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Rutibex posted:lovely hastily put together hospitals was why the Spanish Flu was so deadly I hope their capabilities would be better now than immediately following world war one.
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Rutibex posted:lovely hastily put together hospitals was why the Spanish Flu was so deadly Were they specifically bad compared to staying at home, or just not good? I suppose back in those days they didn't have tests so they'd be mixing flu/spanish flu/common cold together so everyone catches em all, which is bad. But if you have 100 patients with (the same strain of) Corona, would putting them all together and only protecting the doctors be bad? Maybe also all kinds of diseases hopping around patients? Would that be worse than letting the critical patients stay home though? That also seems like a death sentence.
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The Walrus posted:I hope their capabilities would be better now than immediately following world war one. Privatized healthcare means we have just enough care for a somewhat bad flu season. Something like this hasn't happened (outside of Asia, which has learned much more from SARS/Ebola than us) in 100 years. I have great confidence that 1 patient in the Netherlands can receive excellent care. But when numbers rise, we run out of everything quite quickly. Edit: Well, the Netherlands isn't exactly privatized, but there's definitely been some "We should bring some MBAs in here, they make everything better" going on.
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Griefor posted:Were they specifically bad compared to staying at home, or just not good? I suppose back in those days they didn't have tests so they'd be mixing flu/spanish flu/common cold together so everyone catches em all, which is bad. But if you have 100 patients with (the same strain of) Corona, would putting them all together and only protecting the doctors be bad? Maybe also all kinds of diseases hopping around patients? Would that be worse than letting the critical patients stay home though? That also seems like a death sentence. it was because the hospitals were understaffed (who would want to work there?) and unsanitary, so all the patients got secondary infections as well. The Walrus posted:I hope their capabilities would be better now than immediately following world war one. i would hope so too, but we are talking about the US federal government here. also there are 3x more people now than there were back in 1918. i am going to be very careful not to get sick
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 14:40 |
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It's important to remember that Trump wants to burn America to the ground because a lot of americans mock him instead of pandering to him like he's a god emperor, so letting the virus ravage the population is par the course.
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real talk, im glad my son is young because i work in healthcare so if i get it at least he wont be too affected by it and hey, if i die from it, maybe he'll get a better dad
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 14:47 |
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I was sick for like all of February and went to the hospital for respiratory poo poo. They had had no test kits but wanted to test . Anyway I’m mostly ok now but still feel a little run down. Wonder if I had that Roni.
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Yaldabaoth posted:It's important to remember that Trump wants to burn America to the ground because a lot of americans mock him instead of pandering to him like he's a god emperor, so letting the virus ravage the population is par the course. Yeah he's already proven to hold nothing but contempt for any state that went blue in his election, look forward to all of the federal aid going to only red states
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QuarkJets posted:Yeah he's already proven to hold nothing but contempt for any state that went blue in his election, look forward to all of the federal aid going to only red states poor people only have healthcare in blue states that expanded medicaid, so they'll probably need less aid
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They confirmed roni in my city, so I’m wondering when and how bad the panic’s going to get. We have a comic con in a few weeks. They came out and said that YES, ABSOLUTELY they’re still on. I seriously doubt it, though. What guest is gonna want to fly here? I’m a teacher. There’s no way I haven’t been exposed. I also have the immune system of a god and a Chinese engineered superbug conspiracy is about the only thing that could take me down. Even then, I doubt it. I dug through all my poo poo last night to get ready in case I’m asked to send packets home with students if we close. I may copy it now just to get ahead of everyone else in the building. I like all the education sites with ads on them all like, “Closed for Corona Virus? Try Kafliddle Premium!” Like dang, y’all’s some vultures just to get that sweet PO money. My parents want us to come over tonight. My dad has a lot of heath problems. I’ve informed them that they are, in fact, dumbasses.
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a mysterious cloak posted:I'm on my facility's COVID-19 response team. I expect to be dead soon. AMA Just stock up on toilet paper, it's the cure to the virus
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Does vids actually give you the shits? Or a runny nose?
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Yaldabaoth posted:It's important to remember that Trump wants to burn America to the ground because a lot of americans mock him instead of pandering to him like he's a god emperor, so letting the virus ravage the population is par the course. While tump is in fact a festering trash bag filled with used condoms, expired hungry-man meals and a low grade malice towards anything that's not him, I wouldn't be surprised if he forgets the roni exists unless someone has just mentioned it to him. Otherwise he exists in a perfect bliss possible only through the complete smoothing of one's brain and deterioration of one's already limited mental faculties.
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 15:58 |
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trump is a germ phobe isn't he? i bet a lot of his flailing in the last week is because he knows he has to campaign but also that the plague is out there and it's going to kill him if he doesn't lock himself in mar a lago
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:13 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:We’re all calling it the roni now.
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:15 |
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Beans-a-roni, the new San Francisco treat
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:17 |
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poverty goat posted:trump is a germ phobe isn't he? i bet a lot of his flailing in the last week is because he knows he has to campaign but also that the plague is out there and it's going to kill him if he doesn't lock himself in mar a lago I do wonder if he's freaking out and he's downplaying everything to try to calm himself.
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:18 |
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mrfart posted:Here in belgium they started limiting the amount of tests to an absolute minimum because they're running out of the chemical they need to do them. Still doing a better job than the us by the sole virtue of having no gvt
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:18 |
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The beans, disinfected wipes, and TP were pretty much all gone at the two grocery stores I went to last night, I guess people started panicking more after they announced that one dude with the roni had been riding the Toronto AND Mississauga transit systems for three days while sick. I guess if we have a bunghole emergency I'll go over to my mom and dad's house and liberate some supplies from the vast Costco hoard in their basement, since they're in Florida until mid-April, as is the way Canadian boomers.
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:24 |
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Trump is going to live out masque of the red death in mar a lago lol.
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:29 |
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I honestly don't understand these TP shortages. How is this a priority before food, and why do some need so many of it?
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:I honestly don't understand these TP shortages. Buddy I need a lot of it trust me
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Bullfrog posted:https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1236054532116877312?s=20 ah, i see we're transitioning to the bargaining phase
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smoobles posted:During the Spanish Flu everyone on Earth personally knew someone who died. The death toll was high but not astronomical, but the tragedy of the Spanish Flu touched every human being alive. I think this will be a similar situation.
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CannonFodder posted:My Boomer parents aren't even the oldest kid in their family. My eldest aunts and uncles are pushing late 70s. Statistically at least one will likely die of coronavirus, but then there would be a funeral and the surviving family would show up and then a high possibility of another echo funeral. Does your family, like, lick the corpse?
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:46 |
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alright so what should I do to prepare? I'm youngish so I'm not worried about dying but should I buy anything extra just in case? beans and rice? will stores really see shortages? I'm in a bigger city if that affects anything
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:alright so what should I do to prepare? I'm youngish so I'm not worried about dying but should I buy anything extra just in case? beans and rice? will stores really see shortages? I'm in a bigger city if that affects anything buy some rope for a noose because youre already dead
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poverty goat posted:trump is a germ phobe isn't he? i bet a lot of his flailing in the last week is because he knows he has to campaign but also that the plague is out there and it's going to kill him if he doesn't lock himself in mar a lago The major US screw up appears to be the lack of good test kits early which was the CDC's fault and also FDA red tape which may have served them in the past but should have been put on hold for the crisis.
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:alright so what should I do to prepare? I'm youngish so I'm not worried about dying but should I buy anything extra just in case? beans and rice? will stores really see shortages? I'm in a bigger city if that affects anything Get a bidet Seriously I just used mine for the first time and it’s crazy to think that normies smear poop around with paper. As a youngish person you are likely to have mild symptoms or none at all so you’ll just need enough to make it a couple weeks just so you don’t get others sick.
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 16:59 |
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No but seriously why is it TP of all things that people are going crazy panic buying? Here was my local supermarket in the SE of the UK yesterday: If I had to self-isolate at home for two weeks and ran out of TP, I'd just shower after I take a poo poo. The only other thing that the shop seemed to be low on was big bags of rice. Plenty of frozen meat and veggies and tinned food. Are people going to eat the TP?
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 17:09 |
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I'm in Japan, a nation of bidets, and toilet paper is completely missing everywhere.
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 17:15 |
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Lolie posted:You might find these two articles regarding SARS vaccines which never went into commercial production interesting. SARS is a coronavirus. Two fold problem. SARS was thought to be contained and SARS vaccines have a rep for utterly bonkers side effects with narcolepsy being on of the milder ones.
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and people called me a fool for building my entire house out of toilet paper. well who's laughing now!
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:alright so what should I do to prepare? I'm youngish so I'm not worried about dying but should I buy anything extra just in case? beans and rice? will stores really see shortages? I'm in a bigger city if that affects anything Prepare for having to stay at your home without leaving for a few weeks. That means not starving to death and having enough of any supplies and medications you depend on to function normally.
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Edgar posted:I am excited to catch this and spread it to my elderly 50+ year old coworkers. Get ready for a big promotion! Boomers refused to retire, now Mother Nature is stepping in.
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Just use your bare hands. Your supposed to wash your hands after pooping anyhow.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Just use your bare hands. Your supposed to wash your hands after pooping anyhow. Ugh, these new hand washing rules are the worst
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# ? Mar 7, 2020 17:26 |
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My wife is flying back home today from a conference in NYC and the airline provided her flight with an emotional support dog!
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https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne/status/1236291140120387588?s=21
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To all the people wondering why TP is going out of stock: it's a shitload cheaper than kleenex or tissues and if you know the odds are good you'll catch a respiratory infection where you'll be sneezing a lot you'll go for what's cheap. Also no one wants to quarantine and run out of TP.
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