outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

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

but rockism was vanquished!

…or was it?

👹

A reminder that every silby post has a flag link next to it for your personal convenience.

I only flag posts that call for other people to flag. And yes I will flag my own post shortly too.

I tried to flag one of silby’s posts but got an error message saying “where’s the lie tho”

confirmed case on Lesbos as well as a member of staff of London Underground

not sure how much longer the “contain” situation in the UK can obtain tbh

Cobra weirdly deciding that “spread is inevitable” but sticking at contain for now.

Also two cases in Shetland so there goes my patronising-but-deep-seated view of the islands as rural idylls and places of escape.