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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221176282425253889

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Speaking of Spanish flu...

https://twitter.com/el_pais/status/1221174723775815680

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It's in Toronto now

https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/1221194786113232896

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lol

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Death toll up to 54 now from 42 before https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-death-toll-canada-wuhan-symptoms-virus-latest-a9302016.html

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I have a feeling we're going to wake up to 100+ reported deaths tomorrow or Monday, honestly. 42 to 55 in one day is kinda a big deal.

We're also still riding that 3% mortality of reported deaths to reported cases to the exact.

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I keep thinking about that 2 week incubation period while looking at this gif.



First-degree cases all over China began exploding right about 2 weeks after the original reported cases. About a week or so now is when we should start seeing second-degree cases becoming symptomatic across the world.

That gif is also slightly out of date given we have reports from Canada, Spain, and Russia today.

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Chuka Umana posted:

Remember two weeks ago when World War III was about to break out totally

Let us know when the coronavirus backs down out of sheer cowardice, or when it does a symbolic infection of 2000 people and then peters out now that it's saved face.

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Chuka Umana posted:

There's literally only 40 something deaths so far and people are acting like 50-100 million deaths is a given.

Quote these people and bitch at them then

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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221236608281776128

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221235480995487745

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https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1221245717655801857
https://twitter.com/Rover829/status/1221246228513673216

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Vitamin P posted:

You aren't wrong, Wuhan has a ton of undocumented workers living in dogshit conditions that 100% have not been accounted for.

I'm reading that China isn't testing dead people for coronavirus, so if you caught it and then died before you were diagnosed with it, you wouldn't be included in the official counts.

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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221251341630222337

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This is making rounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEkIdGht-S8

There are subtitles, turn them on via the CC button.

I don't know how legitimate this video is (Not only do I obviously not speak Chinese, I'm deaf and couldn't confirm anyway that he's actually saying what the subtitles show that he's saying) but his body language and gestures match up with the subs.

tldw: The officials aren't communicating well, there's little to no instruction on what to do beyond "wear masks" and "don't go out", the guy is upset about the leaders "loving off to some island in Qing Hai" (this made me raise my eyebrow -- Qinghai is landlocked), and talks a little bit about what it's like to go to a hospital right now in Wuhan. He says they've ran out of testing solutions.

It could be a CIA psyop video to spread misinformation, who knows.

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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221257149696921600
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221258967957082115
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221262160392790016

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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221266369733365760

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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

it's from an old flash game (similar to plague inc) where you tried to infect the whole world w/ a disease. madagascar was notoriously hard to infect b/c the minute it their officials would sniff any sort of pandemic they'd close ports and that was that.

Pandemic 2

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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221271865823584258
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221272585347923968

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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

isn't there an olympics thing happening this year, should be fun

In Tokyo in 5 months lol

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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1221278842263867396

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Is this the biggest quarantine event in human history? The amount of cities going on lockdown is really remarkable.

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221282156061831180

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Charlz Guybon posted:

Trump needs white silents and boomers to turn out in mass this November.

Hopefully the Wuhan coronavirus culls a good amount of them.

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Yo wait

Jiangxi the PROVINCE?!

An entire province is going on lockdown?!

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MrMojok posted:

Didn't Trumbo downscale or dramatically reduce the capabilities of the CDC a while back? Or was it the part of Homeland devoted to response to CONUS nuke/bio/chem attacks

From years ago:

https://twitter.com/drewfhinshaw/status/954476003975467008

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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

The fact the disease has a 10-14 asymptomatic period means they have to quarantine absolutely everyone who's potentially been in contact with the virus. Also by the time a city has confirmed virus it could already have been there and spreading for weeks.

Also I've never seen Contagion but I have seen the one where they want to firebomb the town.

lmao Wuhan is a major, MAJOR travel hub and there's tons of flights out of there, and this happened RIGHT on the Chinese New Year which is the single largest migration event of the year

This poo poo is hitting the fan

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It is absolutely insane that we finally have a virus that is

  • Airborne
  • Persistent for 24 hours on Objects
  • 14 Days Incubation Period

That's like the perfect storm

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IDK how you'd get more perfect than that. Waterborne and diarrhea?

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Stairmaster posted:

is this like super confirmed

https://twitter.com/scottwongdc/status/1220740830677405704?s=21

there's a bunch of other reports but I'm too many vodka shots deep into the evening to collate them for you

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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

at least the mortality rate isnt apocalyptic i guess

3% is like "LMAO 97% survival" but like

Holy poo poo 3% is really loving high

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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

rewatching contagion and the insane super virus in this movie has an R0 of 2 lol

the tweets from scientists monitoring this are like "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD -- R0 OF 3.8??!?! THIS IS THERMONUCLEAR!!!"

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1220919589623803905

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TeenageArchipelago posted:

what's the flu's mortality rate? I tried looking it up earlier, but the best I found were a few counts of the number killed in given years, which doesn't include the number infected

For the common flu?

0.1%

official reports of Coronavirus are right around 3% mortality

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triple sulk posted:

it feels a bit paranoid to be stocking up on masks but idk

the masks are worthless, virii are way smaller than mask tolerance

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basically your best bet for escaping Coronavirus

  • 1. don't touch your eyes or mouth
  • 2. always sanitize your hands when you get home
  • 3. don't go out from your home until this dies down

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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

China’s national health minister Ma Xiaowei said the new coronavirus is also infectious during incubation, which is different from Sars.

He said authorities’ knowledge of the new virus was limited and they are unclear on the risks posed by mutations of the virus.

The press conference ended with a promise to live up to “the expectations of the people” and to increase transparency. To that end, they said there would be a press conference every morning.

:rip:

efb

LMAO what a whopper to wake up and read holy poo poo

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The people running the simulation got bored and cheated in a god mode virus to see how many people it kills

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  • Airborne
  • Object-persistent for 24 hours
  • 14 day incubation period
  • Infectious during incubation
  • Early symptoms are mild and extremely easily mistaken for a weak cold or flu

All this is missing is one single mutation to make it deadly, like encephalitis or something idk lmao

I'm actually sincerely starting to wonder, in a non-joking way unlike last night, whether this is actually an escaped bioweapon. How do you make something more perfect than this? All you'd need to do is just release this and let nature do the rest of the work to mutate it, and, uhh...

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Venom Snake posted:

remember when the avian flu thing happened and people were talking about reeactiving the beltways cold war AA defenses to shoot down birds carrying the flu

If that infectious while incubating thing is legitimate, it's probably too late at this point lmao. 14 day incubation period, and it's infectious during that lmfao

the virus broke out 3 weeks ago!!! right at the beginning of a major travel season!!!

No wonder China is shutting down 1/3 of the country on total lockdown

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It's in Tokyo!!!

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1221386801803382785

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hallebarrysoetoro posted:

president pantshitter surely will have a reasoned, measured response

I JUST GOT INFECTED FOR MAKING A PERFECT TRIP!

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Venom Snake posted:

like i said, anything intentionally designed is going to have a massive glaring weakness in it known to the government that created it.

Unless it escaped before they were finished designing it :tinfoil:

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