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A boomer here in Australia got tasered by the police while being arrested after he started throwing hands in a supermarket in a scuffle over toilet paper https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/h...558651d6712df71 Begun, the toilet paper riots have
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Burt Sexual posted:Phone diagnosis? Can you blame him??  A clinic near me has set up a drive-in testing facility, you just pull up in your car and lower the window and they they come out in their protective gear and reach in and take a swab. You book and pay over the phone and when you arrive you ring them again to let them know you're there. Their instructions very clearly explain that you DO NOT GET OUT OF YOUR CAR while you're there. There's only been 126 confirmed cases in Australia and three deaths (which were people aged 78, 95 and 82) so the hyper-vigilant clinic sounds more like an exercise in crowd panic control than anything
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Mar 12, 2020 18:21
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sweet thursday posted:How many toilet papers do you have WRONG  (They panic-ordered online when the virus was just starting and ordered 2,300 rolls by mistake) I. M. Gei posted:I tried to buy a respirator mask for a home improvement project I’m working on, but apparently every single hardware store is out of them. Just completely out. Of every kind of respirator. Ah gently caress me not this again. Here in Australia we had people hoarding respiratory masks during the recent bushfires when the cities were being blanketed with smoke for weeks, all the chemists/drugstores and hardware stores were sold out for weeks.
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Mar 13, 2020 04:57
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Fargin Icehole posted:If someone survives and posts here months from now, please say Necro post Greetings from the
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Mar 13, 2020 05:28
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Jumpsuit posted:Australian PM just announced mass gatherings over 500 people will be "advised against". But only from Monday. Note also that he asked for non-essential gatherings of over 500 people to be suspended, whatever the gently caress "essential" means in this context. He's also advised that churches with large congregations will probably need to add extra services to keep numbers under 500 because this government just can't stop going "Well technically we didn't break the rule so what we did was perfectly fine" with people's lives
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Mar 13, 2020 07:08
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Jumpsuit posted:Lol Peter Dutton has it He was in a cabinet meeting all day Tuesday but Morrison is not only refusing to self isolate, he's refusing to get tested at all. But he has decided to not attend that NRL match this weekend
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Mar 13, 2020 11:05
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Costco freezer section at the end of the day, filmed last night: https://i.imgur.com/hk2SRM8.mp4
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Mar 13, 2020 13:54
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Omnitrix posted:I own a small retail record store with no more than four or five customers in at a time. I’m super uncertain about what I should do. Staying open for now and lysoling everything. Should I consider closing? Just take a few small precautions and you'll be fine https://i.imgur.com/z9TcBEk.mp4
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Mar 13, 2020 15:09
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Mooey Cow posted:It's unbelievably funny how people are panic buying years worth of toilet paper of all things. What are they gonna use it for? How much are they planning to poo poo in the coming weeks? The supermarkets here is Australia put up signs saying "We've changed our refund policy, you can't get your money back on all that stuff you hoarded just because you changed your mind, maybe donate it to a crisis shelter or something?"
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Mar 13, 2020 15:21
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Hobo Clown posted:I dunno if the initial shock is wearing off or if people are mad about sports getting canceled but my FB feed is now several flavors of "people are hysterical", "it's killed less than the flu", "here's a doctor of something or other saying why this whole thing is overblown" smugposting. And I know that in the ideal scenario of these containment measures stemming the tide enough to not leave millions dead the only reaction will be "See? It was never anything to worry about" People deal with stress and feelings of helplessness in different ways. Some read up about world news and confirmed methods for dealing with the issue, some hoard toilet paper, some smugly cling to social media spam which lulls them into a false sense of security.
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Mar 13, 2020 16:40
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Hazo posted:I had to tell my manager earlier that “novel coronavirus” is not capitalized. A week ago he was calling it the "corona flu", he's making progress!
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Mar 13, 2020 17:32
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iroguebot posted:I don't know if anyone has mentioned it in this thread but as a former Walmart employee and now vendor that still works inside then, one of the biggest reasons Walmart has trouble restocking shelves is because the CEO gutted the overnight stocking program and they don't really stock anything on the grocery side overnight, also they don't keep anything in the back in the way that they used to so everything is basically truck to shelf. My local Coles supermarket here in Australia also stopped doing overnight restocks not that long ago so now every time I go in the aisles are crowded with pallet jacks piled with boxes of stock and harried-looking staff trying to unload them around customers. This last week the staff have been noticeably more cranky and more disheveled than usual, poo poo has no doubt been nonstop crazy
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Mar 14, 2020 07:59
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Hopes Fall posted:Honestly this is creeping up my list of concerns; my apt doesn't have a washer or dryer, and thr local.laundromat is a contagion zone of crazies during normal times. There's lots of other options! Edit: when your butt absolutely, positively needs to be spotless 
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Mar 14, 2020 15:36
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quote:Toilet paper hoarder in West Valley, Utah  quote:Another Profiteer clearing out thermometers at Costco. Spent his time in the line up bragging how much money he would make marking up the sale of these  Unknown:  LOL 
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Mar 15, 2020 10:26
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sassassin posted:The most alarming thing to me is discovering that people don't have a stockpile of toilet paper normally. Are the general public living life by the seat of their pants, only buying more when they're down to the last roll, or out completely? I live in a share house and we take turns buying TP when we're starting to run low which is usually not a problem, but I have a few spare rolls hidden in secret locations just in case. There's only been a handful of times over the last decade I've had to tell a housemate "The last roll is about to run out and it's your turn and if you don't buy any today I'm wiping my rear end with your towels tomorrow." I could have jumped the gun and just bought more myself but I've found that once you start doing some housemates just stop bothering altogether. There's a 24 hour convenience store just down the street which usually stocks it (although they've been totally sold out every time I've been in the last few weeks) so they usually don't have any excuse apart from laziness
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Mar 15, 2020 11:38
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unpacked robinhood posted:* opens briefcase filled with 4 ply tp with floral patterns * Real playas hire a trailer 
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I imagine people who do things like the toilet paper hoarding and re-selling do that sort of thing with everything and are generally the types of assholes that get robbed and shot and any witness is just like "good." My favourites are the people panic buying several months' worth of frozen meat and then realising they don't have the freezer room to store it so they try to sell off the excess on Facebook  Mmm-mmmm, lightly defrosted but still delicious, what could possibly go wrong????
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Mar 15, 2020 13:29
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china bot posted:Anyone have any tips for guilting your boss into taking this seriously? My 76 year old boss doesn't see any reason to let me shut down the hair salon I manage. Start telling them about a customer who came through who didn't look well and then when they go to reply you "accidentally" sneeze into their open mouth. Apologize profusely, but for the rest of the day point out that they're looking a little pale and ask them if they're okay. Paranoia should do the rest! Also make sure you send them an email or a text message saying something along the lines of "I've looked into it and all the relevant authorities recommend that we close down and I agree with them, it'd be irresponsible for us not to" and when your boss mentions that email tell them you wanted to leave a paper trail that showed you wanted to shut down the salon but were overruled so you're legally covered in case they get sued when a customer gets sick and dies.
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Mar 15, 2020 14:43
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A supermarket in my state just released a statement saying that they'll be opening an hour early every day for the next two weeks exclusively for Senior and Disability Card holders to give them a chance to buy the stuff they need without having to fight through crowds of hoarder idiots. The offer includes carers and people with companion cards but the supermarket was very careful to stipulate that they just couldn't rock up and shop on their client's behalf or use another person's accreditation for themselves but that they had to come in with the person they care for. Because of-loving-course the greedy hoarder idiots would just use this as a way to sneak in early and buy up all that poo poo for themselves if they left that loophole open for them.
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Mar 15, 2020 15:12
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Blaise330 posted:What's death count gotta be at before people stop saying "its just a flu, people overreact about every loving thing"? Those reactions remind me of when people say to not evacuate during a hurricane. It'll probably require a beloved celebrity death for people to really start taking it seriously. Remember that many many people who were writing it off as "just another flu" suddenly started paying attention when they heard that Tom Hanks had caught it.
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Mar 15, 2020 20:44
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Blaise330 posted:The annoying thing is that if we do a good job containing it and prevent thousands of deaths from spreading information and reacting correctly, people will bitch that we took it too seriously cause "see? It didn't even kill that much" Even if by some insane miracle the US gets its poo poo together and presents a strong swift unified response to the virus and manages to keep the number of deaths to a minimum there's going to be tons of deaths in other countries like the UK that people can point to. Of course the US isn't going to get its poo poo together so this is all a moot point anyway.
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Mar 15, 2020 21:00
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Untrustable posted:Hahahaha I came in to work today (casino) and was informed that we now wear gloves. That's it. All employees have to wear nitrile gloves. I'm gonna die. Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia is going to stay open but they're going to switch off every second slot machine so people won't be sitting next to each other. Genius! Sheer genius!
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Mar 16, 2020 08:19
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God dammit, a friend of mine who is retired and is constantly having medical issues felt sick today but she was sure it was just a flu and not the 'Roni because she's not running a fever and she was feeling bored at home so she went for a drive with her husband. But it's okay! She stayed in the car every time he got out to run an errand! I had to explain to her that unless her husband was being extremely careful to completely disinfect himself and his clothes every time he got out and then again before he got back in there's not really much difference between her staying in the car or going along with him. I also had to explain to her that most people who get COVID-19 have a fever but a small percentage don't, so the fact that she didn't have a fever was no guarantee she didn't have it. At least she wasn't relying on the "If you can hold your breath for 10 seconds without coughing you don't have it" test, I guess? 
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Mar 16, 2020 09:15
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Goddamn, someone in a Facebook thread busted out "Well I think the toilet paper shortage is a fake shortage cooked up by the manufacturers, every time I've been to the supermarket the shoppers have been calm and sensible." Yeah the tens of thousands of supermarkets across the globe and their hundreds of thousands of employees all agreed to go along with the conspiracy, as did the thousands of actors they employed to act out the "buying frenzies" in the hundreds and hundreds of videos that got posted online. Goddamn. Superrodan posted:It's not deleted for me. A picture of disney super packed during the fireworks show. Twitter is being fucky today, there's been several instances where a tweet will show up for some people but show "This tweet is no longer available" for others   
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fishing with the fam posted:Eat poo poo hoarders. Nooooooo that's how you get the Roni 
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tater_salad posted:I really hope that TP gets back to normal like soon. It's actually getting worse here in Australia, they're putting limits on how much people can buy but they're still selling out of a whole of things every day. My local supermarket had to hire extra security because shoppers are starting to get rowdy.
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Mar 16, 2020 15:45
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Louisgod posted:I need onions and celery so I can make lentil soup today and I have a feeling I'm hosed My local supermarket was completely sold out of onions and potatoes. Even those fancy expensive onions.  No idea on the celery situation.
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Mar 16, 2020 16:22
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Nurge posted:Citizens abroad are still allowed to return (into quarantine). Here in Australia they've instituted a compulsory 14 day self-quarantine for anyone coming into the country and have granted the cops special powers to check up on people and arrest anyone who doesn't comply. They can also be fined up to $20,000 for not complying. https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victorian-coronavirus-cases-spike-as-police-get-new-arrest-powers-20200316-p54ao2.html The government's chief medical officers also released a statement saying that the best case scenario for Australia is that only 50,000 will die from COVID-19, although it'll probably be twice as high and the worst case scenario is 150,000 deaths. https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/australia-prepares-for-50-000-to-150-000-coronavirus-deaths-20200316-p54amn.html
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Louisgod posted:Not sure if a lot of people were thinking about it but convenience stores seem to be fully stocked. Walked into a Dari Mart here in Oregon to get a drink and I was surprised to see all their shelves full. Got a couple loafs of bread and a couple bags of chips. May be a good spot to check out if people want to avoid large stores. The convenience store just down the street from me usually has a big pallet of toilet paper by the door but they haven't been able to keep them in stock for weeks. I overheard the clerk telling a guy that they restock every morning and it always gets bought out almost immediately, poor guy sounded a little shellshocked. There's a whole block of apartment buildings which has sprung up overlooking the store over the last few years so I'm betting there's dozens of people watching for when the delivery trucks are unloading every day.
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Meanwhile, in Australian supermarkets .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rFT5IXyWw And the man in the back said "C'mon grab a pack!" And it turned into a bog roll blitz Bog roll blitz!
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I looked it up and the first US death from coronavirus was Feb 29, and it's currently up to 87. Current estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are that there will be between 200,000 to 1.7 million deaths in the US, and between 2.4 million to 21 million people will be hospitalized.
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shovelbum posted:If we're looking at 18+ month lockdown, I mean I know money is fake but uh that's a lot longer than we can do without the non fake parts of the economy and society I'm on unemployment benefits but apparently the Australian government has fasttracked payments for casual workers who are now out of work, so a LOT of people are going to be on benefits. And this government loving hates paying unemployment benefits. I've got an awkward feeling that I'm going to end up getting conscripted to the 'roni war and sent to fight on the front lines, restocking the toilet paper aisle in my local supermarket
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Zyme posted:Sorry but it definitely won't. When they start turning away the olds, they will blame
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pixaal posted:Let it sit unopened for 3 days, that's the longest it lives on any surface right? One of the Simspons scriptwriters who co-wrote that episode is SUPER MAD that people are going "Simpsons predicted the coronavirus!!" and went on a big rant going "HOW COULD THE VIRUS LAST 6 TO 8 WEEKS IN THE POST BEFORE IT GOT THE SPRINGFIELD OF COURSE WE WERE JOKING" Edit: found the article https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/simpsons-writer-calls-misappropriation-classic-episode-coronavirus-outbreak-gross-1284744 quote:He continues, "It was meant to be absurd that someone could cough into a box and the virus would survive for six to eight weeks in the box. It is cartoonish. We intentionally made it cartoonish because we wanted it to be silly and not scary, and not carry any of these bad associations along with it, which is why the virus itself was acting like a cartoon character and behaving in extremely unrealistic ways." (At one point, one cloud of the virus waits at a red light when another cloud goes down the street with a green light.) Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Mar 17, 2020 |
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QuarkJets posted:It's ghoulish capitalist greed and not at all pragmatic I've never met anyone who described themselves as a "pragmatist" or a "realist" who wasn't an unbearable selfish rear end in a top hat. They're usually massively hypocritical as well.
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Old Boot posted:EDIT: vaguely tempted to get a haircut before that's not an option anymore. Probably shouldn't though, esp since Wisconsin is going with this now: If they've only got a very limited number of 'Roni tests then that's probably the most sensible reaction, save them for the people who REALLY need them since most people won't really be in much danger if/when they get it. If the people who get mild flu symptoms practice self-isolation and take sensible precautions then that's about all they would be able to do even if they knew for sure they had COVID-19 anyway. Of course, that's in a perfect world where people react sensibly and responsibly to getting sick and where everyone's workplace is letting people take an adequate amount of paid leave for illnesses even if they haven't been confirmed to have COVID-19. In the actual world we live in? /tugs collar nervously
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The John Hopkins map has finally passed the 200,000 confirmed infections mark  https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
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Kerosene19 posted:Those that get stuck away from home if the shutdown occurs should get no sympathy at this point. It should provide some excellent schadenfreude though, pretty much exactly the same as cruise ship passengers who get off a port to do some sightseeing and get stranded because they didn't return to the ship in time and it left without them. You were warned this would happen if you hosed around, but you still hosed around!!! It was incredibly obvious to everyone except you, you idiots!!!
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:ok but how to clean the inside? we have been microwaving coat hangers to get into the the deep parts like uretas and mud holes. can someone recommend a catheter like device found in standard house holds? im scared the virus could be inside of me. WTF??? Don't do that!! You insert a thin plastic tube all the way up your urethra, then poke a thin bottlebrush all the way through the tube as far as it will go, then pull the plastic tube out over the brush's handle leaving the brush in place. Then go to town like you're a Dickensian chimney sweep. Edit: make sure you soak the brush and the tube in bleach first. Singing a traditional chimney sweep song is optional.
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Telsa Cola posted:Yeah thats a spike, holy poo poo. Here's the hosed up thing: that's not even a spike, that's just how bad things are in Italy. I found some graphs that charted the virus' progress in Italy up to March 17 and added the March 18 numbers in, as you can see the curve is nice and smooth:   It's just going to continue going up and up, gradually increasing exponentially every day until it runs out of elderly & immunocompromised people to kill. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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