The Coronavirus Thread

[Hermit]

this was google this aft.

Where are the rats, and how do I get to click on them?

[Cunt]

https://mashable.com/article/google-kno ... arty-rats/

[Hermit]

Thank you.

I miss stuff like that.

[JimC]

...Crema Bishop Daniele Gianotti, Italy...

Is he the world-wide Bishop of baristas?

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/ ... l/12061540

Sex clubs in Amsterdam's "red light" district have closed down and long lines continue to form at marijuana coffee shops after the Netherlands imposed tight restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Dutch panic buying is the best panic buying...

[Cunt]

Um. I can't remember why, but I think it is maybe second to Canada now.

(spoilered be cause um....I...uh...)

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[Scot Dutchy]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/ ... l/12061540

Sex clubs in Amsterdam's "red light" district have closed down and long lines continue to form at marijuana coffee shops after the Netherlands imposed tight restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Dutch panic buying is the best panic buying...

Who is panic buying? It is mostly tourists who are panic buying marijuana.
Once again over the top reporting of numbers but some people swallow it hook, line and sinker. Still using imaginative phrasing to sow panic.
We have 1413 cases. That is 0,0083% of the population but words like 'could' and 'probable' are bantered around as if they are facts. If there are 10,000 that is still only 0,6 of the population. 24 are dead and no one under 59 and all suffering other complaints
It is all too convenient. There is so much going on politically and economically it is all very handy. The virus will be blamed for years.

[pErvinalia]

It's Trump and the Russians.

[Scot Dutchy]

The source has never been found. Only suspicion of where it came from. Similar to AIDS. Animals to humans. All very convenient.

[JimC]

Galaxian, how the fuck did you hack Scot's account?

[Scot Dutchy]

Just stating some simple facts. You dont have to be Galaxian to do that. You cant see the convenience of such a world wide incident? We have only 6000 deaths globally so why all the fuss. It is not a deadly virus to young people in fact they only get minor symptoms. It just does not add up by any stretch.

[Brian Peacock]

The source has never been found. Only suspicion of where it came from. Similar to AIDS. Animals to humans. All very convenient.

The source is known and well documented: it's a virus commonly found in bats. Bats were traded as so-called warm meat in the Wuhan market that is the root of the outbreak. It's transfer across species makes Covid-19 a xenotropic virus.

[Tero]

Italy passes its peak?

[Brian Peacock]

Just stating some simple facts. You dont have to be Galaxian to do that. You cant see the convenience of such a world wide incident? We have only 6000 deaths globally so why all the fuss. It is not a deadly virus to young people in fact they only get minor symptoms. It just does not add up by any stretch.

Given what we know from the early stages of the outbreak in China, the infection and mortality rate etc, we in Europe appear to be in the early stages of the contagion. The action of governments here is to flatten the rate if infection to avoid overwhelming health services, because while medical interventions in the more extreme cases are broadly effective if the health system is swamped by a sudden surge both primary deaths from the infection and secondary deaths from people with other condition will spike because health services will be unable to admit patients into a system already running at maximum capacity.

[NineBerry]

Eight new deaths; all people over 70 who were suffering from other complaints. We have a total of 178 cases.

We have 1413 cases. That is 0,0083% of the population but words like 'could' and 'probable' are bantered around as if they are facts. If there are 10,000 that is still only 0,6 of the population. 24 are dead and no one under 59 and all suffering other complaints
It is all too convenient. There is so much going on politically and economically it is all very handy. The virus will be blamed for years.

Next week we'll read

There's only one million cases! That's not even half the population. And only a few thousand deaths, no one under 12! And they all had had a cold in one of the previous years!