outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

I’ve been dosing up on vit d for the last few weeks cause I was deficient, not sure it has improved my mood all that much but maybe it has idk

One number I keep coming back to is 2: the current estimate for the average number of people that a coronavirus patient infects (for seasonal flu it's 1.3).

That says to me that those two people are likely to be the people you're in regular proximity with, which makes me a lot more relaxed about picking it up from a bit of packaging or from someone passing me in the street (as long as they didn't cough or sneeze on me as they passed). Am I being naive?

I don't think so. I think the vast majority of people have likely gotten it from sustained close proximity.

Oh, some other news you can use: we know someone who works at our Trader Joe's, and she told us that yeah, at first the trucks and deliveries were pretty erratic, but they seem to be back to their old rhythms, which means if we're not quite there we are close to supply and demand being back in balance. The only things I've heard stores struggling with stocking remain cleaning supplies and (still inexplicably) TP.

my coworkers are saying this thing is pretty much "over" in small towns

I don't think you are naive, alba. I was just talking the other day though about how peoples' usual MO is to like, drive wrecklessly for 2 minutes to save 5 minutes of time even though a possible outcome could be the loss of hours, $$$ or life. And it usually works out fine so we keep doing it.

Some of these precautions are annoying but such low effort, like I am constantly wtf about how people can't make risk(effort)/reward calculations for themselves.

uhhh xp

my coworkers are saying this thing is pretty much "over" in small towns

Caveat: author lives in Taiwan iirc but this is a detailed look at where we stand with mask efficacy and recommendations. https://stratechery.com/2020/unmasking-twitter/

(Caveat because China/who stuff in that article I guess?)

This might be the first instance where someone in a small town calls something that is all the rage in big cities "over."

lmao links to SlateSt4rC0dex what is with these people

Is that the new Autechre mix?

I get all my covid safety tips from the dark enlightenment

This might be the first instance where someone in a small town calls something that is all the rage in big cities "over."

Since typhoid, maybe.

ssc famously wrote the anti-reactionary FAQ he's not dark enlightenment you're thinking of land + moldbug

I know you like ssc but idk forgive me for not being able to keep track of these people

I haven’t even had my damn coffee

Or gotten out of bed

I need better priorities

I should also add that it seems like an overabundance of caution just seems wise in places that are or are likely to become hotspots. I know Chicago metro isn't NYC but we sure do seem to be blowing up, so whatever the general recommendations are for the country/world-at-large, doubling or tripling down probably isn't a bad idea if you aren't in backwoods Bumfuck, AR.

i promise you i wrote a sneering addendum "and plz don't hur durr i can't tell the difference between different bloggers who may or may not have right-wing inclinations" and deleted it and now regret having done so

;_;

I would’nt have if you asked Mordy!

silb on the money, i got ill for Nick Land

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/virologists-to-turn-germany-worst-hit-district-into-coronavirus-laboratory

This is interesting and very relevant to the last hour's worth of conversation.

Cuddly social democratic Scandinavia latest https://t.co/2ehkOO5SFi

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) March 31, 2020

I volunteered at the hospital again today and had to yell at the clinical staff for standing too close together in line. They pretty much laughed when I said that they needed to practice social distancing and not a single one was wearing any kind of face covering. One of them said to me, “Do you have any idea how closely we work together on the wards?”.

well.. not as bad as medical staff still calling it a hoax last month. sigh.

new study, even if you think it improves your (or others') defenses .001% wear a homemade mask ffs

the gas cloud and its payload of pathogen-bearing droplets of all sizes can travel 23 to 27 feet

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763852?resultClick=1

Christian hospitals still bad not good

Wow. Healthcare workers trying to volunteer their services to the Central Park tent hospital (which has dozens of beds as well as ventilators) have to sign on to this anti-gay no-sex-outside marraige pledge.https://t.co/PchFiPgdL9 pic.twitter.com/9Ea9MFHzDc

— Naomi Clark [暗悪直美] (@metasynthie) March 31, 2020

fucking hell.

remember "faith-based initiatives" from like 2003 or whatever

so i guess no one is getting an abortion in central park. bucket list!

imagine there's no babby

it's eZ if you try.

Gah with NYC. The numbers.

this is like Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer where he makes that big production out of picking up something off the floor.

looooooooool :D

i am going to limit myself to one post on this right now. keep in mind i just finished day 3 of an epic fight with my mom, who literally think this is a one world government conspiracy, that mark levin was sent special government ID cards and travel documents because they're going to establish concentration camps and different regions and they're trying to separate the "good" republicans from the rest of the country, and also says she doesn't trust "anyone" now, so she and my dad are "listen to our guts" from now on, and also the bible, of course, because this was all foretold and they're going to use coronavirus as a way to remake society in preparation for armageddon. so keep in mind i'm cranky and a little sick of people getting all confused about basic things and consistently pushing the limits of the most inadvisable, indefensible behavior because they just "don't know who to trust"

JUST STAY THE FUCK INSIDE YOUR HOME

i meant one post, after that post. here's my one:

JUST STAY THE FUCK INSIDE YOUR HOME

PS:

FUCK MARK LEVIN
FUCK RUSH LIMBAUGH
FUCK ALEX JONES
FUCK JAMES O'KEEFE
FUCK SEAN HANNITY
FUCK JERRY FALWELL
FUCK JERRY FALWELL JR
FUCK TURNING POINTS USA
FUCK FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
FUCK ANYONE WHO EVER THOUGHT ANYONE ON THE LIST ABOVE WAS TRUSTWORTHY, YOU CATASTROPHICALLY DUMB FUCKS

^^ currently listening to techno/ebm and I imagined hearing that post in a distorted robot voice over the music

♪ ♫ gonna dance the night away-ee-aaay♬
♩FUCK MARK LEVIN♫
♪ ♫ gotta dance the night away-ee-aaay♬
♩FUCK RUSH LIMBAUGH♫

tent hospital is a Franklin Graham operation, yes?

have fashioned a two-layer "mask" out of an old punk shirt for making deliveries. #aesthetic #chic #goals

https://i.imgur.com/4rvnc1d.png

wheeeeeeee

Terrifying and heartbreaking

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-boy-death-hospital-london-youngest-uk-ismail-abdulwahab-a9439526.html

Right-wing evangelist Jonathan Shuttlesworth, a close friend of Rodney Howard-Browne, says he intends to hold a large Woodstock-like Christian gathering in defiance of stay-at-home orders. pic.twitter.com/sn5Pvt1NA5

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 31, 2020

What is so broken in the minds of these evangelicals? Yes this individual asshat is likely attention/donation seeking, but I seriously don't understand this mass denial. Is this the hope of bringing on the second coming? This shit is baffling.

It is to pwn the libs.

Are you feeling pwn'd yet?

got a sore throat if that helps

That poor 13-year-old and family
This is just awful and everything I read like this makes me more scared.

If we could ensure they gather and can't leave again, I'd say let stupid follow stupid. But in addition to carrying it all over the fucking country they'll take beds and ventilators from people who caught it actually working on the front lines and doing essential tasks. The massive death cult that powers 40% of this country continues to terrify me.