Coronavirus Thread IV: Legends, Laments and Lockdowns

[Australian rePublic]

He probably thinks the elderly and sick should die for his economy.

I never said anything of the sort. Stop twisting my words

Let's see. You don't like face masks. You don't like lockdowns. You don't like contact tracing apps, and you live in thr epicentre of the virus. Okay then, since you don't actually want people to die, what would you do to mitigate it?

[Fartsniffage]

Lolol, only if she finds out.

But for example for our anniversary I bought her present in cash. That way she didnt know what it was till I gave it to her.

Seriously though she sees the cash withdraws from the bank. As policy I would rather not spread around my debit card numbers to the world. So even when we go on vacation I will pull a wad of cash before we go, and spend that.

I like cash too

Right now you shouldn't. Little bits of metal and paper/plastic covered in viruses.

[The Alma Mater]

He probably thinks the elderly and sick should die for his economy.

I never said anything of the sort. Stop twisting my words

True, but you have been destroying theatres, concerts etc. for years.
Without realising it probably, never thinking about how you were being a little vampire sucking the life out of everything.
Just like almost everybody else was doing without thinking about it.

But now you have a chance to change and rescue those things you claim to love ! All you need to do is thinking about how society should change to be less wasteful.

[Gormwood]

He probably thinks the elderly and sick should die for his economy.

I never said anything of the sort. Stop twisting my words

You don't have to use the exact words. Demanding the economy reopen business as usual before it's confirmed coronavirus is tapering down will have that effect.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

You mean our borders will remain closed permanently past three years mark? Un-bloody likely. I can't see that happening. Also, are you kidding? Unis want more foreign students. That's why they're so pro-China

Australia is closing its borders for three years? That's insane

We'll see. There may be a vaccine before then (as usual you have seized on a pessimistic estimate). As to the unis, they can lump it. They're mostly owned by the government, they'll do what they're told.

[The New California Republic]

Apparently, colds and flus weren't a thibg till about 200 years ago

...what the actual fuck are you talking about? The symptoms of the cold were described in The Ebers Papyrus which was written at about 1550 BC, and has likely been with humanity for even longer than that, but it just wasn't documented.

[San Lumen]

I never said anything of the sort. Stop twisting my words

True, but you have been destroying theatres, concerts etc. for years.
Without realising it probably, never thinking about how you were being a little vampire sucking the life out of everything.
Just like almost everybody else was doing without thinking about it.

But now you have a chance to change and rescue those things you claim to love ! All you need to do is thinking about how society should change to be less wasteful.

How have I been doing that?

[Australian rePublic]

You mean our borders will remain closed permanently past three years mark? Un-bloody likely. I can't see that happening. Also, are you kidding? Unis want more foreign students. That's why they're so pro-China

Australia is closing its borders for three years? That's insane

Yes, San Lumen, everything is insane. We'll just let the virus run its coarse and kill millions

[Pilipinas and Malaya]

Apparently, colds and flus weren't a thibg till about 200 years ago

...what the actual fuck are you talking about? The symptoms of the cold were described in The Ebers Papyrus which was written at about 1550 BC, and has likely been with humanity for even longer than that, but it just wasn't documented.

Pretty sure there were already some rudimentary viruses even further back than that..

[San Lumen]

Australia is closing its borders for three years? That's insane

Yes, San Lumen, everything is insane. We'll just let the virus run its coarse and kill millions

Shutting their borders for three years will do serious economic harm

[San Lumen]

I never said anything of the sort. Stop twisting my words

Let's see. You don't like face masks. You don't like lockdowns. You don't like contact tracing apps, and you live in thr epicentre of the virus. Okay then, since you don't actually want people to die, what would you do to mitigate it?

I would take Vetalia's approach

[Australian rePublic]

Google periodically sends me ominous emails asking me how I enjoyed a place I went to a few days ago, just have Google continue tracking everybody at all times like they already do

Yeah, you can tell Google not to but won't stop you being tracked. Turn off bluetooth AND wireless when you leave the house, because they both send out a unique number which other phones (that more promiscuous information users have installed certain aps on) report back to the ap developer. Probably to Google too.

This is where it really gets scary for people who are afraid of government tracking. Google is a huge company which makes it's money knowing things about the users, yet somehow that doesn't bother the anti-government people. They're not even bothered that Google will sell information, they're all "government should get a warrant" and they haven't read the contracts they ticked OK to. The scary bit? It's not just Google. They don't know who actually made half the aps on their phone. It could be government. It could be China's government. It could be fucking anybody.

The bottom line is: if you don't want to be tracked by government, leave your phone at home.

Turn Google off. Okay, the SIM card will still ping the closest tower (because that's how mobile phones work), and from there, the government will at least know the general vicinity of where you're located.

HELPFUL TIP- If you live in Australia and you call 000, if you're in a situation where you can't talk, you press 55 and they'll send cops over. This is something I've heard but can't confirm the accuracy

[Australian rePublic]

Let's see. You don't like face masks. You don't like lockdowns. You don't like contact tracing apps, and you live in thr epicentre of the virus. Okay then, since you don't actually want people to die, what would you do to mitigate it?

I would take Vetalia's approach

Which is?

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Let's see. You don't like face masks. You don't like lockdowns. You don't like contact tracing apps, and you live in thr epicentre of the virus. Okay then, since you don't actually want people to die, what would you do to mitigate it?

I would take Vetalia's approach

See the problem with that answer is there's no assurance you know Vetalia's approach.

Don't quote him. A monkey could do that. Put it in your own words please.

[The New California Republic]

Apparently, colds and flus weren't a thibg till about 200 years ago

...what the actual fuck are you talking about? The symptoms of the cold were described in The Ebers Papyrus which was written at about 1550 BC, and has likely been with humanity for even longer than that, but it just wasn't documented.

Pretty sure there were already some rudimentary viruses even further back than that..

Viruses existed in the primordial soup. As long as there have been things for viruses to infect, such as bacteria etc, there have been viruses.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

The man whose advice led to the economically toxic, tyrannical UK lockdown has resigned after his own policies came back to bite him on the arse.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... down-rules

[Ifreann]

Pretty sure there were already some rudimentary viruses even further back than that..

Viruses existed in the primordial soup. As long as there have been things for viruses to infect, such as bacteria etc, there have been viruses.

Viruses were invented in 1998.

[Major-Tom]

The man whose advice led to the economically toxic, tyrannical UK lockdown has resigned after his own policies came back to bite him on the arse.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... down-rules

That's certainly damning, though I think it's worth noting that while his work might have made some worst-case scenario presumptions, it did convince a lot of leaders and people alike to consider the idea of social distancing.

He made a mistake, and he's not the holy grail of virus researchers, but I don't think he deserves to be shamed for this.

[The New California Republic]

Viruses existed in the primordial soup. As long as there have been things for viruses to infect, such as bacteria etc, there have been viruses.

Viruses were invented in 1998.

Well Australian rePublic unironically thinks that colds have only existed for a century or so, which is far worse.

[Fartsniffage]

How can people be so stupid?

[The Alma Mater]

The man whose advice led to the economically toxic, tyrannical UK lockdown has resigned after his own policies came back to bite him on the arse.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... down-rules

That's certainly damning, though I think it's worth noting that while his work might have made some worst-case scenario presumptions, it did convince a lot of leaders and people alike to consider the idea of social distancing.

He made a mistake, and he's not the holy grail of virus researchers, but I don't think he deserves to be shamed for this.

He had his mistress come over at least twice while her husband was suspected to have Corona, while telling regular couples that do not live together they were not allowed to see eachother.

That will cause some reaction.

[Ethel mermania]

Lolol, only if she finds out.

But for example for our anniversary I bought her present in cash. That way she didnt know what it was till I gave it to her.

Seriously though she sees the cash withdraws from the bank. As policy I would rather not spread around my debit card numbers to the world. So even when we go on vacation I will pull a wad of cash before we go, and spend that.

That's a good explanation. Keeping secrets from your wife might have been a bad sign, but presents should of course be secret!

I also hate to use credit cards, only do it when I have to spend online. Likewise EFTPOS, I prefer cash. Not fear so much, rather I am stingy and don't like to give away information for nothing. Information is worth money to companies, they should offer me a discount or something if they want it from me.

Hmm, actually "points" on a loyalty card are a kind of payment for information. Annoyingly indirect though.

We have been hit by Identity theft a couple times, so her job is to watch the account fairly regularly. She is much better at it than I am.

[Greed and Death]

Apparently, colds and flus weren't a thibg till about 200 years ago, which really makes you wonder about the history of this bloody thing. I wonder how it will play out for places with herd immunity vs places without herd immunity, especially when they re-open the borders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1510_Influenza_pandemic

[Gormwood]

The man whose advice led to the economically toxic, tyrannical UK lockdown has resigned after his own policies came back to bite him on the arse.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... down-rules

Now we know where San Lumen got his idea to demand the economy reopen NOW NOW NAO.

[Major-Tom]

That's certainly damning, though I think it's worth noting that while his work might have made some worst-case scenario presumptions, it did convince a lot of leaders and people alike to consider the idea of social distancing.

He made a mistake, and he's not the holy grail of virus researchers, but I don't think he deserves to be shamed for this.

He had his mistress come over at least twice while her husband was suspected to have Corona, while telling regular couples that do not live together they were not allowed to see eachother.

That will cause some reaction.

...Oh fuck, I didn't read past "he had a woman over because he thought he had immunity." Serves me right for not reading past the first paragraph, that's bad.