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Onvacation says

We (I) don't hate the pathetic SJW's and weirdos. AS long as they are not instigating riots or hitting people with bike locks I have compassion for their idiosyncrasies.

I just didn't care one way or another about them when they were the lunatic fringe. I do now that they're somewhat mainstream because they're stinking up the place.

https://www.theonion.com/health-experts-worry-coronavirus-will-overwhelm-america-1842314132

BALTIMORE—Warning that the nation was unprepared to deal with the fallout of the global pandemic, researchers from Johns Hopkins University told reporters Friday they worried that Covid-19 would overwhelm America’s GoFundMe system. “GoFundMe is the bedrock of the American healthcare system, and as the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rapidly spread, we fear the servers just won’t be able to take it,” said research director Dr. Monica White, who stressed that if the pandemic were to grow any worse, there simply would not be enough $5 and $10 donations from sympathetic strangers to go around. “America’s GoFundMe system is already overburdened. There are only so many links from sick friends of friends we can share on social media before the whole thing collapses. We recommend that if anyone is suffering from minor financial strife such a medical debt from the cost of insulin or cancer treatment, you defer to those diagnosed with Covid-19.” At press time, GoFundMe employees announced they were working around the clock to ensure the health and safety of the nation.

https://www.theonion.com/top-u-s-health-experts-hold-on-to-your-fucking-seats-1842297607

STANFORD, CA—In response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, top U.S. health experts warned the nation Thursday to hold onto their fucking seats, because this bitch hasn’t even thought about starting yet. “We’ve been getting a lot of questions surrounding Covid-19, and, well, you all better buckle the fuck up, because this shit is about to kick into high gear,” said Stanford professor of health research and policy Richard Mason, throwing all his papers in the air and warning the nation that they better strap in tight, because this motherfucker will knock you on your goddamn ass. “If you think it’s bad now, just fucking wait, because this son of a bitch is gonna go into full-fledged annihilation mode. Seriously, wash your hands, cut off your hands—it doesn’t fucking matter. You poor bastards are going to get absolutely fucking destroyed.” At press time, Mason knocked over his podium, curled up in a ball on the floor, and started screaming, “Steel yourselves!”

Patrick says

https://www.theonion.com/health-experts-worry-coronavirus-will-overwhelm-america-1842314132

BALTIMORE—Warning that the nation was unprepared to deal with the fallout of the global pandemic, researchers from Johns Hopkins University told reporters Friday they worried that Covid-19 would overwhelm America’s GoFundMe system. “GoFundMe is the bedrock of the American healthcare system, and as the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rapidly spread, we fear the servers just won’t be able to take it,” said research director Dr. Monica White, who stressed that if the pandemic were to grow any worse, there simply would not be enough $5 and $10 donations from sympathetic strangers to go around. “America’s GoFundMe system is already overburdened. There are only so many links from sick friends of friends we can share on social media before the whole thing collapses. We rec...

Love the onion. This one isn't funny because it's going to end up being true. I've been saying it, our reaction is going to kill more people than the virus. I do well myself, but have family and friends that don't. IL just closed restaurants/bars. I know dozens of people that won't be able to pay their mortgage or rent in about 2-3 weeks. They're good people, just have flaws and haven't lived responsibly. Who do you think they're going to start running to?

This has been botched. Bigly.

Wonder if they will empty the prisons. About as illogical as what is happening so far.

Newsom just closed bars and pubs across all CA. Restaurants stay open at half capacity and full delivery/pick up.

Newbie123 says

Just FYI, grocery stores won’t close......

Not true. Unless you're talking about them being opened by the front glass being broken and looted.

This isn't funny anymore. Our differences on BTC aside (I think you blocked me), this is going to get fucked up more than people realize.

mell says

Newsom just closed bars and pubs across all CA. Restaurants stay open at half capacity and full delivery/pick up.

For how long? IL is until the end of the month. Most service staff and half the cooks will be broke by then. This is gonna get fucked up fast. Be ready.

WookieMan says

mell says

Newsom just closed bars and pubs across all CA. Restaurants stay open at half capacity and full delivery/pick up.

For how long? IL is until the end of the month. Most service staff and half the cooks will be broke by then. This is gonna get fucked up fast. Be ready.

It sucks for people employed in the gastronomy business but it doesn't mean restaurants can't make money. Those ready to shift to delivery / pick up could make huge amounts of money without much expenses as people will order delivery en masse.

mell says

it doesn't mean restaurants can't make money.

I'll get the occasional pizza delivered, but I'm not ordering typical restaurant food to be brought to my home. I want it fresh and also the experience and service. Most people, at least here in IL are the same. It's pizza or you go out. I guess some people may suck at cooking, but I can make better than restaurant quality in my own home. Fucking love grilling. I go out for the experience/ease of it.

Maybe I hang with like minded people that have similar behaviors but the restaurant industry, in IL at least, just got totally fucked in my opinion. And the Europe ban just flooded the fucking airport with sick people here in Chicago. Total bull shit.

mell says

WookieMan says

mell says

Newsom just closed bars and pubs across all CA. Restaurants stay open at half capacity and full delivery/pick up.

For how long? IL is until the end of the month. Most service staff and half the cooks will be broke by then. This is gonna get fucked up fast. Be ready.

It sucks for people employed in the gastronomy business but it doesn't mean restaurants can't make money. Those ready to shift to delivery / pick up could make huge amounts of money without much expenses as people will order delivery en masse.

Ralphs(grocery store chain) in LA County is already hiring temps at a good wage.

WookieMan says

mell says

Newsom just closed bars and pubs across all CA. Restaurants stay open at half capacity and full delivery/pick up.

For how long? IL is until the end of the month. Most service staff and half the cooks will be broke by then. This is gonna get fucked up fast. Be ready.

You are acting like there isn’t UE insurance. And yes I get the tipped job thing.

This is how social distancing works. The important point is: it isn't meant to protect you, but the herd.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

The sugar baby supply in California just jumped probably.

Facts about the H1N1 virus in 2009. Similar if not more intense, Media did not hype to the moon.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html

False Pandemix re-hearsal = failure, still flaberghasted by the level of gullibility and utter stupidity out there.

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Heraclitusstudent says

This is how social distancing works. The important point is: it isn't meant to protect you, but the herd.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

That was interesting. Thankfully WaPo didn't block me. New month perhaps or is it the importance of the topic - and they make it available to all ?

Note: the brown area represents the number of people that get the CV. With moderate distancing the peak is later, giving the health care system more time to deal with it, spreading the near fatal cases out and time for competing Flu cases to fall, increasing capacity of ICUs etc. But the brown area isn't that much smaller.

Looks like we're coming in around 22% new infections of total. Considering that testing is ramping up that's pretty good. I think currently negativity and panic is prevailing. The peak is close.

NoCoupForYou says

Facts about the H1N1 virus in 2009. Similar if not more intense, Media did not hype to the moon.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html

From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.

The H1N1 flu might be a reasonable analogy:

In June 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new strain of swine-origin H1N1 as a pandemic. This novel virus spread worldwide and had caused 18,500 laboratory-confirmed deaths with an estimated 151,700 to 575,400 deaths total[3][4] by August of 2010. On 10 August 2010, the World Health Organization declared the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity had returned to typical seasonal patterns.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1

Going to try to look up H1N1 death rate by age...

Huh, looks like H1N1 was actually deadlier than coronavirus:

Nov. 3, 2009 - H1N1 swine flu isn't always severe, but when it's bad, it's really bad. Patients hospitalized with pandemic flu have an 11% fatality rate, data from California suggest.

The pandemic flu bug is far more likely to strike younger people. But when people aged 50 and older get hospitalized with H1N1 swine flu, their case-fatality rate is the highest of any group: 18% to 20%.

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20091103/h1n1-swine-flu-deadly-in-all-age-groups#1

Starting to think that shutting down planet earth is in fact quite a hysterical overreaction.

Patrick says

Starting to think that shutting down planet earth is in fact quite a hysterical overreaction.

Boom! Spot on.

It's all starting to sound very familiar:

https://www.foxnews.com/story/a-timeline-of-events-in-the-swine-flu-outbreak

Vice President Joe Biden is arguing that there would be no practical benefit in shutting down the country's border with Mexico.

Lol, of course not. Biden is all for exporting US jobs to Mexico, even now.

Patrick says

Huh, looks like H1N1 was actually deadlier than coronavirus:

Yet to be determined.

If the numbers are anywhere close in fatalaties, after this social distancing move, then we know CV is/was way worse.

Patrick says

Starting to think that shutting down planet earth is in fact quite a hysterical overreaction.

Is that what we're doing ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

It is estimated that 11–21% of the then global population (of about 6.8 billion), or around 700 million–1.4 billion people, contracted the illness — more in absolute terms than the Spanish flu pandemic,[3][6] with about 150,000–575,000 fatalities.[7] A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the 2009 H1N1 flu was no more severe than the yearly seasonal flu.[8]

Unlike most strains of influenza, H1N1 does not disproportionately infect adults older than 60 years; this was an unusual and characteristic feature of the H1N1 pandemic.[9] Even in the case of previously very healthy people, a small percentage develop pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This manifests itself as increased breathing difficulty and typically occurs three to six days after initial onset of flu symptoms.[10][11]

Seems like H1N1 ("swine flu") was scarier in that it killed young people more. Old people have always been killed by flus.

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This years flu (not Covfid 19) will kill more and most recent years flu killed WAY WAY WAY more people than H1N1

So basically you're completely wrong. It was actually below average for recent years.

Patrick says

Huh, looks like H1N1 was actually deadlier than coronavirus:

https://www.wired.com/2009/06/apocalypse-not-behind-swine-flu-hysteria/

Looks like swine flu may have been deadlier, but it was not as easily transmitted.

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If you were right, it would only be in the sense that flu in general that we get every year may be more deadly than the CV (but we don't know that ! ) . And I guess HIN1 or it's variants may have been the reason for the big recent years flu deaths. But at least people can get vaccines for that.

Models are all over the map for the CV numbers. We just don't know. Where as H1N1 was basically just another flu bug. Kind of typical in terms of severity, and as I said, actually far less deadly than the flu in recent years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51895873

Every Briton over the age of 70 will be told "within the coming weeks" to stay at home for an extended period to protect themselves from coronavirus.

When it happens, they will be asked to stay home for "a very long time", Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.

@WookieMan looks like the British are going to implement your idea.

Patrick says

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51895873

Every Briton over the age of 70 will be told "within the coming weeks" to stay at home for an extended period to protect themselves from coronavirus.

When it happens, they will be asked to stay home for "a very long time", Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.

@WookieMan looks like the British are going to implement your idea.

About fucking time someone got woke. They need to be isolated until a vaccine can be created. In the meantime the rest of society CANNOT shut the fuck down like it is.

I'm talking about the richest nation in the fucking world. Half of people live pay check to pay check with zero savings. We can't just shut this down like we have... and this has nothing to do with politics. We know it's killing 15% or so of old, unhealthy people. Put them the fuck away.

We're probably already over the edge, but we're likely in a massive recession at this point and potentially depression. I feel like I'm usually level headed here with my comments, but we're going down fucktard street with no brakes on the short bus.

Can't quote or cite a source on this as it's word of mouth from DC. This is going to get much worse before it gets better in ways people don't understand. Stay safe. I really, really want to be wrong on this call so you all can bash me later. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but this will go down as a bigger event than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. I am not a prepper or gun owner. Those that are will likely be in better shape than me, but I also live in the rural midwest. Watch your backs in the coastal/populated areas is all I'll say.

By early April all sorts of shit is going to hit the fan if what I hear and feel is correct. The virus is the cause, but it's the reaction that is going to be the catalyst of major events. And please call me out if I'm wrong. No intention of creating hype or concern, but be prepared as you can for 30-60 days of bull shit.

Normal isn't happening anytime soon.

I like you Wookie, but you are completely wrong on this and more than a tad hysterical.

A model of the predicted timeline of the disease from http://perkinslab.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/6/2/25629832/perkins_etal_sarscov2.pdf

WookieMan says

am not a prepper or gun owner.

There is no excuse for the latter. What's wrong with you?

CovfefeButDeadly says

I like you Wookie, but you are completely wrong on this and more than a tad hysterical.

I appreciate the honesty. I want to be wrong so you know. Air travel is going to be shut down soon from my sources. Likely longer than 9/11. Again, I hope my source is shit and I'm wrong.

Shitloads of businesses are going to go under if this response isn't recalibrated. And it likely won't be.

WookieMan says

Shitloads of businesses are going to go under if this response isn't recalibrated. And it likely won't be.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/guid/ca4c0226-6713-11ea-9596-8a889527719f

“They are throwing money in the wrong place,” Bair said of an unprecedented move by the Fed on Sunday to slash benchmark rates to zero and start a $700 billion Treasury- and mortgage-bond buying program.

“This isn’t a financial crisis — at least not yet,” she told MarketWatch on Sunday evening following the Fed’s announcement, which drops the target U.S. benchmark rate to zero and aims to shore up liquidity for banks and investors in the $15.6 trillion Treasury and $8.5 trillion agency mortgage bonds markets.

“Lowering interest rates to zero doesn’t help if businesses can’t pay their loans back and they don’t have cash flow,” she said. “We need to get help out there, especially to small businesses and people already losing their jobs.”

TEOTWAWKI says

WookieMan says

am not a prepper or gun owner.

There is no excuse for the latter. What's wrong with you?

I'm an idiot. Had a FOID card for years so I've always been able to get one. Kids kind of deterred me, but I'm likely going tomorrow to resolve this situation. Got recommendations from my army buddy. Also have a good neighbor friend that I could grab ammo and multiple guns from, so it's not like I'm sitting out here naked.

I'm also in an area where that type of mass hysteria is minimal. I worry about cities and urban areas. As things get locked down, crime in the ghetto is gonna get hot. Might get to the point cops just back out of areas.

Patrick says

WookieMan says

Shitloads of businesses are going to go under if this response isn't recalibrated. And it likely won't be.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/guid/ca4c0226-6713-11ea-9596-8a889527719f

“They are throwing money in the wrong place,” Bair said of an unprecedented move by the Fed on Sunday to slash benchmark rates to zero and start a $700 billion Treasury- and mortgage-bond buying program.

“This isn’t a financial crisis — at least not yet,” she told MarketWatch on Sunday evening following the Fed’s announcement, which drops the target U.S. benchmark rate to zero and aims to shore up liquidity for banks and investors in the $15.6 trillion Treasury and $8.5 trillion agency mortgage bonds markets.

“Lowering interest rates to zero doesn’t help if businesses can’...

It's a cashflow crisis that turns into a financial crisis. Just not right away.

I think I've said it here, my cruise cancelled. I can get a future cruise credit worth 125% of the purchase price or a 100% cash refund. Guess what, can't request the refund until March 23. I don't think they have the cash on hand to manage this along with all the people cancelling 60-120 days out where they already have their cash. It's a ponzi scheme in essence and now that the future cruisers are bailing, they don't have the cash to reimburse. I hope I'm wrong.

Remember, this is spring break time people. Summer is a long period, but besides X-mas, spring break is probably #2 or 3 for jacking up prices and making huge $$$$. Airlines and travel industry is getting fucking smashed. Then domino it down to the local economies of rental cars, Ubers, restaurants, hotels, etc. and shit ain't good.

Slightly off the current topic. But, china had massive outbreak in a country of 1 billion with a delayed containment effort. They claim only somewhere around 70,000 cases, 3000 deaths in their country. Italy is already up to around 1000 in a few weeks, Iran is close, the death rates in other countries seem to be advancing pretty fast. Doesn’t it seem hard to believe China only had 3000 deaths in their country. The level of reaction in their country, the extent of the clamp down, all suggest that it was a much more serious situation than 3000 deaths. Seems to me this is much more deadly than China has admitted and the uninformed populations of the world are starting to find out right now. I don’t want this to be true at all. But the numbers in China don’t make sense based on what’s happened since it left China. Also, it’s possible that the United States and other governments are well aware of this, they eventually figured it out, and that’s why there is such an extreme reaction by the governments of the world to try to contain it, and they are trying to prevent panic by covering up the actual death toll in China.