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It's weird, 'cos the virus itself doesn't sound that bad (the people who died from it presumably had a different opinion) and yet China's taking these really extreme measures to contain it. So I don't know whether the Chinese government's massively over-reacting or whether we should all be genuinely worried. I mean, I've got no doubt that they're lying through their teeth about the real number of deaths but still.
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Mozi posted:it could still be the flu though, just not the specific strain you were vaccinated against They whip up a new flu vaccine every year that protects you against the most common strains that are circulating. It's really loving clever stuff.
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Feb 15, 2020 20:11
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We should just spread it to everyone and get it out of the way: then everything would be back to normal by April instead of dragging on into next year.
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Feb 21, 2020 13:17
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Well, except for the people who died from it, I guess.
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MarcusSA posted:I said this in the other thread but I’ll say it here too. I work in the wealth management industry! Just leave your drat investments alone, people. Messing around with your portfolio every time you see a startling headline is an excellent way of frittering your money away through hasty decisions and transaction charges.
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The gruesome US healthcare system combined with a work culture utterly intolerant of sickness absence could have been tailor-made to ensure that the virus spreads as widely as possible.
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So, the official position of the Uk government is: "Yeah, we're going to wait until things get real bad before we bring any measures in, 'cos  ".https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/09/matt-hancock-under-fire-from-mps-over-uk-coronavirus-response
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TheJanitor posted:Specifically at that briefing they said if they take action too soon then people might get "fatigued" and it won't last through the peak of infections. Or that we could take action and stop it now, but the country would just get re-infected again later in the year, moving the peak of infections from summer to winter, loving the NHS even more. Maybe there's some merit to both of those points? The second one certainly sounds like they think the solution is to get everyone infected and be immune (and/or dead) by the end of summer. I'd be more inclined to believe that if we didn't have a Prime Minister who's infamously lazy and irresponsible. He just doesn't want to bring in emergency measures now because people would not see the point, get stroppy and blame him. The bit about people getting 'fatigued' gives it away; it translates into: "Our elderly voter base will throw a fit if their routines are interrupted in any way, so let's leave things until they're clamoring for Something To Be Done and we'll step in then."
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:All the people coming into the liquor store hands raw from washing compulsively all lining up to purchase a substance that trashes your immune system. Alcohol kills germs, moron. I'm knocking back a bottle of wine every evening, same as usual and I'm completely healthy!
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Crimpolioni posted:Zero, so yes. Pretty low. And beyond anything else, even lesser crisis have resulted in huge increses in deaths from things like suicides, cancer, all manner of stress and inactivity related complications, and so on. I drank 4 bottles of wine between Friday - Saturday and I've spent today absolutely wishing I was dead. No more home drinking for a bit, I think.
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Mar 22, 2020 19:56
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Hyzenth1ay posted:I’m nobody who just shitposts but this helped me today too. I crushed four bottles of wine this weekend and while I’m not hung over per se I feel panicked and awful. After trying it both ways, I've concluded that while being stuck at home by yourself sucks, being stuck at home with a stinking hangover and associated sense of existential dread sucks worse lol.
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Mar 24, 2020 03:57
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As someone else said: you can always get another job; you can't get a new pair of lungs.
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The mortality rate for patients put in intensive care after being infected with Covid-19 is running at close to 50%, a report has revealed."The Guardian" posted:Data from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) showed that of 165 patients treated in critical care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since the end of February, 79 died, while 86 survived and were discharged. The figures were taken from an audit of 775 people who have been or are in critical care with the disease, across 285 intensive care units. The remaining 610 patients continue to receive intensive care. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/28/coronavirus-intensive-care-uk-patients-50-per-cent-survival-rate The article also mentions that being male and being fat are significant factors in ending up in intensive care with this virus, so something something goons, I guess!
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Watching this thread gradually move from poking fun at other countries attempts to deal with the virus, to indignantly posting that the US only looks bad right now because everyone else is lying about their cases has been pretty funny, I've got to say.
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Noise Complaint posted:It's a actually a super good and healthy thing, except usually with a bunch of fresh stuff like parsley and lemon that get bought out because boomers get their head start hour in the local supermarkets. So now I'm just stuck with the beans and 'dines. Sardines with lemon juice, salt and pepper and hot sauce loving rule. Serve mixed into pasta, rice, or also beans, I guess.
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The moment I'm allowed to, I'm absolutely planning to find the noisiest, most crowded pub I can and drink myself into blissful oblivion.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:As someone that has to do this because they are "essential", don't do this. I've literally seen more road deaths since January this year than I have seen total in the last twenty years I've been commuting to work (and one particularly nightmare-inducing pedestrian death at 5AM). Wait, how many road deaths have you seen in total. Where on earth do you live.
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WrenP-Complete posted:Someone I know in Cochise County (Arizona) cut his finger open and went to the ER, which he said was empty. Are they diverting people from the ER who may be contagious or something? In the UK, people have been avoiding the ER unless it really is an actual emergency. Turns out that a very large proportion of the people clogging up the ER in normal times never needed to be there in the 1st place.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:'But I did it once and someone made me feel like my system wasn't perfect! Don't they owe ME something too? I give up, these people are animals!' Ok, GBS edgelord  Look: I let my slaves get married; I let them go to church on a Sunday; I don't whip them any more than's necessary to get a reasonable return on my investment. I'm a good slave owner and I resent you lumping me in with all those bad slave owners who don't really represent our profession at all 
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Don't forget that his entire career was based on studying addiction clinically. That's our Jordan! 
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greazeball posted:I agree completely. So many people are using the "well at least we're not as bad as [X]" or "[X] closed their schools and it didn't really help that much so we shouldn't bother" that we need regular reminders that lockdowns work, when communicated well and backed up by financial support and law enforcement. I'm really looking forward to Australia's economic figures over the next two years because I think they'll show the hit to the public debt is much less damaging than some people have been predicting and their 2021 GDP growth should blow everyone else out of the water. I'm in the Uk and it's totally a coping mechanism. We're in a poo poo situation here and reflecting on the fact that things could and should have been handled better makes people feel even worse about everything: much more comforting to heave a weary sigh and opine that the government's trying to do the best it can and hey, everyone makes mistakes, you know. With the people who actually voted for the government, they'll usually tack on: "...and just imagine how much worse it would have been if that Jeremy Corbyn was in charge!" as an afterthought. I'm having to grit my teeth a lot in work Zoom meetings.
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Chikimiki posted:Kinda getting desperate of this whole situation; 2020 was supposed to be my year, finally managed to snag a sabbatical from my employer, was supposed to spend a year traveling of which I've been dreaming forever and saving for years Yeah, some people seem to have lost sight of just how profoundly unnatural and damaging living like this is and do that awful scolding, humblebragging thing where they're all: "Well, I literally haven't left the house since last March and I feel great! You're a bad person for missing human contact and you should feel bad about that!" Being in the Uk doesn't help: we've been repeatedly told that we're past the worst of it, only to hear shortly afterwards: "Whoops, back into lockdown, lol", which does as much for your morale as you'd expect.
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Then Covid happens, okay, tough luck, I chose to delay my plans, how long can this epidemic last? A few months tops, right? 
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Macron has just given a press conference and France is going back into national lockdown for at least a month. Europe generally has been hit really badly from their slow vaccine rollout.
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learnincurve posted:God, that throws up memories of this thing a year ago where Italian doctors were writing open letters to the U.K. with charts and statistics showing us that we were 3 weeks behind them, but still with time to halt the spread, a and begging us not to repeat their mistakes, and our government made posters telling us to wash our hands. Lol, I remember that 'phoney war' phase, when we could see what was happening in China and Italy and it seemed reasonable to assume that the virus would be spreading in the Uk soon as well but it still didn't seem quite real? Like: come on, this is the Uk, we're the protagonists, no really bad stuff could happen here, right? Ah well, reality did its thing soon enough.
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It's not quite as bad as you might think - India is a very young country (average age of 27!) and it's also a distinctly slim country, certainly compared to the US or UK. Now the reason that the proportion of vulnerable, older, fatter people is low (poverty) isn't so good but it does mean that Covid has a relatively low impact compared to other medical problems the country has.
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Fallom posted:I wonder how the numbers break out. WFHers seem to be an ultra privileged, wildly vocal minority and not some massive movement in my professional circle. There's a certain class of people with decently sized houses, secure finances and computer-touching jobs who've had a distinctly pleasant epidemic overall and many of them seem to be opinion columnists who struggle to empathise with either young people having to live and work from home in crowded, unsuitable conditions or, worse, people who actually have to leave the house in order to do their jobs.
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