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Yeah my company's Shenzhen factory seems good to go and word from our rep there is that, at least in Shenzhen, the general mood is "the worst is behind us" He also mentioned that a shitload of entertainment/catering/restaurant businesses went belly-up due to having literally no business for several months 
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This is going to be a disaster in the US. People can’t stay home sick AND they can’t afford medical care.
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ghostwritingduck posted:This is going to be a disaster in the US. People can’t stay home sick AND they can’t afford medical care. yeah and Azar is gonna go full andrew ryan and scream about the loving market while meds dwindle.
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https://twitter.com/Official_GDC/status/1233542650956894208 Big gamedev event in the US canceled because coronavirus.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/Official_GDC/status/1233542650956894208 pax east is pretty much getting canceled too probably. most of the big publishers and companies have canceled already.
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:Isn't this because they have incredibly strong immune systems? So the diseases just train on bats and then go tear poo poo up on other species. Not a virologist, etc. But my understanding is that bats are both relatively similar to humans and have very effective immune systems, so there’s gonna be a lot of really lethal poo poo that comes out of them. Specifically their immune systems are very effective at fighting inflammation, so viruses that survive in them evolve to be very effective at spreading rapidly.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/Official_GDC/status/1233542650956894208 Probably wise given that if it crossbred with con flu it would literally kill everyone on the earth.
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Kill Bristol posted:Not a virologist, etc. But my understanding is that bats are both relatively similar to humans and have very effective immune systems, so there’s gonna be a lot of really lethal poo poo that comes out of them. Specifically their immune systems are very effective at fighting inflammation, so viruses that survive in them evolve to be very effective at spreading rapidly. It's that bats are crazy lands of extremes. Where bats will fly one minute and build up a temperature of like 108 degrees, then hibernate and drop down to 78 degrees, and do stuff like breath hard and fast enough to get enough oxygen for flight, then rest in weird comas where they breath once every 15 minutes and are barely alive. Like it ends up the perfect evolutionary grounds for viruses to figure out survival in a wide variety of situations.
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Feb 29, 2020 01:59
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The new case of unknown source being in the bay area (as opposed to norcal) is probably not good.
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It's kinda absurd how little testing america is currently doing. 459 tests ever of any american in the last 3 months.  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html There is probably not a secret million cases or anything, but it feels like there is a gonna be a moment where they finally do start testing and places like california are gonna get a "holy gently caress, we have 280 cases of this now" up from like 3 or something in a single day or small span of days. And that seems like the most panic inspiring way this could possibly be done.
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Chinese economy has completely crashed because of this https://twitter.com/TomOrlik/status/1233559208278319105?s=19 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-idUSKBN20N03R quote:China's factory activity posts record contraction as coronavirus bites
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https://mobile.twitter.com/wweek/status/1233575523877609476 Community spread in Oregon and he is a highschool teacher
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/Official_GDC/status/1233542650956894208 I'm pretty sure it's just delayed until the summer.
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So China is just lying at this point about coronavirus being under control in some vain attempt to get everyone back to work producing widgets? 2% GDP growth in China isn’t the same thing as 2% growth in the US. They need 8% just to keep up with all the rural people flowing into their cities. 2% means riots. I have no idea what negative growth means.
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Willo567 posted:I'm pretty sure it's just delayed until the summer. As someone in the industry  We all think it's insanely optimistic
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Also in gamedev and lol there's no GDC happening this year, c'mon.
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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1233581853854064640 apparently new outbreaks in Washington.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1233563058636828673 That seems bad. NPR did interviews with Iranians and some of them think this was a US manufactured weapon. As shockingly incompetent as Trump is at handling this or most any other issue, Iran is like, "hold my Barbican, motherfuckers."
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1233563058636828673 That seems bad. NPR did interviews with Iranians and some of them think this was a US manufactured weapon. To clarify, Iran has 12 Vice Presidents
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community spread cases in the bay area, nor cal, portland, and southern washington it appears. Portland and Washington both were school related (one student, one teacher)
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:To clarify, Iran has 12 Vice Presidents true but still bad.
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PT6A posted:As shockingly incompetent as Trump is at handling this or most any other issue, Iran is like, "hold my Barbican, motherfuckers." This is racist as gently caress and the issues with Iran's response to coronavirus are directly related to the sanctions placed on the country.
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Sampatrick posted:This is racist as gently caress and the issues with Iran's response to coronavirus are directly related to the sanctions placed on the country. Got good reading?
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WOWEE ZOWEE posted:Got good reading? https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/did-us-sanctions-iran-help-coronavirus-spread-undetected-128112
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So from the last page or so, is it safe to say that the virus has broken containment in the US? Several cases in a number of states.
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Roluth posted:So from the last page or so, is it safe to say that the virus has broken containment in the US? Several cases in a number of states. I mean that implies it was ever contained in the first place.
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Drunk Theory posted:I mean that implies it was ever contained in the first place. Welp, here we go. China's already a pandemic, but let's hope that things don't get so bad anywhere else.
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Trump is apparently considering travel restrictions on arrivals from Japan and South Korea, and United is planning to cancel flights to Narita and Osaka starting March 8. I need to decide soon if I want to cancel my vacation and it's really looking not good at this point :<
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If there's community spread already domestically that's locking the barn door after the horse has run away, organized the other horses into a militia and then set the barn on fire.Sampatrick posted:This is racist as gently caress and the issues with Iran's response to coronavirus are directly related to the sanctions placed on the country. Both of these things can be true: the sanctions have hampered the Iranian governments ability to handle the crisis, and their own clumsy brutality and censorship have backfired.
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idk why the Iranians would be inherently incompetent in managing a disease unless the reason is 'brown people bad at science' or something. Though even that is something they have an advantage on since believing in science is like a pretty fundamental thing in Iran. Having half of your government officials literally believing that jesus created the world 4700 years ago is almost a uniquely american thing
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lol ahhh yes, Iran, notoriusly free of reactionary religous influence on government policy.
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Kill Bristol posted:lol ahhh yes, Iran, notoriusly free of reactionary religous influence on government policy. Most religious people, no matter how reactionary, typically don't dispute medical scence.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I think slowing the infection is the success. It's like herd immunity, you don't need to vaccinate literally every single person with literally 100% effective vaccine to stop a disease. You just need to slow it enough so it fizzles out. Like for how scary this disease has been there really has not been all that many cases. Like every cluster gets contained and so less clusters appear. It's also a good thing to be giving to healthcare workers / people working in critical positions. And people most at risk. (My research group is within a cancer agency. When the 2009 H1N1 outbreak happened we all got free vaccinations.) I guess my other 2c is that vaccine development is pretty quick these days. A friend of mine (actually a goon) recently gave a talk about the company he works at, where they did a simulated vaccine development exercise for the DoD. IIRC they went from zero to a vaccine that works in mice in about 21 days. There are other companies in the same space with similar turnarounds. (Actually sounds like there's one already. Sounds like it'll be April before they start human trials though.)
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Waltzing Along posted:That's the theory. They eat everything. Sometimes for status. Sometimes for medical beliefs. And because they expose themselves to things that might not be suitable to human consumption, they open themselves up to weird viruses. That site has nothing but virulent chuds and racists in the comments.
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