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We're all going to die from a virus before the sex robots hit the market at a reasonable price? Life is so unfair.

For perspective - 2019-2020 US Influenza Stats:

15,000,000 – 21,000,000 cases in the US alone

140,000 – 250,000 hospitalizations in the US

8,200 – 20,000 deaths in the US

Yet somehow the news media has become obsessed with a virus that has only killed ~200 people worldwide.

This appears to be a drill for Chinese martial law more than anything else.

Booger says

This appears to be a drill for Chinese martial law more than anything else.

Someone buy this guy dinner!

We have more people still voluntarily killing themselves smoking cigarettes than Corona or the flu virus combined throughout the world, yet we and everyone still sells smokes. Let me know when this reaches 6 figure death tolls in a country of 1B+. 100k DEATHS would be .01% of the population or less of China. This is hype to the extreme. 97% of people afflicted will live. And if you break down the demographics and health of those infected it's likely that 99.5% of anyone infected with this hype will survive no different than the flu if you're 10-50 years of age. This is alarmingly stupid.

And even if it's the fucking apocalypse, WTF is anyone gonna do about it? The fake concern is hysterical to me.

I recall in Dr. Strangelove general Turgington says that we can survive nuclear war “It’s not as if we won’t get our hair mussed, but we’ll lose 15 or 20 million, tops!”

Seams to be 2-4% death rate at its epicenter, but what if China is lying and it's more like at 10%? If this virus is worse than they say how long would it take for the truth to come out?

I could see something like this doing a lot more damage in poorer more disorganized counties.

This is not funny.

https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-coronavirus-may-help-boost-162956718.html
"China's coronavirus may help boost U.S. jobs - Ross"

Because we know virus stop at frontiers....

Heraclitusstudent says

Because we know virus stop at frontiers....

He is right - funeral house and crematorium job numbers will skyrocket. We should all get a MS in Cinerary Sciences instead of learning to code.

Heraclitusstudent says

Because we know virus stop at frontiers....

They do if the movement of people across the border is controlled or halted. It used to be a common practice to quarantine the crews and passengers of arriving ships for weeks on end.

"China has quarantined 60 million people—more than the population of our West Coast. They’ve shut down schools indefinitely. Hong Kong has slashed travel from the mainland. We must immediately stop all travel on commercial aircraft between China & the United States." -- Sen. Tom Cotton.

DALLAS (AP) — The pilots' union at American Airlines sued on Thursday to stop the carrier from flying to China and told members not to operate flight s there because of the spreading coronavirus outbreak.

The Allied Pilots Association, which represents American’s 15,000 pilots, asked a state district court in Dallas for an injunction to halt the flights. The union cited declarations by international health experts that the virus is a public health emergency.

https://m.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/American-Airlines-pilots-sue-to-halt-flights-to-15017728.php#photo-18940429

The_Weeping_Ayatollah says

China has quarantined 60 million people

And if all of them die, the world population will still end up greater by the end of this year.

Looks like the daily growth rate keeps tapering off these past few days, although it's still about 25% or so.

That's the thing: it's not that easy to infect large number of people nowadays.
They panic, stay home, wear masks and other protections, stop traveling. Other measures like closing school cut contagion links.
And the more deaths, the tougher the measures.

Heraclitusstudent says

And the more deaths, the tougher the measures.

Right. And the death rate doesn't seem high at all, low in fact. What is it 2 point something percent ?

For that reason I wouldn't be surprised to see the number of infected continue to rise exponentially for a while. The very young, very old and people with weakened immune systems need to be protected for a while. If I was in one of those categories, or a caretaker for someone in one of those categories, I would be very careful until this passes.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=DUDN_1580431941

www.youtube.com/embed/0SWyXJ5L2R0

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It's the "DIE, BOOMFUCK, FUCKING DIE ALREADY" virus.

Look at this creepy shit,

https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1223298733602934784

RC2006 says

Look at this creepy shit,

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1223218977570078721

Next year it will be a drone saying "Why are you out with my girlfriend!!"

HeadSet says

RC2006 says

Look at this creepy shit,

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1223218977570078721

Next year it will be a drone saying "Why are you out with my girlfriend!!"

Next year they will have gun mounts and be shooting people.

P.F. Chang picked a terrible time to launch their Crispy Bat Wings in Spicey Civet Sauce entree.

RC2006 says

HeadSet says

RC2006 says

Look at this creepy shit,

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1223218977570078721

Next year it will be a drone saying "Why are you out with my girlfriend!!"

Next year they will have gun mounts and be shooting people.

Dealing with the recoil would be a bitch.

Dealing with the recoil would be a bitch.

Hellfire missiles, then. Its been done.

Maybe this would be better for infected people.
www.youtube.com/embed/07rtBip9ixk

This whole thing is still a nothingburger compared to the flu. I almost think it's deliberately hyped to stoke fear in the markets and then set up for a sharp rebound after retail sold for cheapies. I expect a rebound this coming week

mell says

This whole thing is still a nothingburger compared to the flu. I almost think it's deliberately hyped to stoke fear in the markets

If you think about it, they could crush the pandemic by taking radical measures as soon as they found the virus: stop all in/out from China regions without 2 weeks quarantine, close schools and stop economic activities without full protection gears. This would have avoided contamination outside the region and saved lives. But the rub is a large hit to economic activities due to added frictions. Which is why they resisted radical measures initially.

This is starting to happen: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-infecting-global-economy-220135978.html
Economic activities are put on old, stores are closed, people stay home. This hurts the economy and will hurt profit.

Heraclitusstudent says

mell says

This whole thing is still a nothingburger compared to the flu. I almost think it's deliberately hyped to stoke fear in the markets

If you think about it, they could crush the pandemic by taking radical measures as soon as they found the virus: stop all in/out from China regions without 2 weeks quarantine, close schools and stop economic activities without full protection gears. This would have avoided contamination outside the region and saved lives. But the rub is a large hit to economic activities due to added frictions. Which is why they resisted radical measures initially.

This is starting to happen: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-infecting-global-economy-220135978.html
Economic activities are put on old, stores are closed, people stay home. This hurts the economy and will hurt profit.

Agreed. I think the drastic measures are right, even if it is just to prevent damage to your own economy. An dit seems to be working with only 132 confirmed cases worldwide outside of China. Still people will rush and buy their iphones when the stores open again with even longer lines. We had situations like this - for various reasons - many times before and it hardly made a dent, compared to a real organic recession or finanicial crisis.

Growth rate currently roughly at 15%-20% if you believe official numbers. Pretty much all cases in China.

mell says

only 132 confirmed cases worldwide outside of China.

That was an hour ago. Now it's up to 164.