Coronavirus Thread mark II: Official Apocalyptic Edition

[Chernoslavia]

I don't. Many of the same terrible things happened under him but we were lured into a false sense of security.

At least with trump, we're finally admitting to the world that we're totally stupid.

Obama wasn't an anti-science dickhead. Our fucking president during this public health crisis was once an anti-vaxxer.

Nope, just a regular dickhead.

[Fartsniffage]

Your parents are traitors to mankind. You can still love then and do stuff with them but they are objectively fucking things up for the rest of the human race.

To be fair, "mankind" isn't exactly a subject of loyalty.

You won't be saying that when the xenos arrive in May...

[The Alma Mater]

Dutch CDC: keep your distance
Prime Minister: please keep a distance of 1.5m from eachother
Sign: keep 1.5m distance
Crowd: fuck that, I wanna see the blossoming trees

(Image)

These people are crazy!No one told them to wear masks?Yesterday I saw a video of an Italian mayor warning people not to go out. He looks like he's going crazy, because the public doesn't listen to advice.

Most CDCs advice against wearing masks.
Reasons:
- Less masks available for actual care professionals
- Mask are primarily to protect others from your coughing . People who cough should stay inside.
- Masks actually increase the risk of infection if you touch them. Most people tend to touch their face at least 20 times an hour without realising that.

[Stellar Colonies]

Jennifer Haller, first American to take Coronavirus trial vaccine. Mother of two.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/21/81875961 ... TUTriN9JoM

Let's hope it works…

[Nakena]

Coronavirus: Italy and Spain record highest single-day death tolls




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... rmans-told

And both countries have been trying to stop it for a while now. I shudder to think how bad it's going to get for the Britons.

London and Amsterdam have, according to unconfirmed rumors, become corona central vectors.

[Saiwania]

Less stuff getting done in general is rumored to have been wonderful for the environment. We're finally seeing the water and air quality in Venice, Italy go way up with just a reduction of our activities. In many ways, we're perhaps the virus preventing the planet from recovering to its natural and more pristine state.

[Tinhampton]

RIGHT: Remember this from last Saturday? Meanwhile, in the real Slovakian Government, PM Igor Matovic (L) and Prez Zuzana Caputova (R) - behind two of the PM's uniformly-facemasked cabineteers - shake gloves...

Light relief: Stockpiling for good... Cilla Hope's FaceTime date... Did Madonna predict coronavirus at Eurovision 2019?

Sports: Four Portsmouth FC footballers, three Juventus players have coronavirus... REMINDER: All top-flight football under UEFA's jurisdiction (except in Ukraine and Kazakhstan... for now) and beyond has been suspended, and that's just the football...

Omnibus News Update: Immunity: define... Private sector hands over hospital beds to the Glorious NHS - but its equipment for staff fails to meet WHO guidelines... Kate Forbes MSP (Highlands), Steve Double MP (Cornwall) urge would-be holidaymakers to go and holiday somewhere else... Dr Fiona Henderson laments poor hand-sanitiser advertisement in Glaswegian hospital... Remote Australian Aboriginal communities under an unheralded lockdown...

Remember when Fiona Hamilton, she of GMTV infamy, was struck down with COVID-19 for a few hours yesterday? Turns out she only has symptoms and hasn't been tested yet, you can confirm this on the Grauniad liveblog...

[Shanghai industrial complex]

These people are crazy!No one told them to wear masks?Yesterday I saw a video of an Italian mayor warning people not to go out. He looks like he's going crazy, because the public doesn't listen to advice.

Most CDCs advice against wearing masks.
Reasons:
- Less masks available for actual care professionals
- Mask are primarily to protect others from your coughing . People who cough should stay inside.
- Masks actually increase the risk of infection if you touch them. Most people tend to touch their face at least 20 times an hour without realising that.

The protection of the mask is two-way. Prevent you from being infected by others, prevent others from being infected by you.Wash your hands after touching the mask. The disease is transmitted through the respiratory tract or conjunctiva rather than through the skin.


Judging from the past performance of the CDC, it is obvious that they have some information not told the public.The reason the CDC advises the public not to wear masks is because there are no masks at all. Even doctors don't have enough masks. Because most of the masks in the world are made in China.And all the masks have been expropriated by the Chinese government.
According to China, the global production capacity of masks outside China is 20 million pieces per day, while China now has 116 million pieces.China bought 700 million masks from the world before.
So, CDC, of course, will try to convince people that masks are useless.Because even China doesn't have enough masks.

[New Bremerton]

Health minister gets roasted for misinformation over warm water tip

CORONAVIRUS | New Health Minister Dr Adham Baba is facing the heat after spreading misinformation by suggesting that drinking warm water would prevent Covid-19 infection.

Twitterjaya reacted almost immediately after the segment of the interview was aired on TV1 yesterday evening, with some calling for his ouster or for him to be disallowed from giving public statements.

Former Bersih chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan called for the return of Adham’s predecessor, Dzulkefly Ahmad (below), who was largely praised for his handling of the medical crisis prior to the sudden collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government in February.

“It’s not even funny. We should just get Dr Dzul (Dzulkefly) back to do national service. We are facing a crisis and this is an obvious solution. This government should forget the politics and put us in safe hands please!” she tweeted.

It’s not even funny. We should just get @DrDzul back to do national service. We are facing a crisis and this is an obvious solution. This government should forget the politics and put us in safe hands please! https://t.co/Py2EMgGGZQ
— Ambiga Sreenevasan (@Ambiga_S) March 20, 2020

The social media posting was made in response to a tweet by former Harapan deputy minister Hannah Yeoh.

“@KKMPutrajaya (Health Ministry) shouldn't be made to fight fire during this critical time as a result of health minister's lack of good sense. I hope TV stations stop inviting him to give his opinion.

“Malaysians don't need more confusion now,” read the Segambut lawmaker’s tweet.

Local comedian and medical doctor Jason Leong deemed the minister a “buffoon”.

Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Isis) Malaysia analyst Harris Zainul, meanwhile, called on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin (photo) to replace his new minister for “spreading false information”.

“This guy has to go for spreading false information, Muhyiddin Yassin. He is not fit to even be a spokesperson, what more a Minister. #AdhamByeBye.”

In a harsh tweet, one social media user Noraishah Mydin Abd Aziz said Adham was “not worth 29 nurses”.

She tweeted: “No, Adham Baba is definitely not worth 29 nurses. Rather have one nurse than 29 Adham Baba.”

During the interview on RTM’s Bicara Naratif programme, Adham said the virus behind the Covid-19 outbreak “doesn’t like high temperatures” and advocated drinking warm water as means of prevention.

“This virus doesn’t like high temperatures...

“The virus will be eliminated, eliminated, and end up in the stomach. If it ends up in the stomach, there is acid and they lose.

“The important thing is to eliminate the virus from the throat before it enters the lungs because it loves the lower respiratory tract,” he said.

Such advice had already been debunked by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The minister’s advice was also debunked by Malaysian surgeon Dr Amalina Bakri, who said such claims were not “evidence-based”.

The claim also received ridicule abroad, with Singapore site Mothership posting that: “The whole of China should have just resorted to drinking warm water and then none of this would have happened.”

He also claimed that the number of daily new cases was decreasing or plateauing and that the outbreak would soon be over. Immediately, there was a spike in the number of cases over the next three days. The army has been prematurely deployed to enforce a partial lockdown, sparking fears of a possible authoritarian crackdown under the guise of containing the pandemic given Malaysia's history of authoritarian one-party-dominant rule, the failure of the previous elected government to abolish a number of draconian laws, and the memory of the 1969 racial riots and the then-racist government's response to it.

Our government is now begging China for more face masks and threatening to turn us into a Chinese vassal state governed by racist Malays and radical Islamists that ironically seeks to marginalize and completely ignore the hopes and dreams of Malaysian Chinese and Indian minorities. Bear in mind that the current Malaysian government is unelected and came to power via the mass defections of 37 corrupt MPs in Parliament, including an entire political party, in lieu of a general election, and possesses absolutely no mandate to govern. The sheer level of incompetence displayed by this useless backdoor government in response to the Wuhan virus is absolutely horrifying to watch. I fear the worst is yet to come.

[New Bremerton]

Interestingly enough, warzones Syria, Libya and Yemen have zero cases so far. We should be extremely concerned if the virus infects these places if the Spanish flu has anything to say about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_f ... econd_wave

Deadly second wave

The second wave of the 1918 pandemic was much deadlier than the first. The first wave had resembled typical flu epidemics; those most at risk were the sick and elderly, while younger, healthier people recovered easily. By August, when the second wave began in France, Sierra Leone, and the United States,[90] the virus had mutated to a much deadlier form. October 1918 was the deadliest month of the whole pandemic.[91]

This increased severity has been attributed to the circumstances of the First World War.[92] In civilian life, natural selection favors a mild strain. Those who get very ill stay home, and those mildly ill continue with their lives, preferentially spreading the mild strain. In the trenches, natural selection was reversed. Soldiers with a mild strain stayed where they were, while the severely ill were sent on crowded trains to crowded field hospitals, spreading the deadlier virus. The second wave began, and the flu quickly spread around the world again. Consequently, during modern pandemics, health officials pay attention when the virus reaches places with social upheaval (looking for deadlier strains of the virus).[93]

The fact that most of those who recovered from first-wave infections had become immune showed that it must have been the same strain of flu. This was most dramatically illustrated in Copenhagen, which escaped with a combined mortality rate of just 0.29% (0.02% in the first wave and 0.27% in the second wave) because of exposure to the less-lethal first wave.[94] For the rest of the population, the second wave was far more deadly; the most vulnerable people were those like the soldiers in the trenches – adults who were young and fit.[95]

This would explain why the Spanish flu killed mostly healthy young adults at the time.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Health minister gets roasted for misinformation over warm water tip

CORONAVIRUS | New Health Minister Dr Adham Baba is facing the heat after spreading misinformation by suggesting that drinking warm water would prevent Covid-19 infection.

Twitterjaya reacted almost immediately after the segment of the interview was aired on TV1 yesterday evening, with some calling for his ouster or for him to be disallowed from giving public statements.

Former Bersih chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan called for the return of Adham’s predecessor, Dzulkefly Ahmad (below), who was largely praised for his handling of the medical crisis prior to the sudden collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government in February.

“It’s not even funny. We should just get Dr Dzul (Dzulkefly) back to do national service. We are facing a crisis and this is an obvious solution. This government should forget the politics and put us in safe hands please!” she tweeted.

It’s not even funny. We should just get @DrDzul back to do national service. We are facing a crisis and this is an obvious solution. This government should forget the politics and put us in safe hands please! https://t.co/Py2EMgGGZQ
— Ambiga Sreenevasan (@Ambiga_S) March 20, 2020

The social media posting was made in response to a tweet by former Harapan deputy minister Hannah Yeoh.

“@KKMPutrajaya (Health Ministry) shouldn't be made to fight fire during this critical time as a result of health minister's lack of good sense. I hope TV stations stop inviting him to give his opinion.

“Malaysians don't need more confusion now,” read the Segambut lawmaker’s tweet.

Local comedian and medical doctor Jason Leong deemed the minister a “buffoon”.

Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Isis) Malaysia analyst Harris Zainul, meanwhile, called on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin (photo) to replace his new minister for “spreading false information”.

“This guy has to go for spreading false information, Muhyiddin Yassin. He is not fit to even be a spokesperson, what more a Minister. #AdhamByeBye.”

In a harsh tweet, one social media user Noraishah Mydin Abd Aziz said Adham was “not worth 29 nurses”.

She tweeted: “No, Adham Baba is definitely not worth 29 nurses. Rather have one nurse than 29 Adham Baba.”

During the interview on RTM’s Bicara Naratif programme, Adham said the virus behind the Covid-19 outbreak “doesn’t like high temperatures” and advocated drinking warm water as means of prevention.

“This virus doesn’t like high temperatures...

“The virus will be eliminated, eliminated, and end up in the stomach. If it ends up in the stomach, there is acid and they lose.

“The important thing is to eliminate the virus from the throat before it enters the lungs because it loves the lower respiratory tract,” he said.

Such advice had already been debunked by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The minister’s advice was also debunked by Malaysian surgeon Dr Amalina Bakri, who said such claims were not “evidence-based”.

The claim also received ridicule abroad, with Singapore site Mothership posting that: “The whole of China should have just resorted to drinking warm water and then none of this would have happened.”

He also claimed that the number of daily new cases was decreasing or plateauing and that the outbreak would soon be over. Immediately, there was a spike in the number of cases over the next three days. The army has been prematurely deployed to enforce a partial lockdown, sparking fears of a possible authoritarian crackdown under the guise of containing the pandemic given Malaysia's history of authoritarian one-party-dominant rule, the failure of the previous elected government to abolish a number of draconian laws, and the memory of the 1969 racial riots and the then-racist government's response to it.

Our government is now begging China for more face masks and threatening to turn us into a Chinese vassal state governed by racist Malays and radical Islamists that ironically seeks to marginalize and completely ignore the hopes and dreams of Malaysian Chinese and Indian minorities. Bear in mind that the current Malaysian government is unelected and came to power via the mass defections of 37 corrupt MPs in Parliament, including an entire political party, in lieu of a general election, and possesses absolutely no mandate to govern. The sheer level of incompetence displayed by this useless backdoor government in response to the Wuhan virus is absolutely horrifying to watch. I fear the worst is yet to come.

It doesn't make sense. I thought the Malay and the sorcerer should be on the American side.China should hate radical Islamists.Buts maybe so. China has never been interested in the politics of other countries.

[Rojava Free State]

I don't. Many of the same terrible things happened under him but we were lured into a false sense of security.

At least with trump, we're finally admitting to the world that we're totally stupid.

Obama wasn't an anti-science dickhead. Our fucking president during this public health crisis was once an anti-vaxxer.

I've named all the bad things that happened under Obama way too many times. True, Obama was an anti science dickhead, but that doesn't mean he wasnt a dickhead in other ways.

We keep looking at the past through rose colored glasses as if the past wasnt fucked up too. I hear never Trump republicans say they wish Bush was back and all I can remember about Bush is thousands of dead people in Iraq, including United States soldiers and civilians alike.

[Thermodolia]

Nothing that you need explained to you. You don't care if you die, you don't care if anyone else dies we fucking get it.

My parents are anti-vaxxers though.

Your parents are fucking idiots no offense

[Liriena]

And both countries have been trying to stop it for a while now. I shudder to think how bad it's going to get for the Britons.

London and Amsterdam have, according to unconfirmed rumors, become corona central vectors.

Comrade coronavirus supports our holy struggle against the Germanic peoples!

[Chernoslavia]

The increasingly psychotic fearmongering of the boomer doomers around me notwithstanding, I'm feeling quite optimistic about how the quarantine is going to turn out here. Save for a few posh twats who are still trying to go on vacation, most people seem to be handling it well and they're even reporting violators to the government by the hundreds.

That curve is going to be flatter than my butt, inshallah.

Your taste for the boot is insatiable.

[Thermodolia]

I kind of kept putting it to the bottom of my priority list, thinking 'I'll get to it in the future' and never did.

Give it some thought.

Measles was declared extinct in the US. The anti-vaxxors brought it back.

We should really just call them the Pro-Diseasers

[The united American-Isreali empire]

are we gonna use bottlecaps yet!

[Rojava Free State]

Most CDCs advice against wearing masks.
Reasons:
- Less masks available for actual care professionals
- Mask are primarily to protect others from your coughing . People who cough should stay inside.
- Masks actually increase the risk of infection if you touch them. Most people tend to touch their face at least 20 times an hour without realising that.

The protection of the mask is two-way. Prevent you from being infected by others, prevent others from being infected by you.Wash your hands after touching the mask. The disease is transmitted through the respiratory tract or conjunctiva rather than through the skin.


Judging from the past performance of the CDC, it is obvious that they have some information not told the public.The reason the CDC advises the public not to wear masks is because there are no masks at all. Even doctors don't have enough masks. Because most of the masks in the world are made in China.And all the masks have been expropriated by the Chinese government.
According to China, the global production capacity of masks outside China is 20 million pieces per day, while China now has 116 million pieces.China bought 700 million masks from the world before.
So, CDC, of course, will try to convince people that masks are useless.Because even China doesn't have enough masks.

Once again, this virus is exposing the dangers of "free and global trade." You wind up buying things from your own potential enemies.

[Chernoslavia]

are we gonna use bottlecaps yet!

Fuck bottlecaps. At this point we might be using ammo. Can't find any 5.56 thanks to these panicky fucktards and fear mongerers.

[Cisairse]

Boy we are really fucked aren't we?

God damn do I miss Obama.

I was just thinking about this watching the Daily Social Distancing Show, the Daily Show from Trevor's couch.

Obama would have had the advantage of the pandemic team at the CDC and wouldn't think he could solve this problem by force of will...but even with a Republican administration there are people defying measures...if that black guy who dared to be president was telling them to self isolate? You'd have old angry white dudes out there licking each others faces just to show that they're not going to be bossed around by that <racial slur of choice.>

That sounds like a net plus for the Ds after the '20 census.

[Thermodolia]

Jennifer Haller, first American to take Coronavirus trial vaccine. Mother of two.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/21/81875961 ... TUTriN9JoM

I wonder how I can get in on this

[Liriena]

The increasingly psychotic fearmongering of the boomer doomers around me notwithstanding, I'm feeling quite optimistic about how the quarantine is going to turn out here. Save for a few posh twats who are still trying to go on vacation, most people seem to be handling it well and they're even reporting violators to the government by the hundreds.

That curve is going to be flatter than my butt, inshallah.

Your taste for the boot is insatiable.

k

[Heloin]

China has never been interested in the politics of other countries.

Since when?

[Rojava Free State]

I really dont know how much more of this we can take. Our economy is in a recession and they're warning that we may be heading for a depression, and people are dying out there.

Wait a bit before saying "people are dying out there".
Wait at least until the Army has to move corpses to other cities because crematoria are already running at their maximum capacity.
Because that's what's happening in Bergamo.

Who ever said that by out there I wasn't talking about Italy?

[Thermodolia]

The increasingly psychotic fearmongering of the boomer doomers around me notwithstanding, I'm feeling quite optimistic about how the quarantine is going to turn out here. Save for a few posh twats who are still trying to go on vacation, most people seem to be handling it well and they're even reporting violators to the government by the hundreds.

That curve is going to be flatter than my butt, inshallah.

Your taste for the boot is insatiable.

Well not really. A two week quarantine enforced by the military would be better than what we have now. And Trump has been rumored to do just that