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Totally Not OEP
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Postby Totally Not OEP » Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:59 pm

Unconfirmed reports on Weibo suggest Shanghai's true figures are 107 cases with 32 deaths (This would make this Spanish Flu tier folks!); official figures are 16 cases with no deaths.
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Postby Totally Not OEP » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:07 pm

Four possible cases in Australia.

This has all happened in the last hour....
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Postby Bombadil » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:08 pm

Totally Not OEP wrote:Unconfirmed reports on Weibo suggest Shanghai's true figures are 107 cases with 32 deaths (This would make this Spanish Flu tier folks!); official figures are 16 cases with no deaths.


Probably due to stupidity like this..

“Escape from Wuhan” has become a popular hashtag on Weibo, a microblogging website on the mainland.
“I escaped in the small hours. There were so many cars on the highway,” one netizen claimed she had driven to Shanghai.
Another netizen said he had left with a friend. He said both of them were having fever.
“We’ve escaped the epidemic zone after taking some fever reducers. I’ll visit the doctor in Shanghai if my fever doesn’t go away a week later,” she wrote.
She also wrote that they plan to visit the Disneyland before that.


One woman took suppressants, escaped to Paris and then boasted about it on Weibo..
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Postby Samudera Darussalam » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:10 pm

Totally Not OEP wrote:Confirmed cases in Mexico, suspected in LA. Latest Chinese figures suggest the fatality rate is almost 5% now.

It seems that cases are also reported in Singapore and Vietnam.

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Postby Neanderthaland » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:11 pm

Bombadil wrote:
Totally Not OEP wrote:Unconfirmed reports on Weibo suggest Shanghai's true figures are 107 cases with 32 deaths (This would make this Spanish Flu tier folks!); official figures are 16 cases with no deaths.


Probably due to stupidity like this..

“Escape from Wuhan” has become a popular hashtag on Weibo, a microblogging website on the mainland.
“I escaped in the small hours. There were so many cars on the highway,” one netizen claimed she had driven to Shanghai.
Another netizen said he had left with a friend. He said both of them were having fever.
“We’ve escaped the epidemic zone after taking some fever reducers. I’ll visit the doctor in Shanghai if my fever doesn’t go away a week later,” she wrote.
She also wrote that they plan to visit the Disneyland before that.


One woman took suppressants, escaped to Paris and then boasted about it on Weibo..

So basically the containment is going about as well as it would in a Romero movie.
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Postby Grimmsland » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:13 pm

Shamhnan Insir wrote:
LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:Here's a picture.

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What species is that? It looks neither like a koala, nor a snake, nor a rat, nor a wolf.

Some sort of marmot in the top cages, and then what appears as a small ungulate.
Marmots do tend to have very high parasite loads, as with other similar species. But theres nothing to suggest that makes them a likely source of this.


top cage are Ground Hogs. What is that outside and to the right of the top cage? Looks like the head of a baby black and white tiger..

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Postby Bombadil » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:14 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:
Bombadil wrote:
Probably due to stupidity like this..

“Escape from Wuhan” has become a popular hashtag on Weibo, a microblogging website on the mainland.
“I escaped in the small hours. There were so many cars on the highway,” one netizen claimed she had driven to Shanghai.
Another netizen said he had left with a friend. He said both of them were having fever.
“We’ve escaped the epidemic zone after taking some fever reducers. I’ll visit the doctor in Shanghai if my fever doesn’t go away a week later,” she wrote.
She also wrote that they plan to visit the Disneyland before that.


One woman took suppressants, escaped to Paris and then boasted about it on Weibo..

So basically the containment is going about as well as it would in a Romero movie.


If anything the containment has panicked people into escaping. the irony is that everyone in China is now wearing a mask in solidarity with HK.
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Postby Totally Not OEP » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:15 pm

Samudera Darussalam wrote:
Totally Not OEP wrote:Confirmed cases in Mexico, suspected in LA. Latest Chinese figures suggest the fatality rate is almost 5% now.

It seems that cases are also reported in Singapore and Vietnam.


Yeah, that was last night/this morning. Within the last hour we've had four suspected cases in Australia and one in Texas.
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Postby Neanderthaland » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:17 pm

Bombadil wrote:
Neanderthaland wrote:So basically the containment is going about as well as it would in a Romero movie.


If anything the containment has panicked people into escaping. the irony is that everyone in China is now wearing a mask in solidarity with HK.

Don't mention that to IM. Or he'll be saying that this whole thing is some kind of protester false flag.
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Postby Grimmsland » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:19 pm

I'm going to stuff cotton balls laced with olive oil up my nose and in my ears and only open my lips to speak when absolutely necessary. I'll talk like I have my jaw wired shut. Already have a good habit of never touching my face until I get and wash. :clap:

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Postby Samudera Darussalam » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:20 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:
Bombadil wrote:
Probably due to stupidity like this..

“Escape from Wuhan” has become a popular hashtag on Weibo, a microblogging website on the mainland.
“I escaped in the small hours. There were so many cars on the highway,” one netizen claimed she had driven to Shanghai.
Another netizen said he had left with a friend. He said both of them were having fever.
“We’ve escaped the epidemic zone after taking some fever reducers. I’ll visit the doctor in Shanghai if my fever doesn’t go away a week later,” she wrote.
She also wrote that they plan to visit the Disneyland before that.


One woman took suppressants, escaped to Paris and then boasted about it on Weibo..

So basically the containment is going about as well as it would in a Romero movie.

So basically the quarantine attempts are failed like OEP said.
Not.....that surprising, I guess. It's bound to happen.

Totally Not OEP wrote:


Yeah, that was last night/this morning. Within the last hour we've had four suspected cases in Australia and one in Texas.

It's worrying, indeed. The movement before and during the incoming Chinese Lunar Year may bring the infection further to other countries.

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Postby Grimmsland » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:24 pm

it is the year of the RAT!

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Postby Neanderthaland » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:34 pm

What goes with the Coronavirus?

Lyme Disease

*I'm sorry
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Postby Lamenia » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:36 pm

Welp. The best thing we can do is go to the doctor if we develop symptoms and be extra sanitary in the coming weeks. I still fear for the fate of many people in Asia, and possibly the rest of the world if it gets bad enough. Let us pray for our fellow humans.

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Postby Bombadil » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:50 pm

An estimated 300, 000 people escaped Wuhan before the lockdown alone..

However, according to sources, close to 300,000 residents from Wuhan managed to leave the city via Hankou railway station and Wuchang railway station yesterday upon hearing that the city would be put on lockdown.

Many of them showed off their successful escapade on WEIBO while a few already developed fever symptoms.
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Postby Valrifell » Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:50 pm

There was a major outbreak in 1820, 1920, and now...
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Postby Lord Dominator » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:07 pm

Valrifell wrote:There was a major outbreak in 1820, 1920, and now...

Wikipedia indicates that any global epidemic in 1820 was continued from prior years and continued after, while the Spanish Flu ended in 1920, not began.

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Postby Totally Not OEP » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:12 pm

Bombadil wrote:An estimated 300, 000 people escaped Wuhan before the lockdown alone..

However, according to sources, close to 300,000 residents from Wuhan managed to leave the city via Hankou railway station and Wuchang railway station yesterday upon hearing that the city would be put on lockdown.

Many of them showed off their successful escapade on WEIBO while a few already developed fever symptoms.


Honestly, these people deserve to have the full weight of the CCP fall upon them.
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Postby Catburg » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:14 pm

Totally Not OEP wrote:
Bombadil wrote:An estimated 300, 000 people escaped Wuhan before the lockdown alone..

However, according to sources, close to 300,000 residents from Wuhan managed to leave the city via Hankou railway station and Wuchang railway station yesterday upon hearing that the city would be put on lockdown.

Many of them showed off their successful escapade on WEIBO while a few already developed fever symptoms.


Honestly, these people deserve to have the full weight of the CCP fall upon them.


Nope. They did not vote CCP into power. The Chinese civilians are not responsible for the cancer of Sinostatism.
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Postby Neanderthaland » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:17 pm

Catburg wrote:
Totally Not OEP wrote:
Honestly, these people deserve to have the full weight of the CCP fall upon them.


Nope. They did not vote CCP into power. The Chinese civilians are not responsible for the cancer of Sinostatism.

Still not a thing.
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Postby The Rapture Republic » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:21 pm

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chin ... SKBN1ZM0C7


I’m not sure why the WHO hasn’t declared this an emergency. It’s better to act now before waiting any longer.
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Postby Totally Not OEP » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:25 pm

Catburg wrote:
Totally Not OEP wrote:
Honestly, these people deserve to have the full weight of the CCP fall upon them.


Nope. They did not vote CCP into power. The Chinese civilians are not responsible for the cancer of Sinostatism.


Please find me a fuck to give. These dumbasses have exposed millions of people to this disease, and they know it too.
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Postby Catburg » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:28 pm

Totally Not OEP wrote:
Catburg wrote:
Nope. They did not vote CCP into power. The Chinese civilians are not responsible for the cancer of Sinostatism.


Please find me a fuck to give. These dumbasses have exposed millions of people to this disease, and they know it too.


You meant the carriers? Do they even know that they have Wuhan coronavirus at all?
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Postby Vetalia » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:34 pm

I think we need to start taking a closer look at what exactly is happening at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Either this was an accidental release similar to the Sverdlovsk or Marburg fiascos or a test run for a new biological weapon refined from the original SARS. Nothing about this situation is natural.
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Postby Genivaria » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:38 pm

Totally Not OEP wrote:Unconfirmed reports on Weibo suggest Shanghai's true figures are 107 cases with 32 deaths (This would make this Spanish Flu tier folks!); official figures are 16 cases with no deaths.

That would bring the death ratio closer to around %25 right?

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