outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

I’ll withdraw “Nazi” but stand by ecofascist.

What is an ecofascist? and what was the Quillette article about, measuring the skulls of COVID-19 patients?

The Canadian equivalent of cancelling the Super Bowl.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/tim-hortons-scraps-roll-up-the-rim-cups-over-coronavirus-concerns-1.4843439

Sanpaku has precisely one interest, which is monitoring global instability and disaster for his maximum possible advantage. Because he evidently has nothing actually going on in his life and can’t be a disaster capitalist himself, he contents himself by acting like a very wise scientist on an unpopular messageboard and speculating on how things would go better if we simply solved more problems by rounding people up and putting them into camps. His regard for human life is based entirely on a perverse utilitarian worldview where the existence of the maximum amount of humans for the maximum amount of time is the greatest good and no other considerations, ideals, human feeling, etc can possibly register to him as having value. Because he is ignorant, he credulously links to alarmist headlines calling covid “a combination of SARS and AIDS” on flimsy and idiotic pretexts and cites obvious charlatans nobody else pays any heed to as his major sources of news. Linking to Quillette, famous of late for being a hate rag and sponsoring the “journalistic” activities of agent provocateur Andy Ngo is the last straw, he’s either too stupid to know how dangerous his stupidity is or he’s actively involved in loathsome enterprises for his own enrichment and ends. Fuck Sanpaku and the horse he rode in on.

lots of posters post pretty exclusively about putting groups of ppl into camps

its kinda why i want closer posting between uk and us ilx i have a good popcorn recipe

the aids stuff is really beyond the pale. an offensive comparison

I actually posted that dumb Australian tabloid headline because I thought others among you might be facing the "oh its just the flu" crowd. I just learned in the last hour that local ER doctors are seeking testing, but are still denied. That even their own nursing personnel are have swallowed the Trumpist/right wing media line.

I'm not an advocate of putting people in camps. However, in a pandemic, the rights of many to civil liberties should be balanced by the rights of vulnerable populations to live. If you don't understand this, start reading about the pandemics of history, how they've changed the course of history, and the halting development of the science of epidemiology after John Snow (the real important one, 1854).

There’s no reason to argue with me I literally can’t be bothered to read your posts at this point maybe other people will read them

I thought others among you might be facing the "oh its just the flu" crowd

this is not a reason to post offensive disinformation. who were you going to convince

It's known as Human Immunodeficiency Disease because it depletes immune response, and specifically CD4+ cells. Covid19 does the same thing in survivors. I suspect its a temporary effect, but we don't know. How the fuck have you people become so politicise that nothing on the planet can be "like HIV" in any way? I'm trying to give people who aren't following this as I do tools in order to encourage their peers to take the sort of protective measures that might save lives.

It's not fucking flu. And I'm not ever going to be ashamed of trying to do a good thing.

are you ashamed of your godforsaken ignorance

I feell like this is getting overlooked:

the late great
Posted: March 7, 2020 at 5:02:18 PM
just delurking to say that as a former employee of both the scripps institute of oceanography and the lawrence berkeley cyclotron, and as a current science teacher, i feel so much fucking shame and disappointment when i see ppl pay attention to sanpaku's puffed up credentials and jargon. it just means my profession has broadly failed to innoculate ppl against charlatanry.

"puffed up credentials and jargon"

Please reference this.

I don’t debate fascists I fight them

Sorry. I fit 0/14. You, on the other hand.

Lol eat shit

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OK, kids, let this be the outbreak/coronavirus thread again. With threadbanning not functional and yellow cards being useless, the sitewide tempban is next.

Look, I'm trying to help others and save lives. I don't know the game plan of this remora.

lol

I will limit my posts about Sanpaku in this thread to specific complaints about his posts in this thread how about that.

For instance Sanpaku you are deluded if you think posting on this message board is saving lives, not least because you don’t understand what you’re talking about.

since world is a trashfire, only fitting that the coronavirus thread is now a trashfire too

Oh and my game plan is to bully you until you stop posting or I get banned, I thought that was obvious.

Went out hiking outside of Seattle today, drove by a house near Bremerton with a flagpole flying a Trump flag right above a Corona flag. Feeling good!

Will trashfires kill the virus?

Just think how much posting there will be when we're all self-quarantined.

Oh and my game plan is to bully you until you stop posting or I get banned, I thought that was obvious.

...ok

One of the elementary schools that’s a feeder to mine just had its first confirmed case. I’m not looking forward to the finger-pointing and speculation that’ll ensue tomorrow.

yup. I've been doing my damndedest to get silby banned for his posting in this thread, bcz disagreement is waaaay different than heaping constant verbal abuse on someone and if that becomes the standard around this place, ilx will die with a whimper in less than a year.

that's what they said during the rockism troubles

but rockism was vanquished! we had a 3 day potluck celebration!

hope springs eternal

Thank you, Aimless. I don't know you, but I think you're good people. I'd buy you a drink, but you'd have to tell where the good places were in my own town.

I just went to buy toilet paper. Not out of panic but out of normal family shitting cycles. Of course there's no toilet paper left. Thanks for saving my life, sanpaku.

i do not support silby getting banned. i think maybe silby should cool it down and wait for sanpaku to get banned of their own accord bc it will happen

until then idk mute them on zing (i’ve heard this is a thing you can do)

Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

I don't think anyone with less than a 2 month supply of toilet paper purchased over the last week should be banned.

I like silby but these posts seemed p deranged and though i didn’t read the thread too closely Sanpaku posts seemed benign. also, silb’s posts are not funny. getting mad and being mean online *always* needs to be counterbalanced with humour, or else what’s the point

share links from Fancy Stormfront and reap what you sow imo

Brad, I've been here under this username a decade. Under other usernames since 2005. I'm peripheral, yes. A line in the yearly polls for 5-6 years. But keep bumping those who want to participate in a thoughtful pop culture community but have other concerns, and what's left.

man i do not care just don't post bullshit

some toilet paper is left

(no really blaming sanpaku for this)

(though, i did whisper "sanpaku" aloud when faced with the horror of the empty shelves)

Well I'm even more confused than before now

just noticed "mellon collie and the infinite bradness" and it has extinguished all rage, real or otherwise, within me

I still haven't listened to the Smashing Pumpkins since July

https://www.womenthatheal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sanpaku-faces-1024x576.png

it sanpaku. but presumably also access to toilet paper at home while they were alive