The 2019-2020 Coronavirus outbreak thread

[Rojava Free State]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ADGENhyBF ... fy130y31bz

So I told you all the corona diaries were gonna be a thing and I filmed this last night.

Unlike the last video, this was some pretty shocking shit. Me and my friend Josh went to the shopping mall and literally nobody else was there. It was still gonna be open for like another hour and it was a Friday night and when we pulled up there were only three cars in the parking lot besides us and no one was inside. The escalators were still moving and music was still playing over the intercom but the building was devoid of life. It was like something out of the Walking Dead or 28 Days Later.

[Cisairse]

The New York Times: It’s Dangerous to Be Ruled by Fear

And what if a “suppression” strategy of school closures, restaurant shutdowns, home quarantines, bans on gatherings of more than a few people, and other methods of social distancing lasts 18 months — the estimate of how long it might take to develop and distribute a safe and effective vaccine?

In that case, we are looking at a century-defining calamity that could bankrupt the government; wreck nearly every business in America, large or small; disrupt supply chains and create critical shortfalls of food, medicines, and other essential items; lead to dramatic increases in deaths of loneliness and despair; tempt political leaders, including the president, to disavow democratic norms in the name of public health (including by seeking to postpone elections); and create widespread, perhaps deadly, civil unrest.

The article is a lot longer, but I liked this part enough to copy it.

This is what I worry about. How crazy will society get because of the plague?

It'll be a total eclipse of the heart

[Thermodolia]

Worst case a Lenin, Mussolini, or Hitler type gains popularity and over throws the government and establishes their new vision

It isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Hitler came to power due to economic recession in Germany

I humbly submit my application for the new Lenin. Thermism will spread across the world and join the people under one banner!

Or more realistically all of North America

[Rojava Free State]

This is what I worry about. How crazy will society get because of the plague?

It's already crazy, people are in fucking la-la land.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/2020/0 ... 887260001/

[Cisairse]

This is what I worry about. How crazy will society get because of the plague?

Worst case a Lenin, Mussolini, or Hitler type gains popularity and over throws the government and establishes their new vision

Didn't that already happen?

[San Lumen]

Since when was SL working for the new York times?

Excellent question.

When the Times says something then your believed. I wasn’t so crazy after all with my comments now was I?

[Cisairse]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ADGENhyBF/?igshid=1nlfy130y31bz

So I told you all the corona diaries were gonna be a thing and I filmed this last night.

Unlike the last video, this was some pretty shocking shit. Me and my friend Josh went to the shopping mall and literally nobody else was there. It was still gonna be open for like another hour and it was a Friday night and when we pulled up there were only three cars in the parking lot besides us and no one was inside. The escalators were still moving and music was still playing over the intercom but the building was devoid of life. It was like something out of the Walking Dead or 28 Days Later.

I've heard reports of citygoers wandering my university's abandon campus construction sites as if they were ancient Roman ruins.

It's strange.

[Cisairse]

Excellent question.

When the Times says something then your believed. I wasn’t so crazy after all with my comments now was I?

Hey, I was always a hawk on these draconian policies.

[Thermodolia]

Worst case a Lenin, Mussolini, or Hitler type gains popularity and over throws the government and establishes their new vision

Didn't that already happen?

Broken clock. History repeats itself.

[Rojava Free State]

It isn’t out of the realm of possibility. Hitler came to power due to economic recession in Germany

I humbly submit my application for the new Lenin. Thermism will spread across the world and join the people under one banner!

Or more realistically all of North America

I'm gonna be the next Bobby Sands.

Wait, so I die in the end.

[Thermodolia]

When the Times says something then your believed. I wasn’t so crazy after all with my comments now was I?

Hey, I was always a hawk on these draconian policies.

I was the one arguing for martial law two months ago and now there are rumors that Trump will enact it

[Cisairse]

Hey, I was always a hawk on these draconian policies.

I was the one arguing for martial law two months ago and now there are rumors that Trump will enact it

Fuck. Should I own a weapon? Guns are (virtually) illegal in my state, but I could probably get my hands on a slingshot or maybe a sword.

[Nakena]

Hey, I was always a hawk on these draconian policies.

I was the one arguing for martial law two months ago and now there are rumors that Trump will enact it

The beginning of the end, elections postponed forever and the constitution suspended.

And this is how the USA became the dark dystopia from Escape from New York or Running Man

[Rojava Free State]

We did it yall. We're almost at 500 pages.

All right partner. You know what time it is.

[Cisairse]

I humbly submit my application for the new Lenin. Thermism will spread across the world and join the people under one banner!

Or more realistically all of North America

I'm gonna be the next Bobby Sands.

Wait, so I die in the end.

Everyone dies in the end, brother.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

So, with this thread approaching the limit, I've decided to make the next edition.
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=482336

[Greater vakolicci haven]

I'm gonna be the next Bobby Sands.

Wait, so I die in the end.

Everyone dies in the end, brother.

Yes! This is what I've been trying to tell people!

[Des-Bal]

Yes! This is what I've been trying to tell people!

The fact that you don't care if you live or die and cannot focus on things beyond your personal comfort is not enlightenment it is an emotional crisis you're failing to process.

[Des-Bal]

Fuck. Should I own a weapon? Guns are (virtually) illegal in my state, but I could probably get my hands on a slingshot or maybe a sword.

You should own a weapon prior to expecting to need a weapon.

[Cisairse]

The New York Times: Don’t trust memes that promise cures

[Ifreann]

My guess is Italy and Iran will fall first

Italy won't violently overthrow its government, just vote them out. Probably will go far right.

Could go left. In the aftermath of a disaster of insufficient hospital resources, who better to vote for than the people who have always been calling for more public spending on the like of hospitals?

[Cisairse]

Fuck. Should I own a weapon? Guns are (virtually) illegal in my state, but I could probably get my hands on a slingshot or maybe a sword.

You should own a weapon prior to expecting to need a weapon.

My question is should I expect to expect to need a weapon in the future? Because, if so, I may be able to acquire something resembling a weapon now, before I actually expect to need a weapon.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Italy won't violently overthrow its government, just vote them out. Probably will go far right.

Could go left. In the aftermath of a disaster of insufficient hospital resources, who better to vote for than the people who have always been calling for more public spending on the like of hospitals?

This is Italy. They're going to blame it on migrants.

[Rojava Free State]

The New York Times: Don’t trust memes that promise cures

They claim that snorting coke and masturbating cure coronavirus.

And people say I'm crazy for thinking this is the apocalypse. I'm sorry, a world this stupid isn't fit for a crisis of this magnitude.

[Ifreann]

would it help if the government provided free sweets and happy gas to all during this pandemic?

...this and prison abolition makes two things I agree with you on.