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Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:47 am**

Lord Dominator wrote:
Catburg wrote:
I don’t think it is an accident. Someone who could be the CCP fuckers wants to exterminate people in the entire region. There is an ongoing genocidal race war.

Reputable citations please, tto back up this absurd idea you seems to have of the CCP killing their own citizens.

WTF is a “CCP citizen”? China is not really a republic and there aren’t any citizens.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:53 am**

Catburg wrote:
Lord Dominator wrote:Reputable citations please, tto back up this absurd idea you seems to have of the CCP killing their own citizens.

WTF is a “CCP citizen”? China is not really a republic and there aren’t any citizens.

Well.....they mean that you have to provide some (reputable) sources for your claim that seems to imply that the government of PRC is killing the people of Mainland China.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:05 am**

The infected toll has risen to 830, that is a 300 increase in the past few days and the death toll to 26.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:07 am**

What's with the plague every 100 years?

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:20 am**

Europa Undivided wrote:What's with the plague every 100 years?

Natures way of thinning unnatural herds. Our hunter gatherer ancestors were smarter, stronger and better looking.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:22 am**

Thought I'd put it in here

BBC News wrote:Most of the 17 victims there were elderly and suffered from other chronic diseases including Parkinson's disease and diabetes.

This was taken from this link, which was updated yesterday, so it may be (and probably is, considering the speed of the virus) outdated. But given this, I don't think everybody has to panic. Sure, the virus is fast, but the most of the fatalities recorded were from elderly and people with chronic diseases. The virus may mutate and change its symptoms, threatening healthy people, but for now it doesn't seem to be like that. It's not Ebola (yet)
Though I still think some action should be done to stop the spread of disease

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:31 am**

Europa Undivided wrote:What's with the plague every 100 years?

Grimmsland wrote:Natures way of thinning unnatural herds. Our hunter gatherer ancestors were smarter, stronger and better looking.

You mean this?

There isn't a pattern, it's just a lazy stupid meme that relies on ignoring other numerous (and generally more lethal) epidemics.

I mean, if I tell you there was a couple of outbreaks of Influenza in the 1950s and 60s that was combined 20 to 30 times larger than any epidemic in 1720 or 1820. If I tell you about the Plague in Persia c 1772 that was roughly 20 times larger than any epidemic in the 1720's or 1820s. The flu pandemic in 2009 - in your own lifespan - killed as many people as both alleged "massive plague outbreaks" in 1720 and 1820, and you don't bat an eyelid. Heck, HIV has been going on for 30 years and killed 30 times more people than any epidemic in 1720 or 1820.

So all you have realistically is Spanish Flu in 1920 - a large pandemic to be sure, but a pattern of one is not a pattern at all.

So yeah, it's meaningless and stupid, don't be gullible and fall for it.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:33 am**

Hirota wrote:
Europa Undivided wrote:What's with the plague every 100 years?

Grimmsland wrote:Natures way of thinning unnatural herds. Our hunter gatherer ancestors were smarter, stronger and better looking.

You mean this?

There isn't a pattern, it's just a lazy stupid meme that relies on ignoring other numerous (and generally more lethal) epidemics.

I mean, if I tell you there was a couple of outbreaks of Influenza in the 1950s and 60s that was combined 20 to 30 times larger than any epidemic in 1720 or 1820. If I tell you about the Plague in Persia c 1772 that was roughly 20 times larger than any epidemic in the 1720's or 1820s. The flu pandemic in 2009 - in your own lifespan - killed as many people as both alleged "massive plague outbreaks" in 1720 and 1820, and you don't bat an eyelid. Heck, HIV has been going on for 30 years and killed 30 times more people than any epidemic in 1720 or 1820.

So all you have realistically is Spanish Flu in 1920 - a large pandemic to be sure, but a pattern of one is not a pattern at all.

So yeah, it's meaningless and stupid, don't be gullible and fall for it.

Also the Spanish Flu was dying out by 1920. It ended in 1920. But killed far more people in 1918-1919 than 1920.

Also the numbers we assign to years are arbitrary, and viruses cannot read calendars.
It is a lazy meme that makes no sense.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:42 am**

Grimmsland wrote:
Europa Undivided wrote:What's with the plague every 100 years?

Natures way of thinning unnatural herds. Our hunter gatherer ancestors were smarter, stronger and better looking.

They didn't have an education system, any knowledge they had was either gained firsthand or passed orally - with modern information, park rangers and good hunters probably have comparable survival skills to the best hunter-gatherers. They also hadn't invented deodorant, soap, or clothing better than homespun wool, and they probably didn't shave or cut their hair and nails. Not much there I see as smarter or better looking.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:12 am**

Grimmsland wrote:
Europa Undivided wrote:What's with the plague every 100 years?

Natures way of thinning unnatural herds. Our hunter gatherer ancestors were smarter, stronger and better looking.

Edgelords would be the first to go in a hunter gatherer society.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:23 am**

Grimmsland wrote:Our hunter gatherer ancestors were smarter, stronger and better looking.

Smarter? I doubt that.

Stronger? By what metric?

Better looking? How can you possibly determine that? Photography has only existed for about two centuries. Hell, truly accurate painting and drawing in the form of Realism has only existed for a few centuries too. So please, tell us how you can possibly know for certain how our hunter-gatherer ancestors looked. Cave paintings and drawings are not nearly detailed enough to show whether they were "better looking" or not, and even forensic facial reconstruction techniques of the skulls of our ancestors have problems with how accurate they are.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:30 am**

Kargintina the Third wrote:Cut all flights from China to the US.

Too late for that. There’s at least a dozen U.S. cases being tested now.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:37 am**

Five people being tested for coronavirus in Scotland have been given the all-clear.

The chief medical officer for England confirmed that all 14 people tested in the UK had been found to be free of the virus.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51241245

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:39 am**

8 individuals in Mauritius have been placed in quarantine over suspected cases of the virus. That includes a family of five tourists who came to Mauritius from Wuhan.

Source for those who know French:
https://www.linfo.re/ocean-indien/ile-m ... uarantaine

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:47 am**

Vetalia wrote:
Catburg wrote:
Or maybe someone is waging a genocidal race war against us?

No, I think there was an accident in the Chinese offensive biological warfare program centered at the Wuhan BSL-4 facility and this one got loose. Either that or this was a test run of a refined version of the SARS/MERS coronavirus. Nothing about this outbreak is normal.

TIL newly emerged viruses can’t just be a natural occurrence anymore, they have to be the work of a secret nefarious biological weapons program, they just have to be! :roll:

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:49 am**

Grimmsland wrote:
Europa Undivided wrote:What's with the plague every 100 years?

Natures way of thinning unnatural herds. Our hunter gatherer ancestors were smarter, stronger and better looking.

Ceteris paribus

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:57 am**

CDC Confirms Second US Case. 63 people under investigation across 22 states

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:58 am**

The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:
Vetalia wrote:
No, I think there was an accident in the Chinese offensive biological warfare program centered at the Wuhan BSL-4 facility and this one got loose. Either that or this was a test run of a refined version of the SARS/MERS coronavirus. Nothing about this outbreak is normal.

TIL newly emerged viruses can’t just be a natural occurrence anymore, they have to be the work of a secret nefarious biological weapons program, they just have to be!

Said lab had leaks. Also SARS came from a Chinese lab. It’s not crazy to think that they might be related.

Also China is being extremely tight lipped about it. They claim it came from snakes and there’s limited human to human contact. That’s absolutely bullshit.

They don’t want to admit that they fucked up and admit they had a leak at a CDC style level-4 facility

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 8:59 am**

Grimmsland wrote:
Europa Undivided wrote:What's with the plague every 100 years?

Natures way of thinning unnatural herds. Our hunter gatherer ancestors were smarter, stronger and better looking.

I don't know about you but those dimensions,

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:04 am**

Thermodolia wrote:CDC Confirms Second US Case. 63 people under investigation across 22 states

Well fuck. Hope we find a cure soon.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:06 am**

The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:CDC Confirms Second US Case. 63 people under investigation across 22 states

Well fuck. Hope we find a cure soon.

The hospitals we have are more than equipped to deal with something like this, I'd be more worried about getting it due to the hospital bill tbh.

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:10 am**

Satuga wrote:
The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:Well fuck. Hope we find a cure soon.

The hospitals we have are more than equipped to deal with something like this, I'd be more worried about getting it due to the hospital bill tbh.

Hospital bills? What are those?

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:10 am**

The New California Republic wrote:
Satuga wrote:The hospitals we have are more than equipped to deal with something like this, I'd be more worried about getting it due to the hospital bill tbh.

Hospital bills? What are those?

Horrible bankrupting things

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:11 am**

Great Algerstonia wrote:
Kargintina the Third wrote:Cut all flights from China to the US.

Too late for that. There’s at least a dozen U.S. cases being tested now.

63 actually

Posted: **Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:13 am**

Thermodolia wrote:
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:TIL newly emerged viruses can’t just be a natural occurrence anymore, they have to be the work of a secret nefarious biological weapons program, they just have to be!

Said lab had leaks. Also SARS came from a Chinese lab. It’s not crazy to think that they might be related

It kinda is, it’s needless and baseless conspiratorial yarn spinning.

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