William Henry Hairytaint posted:

This should be the thread title.

Fojar38 posted:

Gutter oil is in fact a thing in China hth

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Yes, we all read the buzzfeed article in 2007 about it, it is like one of the only four facts people learned about Chinese people and will repeat on any topic about anything remotely related to China.

gary oldmans diary posted:

it doesnt sound very appreciative of the stunningly woke and insightful posters who have "informed" us again and again and again that the numbers china officially reports are probably downplayed from what might otherwise be reported

cda posted:

What's the funniest part of this virus?

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

Look dude they've read several articles including "disease" and "epidemiology" on wikipedia they're not QUITE as qualified as somebody who got a master's degree if not a doctorate and however many years of experience but it's close enough that they can draw similar conclusions and makes similar predictions and furthermore fart fart fart.

HAM ON THE BONE posted:

so i have to go from columbus to chicago tomorrow. should i keep the flight i booked or rent a car and drive back? it’s like 1 hr vs 6 hours...

i’m probably overreacting but that box video spooked me and now i’m on edge

cda posted:

What's the funniest part of this virus?

HAM ON THE BONE posted:

so i have to go from columbus to chicago tomorrow. should i keep the flight i booked or rent a car and drive back? it’s like 1 hr vs 6 hours...

i’m probably overreacting but that box video spooked me and now i’m on edge

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

It's pretty funny that we had a world war III scare and a pandemic scare before we even got out of January of the new decade.

Not ha-ha funny, but funny.

HAM ON THE BONE posted:

so i have to go from columbus to chicago tomorrow. should i keep the flight i booked or rent a car and drive back? it’s like 1 hr vs 6 hours...

i’m probably overreacting but that box video spooked me and now i’m on edge

Dog Toothbrush posted:

Serious question, how could this not be a thing in the US? I’m not saying it will be Ebola Boogaloo 2, but how can a new bad flu not end up here eventually?

HAM ON THE BONE posted:

so i have to go from columbus to chicago tomorrow. should i keep the flight i booked or rent a car and drive back? it’s like 1 hr vs 6 hours...

i’m probably overreacting but that box video spooked me and now i’m on edge

QuarkJets posted:

There is no reason to believe that your flight poses any risk to you developing super aids or whatever

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

lmao what do you think? Goons with degrees in Pokemon training and Anime torrenting have been offering their expert insider info since the very beginning of this thread.

QuarkJets posted:

There is no reason to believe that your flight poses any risk to you developing super aids or whatever

poverty goat posted:

any time you leave your basement you roll the dice on whatever seasonal poo poo is around

bob dobbs is dead posted:

E: there are more male smokers inside the PRC than outside the PRC

gary oldmans diary posted:

as long as fan siu-wong is ok through all this and hopefully doesnt smoke

https://i.imgur.com/sA17wRd.mp4

so handsome

BeefThief posted:

WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE

QuarkJets posted:

There is no reason to believe that your flight poses any risk to you developing super aids or whatever

emgeejay posted:

https://twitter.com/chaddha_lal/status/1225420707384844290
probably fine

quote:

Steep rise in number of coronavirus cases on cruise ship off Japan.
Japanese officials said on Friday that 61 people had tested positive for the coronavirus on a quarantined cruise ship in Yokohama, a steep increase from the 20 confirmed cases on Thursday.

Officials have screened 273 passengers they said were potentially exposed to the virus. The 41 new cases were to be taken off the ship for medical treatment.

More than 2,000 passengers on the Diamond Princess ship have been stuck inside their cabins for days as part of a two-week quarantine. Meals have been irregular, and only on Thursday were small groups finally permitted to go outside and breathe some fresh air.

“I keep hearing painful coughs from a foreigner in a nearby room,” one passenger wrote on Twitter on Thursday, noting with concern that crew members were delivering meals from room to room. “I might get infected today or tomorrow.”

Other passengers who have been whiling away some of the time on social media told of more hopeful signs. One noted that supplies were being moved into the port and that ambulances were in position. Another said that entertainment crews had been visiting guest rooms to cheer people up, and that toilet paper had been distributed.

Of the 41 new cases, 21 were Japanese, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said. None of those 41 passengers were in serious condition as of Friday morning.

doctorfrog posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html

emgeejay posted:

probably fine

the new york loving times posted:

WUHAN, China — The Chinese authorities resorted to increasingly extreme measures in Wuhan on Thursday to try to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus, ordering house-to-house searches, rounding up the sick and warehousing them in enormous quarantine centers.

The urgent, seemingly improvised steps come amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in Wuhan, one exacerbated by tactics that have left this city of 11 million with a death rate from the coronavirus of 4.1 percent as of Thursday — staggeringly higher than the rest of the country’s rate of 0.17 percent.

With the sick being herded into makeshift quarantine camps, with minimal medical care, a growing sense of abandonment and fear has taken hold in Wuhan, fueling the sense that the city and surrounding province of Hubei are being sacrificed for the greater good of China.

The Oldest Man posted: