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Corona virus (more correctly, Wuhan virus)


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2020 Jan 24, 12:33pm   195,154 views  3,372 comments

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Anyone wants to risk a bet on the eventual number of sick people? Dead people?

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1023   Patrick   2020 Mar 20, 5:19pm  

Booger says


Lol, perfect!

OK, from now on it's "corona food" and "coronatown"!

After all, if it's wrong to say "China" when talking about the Chinese virus, then it's wrong to say "China" in Chinese food and Chinatown.
1024   Patrick   2020 Mar 20, 5:31pm  

Shit keeps getting more real in Italy:

Lombardy, at the epicenter of the epidemic, said about 100 soldiers would soon be deployed to help local police enforce the lockdown, and called on the government to impose new measures to keep Italians at home.
1026   marcus   2020 Mar 20, 5:52pm  

:
THat's clever, although probably not SF or NY city.
1027   Booger   2020 Mar 20, 6:04pm  

Bernie Trying To Decide Which House To Quarantine Himself In

https://babylonbee.com/news/bernie-trying-to-decide-which-house-to-quarantine-himself-in
1029   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2020 Mar 20, 9:46pm  

Patrick says
OK, from now on it's "corona food" and "coronatown"!


From asshoe!
1041   mell   2020 Mar 21, 9:49am  

You can see by the hot african countries not getting any traction in infections that it's very heat susceptible. If we had actual globull warming and not the fucking coldest spring ever in CA we would get out of the woods much sooner. Greta and the church of globull warming followers want more people to die! How dare they!
1042   Patrick   2020 Mar 21, 10:59am  

https://spectator.us/please-please-let-covid-19-kill-culture-wars/

The luxuries and fixations of the culture wars may finally be over. Nobody will mourn its passing, because nobody conclusively won it, or ever could. In Samuel P. Huntington’s magisterial Who Are We? (2004) he noted that the absence of an external ‘other’ to rally against usually undermines the unity of a society. Divisions and grievances multiply. Cultural battles replace political process. Huntington could see a future America with only an Obama-style ‘creed’ as the basis of its polity. Following such a trajectory this America evolves into a deglutinated confederation of ethnic, cultural and political tribes with nothing in common save geography. Like the Ottoman Empire, or Austro-Hungarian Empires before it, the USA dissolves in an acid bath of competing identities.

But then again, maybe not. Maybe, as the learnèd philosopher Matthew McConaughey posits, COVID-19 is the external ‘other’, the enemy, that can bring America back together again.
1043   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2020 Mar 21, 11:27am  

Nah... I thought 911 was bringing us together but look what happened a few short years later.
1044   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Mar 21, 12:18pm  

just_dregalicious says
Nah... I thought 911 was bringing us together but look what happened a few short years later.


911 reinvigorated the Left, it gave them fresh Allies and a common enemy, Western Civ and Christian White Males. They dusted off all their anti-colonialism rhetoric of the 60s, and added LGBTQ+ to it as proof Amerikkka was OPPRESSIVE!

While studiously ignoring Islam's LGBTQ record, of course.
1045   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Mar 21, 12:47pm  

Chinese gardener stops to eat eggs from a bird's nest, raw, as she trims the hedges.

In case you wonder why we are where we are... #WuhanCoronaVirus pic.twitter.com/o5NedNv3jy

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 21, 2020
1047   mell   2020 Mar 21, 5:29pm  

We're coming in anywhere between 25%-30% new infections again today with testing now at high capacity. While we're probably the last nation to peak this growth is less than what China and Europe experienced. If we get New York under control which now accounts for ~ 50% of infections then we should be fine soon. The good news is that European countries are now mostly between 10%-15% new infections, some up to 25%, but definitely the European curve looks like it's starting to flatten. Everyone just needs some warm weather now. More globull warming!
1051   Patrick   2020 Mar 21, 6:39pm  

Damn, hard to even look without the desire to share germs with her.
1052   mell   2020 Mar 21, 6:44pm  

What are the fcking odds that a heat susceptible virus pandemic engulfs CA during the fcking coldest winter and spring ever. March and april always used to be good for the first intense heat wave of the year. Instead we are bracing for another arctic storm. More! Warming! Now!
1053   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2020 Mar 21, 9:02pm  

NoCoupForYou says
Chinese gardener stops to eat eggs from a bird's nest, raw, as she trims the hedges.


Not eggs, baby birdies! Great twitter thread btw.
1054   Patrick   2020 Mar 21, 9:34pm  

Saw a Chinese woman picking mussels of the rocks on the Pacifica coast today. Almost laughed.
1055   Patrick   2020 Mar 21, 10:06pm  

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/144036/Microbiologists-mock-conspiracy-claims-on-Wuhan-virus

Two leading Hong Kong microbiologists said it is easier for people to remember the coronavirus as "Wuhan virus" and slammed the culture of wild meat consumption in mainland China, saying mainlanders have forgotten the bitter lessons of the 2003 Sars outbreak, RTHK reports.


Even a Chinese guy says we should call it the "Wuhan virus".

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