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Corona virus (more correctly, Wuhan virus)


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2020 Jan 24, 12:33pm   187,715 views  3,363 comments

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

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1211   Booger   2020 Mar 26, 6:50pm  

https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/papua-new-guinea-entire-cannibal-tribe-catches-coronavirus-after-eating-infected-chinese-prospector/

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: ENTIRE CANNIBAL TRIBE CATCHES CORONAVIRUS AFTER EATING INFECTED CHINESE PROSPECTOR



A total of 14 members of the Korowai tribe have died and 87 others have tested positive to the Covid-19 virus over the last two weeks, over a population of 118.

After several days of thorough investigation, the governmental authorities believe they may finally have found the reason for the mysterious contamination of this extremely isolated tribe.

Several members of the tribe said they became sick after eating the “yellow evil spirit”.

According to Lt. James Manning of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary, the country’s national police, this could explain the disappearance of 57-year old Chinese engineer Wu Jing in the region at the end of February.
1212   Booger   2020 Mar 26, 6:51pm  

clambo says
Pelosi is out of her mind.

I was up there last week and it was deserted,

If the stores and restaurants are all closed why would anyone go there?


Pelosi has dimentia
1213   Patrick   2020 Mar 26, 9:16pm  

https://www.unz.com/chopkins/the-war-on-death/

OK, I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some some bad news. The good news is mainly for authoritarians who missed all the fun during the War on Terror. The news is … welcome to the War on Death!

Yes, that’s right, global capitalism (a/k/a “the world”) is now at war with Death … which is great news for authoritarians! No more bothersome critical thinking. The time for questioning our leaders is over. It’s time to shut up and follow orders. We’re in a global state of emergency, folks! We’re talking lockdowns, soldiers in the streets, abrogation of our constitutional rights, arbitrary arrests, indefinite detentions, round-the-clock media fear-propaganda … the whole totalitarian megillah!

What, you’re probably asking, is the War on Death? Well … for those who remember the War on Terror, the War on Death is just like that, except this time the evil enemy is Death … or, all right, maybe not exactly like that, but there are a number of striking similarities.
1215   Patrick   2020 Mar 26, 9:30pm  

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-antibody/cheap-antibody-test-sent-for-validation-in-coronavirus-fight-idUKKBN21D1W9

LONDON (Reuters) - A British company behind a 10-minute coronavirus antibody test, which will cost about a $1, has begun sending prototypes to laboratories for validation, which could be a game-changer in the fight against the pandemic.
1218   Ceffer   2020 Mar 26, 10:45pm  

Booger says
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: ENTIRE CANNIBAL TRIBE CATCHES CORONAVIRUS AFTER EATING INFECTED CHINESE PROSPECTOR


LOL! From the same site that gives you such headlines as "MAN HOSPITALIZED AFTER DRINKING 16 GALLONS OF HAND SANITIZER TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM CORONAVIRUS"

and "MAN ARRESTED AT THE FRANCE-GERMANY BORDER FOR SMUGGLING 2,500 SURGICAL MASKS IN HIS RECTAL CAVITY"

Probably more reliable than CNN.
1219   Misc   2020 Mar 26, 10:49pm  

It was CNN
1220   Patrick   2020 Mar 26, 10:49pm  



Good point.
1223   Patrick   2020 Mar 27, 9:31am  

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/how-much-normal-risk-does-covid-represent-4539118e1196

It’s important to note that all the risks quoted are the average (mean) risks for people of the relevant age, but are not the risks of the average person! This is because, both for COVID and in normal circumstances, much of the risk is held by people whom are already chronically ill. So for the large majority of healthy people, their risks of either dying from COVID, or dying of something else, are much lower than those quoted here. Although of course for every death there will be others who are seriously ill.

Also, as Triggle points out, there will be substantial overlap in these two groups — many people who die of COVID would have died anyway within a short period — and so these risks cannot be simply added, and it does not simply double the risk of people who get infected. It is crucially important that the NHS is not overwhelmed, but if COVID deaths can be kept in the order of say 20,000 by stringent suppression measures, as is now being suggested, there may end up being a minimal impact on overall mortality for 2020 (although background mortality could increase due to pressures on the health services and the side-effects of isolation). Although, as we are seeing, at vast cost.
1224   zzyzzx   2020 Mar 27, 1:26pm  

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/condom-shortage-looms-coronavirus-lockdown-114905514.html

Condom shortage looms after coronavirus lockdown shuts world's top producer
1235   mell   2020 Mar 27, 8:47pm  

zzyzzx says


Voted funniest meme by me so far for 2020.
1236   mell   2020 Mar 27, 8:48pm  

Fuck I can't stop laughing
1237   Patrick   2020 Mar 27, 10:18pm  

https://babylonbee.com/news/covid-19-impacting-men-women-more-than-all-other-genders-combined

BALTIMORE, MD—A new study by Johns Hopkins University found that the novel coronavirus is impacting men and women more than all the other genders combined.

According to the study, 100% of coronavirus cases have affected men and women and not a single other gender.

"It's incredible - we've found this virus is far more likely to affect biological males and biological females than any other biological gender," said Head of Gender Research Dr. Benji Charmin. "We thought the data had to be flawed, but we checked again and again, and sure enough, this thing is aggressively going after men and women and ignoring the other genders entirely."

He shrugged. "It's just science."

Progressives quickly applauded the virus for not attacking any of the other genders and only focusing on traditional, outdated, binary genders.
1238   RWSGFY   2020 Mar 27, 10:37pm  

Patrick says
Progressives quickly applauded the virus for not attacking any of the other genders and only focusing on traditional, outdated, binary genders.


"Attaboy! Who's the good virus?"
1242   Booger   2020 Mar 28, 10:05am  

Diarrhea kills 1.8 million a year.

ONE POINT EIGHT MILLION.

Where's my diarrhea check?
1248   RC2006   2020 Mar 28, 1:08pm  

Trump being blamed by media for new Darwin award winner.

www.youtube.com/embed/FLG-6oXMWfA
1249   clambo   2020 Mar 28, 1:54pm  

Booger has the funniest shit, thanks.
1250   Booger   2020 Mar 28, 2:51pm  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-new-orleans-rats-precautions-streets-empty/

Rats swarm New Orleans' streets as coronavirus precautions leave them empty

With restaurants closed save for take-out service, far less food waste is being discarded in the city's alleyways, driving the local rodent population out into the open to search for scraps.

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