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Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

Uranium Phoenix posted:

here are some 100% true facts:
  • yellowstone hasn't erupted for a half million years. and as we all know, volcanoes of every type follow an extremely regular schedule of eruptions. we are now OVERDUE for a yellowstone eruption, which will create ash clouds that suffocate 1/3 of the united states and also end agriculture on earth
  • the juan de fuca plate, which i didn't know existed until about 2 hours ago, is ALSO overdue for an earthquaking, which are also things that happen on extremely regular schedules without exception. it will be a 10.5 on the richter scale. the resulting tsunami will annihilate portland oregon, a well known coastal town
  • today, whilst making GBS threads on the toilet, I read about how methane hydrates might have been responsible for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a geologically fast spike in global temperatures 55 million years ago. after google told me methane hydrates still exist, I decided that scientists are 100% sure that there's a huge amount of them in the gulf of mexico and when climate change inevitability releases them all at once all it will take is one spark and a huge fireball will erupt across the entire gulf, blowing up every city simultaneously in a massive fireball
  • have you seen the meme about how there were big plagues in 1720, 1820, and 1920? did you know that this very year is 2020? it seems that history is a cycle that we cannot escape. the plague that is coming shall be the doom of all, and cannot be prevented, and also I have an extremely big brain that understands how disease and epidemiology works really well and an encyclopedic knowledge of disease outbreaks, which probably did not occur in any other years in history
  • many people don't know this, but world war 3 has already started several times. a world war 3 is when any minor conflict involving the proxy forces of the us, russia, or china clash. I bet you feel pretty dumb for not investing in a nuclear bunker!!

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Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

it is possible it can still be contained imo, and it definitely seems that the PRC is going all out to try. but basically if it isnt contained quickly this seems like itll be pretty bad.

if the two-week incubation period is accurate we're solidly in "lol good luck guys" territory

not that that'd be apocalyptically bad, just very bad

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

GreyjoyBastard posted:

if the two-week incubation period is accurate we're solidly in "lol good luck guys" territory

not that that'd be apocalyptically bad, just very bad

It's not all that fatal at least, but that just means it can spread even further because the hosts are still alive

Woodchip
Mar 28, 2010
crawwwwwwling in my skiiiin
The wuuuhan fluuuu is reaaaal

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
There are a lot of middle aged people with respiratory problems at my work. It's going to be a bloodbath.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221176282425253889

Ash1138
Sep 29, 2001

Get up, chief. We're just gettin' started.

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

There are a lot of middle aged people with respiratory problems at my work. It's going to be a bloodbath.

come on this isn't ebola





they'll drown in their own lung fluids

breadshaped
Apr 1, 2010


Soiled Meat
i'm watching outbreak starring dustin hoffman

Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.
eating bat soup then heading to the local steakhouse and coughing on the all you can eat buffet salad bar, to own the boomers

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

GreyjoyBastard posted:

if the two-week incubation period is accurate we're solidly in "lol good luck guys" territory

not that that'd be apocalyptically bad, just very bad

yeah sub-5% mortality that is exposed to large human populations is still shitloads of people

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
Some simple math. Start with a population of 1,000,000. Let's assume 25% of the population gets infected so we have 250,000 cases. If we assume 25% of the infected require some sort of medical treatment and 3% will die we have 62,500 people needing hospitalization/treatment and 7,500 people die. Of course there are probably a lot more infected then reported cases so if we halve those numbers we're still left with a 9-11 death toll for every million people.

e.I pulled these numbers out of my arse of course so who knows what fish flu will actually end up doing.

Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.
the really dangerous possibility is that if it spreads in numbers that large it can easily mutate and get worse. the initial wave of spanish influenza wasn't the part that killed everyone.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Speaking of Spanish flu...

https://twitter.com/el_pais/status/1221174723775815680

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

meanolmrcloud posted:

cramming my lungs with vape juice, so the virus has nowhere to nestle

giving myself popcorn lung to keep out the virus

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


It's in Toronto now

https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/1221194786113232896

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Ill Peripheral posted:

I trust that this will be an apocalyptic pandemic based on CSPAM's record of being right on Hillary 2016, Elob Musk, the economy, war in Iran, Catalan Independence, war b/w India and Pakistan and idk like anything else

War with north Korea.

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
I would be stopping flights from China right about now.

dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


Judakel posted:

I would be stopping flights from China right about now.

Hello president madagascar

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
Trump fans furious that the president wont ban the chinese.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Judakel posted:

Trump fans furious that the president wont ban the chinese.

Don't worry, it's like that literally everywhere. Click on that tweet about a presumed case in Toronto for example and every responding tweet is "why didn't they turn around all flights from China midair the second someone coughed in Wuhan???"

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


lol

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames

Uranium Phoenix posted:

here are some 100% true facts:
  • portland oregon, a well known coastal town

lmao

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Death toll up to 54 now from 42 before https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-death-toll-canada-wuhan-symptoms-virus-latest-a9302016.html

Rauros
Aug 25, 2004

wanna go grub thumping?


don't worry they can hide from tsunamis and the fish flu on mount hood

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

what da gently caress then how did we get a fish virus??

its a bat virus spread from a nominally fish market there's a batman/aquaman joke in there somewhere


spicy take

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013


Fill my lungs up with fish flu
This is my favorite sport
Suffocation, no breathing
Dying this way is my favorite feeling
:guitar::guitar::guitar:

HMS Beagle
Feb 13, 2009




Hey it''s got Port right there in the name.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

my mother called me when i was eating the buffet and we talked about things including the wuhan fish flu. she had just rewatched contagion the other day

umm

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1220920013273608192
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1220923649366118400

Eric Fiegl-Ding lmao

Bouillon Rube
Aug 6, 2009


wuhan plague aint nothing to gently caress with

Doc Walrus
Jan 2, 2014




Cryin' Chris is a WASTE.
Nap Ghost
tfw you're building a hospital in 15 days

succ
Nov 11, 2016

by Cyrano4747
people need to stop loving fish and snakes

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Doc Walrus posted:

tfw you're building a hospital in 15 days


:haibrow:

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

hallebarrysoetoro posted:

this wouldn't seem like a panic inducing situation if it wasn't for the fact that china is flipping the gently caress out of it, which makes me think this virus is causing cytokine storms and the deaths are vastly underreported

on the other hand, this is hell world, and china is flipping out to protect number because their bean counters saw an economic downtick from sars

The alternative way of looking at this is that this is how a society that values more than profit should react, marshaling its resources quickly and effectively. Maybe under a socialist world order we’d react to all new flu variants like this instead of making jokes about the kids and old people who die from it every year.

Woodchip
Mar 28, 2010
make my soup with bat pieces
this is my flu resort

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

Rock My Socks! posted:

wuhan plague aint nothing to gently caress with

lol

catspleen
Sep 12, 2003

I orphaned his children. I widowed his wife.

can we start calling this SARS 2: Electric Boogaloo?

HMS Beagle
Feb 13, 2009



succ posted:

people need to stop loving fish and snakes

Never

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


I have a feeling we're going to wake up to 100+ reported deaths tomorrow or Monday, honestly. 42 to 55 in one day is kinda a big deal.

We're also still riding that 3% mortality of reported deaths to reported cases to the exact.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010
Only 49 cured... looks like this is a long lasting sickness, which is bad even if it doesn't kill because this is going to put a hell of a strain on medical services.

https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/st...irms-first-case

Seven of the deaths in the last day have been outside of Heibi province.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-outbreak-death-toll-rises-to-54-as-canada-confirms-first-case

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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Minrad posted:

eating bat soup then heading to the local steakhouse and coughing on the all you can eat buffet salad bar, to own the boomers

if the democratic party was truly committed to winning theyd send a dozen interns to wuhan hospitals and then ship them back to florida to cough in retirement homes. not willing to engage in biological warfare smdh

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