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No looking good friends. Worst case scenario everything shuts down for a few months and noone interacts socially until the infected die off/get better. Then we deal with flare-ups every few months/years until medicos devise a vaccine for a rapidly mutating flu virus. Maybe this will be an impetus to move into more remote work and teleworking. Which would probably devolve into a more contract gig economy and ah gently caress it take me now coronaplague. E: gently caress you I snipe you sick
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Bubble Bobby posted:No checkmark? He may as well be raving in the street then I'll wait until there's confirmation by real news sources. Even scientists can be alarmist or wrong sometimes.
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The whole point of being a scientist is never being wrong. Everyone else is wrong sometimes.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I'll wait until there's confirmation by real news sources. Even scientists can be alarmist or wrong sometimes. Can you find one who compared this to ebola? Because if they did they would be a loving idiot scientist instead of just a loving idiot
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TOOT BOOT posted:I'll wait until there's confirmation by real news sources. Even scientists can be alarmist or wrong sometimes. I know, I'm only half-joking
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:It's all going to be ok That's what a line out of the world war z book... A line that scared a chinese docter about how hosed they were. Gents, it's brown trousers time.
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Foul Ole Ron posted:That's what a line out of the world war z book... A line that scared a chinese docter about how hosed they were. That book sucks
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Yeah, you can sit in your house and subsist on canned food for a few months like a coward Or, you can face up to your responsibility as goons and live up to this forum's historic destiny. Lick doorknobs in public buildings. cough and sneeze without covering your mouth. Instead of washing your hands after you pee, smear them all over the tap, the doorknob, the crank or lever on the paper towel dispenser. Let each goon be a footsoldier in the war against mankind, and let it be a war of extermination. The coronavirus and the something awful forums, marching shoulder to shoulder towards the great and noble goal of human extinction. Forward!
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A Russian troll farm posted:Yeah, you can sit in your house and subsist on canned food for a few months like a coward Bug catcher fetishist spotted.
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I'm ready to die but it seems to be odd, that bleeding is better than breathing to God.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I'm ready to die but it seems to be odd, that bleeding is better than breathing to God. boomer god, so what
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TOOT BOOT posted:I'm skeptical, people were freaking out about Ebola too and it wasn't that bad outside of Africa. This is also like one dude with 3k followers and doesn't have a checkmark. The things about Ebola is that it isn't nearly as contagious as the flu (let alone this coronavirus), and that it's *so* lethal and lethal *so* fast that it tends to burn out hot zones by killing everyone it can touch before they can get out to spread it further, and it's fairly easy to tell when someone is infected, so they can't go ahead and travel internationally without being spotted.
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Frankly the prognosis looks fairly good if you actually have access to proper healthcare and disease control So far it's looking like the biggest factor contributing to mortality is being in China
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*solemnly* I'm afraid I have some bad news. The tests are back, and they're positive. You have stage three China.
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Outrail posted:Bug catcher fetishist spotted. Its really gross poz my neg hole is a thing
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Outrail posted:No looking good friends. Worst case scenario everything shuts down for a few months and noone interacts socially until the infected die off/get better. Then we deal with flare-ups every few months/years until medicos devise a vaccine for a rapidly mutating flu virus. 
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EimiYoshikawa posted:The things about Ebola is that it isn't nearly as contagious as the flu (let alone this coronavirus), and that it's *so* lethal and lethal *so* fast that it tends to burn out hot zones by killing everyone it can touch before they can get out to spread it further, and it's fairly easy to tell when someone is infected, so they can't go ahead and travel internationally without being spotted. Ebola had a few factors that maximized it’s spread too. Geographically it was really hard to oversee and stop people from moving over the borders in countries: it was just different types of bush and forest in west Africa Infrastructure is bad but that also meant medical teams had a harder time reaching zones with big infection rates. Also people in these afflicted places have no real education and distrust for medical personnel, so they won’t report the sick. All in all Ebola was worse than it could have been, but still fairly good all things considered Wild Horses fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Jan 25, 2020 |
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Jan 25, 2020 10:19
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Lets all do The Nurgle.
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Second opinion on the holy mother of god guy. "Here" is his own replies to his tweet, which you can see by clicking on the tweet. https://twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/1220963553911271424
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GenericOverusedName posted:Wait, so what supplement should I take if I want to die of the hellplague? TCM
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Zotix posted:I'm not a scientist but gently caress. When a Harvard scientist is like hold on to your pants boys this is gonna be a wild ride, you kind of are inclined to pay attention. The guy is using outdated and unreliable data. He also really wants to be on cable news shows scaring people.
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Imperial College London estimates the current trans rate is 2.6 https://twitter.com/MRC_Outbreak/status/1221032729971773440
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Jamsta posted:Imperial College London estimates the current trans rate is 2.6 Influenza’s R0 is usually around 1.5, for comparison.
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Jamsta posted:Imperial College London estimates the current trans rate is 2.6 This is interesting but there is a lot of missing data and assumptions made
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 médecins sans préservatif A Grand Egg fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Jan 25, 2020 |
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Another Bill posted:
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Asia-based goon here. Went out to the museums today. Lots of people wearing masks. Not dead yet. Will try harder tomorrow. Anyway, can someone explain what R0, 1.5, and 2.6 means? (and could you explain it like you would to a child?  ) Thanks.
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Wild Horses posted:one positive is that medical masks and filter masks will be more popular in europe, which is sweet. this will never, ever happen because those masks do absolute nothing and are stupid as gently caress you will continue to look like a psychopath, rightfully so
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Backweb posted:Asia-based goon here. Went out to the museums today. Lots of people wearing masks. Not dead yet. Will try harder tomorrow. You're going to die.
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Backweb posted:
The R0 is how many people you expect each sick person to infect.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The R0 is how many people you expect each sick person to infect. So the 1.5 means one person would infect 1.5 people. 2.6 is pretty high.
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MarcusSA posted:So the 1.5 means one person would infect 1.5 people. 2.6 is pretty high. 2.6 is insane. There’s higher ones out there but those typically have vaccines which reduces their in-reality R0.
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Build a wall and have people dangling mouth masks over the top.
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Thanks for the clarification!Sunswipe posted:You're going to die. 
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Honestly though watch the movie contagion if it’s on streaming or you can find it. It actually explains a lot of this pretty well. It’s not a terrible movie either!
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man saying a virus is " a 2.6" is the lamest way to classify these things if you want the average human to take this seriously give it a cool name like "the virus is omega level" or "the virus is dragon class", that sounds dope as gently caress. "This is a 2.6" is for nerds.
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Son of Rodney posted:man saying a virus is " a 2.6" is the lamest way to classify these things lol you ain’t wrong This is the scene that explains it decently. https://youtu.be/VrATMF_FB9M
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