stephenthinkpad posted:

If you dont want to trust the Chinese number, then don't. Nobody put a gun on your head. There are enough oversea numbers to do data mining yourself, instead of making pointless argument about CCP that has nothing to do with the coronavirus.

Edit, and there are at least 3 other China threads on SA if you just want to talk about China.

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

We're going to leave it and you should stop talking about poo poo that you can't verify in a thread that's already got people scared you enormous loving twit.

Burt Sexual posted:

I got a long email from my investment firm to not panic. Lol I’ve never gotten one before from them.

quote:

Like many investors right now, you may have questions or concerns about the recent volatility stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. Know that, as your Financial Advisors, we are here to help you understand what it means for the broader markets and your individual portfolio.

That’s why we'd like to invite you to listen to a special call to help you make sense of market activity as well as give you potential next steps

Burt Sexual posted:

He’s joking

Anyways not good it’s already on the east coast where so many people live close together ugh

poverty goat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWQMvHNOnI

this is the "duck and cover" of our time

LanceHunter posted:

I would be careful trusting this company. As a friend of mine of FB who has worked with them put it: "I wouldn't trust anything these guys put out. It will be an LDT from a third party lab. The test itself will not be FDA cleared. They have (up until now) existed on the periphery of legality by testing for nutritional issues and peripheral health issues as opposed to actual diagnostically relevant testing. They keep prices low by contracting with third party, fly-by-night labs, and distance themselves from actual liability. There is a reason they are cheap and accessible."

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Home isolation is meaning that people are having to cut their own hair for the first time ever and the results are finally starting to get posted to the internet






More: https://imgur.com/gallery/ZfoQsMT


My google image search for 100% soap clothing had very disappointing results

VikingSkull posted:

Yeah I'm not actually going to quote what you say.

Mnoba posted:

super saiyan 1 should be enough to kill off the virus

VikingSkull posted:

smoking cigarettes definitely protects you, I haven't caught it yet

VikingSkull posted:

How dare you folks talk about Trumps response to the coronavirus in the coronavirus thread. I mean doing so politicizes the thread and BLAH BLAH BLAH!

Facebook Aunt posted:

Pool cleaners seem like they should be able to practice good physical distancing at least. And if idiots kept using their unserviced pools it could become a public health issue.

EimiYoshikawa posted:

In four shopping trips in the last two weeks, a combined total of like 9 different stores from those trips have been 100% completely and utterly sold out of any disinfecting products, all bleach products, all ammonia products, all hand sanitizers, and generally speaking everything I could possibly use to actually disinfect anything.

I do have hand and dish soap, however.

I'm getting to the point where that post about DIY soap-spray and whether it would work based on the lipid soaping is something *I* have seriously had to consider.

Busy Bee posted:

Did you read that article? Of course you didn't seeing as how you posted just a few minutes after my post and considering The Economist is behind a paywall.

The expelling of journalists from New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal was in response to this - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/18/us-chinese-media-propaganda-state-department - where do you see that it was in response to reporters being critical of the COVID response?

Gianthogweed posted:

I don't think a more centrally controlled economy would have helped much either. The government is only as competent as the experts it relies upon for information. And experts were wrong pretty much across the board. You had The World Health Organization saying masks aren't necessary from the beginning and the Surgeon General was repeating that line until yesterday. The data on our supply inventory for important things such as Personal Protective Equipment and Ventilators was inaccurate or just outright missing for most of the hospitals. We still don't know exactly how many we have and how many we need, nor how long it will take to get enough into production. And the one thing that could relieve hospitals from the need of ventilators, a treatment, has also become a mountain of untrustworthy sources. There is so much disagreement and probably misinformation over the whole hydroxychloriquine/Z-Pack treatment that we still don't know for sure if it works or not. You've got so many Republicans blaming Democrats and Democrats blaming Republicans that it's impossible to get accurate information without political spin. The virus is winning through divide and conquer. You'd think that so common an enemy like a pandemic would unite us. But nope. We still hate each other more than ever. And to top it off, we're relying so heavily on China, which IS a very centrally controlled economy, for supplies and data and now that's backfiring hard.

Gianthogweed posted:

I'm not quoting your poo poo, gently caress off with your both sides garbage.

Mnoba posted:

Bait. Please Duck and Cover talk to me. Maybe I can get you to say something that'll get you banned. Please DO IT.

Gianthogweed posted:

But but both sides are bad!

Burt Sexual posted:

I gotta go do some work rn, but this is the first rule I put in the op? Bloodlust is probably worth more than a sixer but a ban seems excessive maybe a few days idk. Did I miss someone, thread moves fast, pm me if so.

Famethrowa posted:

pretty good walk-through of a wet-market with a insightful comment from a dude who lives there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whbyuy2nHBg


it's pretty clearly not great, but, it's not the nightmare world some people like to pretend. I'd go here over factory farmed pork, frankly

Famethrowa posted:

I've seen a lot of weird hysterical talk about wet markets here and in the news. It's good to see a fairly mundane market in a mundane Chinese city, to counter the really ignorant xenophobia floating around

LimburgLimbo posted:

There's your answer.

Nitr0 posted:

https://nomnompaleo.com/post/20282441042/tong-zi-dan-virgin-boy-eggs

“Now that our boys are old enough to pee into a container, we decided to treat the Double-Os to a taste of their cultural heritage. They were more than eager to help out in the cooking process.

Wanna see?”

Lolllll

I poo poo into a brownie mix and all I got was this assault charge.

Mozi posted:

i remembered last night i've been to a wet market before in shanghai. it's like a big indoor farmer's market. lots of fresh veggies and fish tanks, there were probably chickens as well. floor was wet. that's pretty much all i remember, did not pick up any pangolins

bird with big dick posted:

I’m hearing news that Fauci has been fired and is being replaced by a three person team including doctor drew and the mypillow guy not sure yet who the third person is.

DreadLlama posted:

Speaking of using UVC for decontamination, is there a minimum time at a minimum intensity required?

Like if I just had a UVGI lamp on a battery, duct taped to my hat, would I need a mask, or could I say that virus particles are going to be reliably neutralized before they get to me? UVC lamps can cause skin burns and retinal damage, so having one operating on your person at all times seems like it would be a good way to enforce social distancing.

Plant MONSTER. posted:

Why would you use UVC in hydroponics? That doesn't make sense? It would harm the plants, unless it was very brief exposure to kill fungal infections or something?

Are you sure it's UVC and not just like UV spectrum?

anatomi posted:

The UVC lamps were part of the water filtration system. As a final treatment before recirculating the water it was given a UVC bombardment, mainly to restrict algae growth.

Bonaventure posted:

please continue to enforce the politics thing burt

Mnoba posted:

there is a gbs thread with a no coronavirus rule

bird with big dick posted:

Here you go

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

Inept posted:

GBS should not be a place people look to for serious news about a pandemic. Even when people are trying to help they post stuff that's wrong or speculative or not peer reviewed.

HerStuddMuffin posted:

Now this is the kind of time critical, groundbreaking news I come to this thread for.

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

grim question but how the gently caress is the legal system going to handle hundreds of thousands of inheritance disputes?

Another Bill posted:

bird with big dick posted:

I would assume they'll make this happen but if they won't do anything reasonable to fix this I'd honestly just try and do a chargeback on your credit card.

I went shopping three weeks ago and stocked up fairly well and then went again a week ago and basically hit maximum stocked upedness and now I'm not going back until were well past the peak which should be possible unless the peak is like 2 months away or more. But I have a 30 cubic foot fridge and a 20 cubic foot freezer and pantry items have overflowed into a spare bedroom so obviously not everyone can do that.


To all the people like this getting probed you can't makes post that are 100% politics in this thread if you haven't already figured it out. What you can do is make posts that are 90% politics and then work something that is at least tangentially 'roni related in and you're safe. Take a lesson from this guy who managed to bitch about Obama, Clinton, Biden, and democrats in general all in one post but didn't get probed because he also bitched about China which is at least nominally corona related.

Koopa Kid posted:

It’s not a lie, it just doesn’t mean what you think it does. A lot of these service companies pay drivers by guaranteeing them a minimum $ amount per order, let’s say it’s $10 for simplicity. What happens functionally is that if you tip 15% in-app on a $50 order, $7.50 of that minimum is your tip and the company tops it off $2.50 to make it $10 total. If you tipped them in cash $5 at the door, the company is on the hook for the full $10 minimum and the driver makes $15 total.

using in-app tipping usually just subsidizes the delivery fees for the company instead of giving additional money to the driver. At best only a portion of your tip is actually extra cash to the person you’re “giving” it to.

Der Shovel posted:

I saw two N95 masks at the store today. One was being worn by an EXTREMELY fat man and he had it kind of perched on/under his chin at kind of a 45 angle outward so it was like he had a scoop under his mouth.

The other was on a slightly less fat but still very fat dude and it was just like over his nose, partly over his eyes and the bottom over his mouth as he was gasping for air from under it.

At that point I'm pretty sure the masks are doing more harm than possible good.

DICKLORD BONE posted:

Why contain it... It's cool

Spinz posted:

No problem

It's cool, we are literally scared of serious illness and death so we are touchy and defensive.

We are all in this together