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freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
skeleton jelly

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TorakFade
Oct 3, 2006

I strongly disapprove


https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...febbre/5715242/

Test kits are scarce (apparently they reordered a lot of them but it will take some time to get them), so they're only checking people with serious fevers now while people with only mild symptoms are asked to wait.

Eni, Enel, Wind, Saipem, Snam, Heineken, Luxottica, Armani, Leonardo, Pirelli are closing their local offices/factories and inviting/forcing people that either live or work in the affected areas to work from home if possible in order not to spread it further than it already has.

That doesn't worry me as much as the football federation interrupting football games. That's HARSH, football never stops here unless the situation is dire, it's like a religion.

Smeef
Aug 15, 2003

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



Pillbug

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

yeah this getting into countries without stable central governments is very bad

Afghanistan at least has the benefit of extremely low population density and people who are used to living with a lot of social distance. It would take a serious binge of goat cheese for a shepherd to pass a viral fart across a mountain valley.

Honj Steak
May 31, 2013

Hi there.
Has Madagascar reacted?

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Honj Steak posted:

Has Madagascar reacted?

They're already literally dealing with outbreaks of measles and bubonic plague. They laugh at our panic over Covid 19.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

yeah this getting into countries without stable central governments is very bad

Yeah I heard a few cases reached the US

TorakFade
Oct 3, 2006

I strongly disapprove


4th victim in Italy confirmed, subway and trains coming/going to Milan that are usually filled with workers reported half-empty if not totally empty during rush hour

E: 26 out of 155 infected people are in critical condition (so slightly less than 20%), in the various ICUs of hospitals. "It's just a slightly worse flu" my rear end.

TorakFade fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Feb 24, 2020

Hadlock
Nov 9, 2004

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

yeah this getting into countries without stable central governments is very bad

Fun fact women in Afghanistan had the right to vote before Americans did

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

brave muhajideen will reassemble to fight the imperialist corona invader

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

my bony fealty posted:

corona 19 may very well evolve to become the first sentient virus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy5nV3jo1D4

Missionary Positron
Jul 6, 2004
And now for something completely different

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

turns out authoritarianism is a good thing when it comes to forced mass quarantines

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

bob dobbs is dead posted:

yeah, the dancers are strongly indoctrinated and the enterprise is profitable enough to fund the operations with help from cia grants

they got newspapers and tv, they got a dealio with basically spies on the mainland, occasionally those folks get caught and they do actually get their organs taken, that's not a lie. they lie a lot about other poo poo tho, a very ends justify the means sort of thing

I was thinking at some point Falun Gong will be (have become?) more successful than Scientology. Look at Shen Yun a giant money maker instead of stupid John Trovolta movies.

Delthalaz
Mar 5, 2003






Slippery Tilde
What I don’t get is why people say it’ll blow over when it gets warmer. How does weather temperature affect the virus?

Starshark
Dec 22, 2005
Doctor Rope

Delthalaz posted:

What I don’t get is why people say it’ll blow over when it gets warmer. How does weather temperature affect the virus?

When you're cold, your immune system is weakened. Or so I got told by an ambulance officer who wasn't a doctor.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

TorakFade posted:

4th victim in Italy confirmed, subway and trains coming/going to Milan that are usually filled with workers reported half-empty if not totally empty during rush hour

E: 26 out of 155 infected people are in critical condition (so slightly less than 20%), in the various ICUs of hospitals. "It's just a slightly worse flu" my rear end.

Just like Wuhan in Jan, only serious ill will be tested.

TorakFade
Oct 3, 2006

I strongly disapprove


stephenthinkpad posted:

Just like Wuhan in Jan, only serious ill will be tested.

Confirmed cases up to 200 now (165 just in Lombardy), +45-48 depending on sources since yesterday evening. By day's end it could break 300 cases, which would show an exponential progression much like the Hubei/Wuhan area during the first days.

From Wikipedia,

Chinese starting situation:


Italian situation as of yesterday:


WAAAAY too close for comfort... I embrace Corona-chan as our new overlord.

E: actually it's faster in Italy: 20 -> 79 -> 159 in the first 3 days is more than 45 -> 62 -> 121 :v:

TorakFade fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Feb 24, 2020

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011

Delthalaz posted:

What I don’t get is why people say it’ll blow over when it gets warmer. How does weather temperature affect the virus?

Because that's what happens with the regular flu viruses.

uvar
Jul 25, 2011

Avoid breathing
radioactive dust.
College Slice

TorakFade posted:

4th victim in Italy confirmed, subway and trains coming/going to Milan that are usually filled with workers reported half-empty if not totally empty during rush hour

E: 26 out of 155 infected people are in critical condition (so slightly less than 20%), in the various ICUs of hospitals. "It's just a slightly worse flu" my rear end.

That TomTom traffic index site is neat. Maybe a little early but Milan does seem to be low
https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/traffic-index/milan-traffic

Meanwhile a bunch of chinese cities (not Wuhan) have had big boosts compared to last week? e.g. shenzhen Thank you mr xi, i can buy a new phone again!

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1231857638121627649?s=19

What possible reason would Iran have to make the mortality rate seem higher than it is?

Bremen
Jul 20, 2006

Our God..... is an awesome God

Delthalaz posted:

What I don’t get is why people say it’ll blow over when it gets warmer. How does weather temperature affect the virus?

The mechanism isn't precisely understood, but there's convincing scientific evidence the cold and flu are more contagious in cold and dry air. One theory is the virus itself lasts longer, another is that a cooler and drier nose makes it easier for the virus to infect. There are others as well I believe. This is one of the reasons we have a cold and flu season instead of year round, and it's reversed in the southern hemisphere.

One cause of the common cold is also a coronavirus, so there is decent reason to suspect SARS-CoV-2 may behave similarly, though there hasn't been any comprehensive testing done. Evidence in its favor is that we haven't seen any outbreaks in India or the southern hemisphere yet despite a lot of contact with China; evidence against it is that Singapore has one of the larger outbreaks outside China and it's not exactly known for being cold and dry (though it is very crowded).

Bremen fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Feb 24, 2020

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1231865705630511104?s=19
What the actual gently caress?

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

BoldFace posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1231857638121627649?s=19

What possible reason would Iran have to make the mortality rate seem higher than it is?

They may have had a longer outbreak and so have more serious cases and are not picking up less serious ones.

Or maybe patient zero in Iran had a more virulent strain.

Anyways, visas for foreigners in Korea have been automatically extended to April 30th in order to cut down on visits to the immigration office.

Death By The Blues
Oct 30, 2011
Again there is no way Iran is reporting the actual numbers if numerous people are arriving from there to different countries. It probably is in its hundreds and in multiple different cities. If that one video is accurate couple of pages up, then its probably somewhere near Abadan, hence why some people were speaking Arabic. Abadan is a fair distance from qom.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007


yeah I just came to post this.


https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1231867565133135873?s=21

what the gently caress indeed.

Minera
Sep 26, 2007

All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.
basically there's either hundreds if not thousands of infected people throughout iran, or they're just misattributing deaths because ???

Bremen
Jul 20, 2006

Our God..... is an awesome God

Minrad posted:

basically there's either hundreds if not thousands of infected people throughout iran, or they're just misattributing deaths because ???

My guess is someone in the government got "infected" and "dead" confused.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
The US CDC are not testing patients even if they have 2nd hand contact with China, and the symptons fit.

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1231745522123202561?s=20


Also this is actually Carl Zha's family (for the China thread goons), he is a minor tweeter celebrity.

Death By The Blues
Oct 30, 2011
Again you can't look at these countries for accurate numbers or how the virus spreads. Its better to pay attention to Italy or S Korea.

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
carl zha needs to challenge robert redfield to unarmed personal combat

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

freckle posted:

carl zha needs to challenge robertchris redfield to unarmed personal combat

strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

stephenthinkpad posted:

The US CDC are not testing patients even if they have 2nd hand contact with China, and the symptons fit.

Lokar
Mar 10, 2006

stephenthinkpad posted:

The US CDC are not testing patients even if they have 2nd hand contact with China, and the symptons fit.

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1231745522123202561?s=20


Also this is actually Carl Zha's family (for the China thread goons), he is a minor tweeter celebrity.


https://twitter.com/cdcgov/status/1231614453684326402?s=21

the levees are fine guys, they won’t fail

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

stephenthinkpad posted:

The US CDC are not testing patients even if they have 2nd hand contact with China, and the symptons fit.

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1231745522123202561?s=20


Also this is actually Carl Zha's family (for the China thread goons), he is a minor tweeter celebrity.

This is good for corona virus development.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1231858074878693376

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1231854456901373952

lmao

Sheng-Ji Yang fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Feb 24, 2020

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
lol remember when r0 guyovic said this was going to peak back in january

succ
Nov 11, 2016

by Cyrano4747
Remember when I said that they were welding doors closed? Now they are doing it in Italy and Iran.

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
China bans trade and consumption of wild animals, whatever that means in practice.

https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/1231874913444802560?s=19

Lokar
Mar 10, 2006

succ posted:

Remember when I said that they were welding doors closed? Now they are doing it in Italy and Iran.

bring back the murder cube

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1231875998980984832?s=19

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mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

BoldFace posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1231845075329650688?s=19

They might pull the troops out for real this time.

maybe it'll kill off some of the ancient Taliban fucks, at least

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