this is not "just like the flu".

like the article says, it's practice. in some cultures it's just done a lot more.

I'm too lazy to find and embed but GIS yourself some Slav Squat

xxp

xpost Point being, even if it were "just like the flu," the flu is pretty deadly!