outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

our hospital has one potential case right now who is being transferred from the ICU to an isolated room on the floor. guess who his primary care doctor is? 🙃

yeeks

Chinese medical workers who have been fighting the #coronavirus day and night in Wuhan celebrated the closing of the last temporary hospital in Wuhan.

The reported #covid19 cases went from a surge in February of 15,000 in one day to only 15 this week. pic.twitter.com/xWuPd23EfY

— redfish (@redfishstream) March 13, 2020

what happens there when the restrictions end is almost the most important point of the year, afaict.

This is rough. Fresh out of self-quarantine, @tedcruz is headed back in after he learned he shook hands with another person infected by virus. pic.twitter.com/WZinFx7ATR

— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) March 13, 2020

stop shaking hands folks. (ted, keep shaking hands)

take a look at these hands!

yeeks

ted looking for any excuse to keep plumbing the depths of pornhub’s milf section

Calling human beings facing the risk of death in the middle of a global pandemic "CONSUMERS" is some dark, dystopian shit. pic.twitter.com/ubntmRaiOV

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) March 13, 2020

earlier they said that the cruise line companies are "america's cherished industry"

which i take exception to. america has so many industries that i cherish, i can't pick just one

nothing more american than sequestering people with disposable incomes in environmentally disastrous spaces devoted to enforced fun and very small portions of carefully controlled exposure to other cultures

ships flying flags of convenience, with crews largely composed of people from other countries

hmm, yeah, they kind of are the most american of industries

cruise ships are americas sweetheart

if we can't goodbye lenin ted cruz into staying self-quarantined for years after a vaccine is found w're not trying

just have the same man in a different mustache and tie standing outside his door when the fourteen days are up and shake his hand again

cruise ships are americas sweetheart

The Love Boat
Soon will be making another run
The Love Bat
Promises something for everyone

Only 80s kids will understand

i loved the graphic where the characters wld pop up in the life preserver

Orlando just became the latest to ban gatherings of 250 or more.

I actually didn't know we hadn't already done that

Wait, Ted’s quarantine was like 3 days long wasn’t it? That’s not a quarantine!

in pornhub years it's 12 days.

Lol

4 score and 7 leers ago

ahahahha

it might only be three days to you and me but ted has died a thousand little deaths in that time

"pandemic" (2020) on netflix. lovely stuff, lads

I know Gladwell has lots of haters (and Bill Simmons too), but I learned stuff from this conversation.

It’s not possible to learn things from Malcom Gladwell.

so the adult establishments in Cocoa are not only still open but advertising like nothing is happening.

think that's one place where you definitely can't minimize "social contact" and that would be a 'bad' thing....esp considering the average age of the people that go to them.

i have a friend whose bar just closed down because Charles Barkley drank there a few days ago.

oof.

You can bet that some idiots, having internalized years of apocalyptic movie behaviour, will make sure to live out apocalyptic movie behaviour.

http://www.blogto.com/city/2020/03/gun-reportedly-drawn-fight-toronto-grocery-store-amid-coronavirus-panic-shopping/

(Not blaming the movies, to be clear.)

One of the funny aspects of there being a global authoritarian movement but in fact no international leftwing solidarity is that right-wing politicians are all giving each other #coronavirus but leftwing politicians remain isolated, ineffective, and healthy.

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) March 13, 2020

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the US government’s coronavirus testing apparatus, which has lagged badly behind other developed nations, would soon get an assist from Google. The search and advertising giant will create a website, Trump said, that would help Americans figure out if they need a test for the virus, and if so where they can find one.

The only problem: There is no nationwide site like the one Trump described. And Google had no idea the president was going to mention one.

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/

The only problem

Well they better get cracking, then!

shit if yr gonna distort that much, why not say "google's making an anti-coronavirus wand that makes you infection free but in order for it to work you have to use it then stay in your house for two months"

by Sunday we’ll, uh, have a timeframe for when that wand will be available

i am tired of every corporation that has my email address emailing me to tell me about their plans for coronavirus

"pandemic" (2020) on netflix. lovely stuff, lads

― ||||||||, Friday, March 13, 2020 3:12 PM (two hours ago)

also Outbreak which is absolutely terrible.

no Contagion... yet.

xpost needs a thread. I realized how many shitty lists I got on just through this alone

i'd rather watch Testament. not adjacent enough to make me queasy.

i have an account at pentagon federal credit union (lol) because they owned the realtor that was my buying agent when i bought my house 7 years ago and there was some fee they would waive if you join, and they would even give you $10 to put in the account to open it. they sent me a letter long ago that my account would be closed soon due to inactivity. guess not. lol. so i get to hear A message to PenFed members regarding COVID-19. thanks!

The people will survive
In their environment
The dirt, scarcity, and the emptiness of our south
The injustice of our greed
The practice we inherit

The dirt, scarcity and the emptiness of our south
There on the beach
I could see it in her eyes
I only had a Corona
Five cent deposit

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, March 13, 2020 1:24 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this song has spent at least an hour every day of the last 3 weeks in my head

Exploited vocalist Wattie Buchan isn’t backing down so easily, however, giving a quote to Australian tour promoters DRW Entertainment. "Fuck coronavirus!” the punk singer begins. “I have had 5 heart attacks a quad heart bypass and a heart pacemaker fitted. Cancel gigs for a virus? We ain’t fucking Green Day piss - We are the real deal. No danger will we be cancelling our upcoming gigs. Punks Not Dead!"

not yet

so when they're not allowed inside the building, are they just gonna do outdoor concerts on the front porch?

Punk is about ENDANGERING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY !

This Is The End would be worth watching now as timely but not horrifying.