The Coronavirus Thread

[Cunt]

Wildest conspiracy theory so far - this virus panic is a cover for mass arrests, and reinstating of the gold standard.

I don't get how a naturally occurring biology like a virus can be connected with gold or economics, but it's funner that Samsquantch

(spoilered to protect the truth)

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[Brian Peacock]

Value and money are created out of thin air these days on the balance of some assessment of future risk, not some current and particular asset value. The gold standard has gone the way of the Matebele ghumbo bean.

[Tero]

I sent Trump some science to study. Only in the English speaking countries do we have this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooties

[Tero]

Poster in CA on a forum noted that S Korea and Italy are much better at using public transportation. We with our Global Warming Cars would be better off.

[JimC]

Jim's daily gin bath should see him alright.

[pErvinalia]

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[Tero]

Tom Hanks and partner Rita have coronavirus. They are in Austarlia, where they actually test people. Hanks is 63.

[Sean Hayden]

Hanks died last year dude.

[Cunt]

Hanks died last year dude.

You mean when Gervais called him out at the Golden Globes? Yeah, that was the end of him lol

[Sean Hayden]

I've never seen a Golden Globes.

[Cunt]

[Hermit]

Now you make me wish Trump rallies were as popular as your president keeps claiming.

What claim did he make, that you fairly dispute?

Or are you just vaguebooking?

Don't know why I should bother offering evidence to you. You'll just reject it out of hand, then accuse me of being blinded by bias. But WTF? Here we go: Donald Trump is still lying about his crowd sizes at rallies and campaign events around the country.

And who could forget Trump's claim that a million to 1.5 million people, "all the way back to the Washington Monument" watched his inauguration speech?


Inauguration speeches in 2017 (left) and 2009 (right)

[Scot Dutchy]

The American government has not got a clue about numbers because there is no government run testing system. Most tests are carried out privately and results are not recorded and because of the pressures to keep on working many people are walking around that should be self-isolating.

Take care of yourself. This virus is after people with problems of the respiratory tract.

Thanks Nine.

Yep I am in a very vulnerable group but according to my specialist there is very little chance of getting this particular virus.

[Scot Dutchy]

Just why is Trump just banning flights from the Schengen countries and not the UK? Punishing the EU for the UK leaving it. Another swipe at the EU his and his cronies much hated organisation? The guy is a lunatic especially after his "my uncle taught in Harvard so therefore I know this stuff" comment. He should be locked up for all our good.

[Scot Dutchy]

What are the super rich in America doing about the virus:

Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak

‘Self isolate’ for some of world’s richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hideouts

Like hundreds of thousands of people across the world, the super-rich are preparing to self-isolate in the face of an escalation in the coronavirus crisis. But their plans extend far beyond stocking up on hand sanitiser and TV boxsets.

The world’s richest people are chartering private jets to set off for holiday homes or specially prepared disaster bunkers in countries that, so far, appear to have avoided the worst of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Many are understood to be taking personal doctors or nurses on their flights to treat them and their families in the event that they become infected. The wealthy are also besieging doctors in private clinics in Harley Street, London, and across the world, demanding private coronavirus tests.