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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
also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-mWK_kcZMs

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MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

TP is the currency of the future.

That’s like 10 million right there.

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

Civilization runs out when the TP ends.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
There was a young man from Australia
Who hoarded a poo poo load of paper
As the virus went past
He kept a clean arse
And still had rolls left for later.

Rat
Dec 12, 2006

meow

Hadlock posted:

I think the silent majority's angel might get their wings and this is the event that pushes the US towards a remote friendly culture. Also makes it easier for management types who were on the fence before to experiment with WFH without the risk of it being their idea if it goes poorly

2008 was the event that sparked modern automation

2020 is the spark for the WFH movement?
Quite possibly. Though there's already a fair amount of remote working going on. I'm the only person on one team that works in the office, everyone else works remotely on a daily basis. Not even one office trip a week. Because I supervise another team I've needed to be in the office. Maybe I won't for long.

The blessing of not having to hear people eating in cubicles, ahhhhh

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

madeintaipei posted:

Civilization runs out when the TP ends.

Speak for yourself.

Gonna be eating a fine porterhouse, garlic mash, sauteed veg, with some nice wine, while clawing vast handfuls of dook out of my rear end with bare hands.

Azathoth Prime
Feb 20, 2004

Free 2nd day shipping on all eldritch horrors.


poverty goat posted:

TP-mania has reached america



that's enough TP for a family of 5 to use a roll a day, each, for 6 months

They're not buying it for personal use. They're buying it to resell and gouge the gently caress out of people when the shelves run dry (because of people like this).

Azathoth Prime fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Mar 4, 2020

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

and you know there are so many other ways to clean your rear end

Spagghentleman
Jan 1, 2013
I thought bidets were becoming a lot more popular but apparently not.

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
---------------------------->

stephenthinkpad posted:

The quality of the health care doesn't loving matter. Once you saturated the hospital resource and the doctors/nurses start dropping, all the new patients have to fend for themselves. It doesn't matter if your country's health care rate #1 or #50.
:goonsay:

naem
May 29, 2011

poverty goat posted:

TP-mania has reached america



that's enough TP for a family of 5 to use a roll a day, each, for 6 months

https://i.imgur.com/uXStlqT.gifv

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Azathoth Prime posted:

They're not buying it for personal use. They're buying it to resell and gouge the gently caress out of people when the shelves run dry (because of people like this).

Checked my local craigslist. No one selling bulk rear end tickets yet.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




why are people stockpiling? sure this new flu sucks but this isn't climate change level of panic inducing

Ron Paul Atreides
Apr 19, 2012

Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

He's absolutely right. That's why containment is the only good option.

Gonna be pretty sweet when Canada has to bar travel from the US not gonna lie

Ron Paul Atreides
Apr 19, 2012

Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

hemale in pain posted:

why are people stockpiling? sure this new flu sucks but this isn't climate change level of panic inducing

Because it's literally a novel flu. Everyone is susceptible. It doesn't matter that mortality is relatively low this is gonna hit and incapacitate so much.

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

getting a year supply of toilet paper is an extreme but it's never a bad idea to have a two week supply of non-perishable food. it's something that gets brought up in every disaster discussion.

The Walrus
Jul 9, 2002

by Fluffdaddy

Weaponized Autism posted:

A hot sauce collection is all you need

try being a roving cannibal ghoul without it

cstang
Oct 27, 2005

Da Bears
I've started hoarding farts for future cooking fuel.

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
---------------------------->

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

He's absolutely right. That's why containment is the only good option.

Gonna be pretty sweet when Canada has to bar travel from the US not gonna lie

He isn't right because this virus doesn't saturate everything like a fungus and people aren't helpless to do anything about it, especially medical personnel

The transmissibility of this thing is roughly the same as the flu and there is a reason that you don't see hospitals emptying out of medical staff every flu season

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
---------------------------->
Is it a Goon thing or an American thing to be loving terrified of absolutely everything beyond all reason

Plant MONSTER.
Mar 16, 2018



I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop

Cacator posted:

Canada doesn't do it.

Don't know about that. In buttfuck Northern Ontario, we were taught to notate numbers with a period when writing in French and a comma when writing in English and if we spoke English outside of English class we got recess taken away :(

But we were taught a lot of archaic rules and stuff.

Anyway, Ottawa doesn't seem to be panicking at all. Shelves remain nice and stocked. Also my body's been aching really badly (still in my 20s) and I've had even less energy than usual for the past few days but I don't have a fever. Advil isn't helping with the pain.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Fojar38 posted:


The transmissibility of this thing is roughly the same as the flu

This is not correct.

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




i can 100% assure you that the supermarket is not gonna run out of toilet paper (if people weren't buying it in bulk)

don't have to worry im a expert on such things related to pooping

Mulaney Power Move posted:

getting a year supply of toilet paper is an extreme but it's never a bad idea to have a two week supply of non-perishable food. it's something that gets brought up in every disaster discussion.

i guess, though im not going to bother

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

Plant MONSTER. posted:

Also my body's been aching really badly (still in my 20s) and I've had even less energy than usual for the past few days but I don't have a fever. Advil isn't helping with the pain.
Ah yeah, this happened to me about half a decade back. It's called "living in Ottawa."

Plant MONSTER.
Mar 16, 2018



I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop

Mordja posted:

Ah yeah, this happened to me about half a decade back. It's called "living in Ottawa."

Did your Fibrottawamyalgia go away upon leaving or is it permanent?

Hadlock
Nov 9, 2004

Fojar38 posted:

The transmissibility of this thing is roughly the same as the flu and there is a reason that you don't see hospitals emptying out of medical staff every flu season

R0 is about double that of the flu

This is on top of a particularly bad flu year

Just the flu bro

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

China locks 750 million people in their homes.

“I really don’t see what the big deal is”

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

hemale in pain posted:

i can 100% assure you that the supermarket is not gonna run out of toilet paper (if people weren't buying it in bulk)

panic breeds panic. if you know people are gonna be buying in bulk (to scalp or out of fear), suddenly it makes sense to get some yourself before it's too late.

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
Even though Fojar is wrong about every single fact, his initial impression must have been correct and he'll defend it to the death.

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Fojar38 posted:

Is it a Goon thing or an American thing to be loving terrified of absolutely everything beyond all reason

That's just a human thing.

It is very easy to feel fear when you are reminded of danger daily, while getting no real reassurances from authority figures one trusts.

DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde

Fojar38 posted:

Is it a Goon thing or an American thing to be loving terrified of absolutely everything beyond all reason

yes

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




Rinkles posted:

panic breeds panic. if you know people are gonna be buying in bulk (to scalp or out of fear), suddenly it makes sense to get some yourself before it's too late.

how much are people making GBS threads jesus christ! i think i have like 5 rolls left and they'll last for like 4 months.

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
---------------------------->

MarcusSA posted:

This is not correct.

The R0 for this is 2.28 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32097725)

This is less than the common cold (Rhinovirus, with an R0 of 6), SARS (3, https://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/WHOconsensus.pdf) and of course the really infectious but common stuff like measles and chicken pox.

The point is that this is not the first infectious disease outbreak ever and in fact highly infectious outbreaks happen all the time, and the OP's assertion was that inevitably all the doctors and nurses are going to catch this one and it will be anarchy.

That is a load of bullshit scaremongering.

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
---------------------------->
Remember when World War 3 happened 2 months ago

Hadlock
Nov 9, 2004

Didn't the Iranian health minister get it, and then sneeze on the reporter on live television, and then died three days later

Like, that's the opening scene of most zombie movies, but in real life

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Good thing R0 is the one and only metric that matters with respect to disease!

vandalism
Aug 4, 2003
Welp... wife has cough, 102.4 fever, chills and aches.

It's been an honor shitposting with you, boys. See you on the other side.

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
---------------------------->

MarcusSA posted:

China locks 750 million people in their homes.

“I really don’t see what the big deal is”

China, noted for it's extremely competent and grounded approach to public health like *checks notes* ignoring a pandemic for two months and arresting doctors who tried to tell people about it

Clearly we should all be using China as out standard for severity or lack thereof for all matters of epidemiology.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Mulaney Power Move posted:

and you know there are so many other ways to clean your rear end

Yeah! You could use sticks, leaves, sandpits and even building corners, and that's without considering more obscure methods like the three shells.

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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
---------------------------->

There Bias Two posted:

Good thing R0 is the one and only metric that matters with respect to disease!

I mean apparently the only things that matters itt are vague feelings of anxiety informed chiefly by pop-culture and twitter

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