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Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Play posted:

How scary is that thought, that your care could be completely taken out of your doctor's hands for political reasons?

gosh that sounds awful, I can't imagine what it would be like to be 50% of the US population

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Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
yeah i'd rather have my care taken out of my hands for pure cold gently caress you and die economic calculations

Oberndorf
Oct 20, 2010



That’s 100% of the world’s population. Well, less a couple dozen folks to whom money truly is no object. Even government systems have to pinch their pennies here and there, and it’s frustrating to lose those fights with bureaucrats who’ve never set foot in a hospital.

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray
such move is obnoxious and childish, said experts

Mozi posted:

yeah i'd rather have my care taken out of my hands for pure cold gently caress you and die economic calculations

I suppose I'd rather die as a victim of a cold, uncaring system than getting disappeared because some drunken pot bellied minor official wants my land

Still, it's a close one

Play fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Feb 10, 2020

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
This guy is the a medical doctor and has contacts on ground in Wuhan. He has interviewed people like the Surgeon General making him more than credible. The tldr is the medical system is near collapsed losing it's ability to provide other essential services. The medics are getting incapacitated at an alarming rate from the lack of safety equipment. Like any good scientist he ballpark the numbers given the amount of uncertainty but it still paints a bad picture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx4JMqr6n7c

The only thing I would criticise him on is his naivety dealing with CCP information control taking the numbers and actions at face value, not picking up how compromised WHO is . The second half goes into how loving poo poo the US pharmacy system is.

If you want to have a good laugh watch his Doc Vadar videos.

Mad Hamish
Jun 15, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



Does the facemask turn it into a six-piece suit?

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Mad Hamish posted:

Does the facemask turn it into a six-piece suit?

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4

Mad Hamish posted:

Does the facemask turn it into a six-piece suit?

:vince:

Nucken Futz
Oct 30, 2010

by Reene
It begs the question: will a six piece suit ward off this virus?

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Nucken Futz posted:

It begs the question: will a six piece suit ward off this virus?

sadly, the corona virus is not a sexually transmitted disease

Nucken Futz
Oct 30, 2010

by Reene
A question from a complete layman, is it possible to have mapped the (for the want of a better term) "DNA" of the Wuhan Coronavirus of person 0 - or as near to 0 as can be ascertained?
Could this then be compared to the virus that the Chinese spies researchers borrowed/copied stole from the Winnipeg level-4 bio-lab last year before they got politely invited to leave had their flat asses kicked outta the country?

If so, wouldn't that show that they're in the clear, or alternatively prove that there's been a whole bunch of PRC fuckery going on?

Atopian
Sep 23, 2014

I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

Nucken Futz posted:

It begs the question: will a six piece suit ward off this virus?

Alas, it seems unlikely that we can ever know.

Surely no-one in possession of such a wonder would ever allow it to be closely examined by others.

Peachfart
Jan 21, 2017

Nucken Futz posted:

A question from a complete layman, is it possible to have mapped the (for the want of a better term) "DNA" of the Wuhan Coronavirus of person 0 - or as near to 0 as can be ascertained?
Could this then be compared to the virus that the Chinese spies researchers borrowed/copied stole from the Winnipeg level-4 bio-lab last year before they got politely invited to leave had their flat asses kicked outta the country?

If so, wouldn't that show that they're in the clear, or alternatively prove that there's been a whole bunch of PRC fuckery going on?

I love this post.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
i find it frustrating because i can't gauge the level of sarcasm anymore

Booty Pageant
Apr 20, 2012

Mozi posted:

i find it frustrating because i can't gauge the level of sarcasm anymore

at the heart of every chinese person is ingenuity, from riding pigs to wearing sawn off water tanks, we're all along for the ride so :justpost:

Sten Freak
Sep 10, 2008

Despite all of these shortcomings, the Sten still has a long track record of shooting people right in the face.
College Slice
In non flu news:

quote:

The US has charged four Chinese military officers over the huge cyber-attack on credit rating giant Equifax.
...
Equifax said hackers accessed the information between mid-May and the end of July 2017 when the company discovered the breach.

The accused allegedly routed traffic through 34 servers in nearly 20 countries to try and hide their true location.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51449778

Did anyone ever get any cash from the company who applied for it? I didn't.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
The Pangolin strikes back

Escape Addict
Jan 25, 2012

YOSPOS

Mad Hamish posted:

Does the facemask turn it into a six-piece suit?

Nah, still five.





GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ
Shirt, tie, waistcoat, trousers, jacket, mask

Six pieces by my count

e: not talking about the pictures above

Nucken Futz
Oct 30, 2010

by Reene

Mozi posted:

i find it frustrating because i can't gauge the level of sarcasm anymore

I can attest that there is not one bit of sarcasm in my previous post, other than maybe "flat asses".

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray
Some dude (e: Chen Qiushi) who went INTO Wuhan on some kind of gonzo journalism mission has disappeared. Maybe he's just been quarantined but he was using illegal tools to get around the firewall, was not complimentary to the government's efforts, and the CCP was definitely aware that he was there.

LordArgh
Mar 17, 2009

Nap Ghost

Nucken Futz posted:

A question from a complete layman, is it possible to have mapped the (for the want of a better term) "DNA" of the Wuhan Coronavirus of person 0 - or as near to 0 as can be ascertained?
Could this then be compared to the virus that the Chinese spies researchers borrowed/copied stole from the Winnipeg level-4 bio-lab last year before they got politely invited to leave had their flat asses kicked outta the country?

If so, wouldn't that show that they're in the clear, or alternatively prove that there's been a whole bunch of PRC fuckery going on?

this is technically entirely possible, yes. and the better term you're looking for is "RNA"

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood
which tom clancy novel was it that had a world superpower self inflict a bioterror attack at an illegal pangolin brothel with a nightmare disease stolen from fuckin canada?

Zushio
May 8, 2008
Isn't that Rainbow Six? I seem to recall a huge disease plot line in it.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
Everyone looking for an upside to this situation was quick to point out the achievement of the 10-day hospital construction, yet they glossed over where all the doctors were supposed to come from. The head of the WHO mission is a Canadian so I fully expect him to get detained According To The Law.

Zushio posted:

Isn't that Rainbow Six? I seem to recall a huge disease plot line in it.
The Division's Dollar Flu was pretty close - an engineered virus is seeded on hard currency before Black Friday and by Christmas the US has gone to poo poo.

Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Feb 11, 2020

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
the doctors were from the military iirc

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


Also to no one's surprise all the emergency hospitals are just a shitload of beds all crammed together in open areas with no way to quarantine sections and no hygiene equipment, so they're basically a bunch of warehouses designed to make sure everyone in them gets infected.

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray
:siren: HONG KONG IS COMPLETELY OUT OF TOILET PAPER :siren:

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

which tom clancy novel was it that had a world superpower self inflict a bioterror attack at an illegal pangolin brothel with a nightmare disease stolen from fuckin canada?

iirc that on'es called Pangopup Panic (the pangolins at the brothel were underage, that was a major plot point)

Shaocaholica
Oct 29, 2002

Fig. 5E

Play posted:

:siren: HONG KONG IS COMPLETELY OUT OF TOILET PAPER :siren:


Just wipe with a used face mask.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Zushio posted:

Isn't that Rainbow Six? I seem to recall a huge disease plot line in it.

And executive orders. He did two Ebola plots in a row because... I’m not really sure why. Dude just loved Ebola, I guess.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Can build a hospital in 10 days, can’t practice basic hygiene that would have prevented this whole disaster in the first place.

Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray

Shaocaholica posted:

Just wipe with a used face mask.

oh those have been gone for weeks

Ugly In The Morning posted:

And executive orders. He did two Ebola plots in a row because... I’m not really sure why. Dude just loved Ebola, I guess.

ebola is sexy, dude. totes sexy

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


Play posted:

iirc that on'es called Pangopup Panic (the pangolins at the brothel were underage, that was a major plot point)

Please, it's Clancy. The pangolins would be pregnant not underage.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

Please, it's Clancy. The pangolins would be pregnant not underage.
Pregnant Pangolin was the Ubuntu release not a novel

yaffle
Sep 15, 2002

Flapdoodle

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

Please, it's Clancy. The pangolins would be pregnant not underage.

Why not both?

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem

Play posted:

:siren: HONG KONG IS COMPLETELY OUT OF TOILET PAPER :siren:

if you need any there's plenty of wiping material in your post history

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

Kill All Cops posted:

if you need any there's plenty of wiping material in your post history

:boom:

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:

which tom clancy novel was it that had a world superpower self inflict a bioterror attack at an illegal pangolin brothel with a nightmare disease stolen from fuckin canada?

I know that it's beside the point of your post and that this is highly :spergin: on my part but China is not a world superpower. Frankly it's having a hard time just being a regional power

Casually referencing the PRC as a superpower is implicitly giving the CCP more power outside China than they deserve

Shaocaholica
Oct 29, 2002

Fig. 5E
Does China even have enough nukes to contain the virus?

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BrainDance
May 8, 2007

Disco all night long!

Fojar38 posted:

I know that it's beside the point of your post and that this is highly :spergin: on my part but China is not a world superpower. Frankly it's having a hard time just being a regional power

Casually referencing the PRC as a superpower is implicitly giving the CCP more power outside China than they deserve

Come on, man.

You're not wrong or anything but, come on lol

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