The Coronavirus Thread

[Cunt]

A lot of them tended to keep positive HIV results to themselves didn't they? Still I remember many cases. Thankfully the US and Western Europe have made significant progress on that front.

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Honestly, I just figured this is because these people travel and mix a lot.

I guess I'm just hopeful. It is being suggested that the virus panic (not the virus) is cover for mass arrests, and worldwide cooperation in corruption purging.

It is a better story than the official one...I'm almost tempted to go look through the 150+ 'q-proofs' to really decide for myself, whether it is 'true' or not.

[Cunt]

Is there a bunch of US journalists getting kicked out of another country?

Is it related to the virus outbreak?

[NineBerry]

A lot of them tended to keep positive HIV results to themselves didn't they? Still I remember many cases. Thankfully the US and Western Europe have made significant progress on that front.

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Honestly, I just figured this is because these people travel and mix a lot.

I guess I'm just hopeful. It is being suggested that the virus panic (not the virus) is cover for mass arrests, and worldwide cooperation in corruption purging.

It is a better story than the official one...I'm almost tempted to go look through the 150+ 'q-proofs' to really decide for myself, whether it is 'true' or not.

It's being suggested that pineapple on pizza is a valid meal option.

[Sean Hayden]

A lot of them tended to keep positive HIV results to themselves didn't they? Still I remember many cases. Thankfully the US and Western Europe have made significant progress on that front.

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Honestly, I just figured this is because these people travel and mix a lot.

I guess I'm just hopeful. It is being suggested that the virus panic (not the virus) is cover for mass arrests, and worldwide cooperation in corruption purging.

It is a better story than the official one...I'm almost tempted to go look through the 150+ 'q-proofs' to really decide for myself, whether it is 'true' or not.

I can't be arsed. I like conspiracies, but I don't have the energy for Q right now. If you enjoy them you might like
Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda by Thomas Powers. It's full of real conspiracy, and a load of sources.

[Cunt]

It's being suggested that pineapple on pizza is a valid meal option.

You bet your cracked ass.

When Subway stopped having it as an option, I had to stay silent. It was obviously a conspiracy of 'big olive' to get 2 spaces for their black AND green olives. I mean, OLIVES ARE FUCKING OLIVES NO-ONE NEEDS 2 colours!!!

ahem

Ya.

I can't be arsed. I like conspiracies, but I don't have the energy for Q right now. If you enjoy them you might like
Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda by Thomas Powers. It's full of real conspiracy, and a load of sources.

Sure, but run first. That cute nurse is coming. If you'll agree to the 2m distance, you are welcome as well.

it's more my enjoyment to read 'qanon' (random assholes) because I like regular people. Something about the highly-polished, perfect corporate communication usually gives me the willies.

[Tero]

Italy 2-3 days trend

[Tero]

Italy

[Tero]

[Svartalf]

I was thinking of reading through the Three Musketeers (plus 20 Years Later and the Viscount of Bragelonne) or maybe the Count of Montecristo.

[Tero]

I never got thru but the junior version of 3 Musketeers. My dad was a big Dumas fan.

[Cunt]

Leo Varadkar called this 'the calm before the storm'.

[Brian Peacock]

The transfer across species and the spread of the infection can be fully explained by the known facts, so there's no need to start making up extra ones Scot.

I am not making up anything. Known facts? All those viruses in bats and only the one that is being kept in a laboratory appears?

Listen to yourself. You're saying that the known facts aren't really facts, but the stuff you're making up, or repeating without support, are somehow to be taken as more reasonable and/or reliable because.... correlation == causation.

The Wuhan meat market had been importing live animals from all over the world, but particular from South America, South-East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The cultural practices of purchasing live animals and having them slaughtered on the spot, in conditions where hygiene standards are less than ideal, and where other animal are easily cross-contaminated, after which the fresh carcass is taken home for butchering and preparation, are conditions where xenotropic viruses can easily develop and thrive. Covid-19 is not the first contagion to cross the species barrier in this way, either in recent times or historically (it's thought that all strains of human influenza are xenotropic infections that have their origins in non-human animals).

I've addressed your misplaced scepticism about the exponential nature of the infection rate and now the most likely route of the contagion into the human population, so there really is no need to generate a more complex or sinister conspiracy to explain it - although I do understand that such a narrative appears simpler, and thus allows us to more easily apportion some direct form of blame.

[Brian Peacock]

I was thinking of reading through the Three Musketeers (plus 20 Years Later and the Viscount of Bragelonne) or maybe the Count of Montecristo.

The Count of Montecristo. Far darker, and more righteous in its condemnation of hypocrisy.

[pErvinalia]

My favourite Dumbass book.

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's being suggested that pineapple on pizza is a valid meal option.