outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

I'm tired of mask discourse and it hasn't even really started yet

― silby

if I hear one more goddamn person on social media talk patronizingly about how I need to wipe everything down before I enter my house, I am seriously gonna fucking lose my shit, it is just absolute paranoid OCD nonsense. masks in public, on the other hand, make a lot of sense to me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/coronavirus-terrorist-threat-felony.html

Right around the time the World Health Organization was declaring the novel coronavirus a full-blown pandemic, Cody Lee Pfister walked into a Walmart in Missouri and delivered his own public service announcement — of the twisted variety.

Mr. Pfister, 26, looked directly into a camera and asked, “Who’s scared of coronavirus?” As if to answer his own question, he proceeded to lick a row of deodorants on a store shelf. For six seconds, he awkwardly slid backward, his tongue running from one brand of deodorant to the next.

He appeared amused. And satisfied enough to post the video online. Horror ensued. Grossed-out viewers from as close as his small hometown, Warrenton, Mo., to Ireland and the Netherlands reported the video prank to the police. And soon Mr. Pfister was facing charges of making a terrorist threat.

get the picture in your head of what you think Cody Lee Pfister looks like

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http://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/30/us/00virus-antics02/00virus-antics02-jumbo.jpg

Last Wednesday afternoon, Margaret Cirko, 35, walked into a Gerrity’s Supermarket in Hanover Township, Pa., and started coughing on cases of fresh produce, baked goods and meat, the authorities said. Over and over, she was said to declare, “I have coronavirus, you are all going to get sick,” before attempting to shoplift a 12-pack of Coors Light.

xpost And there's a million of us just like me
Who cuss like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
Who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me

Maybe I should make note in the 'uncool conservative beliefs' thread, but I'm 100% in favor of prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law anyone who decides to foment chaos in the midst of a global pandemic.

of course Margaret Cirko, 35, would kill people for the sake of a 12-pack of Coors Lite.

Maybe I should make note in the 'uncool conservative beliefs' thread, but I'm 100% in favor of prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law anyone who decides to foment chaos in the midst of a global pandemic.

Good point, they should look into that Trump asshole.

tbf, Margaret Cirko, 35, likely doesn't have coronavirus so much as she has alcoholism.

read that as "Lock them in Trump's asshole."

That'll work, too.

pictures or it didn't -- nah, never mind.

Right around the time the World Health Organization was declaring the novel coronavirus a full-blown pandemic, Cody Lee Pfister walked into a Walmart in Missouri and delivered his own public service announcement — of the twisted variety.

I suspect this writer has wanted to use "public service announcement - of the twisted variety!!" for a long time

impossible to read that without a shredding guitar lick playing in your head

https://img.discogs.com/JCmrvdWmp9lJttAwYM7Oyv917rw=/fit-in/549x549/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6981656-1430931803-5471.png.jpg

we're not gonna take it
NO! we're not gonna take it!
we've rejected science, we're so dumb!

The week in Hungary:

- Indefinite rule by decree
- 5yr jail for deliberately spreading corona misinfo
- Plans to classify details of $$$ contract won by company of richest man in Hu (who is the PM's old friend)
- Plans to make changing gender illegal

And it's only Thursday

— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) April 2, 2020

Some of my work colleagues are doing the business well.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-3d-printed-face-shield-project/

laudable

wisconsin-based lectrosonics is doing this:

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/news-makers/sound-devices-face-shields-covid19

they usually make extremely expensive wireless systems

sigh

44 UT students who *chartered a plane to Cabo for Spring Break* have tested positive for COVID-19 (many took commercial flights back) https://t.co/TyQDdWqPnm

— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) April 2, 2020

the hot topic among everyone on that beach: "are we 9.8 out of 10 dumb, or just 9.9? whoa dude, i think you're standing in barf, not beer"

totally faceplanted into my grave lol

"wait, there's beer in that barf, so it's both! high-five dude! man, i'm getting all these texts from people telling me i'm a complete dumbass and not to come near me when we get back, lol. collllege!"

Totally expecting this to be the next kind of "suicide bomber"... someone contracting the virus and then rushing into a Biden rally, going nuts like it's a Benny Hinn production.

lol at the thought of rallies happening anytime before election day.

Trying to think if I've ever heard the phrase spring break in any context other than pornography or disease

or "Spraaaaaaaaaang Break"

lol at the thought of rallies happening anytime before election day.

Trump will 100% hold rallies before election day, are you kidding me? It's taking the entire might of the White House staff to hold him back from putting one on tomorrow.

nah, he's pivoted to the COVID-briefings for proxy-rally messaging.

It's taking the entire might of the White House staff to hold him back

https://i.ibb.co/ngTqzDR/11217344.jpg

nah, he's pivoted to the COVID-briefings for proxy-rally messaging.

I don't think this is going to satisfy him forever, especially when the Nielsen ratings inevitably declines, he needs to hear the people hollering

Bananaman, were you not once an elementary school student?

A brief distraction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9zRmS_tqk

xp british iirc

Cat-to-cat transmission demonstrated.

Coronavirus can infect cats — dogs, not so much

if it had to be one of them, that is very good news that it's with cats, rather than dogs

at least for those of us with indoor only cats

do they also... stop being infected again afterwards, in time?

(ok the article says it's probably unlikely that they'll get it or that they'll transmit it, so hopefully it won't come to that, but, great, a new thing to worry about)

Textbook example of the classic "is it worse if he's lying or telling the truth" dilemma.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/04/02/governor-brian-kemp-georgia-coronavirus-sanjay-gupta-anderson-cooper-nr-vpx.cnn

wtfffffffff. It's not even like that's a trait unique to this virus.

WOW.

that is amazing. for those that haven't clicked, the gov of georgia, Brian Kemp, says he just learned within the last 24 hours that coronavirus can be spread before people show symptoms. and that's why he's doing the more strict containment measures, now.

just, holy shit.

as the CNN medical corresponded noted, the CDC is IN ATLANTA

the Peter Dumbass Principle for guvs

Third story on NPR hourly news:

They're making a bobblehead of Fauci.

NY state is considering the option of putting two patients on the same ventilator. This is taking roommate culture to new territory.

Here is where linguistic nuance comes to the rescue. Gov. Brian Kemp was told that coronavirus can be spread before people show symptoms repeatedly in the past several weeks, but he only learned this in the past 24 hours.

lol

give a man a symptoms can be spread asymptomatically and he'll spread asymptomatically for a day. teach a man symptoms can be spread asymptomatically and he'll symptoms asymptomatically for a lifetime