The Coronavirus Thread

[Tero]

Standard Ratz response:
Did you try wanking?

[Svartalf]

Well, I'll sure fo it more often since I'm not going to go out much

[rainbow]

The UK and Ireland are being dumped. Flight ban monday.

My trip to New Orleans has been cancelled.
Bugger

[Joe]

On a lighter note, thanks Facebook.

[Sean Hayden]

Hey Svartalf, did you guys receive test kits from the WHO? If so, what's your major malfunction in stopping this virus? Did you act soon enough? Did you ban travel as soon as it looked serious in China? How about you Spain, what's your problem?

Iran: mass graves, really?

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Besides the testing fiasco, and what seems to be nonsense to me about its magical abilities, I'm bothered by the notion that you can or should be able to get out ahead of any serious outbreak, and that if you fail somebody is to blame. Why shouldn't we count ourselves as extraordinarily lucky every time one of these things doesn't get out of control, rather than uncannily adept at putting them down? In the US people are trying to blame Trump. Are you guys blaming your leaders over there?

What do you think about that, I mean honestly?

[Cunt]

what's your major malfunction in stopping this virus?

I've been trying to base most of my actions on the assumption that there isn't any stopping a virus.

It seems like whenever it has been done (smallpox, polio) it is with viruses that are a bit more difficult to transmit. This one looks like it's about as containable as the normal, seasonal flu (so not very containable)

My guess is that it is already worth considering how to address the isolation that will SURELY be damaging to someone we know. Not many good ideas yet...

[Animavore]

If this is true then President Scumbag does carry some blame.

[Tero]

what's your major malfunction in stopping this virus?

I've been trying to base most of my actions on the assumption that there isn't any stopping a virus.

It seems like whenever it has been done (smallpox, polio) it is with viruses that are a bit more difficult to transmit. This one looks like it's about as containable as the normal, seasonal flu (so not very containable)

My guess is that it is already worth considering how to address the isolation that will SURELY be damaging to someone we know. Not many good ideas yet...

There is no stopping, but a slower spread will lead to fewer dead. The familiar graph. There is no excuse for lack of readyness. Trump and Bannon were just out to prove that government agencies are useless. Same with the hurricanes.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy ... c-response

[Cunt]

It seems that the devil is to blame for all the evil in the world. I'll keep listening to hear who is named as 'saviour', but I have the feeling I've heard this kind of theatre sold as truth before...

And yes, Tero, slowing it as much as possible is highly desireable. That Dr. Osterholm was pretty clear that the virus wasn't manufactured though, which places at least some of the blame on Mother Nature, rather than the devil.

[Seabass]

Hey Svartalf, did you guys receive test kits from the WHO? If so, what's your major malfunction in stopping this virus? Did you act soon enough? Did you ban travel as soon as it looked serious in China? How about you Spain, what's your problem?

Iran: mass graves, really?

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Besides the testing fiasco, and what seems to be nonsense to me about its magical abilities, I'm bothered by the notion that you can or should be able to get out ahead of any serious outbreak, and that if you fail somebody is to blame. Why shouldn't we count ourselves as extraordinarily lucky every time one of these things doesn't get out of control, rather than uncannily adept at putting them down? In the US people are trying to blame Trump. Are you guys blaming your leaders over there?

What do you think about that, I mean honestly?

Honestly, how can you NOT put some of the blame on Trump? Have you not been paying attention?

Firstly, he disbanded the White House's pandemic response team. Then he cut funding to the CDC. Thirdly, we've seen this virus coming for months and until just a few days ago, instead of preparing the nation for it, Trump and Fox News have been downplaying it and lying to our faces, putting out all sorts of disinformation, choosing to protect Trump's image and fragile ego instead dealing with the problem: "it's like the flu", "it's like the cold", "the numbers are going down", "everyone who wants a test can get tested", "this will go away like a miracle". That jackass called Hannity's show and suggested that it's perfectly fine for people with symptoms to go to work.

It's not just hyper-partisan Democrats that are criticizing Trump. It's epidemiologists, doctors, scientists, public health officials, ex-Republicans.

[pErvinalia]

Just don't mention the wartesting...

[Sean Hayden]

Is that what you're doing, putting some of the blame on Trump?

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Anyway, if someone who doesn't live in the US but is still being hit hard by the virus would like to share the reasons for your government's failure to contain the spread, go for it.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Just don't mention the wartesting...

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... Firstly, he disbanded the White House's pandemic response team. Then he cut funding to the CDC.

Trump repeatedly tried to cut funding to the CDC in his budget plans. He failed every time because Congress actually produces the budget, and ignored his recommendations. He then signed those budgets bills, so in reality he can't be said to have cut funding to the CDC.

[Sean Hayden]

It's easy to say the right things, I know them too.

[NineBerry]

Saturday evening family live shows on the television without live audience on all channels. Really strange.