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A Buttery Pastry
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Can't believe this is China's solution to getting the world to cut down on CO2 emissions.

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A Buttery Pastry
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If only the UK had Brexited sooner, it would have been entirely isolated from the rest of the world by the time the virus burned through the rest of the world. Now it will perish with the rest of us.

Science writer AND a contributor to the NYT? This guy is less trustworthy than a fake twitter doctor.

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SpaceCadetBob posted:

pretty sure they will all end up in a camp for a month before getting to go home.
Anyone rich enough will get to loudly complain their way out of it and infect everyone else.

A Buttery Pastry
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hallebarrysoetoro posted:

this wouldn't seem like a panic inducing situation if it wasn't for the fact that china is flipping the gently caress out of it, which makes me think this virus is causing cytokine storms and the deaths are vastly underreported

on the other hand, this is hell world, and china is flipping out to protect number because their bean counters saw an economic downtick from sars
This is exactly the wrong kind of brand engagement for China.

A Buttery Pastry
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

what da gently caress then how did we get a fish virus??
It's because they took the fish out of the water.

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Niton posted:

Quoting this to remind that a significant portion of cases, which may range anywhere from a minority, to a plurality, to an outright majority, will never actually see a hospital despite being infected. This isn't Ebola where it just murders you without treatment.
Given that the fatality rate for people that end up in hospital is currently sitting at 53%, you'd need 95% of cases to never see a hospital just to get it down to Spanish flu levels - and for every fatality to happen in a hospital.

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Niton posted:

Going off the confirmed cases, it's 53 deaths out of 1975, for a death rate of 2.82%.
The vast majority of those people are still sick. I was going off the numbers for cured/dead.

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Mantis42 posted:

OTOH 49 people saved so far out of 1985 infected is a survival rate of only 2.5%

Truly apocalyptic.
Finally someone talking sense.

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Fly Molo posted:

lol jesus imagine if a disease like this had a 50% K/d

CODChimera posted:

imagine a 100% k/d
Viruses arguably aren't even alive in the first place, so their K/D will be infinite the moment they kill a single person.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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The mastermind has revealed herself.

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Sep 4, 2011

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We need to euthanize anyone who has coughed or sneezed the last three weeks, anyone they've been in contact with, and anyone those people have been in contact with. It's time we make the hard choices.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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The corona virus was designed to kill non-pedophiles, and released upon Epstein's death.

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Shear Modulus posted:

do the surgical masks not protect you from germs? thats what i always see people wear during flu season

also if the surgical masks dont block germs what exactly is the point of them
It's to prevent surgeons from getting blood into their mouth and getting a taste for it.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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SKULL.GIF posted:

everyone forgot about brexit, which is in 5 days lol
Real brexit only happens a year later though.

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gh0stpinballa posted:

what does the 5.35 number mean
Everyone that's infected will infect 5.35 other people on average, unless preventive measures are taken. Which means quarantines and poo poo need to operate at like 80% effectiveness just to have the disease not spread exponentially.

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Admiral Ray posted:

eh, capitalism is a necessary step on the way to socialism so who's to say whether it's bad or not
Not the plague's fault humanity has squandered its gift so far. It's still good.

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Luckyellow posted:

Wait, is it actually totally possible for a virus to specifically favor a race over other? I have no idea, that's a mind blowing thing if true.

dex_sda posted:

Well, the gene that makes you lactose tolerant started in Europe, and spread from there. As a result of that random starting point and the demographics/reproduction patterns since then, caucasians are less likely to be lactose intolerant.

It's not inconceivable that some genetic mutation can make a population susceptible, and that population can be somewhat correlated with skin color. But it's not the 'race' that influences it.
About 10% of Europeans are resistant to HIV (possibly an old mutation that conferred resistance to smallpox back in the day), most of them concentrated around the Baltic and the Moscow region. Not exactly a solid defense for someone trying to wipe out non-Europeans with super-AIDS though.

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Luckyellow posted:

I didn't mean to use 'race's but that's super interesting. I always figured that a subsection of a population was susceptible to disease due to their income levels and diets following from the restriction of their income plus genetic diseases that's passed down but that they would actually have some resistance or weakness to a external virus is just something I just learned today.
A historical example of NOT having resistance would be the Americas almost getting depopulated by multiple waves of disease just wrecking populations that had never had to contend with them, though obviously there are very few populations today that remain so isolated that they've not been through a similar gauntlet.

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Pump Jockey posted:

My CEO just sent out a company-wide email telling everyone to not panic about coronavirus because absolutely none of our employees or clients have traveled to China in recent weeks.

My coworker who sits 4 feet away just got back from Shanghai late last week. :downsgun:
They traveled from China. Your CEO was correct, there's no reason to worry about any of your employees dying from the corona virus in China.

A Buttery Pastry
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

so wait this disease is racist against asian people

SKULL.GIF posted:

More like misandrist. Corona-chan will bring us paradise by killing all men! :peanut: :killing:
It's designed to kill off Asian men. There are three possibly culprits:

- A woman trying to avenge the one child policy
- A man trying to offset the one child policy to increase his chances of finding a wife
- Someone trying to increase his chances of getting a hot Asian wife.

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Doc Walrus posted:

Also, are there any cases in the UK yet? An outbreak coinciding with no-deal brexit would be... something
No Deal Brexit is next year. This year is just poo poo Deal Brexit.

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Sep 4, 2011

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vyelkin posted:

no but apparently they requested eu help to evac their citizens from wuhan two days before leaving the eu lmao owned
Nothing more British than asking Europe for help to get British citizens, but not their spouses, back to Britain.

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Dreylad posted:

If I remember my biology, aren't there immune system cells that attach themselvs to/consume virus cells and then explode?
Yeah, that's why people cough; to release the build up pressure.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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Coranavirus is slowly realizing a new way to kill: American bullets.

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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

Also telling how whites eagerly donated millions to save koala bears in australia and cathedrals in paris but won't raise a finger to help with wuhan, except condemn chinese people as usual
They never donated to Notre Dame.

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

Doesn't matter, to white people all asiatics are some kind of hive mind so a local government fuckup can be directly laid at the feet of the national government.
America is all the hosed up idiotic state governments too. You don't get the prestige of being a huge federal state without also being responsible for incompetent state governments, that's just part of the deal.

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CODChimera posted:

also we should probably find a better balance between 'solved in 5 days' and 'the apocalypse'
Apocalypse in 5 days

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Sep 4, 2011

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Real hurthling! posted:

truck would get through that unless theres a bunch of sand or something behind it
It's a trick. There's no road behind it, just a sheer drop.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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Jel Shaker posted:

vending machine related accident killed more than Sars lol
Must've been a huge vending machine.

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Modest Mao posted:

Imagine if E. Coli broke out from some Avocados in LA County and people around the world avoided shaking hands with latino people for fear of pooping themselves to death, making memes about the trashy costal folk and their oily fruit
But LA is Hollywood and surfer dudes...

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Shear Modulus posted:

thats a boring "escape from china" if hes just going to take the train like everyone else. i was expecting a car chase or him hiding in the bushes while a guy looks for him with a flashlight
Train journeys in Asia can be pretty hardcore, see the documentary "Train to Busan".

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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

the image of LA as surfer dudes and celebrities is true, if youre a 70 year old whose never left your home state of south dakota.
I mean, this was in regards to the global perception of a disease spreading out of LA. America projects a far whiter image of itself than the reality.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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Half-human, half-virus baby.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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I'm hearing reports that the Costa Corona has capsized and all the passengers are being evacuated.

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Xaris posted:

how have you never had the flu before?

like going to public elementary schools, community college, and uc d i had pretty muhc gotten the flu at least once every 3 years and i'm pretty germophobic with washing
That's why. Your obsessive cleanliness has made your immune system lazy beyond belief, leaving you vulnerable to diseases regular people scoff at.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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Charles 2 of Spain posted:

Home, they'll never find me there!
Definitive confirmation that the virus erodes your higher brain functions.

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hemale in pain posted:

i have a hard time believing that spraying them like that is doing anything.
It's making them more flammable.

A Buttery Pastry
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Mummy Xzibit posted:

Wouldn't we be seeing a much higher number of infections/deaths outside of China if those tencent statistics are true?
Just further proof that this was a bioweapon targeting Han Chinese.

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CODChimera posted:

where are all the dead bodies though
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that viruses quickly dissolve the bodies they inhabit after death.

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LookingGodIntheEye posted:

All part of the plan, as their alien doppelganger takes their place. Xi had been an alien all along, and we are seeing his plan to replace humanity in action.
Only the lizard people can save us.

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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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succ posted:

I think that it could be a Chinese BioWeapon that was accidentally released and that they are doing everything that they can to cover it up and contain it. Not because they care about people but because if it "gets out" and devastates the world they will be charged with some sort of war crime(or equivalent) and have to pay compensation. Maybe break up China like Germany after world war II? It was never meant to be released on their own people. One good thing to come from all of this is that the Chinese people are beginning to realize that their "Awesome Leader" is not everything he proclaims to be and may start to get out from under his thumb.
If doing bad poo poo was all that's required, the US would've been broken up years ago.

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