Coronavirus 2020 - START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!!

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Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

If you want some real nightmares just glance at all the bacterial, viral, and fungal infections you can get from fish. Then take a look at the parasites.

Add that to the insane amount of live mammals and birds they were selling in that market.

SARS supposedly spread from bats to civet cats to us.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 05:24

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 16:56

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

quote:

https://twitter.com/violazhouyi/status/1220562045700984834

https://twitter.com/violazhouyi/status/1220569798532222977

# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 05:56

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1221570317497225216?s=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfAGGQ9a_Ko

Plague Inc is 60% off in one of the most poorly time video game sales in history.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2020 00:17

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/EyesOnTheRight/status/1222722053809299456

# ¿ Jan 30, 2020 04:52

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/people-collapsing-coronavirus/

quote:

If we strip the above-displayed videos of their captions, we can take a look purely at what the videos show. In one case, it looks like a person was the victim of a traffic accident. In another, it appears that a man suffered a head injury. But since these videos appeared online during heightened hysteria about an outbreak of an illness, it�s easy to see how a passerby may have made the assumption that these incidents were connected to the coronavirus.

WHO explained that the coronavirus is a respiratory illness with symptoms such as �fever, cough, shortness of breath, and breathing difficulties.� A WHO official also told us that �sudden collapses� would be �atypical� for this disease. While we have not been able to definitively determine what these videos show, it seems unlikely that these people collapsed on the street due to coronavirus.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 14:57

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

MarcusSA posted:

Yeah never mind the loving people in Hazmat suits and poo poo.

I guess it�s normal for people to be walking around people that collapsed in China in hazmat suits.

Probably SOP for EMTs to be wearing that sort of getup at this point. Especially if they think they'll be in contact with blood.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 15:10

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

MarcusSA posted:

I was more pointing out that the article was trying to say that the videos might not be related to the outbreak.

Did you read the article? Be honest.

quote:

When we examine viral footage like this, one of the first things we do is try to trace the footage back to its source. If we find that the video was circulating before the event it supposedly shows, we can determine that the video was recaptioned and is being shared out of context. In this case, however, we were unable to trace these videos back to a date before the discovery of the coronavirus.

It appears that these videos were truly taken in January 2020 in various locations around China. According to social media reports, these videos first started circulating on apps such as TikTok and were originally posted by random citizens who had witnessed these events. However, that does not mean that the people featured in this video were infected with this virus.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 15:33

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

lord funk posted:

If you want to see what it's like to build a hospital in 6 days, here's the progress (scroll down about 1/2 way for the gifs to start):

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/x-xbfqct8tzqRHBsOL0GXg

Compare this to the US's response to Katrina or Puerto Rico.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2020 15:08

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfy7K34fhdk&t=413s

The WHO asking social media to self-censor seems like a pipe dream at this point.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 03:35

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

BoldFace posted:

Whatever drug/vaccine they rush out to treat this thing, I hope they research it more carefully than they've done in the past. I don't think many people know that when swine flu was the new hot thing, a poorly tested vaccine left some 1,300 kids with narcolepsy in Europe. I'm no antivaxxer. Vaccines that been out for years/decades and have been thoroughly researched are safe and important for public health. It's just that when things are rushed, the cure might end up being worse than the disease.

Edit: Swine flu, not bird flu.

Wasn't this literally disproven by a Stanford study since narcolepsy is now thought to be an autoimmune disease?

https://web.archive.org/web/20121006122733/http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2009/may/narcolepsy.html

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 17:50

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

BoldFace posted:

I don't know enough about the topic to comment on that argument. I doubt Stanford ever studied this particular case since the vaccine was never used in the US. Independent studies in Finland, Sweden, and United Kingdom found that there was a statistical connection between it and narcolepsy in adolescents.

That data was unable to be reproduced and the journal linking narcolepsy and the vaccine literally retracted its findings.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/07/journal-retracts-paper-linking-vaccine-and-narcolepsy.html

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/247/247rt1

# ¿ Feb 9, 2020 18:18

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1230888661694271488

# ¿ Feb 21, 2020 17:15

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/NBC10Boston/status/1230205007888355328

# ¿ Feb 22, 2020 00:17

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1231561615507677184

# ¿ Feb 23, 2020 15:33

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

ShutteredIn posted:

Whoever markets an essential oil that �prevents� coronavirus is gonna loving cleanup soon

The people who think drinking bleach cures everything including autism are already on that grift.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2020 16:28

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1232050133199704064

Bert Roberge fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Feb 24, 2020

# ¿ Feb 24, 2020 22:57

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/FirstMainDesign/status/1235558250835111938

Fitness people are pissed they won't be able to see big oiled up men.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 18:07

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

UMaine recalled all its students from Italy last week and there were a bunch of angry white girls being interviewed on the news about it.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 18:27

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/BobKronbauer/status/1235616397645901824

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 18:28

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Agronox posted:

italian containment not looking good

We should've listened to the Know Nothing party.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 18:33

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

U-DO Burger posted:

lol my manager just explained to everyone that sick time is a goddamn privilege

Stop washing your hands and rub them over everything in their office.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 18:59

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

There Bias Two posted:

By the time one is detected, there will likely already be dozens with all the good our testing is doing.

They still aren't really testing in Ohio.

quote:

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted a map of US states and territories with one or more labs that are using diagnostic tests for the novel coronavirus.

All states are listed as currently testing for coronavirus, except Alabama, Maine, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyoming; those states are listed as being in progress, according to the map.

Guam, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands are all listed as being in progress, as well. The CDC says people should contact their state health departments with questions about testing. The information is provided by the Association of Public Health Laboratories, the CDC said today.

The CDC is now generally updating coronavirus case totals by noon on weekdays. CDC�s numbers close out at 4 p.m. ET the day before reporting. The most up-to-date case counts will come from states, CDC officials have said.

CNN�s tally relies on state totals and won�t always match CDC�s count � CNN has already counted at least 163 US cases, including 114 cases in 16 states detected through the US public health system.

According to the update Thursday by the CDC, there are now 149 confirmed and presumptive positive cases of novel coronavirus in the United States.

Today's update from CDC includes 46 people who were aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, three people repatriated from China and 100 US cases.

Across the country: US cases are those detected and tested in the United States through US public health systems since January 21. Among the 100 US cases, there have been 10 deaths, according to CDC�s count.

The 100 US cases are in 13 states, according to CDC: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 19:10

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1235607016569294848

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 19:58

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

This fuckin dog face mask.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 20:00

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1235256849974390784

How bad does it need to get before people are self-flagellating in the street like during the black plague?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 23:16

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Lawman 0 posted:

Didn't they have cool parties afterwards?

If by cool parties you mean ransacking local catholic churches, attacking the priests, and stealing all their valuables.

They probably got pretty drunk on whatever wine they found.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 23:40

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Doc Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/yc/status/1235698921705476097

This is what they call it in San Francisco.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 02:39

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Zotix posted:

Is it unreal to anyone else that there is a loving plague boat 2, and the federal government learned nothing from the first one? Like get those loving people off the boat into separate quarantine zones on land.

Also lol at plague boat 3 in the Mediterranean, where everyone got off the fuckin boat and then had to get back on it.

How cheap are cruise ship tickets now? Lots of deep discounts or are they just cancelling tours?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 02:41

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Bullfrog posted:

I keep vacillating between calm concern, pure anxiety, and strong anger.

Such a completely avoidable shitshow

If you want to add depression to that list think of all the kids that will be negatively affected by school closings who rely on schools to give them their only meals of the day.

Then think of the parents that can't afford the child care those kids at home need.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 03:04

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/TrumpWatch/status/1235926745062273025

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 14:56

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

who do you guys think will be the first celebrity death from corona

Danny Devito.

It will somehow spare Kissinger.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 21:34

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Nothus posted:

Can we just rename this the Italian Flu because it's the common source of infection now.

They didn't name the Spanish flu the Spanish flu until the King of Spain caught it.

The Spanish called it the 'Soldier of Naples' after a popular Spanish operetta. The hit song from it was so catchy it was said to 'spread like the flu.'

No one even knows precisely where that one originated though.

quote:

Where did the Spanish flu really originate?

For many years, medical historians and epidemiologists hypothesized that the outbreak could have started at a British army base in �taples, France, or at Fort Riley in Kansas, where the first American cases of this new strain of flu were recorded in March of 1918.

More recently, experts have proposed a third hypothesis: The Spanish flu originated somewhere in northern China in late 1917 and swiftly moved to western Europe with the 140,000 Chinese laborers the French and British governments recruited to perform manual labor to free up troops for wartime duty.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 23:03

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Three Olives posted:

Multiple worldwide agencies had a working test and offered it to us, some groups in the US developed their own tests and the CDC rolled out a completely useless test and Trump's administration was directly responsible for us being so behind on testing in part because of our broken test.

Trump is saying the CDC test is perfect even though everyone including the CDC acknowledges it was hosed.