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Weebly
May 6, 2007

General Chaos wants you!
College Slice

Wafflecopper posted:

Their plan is to let covid kill everyone, gotta control that population, that’s why they have trump in charge doing nothing

The sound we make rattling our cage will serve as a warning to the rest.

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Hadlock posted:

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5110021002

Did you guys see the thing about the guy who tried to crash the freight train into the hospital ship in Los Angeles to warn us all about the impending Illuminati take over

This is a very elaborate April fool's hoax right

Tex Avery posted:

It gets better: he wasn't even pointed towards the ship. I know the red arrow is faint; I didn't make this. It got passed around through a couple of my railroad friends.


Wafflecopper
Nov 27, 2004

I am a mouth, and I must scream

I thought the illumanti's whole deal is that they are already in control, ruling from the shadows and printing their logo on bank notes. Why would they need to "take over"

Zero VGS
Aug 16, 2002
ASK ME ABOUT HOW HUMAN LIVES THAT MADE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS ARE WORTH MORE
Lipstick Apathy

HonorableTB posted:

I've been on board the mask train for a while. I go grocery shopping about once every week or two and I went this past Sunday in my mask, gloves, and booties like I have been doing for most of March. I've gotten increasingly fewer strange looks as the Seattle situation got worse and then when poo poo really started hitting the fan, the last two times I've been to Safeway it's getting pretty hard to find someone without a mask or at least some sort of cloth covering their face. I'd feel vindicated and smug but I'm just happy that enough people are finally taking it seriously enough to start lowering my chances of roni death.



I look just like this but I'm also wearing a full Tyvek suit, no sign, uh, and I'm handsomer. I ride around like that on a Mad Max style electric fat bike so people really know I'm not loving around.

Wurzag
Jun 3, 2007

Bad Moons, Bad Moons, wot ya gonna do?


Wafflecopper posted:

I thought the illumanti's whole deal is that they are already in control, ruling from the shadows and printing their logo on bank notes. Why would they need to "take over"

I've always thought its considerate of them to leave little clues like that for the benefit of nutters on the internet.

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Over here in Finland our government was doing victory laps because we've got a stockpile of emergency equipment (PPE masks etc) that were being handed out to healthcare professionals. Unlike "SOME" countries we've got plentiful supplies and they're not in danger of running out. Except loving WHOOPS that stockpile has been sitting unused for so long that most of it is way past its "use by" date, in some cases by 8+ years.

The people responsible for maintaining said stockpile said they're testing sample units from each batch before sending it out, and even though the manufacturers of the masks say they should no longer be used, our government says it's fine. Oh you got a mask with a rubber band so worn out it can no longer form a seal against your face? Well tie some knots on that rubber band, use common sense! Again, literally their words.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11286164

Apparently "six planeloads" of new protective equipment have already been ordered, but considering Finland probably aren't the only people trying to order poo poo, I wouldn't hold my breath. Except I guess that's what our medical personnel will literally have to start doing, as the government begins to ration out protective equipment.

How could this happen? Well our loving austerity-horny government laid off a ton of people from the very agencies that are now critically needed to research and handle the epidemic. WHOOPS!

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

Der Shovel posted:

Over here in Finland our government was doing victory laps because we've got a stockpile of emergency equipment (PPE masks etc) that were being handed out to healthcare professionals. Unlike "SOME" countries we've got plentiful supplies and they're not in danger of running out. Except loving WHOOPS that stockpile has been sitting unused for so long that most of it is way past its "use by" date, in some cases by 8+ years.

The people responsible for maintaining said stockpile said they're testing sample units from each batch before sending it out, and even though the manufacturers of the masks say they should no longer be used, our government says it's fine. Oh you got a mask with a rubber band so worn out it can no longer form a seal against your face? Well tie some knots on that rubber band, use common sense! Again, literally their words.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11286164

Apparently "six planeloads" of new protective equipment have already been ordered, but considering Finland probably aren't the only people trying to order poo poo, I wouldn't hold my breath. Except I guess that's what our medical personnel will literally have to start doing, as the government begins to ration out protective equipment.

How could this happen? Well our loving austerity-horny government laid off a ton of people from the very agencies that are now critically needed to research and handle the epidemic. WHOOPS!

Entire world pants: down.

You can't plan for a emergency that only happens once in a generation and require large quantities of stocks. You can plan for rare emergencies that are kind of cheap to prepare ( seed banks in the artic ) but asking for services to be ready for everyone getting ill at the same time is not.

The next thing you do is what you criticed. How fast you can pull your pants up.

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde
Is anyone else annoyed that we didn't get the BCG vaccine as kids? I want every vaccine there is, drat it.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Too bad no one treated public health like America treats "defense".

"We HAVE to spend trillions of dollars every year to maintain the same levels of protection and constantly innovate and upgrade every thing we already have, you know, just in case!"

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Picnic Princess posted:

Too bad no one treated public health like America treats "defense".

"We HAVE to spend trillions of dollars every year to maintain the same levels of protection and constantly innovate and upgrade every thing we already have, you know, just in case!"

If you treated your healthcare like your military, you would have gold plated hospitals full of doctors with no working equipment, while your landfills would be overflowing with trillions of unwanted stethoscopes that were bought because some Senator demanded it in exchange for supporting some kind of corporate tax rate cut.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

steinrokkan posted:

If you treated your healthcare like your military, you would have gold plated hospitals full of doctors with no working equipment, while your landfills would be overflowing with trillions of unwanted stethoscopes that were bought because some Senator demanded it in exchange for supporting some kind of corporate tax rate cut.

Yeah but brown people in other countries would be unbelievably healthy

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Fifty‐cent masks are the nail for want of which the kingdom is lost.

Long after we are all dead, historians will make and refine models of what could have been, how many millions of lives and trillions of dollars this crisis might have been softened by, if only we had not neglected this one humble commodity.

It is not a panacea, but it is a thumb on the scale. With the stakes involved and the nature of exponential growth, it is a heavy thumb.

Trump balking at a billion dollars in ventilators will make the history books, but imagine what could be done with two billion masks.

Busy Bee
Jul 13, 2004
Here's a great video that was uploaded a few weeks ago by a Japanese business man living in Nanjing, China and the measures that are in place to curtail the spread of infection. My theory still stands - China is not intentionally falsifying their numbers but rather taking extreme and calculated measures to curb the spread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
They may not mess with a white foreigner but a Japanese man in Nanjing? Good luck dude

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Barudak posted:

Yeah but brown people in other countries would be unbelievably healthy

And some plucky Iranian house doctor on a scooter with a box of bandaids could run circles around them :haw:

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

I saw this great video about the amazing villages of Crimea by Catherine II

SpaceGoatFarts
Jan 5, 2010

sic transit gloria mundi


Nap Ghost
Masks ordered in China by France are repurchased by Americans for 2-3 times the price, directly on the runway. The planes are then re-routed to the US instead of France

Why am I not surprised :capitalism:

https://www.lalibre.be/internationa...b50a6162bf70db2

Cacafuego
Jul 22, 2007

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

Masks ordered in China by France are repurchased by Americans for 2-3 times the price, directly on the runway. The planes are then re-routed to the US instead of France

Why am I not surprised :capitalism:

https://www.lalibre.be/internationa...b50a6162bf70db2

Maybe this is that sweet deal that Macron was talking about making with tump the other day

Wafflecopper
Nov 27, 2004

I am a mouth, and I must scream

Barudak posted:

Yeah but brown people in other countries would be unbelievably healthy

i loled

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Mumbling posted:

Alright, I'm on the face mask train. Any recommendations for the type I need to get that would be appropriate for a civilian and not diverting resources away from hospitals?


Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007


I’ve seen this before and I really wanna know what that pocket is for.

Bistromatic
Oct 3, 2004

And turn the inner eye
To see its path...
This has a very Stålenhag vibe somehow.

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived
life is now:

checking every grocery delivery service...nope nothing ever
trying to file for unemployment...nope site crashes constantly/phone lines always busy no matter when you call
lots and lots of sirens

trying to figure it out on a day by day. (like getting a grocery pickup order thats available in 5 days and then hiring a outside third party service to pickup/dropoff that instead of an all in one)

i'm in the hotzone (brooklyn) in the state with the most cases (ny) in the country with the most infections (usa) sooooo trying not to die, nbd

really hoping that the lovely leadership in my country feels repercussions directly, be it elections or just straight up prosecutions, and china feels them globally when this is all said and done

anytime i think about those senators that dumped stock in jan after a briefing my loving eye starts twitching

schmug
May 20, 2007

Busy Bee posted:

Here's a great video that was uploaded a few weeks ago by a Japanese business man living in Nanjing, China and the measures that are in place to curtail the spread of infection. My theory still stands - China is not intentionally falsifying their numbers but rather taking extreme and calculated measures to curb the spread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM

did you know the word propaganda isn't in the dictionary?

rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

Busy Bee posted:

Here's a great video that was uploaded a few weeks ago by a Japanese business man living in Nanjing, China and the measures that are in place to curtail the spread of infection. My theory still stands - China is not intentionally falsifying their numbers but rather taking extreme and calculated measures to curb the spread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM

So who are you, that you’re this obsessed with China? All governments are bad, US bad, everything bad, but I was curious why someone would be so obviously believing of Chinese propaganda, and like every post you’ve made in this thread is about how blameless and good the Chinese government is.

Pull back the curtain for a minute. What skin do you have in this game? Be real with your SA friends. Why are you so doggedly trying to cheerlead for China?

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

SpaceGoatFarts posted:

Masks ordered in China by France are repurchased by Americans for 2-3 times the price, directly on the runway. The planes are then re-routed to the US instead of France

Why am I not surprised :capitalism:

https://www.lalibre.be/internationa...b50a6162bf70db2

USA can build these mask themselves, but that mean forcing companies to focus on this product. That would be socialist or something. Is better to compete with other western countries for the same resources.

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Tei posted:

You can't plan for a emergency that only happens once in a generation and require large quantities of stocks. You can plan for rare emergencies that are kind of cheap to prepare ( seed banks in the artic ) but asking for services to be ready for everyone getting ill at the same time is not.

Yeah but that's the thing: we did. We had planned for something like this to happen, and had been stockpiling supplies and equipment for years. Only for some bureaucratic nightmare reason nobody bothered to make sure those massive stockpiles would actually keep and to freshen them up periodically.

Finland are also stockpiling military equipment in case our neighbours to the east get a sudden desire for more zhiloye prostranstvo again, but that is kept up to date. For instance our field artillery shoot probably more live rounds during military training than anyone else, because our massive stockpiles of shells are fired off before they expire, and then get replaced. But for some reason nobody bothered to make sure the protective equipment stored for a medical crisis was kept working.

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived

Der Shovel posted:

Yeah but that's the thing: we did. We had planned for something like this to happen, and had been stockpiling supplies and equipment for years. Only for some bureaucratic nightmare reason nobody bothered to make sure those massive stockpiles would actually keep and to freshen them up periodically.

Finland are also stockpiling military equipment in case our neighbours to the east get a sudden desire for more zhiloye prostranstvo again, but that is kept up to date. For instance our field artillery shoot probably more live rounds during military training than anyone else, because our massive stockpiles of shells are fired off before they expire, and then get replaced. But for some reason nobody bothered to make sure the protective equipment stored for a medical crisis was kept working.

I'm totally cool with throwing a scapegoat or two under some buses in every nation that hosed their citizens with inaction or stupidity when this is all over. If greed cost human lives bring down the hammer. gently caress them.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Busy Bee posted:

Here's a great video that was uploaded a few weeks ago by a Japanese business man living in Nanjing, China and the measures that are in place to curtail the spread of infection. My theory still stands - China is not intentionally falsifying their numbers but rather taking extreme and calculated measures to curb the spread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM

Your hypothesis rests on self submitted youtube videos that are allowed to get beyond the Great Firewall. Meanwhile there are decades of evidence of suppression of information on a huge array of matters of state within China.

Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

Der Shovel posted:

Yeah but that's the thing: we did. We had planned for something like this to happen, and had been stockpiling supplies and equipment for years. Only for some bureaucratic nightmare reason nobody bothered to make sure those massive stockpiles would actually keep and to freshen them up periodically.

Finland are also stockpiling military equipment in case our neighbours to the east get a sudden desire for more zhiloye prostranstvo again, but that is kept up to date. For instance our field artillery shoot probably more live rounds during military training than anyone else, because our massive stockpiles of shells are fired off before they expire, and then get replaced. But for some reason nobody bothered to make sure the protective equipment stored for a medical crisis was kept working.

Welp, you have a point there.

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Could always be worse. Finland's national broadcasting service (generally the most trustworthy news source in Finland) are reporting that Stockholm are running out of intensive care beds, and generally Swedish hospitals are at a breaking point.

Maybe their lovely government should've done something about the coronavirus at some point?

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Grocery store by my house had no:

Eggs
Canned soup
Rice
Cheez-Its (technically they had Cheez-Its but none of the regular or spicy or white cheddar or other flavors people actually like, only had Duoz and extra toasty)

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived

bird with big dick posted:

Grocery store by my house had no:

Eggs
Canned soup
Rice
Cheez-Its (technically they had Cheez-Its but none of the regular or spicy or white cheddar or other flavors people actually like, only had Duoz and extra toasty)

try finding hand soap, tp, paper towels

i wish i bought more hand soap cuz it's rarer then gold now so thats cool

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

come on bro

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

zer0spunk posted:

i'm in the hotzone (brooklyn) in the state with the most cases (ny) in the country with the most infections (usa) sooooo trying not to die, nbd

Dude that poo poo is everywhere. You probably have "the most cases" because your city/whatever local authority is in charge was smart enough to do some.loving.testing handclap emoji.

zer0spunk posted:

try finding hand soap, tp, paper towels

i wish i bought more hand soap cuz it's rarer then gold now so thats cool

We're past the panic hoarding here and I'm glad of it

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived

unpacked robinhood posted:

Dude that poo poo is everywhere. You probably have "the most cases" because your city/whatever local authority is in charge was smart enough to do some.loving.testing handclap emoji.


We've passed the panic hoarding here and I'm glad of it

really, you don't think it's maybe oh say the insane density of the place i'm living in

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived
oh and also the lax as gently caress response to it like ya know shutting down playgrounds a loving day ago

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

zer0spunk posted:

really, you don't think it's maybe oh say the insane density of the place i'm living in

There are other cities with lots of people on the planet and it's going to be a loving shitshow, they just aren't testing because :effort:

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
New York has it worse than anywhere else that doesn’t already have chain gangs digging graves.

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