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No. 521746

Lots' of people in the vent thread talking about it, so why not have a general?
Share tips, local updates, vent about people coughing on each other, etc

WHO: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports
CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html
Some twitter account with a lot of Corona related updates: https://twitter.com/bnodesk
Torrent for Survival PDFs in case you want to go full doomer mode: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9889a43717fd93c95993552f817ced652a74e63e&dn=Survival%20Guide%20PDFs%20%5B8.1.2019%20Update%5D

No. 521758

Posted in the other thread but yeah I'm annoyed that one family has brought it to my country all because they wouldn't cancel their holiday in the affected part of Italy. Some schools are now shut down and surgeries and services across several hospitals have been cancelled to prevent the spread. In a country where waiting lists for procedures are already fucking ridiculous, people are facing further delays for surgeries

All because some selfish family wanted to holiday in Italy after it'd already been announced about the outbreak there

No. 521776

In my country (France) people kiss you on the cheeks to say hello when you're a woman (men are more likely to handshake each other) and damn I wish they'd stop at least for a moment. Several people did it to me today, it's like they don't understand this is a bad idea.

No. 521778

>>521776
Oh my god, i never even stopped to think about that kinda stuff. In my country we have the biggest personal space but these fuckheads refuse to learn how to sneeze properly, especially the older ones.

No. 521781

>>521778
>In my country we have the biggest personal space
Finland perhaps?

No. 521788

>>521781
Bitch you know it. I don't people are taking this as seriously here as they should but then again, I am paranoid as fuck.

No. 521789

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/05/c_138846529.htm
>novel coronavirus can cause damage to patients' central nervous system.
but it's only old people who are affected rite?!

No. 521791

>>521789
China hasn't been 100% regarding their numbers, so I'd press X to doubt this unless some other hospital in a different country also confirms it.

No. 521796

>>521791
was has not 100% with number got to do with medical discoveries regarding this virus?
btw, japan and thailand havent been 100% with their numbers either.

No. 521801

>>521796
Because they could be misinformed about this too. Same with Japan or Thailand if they found some other discoveries about corona that doesn't match up with other information.
Though to be fair nobody really knows whats going on with the virus to begin with. I don't want to be that asshole who's like "WAIT FOR A PEER REVIEW", it's just better to wait and see what other countries find.

No. 521802

>>521746
Anon, thank you so so much for taking the trouble and creating this thread, appreciated. This is really helpful at a time like this.

No. 521804

>>521776
Hey anon, I'm french living in the uk. Set some firm boundaries , I told my fellow French coworkers they can shove the kisses up their arses. Even handshakes are off the table. Sorry not sorry.
Yesterday we received an emergency message that one person at our office has tested positive and office is closed. It was someone on our floor and I'm glad I'm not very friendly/hand shaky/ kissy now. Office closed down for "deep cleaning" until wednesday at least.
All events at our company have been cancelled - these are cash cows so it's a massive big deal for our greedy company to cancel it all.

No. 521805

>>521796
I think Japan wants to keep their numbers down and not cancel the Olympics. If you look at what's happening there it's pretty bad though. Shortages of masks and other medical equipment, public gatherings cancelled, concerts cancelled, even cancellations of public foreign events where they send people out to cons and games conferences. I'm not sure how they're going to have the Olympics at all with how things are progressing.

Though I think most countries are keeping their numbers lower than confirmed or reported. It's causing a lot of economical damage, and they probably fear people not going to work in mass and damaging national economies more than anything. Videos coming out of china of people randomly dying on factory floors now that they've reopened confirms that there at least.

No. 521806

Anyone is considering stockpiling? I would not in normal time but I'm fairly certain people will soon start to panick and pillage the supermarket. In greater london area and started to notice some sainsburys aisles are unusually empty (can goods/ toilet paper/bottles)

No. 521808

Italian here, we're in a low risk area but stockpiled (mostly canned stuff, detergents and sanitary) just in case. Our government has had a bad rep since the 90s, but they're handling the case very well. Thank God for free healthcare

No. 521813

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>>521806
Even if there wasn't a pandemic, it's always good to have an emergency prep
Better go early and get stuff before people start buying hand sanitizer they'll hoard and eventually resell online for $90
Pic related is from one of the pdfs in the OP, I followed it loosely for my own shopping

No. 521815

>>521806
US here, our local recorded cases are still in the single digits and yet good luck finding toilet paper and bottled water right now. Hand sanitizer is completely out of the question and antibacterial soaps are close behind.
You might want to grab some essential things before shops go completely barren like >>521813 suggests.

No. 521818

Is anyone here currently in a country that's Coronavirus free?

No. 521825

>>521813
That's really good, thanks anon and OP for spoonfeeding me. I'm gonna get on that shopping tomorrow first thing. Can always come in handy.

>>521815
You're totally right anon, did not realise how quickly things can get out of control.printed the list above for tomorrow and make sure we're ready if needed. Better safe than sorry.

>>521808
Agreed anon, free healthcare is gonna make a massive difference.

No. 521836

My family have started stocking up on tins of food and other essentials, and I was expressing this and my worries in work to my coworkers -and one piped up that she thought was terrible to hoard supplies and take all the stock from the shops and it’s scaremongering/OTT/selfish etc..
Not that they are really taking it seriously - the virus is currently near-ish my area and it feels likes nobody is concerned. I don’t know, the state of how things could be in a couple weeks is frightening to me. I’m just praying to not catch it, being hyper aware of not touching my face and washing my hands regularly in work/using hand gel and not keeping near people. I hope all you anons and your loved ones keeps safe.

No. 521839

My country has five confirmed cases, some in a city relatively close to my town, but I don't think people care. My mom has a lot of food stocked up but she always does that because she grew up poor. My dad bought hand sanitizer but he's been working exposed to germs for decades and he never gets sick, so I hope his immune system doesn't fuck him over now.
Should I be more worried? People here are too busy protesting.

No. 521841

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we about to hit 200 deaths here in italy lmao

No. 521842

>>521818
Not free but my country is incredibly close to China and we have not had first blood. Our <20 cases all recovered, reportedly. We were really sure that we'd be hit pretty badly because awareness wasn't that high during Chinese New Year, a lot of traveling was happening.
I think it's a combination of having hot tropical climate and experience dealing with bad epidemics in recent history (SARS, bird/swine flu), so people take this shit pretty seriously. Militant quarantine on all travelers, chinese workers and even immigrant towns, they even quarantine you for having come in contact with chinese. Is it racist? Maybe, but being anti-china is SEA standard lmao no ragrets.

No. 521846

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Some info

>facemasks

If you're in the US you need to look for masks with at least an N95 rating. The number is the efficiency of the mask at filtering out particles at 0.3 micrometres and above.

If you're in Europe the ratings work differently. There's FFP1, FFP2 and FFP3. The NHS recommends FFP3 for biological hazards.
NHS leaflet - https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Appendix-47-Surgical-Face-Mask-FFP3.pdf

The best place to buy masks is a builder's merchant. Avoid Amazon and eBay as you will get price gouged.

If you can't get a rated mask a surgical mask is better than nothing. One of the main purposes of a mask is to prevent a person from touching their face. Viral infections enter the body through mucus membranes such as the eyes, mouth and nose.

>hand sanitiser

Look for hand sanitisers that contain at least 70% alcohol. If you can't get hand sanitiser, 70% isopropyl alcohol in a spray bottle will also work. If this is unavailable you should be able to buy 99% isopropyl alcohol from computer hardware shops and then mix it with distilled water for the right concentration. Note that isopropyl alcohol has a noxious smell and will dry out skin.

>groceries

When buying food don't just get a big bag of rice. If you are in contact with the virus having a healthy immune system will lessen the severity of the illness. Consider the nutritional and calorific value of what you are buying. Tinned meat, fish and vegetables should be considered along side rice and pasta.

Make sure you have enough cleaning fluid, bleach, disinfectant (dettol, zaflora, jeyes fluid and generic brands), handwash, washing up liquid, laundry sanitiser etc. It's also a good idea to have disposable cloths and gloves. Anything made with chemicals that originate in China is going to be in short supply.

>supplements

There's emerging research that indicates there are supplements that can help prevent infection
Research paper - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033062020300372?via%3Dihub
It recommends
Ferulic acid
Lipoic acid
Spirulina powder
N-Acetyl Cysteine
Selenium
Glucosamine
Zinc
Yeast Beta-Glucan
Elderberry

No. 521848

>>521788

Hi fellow Finn. I'm surprised people aren't going christmas-level insane in supermarkets already, since that seems to be our national speciality. All the while sneezing and coughing around like it's nothing.

Personally stocked up on things already a couple weeks ago, and have kept adding up as I use them, to have things for at least a couple of weeks.
Not so worried about the virus itself as the effects on society.

Here's a news site I've been using that has all the stats and updates.
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/

No. 521849

this is prolly the site the stats are taken from. its been very good with updates.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

No. 521852

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>>521846
Thank you for the checklist anon.

200 dead in italy what the bloody hell ??? Wtf is going on in your country that's insane.
Just researched stockpiling in the UK and apparently people are doing it even if it's low key :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51737030

No. 521867

>8% of Iran parliament members test positive for coronavirus

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/iran-coronavirus-positive-parliament-members-lawmakers-infected-1652133-2020-03-03

What the fuck is happening in Iran though, like how the fuck is it spreading so quickly there, I don't get it.

No. 521869

I know most of the users are not religious but during moments like these, we should pray.

Pray for our wellbeing’s, our friends and families’ safety and to make it out okay from this modern-day bubonic plague; I will do the same.

No. 521882

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>tfw I ate a coronavirus provision and it wasn't even that good but if it turns out I'll actually need that later then I just ate myself out of like 10 life points down the line
I was just curious and hungry. There was a chopped up artery type vein in the potted meat.

No. 521883

I lived through the epidemic here in China and it will be a few weeks for Americans to really start to feel the panic that settles in when cases keep doubling or tripling. Right now is nothing, I remember when it started and there was a lot of "it's just a flu" going around in China, until it was 43,000 after 10 days and the government shut us into cities.

You can assume all numbers are underreported in every country, not because of political reasons, but because there is just no effective way to test it. People test negative multiple times before suddenly testing positive, no one has enough testing kits, and a lot of the time, people don't want to report themselves.

My advice is to not go out unless you absolutely need to, wash your hands, and wear a mask. (The last is now mandatory in China, but I am not sure why everyone outside of China thinks it doesn't work??)

No. 521884

>>521883
Can you talk about reinfection? How likely and dangerous is it?

No. 521888

>>521884

There have only been a few cases of people leaving the hospital "cured" only to become ill again. I think that also is part of the lack of effective testing.

There has been a lot of community policing (which I think is difficult for people outside of China to understand), so now if you come from the hospital you're tossed in your house and delivered groceries and your temperature is taken every day for 2 weeks regardless of what the police/government thinks. I think this has helped a lot, and now we are looking at a week in my city without new infections.

No. 521892

>>521883
>(The last is now mandatory in China, but I am not sure why everyone outside of China thinks it doesn't work??)
There isn't even close to enough masks for everyone so govs put out misinfo to prevent people from hording.

No. 521893

>>521892
The only thing I've heard contrary to everyone wearing them is that only the sick and those with immune disease should be wearing them right now. Which considering our public shortages it makes sense. Masking the sick is going to have a more beneficial impact than a two healthy people fighting over em while the infected go on to cough on people unabated.

No. 521894

I don’t hate preppers but I just want to rant about the people that buy all the sanitizer and disinfectants just to resell them online. From all the complaints online it’s happening a lot and where I live one person wiped out like three or four stores just to resell it all on their Amazon shop.

No. 521896

>>521894
It's maddening dragging yourself into a store to watch someone glide out with an entire cart full of the last of what you're there for, knowing it's probably going to be online at 8 times the price in a day or so.
Along with sanitizer, water and toilet paper, fever thermometers are now perpetually out of stock, at least here. I haven't had the heart to check Amazon to see what they're going for.

No. 521898

There's 11 deaths in my state, but it's only because somehow a nursing home full of old sick people got infected.
As a NEET I'm not worried about myself, we have food stocked up.

It's really the chance that the Olympics might get canceled outright that I'm worried about. I've been looking forward to that opening ceremony for years…
They canceled the alpine finals in Cortina, Italy and some major events in Oslo are going to go on without spectators too.

No. 521900

>>521842
Holy shit I spoke too soon. New cases just confirmed. People panicking and dodging lock down. It's over.

No. 521901

>>521900
>People panicking and dodging lock down.
Unpopular opinion: Lock down dodgers should be shot.

No. 521903

>>521776
Fuck, I'm glad I left France a month ago to go to Japan because if you refuse a handshake or to do the bise no matter the reason you're treated like a retard or a rude bitch. It's like French people would rather you cough and sneeze in their face than not have stupid and unnecessary physical contact with strangers. I think that's even one of the reasons why I had a very hard time making friends until university, I often refused to do it and people were shit talking me because of it.

Well, I say that but Japan is getting kinda scary with how a lot of things are closed, be it touristic places or school. I think Hokkaido is the region with the most cases so far so at least I'm glad I'm not there.

No. 521906

>>521903
I don't know if Japan is much better, they are terrible with hand washing. No soap in most public toilets, tf is up with that? It's gross even when there's NOT a serious virus going around.

I went there for a holiday in early Feb, to Hokkaido even. The timing was pretty good actually, fewer tourists but shit hadn't shut down yet.

No. 521907

Am I going to die if I go to Dallas next month?

No. 521908

>>521907
Are you immunocompromised?
Just don't let people cough or sneeze on you and you'll probably be fine as a healthy young person.

No. 521909

>>521906
Yeah you somehow dodged a massive bullet because things started to get closed down since mid-February. So far all the public toilets I've been to had soap but apparently some people don't use it. Everytime I do anything I wash my hands but I'm running out of hand sanitizer for when I'm outside and I can't find new bottles in stores. Actually a few weeks ago we were at a café in Tokyo with a friend,she went to the toilet do her business, heard someone next to her took a massive shit and when she got out to wash her hands she saw that the woman only rinsed the tip of her fingers and left. Sure, public toilets have bidets incorporated but that's not an excuse. At least everyone working in restaurants and retail is wearing masks.

No. 521911

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>>521901
Not unpopular imo, it’s basically treason.

What do farmers think about the story of the South Korea “death cult” Shincheonji, that is accused of refusing quarantine and spreading the virus on purpose? Many believe its members are responsible for the explosion of infections in SK. Fake news, tragic stupidity, or actual anime villainy?

No. 521928

None of you are going to die you paranoid fucks. It's much more dangerous to men.

No. 521929

>>521928
People can bring it home to their families or spread it to friends. Have some sympathy holy shit.

No. 521936

>>521894
I work at a Target and we've had to start relocating hand sanitizer to the customer service desk as soon as it comes in on the truck and have people line up and buy it like some kind of Hand Sanitizer Dispensary, all so that resellers can't get to it first.

No. 521938

>>521928
Almost everytime something terrible happens and people hear it on the news they almost always think "whatever it only happens to others anyway" until it happens to them too.

>>521936
I didn't even think about resellers, I thought this type of products was often sold out because people want to stock up these things in case they have to stay at home for weeks.

No. 521943

I'm in Norway and it's spread here pretty quickly compared to the population size. Most people here got infected because they had been in Italy. Nobody is very sick or has died though which is good.
The most horrifying report is that some people who were asked to quarantine themselves at home had still been going to the grocery store/gym. Which is a shitty thing to do for those who are weak and might get really sick if infected.

No. 521944

>>521928
It probably only effects men worse because it's most dangerous to the elderly and smokers and in the countries it's widest spread in men are more likely to smoke and be in ill health in their old age. Not being over 65 is what'll save farmers. And not leaving the house of course.

No. 521946

>>521943
I can imagine people going grocery shopping because they're living alone and need to eat but going to the gym or any other unnecessary places sounds selfish and just plain stupid. Actually from what I gathered Italy has it the worst in Europe and it's because of it that the virus spread all over the continent? But why Italy specifically?

No. 521950

>>521848
What stuff did you buy? Mulla on pääs vaa purkkipersikat ja käsidesi

No. 521952

>>521946
Well if someone is in quarantine they could get someone to buy groceries for them or order them online so I still don't think it's a good excuse honestly.

No. 521955

>>521848
>only 15 confirmed cases in the whole country, none of them required hospital care, all of them are doing well on their own at home with only mild symptoms
>BITCH WE BETTER START STOCKING UP!!!!!!!!! PREPPERS WAKE UP
huutista

No. 521961

>>521883
> The last is now mandatory in China, but I am not sure why everyone outside of China thinks it doesn't work??

If you aren’t used to wearing a mask, like most Americans are, you’ll just be more likely to touch it and fidget with it, which would defeat the purpose of wearing one in the first place.

No. 521965

>>521955
Kuumotus when the virus family is near my panicked ass, they let other family members roam free first gROSS alan koht hamstraan jalostajan tölkkei

No. 521970

>>521852
>tfw retarded boomers and soccer moms are doing this here in australia
>tfw i'm genuinely low on toilet paper and i can't even get a small pack because everywhere has literally been out for a week even with buying restrictions in place

guess i'll just wash off in the shower after i use the toilet which is whatever but it's annoying because the shortage is completely fucking unnecessary.

No. 521973

>>521911
I didn't know there even was an active South Korean death cult. Supposing that there is though, I wouldn't put it past them. When Aum Shinrikyo was a prominent death cult in Japan they could only dream of killing others so easily.

No. 521975


No. 521976

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> two or so weeks ago, boyfriend traveled with his family to Florida for a wedding
> got paranoid
> was so relived when they came back home that same weekend
> they’re planning on traveling AGAIN to Mexico for another wedding this weekend
> he doesn’t know when they’re coming back

I read online that there are only two cases over there. So I guess it’s more safer there than it is here in Texas. But it irks me because why travel during a time like this?! Stupids!

No. 521977

>>521976
It's the large crowded airport with people coming and going from all over part that would scare me.

No. 521978

>>521976
Never fucking mind.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL1N2B002K

Fucking six? Hours ago I was only aware of two which is why I said two. I decided to randomly check after posting and now I want to take my eyeballs out.

No. 521979

>>521977
Exactly. I told him to pull a Naomi Campbell and he just laughed and brushed it off. He doesn’t think it’s serious.

No. 521980

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My city just found out that they accidentally let someone from the Diamond Princess go back to work for a week in the public schools. Didn't even test them. We are fucked. America's healthcare system is truly not prepared for this. Expect to hear more cases from the midwest soon.

No. 521982

>>521980
what i don't get is that, how hard is it to put together drive by testing areas? like us is supposedly loaded and so great, why the fuck can't you even get all the people wanting to get tested actually tested? we have a phoneline thing where you call and they determine if you really need to be tested right away and just not pop by somewhere with other already compromised people. SORRY THIS SOUNDED LIKE I AM ANGRY AT YOU, ANON, I'M NOT just at the situation.

No. 521991

>>521946
Ita anon here
The most concentrated red areas are lombardia and veneto, where there's most of, if not the only businesses that have active relations with china. A lot of upper class chinese people live in Milan for work, and came back from New Year bringing the desease here.
It was inevitable to be infected because we have a constant flux of tourists, anyway.
Curiously enough, the entire South has only 3-5% of cases, because of a very low number of chinese immigrants, and tourism being mostly empty in the winter.
Also this is a country with a high percentage of old people, mostly on the north, which is why you see a relatively high number of victims.
If any anon has other questions about Italy rn I'm here!

No. 521993

Read today that there are at least 21 new cases on board a cruise ship from where the previous two trips also had cases of the virus. 19 out of the 21 new cases so far are crew members who likely caught it from the last trip and have started passing it to new passengers. Why exactly are these cruises still happening?

No. 521998

My company just cancelled 2 of our biggest yearly events along with our "president's club". They took their time to come to this decision because corporate greed. Thankfully, employees started to cancel for PC and clients cancelled for events.

No. 521999

>>521993
I was about to comment the same thing. Cruises need to be canceled and shutdown indefinitely starting for at least a year out or more. They've always been cesspits for illnesses, even before corona there's usually a story every other month about such and such cruise ship breaking out with some kind of norovirus. Also a lot of old people tend to be on them and they hop from ship to ship living on them because it beats a nursing home. Sick hicks who board ships because their cruise package is the most expensive and fancy vacation they've ever taken in their life and so they wouldn't miss it even if it's to the detriment of other passengers. Filthy staff who aren't paid to give a fuck.

Soooo many vectors for disease.

No. 522000

>>521991
London and Paris arguably see way more tourism yet they don't have a death toll anyway near Italy.
I'm puzzled as to why Italy got such a high number of death ?

No. 522002

>>521978
One of the patients who died wasn't even on the state's COVID-19 total. Florida isn't in a great spot with regards to doctors being able to test people who display symptoms before they become life-threatening due to lack of testing kits and legislative red tape right now.
Meanwhile, the cruise ships continue to roll in to port.

No. 522005

>>522000
We're an old ass country. I read yesterday the average age of people who died is 81

No. 522012

>>521999
>who board ships because their cruise package is the most expensive and fancy vacation they've ever taken in their life and so they wouldn't miss it even if it's to the detriment of other passengers
This is the problem with travelers right now. You have people with tickets they bought months ago for cruises and flights who refuse to give up their plans in the face of the outbreak.

I feel like the travelers also have more denial about the virus. This is some stuff I heard at work so far.
>”It only affects older people, so I won’t get it”
>”This is no different to catching the flu every year”
>”The plane will be too high in the atmosphere for anyone to spread the virus”

No. 522013

>>521980
How could this happen? A young couple that was on the Diamond Princess was brought to a military base and put under mandatory quarantine for a month, they just got out this week.

No. 522014

>>521955
Really, I hope you're right. But IF shit blows up, I'd rather be comfortably at home with everything I need, not out there fighting over a pack of tp.
And if it turns out to be pointless? Well, it's stuff I'd use anyway.

>>521950
Just foods that last longer. Tinned and frozen stuff. Dry foods, some of those lazy ass "just add water" pasta and soup. Basic ingredients like flour, oil, dry yeast, sugar. Veggies that don't go bad quickly, carrots, potatoes.
And detergents, soaps, cleaning products etc. Ja paskapaapperia.

No. 522020

Live in Washington state and work at a nursing home. (All the deaths here were in nursing homes) We can only test 200 people a day here, and they say everyday on the news that we can’t test everyone. Last month a 16 year old girl died in WA of the regular flu. No one here is acting concerned at all, nothing seems to be closing except I heard one college is. Trump called our governor a snake over this which is irritating. I’m honestly not worried at all but we will see. I’ve seen insane propaganda all over the internet like if you get coronavirus a 2nd time you will die etc.

No. 522021

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I already vented about this a few days ago but I work in a business that is the trading point between the pharma industry and the pharmacies and it's been hell since around three weeks now. I work there for years now and I never experienced such a huge amount of request from the pharmacies because the constantly sold out of sanitizer. The hospitals are also low of sanitizer and on the top of that people start to break into rooms and critical care units in order to steal those sanitizer that can be found hanging on the walls. People are loosing their fucking minds. We are also still waiting for face masks because last time they sold out within minutes.

I mean sure, that means we make currently good money but at the same time a co-worker has pointed out that a lot of medicine is being produced in china (and india) and that a lot of factories stopped producing, which makes me also wonder how this entire medical situation will look like in a few months or at the end of the year.

I live in the most affected area in germany, not far away from me there is a small town that has currently around 1000 people in house quarantine, because most of them happen to affect them during the local carneval season because it's obviously a good idea to go on huge events with tons of people when just around the time two people has been discovered to be effected.

And don't get me started on going grocery shopping when the most necessary things are constantly sold out.

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>>522021

and I like to add, specially this year I have a lot of concerts lining up and I just so mad about this because I feel shit like pic related ruins the fun for everyone tho.

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/tool-fan-who-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-attended-bands-concert-in-auckland

Do any anons still plan to go to concerts or nah?

No. 522024

>>521946
For what I've gathered from other Europeans on Twitter, it seems that there are countries that aren't doing enough testing, so many cases are undetected right now.
I don't know if things changed over the last few days, but back when I checked people talking about it a week or two ago, I've read that in UK and Germany they don't/didn't test unless you've been in direct contact with a confirmed case or if you recently travelled to Wuhan.
Italy is doing a lot of testing, and every case gets reported right away. They're being very efficient - a girl in my sister's dorm was feeling sick after having come back from a travel in the Balkans, she called the hospital and some men in a full hazmat suit came in to test her.
It would've been much better if people from the North fucking stopped travelling and spreading the virus further in all areas of Italy, but now we can only avoid going out unless necessary and wait for the outbreak to reach its peak.

No. 522042

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>no coherent news from official sources
>chinese exchange students
>planes still flying there
>wacky tests
>cases confirmed
>lmao anon ur just paranoid xd chill
bitch????

No. 522048

>>522042
this and
>but there aren't that many reported cases or deaths yet, even in china!!!
>believing china
yes because it's not like china forced a gag order and blatantly lied about doing so for months. it's not like they have a terrible record or anything, especially not one specifically relating to this outbreak.

No. 522050

>>522048
Yeah and all those shady events preceding the outbreak, and all the contradicting info they put out, some lipstick alley tinfoil tier shit

No. 522060

>cases in a city close to mine
>parents keep trying to drag me outside to hang out there
>"oh anon you aren't going to get sick teehee why are you so paranoid"
you motherfuckers were freaking out in january about how "EVERYONE WE KNOW IS LITERALLY DYING RIGHT NOW" and now that's it's close to home you want to go huff some germs? fuck off and die

No. 522062

>>522023
My Chemical Romance reunion tour: The Plague Parade

No. 522070

Do you think all of this will last long?? What I wonder is how are we going to get rid of the disease. How long will it take? A year or maybe more?

No. 522072

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>>522060
>but it can't happen here!

No. 522076

>>522070
It might be harder to catch once it starts getting warmer out, like the flu.

No. 522080

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Hilarious

No. 522085

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Any of you anons watch Netflix's pandemic? It's a docu series about stopping a pandemic/dealing with last years flu. It started streaming when the wuhan virus started gaining traction, most likely they though they were releasing it during a normal flu season.

No. 522086

>>522085
I've been watching nothing but medical documentaries for the past week to be honest. I just wish Netflix had Contagion, that movie was so good.

No. 522087

>>521961
kek I'm a burger and I literally watched somebody the other day lift up their mask to pour m&ms into their mouth from their hand.

No. 522091

I live near seattle and work in public schools but they do are not closing yet due to the fact that many children have families in the health work force/may not have childcare. honestly i am still kind of worried but everyone around me seems to be keeping a cool head.

No. 522099

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>>521801
>>521791
You won't have numbers if you don't test.
t. Germany

No. 522105

>>522091
I live about an hour away from Chicago and have been coughing recently. I'm very worried about the Coronavirus tbh. Nothing's closed yet in Chicago though I think.

No. 522107

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No. 522121

>>522021
>and on the top of that people start to break into rooms and critical care units in order to steal those sanitizer that can be found hanging on the walls.
Literally what happened 2 days ago in a clinic in Hamburg my friend is working at. Some fuckers stole the sanitizers/disinfectant and masks of the WHOLE fucking building except one station.

No. 522125

>>522070
How long did it take us to get rid of HIV?

No. 522127

>>522023
it depends. maybe if it is a smaller concert with ok ventilation, but I will definitely avoid the packed sweaty ones where everybody‘s fluids fly everywhere and you can‘t avoid contact.. gotta watch out since I work with an old, feeble person. it would really suck for them If they get a new, not extensively researched virus with stats like that because of me and others don‘t giving a fuck.
The official infected count for my area is still very low(northern germany btw), no panic and everythings pretty calm here. not like berlin supermarkets lol, at least they made public testing stations there now… but it would be cool if it stays that way and the hospitals don‘t get stressed out.

No. 522130

>>522013
>>521980
I misheard the news, sorry, it was actually the Grand Princess. She returned to work on the 25th and got tested on the 2nd. Chicago, BTW.

>>521982
I know right!!! To be fair, under any other president we might be okay. But they're hardly testing anyone. They're lying and telling us that masks don't work, instead of admit they fucked up by relying too heavily on imports. The US's numbers are much higher than reported. Not to sound paranoid, but we really have no way to contain it, and I want to move to Finland now.

No. 522137

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51784167
>" It is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died. Chinese state media says the hotel was being used as a quarantine facility monitoring people who had had close contact with coronavirus patients. The hotel reportedly opened in 2018 and had 80 guest rooms."

What the fuck?!

No. 522146

>>522137

China has many buildings shoddily built of substandard materials with every corner cut they could find.

No. 522189

>>522137
Better attribute those deaths to structural integrity instead of Corona-chan

No. 522192

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I hate how much I kek'd about this

No. 522200

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>>522192
Lol

So I went to do my stockpiling duty following anons recommendation on this thread (thank you anons) and this is the state of our local sainsbury's right now. I live in south west London too and it's so very unusual to see empty shelves like this :
Toilet paper, detergent, long life milk etc all but have almost disappeared. No more bacterial gel to be found, or soap - it's all gone.
We went to waitrose, poundland and Tesco and all the same story - people are definitely stockpiling in London at least.

No. 522201

>>522200
Much the same up here in the North too. You don't need anti-bac soap though, anon. Regular soap works just the same! Even bar soap. Just get yourself some tins of food in, pain killers and cold cures. Don't worry too much.

No. 522202

>>522200
Wtf, it's crazy. I don't think England/London has had many cases yet?

No. 522209

>>522200
My small ass Texas town is pretty wiped of hand sanitizer. Only one store decided to limit it.

It's so ridiculous

No. 522211

Sorry if it’s a dumb question but will antibacterial stuff really help? It’s a virus right, isn’t the most effective thing is to wash our hands?

No. 522214

>>522211
Yes, that's most effective but if you have to go out and about you might not always be near soap and water. The antibacterial hand sanitizer is for the betweens, for instance. Especially if you end up touching a lot of communal surfaces.

No. 522217

So you can make hand sanitizer with 90% isopropyl alc and aloe gel. But even that is running out around here. Does 70% work or is it pointless?

No. 522220

>>522211
>>522214

basically what anon said but when you use sanitizer in betweens, make sure that it's actually a antiviral sanitizer/disinfectant and not just a sanitary one. A lot of people just buy sanitizer/disinfectant no matter what, even when they are useless against the virus (like I witnessed people using sanitizer that is meant to be used on wounds on pets like dogs and cats…)

No. 522250

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>>522220
you think these would work then? I might order some, theyre small but i dont particularly want to make my own hand sanitiser. These would be more discreet for while I'm at uni.

No. 522255

>>522250

yes, they work as well. Alcohol can also kill virus from +60%.

>These alcohol-based products can't kill every germ that can make you sick, but health experts say hand sanitizers with at least 60 percent alcohol will help protect against the coronavirus.


>FYI: Purell is 70%, Germ-X is 62%, Bath & Body Works is 68% and Dial is 72% alcohol.


a good summery here: https://komonews.com/news/consumer/the-411-on-alcohol-based-hand-sanitizers-and-the-coronavirus

No. 522257

>>522254
great, thanks. I can't lie the amount of stockpiling people are doing is kind of pissing me off though. Where I am literally all the shelves in shops are cleared of hand wash - it makes me wonder whether people had hand soap before the outbreak?

No. 522258

>>522217
I looked at the spare sanitizer container we have at work and it says 70%, so it should probably be fine.

No. 522259

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>>522257

You do be surprised how many people do not wash their hands with soap and just wipe their hands on their pants when they sneeze. Fucking gross. It's just the panic that makes them do it now.

No. 522260

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>>522192
pharmacy employees are one fire with memes

No. 522262

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No. 522268

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No. 522269

>>521746
the first cases have been announced in my country. it's over for me anons.

No. 522271

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>>522268

ok last one

No. 522276

>>522269
Prep anon if u haven’t, u will be okay

No. 522282

If I can’t afford to prep, what’s the protocol? I have enough rice to feed me for about 3 months, maybe, but that’s it. Am I marked for death for being poor?

No. 522286

>>522269
Which country? Here we have it too and no one has looted the stores yet.

No. 522287

>>522286
bulgaria. the announcement happened in the middle of the night so we'll see how it goes when stores open tomorrow, but i'm not optimistic.

No. 522290

>>522282
You literally have no money to make any purchase anon? At least have enough to last 3 weeks in quarantine.

No. 522295

Does anyone remember if this same shit was happening with the swine flu (H1N1) in 2009-2010?
That one was a pandemic, estimated 11-21% of the entire world population contracted it. But I just can't remember this kind of chaos going on back then (or maybe I just didn't care), and looking up old articles doesn't make it seem so either.
Just wondering. Are we more prone to panic due to the ever increasing access to instant information, or is this virus really a far more serious one?

No. 522302

Dumb question about home quarantine if you do get the virus, will you have to disinfect and clean EVERYTHING once you get better bc that sounds fucking expensive?

>>522295
I legit have had swine flu and it was just a really REALLY nasty influenza but I was pretty young and stronger back then. I really only remember us being told to wash our hands constantly at school.

No. 522305

>>522200
>>522201
I went to Tesco today and the only thing that was sold out was hand sanitiser and UHT milk. I live in a very rural area so I guess the panic hasn't set in here.

No. 522306

>>522269
Pffft, rookie numbers.
t. Italian

No. 522312

Regarding the stockpiling:

I've been told Chinese inmigrants have been bulk buying masks to send to their country. I don't know if it's true, but it could make sense. People in my country (Spain) seem chill about this situation, I haven't seen anyone with face masks around my city. University is still open, upcoming celebrations/festivals aren't being delayed, etc.
So it doesn't make sense that face masks are sold out.

The same could be said of your countries, anons. The stockpiling can be just Chinese people buying for the sake of their people.

No. 522315

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>>522312
It mainly seems to be locals in my experience. How much of it ends up online for resale is your guess.

No. 522336

>>522315
Definitely just locals where I am (south west london). There are very few asian people here. Also saw the odd person with face mask on which I'm not gonna lie looked so weird..

>>522312
Your country is always chill anon. I lived there for a few years kek and my god never met a people who take so many things in stride and never seem to stress.

Imo it's pretty stupid to not cancel big assembly / events. Every other country seem to have followed the same protocol, closing down offices when cases are reported to deep clean (several occurrence reported by the press in london), cancelling big events or unnecessary travels (my company among others).

Re swine flu, I have no recollection of it being like corona. I was in my early 20s or younger and at uni. I remember it being vaguely discussed in the press but certainly no panic, no sense that it would spread out or that you might get it or anything like the coronavirus.

No. 522339

>>522282
I'm in the same shitty situation. Don't have any money to prep. Wonderful.

No. 522346

>>522312

Initially there was a hoarding on face masks. (Late January, early Feb), but now there is no longer a shortage in the country, so this is no longer true.

t. Chinese Anon

No. 522363

>>522192
Love this.

No. 522400

>>522295
It is more serious on all levels than any other illness with similar symptoms. It speads much easier, has a higher death score, is harder to treat, is harder to detect, can have much worse symptoms in its critical stage, has a longer incubation period and fucks with the economy. I'm just getting really tired of the comparisons.

No. 522413

So I live in the middle of Shibuya (literally mins away from the crossing) and everything is going on normal here, meaning tourists everywhere, all shops, restaurants etc are open, supermarkets fully stocked except toilet paper (which should get fixed soon ) and masks.

The only pain in the ass is that the kids are out of school.

No. 522414

this study from 2007 literally describes how scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology inseted HIV related genes into a horseshoe bat SARS-like corona virus in order to make it able to infect human cells: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258702/

minimal insert region (amino acids 310 to 518) was found to be sufficient to convert the SL-CoV S from non-ACE2 binding to human ACE2 binding

they even describe the insertion points they used above that other scientists aroind the world are now discovering which confirms the effectiveness of the 13 year old research.

weighing up all the research and the origin of the current outbreak, its reasonable to assume this thing got out of the Wuhan BSL-4 lab


2020 study that proves the virus was man made
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf

No. 522415

>>522282
Buy some beans too. You can survive that long on just rice and beans (hope you have spices too)

No. 522417

>>522312
Health professionals and viral tweets in the country have been insisting coronavirus is less dangerous than the seasonal flu for months. The spanish also have a huge ego and think taking things seriously is paranoid and makes you look stupid, so even if the numbers rise at Italy speed they won't acknowledge it to not be in the wrong. It's too late to change their mindset so I doubt most people even wash their hands.

No. 522421

The people prepping for MONTHS are literally insane and need to get on meds for their neurosis. You only need to prep for you to last for 2-3 weeks of quarantine if grocery/food deliveries are not available to where you live. Just get a grocery bag full of rice, canned food, bread, meat (if you have a freezer), vitamins etc, not delirious shit like this >>522315 which only causes strain on the people who might really need something you're hoarding. It's not a goddamn zombie apocalypse or wartime.

No. 522435

>>522421
Anon serious preppers who prepare for longer than a month don't just do it for corona and a quarantine. Think further to what happens when China doesn't recover and native people all sit at home being ill and/or starving.

No. 522437

>>522312
I work at a pharmacy in the US and most of our masks were gone from people buying multiple boxes of them in mid-January. By the time asian customers were asking about them to send to relatives they were sold out.

Since that time we had a single box of masks delivered to our store. We ran out of hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol last week.

No. 522441

>>522435
I truly doubt there will be any massive fall down kek. We don't exactly import any food from china.
People are totally paranoid imo. Totally agree with >>522421 people are OTT. Those hoarding are only making it difficult for those needing actual supply because quarantine.
Likewise, hoarding masks and sanitizer is only hurting medical staff who actually need those supply, the very people who are the line of defense between you and the disease soooo.
Well done on hoarders for buying those masks made in china btw kek.

All british supermarkets report by large they are not out of any stock at all, they keep refilling shelves only for panicked anim…people to grab everything and panic-buy. Hand sanitizer are reported to be rationed by some of them.

People need to calm the fuck down and get a goddamn grip. As anon said, we're not in a zombie movie ffs. In a few months it all will be history and then good luck to those idiots trying to resell hand sanitizer kek.

No. 522442

>>522441
>hoarding masks and sanitizer is only hurting medical staff who actually need those supply
Medical staff aren’t buying their supplies from stores, and stores only get what’s available in their warehouses.

No. 522444

>>522442
They do when their hospitals run out, that's why it's an issue, especially in the developing countries worse affected (and America lmao).

No. 522447

why do people even bother with masks (especially cheap ones) when they've been informed a 1000 times it's only effective when YOU'RE the one spreading the virus? just be hygienic and don't engage in physical contact with strangers, that's all you can do in order to minimize risks.

No. 522449

>>522447
Isn't that the point? If one of us is carrying the virus and not showing symptoms yet, wearing a mask means there's less chance of spreading it while it incubates.

No. 522454

>>522449
The fact that it incubates so long with such unalarming symptoms really freaks me out. Yesterday 1 new case in my country, today it’s 15, so let’s see how many tomorrow
>not panicking desu

No. 522455

>>522441
As I said stop thinking about quarantine for a second and think in the big picture. Who is supposed to provide harvest, service, transportation, production or security if most of them are ill? How is the industry supposed to work when most of the machines don't use native-made smaller parts and need maintenance? Stocks are already suffering too for longer than a month now and things don't just get magically better if we say "don't panic, it's just a flu" often enough.

No. 522457

>>522447
>>522444
Why do you care about masks if they aren't supposed to work anyway?

No. 522460

>>522454
I know right? There's been one case confirmed in my town and I bet it spread to dozens of people before that one person was diagnosed. Let's be honest - it's probably contagious before it shows ANY symptoms like all the other strains of coronavirus.

No. 522461

my husband works in a crazy busy restaurant in a tourist-heavy area and i have asthma and i am freaking out and wish he could just stay home. i keep getting panic attacks which becomes cyclic because then my chest feels tight and it’s hard to breathe so i become convinced it’s the start of illness. just keep taking my temp and crying on the couch.

No. 522462

>>522315
What’s the point of stocking fucking toilet paper? That’s the last think I would think of when trying to survive.

No. 522464

>>522462
For the same reason people buy out bread and milk when inclement weather is inbound. People are morons.

No. 522466

idk im not worried at all. i dont really see the point in worrying about things beyond my control. ill still wash my hands tho

No. 522471

>2 confirmed case in state
>Dad works as cashier in a busy store
>Both me and mom have pre existing conditions that put us at risk
>Mom wants to take an airplane to Florida in a month and wont change because of the of coronovirus.
How fucked am I?

No. 522472

>>522447
They can help with preventing you from touching your face with germ-ridden hands. I’ve been using my own hand-sewn masks for that though and wouldn’t waste actual medical masks for that.

No. 522504

>>522455
I might be naive or not informed enough but for now it seems very very unlikely to happen imo. This scenario where literally no one can produce food all of the sudden or transport it etc. That's seems wildly unlikely to me. Do you have any facts or figure that makes this scenario likely anon ? I'm not being funny, I genuinely want to know what might make it a likely scenario- and I'm not speaking about vague "what ifs" but actual facts suggesting "the bigger picture" might get bleak.

>>522444
Thank you anon, exactly.

No. 522507

>>522471
Things might change in a month, just keep your ears open.
At the moment, Florida isn't handling any of this well. The state health department, under orders from the state government, has discouraged doctors from testing for the virus outside of life-threatening hospital situations. Better to not make a number go up than treat people and prevent infection.

No. 522510

>>522455
>>522504
AFAIK the 'delay' stage of 'contain/delay/mitigate' is designed to prevent exactly this situation. The idea is to force the disease to spread more slowly so you don't have too big a proportion of your population home sick at any one time.

No. 522521

>>522471
please anon, airports are a cesspool, can't you get out of it?

No. 522525

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That all looks like the "shortage" in supermarkets are created by people stockpiling, nothing else, hence why people need to calm down on the hoarding. Should get solved soon enough.

No. 522537

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>>521841
shit is insane at this point

No. 522540

>>522537
God I feel so bad for pasta anons. Any of you under lock down? Is your town still operational?

No. 522541

We got another confirmed case so that's 20 confirmed + expected confirmed from the now quarantined people close to them. Some schools had to quarantine about 100 people.

>>522537
i'm sorry for the shitty situation anon but what is the general vibe there? are people panicking, are the elderly still very "lol idgaf" about it all. I'm actually curious because italy is such a weird place right now for all this.

No. 522544

Does anyone know what's happening to workers while businesses voluntarily shut down? Are people still being paid? Are they still expected to pay their house bills/rent?

No. 522547

>>522540
>>522541
in my city there are only 6 confirmed cases right now. people are getting more serious about it but on friday i went to the store and shelves were still full. yesterday a flock of people left Milan to go back south of the country and hopefully this doesn't fuck us in the ass.

No. 522549

>>522414
I fucking knew it.
People laughed when I said some spiderman shit went down in that lab. I mean, I'm not laughing now, but it's nice to be vindicated I guess.

No. 522550

>>522549
anon, bioRxiv is like a science wikipedia. Anyone can upload some xenophobic bullshit.
And they did, look at the withdrawn stamp across the pdf.

No. 522556

>>522413
I have flights booked to Japan for early April. Unless it takes a sudden turn for the worse, I think I'll still go ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

No. 522563

In my city they let a patient out after she tested negative for covid twice, but then turned out to be positive on the 3rd test but before they got her back to the base this bitch went to a crowded ass mall. I've decided to start preparing in case we go into quarantine and my family is acting like I'm being a fool. Like screw yall I got us enough food to last this big ass family if we wind up not being able to leave, ungrateful hoes lol. This covid shit freaks me out

No. 522564

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>>522525

I just saw here that a supermarket chain offers special prices for hoarding food. Looks like they know what the current situation is and hopefully it means that I need to worry less to get my shit when I need it.

I'm also the anon from yesterday >>522021 and today I've read that the government of my federate state (North Rhine-Westphalia) wants to ban events with over 1000+ people so I can kiss all my concerts for this year goodbye lmao sobs in anger but at the same time I wonder if they want to shut down schools and similar places because it's also a place with tons of people in it? Airports? Malls? Train Stations?? What's the plan?

No. 522565

>>522550
aw come on, let me indulge in my 'gubment shuttin down the truth' fantasy

Honestly though, I skimmed through them both and the 2007 piece was far more interesting anyways. You can't tell me it's not at least slightly brow-raising that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were researching how a coronavirus in bats could become human transmissible back in 07.

>a minimal insert region (amino acids 310 to 518) was found to be sufficient to convert the SL-CoV S from non-ACE2 binding to human ACE2 binding, indicating that the SL-CoV S is largely compatible with SARS-CoV S protein both in structure and in function.

No. 522585

>>522540
I'm in the South and we're not on lockdown, but events are cancelled, schools and universities are closed, authorities said to avoid gatherings like weddings and funerals because there was a big contagion at a funeral, and it's strongly advised not to take public transportation.

No. 522590

>>522547
Depends of the business I guess.
Mine has closed down offices in London until further notice after one tested positive
. But we can work from home so it makes little difference to us being at home or in the office.

>>522564
That's very smart and also proves no stock is running out anytime soon. Except if you're in a particularly remote area, you do not need to hoard food for 3 month imo. Just get what might be needed in case of quarantine.
My fiance decided to stock up food and supply for a month for two, it's more than reasonable imo.

No. 522591

>>522585
I read the north is in lockdown in Italy?
I'm so shocked you guys have 300 casualties. Wtf.
Good luck to you guys in Italy, my heart goes out to you. Shit must be scary when close up like that. Please try to keep safe.

No. 522594

>>522565

Theres nothing bizarre about it and those rumours add absolutely nothing to the matter. There are tons of tinfoil hat people out there spreading all the craziest shit, it's not needed right now (or ever). What is the use of spreading those rumours ?

I haven't read those doc yet but as other anons said, I'd take the source with a massive grain of salt (or two). There is nothing surprising in the fact that a virus evolves and becomes transmissible to humans. No need for lab/man made actions for that, seems to happen all the time with various viruses.
Not sure why these tinfoil hat hypothesis appeal to people so much. We're not in a video game kek.

Also, I'm not scientifically inclined much, sadly, would you mind explaining the meaning of the text you quoted in green in layman terms please ?

No. 522595

>>522564
is that for the whole thing of cornichons? You better buy that shit or I will

No. 522596

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Northeastern US anon here and coincidentally there has been a cough (sometimes with a fever) spreading around here which I think is so weird. It has been spreading at my university, and also some of my family members had it when I saw them yesterday.
Also, I just want to complain how nobody fucking knows to NOT cough into their hands when they're sick??? I fucking hate it. All of this information going around about how not to get others sick, plus being in the biology building you would think people are educated enough not to fucking do that?
Pretty sure they just quarantine us like animals just because humans aren't capable of simple things like washing their hands or not coughing all over everything and not being disgusting.

No. 522601

>>522564
Lel das sind alles Sachen die noch in den Regalen stehen geblieben sind weil niemand sie will. Fehlt nur noch Kartoffelpürree.

But our government still seems to be in full denial, so I don't think anything will close or be done until it really is way too late. We are about 20 people short of hitting 1000 infections in what, 1 week? And they are trying to claim there are no deaths.

No. 522603

>>522596
also northeast anon, there was a confirmed case in the town next to me, someone who worked in the local town government and now all the people he went to a part with are quarantined. I've had a cough for about two or three weeks now and so have a lot of people I know, but I honestly don't think it's related to covid 19, I think it's leftover bronchitis from the horrible cold and flu season this winter.

No. 522604

>>522601
In English please

>Lel these are all things that are still on the shelves because nobody wants them. All that's missing is mashed potatoes.


I love puree btw. Potatoes are one of the best vegetable ever.

No. 522605

>>522594
>I haven't read it yet but I'm going to judge it and claim tinfoil anyway
Ok

No. 522607

>>522605
Yes I'm claiming tinfoil. You have the charge of the proof of your grand hypothesis of man made virus, not I. So far all you've got is a document that clearly is not official or from any reliable source so excuse me for not wasting too much time reading through these. That's the very definition of tinfoil man

No. 522609

>>522607
I'm not the anon who posted it or the one you responded too. And there's no point in posting anything if you don't read it.

No. 522610

>>522601

>Lel das sind alles Sachen die noch in den Regalen stehen geblieben sind weil niemand sie will. Fehlt nur noch Kartoffelpürree.


Also als ich gestern noch im netto für's sonntagessen war, war da nix mehr zu sehen. Selbst kein Kartoffelpüree.
Das Angebot für die Sauerkirschen ist schon ganz nice, mal gucken.

Aldi süd says that it will have disinfectant on offer next week. This will be the first time we will hear about deaths in connection with the corona virus in germany. They will tear each other into pieces to get some of it.

The only places that are in my experience ok to go grocery shopping are edeka and rewe. But rewe only on monday when they got a new delivery.

>our government still seems to be in full denial


Absolutely, Mr. Spahn has no idea what to do with situation and they already made so many mistakes that I don#t want to know what we will do when shit really hits the fan.

No. 522621

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>>522609
>>522549
>>522414
>>522605

Ok let's debunk shall we :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258702/

- That doesn't prove anything apart from scientific experiment for SARS
Nothing about it being man made. See below and attached highlighted right hand text too.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v2

- Retracted by its authors following a backlash from scientific community. Again, a less than reliable source - publication on this website are "pre published" eg not vetted.

Both are thoroughly debunked there :
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/baseless-conspiracy-theories-claim-new-coronavirus-was-bioengineered/

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/03/retraction-faulty-coronavirus-paper-good-moment-for-science/

So yeah, no need to even read in details the documents anon provided : one has nothing to do with a man made virus (likely someone not understanding experiment protocols giving a very misguided, ignorant interpretation of what it was), the other is not even "published" ie vetted, and removed by its author, both are thoroughly debunked.

In other words, stop distributing tinfoil hats. People here are not necessarily gonna fact check and will take it at face value ("I knew it!"). No. Just no.

No. 522624

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>>522621
Just to make this extra extra clear, the bit that debunks all the above article (link in previous post )

No. 522669

>>522070
I say this with 100% sincerity, but I hope this goes on just long enough to wipe out all the shitty countries like America.

No. 522681

>>522669
yea but those dumb fuckers keep traveling because tickets are cheap, i just want this all to stop.

No. 522684

>>522669
Defiantly not going to wipe out America, kek. Coronavirus genuinely does not seem dangerous, for the billionth time kids and young adults die from the flu every year. The only reason people are freaking out is because there is no vaccine and it is killing a lot of elderly, which do matter to some people. If Ebola actually had spread, that would have been badass. There is no solid evidence that coronavirus causes extreme or deadly symptoms.

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>>522669
Can you at least hesitate on me

No. 522686

>>522669
>the rest of the world won’t descend into chaos if world powers fall
lol

No. 522691

>>522669
Again I'll say it, but in most 'apocalyptic' scenarios the rich, or in this case America, don't die the poor do. It's not the evil Americas who die, but the 3rd worlders and poor Americans who did nothing. Hoping some x will kill all the badies is no more delusional than 'muh rapture'

No. 522692

>>522669
Kek it wont we already have insane amounts of stores cleared out in essentials so the rich and prepared would still live through it.
Also fuck me I just needed a few things not for stockpiling but only the expensive items are left for soap, toilet paper, canned veggies.

No. 522693

Worker for American red Cross in Portland/Seattle here

While Coronavirus has shown a low death rate, there are still strains of it still being studied that are very deadly and most likely the ones spreading, so far the death rate goes up by a few in America every day as well as the cases so obviously if it is growing that fast within days imagine how it will be for months, it is definitely something to be panicking over imo


As for protection outside of handwashing and sanitizer, wearing face masks can help despite people saying otherwise just don't touch it a lot or get a shitty one, change or wash it often, cleaning everything you own with alcohol, and boosting your immune system with vaccines, eating healthy, working out, etc and most importantly don't go anywhere unless you need to

I've been working with a few Coronavirus cases so far it's been elderly and medically sensitive people but no younger people yet outside of the facility member from UW

No. 522699

>>522691
I still believe a major wipe out to the population will do us good, we're facing way too many issues related to overpopulation and even if traffic is slightly less it's better, especially boomers who are most sensitive and are useless and do nothing but complain, take up social security, and fuck up traffic and employment rates

No. 522703

>>522699
Anon… "the strong" will just come into power in this new world. By strong I mean psychopathic males with guns. You will be living a Mad Max nightmare of blood and rape.

No. 522725

These numbers really going exponential in my country yall hold me aaaa

No. 522736

>>522725
It's likely and hopefully gonna be okay soon, maybe there's gonna be a vaccine! we can get through this anon, just buy stuff for a bad case of the flu and some food just in case.

No. 522747

A girl at work got sent home with flu symptoms, rip me. Though she works on another level, maybe I'll survive

No. 522752

>>521900
Thailand is it? Those people at the airports who escaped quarantine are such twats, the sheer selfishness of the human race is really coming through. Stay safe anon

No. 522764

>>522461
I work in a really busy restaurant in a really tourist heavy area and if it makes you feel better, business here has been really slow because of the paranoia. My sales and tips have been unusually low (especially for the weekend). People (whether they’re foreign or not) aren’t just coming in. Maybe it’s the same for your husband’s establishment. I’m from west coast U.S and Coronavirus panic here is real due to our crappy health care system and the Trump administration not doing much. I don’t know where you live but I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole world is on lockdown. Hope everything goes well regardless though!

No. 522786

>>522556
I think the new law (that allow the govt to shut down the whole place) is coming out in the next couple of weeks or so. Maybe wait until the middle of March? I think airlines will make an exception on the cases of people cancelling their trips to Japan if the government shuts it down. I know at least thats what they did when the whole Fukushima incident happened.

No. 522787

>>522563
Is it that dumb cunt from Hanoi? If so I hope she gets a long ass jail sentence

No. 522795

I'm travelling back to my home state next week for spring break and I think that it'll get so much worse when all the kids/families start to travel and take their vacations. There are like 5 cases so far back home (literally the county 15 mins away from my parent's house) so it's freaking me out a bit

No. 522796

so angry my country (Belgium) still isnt cancelling travel to Italy. wtf? this is exactly how it got in in the first place! rich people taking skiing trips in Italy bringing the virus everywhere.

Stupid fat bitch (minister of health) telling us to stay to in our house (she used a derogatory term wich I don't know how to translate for our homes) while still allowing everyone to freely bring the virus in our country

No. 522797

>>522796
Same with Norway. Here even news stations are encouraging travelling and advertising with cheap prices…

No. 522807

>>522703
1. That's just a theory, I was just saying boomers need to be wiped out not that the strong need to come in
2.unless you live in a third world country there will be no crazy situation where rape is 100% legal, we already see women running for president, and men are more susceptible to Coronavirus anyway

No. 522809

>>522563
Lmaooo we had a patient flip her shit and deadass run away from a hospital

No. 522811

Watching the number of cases increase in my country, again it's people returning from holidays in Italy and passing it on. One of the cases quite close to where I am is a woman with underlying health issues and it isn't looking good for her

Stop fucking holidaying in Italy people??

No. 522812

My country went from having like 14 cases 1-2weeks ago to having over 200 today. Everyone is being super nonchalant about it, so many idiots spreading it from their skitrips in Italy. So fucking mad

No. 522813

>>522764
nope it’s not any less busy, in fact he was there an extra 30-40 minutes yesterday. unfortunately we are in germany where everyone has there head stuck in the sand and believes the failure of the government (he said “everyone says it’s fine if i practice good hygiene!”) oh my god it’s a tiny crowded restaurant if someone sneezes you’re fucked!!! i also mentioned how he’s touching used plates, cups, and utensils and probably doesn’t have time to wash every time but he “promises he doesn’t touch his face”. sure. i feel like he isn’t taking it seriously and i’m like PLEASE, i have 65% lung function on a good day you are legitimately going to get me killed

No. 522827

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>>522812

I suppose we should be thankful it isn't ebola considering everyone is like "LOL just had a nice Italy trip cough how's your gran?"

No. 522830

>>522827
Might sound bad but yeah I'm glad that most of these outbreaks tend to be respiratory and not stomach. If say a highly contagious and deadly norovirus was spreading like this I'd be infinately more anxious, especially seeing as people are still going to Italy or enjoying fucking cruises

No. 522831

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Meanwhile in germany you could see similar scenarios in front of pretty much every Aldi Süd supermarkets because they had disinfectant on offer. Even when they restricted to only 3 products for each person, it was sold out in less than an hour. It was reported that some fought over a bottle of it.

No. 522833

>>522461
I mean they're expecting this to spread for the next few months at least, do you expect him to stay home and lose his job?

No. 522835

>>522831
I would think that rushing to a crowded store and standing in a slow moving queue would be counter productive to their plan

No. 522841

30 confirmed cases here, lots of people in quarintine due to close contact with the infected ones. Most of our cases are from N-Italy and one from Iran but the fucking fact that these were teachers coming from Italy and didn't think to self quarintine or fucking let anyone know. That's why we now have class load of kids and staff in quarintine but the rules are fucked, because some of them CAN GO OUT. Because no direct contact to infected people. Just stay the fuck in, it's 2 fucking weeks, normies are so stupid and weak with this outside business.

No. 522851

>>522833
uh no i don’t expect that obviously, why do u think i said “i wish he could” ?

No. 522852

>>522851
My point was to get some help cos the virus is likely to persist for a few months. He has to work so you have to get help if you're having literal panic attacks over it

No. 522853

I’m surprised more schools in France haven’t been closed since we already have over a thousand cases across the country, there’s only going to be more in the coming weeks. News says that you have to have a prescription now to get a mask, and my nearby pharmacy had a very passive aggressive message on the front saying they were out. I can’t miss class but I really don’t want to use the metro.

No. 522858

>>522852
not entirely sure what i’m meant to do or how i’m meant to get help tho

No. 522860

>>522461
> getting panic attacks
> chest feels tight and it’s hard to breathe
> just keep taking my temp and crying on the couch

>>522858
Seems pretty obvious you need psychiatric help

No. 522885

The country I live is officially retarded. The 1st case was an old man whose SON was in Italy, but they only quarantined the old man because "the son doesn't show any symptoms". Guess what? He's been tested and it's been confirmed he has coronavirus too. Oh yeah, and another man LIED about falling from a ladder of some shit and didn't tell anyone he was to Italy too. BOOM, roamed free, went to a hospital and it's now confirmed he's infected too. Bunch of self irresponsible cunts in this nation. Absolutely inconsiderate.

No. 522886

OOF Now part of germany and austria are pandemic area. God speed.

No. 522889

>>522886
i'm from austria and the panic here is rly horrifying

No. 522890

Why are people so fucking reluctant to stay home for a couple weeks and heal up. They have flu symptoms so surely you want to be in bed lazing when you have any kind of flu? It's literally what your body craves when sick, rest.

No. 522891

>>522890
>Ima live my life this won't stop me

It's irresponsibility, but a lot of people are afraid of losing their jobs too.

No. 522893

>>522890
As the other anon said, jobs. But some people just cannot fathom that maybe you can't always do what you wanna do and you actually have to just fucking stay in.

>>522889 so sorry anon, have you stocked up on some essentials already?

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No. 522899

>>522889
What does the panic look like? What's the worst part of it? (other than fear)

No. 522900

>>522885
>>522809
>>522787
>>521900
>>522752
Shoot escapees reeeE
>>522807
You’re retarded

No. 522902

>>522591
Yes, the North is in lockdown. They should've put them in proper lockdown sooner though, because with all the travelling they did and didn't stop until the very moment they were put in lockdown, they've spread the virus all over Italy while at first it was only in a restricted area in the North.
Yesterday there's been a huge controversy because during last Saturday night, before the new lockdown decree was enforced, there's been a literal exodus of people fleeing from Milan to escape to the South, putting everyone at risk and spreading the virus even further. Apparently authorities moved fast to have them all quarantined for 14 days, but people are rightfully pissed.
I just hope it ends soon. Thanks, anon.

No. 522904

https://nypost.com/2020/03/08/asian-man-stabbed-in-suspected-coronavirus-related-hate-crime/
A random Asian man was stabbed in NY because of the Corona-Virus… Can you ‘muricans fucking chill? People are so dumb and violent, it’s scary.

No. 522906

I live in Germany and it seems that here people don't get tested much (our government only cares about the economy lol), plus people are obsessed with going to work and traveling, so likely more people than the official 1000 are infected. But nobody died, so I feel quite safe. Compared to Italy with 7000 infected and close to 400 dead…
Supposedly people are stockpiling but I've never seen that, all supermarkets I've been to lately always have everything. You never see anybody with a mask either.
Nobody who lives in a 1st world country should worry.

The only thing that pisses me off is people at my retail job coughing into their hand and then expecting me to touch said hand… Even if it wasn't for corona, I don't want to catch your flu either…

No. 522907

>>522904
That's just an average day in NY, I don't know why they even bother reporting news like that anymore

No. 522908

>>522904
Fuck dude, the class and racial tension in the US makes the doomer scenario so much more likely tbh. Panic can easily descend into wanton violence.

No. 522909

>>522902
The fact that they didn't lockdown sooner didn't just spread it all over italy but so many cases where I am came from separate visitors to italy well after the news already broke. Quite sad to see what the numbers are currently in italy.

People were slow to act and it's surprising how many chose to visit italy at such a time too

No. 522910

>>522904
Police sources initially said the attack was investigated as a possible coronavirus-related hate crime because both men were wearing surgical masks, but officials later said there was “absolutely no nexus between the attack and the coronavirus.”

No. 522911

>>522906
>no testing
>no death
>nothing burger
I’d be worried if I were you.

No. 522915

>>522860
yeah that’s not how it works in germany lol you can’t just suddenly get psych care here. i’m diagnosed w anxiety and panic disorders and i’m on a huge waiting list for therapy and they absolutely do not prescribe benzos or anything that works and the last thing i want is to be anywhere near a hospital where sick ppl are. thanks for looking out tho

No. 522918

>>522909
>it's surprising how many chose to visit italy at such a time too
To be honest, not really. A lot of people don't realize the gravity of the situation and life goes on. It's government's job to warn people and limit flights. But hey €€€€€ first, right?

Here in London we demanded our school to make online classes and they REFUSED. Wtf are we supposed to do?

No. 522919

>>522915
I know Germany and all, but isn't there some kind of non-suicide crisis hotline you can call when things get bad for you? A few countries set them up or so I've read.
Talking to someone else in the moment might help if possible.

No. 522922

>>522885
Have I been on the pinkpill thread too much lately or are alot of these cases of people knowingly walking around and putting others at risk male? Like the guy in Japan who went to two different bars to 'spread it' and then told the staff at one of the bars about his plan much to their shock

Few cases in my country of men coming from high risk areas and going to school and work with symptoms..resulting in a closed school, closed university and a hospital with lots of staff out on quarantine. Only detail given in these local articles is its always a male. Someone here said men are more susceptible to it though?

No. 522928

>>522911
Anon calm your crazy, you can't just "hide" deaths here like in some dictatorship. The hospitals, staff and their equipment is simply very good.
Of course your chances are much lower in China or Iran (and seemingly in Italy as well). But other Europeans and Muricans need to stop shitting their pants.

Also: seeing as chinese males are more at risk due to them smoking a lot, one could also conclude that people living on the countryside are safer, since unlike e.g. chinese kids or other people in huge modern cities, they didn't grow up only breathing highly poluted air and thus weakening their body/lungs.

No. 522939

We have the first two confirmed deaths in germany: One in Heinsberg and another one in Esses. The one in Essen was a 89yr old woman.

here in german: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/coronavirus-in-deutschland-zweiter-covid-19-todesfall-innerhalb-kuerzester-zeit-in-nrw/25560996.html

No. 522940

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>>522922
I think that's just the pink pill jumping out. My cousin is planning to visit Italy in 8 days and she refuses to be bothered by current events.
It's not really funny but this "influencer" is another example from a few days. From the now-deleted tweets, she attended a wedding, numerous restaurants etc.

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No. 522946

Only 7 cases in my state (US) as of today, but I'm starting to see some panic. I've heard of office buildings closing due to contact with possible infected people (especially those who have contact to NYC) and I have no idea how worried to be. My bf has a terribly weak immune system and existing respiratory problems, so he'd be done for.

>>521911
I used to live in Seoul and I'd believe this. Crazy cults are huge in Korea, and for some reason Korean society seems to be extra susceptible to that kind of blind and fervent following (although normal people are wary and avoid these kinds of people). It's completely possible…interesting…

No. 522964

>>522928
>you can't just "hide" deaths here like in some dictatorship
You are so damn naive it hurts. If they aren't tested, falsely tested or adviced not to submit the test, especially when it comes to old people, then it's just another death by organ failure.

No. 522978

>>522939
>Eine Sprecherin des Kreises Heinsberg bestätigte, dass eine Person gestorben ist, zu Alter und Geschlecht wollte sie keine Angabe machen.
>A spokesperson of the district Heinsberg confirmed, that another person died. She did not want to provide information to age or gender.
Uh-hu.

No. 522986

>>522964
If you believe a country like Germany could hide the number of deaths in whatever way, you have a serious conspiracy theory problem… Sadly there are dumb panicking people like you everywhere, so do you really think if some person died who had just slightly similar symptoms to corona that person's relatives wouldn't absolutely freak and tell everybody?

No. 522988

>>522978

It was apparently a guy that infected himself with the virus on the recent carneval meeting. He had already been sick before that and was 78yrs old.

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/coronavirus-in-heinsberg-verstorbener-78-jaehriger-besuchte-karnevalssitzung-a-2d3f6750-413f-41a5-8ea9-1ce796baae33

No. 522992

I have a headache and some stomach pain. Should I be worried? I live in a house infested with roaches and have high stress as a result, but still.

No. 522993

NGL I thought the panic-buying here was funny, but then today I realized I'm running out of the antiseptic i need to treat a chronic skin condition and NOWHERE has any and now I'm cursing the world.

No. 522995

>>522986
Give one argument why they wouldn't and how anything I've said is wrong instead of screaming insults. The government doesn't care about you and your relatives, which means the media doesn't either. They care about the economy and people going to work. And the health ministerium is one step away from straight up telling germans to literally fuck off. I mean, try it yourself. Go to your doctor and tell them you want to get tested on your own expense. When they reject you, tell them to call the Gesundheitsamt to issue one and listen to what reply you get. Or you can just listen to what hundreds of germans with serious symptoms and even some healthcare staff who already went through that spiel encountered themselves after trying to get themselves or others tested. We just had a speaker who refused (and probably hesitated) to give details on simple information of a death case. This whole thing was already set and completely forseeable at the end of January, yet it took germany to cope and straight up lie for longer than a whole month with first saying "don't worry it's just like the flu", then "it might be worse than the flu but only travelers from china should worry", then "only travelers from china and italy should worry, it's just Einzelfälle", then "okay it is worse than the flu and locals got infected but our medical staff is prepared and only old people get it, OUR BORDERS STAY OPEN", then "okay, maybe 70% of the population will get it but we don't know in what timeframe yet, maybe a few weeks months or years lol, you should do some light prepping btw" and now "we might need to close some important events but it's just precautions, it will be fine, just wash your hands and ignore the new 200 cases per day". I don't even know where you still get your blind faith from.

No. 522996

>>522992

If you have the chance to get tested, then yes! You never know, anon.

No. 522998

>>522988
Ah, that makes sense. They really should've cancelled carneval celebrations, it must've been so easy to infect eachother.

No. 522999

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post memes pls im scarefdd

No. 523000

>>522621
>>522624
>it's wrong because I say it is

That's literally this argument of the things you posted.
I guess fuck what the other scientists and shit say, nah it's alright because this official article said so! If the CIA put crack in black communities then I will believe they bio engineered airborne HIV.

No. 523002

>>523000
by "they" I mean the powers that be
Not that the CIA was apart of this [possibly].

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No. 523005

>>523000
Some random biologist saying their opinion on twittee and factcheck quoting them isn't even an "official" article, nevermind they are sponsored by facebook.

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No. 523007

>>523006
I really like the lowkey travel-shaming-when-ill memes tbh. It's like a nice form of social pressure.

No. 523009

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No. 523011

Only 3,200 (or less, mixed numbers) people have been tested in America. As in the whole fucking country. Why the fuck is it so difficult to test people this time around? And apparently in the WA nursing home, the patients went from having no symptoms to dying in a matter of hours. I’m not trying to panic but what the fuck is this shit show that is America right now. (Trump. It’s literally his incompetence.)

No. 523013

>>523007
Except it literally never works. People who love traveling (or who are simply poor and had to save up for a long time) will never be stopped.
Plus if you apply that to the Chinese you will quickly be accused of xenophobia/racism…

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No. 523033

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>>523011
Can't have an increase in positive cases if you refuse to let state health departments distribute the testing kits.
My next door neighbors returned from a week long cruise yesterday. One half of the couple is coughing so explosively, you can hear it from inside the car with the windows up and the doors closed.

No. 523034

>>523011
it's actually not trump this time, it's the CDC. they fucked up a bunch of testing and now we are short on tests. also they aren't accepting tests at government labs and my state has no private labs at all…

No. 523048

I really want to punch my friend in the face. She just came home from a trip to Thailand and yes, their numbers are low but let's be honest it's a corrupt government, they're most likely lying.

When she came home her workplace asked her to self-quarantine for 2 weeks. Guess what she does? She goes to fucking concerts, eats at restaurants every day and takes public transport. How can people be so irresponsible?! My grandmother has no immune system and she could literally die from this virus and my friend still asked if we could meet up. Bitch I'm not going near you for two weeks,

No. 523054

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>>522946
>My bf has a terribly weak immune system and existing respiratory problems, so he'd be done for.

Shit, anon I'm in the same boat! My bf is in no shape to deal with something like this and it makes me so worried for him. There's been confirmed cases in my state and the next state over.
God forbid my father catches it since he tends to pull shit like not covering his mouth when he coughs and drinks directly from the soda bottles we all share. I once caught bronchitis from him because of it. ugh.

No. 523056

>>523048
a family friend also came back from thailand and had multiple layovers, she cannot comprehend why nobody wants to see her. positive vibes to your gran, anon, hopefully assholes like these don't get near her.

No. 523063

>>523048
>>523056
Can’t you report these people to an authority?

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No. 523070

>>523056

I feel for you guys. I am really worried about my grandfather. He is 83 and still goes to work 4 dats a weeks seeing 30-40 patients a day. He doesn’t have any serious health issues but at his age but I still called him today to verify he’s wearing a mask and not touching anything. I don’t even care about myself, I almost would rather I die then him cause I’m retarded neet that almost no one would miss but I know I won’t get sick. I have gotten a flu or cold since 2013.

No. 523071

>>523064
It's about fucking time, should've happened sooner

No. 523073

>>523064
Ganbatte Italia-chan!!!

No. 523089

>>523063
no mandated quarantine for people coming from thailand as of now, she has no symptoms and so on but she's a hair dresser and i hope her boss tells her not to come.

No. 523092

>>523064
shit is getting WILD, stay safe out there pasta anons!!

No. 523097

>>523064
I'm gonna be honest with you guys I'm on the verge of crying all of the time lol
I've already been home for three weeks because I study in one of the first "red" regions so to say, so the prospect of staying home another month is hard to digest, but it must be done, otherwise we'll never get out of it.

No. 523101

>>522831
That‘s not germany
Looks more like turkey

No. 523106

>>523101
if you squint your eyes real good you can spot like 2 natives

No. 523110


No. 523111

>>523064
Burgerland would shit itself if the whole country was mandated to lockdown, yet my people are the ones taking this the least seriously…

Good luck spaghets.

No. 523114

https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-nyc-brooklyn-columbia-suspends-classes
7 year old girl with coronavirus
Thank you NYC and Westchester county

No. 523117

>>523114
Finland also has kids with corona, sucks ass but they'll survive.

No. 523119

>>523117
First time hearing about that, I really hope younger people survive this but only time will tell.

No. 523128

>>523119
Not to sound harsh but it's the elderly and immune compromised that should be worried, kids with normal health are gonna be ok.

No. 523129

>>523119
Evidence shows that kids are the least effected by COVID-19, which makes it different from flu.

No. 523131

>>522563
How is it her fault if she had TWO negative tests? That isn’t her fault.

No. 523133

What a time to have a regular cold. One sniffle at the supermarket and people start giving the evil eye while they buy 90 rolls of goddamn toilet paper.

No. 523135

>>522940
kek if she winds up being pinned as the vector for the florida cases I hope she gets arrested.

No. 523141

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a different quarantined ship is docking close to me (US). we have a growing amount of cases daily. one was a school teacher which had to have exposed it to so many children. that school and schools around it have been shut down. except mine. lol help. please let my girlfriend's symptoms just be the flu jesus christ

No. 523147

>>523133
I have year-round allergies and people look terrified when I pull out my tissues

No. 523148

>>523034
You know that Trump fucked up the CDC right? Also it's due to lack of health insurance and the testing costing too much. Fuck America.

No. 523160

>>523148
No it's not, the CDC fucked up a ton of their initial testing. these tests were supposed to be administered to anyone who had symptoms and fit the criteria. It actually has fairly little to do with the privatized health care system this time.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-test

No. 523165

>>521758
Irishfag by chance?
That's what happened here anyway, fucking family that came back from Italy

I wasn't really bothered before, but tbh I'm freaked out by it now. I think I read that they predict 40% of the world will have it by late summer? Like, is it just inevitable that I'm gonna get it basically. I wouldn't be anywhere near as panicked if not for the fact I have a small kid I'm worried about. I know it seems to harm children the least so far but not many have it yet

No. 523167

I have crazy allergies in the spring and I can feel people already gonna back away from me in the bus cause a lot of people forget allergies and pollen exist but I'm the one who gonna be suffering like a lil bitch. It be a very annoying time of year.

No. 523171

Also I live uptown. A bit away from the big city where shit been going down but today there been a first case here. Welp

No. 523176

i live in the middle of nowhere and we got more than one case already, yay.

>>523167
lol i feel you, i currently have a cold but i haven't been outside for a while so idk how people will react but i'm already expecting lame jokes

No. 523215

>>523167
Look at it positively; people will want to stay away from you so you have a lesser chance of catching corona (or any other cold on top of allergies)

No. 523219

>Face to face classes at my uni are cancelled until mid April because of the coronavirus
>Cool! Maybe I can use this extra time to pick up more shifts at my job
>Then remember business is super slow and my managers will most likely deny it because they don’t need extra people

This fucking sucks

No. 523221

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>Iran frees 54,000 prisoners to combat coronavirus

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51723398

No. 523230

>be burger living away from my home country in britbongland
>live with 3 diabetics, 2 type ones and 1 type two
>smoker
>boyfriend is already in terrible health and probably can’t handle a virus outbreak
Should I be staying home? I’ve only really gone out once a week for therapy and a couple trips to the corner store but with how quickly this virus is spreading I wonder if that’s too much. I don’t wanna cancel my therapy sessions because holy shit this is stressful but I feel like I need to protect the diabetic children in my house

No. 523238

I am at a 0/10 for panic. I don't get the hysteria. Only ~4k deaths worldwide?? In over a month. If only we had the same precautionary action towards other preventable deaths that are much, much more prevalent. Like drunk driving, or being fat as fuck.

No. 523240

>>523238
your shit bait is also 0/10.

No. 523260

>>523238
Was watching a vlog yesterday where a (practically housebound) morbidly obese woman was concerned about the virus because 'given what her weight is her immune system is likely weaker'..like girl you've been morbidly obese for at least a decade now and you don't even go out to work or use public transport. It was hard to sympatise

There's only twenty cases so far in my country but the very first customer I served yesterday apparently went to my manager to tell him about my flushed cheeks… I have rosacea lol

No. 523261

>>523238
Agreed. People are overreacting. This is mass hysteria

No. 523278

40 cases here, 7 more than yesterday. There's little flights out because no one with a brain wants to fly rn but I wish they would ban big gatherings and not leave it up to the organisers.

No. 523292

>>523238
>>523260
>>523261
Its not the coronavirus itself that's the problem, its the impact its having on trade and global relations, in one month nearlyall electronics in my country have increased by roughly 50%, that's because all your electronics come from china and south korea, and as of now nearly exports have stopped coming because of Coronavirus, financially this is taking a huge toll on China and the country it supports, this virus could likely lead to a recession

No. 523294

>>523261
I hope people like you die first.

No. 523303

>>523294
take your meds

No. 523304

>>523064
been self-quarantined for a week now. Honestly, I feel pretty safe. I think our government is being transparent all the way, which is why numbers are so high compared to everyone else, and doing everything it can to heal as fast as it can.
I'm more worried for you foreigners since your governments are too chicken shit to do wide tests and show real numbers. You risk stepping on a mine

No. 523305

>>523292
> the impact its having on trade and global relations
> this virus could likely lead to a recession

This is what makes me angry about people who refused to cancel their trips to italy or their cruise holidays after the all of this already started. A week ago people were bitching about potentially losing money on booked flights..this week it's people worried about whether they'll get sick pay if they need to stay home.. but if this continues for months (as is expected) we're pretty much all going to be financially hit by this.

No. 523306

>>523304
You pastanon?

No. 523310


No. 523316

>>523238
i think people are just bored and want to imagine some super intense pandemic apocalypse since it isn't fun to think about every day preventable issues

No. 523319

>>523238
I wonder how these people are going to handle it when a bubonic style plague comes knocking at our door and clean wipes out of 1/3 of the population if they're panicking over a virus with a 3% mortality rate. Sure it sucks if you personally know someone who dies of coronavirus but humanity will be okay. It doesn't merit this much collective panic.

No. 523320

>>523238
Same, I'm not worried at all. But I'm annoyed at the hysteria and panic perpetuated by doomers and stay at home Facebook moms. I've seen too many Karens buying 200 rolls of toilet paper.

No. 523321

>>523304
Glad you're doing well!
My state briefly issued and then quickly repealed a virus-related travel advisory yesterday, speaking of foreigners and their governments.

No. 523325

Some of us aren't worried about the mortality rate, but because imagine an entire country sick with coronavirus… Instant chaos. Hospitals are already full and are struggling to keep up with the increasing number of patients.

The market is already plummeting for some of the most affected countries. This is not something to brush off just because it doesn't kill you. Get off your high horse.

No. 523327

>>523319
>3% death rate
>not realizing that in Italy nearly 40% of the resolved cases have resulted in death
>not realizing that China's fake numbers are bringing down the overall death rate, as well as other countries hiding their numbers

Please stop with this 3% bullshit.
Out of the known cases in italy, 724 have recovered and 463 (nearly 40%) have died. As for the active cases, the death rate is expected to increase as the hospitals become collapsed and so they stop being able to give medical care to everyone.

No. 523330

>>523325
Exactly, people need to grow the fuck up and see the bigger picture. The main thing right now is to avoid massive masses being sick at the same time so health care providers don't get hugely overworked.

No. 523341

>>523319
3.4% is still a higher death rate than the flu, which is 0.1%. A lot higher actually. And the death rate for coronavirus has actually risen, and could continue to do so.


In other news, Trump was exposed to people who tested positive to coronavirus and refuses to get tested. He’s 73.

No. 523345

>not realizing death rate will only increase once hospitals become over burdened
Wtf? Do you realize how many people are not technically dead but are on life support and remaining in critical condition?? Do you realize how undertested some countries are, including the US?? A good chunk of deaths in those countries won’t be recorded as Covid 19.

No. 523351

>>523319
>plagues hundreds of years ago wiped people out because they were just that deadly, and not because medicine was shit
hmm…

No. 523352

>>523351
There is no cure for viral infections.

No. 523353

Yesterday I received a package home and the man delivering it was having flu signs, wasn't wearing a mask. I have eye pain since this morning, and I'm scared now.

No. 523354

>>523351
We literally don’t have cure nor vaccine for this yet but ok. Even with our wealth knowledge on corona-related diseases, it is estimated that it will be 10 months to a year before that advancement. So the medicine is pretty “shit” rn.

No. 523355

Part of me is here for the boomer plague, honestly. It's kind of funny it has come to this. Just look at the state of everything right now, social media is all about teaching people how to properly wash their hands like it's something nobody knew how to do up until now? This is a shit show. And boomers don't want universal healthcare in the US that will mostly be saving themselves, they don't want to help fund the vaccine that would be helping mostly them either. It's actually humorous that it has come to this.
I can only hope all of the US government, trump, biden, etc. get this virus so it'll wipe them all out for us and we can start over faster. If that is the timeline we're going on for 2020, I'm here for it.

No. 523357

>>523354

So you really think that just because we don't have a cure, medicine and health care today can be compared to the medical care of 14th century Europe?

No. 523358

>>523352
>>523354
are you guys dumb? i was trying to point out how pedantic it is to be comparing a plague in the 14th century to one now. my point is that it's likely corona would have been exactly like the bubonic plague was.

No. 523360

Every single fucking day for the past week or two, I’ve had to listen the racist and ignorant HR girl at work yell about the virus and then gets this other lady talking about it. I’m so sick of hearing about it because it’s always just her rehashing the same fear mongering and racist shit. I step into the office and IMMEDIATELY she goes off on some tirade about someone on the subway having the audacity to sniffle and goes on and on about buying masks. I get it, be prepared and be well informed, but repeating yourself every single day about the SAME THING isn’t going to make it any less likely that you’ll get it.

No. 523361

>>523358
*to be comparing deaths from a plague

i need to go back to bed.

No. 523362

>>523353 eye pain isn't a symptom as far as i know?

No. 523364

>>523353
Could just be a common viral infection, keep after your eye.
I slept with some retarded dingus back on November who hid that he was sick from me. I wound up sick with a viral cold, and my eye became infected so that it was red and crusted. I had to go get special eye drops for the subsequent bacterial infection.

No. 523368

>>523360
Yeah this virus is making me hate some people I work with. I know it's natural to want to preserve your own health but in a country with just a handful of cases I'm stuck listening to young and healthy people show nothing but concern for themselves as they treat anybody who breathes near them like a leper.

> "sure there are no confirmed cases within the province I live in but allow me to still make this whole thing about me and how I might catch it"

No. 523373

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>mfw my preparedness is the opposite of panic
>mfw comfy af knowing me and me mum have food, facts, and febreeze
>mfw in x weeks when 0/10 anons are 2l8/10 anons

No. 523379

>>523351
And yet Europe was able to bounce back from it regardless, which was kind of my point.

No. 523381

My mom died of pneumonia years ago after she couldn't fight a simple cold. She had cancer and chemo had weakened her immune system. I really feel for people in that position right now. You can't even quarantine when you've treatment to attend.

No. 523382

>>523381
sorry for your mom anon

No. 523383

>>523355
>>523373
Can we stop wishing death on people and gloating about being in a better position than others.. it's really fucking trashy

No. 523388

>>523383
This. I know imageboards aren't exactly nice but damn, y'all.

No. 523390

>>523383
How am I wishing death on anyone? If people wanna be pigheaded and not prepare, their demise is their own doing, and I’ll laugh at them specifically. Only feel sorry for people who don’t have the means to.

No. 523392

>>522703
I’m very doomer but deep down I don’t want a stupid lethal plague to ‘thin the herd’ either because life is not a fun zombie game. My country (UK) is so strict on self defence weapons that we’re not even allowed true pepper spray and I’m willing to bet, if people resort to looting, the only thing most families have at home to defend themselves will be kitchen knives. I think I’m particularly fucked, I’m in a shitty urban area, small woman with no training with anything, my home is on a ground floor where the door has a retarded single layer glass panel next to it, there’s no way only me and my aging mum could fend off just one crazy man if he really wanted to rob us.
Anyone in here, Bong or not, with a plan in case things escalate to that level of violence?

No. 523393

>>523383
I whole heartedly wish death upon Donald Trump via coronavirus.

No. 523406

>>523368
Same anon, this dumbo bitch keeps going on and on about "I don't understand why people (esp in service industry) won't self quarantine!" as myself and another young coworker who just left our service industry jobs explain to her for the nth time about how not everyone works a cushy office job that gives them sick leave and health insurance and for a lot of people it's either 1) go into medical debt to get tested or 2) go into debt anyway because they aren't allowed to go to work and make money. In response she's just like "well then I just won't order take out for a while!"

The real cherry on top is how she knows that I don't have health insurance from this position with this company too. The place won't fall apart if I'm not here, but I'm also in that position of "do I take the two weeks worth of missed pay or do I go into work?" I won't come in but it's a real thing people think about and shouldn't have to be forced to debate on, but miss cushy HR bitch over here just says fuck all the people who can't work a nice and secure of a job as hers. Her and some other co-worker also keep making jokes like "haha don't go to Chinatown or else you'll have to self quarantine for two weeks!" but none of the confirmed cases (of which we have surpassed the 100 mark) have been from Chinatown yet so….. real classy HR, real classy.

No. 523407

I'm going to arrive to South Dakota from Uruguay (zero Coronavirus cases so far) I want to pack as many food items I can (I have packed soap bars, antibacterial gel,gloves and masks)since I heard my supermarkets in my hometown are almost empty,what food items can I take with me?

No. 523409

>>523407

dry food that you can have for a looong time: rice, noodles etc. canned food with veggies, things like that.

No. 523410

>>523393
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/10/coronavirus-texas-poses-challenges-people-without-insurance/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1583851526&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

All the politicians who have opposed the expansion of state funded health insurance can also kick the bucket from coronavirus.

>>523407
Maybe non-perishables like canned goods, crackers, beans, or pasta?

No. 523423

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No. 523427

>>523353
Anon, unless you spend a significant amount of time physically close to your delivery guy, you're safe.
People need to calm the fuck down.
There is no "doom", no looting will happen unless people continue behaving like a bunch of animals that just witnessed an eclipse. It's not a zombie apocalypse, healthcare in this century is incredibly good, nothing dramatic will happen.
It's just a flu, and a flu that so far has killed mainly very old people.
You're all safe.
Keep. The. Fuck. Calm.

No. 523435

Sorry to be stupid but what about the homeless people who are infected? They can't home isolate, depending on the country they can't get care and will not only spread it but also suffer a whole lot? Also jesus fuxking christ my retarded as nearly posted this as a thread lmao

No. 523437

>>523427
nobody is safe from the markets crashing anon

No. 523438

My college shut down for spring break 3 days early. They gave us less than 24 hours before we have to leave the dorms. We’re supposed to be prepared for spring break to last 3 weeks instead of 1. Hard not to catch the worry and panic right now, I’m glad I can go home to my much less populated area but being forced out of my living arrangement with less than 24 hours notice is not what I was expecting. This is in the US, I’m in a state with only six confirmed cases right now.

No. 523439

>>523435
i don't know but i think the answer will be extremely upsetting

No. 523441

>>523439
That's what i thought.

No. 523442

>>523355
uhhhhhhh did you forget about your parents?

No. 523443

>>523364
>>523427
Thanks all anons. I used eyedrops all day, the inside of the outer corner on one eye is red and inflamed still.

Every time I get a package delivered by him it smells of cigarette smoke badly, I should've thrown the exterior bag away and wash my hands but I just brushed it off as nothing to worry about.

Just be careful out there everyone.

No. 523450

Illinois is under a state of emergency for the virus. Also, the number of confirmed cases shot up to 19, compared to the last time we were informed if it being 11.

No. 523453

>all these infected people not only refusing to quarantine but also straight up going out to the most crowded place to socialize
Corona-chan altering brains to ensure maximum exposure confirmed!!! WHY AREN'T U PANICKINGgg

No. 523456

>>523453
every single boomer must die.

>>523303
Crève, charogne.

No. 523463

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it is pretty funny though that so many republican politicians who have been spreading non-stop propaganda that corona is a complete non-issue and that it's totally fine to fire emergency response teams, have an abysmal healthcare for citizens, and have essentially 0 preparation, that it's fine to emergency funding, are now self-quarantining and pissed after coming into contact with a dude with confirmed corona at CPAC, kek

No. 523466

>>523392
Screwfix catalogue. I so need this hammer so I can hang cute pictures in my living room.

>>523410
As someone who lives in the UK, there is going to be no benefit to having free healthcare in this. Because it's funded by public money the NHS is already operating at it's limit. It needs to spend money efficiently so there is no extra capacity. If COVID-19 infects a highly populated area the local health service will probably collapse under demand. Free testing for everyone might sound good until you realise that the availability of it is dependent on public money which is a limited resource. Think what you want of universal healthcare under normal circumstances just don't expect it to save more people in a pandemic.

No. 523470

>>523466
that's not true. the nhs is being and has been strangled and isn't operating anywhere near as well as it has or could, as a result. your conditions are not the same as all countries with healthcare that's free at the point of service.

No. 523488

>>523466
I wouldn’t comment on American healthcare unless you live here struggling to get said healthcare. Basically no one here has any insurance (unless you have or were born in to money which is a very small portion or if you job is in a large company and able to offer it to you), which causes us not to go to the doctor which in turn makes it so people go around spreading the disease without being told to be quarantined or getting any medical intervention at all. People question “why wouldn’t you go to the doctor if your coughing up blood?” There is a complete unavailability for medical care to people in America, literally working people. Young people don’t have health insurance here, I don’t have health insurance, my brother, my mother, etc. Not to mention the huge amount of homeless in America who get this disease, cannot self quarantine, and because they can’t get medical care, cannot quarantine and go on to mass spread disease. People here are scared to go to the doctor, and it’s fucking sick and cruel. It would definitely help.

No. 523490

>>523438
My university in CO is supposed to make a decision this week whether we start to do online classes after spring break. The number of cases seemed to increase way more today so I guess they're starting to do a lot of tests.

No. 523505

>Two kids in my county have corona
>They go to the same school as my sister
>My sisters been dry coughing for two weeks
It's been an honor shitposting with you farmers I'm going to get the cough and die

No. 523508

>>521867
religious shrines there are kissed. it's not the only reason but it's one of the reasons.

has everyone checked out dr. john campbell of the UK on youtube? he recommends vitamin D to help boost the immune system. he does an update every day, sometimes twice a day. i can't recommend him enough, he is smart and serious and not full of shit. he's been following this since the end of january, which helped me to get prepared.

today they said on the news that everyone in the US will have someone close to them die from the coronavirus. i feel so hopeless and sad and worried for all my friends and family. i don't want anyone to get sick. i keep crying.

>>521869
i know it sounds so stupid but i am praying all the time now for things to get just the tiniest bit more hopeful. the things happening in italy are just horrifying.

No. 523509

>state just went into state of emergency
>my university closed until further notice
>sending international students home if their countries aren't on lock

No. 523513

>>523488
Adding this here: Americans would go to the doctor but even the sliding scale clinics can slap you with a four-figure bill for a lab test you didn't consent to nor was informed about the cost of prior to it happening. The cost of lab tests aren't always transparent unless we know to ask. So it's safe to imagine many Americans would avoid getting a COVID-19 test out of fear of being slapped with an outrageous bill later. It sounds crazy, but it's the very nature of our healthcare system. Lab fees are a huge moneymaker.
I'm not exaggerating, either. Even when I had good insurance, I've gotten ridiculous bills for lab fees that my insurance didn't cover. This was for very basic work, too.

No. 523515

>>522295
The difference is more that COVID causes bilateral interstitial pneumonia, which is vastly different from the pneumonia that comes along with ordinary influenza. This is what's killing people. Even if you survive the pneumonia, your lungs end up scarred (pulmonary fibrosis) which is in and of itself a condition which kills. Another problem that I haven't seen a lot of people talking about is how healthcare workers are directly in the line of fire. If we lose 20% of the population 45 and above and 50% of those 55 and above, who's going to be around to care for us if we fall ill with I don't know, a UTI or appendicitis or something. A lot of doctors and nurses and EMT's will be dead.

No. 523516

>>522441
Hong Kong doctors believe the low rate of spread is due to people wearing masks there, anon.

No. 523517

>>523516
>believing Emperor Xi
Good one

No. 523518

>>522023
I have stadium seats for a tour at the end of May and it's a very open arena. I'm hoping by then the corona will be under control and people will stop freakin the fuck out.

No. 523528

>>523517
Xi has no control over South Korea where they're seeing a similarly low spread. Because people should wear masks.

No. 523530

>>523528
Easier said than done since many places don't have masks in stock anymore because surprise! People keep hoarding them and flipping them online.

No. 523532

I didn't want to believe it, but I do think this is worse than the government is letting on. Seeing actual footage from ground zero is heartbreaking

No. 523534

>4 cases in my county
>one person possibly exposed to it who works in a lab right next to my school
>evidence of community transmission in my area
>work in an outlet mall with mostly tourists
>college still not closing
rip me
Feels like people are taking the virus seriously but no one wants to put in the effort to prevent the virus. No one wears masks, all of the schools are still going, hours of operation of businesses haven't changed, etc.

No. 523535

>>523534
What country, 4 sounds deligthful at this point.

No. 523538

>>523534
A middle school in my state had a student test positive and they’re not closing lmao

No. 523540

>>523535
USA, I meant county as in a group of cities and towns in my state. I'm in the Alameda county in California.

No. 523541

>>523540
Lmao my bad, i misread. No schools shut here either even after students and teachers tested positive, a few classes just got sent to home isolation.

No. 523542

In my country, there has been 1 confirmed death in less than 24 hours, it was a school director and the staff had to protest for the government to test them. It is obvious that it has been around for a long time. My mom works at the main hospital where all patients are going to be sent and I'm getting panic attacks.

No. 523544

>>523410
Living in a country with free health care and our hospitals are a joke, waiting times here already kill people, hospitals have been short of beds for about two decades and the funding is never enough to fix it, every year the regular flu and the winter vomiting bug result in chaos with hospital beds. Old and sick people sleep upright in chairs after being admitted, several days living on a plastic chair waiting on that bed. Got norovirus? Stuck on a chair with no privacy or dignity as you shit yourself. Got terrible back pain? Sit upright for days with no option to lay down.

Systems with covered health care tend to already be under a tremendous workload without outbreaks then adding to it. I think Americans have a very different image of what free health care looks like but that's the reality of a government trying to provide free or subsidized care.

No. 523545

>>523319
The 3% are purely based on chinas reports, so you can figure out yourself how the truth might look like. And if we say 70% of the average country gets corona, then 3% are still hundred-thousands of deaths.

No. 523546

>>523009
I kek’d

I’m kind of salty all my friends’ universities are cancelling class but my school still hasn’t said anything, rip.

No. 523547

>>523544
At least your citizens have a chance to sit in those hospitals for hours.

No. 523548

>>523532
this is truly, truly disturbing

No. 523553

>>523545
And the people who need hospital care is at least 30%. Meaning that many, many people will die since the level of care they need isn't even possible. It will be a triage situation as in Italy.

No. 523555

>>523427
>no looting will happen
Must be nice living in the comfy mid-upperclass where you can afford to stay ignorant and just-flu yourself into high heavens.

No. 523559

>>523547
Sitting in a crowded corridor for days next to contagious norovirus patients etc.. then most people going home untreated because no bed ever becomes available?? Can you explain to me the benefit of that?

No. 523562

The best anyone can do is to wash their hands and avoid unnecessary contact with people and Also the most important step which is to not panic and stay calm. Fear/panic/anxiety fucks up your immune system more than anything else. Viruses are not living creatures just strands of genetic information. So therefor can not be "killed" this is scientific fact. Also they mutate with pretty much any host (human) that they are in. Viruses never stay the same, and thats why they constantly have to make new vaccines.

I live in a (VERY) large city that has a shit ton of tourist and immigration with all types of airports, boats, trains you name it coming out of it day and night. That with the fact its so close to a bordering country and people are always driving down there and coming back here everyday. The fact the Coronavirus hasn't hit here is fucking astounding. Anytime there is a outbreak (ebola, HIV, SAARS, mad cow disease ect ect ect) I always just make my peace and if it hits me then, it hits me. Theres nothing I can do about it (I can hope to prevent it before then) but the last thing ima do is panic like hell. Because that never helps. Instead just makes things worse. Be safe anons.

No. 523572

>>523559
You do realize you’re telling people without health insurance that having healthcare available to them is pointless; right? I don’t give a fuck what you try to spew every person has a right to healthcare, not my problem your queen sits in her gold palace instead of buying more beds. Fuck off nitwit, I’m 100% positive UK hospitals aren’t some first world free for all. There’s doctor clinics not just hospitals, besides the fact that coronavirus isn’t the fucking plague anyways, we’re all being exposed to it everywhere. Every country has their faults but let’s face it, it’s definitely an advantage to be able to fucking go unlike a fuck ton of people here. Point is: people can’t even go to the hospital here. Shit healthcare is still better than no healthcare.

No. 523574

Anyone else notice how much more heavily policed twitter has been regarding the coronavirus in the past few weeks? Almost every tweet in the "Top" list has several removed replies. Maybe it's just my country though.

No. 523578

>>523572
My country doesn't have a Queen. I'm not in the UK. Don't know why you think that? You're basing a whole rant around assuming I live in a totally different part of the world. The bit about 'my queen' was funny though lol

No. 523586

tinfoil here, but since admin said in /meta/ complaints thread that she was dealing with personal stuff, do you think she got the corona?

No. 523588

>>523572
Hear hear.

No. 523589

>>523555
Nice assumption, try again.

No. 523591

>>523532
Christ, I wish there more context for some of these videos. Surely not all the people lying on the ground is, at least directly, related to coronavirus?
And what the hell is happening at 20:12? I hope that’s just a bloody nose…

Poor people. I feel safe rn where I am for several reasons, but China looks like hell.

No. 523592

>>523437
Correct but I'm not talking about the market here. It's an issue on another level altogether.

people behaving like fucking animals is the problem. Spreading rumours to panick people further, inciting them to hoard rather than just stockpile reasonable amounts, is the issue.
Not saying there are no challenges or nothing to worry about, but goddamn, this is not Left 4 Dead-level apocalypse yet, and it's highly unlikely to be.
Feels to me like some doomers/preppers are way too happy to have a topic to feel validated/get excited about, idk.

We'll figure it out like we figured the swine flu, the SARS and anything else.
Hence the "keep the fuck calm" people.

No. 523594

>>523589
Well you have to be some kind of sheltered.

No. 523596

>>523591
All of these are in connection to corona, they are quite well known and the dude left out the fake ones people assumed to be corona cases at first.

>>523592
>I'm not talking about the issues, i will just continue to downplay them even when faced with numbers and examples that already happened
okay

No. 523597

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Did anyone prep anything? I bought probably a months worth of food for my house(rice, beans, canned veggies, canned meat, pasta, flour, snacks), vitamins/medicine, toiletries and some weed+honey Jack Daniel's. I'm pretty paranoid in general so I did all my shopping like three weeks ago and was luckily able get everything I wanted.
I'm also taking a once-a-day vitamin c tablet(500mg), zinc(10mg) and iron(10mg) in addition to preparing all of my food at home and exercising more. Have you guys started making any changes in your day to day life yet? I work at a restaurant that's like 5 blocks away from the largest convention center in my state and I just know that someone with corona is going to come through the restaraunt if they haven't already.

No. 523598

>>523542
Same here in the US. You have to convince your doctor to test you and they in turn have to petition the government for a test. The level of ineptitude being displayed by our nation's leaders is astonishing, it's almost like they want the virus to spread.

No. 523600

>>523515
This is the issue italy is currently having. Health care workers are getting sick and demoralized. In some cases, they are having to make the decision of which critically sick person to save because their resources are so low.

Corona virus is no joke. Theres a thread up at r/askreddit right now with people in italy sharing their experiences with the virus. Dont underestimate this, especially if you or anyone you're in regular contact with is immune compromised.

No. 523601

>>523532
Most of these videos were hoaxes or taken out of context. If it was truly this bad then we would see similar footage from Korea or Iran.

No. 523605

>>523601
Bullshit. Most of them are well known for anyone who has been watching the outbreak in china from the start, you can even see the medicals in their gear doing preperations and their cars. Only the mass-seizure ones were hoaxes, which he left out. Out of what context is it even supposed to be? And yes, there are similar videos from iran.

No. 523614

>>523598
anything to keep the officially published numbers down and subsequently, the economy up, baybeee!

No. 523616

Someone got the virus at my university and they informed us 5 days after finding out. We’re not even getting online lectures or anything. They expect us to just ignore it and keep going to our lectures everyday, as if this situation is fucking normal. Who knows how many students will get the virus now.
Scandinavian anons, is it just Sweden or are all of our governments waaay to chill about this situation?

No. 523621

how do i prep for my cat

No. 523622

>>523540
i live near there too, bay anon. praying for us!!! and washing my fucking hands

No. 523626

i'm in australia, went to my specialist the other day for my chronic illness I have and asked her if I should be worried about coronavirus or take extra precautions due to it. she just told me there's no use in worrying about it because probably we're all going to get it, but only the very old and very sick have any reason to worry about it, and that i shouldn't become a shut in because of it. just to take the already recommended precautions, have good hygiene, take my meds, eat healthy, exercise and use my judgment. i don't really know how to feel about that advice, but i guess she's right in that freaking out about it is useless.

still worried about my family, though, especially my nan. she is quite old and frail and in poor health, and i haven't gotten to see her in a few years because of distance/money, and now it's not even safe to visit her. if something happens because of this shit i'm going to be crushed.

No. 523627

>>523532
Agree with the other anon that says these videos are hoaxes or just taken out of context. Lots of fear mongering by the dumbass who made the recompilation and Im sure he didnt even investigate their origins. Whats so new about chinese fighting for masks? they always fight for stupid shit between each other. Hell there was even one fight in Osaka because of masks and that was between two chinese citizens there.

No. 523628

>>523540
>>523622

Hiya, Bay Area anons! I'm in San Francisco. I have underlying respiratory conditions and coincidentally have an appointment with a new pulmonologist at SFGH next week which I think I'll be skipping. The last place I want to be during this nightmare is the hospital!

No. 523631

>>523627
So what now, is it all a hoax/fear mongering (from wuhan of all places where china already tries its best to censor and punish, all of these videos + the ones he didn't show are staged for the lulz according to you)or did it really happen and they fought for masks? You people can literally have a gun held in front of your face and still cover your ears and claim it's not real.

No. 523633

Greek anon here,from today all educational establishments will be shut down for at least two weeks.So far we have 90 confirmed cases with no deaths and a few people in critical condition.I expect more places to shut down and events to be cancelled soon.

There have been people who have stockpilled since the first cases appeared in Italy and others who have ignored warnings and travel and go to crowded places or haven't even learned how to cough properly and spread their freaking germs.
like for fucks sake if you don't care about yourselves care about the elderly and people with weak immune systems

No. 523634

Greek anon here,from today all educational establishments will be shut down for at least two weeks.So far we have 90 confirmed cases with no deaths and a few people in critical condition.I expect more places to shut down and events to be cancelled soon.

There have been people who have stockpilled since the first cases appeared in Italy and others who have ignored warnings and travel and go to crowded places or haven't even learned how to cough properly and spread their freaking germs.
like for fucks sake if you don't care about yourselves care about the elderly and people with weak immune systems

No. 523635

>>523616

Not Scandinavia but I feel like the German government is way to chill about it as well.

On the Swedish news rn:

"Regeringen får i dagsläget inte besluta om att stoppa stora evenemang eftersom det är väldigt starkt reglerat i lagen. Det säger socialminister Lena Hallengren i P1-morgon.

– Man kan inte begränsa människor från att mötas eller stora evenemang utan att det finns en indikation och en grund för det, och den kommer från Folkhälsomyndigheten, säger Hallengren."

(It says that the government cannot legally stop big groups of people from gathering at this time.)

No. 523636

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>>523435

San Francisco anon here. We have the largest population of homeless in the US. St Anthony's, the leading distributor of meals to the homeless, shut down its cafeteria and is distributing take away meals.

Yesteray the mayor allocated $5M in emergency funding towards preventive hygiene in shelters and supportive housing to which I reply, what happened to the hundreds of millions that went towards the Homelessness & Supportive Housing budget since its expansion over two years ago? I live in supportive housing, and the budget expansion did nothing to improve conditions here. WTF will a measly $5M do?!

https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Mayor-Announces-5M-In-Emergency-Funding-For-15119729.php

I'm still sick from pic related. We've had three fires in my building since October 29th, the last two weeks ago.

No. 523637

>>523488

In California and other states that opted for Medicaid expansion with the Affordable Health Care Act the homeless and poor have coverage, but it's shit coverage. My primary care provider isn't even an MD. She's an incompetent NP.

No. 523638

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some updates on the current numbers in italy

No. 523639

>>523515

You sound educated re pneumonia, anon. In 2015 I had bacterial lobar pneumonia that caused severe sepsis (the stage before organ failure). How fucked am I and others with a similar history?

And to demonstrate what I said in >>523637, the hospital kept me for only three nights when the recorded average for my condition was 9 to 11 days according to the CDC. And Medicaid required prior authorisation for my antibiotic script so I couldn't take it for 48 hours. Of course I relapsed and spent another three days inpatient.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, when I began developing chronic respiratory illnesses I had probably the best insurance in the country and hospitals kept me inpatient for a week or longer for simple bronchitis if that.

US health care is a shit show.

No. 523640

Harvard University is moving to virtual classes because of the novel coronavirus outbreak and the university is asking students to move out of their dorms in five days, according to university spokeswoman Rachael Dane.

"Harvard College students have been asked to move out of their Houses and First-Year Dorms by Sunday, March 15, in an effort to de-densify our community," Dane told CNN in an email.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/10/us/harvard-students-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

No. 523645

WHO's report on the situation from china(as far of what's reported by them): https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

>Among 55,924 laboratory confirmed cases reported as of 20 February 2020, the median age

is 51 years (range 2 days-100 years old; IQR 39-63 years old) with the majority of cases
(77.8%) aged between 30–69 years. Among reported cases, 51.1% are male, 77.0% are from
Hubei and 21.6% are farmers or laborers by occupation.

>As of 20 February 2020 and based on 55924 laboratory confirmed cases, typical signs and symptoms include: fever

(87.9%), dry cough (67.7%), fatigue (38.1%), sputum production (33.4%), shortness of breath
(18.6%), sore throat (13.9%), headache (13.6%), myalgia or arthralgia (14.8%), chills (11.4%),
nausea or vomiting (5.0%), nasal congestion (4.8%), diarrhea (3.7%), and hemoptysis (0.9%),
and conjunctival congestion (0.8%).

>Most people infected with COVID-19 virus have mild disease and recover. Approximately

80% of laboratory confirmed patients have had mild to moderate disease, which includes
non-pneumonia and pneumonia cases, 13.8% have severe disease (dyspnea, respiratory
frequency ≥30/minute, blood oxygen saturation ≤93%, PaO2/FiO2 ratio <300, and/or lung
infiltrates >50% of the lung field within 24-48 hours) and 6.1% are critical (respiratory
failure, septic shock, and/or multiple organ dysfunction/failure).
>mild to moderate disease includes pneumonia cases

No. 523646

>>523631
I was talking more about the videos of people "fainting" and bleeding from their mouth supposedly from the virus. Those seem fake as fuck. You know how many videos you can see on youtube of Chinese doing theatrics for one thing or another, screaming, throwing themselves on the floor, acting like they are fainting/convulsing/death etc?

Theres also one video that looks like the guy is plain out drunk.

Also the videos of people that are supposedly dead in the middle of the street/stairs. How do we know 1) they are actually dead, and 2) it is from the virus? Three years ago I was in a bus in Frankfurt and looked outside the window and saw an old man, dead in the middle of the pedestrian road. Poor dude just had a heart attack or who knows what.

Let's not forget those videos that show people not obeying the law (of getting check ups) and being rude to the police/docs or whoever were those guys in white suits, and threatening them with knives and shit. Come on now. You wont see that shit happening in Italy, Japan or the other countries being affected by it.

No. 523649

>>523646
You know what, I'm not going to make the effort to respond to all of that or give known context to some of the videos you're talking about since you are either coping or completely detached from how people in non-super-sophisticated areas act. I have been living in a major german city for all my life and have to travel through the north for 5 years now and never saw anyone suddenly collapse or just lay on the floor that wasn't a drunk homeless person. But yes, you are right. All these wuhan people are just collapsing for fun and laying there motionless for minutes, in such a convenient timing, under a disease that already killed people outside of china suddenly without showing symptoms and causes organ failure exhaustion and fever, emergency is also just arriving for fun, white blankets and bodybags are also just layed over them for fun, the relatives are crying for fun, the nurses are having nervous breakdowns - not because they're completely fucking overworked - but for fun, everyone in the background is also just acting for fun and the ones posting these are avoiding their highly damage-controlling and instant-deleting country's firewall and risk "disappearing" for fun. People being rude in distress, especially at the fear of getting "quarantined" in china also never ever happens. No one would ever DARE to be rude to the police in Europe or America. The dudes sealing off entrances of the infected? Videos of people screaming from their balconies because they are out of food and medical help? Just for fun. Bad things only ever happen in the news, everything else is fake. They can never happen to me.

No. 523655

>>523649
>not going to make the effort to respond to all of that
> replies with a big ass paragraph
>hurr hurr chinese people never lie! never!

I shouldnt state the obvious but you seem like the kind of person that needs to be spoonfed. If there's a dead person in the middle of the street when theres a plague going around, you are damn sure the responders will be suited up to go see what happened. But again this doesnt mean the person died from the virus.

Did I say the nurses/doctors were faking it? Did I say the people screaming and threatening the police/men in white that want to do the check ups were faking that? You need to calm the fuck down and reread what I wrote. Or go back to study english because you obviously are not understanding what I am saying.

No. 523657

>>523572
I'm pretty sure that you got mixed up between two separate posters and you thought you were talking to
>>523466

No. 523658

>in lockdown recovering from COVID
>learned how to cook, explored painting, and read a few books

Maybe COVID will spur a modern renaissance?

No. 523659

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My uni refuses to close unless they get a positive amongst the teachers.

I'm so mad. People at my uni are brainless drunk-monkeys, they are going to spend all weekend partying and getting infected ugggh!!! We already have more than 2,000 patients with coronavirus, but hey, let's go out!! Hghgf

Humans should get extinct for real, we are plain stupid.

No. 523660

I hope the flu I caught really early on in the flu season was actually corona so I'm immune to it now but I know the probability of that is low

No. 523661

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>>523638
> average age of the deceased in Italy is 81 years old.

Call me when it starts killing people not at the death's doorstep.

No. 523663

I expect the Coronovirus to kill 20'000-30'000(worst case scenario) but the the damage done it can do the economy is what worries me, Coronovirus shows the farigleness of the current globalized economic system and how easy it can be broken

https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/covid-19-reveals-the-cracks-in-globalization/

No. 523664

>>523659
same, France is pissing me off with how they're acting. Pretending there are no more cases meanwhile Spain has skyrocketed past France in terms of cases and Italy has reached 10k, I call bullshit. People la bise too much to not spread something like this quickly. They want groups of 1k or more not to meet but continue letting schools and universities meet? “If a nurse is at home taking care of her kid then she’s not in the hospital” then assign a caregiver for medical personnel children? I’m frustrated by the stay calm tactics, I’d rather they just say it’s actually bad.

No. 523667

>>523661
Wait, seriously? Why do we care then?

No. 523668

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>>523661
i dislike boomers and they don't really add much to society but i do hope my mom is okay. mom is a good one and can stay.

No. 523669

Was reading that the infection rate is low in kids and they mostly show no symptoms or incredibly mild syptoms. Don't children typically suffer more from most viruses? Are those non symptomatic kids still a risk if they're carrying it?

No. 523670

>>523667
Because it's disaster porn and everyone loves a good crisis to focus the priorities. My boomer dad is full on bio weapon conspiracy theory. Fuck I hate people.

No. 523671

>>523661
Also Belgium, 260 cases, so far 1 death, a 90-year old.

No. 523672

>>523669
i can't answer the second question bc i'm just a regular old dumbass, but i did work in childcare for years and can confirm both from experience and regular old common knowledge that yes, kids are way more liable to get the flu than adults, as well as pretty much everything else that's contagious, because they're fucking disgusting and don't know what hygiene is

No. 523673

>>523670
This could be true to be honest, even if I don't think it was intentional. Where do you guys think the virus is coming from? Crazy Chinese people eating bats or a leak from a P4 laboratory ?

No. 523676

My college just cancelled in-person classes and all student events. As such, most students are going home. I know Coronavirus is a huge problem right now, but I still feel upset because I had a lot of fun things planned after spring break, and now I won't be able to do any of them. As it's my last year of college, like I had to leave university without being able to say goodbye to anyone.

My family is about to try to do self-quarantine and I'm afraid I'm going to go crazy. I hate living with my mom, and she's going to ask my 24/7 if I'm studying or not.

No. 523678

is it safe to order from Amazon right now when the item comes directly from the Amazon center and it will take 4-5 days to get here?

No. 523680

>>523673
>Where do you guys think the virus is coming from?

I got this lulzy tinfoil since they outbreak started that it was some goverment scheme to eradicate the old people in China since the one-kid policy would fuck up the economy as there would not be enough young people to sustain the older population and it got out of control.or it just being a bio-weapon that turned on them and then spread worldwide

BUT HEY IT'S JUST A THEORY

No. 523681

>>523668
> i dislike boomers and they don't really add much to society

I mean we're on a site where a good portion of the twenty-somethings are neets who contribute nothing and freely share their lack of acheivement and blame it all on vague things like low mood and less than perfect parents (that usually still house and feed them as adults)

Not saying 80 year olds dying is the worst thing but the blanket statements on here saying saying fuck old people (except my lovely mommy!) .. it's getting dumb to have this shit posted multiple times a day. We get it.

No. 523682

>>523681
tbf if you told me corona only affected imageboard users i might respond the same way

No. 523684

>>523682
Bitter social misfits posting shit like
> "once me, my mom and my cat are ok, fuck everyone else, they can all die"

Yes please wipe us out.

No. 523685

>>523660
It will take centuries for us to get immune against it anon. There are already cases who got reinfected.

No. 523686

>>523685
source? id like to read up on this more

No. 523689

>>523685
Do you have a link? I think most of us assumed you get immunity afterwards

No. 523690

>>523663
Don't expect zoomers to understand what this coronavirus shit implies for the world. Unless the virus doesn't start to kill people like in their "survivall hurror gamezz!!1!" they won't care at all. Don't take the bait, anons.

No. 523691

>>523685
I think those were just the results of the faulty testkits no? It's been known it gives inconsistent results

No. 523693

>>523684
it was joke, anon. though the average age for severe cases being 80 does explain that huge outbreak on the cruise ship. i feel like mostly seniors and retired people go on cruises.

No. 523694

I'm angry because my coworker is a walking germ factory. She's constantly sick but blames it on allergies. I'm gonna watch the old bitch catch corona and then she's gonna bring it with her to the office and cough on me all because her boomer ass doesn't wanna use her paid sick time.

No. 523697

>>523694
spray her with febreeze like that black man sprayed that asian man on the train

No. 523699

>>523669
They don't know exactly why the infection rate of kids is low/ almost non existent.

>Don't children typically suffer more from most viruses?

Yes but thats why they build a strong defense. For example, when both my kids started daycare they would get sick all the time. But after a couple of years of that their immune system got strong as hell and now they never get sick. That and also teaching them proper health etiquette helps .

No. 523700

>>523669
Children can suffer more, but another theory floating around is kids are better at fighting off the disease because they're a blank slate. If an adult gets infected the body uses old antibodies, but if a kid does they're body is ready to create new anti bodies

No. 523701

>>523638
>>523661

>The average age of deceased patients who tested positive for COVID-2019 is 81 years, they are mostly men and in more than two thirds of cases have three or more pre-existing diseases. This is confirmed by an analysis of the data of 105 Italian patients who died on March 4, conducted by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, which shows that there is a 20-year difference between the average age of the deceased and that of the virus positive patients. The report concerns the deceased patients and is based on data obtained through the completion of a questionnaire developed ad hoc for the detection of death cases. The average age of the patients examined is 81 years, about 20 years older than that of the patients who have contracted the infection, and women are 28 (26.7%). The majority of deaths 42.2% occurred in the 80 to 89 age group, while 32.4% were between 70 and 79, 8.4% between 60 and 69, 2.8% between 50 and 59 and 14.1% over 90. Women who died after COVID-2019 infection are older than men (median age women 83.4 - median age men 79.9). The average number of diseases observed in this population is 3.4 (median 3, Standard Deviation 2.1). Overall, 15.5% of the sample had 0 or 1 pathologies, 18.3% had 2 pathologies and 67.2% had 3 or more pathologies. The most represented comorbidity is hypertension (present in 74.6% of the sample), followed by ischemic heart disease (70.4%) and diabetes mellitus (33.8%). The median time from onset of symptoms to hospitalization was 5 days and the median time between hospitalization and death was 4 days. "Although preliminary, these data confirm the observations made so far in the rest of the world on the main characteristics of patients - comments Iss President Silvio Brusaferro -, in particular on the fact that the elderly and people with pre-existing diseases are more at risk. These are very fragile people, who often live in close contact and we must protect them as much as possible".


http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioNotizieNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=italiano&menu=notizie&p=dalministero&id=4163

No. 523702

Is there a reason why small Island nations seem to be fairing a lot better? Don't see the Caribbean islands reporting very much despite them being heavily reliant on tourism.

No. 523703

>>523702
Lol just wait until all the US spring breakers hit and fuck it up. Currently a college student and the amount of people not cancelling their coastal/island travel plans in and out of the US for spring break is purely retarded.

No. 523704

>>523701
Tl;dr, sorry for being crass, but so far, yes its only been killing people who were already at deaths doorstep.

No. 523705

>>523699
They do get infected, technically. They just don't get sick. They're still gonna be infectious as hell. Another issue is what if schools close and kids have nowhere to go?

No. 523708

>>523702
I'm wondering if the stuff I'm hearing about it retreating a bit when the summer returns might help slow it. Yes, I do realize that the Southern Hemisphere is the opposite, but 88% of the world lives above the equator.

No. 523709

>>523693
I was quoting a post from days ago. I know that at least some of it is jokey but it's just getting repetitive

One cruise ship had three separate loads of passangers infected from three journeys. Jut kept carrying on as normal.

No. 523710

>>521841
>>523638
>197 to 631 in 5 days
I heard from an Italian classmate that ICUs are too overburdened there and they don’t have enough medical ventilators. Italian doctors are effectively forced to choose who live and who die, and it’s old people who die, which would contribute to death distribution. Pastanons know if this is true? Heartbreaking if so…

No. 523711

>>523705
That's my worry. Non symptomatic carriers and we all know kids are a great breeding ground for any illness. We're testing people who've been in contact with the ill but if children tend to silently carry it you can't clearly see how it's spreading.

If schools close I can still imagine people (in my country at least) treating it like an extended summer break and still bringing kids out to keep them entertained.

No. 523712

>>523596
Of ffs. You're either dumb or missing the point of my message entirely on purpose. I know doomers and peppers have a hard on for the corona but damn. If that's all you can contribute, don't misquote. Perfect example of how people become a bunch of hoarding panicked animals.

>>523673
No, it's not true, it's been largely debunked, read the thread or do your research.

>>523594
I'm a doc in the ER, so no. I just know not to panic and keep a cold head. Most of you here are healthy 20 somethings, the least likely to die from it - at most likely to carry the infection, yes. Keep informed on how to care if you have very old relatives you share an accommodation with.

My message is not meant to say there is no reason to be scared, it's meant to say stop all acting like a fucking deer in the headlights and hoarding food/supply like the world is ending tomorrow. Again, we'll figure this out, there is no reason to blow this out of proportion, it's not wildly different from any other viral outbreak we've seen so far.

No. 523714

>>523712
>I'm a doc in the ER
There goes any of your credibility lol

No. 523715

>>523710
We had the whole retarded debate here yesterday where american anon insisted that free health care makes everything a-okay but this is likely to happen in any country that is overwhelmed with cases. The extra equipment, staff and beds don't exist so you're fucked either way when it reaches the point that Italy is currently at.

>>523712
Nobody on this site is a Doc, come on

No. 523716

>>523715
>>523714
nta but why do people assume everyone on imageboards, especially lolcow which is primarily a gossip site, is some kind of jobless neet troglodyte. this was stated a few posts earlier too as though being on an imageboard makes you inable of holding a 'proper' career or being a functioning member of society.

No. 523718

>>523616
Not scandinavia but finnish here, we have 59 cases and sports stuff have been cancelled or will go on sans audience. A few schools that had infected people in them have closed a few classes. I don't think they're being harsh enough, we need the gatherings ban and travel bans of some sort.

No. 523719

>>523716
No one calls themselves an "ER Doc" for starters, maybe anon is a nurse who thought lying about her title would give her more clout in the discussion but yeah.
You probably shouldn't believe everything on the internet and no less an imageboard.

Most people I know in the medical field are stressed the fuck out right now, not trying to play up the "cool head" shtick to seem more rational than the other "animals."

No. 523721

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>>523719
Whatever you want to believe, man.

Here are some interesting numbers crunched that might be worth a read :
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-05/how-bad-is-the-coronavirus-let-s-compare-with-sars-ebola-flu

No. 523722

>>523716
No no no I’M a doctor and I can confirm that there is every single reason to panic, we’re all snorting hella lines to cope unironically.

No. 523723

>>523722
No, " nobody on this site is a doc, come on".

No. 523725

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No. 523726

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No. 523728

If we’re going to tinfoil…isn’t this the perfect time for China’s government to take out activists and others that have pissed them off in some way or another? Regardless of whether the virus was intentionally/accidentally leaked from a lab or just naturally jumped from live animals, whatever, it’s a perfect time to knock people off or detain them without too much suspicion.

No. 523729

>>523726
>I'm not scared but actually I am

Lmao. Fucking genius.

No. 523730

>>523728
True but I'd think they would do it regardless no ? It's not like they exactly care what people think.
But yeah, it's an opportunity to see a few "annoying" people disappear. Wouldn't be surprised this has already happened as we speak.
Now that's fucking scary. Imagine that.

No. 523731

>>523729
He's not scared of Covid, he's scared of how people are reacting to it, and rightly so.

No. 523732

>>523634
Hungarian anon checking in, a state of emergency was declared just now, and universities are closing their campuses. A travel ban was issued to Hungary from Italy, China, South Korea and Iran and they're also banning indoor events with more than 100 participants and outdoor events with more than 500 participants.
We have 13 infected and 69 in quarantine. No deaths so far.

No. 523733

>>523731
So he's scared. This is how human behavior responds to news about pandemics.

Just wait until there's the added stress of people sick with covid landing at his hospital doors. Then he can pretend to be rational fencesitter then too.

No. 523735

>>523732
Yoo wtf i am jealous you're already doing the most.

No. 523739

>>523729
I don't think reading comprehension is your strong suit

No. 523740

34 cases in Ireland. Most come from people who traveled and not alot of actual transmission here yet.

Highly surprised that they announced St Patricks day is cancelled. We're usually so backwards that we put Irish tradition above more important issues. God knows if many tourists would've still travelled here but the usual crowds and messy drinking in the pubs and streets would've been a great way for it to spread.

No. 523741

>>523733
I doubt Someone with this much experience medically will ever panic like you seem to hope they will.

But I'll leave it there, there's no talking sense into you, anons. Don't know if you're just preppers and doomers with a hard on for anything that looks like a pandemic, just very bored overall and need some excitement, or just plain thick, it's a waste of time.

No. 523742

>>523739
Hear hear. I give up. This thread is a mess.
Going back to real life, no point wasting time with this bunch really.

No. 523743

>my college is basically one of the only ones not to shut down
>friend's dad was in contact with someone who got tested positive
hope to god my friend is staying home and contacting the school today

No. 523744

>>523741
>>523742
You're obnoxious. Hide the thread.

No. 523745

>>523740
But is it truly cancelled, shamrockanon? Is there a travel ban?

Tourists will probably still show up. As far as we’re concerned, everyday is St. Patrick’s day in Ireland. God knows it won’t stop us over here.

No. 523746

>>523716
Don't want to get too off topic given there's already fighting above me but the majority of posts where I see anons sharing life details they describe living at home with parents, living with a bf and having no job, hating their bf but being unable to break up because they've no income, bitching about their parents being noisy in their own house.. the list goes on.

It's just what you see more often than women with careers or a lease. Neets posting 'should I save up to buy a switch' is my fave trend lately.

No. 523750

>>523716
>especially lolcow which is primarily a gossip site

it's primarily a gossip site about weebs and camwhores. most people on the site are jobless troglodytes and/or mentally ill. it's not like having a job makes you a functioning member of society anyway. functioning members of society aren't as negative as most anons on the site.

No. 523751

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I already see all my concerts being cancelled I'm devastated lmao. Any other concert fags here feeling this?

No. 523752

>>523745
Well I meant the main parade but I'm sure the day of drinking will carry on as normal for some. Honestly just surprised the parade isn't happening. It's absolute shite every year but I know a lot of planning goes into it all year round

Smaller parades are still happening in towns, thank god! Cos I wouldn't want to miss the dinky little three tractor parade my town gets spoiled with..

No. 523753

>>523721
Not to sound morbid, but the deadliness of Ebola was probably what helped in not spreading it at a crazy rate (besides location). People died so fast they didn't get the chance to spread it far.

No. 523755

>>523753
That and people carry on with life as normal when they've a cold, vomiting and diarrhea really keeps you put

No. 523756

>>523661
This. And most of them had multiple chronic sicknesses on top of everything. I wish the hysteric fear-mongering doomer-chans would just be infected with the virus already so they'd get their boner over with when they didn't die and barely even suffered.

No. 523757

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>>523751
Yep. Cities having a Celtic fair I want to visit, but I most likely shouldn't because I'm an at risk corona case

No. 523762

>>523756
>Entire country of Italy goes into lockdown mode
>Multiple states declare state of emergency
>World economy is collapsing
>5.8% mortality rate versus the common flu’s 0.1%

why does every retard like you think that everyone should be okay with being sick anyway?

No. 523766

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/11/politics/what-matters-coronavirus-is-about-to-change-your-life/index.html

>The suburb of New Rochelle, New York, is under containment, with National Guard called in to help deliver food to residents.


RIP Luna and Lurch

No. 523767

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/who-declares-the-coronavirus-outbreak-a-global-pandemic.html
We did it everyone. Stupid question but what happens when WHO declares something a pandemic?
>>523766
Good, it'll keep those rats inside

No. 523768

Officially a pandemic now according to WHO. Is it nothing now?

No. 523772

>>523767
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/pandemic-what-meaning-coronavirus-impact-uk-serious/

this explains stuff pretty well.

>According to WHO's pandemic preparedness plan, a response to a pandemic would require national governments to action the "full mobilisation of health systems, facilities, and workers at national and subnational levels", to "distribute personal protective equipment" and to "distribute antivirals and other medical supplies in accordance with national plans".

No. 523773

>>523762
Common flu doesn't have 0.1% mortality. And Corona doesn't have 5.8% mortality rate outside of Italy.

No. 523774

>>523766

New York officials traced more than 50 coronavirus cases back to one attorney

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/11/us/new-rochelle-attorney-containment-area/index.html

No. 523775

>>523773
Coronavirus morality rate is 3.4%, common flu morality rate is in fact 0.1%, don’t know where you’re getting that it’s not.

No. 523776

>>523773
source?

No. 523777

>>523773
see >>523721 you idiot.

No. 523778

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No. 523782

Can I quit my job now?

No. 523783

Virus isn't here yet but I'll probably go stock up on some normal stuff and bottled water just in case things start going down. Do viruses like this mutate? What are the possibilities of this getting worse?

No. 523784

>>523783
all viruses mutate, anon.

No. 523786

There are supsected cases in my bumfuck-nowhere town in northern europe so I'm getting rice and beans before people start to freak out.

No. 523790

>>523773
>responding to a copypasta greentext thats been all over 4chan since italy got hit with covid

No. 523792

>>523790
hi /cgl/ friend!

No. 523793

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Well, when it's my turn then?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/angela-merkel-most-people-will-get-the-coronavirus.html

>“When the virus is out there, the population has no immunity and no therapy exists, then 60 to 70% of the population will be infected,” Merkel told a news conference in Berlin on Wednesday, according to Reuters. The country has over 82 million citizens.


>“The process has to be focused on not overburdening the health system by slowing the virus’s spread. It’s about winning time.”

No. 523794

>>523716
Because if she were a doc she would know better and understand that the people have a good reason to panic and wouldn't try to play cool. In my country the medical workers are already understaffed by default and people already started looting in hospitals when there were <1000 infections, if things get any worse medical staff will be completely wrecked. So she's either larping or delusional-levels of coping.

No. 523800

I'm stoked my college is delaying the return after spring break and when we get out, so I'll be at my dorm for longer and will miss more of Ramadhan! I fucking hate fasting.

No. 523803

Influenza kills more people than the coronavirus so everyone is overreacting, right? Wrong — and here’s why

“There are four other strains of the coronavirus, but the attack rate of this virus is relatively high as there is no immunity to it.”

The name ‘influenza’ originated in the 15th century in Italy, from an epidemic attributed to the ‘influence of the stars.’”

https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/2D489B7A-618B-11EA-BDAC-86A14558BB22

>>523800

Do Muslims bend the rules for things like this?

No. 523804

>>523803
dude, we got it. in fact someone posted something to try to downplay corona that proves it's more deadly than the flu. people forget that when calculating morbidity we look at deaths vs recoveries and not just deaths vs total cases.

No. 523805

I'm hoping my dumbass HR department lets us work from home soon. My company is essential since its telecommunications so I'm hoping I'll still get paid while staying the fuck home.

No. 523806

the main thing worrying me is medication. I'm on anti-depressants and am worried pharmacies might close. I don't want to go through withdrawal symptoms. I also worry for people who need life sustaining medication.

food is another thing. I live in a small uk town and don't know if I'll have to isolate myself. what is the isolation period? like if I thought I had the virus tomorrow, I call work and tell them but how long do I stay inside? sorry if this info has been posted already. I'm gonna get some food ready in case I can't get to the supermarkets, things like tinned soups.

I don't understand why people seem to be stockpiling toilet paper. it's nice to have but there are always cleaning cloths and other cotton scraps to wipe yourself on. bucket the used ones them wash them! I'd rather not do this but there are already low waste people who do.

sorry for blogpost. will sage

No. 523810

>>523806
i'm sorry but you should already know this stuff. i am gonna spoonfeed you though, the home isolation is 2 weeks. get canned and nonperishable stuff and hand soap at least.

No. 523814

>>523810

US fag and NTA, but just try getting Rx meds refilled on insurance even a day before they're due. Can't be done.

No. 523816


No. 523818

>>523793
This has been known and published by the Robert Koch Institute(germany's main institute for illness prevention) for almost a week now. The whole conference is her saying "we'll do something" over and over again without actually saying what they are planning to do to stop the spread. This is a fucking shitshow, why are they like this.

For german anons or those with google translate:
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article206495961/Epidemie-Merkels-politisch-gefaehrlicher-Satz-zu-Corona.html
>they want to prevent getting into further debt
>aid for companies who are in financial emergencies due to corona
>merkel claims to have taken care of the problem since january
>Border closures to contain the virus were rejected by Merkel as an "inadequate response to the challenges".
>Mr. Spahn and the president of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar H. Wieler, jumped in. “Lockdown is naive. The virus will come anyway, ”said Wieler. "It's about slowing everything down. There will be a vaccine at some point. An immunity of the population will develop. "Spahn said about a spread of the virus:" Cross-border closure does not prevent that. It is in the country. ”Spahn does not want comprehensive school closures either. This leads to new problems if, for example, grandparents, who are at greater risk than older people, have to take care of childcare.
>"We always work really well together in the cabinet and now we do it much more intensely," said Merkel, praising her minister: "I think Jens Spahn is doing a great job in a difficult situation. I have total confidence, it's a great exchange. "
They will do abso-fucking-lutely nothing so watch us compete with Italy and Iran soon.

No. 523819

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Has The Stand been COVID-memed yet? I'm running low on wit today.

No. 523822

>>523621
Assuming you're being serious, just get cat food and litter. You should honestly be buying both in bulk anyway because its so much cheaper.

>>523814
May depend on a state by state basis but I've never had an issue getting a non narcotic filled for 3 months. Just tell your doctor you'd like a three month prescription because it's easier to pick up based on your schedule.

No. 523823

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No. 523824

>>523816

In case you're expressing ? rather than !, insurance won't pay for refills too early. And in my experience the time limit depends on the medication, too. So how the fuck are people supposed to stock up?

No. 523825

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I'm interested in what anons here think of pic related from 4chan. It was posted back in January.
>>523555
Yeah I don't trust people to stay good natured during a crisis, I think looters are also smart enough to head for the richer communities first (and praying whatever they find there will keep them satisfied and away from my area). I spoke about this to my mum and all she had to say is 'there'll be law enforcement around'.

No. 523827

>>523824
yes they will, you can get it up to 3 months, their pharmacy operations department just has to do what's called a vacation override.

No. 523828

>>523824
check who you're replying to, anon.

No. 523829

>>523825
that post is pretty cool, only that idiot obviously doesn't know what the fuck they are on about considering it will take at the very least a year for us to even develop a vaccine.

No. 523830

>>523824
Your doctor can release your prescription ahead of time regardless of if your insurance will cover it or not (they should cover it though). If for whatever reason they dont cover it, you can always try goodrx.com
I cant tell you how often that website saved my broke, insurance-less ass.

No. 523832

>>523818

I'm op and for me it's 2015 all over again. Of course it's just about winning time. It's always been and and not doing anything, just waiting and not answering questions. People are mad (again) and nobody wants to give a clear answer to anything. We are so low on nursing stuff and thay they have to care for 70% of germany would mean a total collaps of that already garbage heath care system. It's another problem that is known for YEARS and what did they do? Nothing. Mr. Span Wuhan Son no.1 said in January that everything is under control. Bitch where? Germany is pretty much what the "This is fine" meme is about. They should have stopped all airplanes back in January from china when it was first heard of the virus. Now it's all over the place where I live. Happy Birthday.

>>523823

lol

No. 523834

>>523825
I posted that on cgl and got bullied. So far he is spot on though.

No. 523838

>>523825
If what he says on a lethal bat mutation is true, I guess it's better to catch the virus right now and hopefully get antibodies that will protect you when it mutates and becomes more dangerous?

No. 523841

>>523803
No, you're supposed to fast unless you're too old/young or pregnant, or you're really sick.

I just won't be home so my parents can't nag me to fast and pray.

No. 523844

>>523822

I'm on Medicaid. I get my meds from Walgreens which offers 3 month supplies where available through insurance. I can't get my asthma/COPD inhalers more than one month at a time. One costs $536 and the other $417 so no way can I afford to pay out of pocket to stock up.

>>523830

Does goodrx.com work with Medicaid?

Of course, this all depends on my incompetent Not A Doctor being competent.

No. 523847

>for me it's 2015 all over again.
Right?? Spahn even pulled the "Jetzt sind sie ist es hat da"/"Well, now they're it's here" again. Nevermind the refugee crisis is still an issue and turkey's actions might even make it worse in this mess.

>Germany is pretty much what the "This is fine" meme is about.

It really is. At some nightshifts my friend who is a nurse has to work alone for one whole care unit for years now. But hey, we can do it :^)))

I wonder what it takes for them to finally take action.

No. 523848

>>523715
Never said free-health care would make it better fuckwit. I said healthcare is a mess in America, not that it would solve coronavirus Jesus Christ.

No. 523850

>>523847
I meant to quote >>523832 Either way, please stay safe as far as you can anon.

No. 523852

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Take care of your folks, folks!

No. 523853

>>522899
Sorry anon, I'm replying to this 2 days later but holy fuck, we have currently 246 infected people here in Austria and the council of Vienna said that schools for people older than 14 will get closed on Monday, and for the younger ones it will get closed on Wednesday until Easter Break which starts April 4th so that means three fucking weeks no school/university/etc. for anyone and me and I am already stressing out so much. So incredibly much. I graduate next year and this year is already so stressful for me, because my grades are absolute fucking shit and now we have this virus and I feel like having a complete breakdown, because I cannot cope with failing and I want to pass my year so bad. Fuck this virus.

Besides that, all the theaters, museums, etc. are closed too and people are already starting to buy a lot of things in all the supermarkets like a bunch of greedy bitches and sell it on ebay/amazon all expensive.

>>522893
Thank you for your concern anon, and yes I have.
My family always has a lot of things stored in the fridge so we don't have to spend unnecessary money and I believe it'll help us for a long time if the entire country is quarantined like Italy.

One thing that's absolutely annoying is that I cannot talk all normally with my family about the virus without getting attacked by my abusive narc mother (who always finds a way to victimize herself). I was telling her about the 246 infected people like 10 minutes ago and she immediately said that "Anon you want me to get infected I know you want it that's why you're telling me about it you want to get rid of me you hate me", like I've never said such thing but ok.

I apologize for the rant and bad grammar, I'm just a huuuuuuge mess right now and so panicked and tired of everything. 2020 is so exhausting.

I also have a very bad cough so yikes.

No. 523854

Fuck Sweden. We hit 500 today and our first death and the government still refuses to close schools and universities. I don't wanna gooooo

No. 523855

Sorry for the doublepost, but I believe that the reason why Austria has such a high infected rate right now is because Italy is literally right under us and many people believe that it's coming from there, aka 12.462 causes and 827 deaths.

>tfw you want to skip 2020 already and want to greet 2021 with a welcoming hug

No. 523856

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Any Nebraskanons? I don't know whether to be concerned or not. For as boring as NE is, it has great medical facilities. Many passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise are continuing to be brought here for treatment. There are 5 separate cases unrelated to the Diamond Princess here, and three of the cases were tied to one woman: the woman herself, her father, and her brother. I know it isn’t as bad as other places, but I’m still worried about how fast the spread is.

No. 523859

>>523854
Since we're only at 500, closing all schools is excessive. However, I expect in the coming weeks it will be more likely they'll start closing more schools.

I am an employee of the state and they have begun banning all traveling to conferences and keeping meetings online instead of in person, so that's good.

Many elderly care units have stopped accepting visitors as well.

I wonder what the environmental impact of corona will be?

No. 523860

>>523854
i was highkey surprised yall didn't cancel mello. i wonder if eurovision will soon announce cancellation, no one wants to go.

No. 523863

>>523860
At the time of mello we had less than 40 cases right so it makes sense they didn't cancel it.

No. 523866

>>523863
oh shit, i thought it must've been like at least 100 based on the numbers right now! ok makes sense lmao

No. 523867

>>523853
Can't you extend your study years by one semester or apply for a "holiday semester"(not sure what it is in english)?

Also, I wish they'd ban or heavily fine the reselling already. There is no reason not to at this point.

No. 523870

>>523855
The 2020's have begun with such a drastic start
>The end of the war in afghanistan
>the end of the war in Syria
>coronavirus causing a global depression on par with the great depression

we are going to be feeling the effects of this decade for generations

No. 523873

Not to sound morbid but what percentage of the elderly population do you think will die and how will that affect the political landscape. Do you think we will see more innovation or some kind of mini rennaisance era as a result?

No. 523874

I have had a breathing issue since last year. Do you think Corona will affect me badly? I'm only in my 20s.

No. 523875

>>523874
risk group, mate. you could still be ok if you got it.

No. 523876


No. 523877

>>523874

What are you dx with? Are you on meds for it? I have asthma and COPD and scarring due to a serious case of pneumonia a few years ago so I share your concern. holds your hand

No. 523878

>>523874

Samefag >>523877. If you don't have meds, try to at least get an albuterol sulfate "emergency" inhaler.

No. 523883

Norwegian anon here. 489 cases here now. About 200 new just within the last day. Nobody has died yet. They are finally putting restrictions now on people travelling here from high-risk areas.
All events over 500 are cancelled. Cruise ship passengers will not be allowed to enter land. Universities are also starting to restrict classes now but no full shut downs of schools yet.

Denmark is now the first scandinavian country to close all schools and kindergartens.

No. 523884

>>523883
Norway's got 622 cases not 489 lol

No. 523888

Fucking hell you guys, I just want this shit to be over with so that we can have our goddamn lives back.

Everything about this outbreak has just brought out all the worst in humanity and confirms all of my cynical, misanthropic suspicions about our race. Most people seem to recover/have mild symptoms of the virus other than the really fucking old and people with pre-exisiting conditions, and yet if you turn on the news you would think zombies are running around in the street and we are all going to starve to death.

It is just a constant, 24/7 orgy of fear and despair. It's like the media WANTS people to go apeshit, so that they can be on the frontlines taking it all in.

I just want this all to be over so I don't have to be afraid we are going to chimp out on each other and start riots, raping, and pillaging because collectively we are fucking stupid and cannot handle shit beyond where's the nearest toilet and, can I have fries with that???

I am honestly more scared of humans and their response to the future than I am the actual virus. We can never seem to handle things calmly and rationally. It's either apathetic and nonchalant or full on AIDS, burn down houses and start attacking each other like rabid dogs. All the things in the world we can do, and yet the moment we even have to contemplate the fucking reality that we could die, as though it was never an option, suddenly people's primal urges start coming out.

I guess my only hope is that, through all of this darkness, that when things begin to calm down and either there is a vaccine or whatever, we will have a global renaissance and the world will be a better place than the one it is today. Perhaps in some strange way we needed this to wake us all the fuck up and appreciate how good we really do have it.

No. 523889

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Colorado declared a state of emergency this morning, and a few of the colleges here have shut down.

Most of the people who tested positive have been traveling or family of people who traveled. Why the fuck are people still traveling!? How hard is it to stay in one place for a few weeks? Jesus.

No. 523892

>>523888
I sympathize but do you ever go outside or are you getting all this online? I have a normal 9-5 job in a big institution and everyone is being chill about it and just washing their hands a lot more. People have bought a reasonable amount of spare food and made sure they have remote working set up just in case and that's it. Definitely no rabid dogs burning down houses.

Like maybe if you're sick of the news media fueling your misanthropy then stop watching the news? If you KNOW they're putting on a circus of despair for the clicks then stop drinking it in like it's a true vision of reality.

No. 523894

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No. 523896

>>523892
>I have a normal 9-5 job in a big institution and everyone is being chill about it
Same here. They gave us all hand sanitizer and HR sends occasional emails about it but it's business as usual and no normal people are going crazy.

We've had issues with panic buying and hoarding tp in my country, and some absolute bogans have fought over it in stores, but that's the worst that has happened.

No. 523897

>tfw you try talking to your parents all normally about this in a casual tone
>gets yelled at
>tfw you try to tell them all normally and harmlessly that school is cancelled
>gets yelled at
>tells them to please take care of themselves
>gets yelled at
>they immediately assume that i am somehow excited over this (??) for no fucking reason and think that i am telling them tot take care of themselves because "i secretly hate them"

I love my family!

No. 523898

>>523896
Yeah same. There is some panic buying going on but the only real problem I've had is that I need a mild antiseptic for a chronic skin condition and I can't get that for love nor money.

I'm most worried about my commute TBH, I take public transport and people are a little TOO chill about it. They're not even covering their mouths when they cough!

No. 523899

>>523874
>>523877
Crossing fingers for you anons, take care

No. 523900

>>523897
That's not a family.
Stop talking to those terrible people they're clearly aggressive towards you.

No. 523908

>>523889
I work at a custodial office on the western slope and so many people are just completely oblivious and uneducated about it, even students. Some boomers think it’s a political hoax??? It’s so annoying and the college isn’t going to do anything until there’s a confirmed case in the area so hooray for me!

No. 523912

>>523898

Which antiseptic? Curious former med/piercer fag.

Maybe we should start a supply chain of our own. I have an extra Ventolin albuterol inhaler available. And all of the corner stores in my hood still have plenty of TP and disinfectants in stock at their original prices!

No. 523915

Is there any way you can make a homemade mask that actually works too?

My country literally inhaled all the meds and masks dry and now I am left with nothing but.. a tissue.

No. 523916

Any french or spanish anons here? How are you doing?

No. 523917

>>521746
My Uni won't talk about Corona outside of really general terms, like I only know that they're panicking because I'm taking a course that has already been affected by future plans to shut down, no idea why they aren't telling people, exams aren't far off. It's really shitty they're essentially waiting for someone in the Uni to get Corona.

No. 523918

>>523915
Same but you can still buy (scalped) packs from overseas ebay.

No. 523920

>>523854
I'm also a swede. Our neighboring countries were smart enough to close schools and big events weeks ago. Social gatherings with 500 people are banned but what about all of Stockholm using public transport to get to uni/work. Literally just close all fucking schools, it can't be that hard.

No. 523923

>>523915

Hell, I even have extra masks, both N95 and basic medical ones, left over from the wildfires of 2018. I can't use them due to my asthma/COPD. They create a massive strain on the hearts and lungs of people with chronic respiratory and heart conditions. Of course, no healthcare entity has offered people like me an alternative. Before the start of wildfire season last year I called several health departments and care providers; surely they had come up with something during the previous year, I thought.

"Sorry. We don't have any advice for you at this time."

"I guess we'll just get sick and die!" I replied with a maniacal laugh at their incompetence.

"…"

No. 523928

>>523597
I live in the rural United States where, if our power goes out, we have no water and we try to stock up as much as we can when grocery shopping. So we always stay a certain level of prepared: bottled water, spare non-potable water for flushing(I know it won't be an issue, but I'm just sharing what I do. What if the well pump goes out and we're on quarantine, for example?), canned goods, paper goods, medicines, stuffed freezers, things to trade and give to friends and relatives. That said, I hadn't considered taking a vitamin and may start doing this; thank you for sharing your experience. I hope that won't be the case for you at your workplace.

My area has cases popping up, including one they still can't seem to trace the origin to, and may declare state of emergency since the state we share a border with has done so.

People here haven't gone into panic mode yet, so that's good. Everything tends to happen in extremes here. It can go from apathy to insanity in a second.

I'm not worried, but I am taking it seriously.

No. 523932

>>523916
Spic here, we're still pretty chill about it. In my region (Madrid) they closed all the schools including colleges and people are taking it as the kids are on vacation, seen plenty of children on the streets today.
There's been footage of empty supermarkets with people buying meat and vegetables in bulk, like we're not living in a warm country and there's so much your refrigerator can take. The footage also showed the old ladies waiting in queue with bags over their heads instead of masks kek. I don't know where it was because I went shopping this afternoon and aside from coffee and some canned goods everything was in its place.
I'm not worried since I'm not in a risk group and neither are my roommates or my work colleagues. If I catch it so be it, I'll just try not to spread it further.
I also had a good laugh these days because one VOX (the Spanish far-right party) politician tested positive and they had a meeting last Sunday in a building with 5k+ people. Now all the old fascist farts who attended are scared for their lives.
Media is nuts though and they're trying to spread panic everywhere. Just like they always do. But people here are pretty chill.

No. 523933

The college I go to in Connecticut is having its spring break tomorrow, and the president sent out an email saying all the classes will be online for at least two weeks when everyone returns. No students allowed at the school unless they need to use the library’s computers.

No. 523934

>>523884
All the main norwegian news sites except one say 489. It's likely more now but that's the latest update from the health officials here. One news site here seems to have a higher number which could be correct or not.

No. 523936

>>523892


I am the anon you’re responding to. Yes, I do have work and school for the time being. I apologize if I sound stupid, I am just mentally over it. I have relatives attacking each other in the family because someone sneezed, my campus refuses to give us definitives on whether it will be closing for safety, and we have a lot of money stupidly tied up in the stock market, which I have always been wary of.

I came here to vent, that’s all, which is what I thought this thread was for anyway. I have a right to how I feel personally, and you as well. Let’s try and respect one another as this is affecting everyone in many ways. My thoughts are with all of you, and may tomorrow hopefully be better than today.

No. 523939

>>523920
Also Swedish, fuck I hate taking public transport and going grocery shopping now because utter retards will just cough openly in crowded areas and bring their sick children to touch all the food, it's making me paranoid! People need to fucking behave.

No. 523977

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No. 523979

>>523915
france?

No. 523981

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No. 523987

>>523916
frog, tomorrow macron will talk to the country probably about the new pandemic update. no one is nervous or scared. everything is business as usual, its scary though because they arent testing people who are young and show symptoms so i imagine this will spread even further. i feel like we're going to become italy in a week or two and many people will suffer because of our countries arrogance. macron openly chastised other countries for closing their borders

No. 523998

I'm afraid me and my family might have caught it. We're showing symptoms of a cold like runny nose, sneezing, weakness and a bit of fever (37.8°).
I've read that when you show symptoms it's already too late because your lungs are collapsing. Is that true? And am I being paranoid? I'll try to get tested tomorrow.

No. 524001

>>523998
Those aren’t the main symptoms for corona. If you’re having trouble breathing or coughing a lot, then it would be more likely. As of now, you should have no reason to panic though.

No. 524004

>>523987
Yeah, France seems weirdly chill about all of this compared to their neighbouring countries which makes no sense to me. I'm surprised worried french people aren't rioting over the lax control tbh.

No. 524011

>>523998
Your lungs won't be failing unless you developed complication from covid-19. Are you provided with a hotline for your locale?

No. 524012

>>523998
why not actually read up on the symptoms from your local trusty source? no, your otherwise healthy lungs will not collapse once you have the cough, maybe keep notes on your symptoms and just stay in as much as possible. basically home isolate. you'll be okay anon.

No. 524015

>>523998
Where do you live? And how old are you?

No. 524027

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>>524004
honestly people are just making memes about it, its a big fucking joke until its not anymore

No. 524028

>>523825
>WHO is already talking about how problematic modeling the Chinese response in Western countries is going to be, and the first country they want to try it out in is Italy
Why Italy tho?

No. 524030

>>523933
My college is on spring break right now and they extended it another week with online classes for a few weeks after.

I really hope graduation doesn't get canceled. I didn't graduate high school and I was really looking forward to getting to walk for commencement just once in my life.

I'm gonna admit I'm a bit nervous about this because I got swine flu in 2009 and almost legitimately died from pneumonia in 2015. My immune system is shit.

No. 524031

>>523977
Damnnnn, RIP US.

Im glad Japan chose to close all the schools so children can stay at home, so early on.

No. 524035

>>524028

Wut? The horse is already out of the barn and down the road.

>>523977

We're fucked.

>>524027

Well, dark humor is a recognized coping mechanism of first responders and medical personnel.

>>524030

Another pneumonia '15 survivor here. I live in fear, too, anon.

About to head to Walgreens to pick up a refill for monteleukast. Asthma and allergy and COPD anons, ask your provider about this med if you haven't heard of it. It really helps me.

Hopefully they've restocked the TP…

No. 524036

Trump just addressed the nation
>All travel from europe banned for the next 30 days starting friday
>To include trade, and cargo
>All insurance copayments waived for coronavirus treatment
>8.3$B funds signed a week ago for use in testing, and response
>Financial relief for workers who are ill, quarantined, or taking care of others coming down the pipeline

No. 524037

The entirety of Europe is quarantined from USA (except UK). RIP burgers overseas. Wonder if this is gonna help anything though. At least treatments are covered?

No. 524038

>>524037
I'm wondering if they'll check people travelling from the UK who visited the EU?

No. 524039

>>524036

BBC News - Coronavirus: Trump halts travel from Europe to US
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51846923

No. 524041

>>524036
>To include trade, and cargo
This is really going to fuck things up even more.

They canceled the Figure Skating Worlds that were going to be in Montreal.

No. 524043

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No. 524044

>>524043
My bets are on trump being next

No. 524045

>>524044
imagine the chaos of the white house being infected

No. 524048

Southern burger reporting. Not panicked but just concerned, given the address tonight and seeing this >>523977, I don't feel like I'm prepared enough. I bought some supplies tonight.
Could fellow burgers and italianons weigh in on what they're doing?

No. 524049

>>524044
He looked kinda sick in that address

No. 524050

>>524045
Actually now that I think about it, I don't think they'd tell us about it, not in real time at least.

No. 524051

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Coronavirus is in my city and I'm so afraid for my dad. He's 63, he smokes, and I think he might have chronic bronchitis. I'm terrified that he wouldn't be able to survive if he caught coronavirus.

No. 524052

My state had its first confirmed cases today. Holy shit I'm so sick of people around me constantly downplaying the situation. I'm not part of the vulnerable population but middle class American fucks really don't give a shit about anyone but themselves. Yeah I'll probably be fine if I contact it (save for scars on my lungs) but do you not have any sympathy for people who aren't healthy? Older generations, people who can't afford treatment, literally ANYONE who is not directly in your sphere? I work in one of the most touristy places and have constant, direct contact with people who just won't fucking cancel their shit. Everyday I get jokes from my manager about how she's buying $200 tickets to San Diego and how people are overreacting. I'm constantly hearing my parents quote shitty boomer Facebook memes about surviving pandemics despite the fact that they're not at the age where they're becoming way more susceptible to these sorts of things. They're always going 'Just what your hands people!' but I know for a fact that my almost 60 year old Father NEVER washes his hands because he's a disgusting old fuck. It would be nice if we could take something seriously as a nation but we're so brainwashed about constant production that we can't even consider doing the right thing before it's too late.

No. 524053

>>524052
San Diegan here, our colleges are freaking out and shutting down. One school had someone who went there after they interacted with a person who ended up positive just two days ago and the sister colleges are trying to do damage control. Nothing has gotten ultrabad yet but we're preparing

No. 524054

>>524051
same for my mom. she smoked for a while but quit 20 years ago, but she has asthma now and has to use her inhaler and get steroids every time she gets sick. i don't think she'd make it if she caught it and im currently overseas in europe so I basically have to decide right now if I want to be there with them because theres already many confirmed cases in their state and will only increase as time goes on. I don't know if I could forgive myself if I end up trapped here and she ends up dying and I can't be there for her. 30 days is a long time for something like corona which takes weeks to get serious.

No. 524055

>>524051
I'm worried about my mom too. She's the same age and has diabetes(apparently they're more at risk) and used to smoke. She wanted to travel and I told her not to go and also told her to please prep and buy some perishables. We fight a lot but she's really the only person who gives a shit about me in this world and I don't want to lose her to this.

No. 524059

Extremely scared for my mom. She just got out of the hospital because of issues with her pancreas and we jsut found out she has diabetes. She also smokes so I am more scared for her than I am myself.

I'm worrying myself sick and my boyfriend is saying I should stop worrying over what I can't control. Must be real fuckin nice to have that mindset when you only see it as old people dying.

No. 524060

>>524053
Same with Boston. A lot of the schools are going to online classes now. My school extended spring break by another week as well.

No. 524061

>>524043
seems the pedo elite aren't exempt from this

No. 524062

Midwest anon here. There haven't been that many cases in my state yet, but god only knows what's gonna change in a week or two. I've been stocking up on things but trying not to go full doomer lmao. It's all stuff that would be used regardless so it should be okay.

A lot of people close to me have pre-existing conditions and would definitely get fucked up by covid, so I've just been checking the updates and making sure they're all safe lol

Praying for anons and their families. stay safe ladies

No. 524063

>>524035
The way he worded it sounded like WHO wanted to "try out" strict lockdown/quarantine measures specifically with Italy, but only if an outbreak occurred there… which makes me think they weren't convinced yet that Italy would be a hotspot. Italy only had 2 cases on January 31st, there were other European countries with more cases at that time.
I'm guessing they were focused on Italy because of their really old population?

No. 524064

Cali anon here, my office is mandatory WFH now for the next 30 days. Scary times, stay healthy out there. I haven't stockpiled anything but I'm considering it.

No. 524066

NBA suspended its season

No. 524068

>>524044
Good, I hope so. It's karma.

No. 524070

anons I feel this is probably a stupid question but I spent about six months last year living in a housing situation where I was exposed to asbestos. I breathe fine now but when I was living there, I would cough very hard every night, often to the point of dry heaving and struggling for breath. I've heard that complications from asbestos exposure usually appear years after you are exposed to it. should I be worried? am otherwise healthy.

No. 524071

>>524043
yeah but him and his dumb cunt wife are here in aus at the moment, fucks sake.

No. 524072

>>524070
i'd ask stupid questions thread or /r/askadoctor

No. 524079

>>523825
Well…the virus is already in Brazil with approx 25 reported cases.

Please don’t reach the bats, Corona-chan…

No. 524083

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No. 524086

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This broke my brain

No. 524089

>>524086
That dumbass did that shit on purpose to make fun of the virus and then ends up testing positive. Who knows how many people he’s infected for refusing to take it seriously.

No. 524097

>>524064

If your in or near SF I have extra masks, N95 and the basic medical ones.

No. 524098

American paid sick leave bill got blocked from passing by some old white republican because money can only be used to benefit wealthy corporations. Fuck this country and fuck the government for getting people killed. USA treats their workers like trash even when lives are at risk from a pandemic

No. 524102

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>>524098
It's all so tiresome. I want to take leave from my job as a precaution to my parents I live with (both nearing their 70's) but it'd be a huge financial hit and I think the agency I work for would think I'm being hysterical (they're taking the "just wash your hands guys!!!" approach.) I live about an hour outside of NYC where there's a massive population of commuters who use public transport to go to work. I have a feeling we'll soon be in a situation similar to New Rochelle. I'm doing my best to keep it together but this is getting very real very fast. Anons I hope this doesn't get too much worse.

No. 524104

>>524097
Masks are needed for the sick and health care workers, not for imbeciles to fucking hoard.

No. 524105

>>524104

Who said anything about hoarding them? See my previous post >>523923. I'm trying to help fellow anons by offering what I can.

PS Fuck you

No. 524106

>>523888
I tried taking the same approach you have because the media is creating hysteria, and as someone with anxiety, I typically feed off of the feelings of others. I tried to ration that we can overcome this, we overcame SARS and Ebola before, but was accused of being unsympathetic. I was so pissed I just deactivated my Facebook because I can't live in fear like this. I already do it, I don't need to be carrying the burden of everyone else's fears too.
Literally we just have to limit our time around others. Well, I'm unemployed so I never leave the house, I already feel like I'm quarantined and am going stir crazy. Now I have someone bitching at me because I want to live my miserable life, meanwhile they're stockpiling their house like a doomsday bunker. What am I supposed to do because I'm clearly not doing it "right"?

No. 524107

>>524106
Stop taking everything so personal, it isn’t about you

No. 524108

>>524052
I can't tell if I'm sending myself into a panic over nothing now but I've been feeling pretty fatigued over the past few days, my ears have starting hurting like they do when I get sick, I'm having some slight issues breathing and I have a very mild dry cough. The only thing I don't have is a fever so I'm not in full on panic mode, just nervous. Like I said my work mostly caters to tourists so I'm interacting with tons of travelers everyday and it's not out of the realm of possibility. I'm going to sleep on it before making any decisions but I can't help but feel kinda anxious. I also feel kinda stupid for worrying.

No. 524110

>>524107

NTA but holy crap. Lay off. This is /ot.

No. 524111

>>522339
I heard someone unironically calling the homeless population on skid row a public health issue now… because no access to hygiene means the illness will spread quickly. Homelessness is only a public health issue when it’s going to impact joe blow and his wife Karen

No. 524117

Australia has announced a $17 billion stimulus package which includes up to $25k for businesses and lump $750 to everyone on welfare payments. this includes me so I'm not really complaining but it just seems shortsighted. I don't know much about economics but should we really be dropping that much money just to encourage people to spend (which also means they'll be out of the house more) when we're not 100% sure what's to come? what if we need it if this turns mega crisis?

No. 524120

>>524111

LA's Skid Row and and the homeless pop in San Diego were the centers of a widespread hep A outbreak last year, so they are already on a lot of people's bad side.

My neighborhood in SF is the center of the homeless population here, and I spent a few weeks on the street (camping in one of the parks) here myself a few years ago. And I quickly got sick when fall arrived which led to life threatening pneumonia. The homeless pop here is much larger, much sicker (physically and mentally), and much more heavily into drugs than it was when I arrived. Sometimes when I head out for an errand on a sunshiny day the human suffering I see just outside my building's gate is too much and I return to my room for a bit.

I'm trying not to contemplate what may happen here by the end of the month.

No. 524121

>>524108

Have some herbal tea with lemon and ginger and a good night, anon!

No. 524124

>>523230
Therapy over the phone?

No. 524127

>>523998
I already posted about it upthread but again, according to the WHO:
>As of 20 February 2020 and based on 55924 laboratory confirmed cases, typical signs and symptoms include: fever (87.9%), dry cough (67.7%), fatigue (38.1%), sputum production (33.4%), shortness of breath (18.6%), sore throat (13.9%), headache (13.6%), myalgia or arthralgia (14.8%), chills (11.4%), nausea or vomiting (5.0%), nasal congestion (4.8%), diarrhea (3.7%), and hemoptysis (0.9%), and conjunctival congestion (0.8%).

No. 524128

>>523936
Hey sorry for being overly harsh. I have a lot of friends who are edgy misanthropist shut-ins and I ran out of patience a bit.

I can understand why you're worried and I hope you can get a bit more clarity on your college situation at least, it sucks not knowing what you're supposed to do.

No. 524129

>>523912
It doesn't matter exactly which as long as it's mild enough to apply twice a day without damaging my skin or poisoning myself. I normally use cetylpyridinium chloride or chlorhexidine, I've used diluted hydrogen peroxide in a pinch but I wouldn't want to do that every day.

The first aid shelf in every pharmacy here is just EMPTY, I can't get any sort of antiseptic at all. I don't know what people are even expecting to use it for, soap will work better for washing their hands and the virus doesn't cause skin lesions. I think they're just buying any medical stuff that seems vaguely useful.

No. 524145

Can absynthe or strong vodka be used as a substitute for hand sanitizer??

I'm running low and in all the stores and pharmacies I looked they all have been sold out

No. 524154

i need some advice anons. my school closed their undergraduate campus, but i'm a doctoral student and the medical campus/research labs are still open. most of my classmates have said that they're going to continue going in to work on their projects. i can do a lot of my work from home but i never get much done at home and i'm not looking forward to rescheduling all of my meetings when i could easily go in; no one in my family is high risk. on the other hand, coronavirus has already hit near my hometown and i have a 90 minute commute that involves taking public transport. i know i probably shouldn't go in but i don't want to be perceived as lazy by my supervisor

No. 524162

>>522669
Seems like bad karma.
>>522940
Planning to visit Italy to do what? See tanks roll through the streets and prison riots? They were told told to shut down all restaurants and shops.
https://time.com/5801497/italy-shops-restaurants-coronavirus/

No. 524172

>>524162
I'm >>522940 and that was posted just before Italy flipped the sign to "CLOSED."
My cousin whined about it but she seems to be taking things slightly (very slightly) more seriously now, from what I can tell. Germany's 3 official virus deaths so far have helped things sink in.

No. 524173

>>524145
i think the alcohol content has to be at least 70%

No. 524176

>>524145
It’s not recommended because it’ll dry out your hands a ton.

No. 524177

>>523825
What is this talk about south american bats? I live in brazil and nobody here has mentioned this issue.

No. 524178

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a fucking idiot doctor in my country went to work after a holiday in austria, he is a fucking heart surgeon and operated couple of patients the day he got sick. he got sick at work and still stayed the whole day now there's doctors and nurses in quarantine i can't believe this

No. 524185

>>523667
Because some of us aren't sociopaths and don't want people to die from it, regardless of age?

Also, old people aren't the only ones dying, they're just the ones dying the most. Any young person with respiratory problems or immune issues is at a high risk of death too.

No. 524189

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its still business as usual here in my country. 0 reported or confirmed cases. really eerie considering whats going on in the rest of the world. why are we immune so far. went to the grocery store this morning to stock up on some stuff and it was literally empty…shelves still fully loaded.

No. 524197

>>524189
where are you, anon?

No. 524198

>>524176
I'll pick dry hands over lung inflammation any day

No. 524223

>>521903
Why the hell are the French like that? "Nooo you must touch me and be close to me or else you're weird!"

it's the opposite of American culture

No. 524229

Things I've stocked up
>all purpose flour
>sugar
>eggs (some I pickled)
>salt
>canned tuna, chicken, wieners, beef
>boxed pasta meals
>rice
>beans and lentils
>salt pork
>frozen veg
>canned veg
>bottled water
>vitamins
>hygiene products
>baking soda
>laundry supplies
>morale food like cookies and chips
How about you?

No. 524230

>>524178
BITCH I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMEHWERE ABROAD VITTUJE VITTU SAATANA miks vitus??

No. 524232

>>524229
this is a really good reference list, anon. period products are honestly my top priority, might invest in a diva cup. i will not be caught slippin wearin a mf rag. the babies will though

No. 524233

>>523825
This is scary as fuck, and I know this is pol and I should be "used" to it but

>dindu


I love how they talk about us like we're not gonna be apart of it and are just some automated NPCs. Shit like this makes my heart very darkened, tbh.

No. 524235

i mean how are they gonna fucking deal with the bat shit mutating in brazil if America is right there? wouldn't it mean the US gets hit by it the second hardest?

No. 524239

>>524145
Vodka is only 40% alcohol, hand sanitizer needs to be at the very least 60%.
You can buy 99% rubbing alcohol and mix it with a bit of aloe gel, make sure the mix is over 60% pure alcohol though.
They also sell 70% alcohol that you can put in a spray bottle and use as is.
Are you guys out of rubbing alcohol in your counties or something? I don't understand the fuss about hand sanitizer at all unless you guys are out of alcohol as well.

No. 524240

> Hand sanitiser will be provided at each church, while priests and ministers will have to sanitise their hands before and after distributing Holy Communion.
Priests have also been asked to provide an alternative to collection baskets

I hate how news coverage in my country is always this shit. Coronavirus news? Oh some bishop has said that it's ok to miss mass if you're horribly immune compromised. We'll have to work out an hygienic way for you to still hand over your money! haha

No. 524248

>>524229
Don't forget medication, a lot of the standart ones (against pain, coughing and allergic reactions) might sell out or bought by scalpers once panic gets worse.

No. 524253


No. 524255

>>524239
I work at a big box store in the US and we’ve been out of rubbing alcohol for going on 2 weeks now. If we get a delivery of 10 bottles every week, it’s gone within a day.

No. 524256

>>524223
In Spain we're like that too, if you're a woman, is disrespectful not to give two kisses when you meet someone.

Btw I'm tired of people not taking seriously the stay at home recommendations, we're going the same path as Italy but worse.

No. 524257

if you think about it this is like a perfect storm for the release of the new Animal Crossing game - all the schools are closed, everyone’s stuck inside, and it lets you reenact real life activities

No. 524259

>>521746
>>524145
Everclear baby. Burn your woes away.

No. 524260

>>524259
Same anon here to say clear moonshine; comes in at 75% alcohol. (Everclear can come in at literally 90% alcohol)

No. 524261


No. 524262

>>524257
real life but better, AND won't make me stir crazy

No. 524264

>>524248
I've actually been sick a lot for the past few months heh, so I've got plenty of pain relief and cough medicine. I'm super lucky I don't have a health condition or else I'd feel super pressed to get future scripts filled asap. I feel sorry for people.

No. 524265

>>523916
I'm from Spain and this is a shitshow. Most people are reckless as fuck and keep whining about how upset they are because the government is cancelling big events and they can't party or celebrate. I live in Valencia, Fallas were cancelled and everyone is going to hang out either way. I'm astonished at how little empathy everyone has for others, just like this fucker >>523932 who doesn't understand that getting sick is something to be concerned about. You still have the virus during those 5-6 days of incubation and you can help spread it further jesus christ.

Spanish people are just reckless as fuck when it comes to partying and being concerned about something. I think they are afraid of being afraid.

No. 524273

>>524239
I was experimenting with marinades for meat that use a high amount of alcohol a while back and since then I have an almost full bottle of rubbing alcohol.

I also have a galon or so of isopropanol, which is used to disinfect like concrete and shit. I use it from time to time to disinfect things. You can buy that at the hardware store for cheap. It dries out skin like a motherfucker though. Don't even need to wash it off because it will evaporate. Don't use near open fires (same goes for rubbing alcohol).

No. 524276

>>524273
i wish the virus targeted autism.

No. 524278

Every school and uni etc will be closing tomorrow in Norway as well. My campus will close tomorrow and I'm about to start writing my bachelors degree. I had to hoard books from the library, since it'll be closed off until mid-april.

No. 524279

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A local county in my area just had an e. coli break out in the water. It shut down the schools, but this'll make it so no one washes their hands and it'll overload the hospitals even more

No. 524283

Another American Midwest anon here, I'm starting to get really pissed off at how little we seem to be taking this stuff seriously here. I don't know if it's just the Midwest mentality or the high amount of farm-raised people and boomers, but everyone is spreading the same misinformation and not being careful, and thinking anybody who's scared is a wuss. I live in a big city made up of poor immigrants and none of them have sick pay so a huge amount of people can't afford to stay home if they're sick, meaning this thing is going to go around quickly if companies refuse to put preventative measures in practice.

The local government cancelled the stupid St. Patrick's day festivities so I'm hoping that wakes up all the dumbass Midwesterners and makes people take this seriously. Realistically, they'll probably just rebel and go out and get drunk and spread germs anyway. I hate this country.

No. 524284

>>524043
why do they announce this as if people care. Virus and disease dosnt give a shit about social status. Plenty of celebs have died from cancer too.

No. 524285

>>524279
That's terrifying, anon. I hope the water situation gets better/resolved because dirty water is one of the main issues Iran is exploding with the virus currently.

No. 524286

>>523680
LOL I had the exact same thought, too many old people straining the system and committing crime just to get into prison so they can have three square meals a day

No. 524287

>>524286
That happens in China too?

No. 524288

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>>524273
Ntayrt but the only reason why I have a couple bottles of iso right now before everyone panic bought is because I used it to clean my glass pipe and rig
>mfw weed is saving my day again

No. 524295

This, basically. I heard people died so fast that the disease never got a chance to mutate or spread to others at a rapid rate, so it died out. I'm hoping the same with coronavirus and people chill the fuck out an stay home if they're sick.

No. 524298

I don't get why anons here are so pleased about having rubbing alcohol. Using soap does the same job honestly.

No. 524300

>>524298
considering one of them claims she tried to use it with food, take a guess.

>>524273
>I was experimenting with marinades for meat that use a high amount of alcohol
>rubbing alcohol
this is the most retarded thing i have read all fucking day. not only do marinades not actually work other than to impart flavor, you should never ever be cooking or consuming rubbing alcohol. it has chemicals in it, it's not just water and alcohol.

No. 524303

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I love this song

No. 524307

>all the grandparents swarming to the laundromat and supermarket now
you had your chance months ago buddy now stop packing the parking lots its becoming a traffic hazard

No. 524308

I'm in the US and in a state where corona is and just yesterday my town confirmed a positive case and despite knowing this my job is still expecting me to come into work. It doesn't help that my sister came back abroad from Italy two weeks ago and even when I told my job they were like "Oh you can still come in, just make sure your family keeps her quarantined". I was even lectured by a coworker about how I shouldn't go out in public, which is common sense at this point. They also told me that my family (I live with my parents) should not go out in public but my dad's job has him literally traveling all over the state and my mom is a school nurse. At this point I hope I have it because fuck my job

No. 524310

>>524300
> you should never ever be cooking or consuming rubbing alcohol

Says on the bottle: contents alcohol, water

Also says: shouldn't be consumed pure, needs to be mixed with water in at least 1:1 ratio

Which implies that it can be consumed. Maybe I misnamed it when I said it was rubbing alcohol. It's food grade 96% ethanol, it's found next to vodkas in the store.

No. 524313

>>524154
Fuck your supervisor tell em you’re sick

No. 524314

It’s me and one other coworker in the break room. I’ve literally not said a fucking word and she’s mentioned the word coronavirus no less than 10 times. She just won’t shut the fuck up. I want this virus to just take one of us out. I fucking hate this.

No. 524315

>>524310
yea that's not rubbing alcohol then, which is a different thing. still consider what i said about marinade though. all you're doing is fucking up the proteins.

No. 524316

I was emailed that students are still expected to work even if classes are cancelled. I have to risk a pandemic virus because I’m poor and on work study. Most of the people in my office are boomers who are constantly sick and smoke all the damn time so their lungs are already fucked. Should be fun. RIP to custodians and cleaning crews across the world.

No. 524317

>>524310
Rubbing alcohol will have stuff for skin/sore muscles in it, right? Camphor n shit

No. 524320

>>524317
either that or bitterants, which are so they can sell it for medical purposes rather than consumption.

No. 524321

>>524177
I mean, we think the virus jumped from bats originally. If the virus jumps from humans who have been infected with the strain from the bats in China to bats in South America, the virus could both mutate and/or begin spreading that way. A mutated strain of the virus could be deadlier, and then we’d be fighting COVID-19 and COVID-19 2.0.

Or something like that, I’m not a scientist and I don’t understand anything. It’s just what this anonymous guy who had “insider info” on the outbreak has suggested and that’s the way I understand it.

No. 524323

Covid is mother nature taking itself back
We've been playing God for too long, constantly keeping the useless boomers alive
China and other Asian countries has been eating all kinds of poor critters not meant to be ate, including capturing them, keeping them in inhumane conditions, poorly butchering them and selling them, all kinds of false medical advice from Karen's and traditional medicine have been making people more sick, pollution in the air would have killed China if the Coronavirus didn't


I don't think it's the government other than them responding poorly to the pandemic, I just think it's the wrath of mother nature

No. 524325

>>524321
The mutations will escalate and we won’t have the ability to keep up with finding cures

No. 524326

>>524323
do her a favor and off yourself.

No. 524327

>>524265
Eres tonta nen?
Not running around with plastic bags over my head or hoarding every roll of toilet paper doesn't mean I have no empathy. I just can't not mock the people who do that or righwing nuts who hide the fact they had the virus and spread it.
I requested to work from home and I'll probably stay the fuck inside for now until this calms down or wipes us all out. I have supplies for at least a month.

No. 524328

I feel kinda lucky in regards to cleaning products - I got the flu at the start of the year and it absolutely made me feel like I wanted to die for a few days. In response to make sure I didn't get it again I panic bought a pack of those cleaning wipes and like 4 other bleach based cleaning sprays.
But I'm still paranoid so I'm mad I don't have a little more. Especially since I live in an apartment and that's just a breeding ground for germs and viruses.

No. 524330

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>all countries around us slowly close down, permit travel and close their schools in preperation
>but we can't
>our main politians, even the educational minister, are against it and subtly implying they wait for it to get even worse
Finally we'll do the title "Germs" justice.

>>524323
Oh my god, fuck off.

No. 524333

I feel bad for anyone in India due to being overpopulated and shit

No. 524335

Why wont they close the fucking schools in cucknada

No. 524337

All Broadway shows are cancelled from today on. Any public gathering over 500 is banned. I'm a little sad because I was finally going to see one of my favorite artists next week, but I'm sort of relieved since I was hesitant to go because of the virus anyway and this will hopefully force ticketmaster to issue refunds (those tickets were like $200 so I was really caught between eating the $200 and not going or going and risking it).

Next time, next time.

No. 524338

British Chinese who wants to vent here.

I've never been so embarrassed to be Chinese to the point where I'm ashamed of it. World news and the media has made anti China sentiment almost popular. I personally have nothing to do with that country and have very negative opinions about it, but as the coronavirus spreads it's like putting racism towards East Asians on steroids and I'm afraid of eventually being a target when my parents already have to tolerate such things at their jobs. No matter how hard we work, how good our English is, how long we've lived here, racists will assume things about every aspect of our lives and some sick fucks will make a 'joke' just because they can.

There are already a few articles about East Asian people being attacked by complete strangers in the UK, like this (https://www.itv.com/news/central/2020-02-23/woman-punched-unconcious-in-coronavirus-rage-racist-incident/) one where an Indian woman was punched unconscious trying to protect her Chinese friend from verbal abuse. It's not an isolated event.

This shit is just so upsetting that I'm this close to relapsing into NEETdom, like what's the point of going out anyway when I don't want to be infected or racdially abused? And I know I'm shitting up the thread here but I hope to reach out to any other East Asian diaspora here who are 'pretty much white' for support and ideas on how to protect ourselves, fuck anyone who thinks this is racebaiting (this thread is already p much containment for that, isn't it?)

Non-Asian anons, if you think you can persuade them, please repeat to the people around you that violence and insults towards anyone who looks Chinese is not going to stop this virus. Question people as to why it's okay to mock their fellow human beings when we are just as afraid to fall ill to a frightening pandemic, nevermind how we have to tolerate increasing abuse because of our appearance. If you aren't of Eastern heritage but have friends who are and might be vulnerable, offer to walk with them when they're out in public because this coronavirus really is bringing out the evil in people.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/coronavirus-weaponised-way-to-be-openly-racist

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/06/just-im-chinese-doesnt-mean-coronavirus-12194030/

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-rise-attacks-british-asians-17698689

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51736755

No. 524339

Does anyone know if China and Italy ever lost access to electricity and water?
I'm a bit nervous here in the US, I have provisions but I'm banking my money on the fact that I'll have electricity and potable water to cook with. If I suddenly didn't, then I only have 20ish bottles of water, whatever I can fill my sinks and tubs with, and no heating element besides some lighters. I know it's possible to eat dried foods but the prospect of having to eat dried rice and beans sounds like a morale sink and I'd still be fucked on water if we get quarantined.

No. 524340

>>524338
As an Arab, I feel you lmao

No. 524341

I'm more worried about the economical consequences of this craze than the virus itself. I work in transport business, and in addition to January-March period, when things are always going slowly, coronavirus is going to wreck us even more. My boss is foaming at the mouth already at my coworkers suggesting a home office.

>>524229
similar, except no flour and meat. I still gotta buy water, but I don't own a car and carrying all those bottles back home by myself is going to be a pain in the ass.

I got a bit panicked yesterday, cause people keep fucking buying all available toilet paper. I managed to snatch some today.

No. 524343

>>524338
I work for a foreign company where all of my coworkers are East Asian (non-Chinese), myself being Chinese. One of my coworkers said how one of the execs texted her about getting verbal abuse on the street. Everyday I'm worried about my parents getting attacked on the streets as they just try and go about their lives.

No. 524344

>>524339
we still have water and electricity here in italy

No. 524346

>>524339
Get 30 litre canisters and water sterilizer pills/powder/liquid and fill it as soon as you hear things going really downhill. On amazon you can get 3×30litre canisters + 100ml sterilizer(that's enough for 1000l water) for less than $50 all-together. Electricity and gas is a bit more complicated and much more expensive.. unless you really want to invest, you might be better off with enough batteries, affordable solar chargers and thick candles.

No. 524347

>>524338
i just don't understand this. i work with a chinese woman and i wasn't even worried when she returned from china where she had spent the holidays. she wasn't sick and i didn't get sick.

No. 524348

>>524347
It's just racist trying to find an excuse to live out their aggression and pretending it's "justified". They need to be instantly called out for things to not escalate further.

No. 524349

my workplace has decided they'll pay you for two weeks if you get placed under quarantine or contract covid and has also waived their absenteeism policy and now I'm fucking praying I get sick tbh, I will happily quarantine myself in my room with my unread books and DOOM Eternal.

>>524284
because now it's recognizable famous Americans getting the disease and not icky chinese people so now maybe idiots will stop thinking they're untouchable and start taking it seriously. that's me being hopeful though.

No. 524351

>>524338
People are panicking because they think they're gonna die yet instead articles/stories about supposed racism pop up left and right. (I'm personally not scared but you can see how others behave here…) Sorry but that's just not the main priority now. Demanding sympathy or even special treatment is only gonna make it worse. Of course chinese individuals are not at fault but people being mad at China is understandable.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1235871996640145408
Look at this, China even thinks we need to apologize to them…

No. 524359

Somewhat of a selfish feel but I honestly hate sitting in this office chair throughout the day knowing that I'm still underprepared, meanwhile all the soccer moms are currently raiding stores to hoard their 10 cases of toilet paper for their broods leaving fuck all for the rest of us. Or to resell to us for a premium. I'm high key pissed.

No. 524361

Should I buy alcohol(spirytus) from online pharmacy? It's cheap and still available. I thought that I'm gonna use it to disinfect things, for example a doorknobs.
Also, should I buy something for fever or cough?

No. 524362

for those of you who are in countries who have closed universities, what's the protocol for closed campuses? do you just end up with a passing grade, do they pretend people just didnt attend university that semester, are your classes technically still open in case the situation changes? im in france and macron just announced school closures and im just wondering what they might do

No. 524363

>>524362
my school has been working this week to allow us to work remotely because we just can't stop working (i'm in game dev)

i feel like my career is kinda fucked tho

No. 524364

>>524361
Buy stuff for a nasty flu basically, stuff for a cough, fever stuff like that

No. 524367

>>524338
Weird to see people still stuck on asian racism, people here moved on to hating italians.

No. 524368

>>524351
Sure, they’re just attacking random Asian people on the street because they’re mad at China’s government.
That’s not a hate crime at all, it’s a protest.

Gee whiz.

No. 524370

i hope my dad catches it and dies already, that fucking black asshole. he's not taking the virus seriously at all and he gets mad when people tell him to wash his hands. why do men even exist

No. 524373

>>524359
Same. However, if the situation gets worse, they'll be the first to get looted.

No. 524374

There have been 0 new outbreaks in China today, though. It seems like countries with more prosperous economies are the ones to get over it sooner

No. 524375

>>524351
Honestly, you sound kind of ignorant. Anti-Sinophobia's a major thing in lots of countries and has a long, documented history in the United States. Racists have made it acceptable to harass any Asian-passing person on the street. This isn't a matter of them disliking what the government is doing, because if it were, public micro-interactions like that wouldn't be happening.

>>524338
I understand and am sorry you're going through this. I'm fortunate enough to live in a more diverse area but can definitely imagine strangers being more hostile towards my East Asian friends if we weren't.

No. 524376

They still have not closed down schools. They have colleges or some shit.Like a school close to mine, a kid got it, only one student, and everyone freaked out that day n said "fuck it, school over". Now there saying dont gather more then 500 people. Close the fuckin schools already, people getting it everyday here dang. This place is so packed and crowded and streets are the fuckin dirtiest cause no one cared. Funny thing is, I work at the school I go to but there stopping the jobs for a while but not closing the whole school.

No. 524378

>>524374
Anon..

No. 524381

Seems the panic has hit Norway in full force, no toilet paper or bread in sight even though we're in the county with the least confirmed cases. Had to go to five different stores just to find some food for the coming weeks.
At least we're finally putting in the effort to contain this by shutting down schools and universities

No. 524383

>>524351
"Supposed" racism? This is actually happening to people, some of whom have nothing to do with China as it exists in the modern day. How is that anon or any of the people in those articles 'demanding' sympathy or special treatment by asking not to be hit in the face? One of those articles is about a victim from Singapore and last month a Thai man in London suffered a broken nose from being attacked over the coronavirus. This is beyond being mad at China, I bet these attackers are more like opportunistic sadists.
>Demanding sympathy or even special treatment is only gonna make it worse.
Honestly ask yourself, if this was aimed at black people or Jews, would you have made that same statement?
It's becoming worse anyway. If anything, the only people aggressively wanting special treatment are those lefty smug journalists who profit from these articles and get to feel good about 'doing their part' while the actual victims are seeking hospitals and are probably worried about whether it's worth taking to the police who don't care. Tbh it seems like the coronavirus is finally getting Asians to speak up about Sinophobic sentiments.

No. 524386

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I think NC has hit it's tipping point. It's declared emergency a few days ago, but the main problem is that it's most populated city, Charlotte, just got hit with Corona. Even worse 1 person tested so far hasn't flied internationally so it's already spread. It's just not tested

No. 524387

>>524256
I think you're right, if people don't take it seriously we're going to end up like Italy…But what else can you expect? I already saw 14/15 years old wanting to meet up these days because all this class cancelations…en fin.

>>524327
(me has hecho reír con la primera frase)
I think exactly like you tbh. I get it, we have to be careful and try not to spread it but all this I'M GOING TO BUY ALL THE SUPPLIES IN CASE THEY TELL US TO STAY INSIDE NO MATTER WHAT is getting out of hand…they are acting as if tomorrow we would not see the sun light for months and I think that's not going to happen.

No. 524388

>>524327
>"si me contagio, pues me contagio"
>critica a la media por hacer que la población entre en pánico sin razón.

Lo siento, tu mensaje daba a entender que eras una de esas personas chill que se la suda todo y piensa que mientras no esté en riesgo su vida no pasa na.
Ten cuidado y perdona si fui agresiva. Buena idea lo del teletrabajo. Buena suerte.

On a side note, my university has finally closed hooray!!

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>>524386
Another big brain NC poster. I'm concerned because NC has kind of a weird landscape. Cities are like a 20 minute drive from extremely rural farmer areas.

No. 524395

>>524351
>Not wanting to be fucking punched by racists is "Demanding sympathy or even special treatment"
>>524367
>Treating racism like trends

I think the fucking retard virus is active on these two.


>>524363
Why do you feel that way? It seems like, for times like this, game dev would be even more important.

>>524370
My aunt and I were just discussing how a large majority of men are unhygenic. They're not even considerate enough to do one simple thing.

No. 524396

>>524388
Na, lo decía más bien por la gente en general. Hoy la terraza de delante de mi oficina hasta arriba a la hora de comer y así nos va. Luego tenemos a las señoras locas del Mercadona con bolsas de plástico en la cabeza.
El "si me contagio" pues bueno, no haré un drama de ello. Me voy a aislar para no contagiar a los demás pero tampoco me voy a morir.

No. 524397

>>524362
My school is closing all of its buildings including dorms and libraries until April, no school activities can meet in person until April, all university athletics are cancelled for the semester, spring break started early and for 2 weeks after spring break we are doing online classes. I’m in the US in a state where they just closed public schools for two weeks and cancelled gatherings above 250 attendees.

No. 524398

German Anon here.
I live in Berlin and nothing has happened here? Like nothing has ever happend lol
Only 4 or 6 schools are closed and the bus front entrances are blocked?
germany has almost 2000 cases in total and they still dont care about it
meanwhile countries like poland and austria have under 100 cases and are doing more than germany?

No. 524400

>>524279
That’s my home county actually! I don’t live there anymore but have lots of friends that still do. There’s panic in the local Facebook groups because people keep buying out the bottled water and grocery stores can’t keep up.

No. 524401

>>524362
Have graduated but still like to check my old college's shit sometimes. They've extended spring break by a week, kicking everyone besides international students off campus, and are moving to online courses. One of the biggest issues though is that my school has a lot of arts programs and students need to do work in the studios (we offer mediums that you can't work on at home like metals). They said the studios would remain open, but if you're sending students home… how do you expect them to complete anything if they don't live nearby?

No. 524402

>>524398
My aunty called that corona hotline number and told them that she's had a cough since February and that she works in a school, asking whether she needs to get herself tested and their reaction was "Were you in contact with somebody who's infected?" "No." "Okay, then you're fine." lol. I also know a family there mother, father and grandfather are infected, yet their kids still have to go to school.
In today's news they kept saying how bad the situation in US is and how well it is going here. They don't give a fuck at all, they only care about the economy.

No. 524403

>>524386
>>524390
Another from Charlotte-area here on the SC side. When NC declared State of Emergency just to prepare in case they had funds, I thought SC would follow suit. It seems they're being more stubborn here. I'm worried they'll find a new way to screw up instead of being transparent.

No. 524404

Fuck I have to go to school tomorrow, schools close Monday here in France. But at least it gives me one more day to contaminate all my classmates.

No. 524405


No. 524407

This evening the French President Macron announced the closure of all schools including universities. Just this afternoon the Minister of Education was saying only schools in cluster regions were going to close and that there was no way it was going to be nationwide, and yet here we are. The situation is moving very fast, I wonder what the news will be tomorrow.

No. 524408

>>524407
it's probably for the best seeing as how he didn't seem to be taking it seriously like, yesterday. unrelated, but how come i dont see people calling him "macaron" more often?

No. 524409

>>524408
Macarons are too good for him. He doesn't deserve this title.

No. 524410

>>524408
>how come i dont see people calling him "macaron" more often?
I guess you're not French? It doesn't sound like an insult in french lol. More like an endearing nickname really, or like a name a rich grandma would give to her poodle.

No. 524411

>>524407
I can't stand the french government's approach to this whole thing. I understand they don't want people to panic but them just taking their sweet time making decisions is only making it spread further. I don't believe for a second the numbers are way less than germany and spain when we were infected first and we do la bise

No. 524412

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Oh yeah I forget to mention, but their is this big thing going down at my local school. Basically a school had a 700 dollar field trip, some DC thing I assume. The kids were driving on the buss until the county shut down all field trips. Kids returned and a parent asked for a refund. The schools refusing to refund and have no plans for a new trip. It's a big thing in all the local groups because they just realized they sunk 700 dollars in nothing.

>>524403
I'm really worried about SC too because Carowins just said they aren't shutting down and is only "following" the CDC recs. It'll attract a lot of people, but it'll let NC infect SC

No. 524415

>>524414
they're delicious af you just have shit taste buds sorry for your loss

No. 524416

>>524412
that sucks, but it's better than them going and risking their health, plus the health of so many others. local school here just went on an nyc fieldtrip and i can't help but think what a terrible idea it is. i'd rather be out $700 than risk my kids bringing back a highly infectious disease.

>>524410
i'm not french, but i don't mean endearingly or even negatively, i just mean generally. he's french and his name is very close to macaron, so it makes sense. also, i am sorry to disappoint you frogs, but they are disappointing desserts considering how cute they are, so from my perspective, it could very possibly be fitting. people should be honest and admit that macarons are just manipulators. they are liars that deceive with their good looks and let you down terribly, wasting your calories, and your $4.

>>524415
pft, try some real desserts, buddy. you'll take that back right quick.

No. 524418

>>524416
Lol anon. Yeah I see what you mean now. I can't really explain but from a french point of view it would sound weird, like only something a 10 years old would say during recess. The closest example I can find is the name Thomas that is similar to tomate (tomato in french), kids will often nickname their friend Thomas "tomate" but past 12 years old it would be cringe.

No. 524419

>>523838
My guess would be that the antibodies one’s immune system would make if they were infected with the current covid-19 would not help protect them from a mutated version of the virus. All viruses have specific antigens that our immune system uses to make antibodies that help recognize and destroy the same virus if we came in contact with it in the future, but different strains of the same virus have different antigens so different antibodies would have to be made. I’d imagine a mutated version of covid-19 would have different antigens, but if any bio/med anons here have more information on this, it’d be interesting to learn more about this.

No. 524421

>>524414
weird, seeing as aside from palmier they're my favorite sweet but go off with your ignorance sweaty
>>524418
agreed, trying to force a nickname on a world leader that even the french don't consider because its childish makes it that much more apparent what they themselves are, which is childish. trying to push the narrative that "hurr I dont like macarons, therefore they're shit".

No. 524423

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BRUH I thought this tweet was ironic. It's not.

No. 524424

>>524421
you take clearly tongue-in-cheek posts way too seriously

No. 524425

>>524423
I can imagine booking a trip ahead of time now while the prices are better, but not at this very fucking moment. Go cough at home.

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>>524330
>>524398
>>524402

Merkel & Co. is driving me nuts. Just heard that they don't to decide if they shot down school, but make it a decision that every state has to make on it's own.
As a NRW fag I have the virus pretty much around me at this point. My mum works near Heinsberg, where it's really bad. My Aunt is a school teacher, here are several schools that closed because of that. The pupils are being schooled on other schools lmao. My Uncle works with several trainees who all attenend to a school that is also closed because one girl got the virus. In the meantime all of them are at work, without being tested (they are also around me). Next week my mum wants to celebrate her birthday, with her mum, who will turn 70 this summer and belongs clearly to the risk group.

Things are only being shot down when it fits the bill. For example, the work next to my mum has two confirmed cases. Did they close the business? No. What did they do? Cleaned the bathrooms and everybody could continue to come and go as they pleased. Stuff like that is just something I can't understand.

Merkel pointed out that here in germany they managed to witness the virus unfold unlike in any other country … and that's about it. idk I really have no idea lmao

>sorry for my garbage english rn I'm tired and mad at the same time

No. 524428

>>524425
The amount of people unironically agreeing in the RT. Burgers are the worst.

No. 524431

I have to leave Canada in June and I am praying to god this will all be solved by then. I have a very weak immune system (malnutrition, autoimmune disorder) and chronic bronchitis and if I caught this shit I could die. I'm terrified to be in an airport at this point, and I can't use masks because it's so hard to breathe in them due to my lungs. I'm hoping they'll grant me an extension due to my health or just cancel travel all together even though the situation isn't that bad here yet. Honestly don't know what to do if they kick me out of the country with my health conditions with this contagious air-borne shit going around.

No. 524433

Canadanon here. I'm in Ontario with the most cases in Canada and now the government is putting their ass on gear now. Social distancing is very highly recommended, if not mandatory.
All public schools at the pre-uni level are closed, but universities are still dillydallying whether to close or not.
My office has decided to close tomorrow eod and everyone will have to wfh, but for us, it wasn't a huge deal since we already had a good policy for it.
I'm not too worried for myself but I'm worried about my parents, as they're older (East Asian) and my mom has a compromised immune system. Thankfully (?) the federal government put huge amounts of EI so people will be covered …. for now. I'm really hoping that Canada will be spared the exponential growth that our southern neighbours have seen.

Stay safe, everyone. Godspeed o7

No. 524434

>>524335
I heard from other people that they were going to close them soon, maybe tomorrow. I'm not sure though

No. 524437

>>524423
These posts are so cringy and played out by this point like haha we get it you’re so edgy that you want to risk other peoples lives in a pandemic for a selfish reason that’s so fucking awesome.

No. 524447

>>524303
>Bolsonaro now being tested because his aide has it
>Justin Trudeau is self-isolating because his wife is showing symptoms
>UK Health Minister tested positive for it
>Iranian MP has died from it
It's weird, you assume politcians are insulated from normal people problems, but I guess they're actually more vulerable to viruses since they spend all day meeting people from around the world. Probably only why Trump is taking measures against it since he was already a germophobe.

No. 524450

>>524412
We've about the same number of cases in both our states right now, so it'll be hell on both sides. I know the park isn't as crowded as it is compared to the summer, but there's still too many people crowding up in queues. It's starting to warm up here again, so I hope the hypothesis about this virus possibly not liking the hotter climates turns out to be true.

No. 524455

I’m at the grocery store right now and people are def hoarding but no one is wearing a mask, I’m wearing a mask bc I have a post flu cough. Every time I have to cough tho everyone slowly creeps away from me, it’s kind of funny.

No. 524456

>>524338
They hate someone because they think they'll give them a virus… so they go over and physically assault them, maybe even getting their blood and spit on them.
Truly the master race.

No. 524457

Guys holy shit I’m at work and the manager said that one of the professors got diagnosed and I’m so panicked right now fml

No. 524461

Dammit I don't understand,CAN I leave El Salvador or not?I know foreign travelers are not allowed to enter the country anymore but can I LEAVE?I'm from the US and I have no fucking idea whether travelers can leave this goddamn country or not?? bought a ticket with avianca

No. 524462

My dad is going to turn 60 and he has a 2 year old baby (this like a whole another story but stupid decisions has been made) I told be careful with the virus, hes older and hes more vulnerable then me. He just says he dont care, we all gonna get it anyway. Man it's so anoyying, he so stubborn and always plays this I dont give a fuck attitude. This is serious, he can get it and also the 2 year old and I swear to god I'm the only one who cares about this baby health cause my fathers an idiot who wont even wash his hands and sneeze right into them but the mother also is so ignorant. Shes a first time mother but she really is careless about this baby.

No. 524463

>>524461
I don't see why they would stop anyone from leaving as it's not their problem, however you might have to self quarantine when you get home.

No. 524464

>>524455
I was just at the market too and I did see some people wearing masks but holy shit the amount of people there was insane. It was so packed and the shelves were becoming empty. Like yes, this is getting crazy but no need to freak out like that. Like, people buying so much food for what? Some of the shit I seen people buy gonna go bad in a week. You can at least get more rice or can of vegetables or beans. Like I'm in an area where were more surrounded by Corona cases but still away and like 2 in our area but literally just a day ago.

No. 524469

so uh would this be a bad time to start my new job at whole foods lmao? I'm in a state with over 100 presumptive cases, and it's mainly in the county of where my job is. I hate being a poor wagie, I have to choose between being able to pay bills or possibly expose myself and my family to covid19

No. 524470

>>524462
Thankfully only 0.2% of people who've died from it were under 18, it's almost only boomers going down.

No. 524471

>>524411
Maybe our immune system is stronger thanks to la bise



Nah lol we're fucked

No. 524472

My family went to buy lots of necessities even though they aren't really concerned by the virus. They're just worried of not being able to buy food because of the hoarders, and I guess they felt like imitating everybody else just in case

>>524470
Where did you find this information? Is there a list for the people who have died, with their age and health informations? I just want to reassure myself that I'll be safe lol

No. 524475

>>523825
I don't know, a pic like this is easy to fabricate. I searched the archive for this thread and found nothing.

No. 524477

So what's going on with China at this point, are they hiding the real numbers or what?

No. 524479

Okay so here's the thing: My country has a culture of having no sort of personal space, people always kiss each other when they meet (and are really stubborn about doing so and aren't the type to wash their hands + majority of people here are boomers and children and everyone got a weaker inmune system due to extreme poverty and a bad healthcare, how fast do you think shit will go down?, I'm scared this will turn into a shitfest and everyone on my family except for my mom and sister are acting like is no big deal.

No. 524480

>>524477
of course they are.



also protip: masks do help! obviously hospital staff need them first, but since it's mostly transmitted via droplets masks help protect against that and prevent you from touching your face! luckily i had some because i use them for crafts.

No. 524484

Anybody else dealing with a partner who is downplaying this whole thing?

It sucks because I don't want to panic precious Nigel, and he's not being totally flippant about it…But I'm thinking we should avoid exposure to the outside world as much as possible, and he's thinking of fun outings to Target and meals out. He definitely doesn't want to take public transport or go into the city, BUT he's feeling pretty calm and collected about everywhere in the suburbs.

Am I the one overreacting, or is he underreacting?

I'm preparing to survive on nuts and thinking of alternatives to toilet paper, and he is saying lets go get a beer later tonight. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle.

No. 524485

>>524484
I'm like your boyfriend. I think growing up with the threat of nuclear war, IRA terrorists, ISIS terrorists, AIDS, bird flu, mad cow disease and being made to feel constant panic has desensitised me.

I've always believed what happens happens and there's not much you can do. I'm still using public transport, not stocked up on things, being chatty with strangers, being…normal.

I kind of expect it to be another over dramatised scenario. The boyfriend's panicking about his mum who has COPD. Idk, we'll be fine.

No. 524499

Is it good to be bukering myself?
I'm scared now

No. 524506

>>524338
I hear you, anon. Chinese restaurants are probably taking a blow rn in the US so I’ll probably be hitting those spots up with my friends. I wish I could do more

No. 524523

As a doomer, where could I find accurate informations and resources for survival?

No. 524537

>>524523
checkout r/womenpreppers

No. 524541

>>524537
Anon, are you playing me?

Btw, ignore the sperging retard.

No. 524556

>>524484
Target at least should be safe anon kek. At the one I work at we had one cashier whose sole responsibility was disinfecting all commonly touched surfaces every 30minutes.

No. 524566

ik this is wrong but i hope a lot of rich people and politicians die. they think they're intouchable, they need to be humbled

No. 524569

>>524083
I mean everyone copes differently I guess

No. 524586

I'm supposed to go to France to see my husband again and my parents are making a fuss about it because of COVID-19. I leave on Saturday and they can't refund the ticket but my parents don't care. It annoys me so fucking much because my parents are always eager for my husband and his family to waste their fucking money even if they can't get the shit refunded. Fucking idiots.

No. 524587

>>524484
I wouldn't say that my husband is downplaying it, it's more his attitude. He seems to think it's funny to make jokes about it and try to make me laugh. We both agreed at the beginning of February that we should be prepared for the worst, so idk. Maybe he thinks that he needs to be the calm collected man in the situation so I don't panic.

No. 524601

Alright what films/tv shows should I save into my UBS ports in the global wifi/cabel goes down

No. 524610

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I know this sounds a little crazy but it got me thinking. Do you think the virus was spread by the government to stop the riots that were happing at the end of last year, like that's all you were hearing about coming out of China, and then suddenly the virus "accidentally" got loose, but then it got out of hand and they could no longer "control" it(not like you really can).

No. 524614

>>524610
i was just thinking about this, is very convenient since a lot of countries were in the middle of protests against their governments. I don't think it got loose but maybe they are using it for shock treatment….

No. 524615

>>524614
I think they are using it as a control the masses.

No. 524622

>>524402
>>524427
Heavy heavy tinfoil, but I'm starting to think they're using us as a country to experiment on what happens if the spread is only contained by permitting mass gathering and "hand washing", on how much of the economy can be saved at the expense of the spread and on corona-data that's unclear so far. /tinfoik It's just hard to believe that the people at our top are this incompetent if it's not on purpose lmao. I've seen nothing but disagreement over their decisions too and there is no way to rationally argue that it won't get worse if they just let people germ around everywhere and make testing as hard as possible.

No. 524623

>>524433

ontario anon here too. i’m really annoyed they haven’t shut the unis down yet. people have been coughing in all my classes, and i’ve been feeling off these past couple of days. it’s shocking that they’re still debating on what they should do

No. 524625


No. 524626

>>524610
Another anon mentioned that too, but I'm not sure if stopping protest is worth the massive damage in their economy and health care. I honestly think it just leaked without china planning anything.

No. 524631

File: 1584078710999.png (122.95 KB, 233x338, Screenshot 2020-01-10 at 12.02…)

>boyfriend's mom has lupus
>the rest of his family including his siblings and dad have asthma
>my little brother comes home coughing
i do NOT want to send his family to the hospital because my brother has garbage hygiene

No. 524639

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>goverment takes not-perfect-yet-decent safety measures to prevent the virus
>schools,gyms,churches,events etc shut down
>even high traffic roads are relatively empty
>ppl freak out and keep flooding supermarkets
>HOWEVER
>some dumbasses, instead of limiting their outings, go out at CROWDED places like cafeterias and take their fucking kids outside
>many ppl treat this like a vacation instead of a serious situation
>afraid we will end up like Italy and our already shitty public hospitals won't be able to keep up with the demand

also the past few days I've been having dreams related to the coronavirus despite not going out much and being careful overall

No. 524640

>>524639
you're panicking as if you can do anything about it. calm the fuck down and stop reading shitty news outlets that repeat the same stuff

No. 524641

Any city anons worried about riots? US specifically but anywhere else too. Just hard to imagine people taking (potentially) their parents/grandparents being denied medical care well. And hospital overcrowding definitely seems a possible outcome in the cities especially.

No. 524644

>>524641
Yes… I was gunna take Krav Maga lessons but… you know, Coronavirus.

No. 524645

>>524639
first of all,I'm not panicking I'm just disappointed my life has been limited that much suddenly.maybe I shouldn't have used such a dramatic reaction image

secondly it's not just "reading shitty news outlets", it's stuff me and the people around me notice.IVE witnessed traffic decreasing from the one day to the next, I've seen idiots going outside as if this is all a chance for a mini-holiday and my bff works at a huge supermarket and the demand has been insane for the past few weeks.

Italians didn't act like the virus was a big deal at first and look how they are now.I see people acting similarly here and it worries me.Our goverment seems to have taken measures sooner even tho Idk how much they could be hiding from us.Italy's health system is at its limits and I don't want the same to happen here.

As for my dreams,I can't help it.It's all over the news and conversations and I don't actively worry as much as some anons here.It's my subconscious acting up I guess

No. 524646

>>524645
meant to answer to this >>524640
anon and replied to myself kek

No. 524648

>>524645
i'm just saying what's the point of worrying so much if you know you won't be able to change the way other people think about the virus? you should worry more about your own well-being. and yes, i do actually recommend not reading any news outlets atm because all they talk about is the virus and keep reporting the same shit

No. 524650

>tfw disney world trip was in may.

it was inevitable. my anxiety is throught the roof anyways.

No. 524653

>>524648
my current worry is subconscious. I was consciously more worried a few weeks ago when I was still using public means of transportation. And ofc I know I can't change people's mindsets and care about my own well-being, but seeing people being either paranoid or careless is just so annoying.Even if I do my best to be careful, I'm annoyed that inevitably the assholes who are careless will end up being dramatic in ER when their parents/grandparents get sick and blame everyone aside from themselves. And even though I know my family and I are generally careful, you never know how the virus could be transmitted to a vurnerable member of your family.

You are right though, maybe I should avoid the news for a little bit. I just want to be informed about what's up and don't spread misinformation,but even if I do avoid it, people will keep talking about it since it's currently the #1 trending topic worldwide

hopefully when they weather gets warm all this will stop eventually

No. 524655

my fiance is sick with a cough and now i have a fever. am i done for, guys?

No. 524657

The doomsday prepper-tier hoarding is getting annoying as fuck. My mom went to the store earlier but all of the filtered water was gone and she had to get sparkling. She's not even supposed to be drinking carbonated shit, she has diverticulitis.

No. 524659

>>524657
dude I actually had to buy toilet paper off amazon because we ran out and there's been nothing anywhere for weeks. I know tons of other people with the same dilemma too. shit idiot suburban moms have a literal fortress of toilet paper in their house they will never need while actual people who have none can't even get any. it's not a huge deal for me and my husband because we can wash our asses off in the shower worst case but a) it's fucking unnecessary in the first place and b) I feel bad for the people who have mobility issues or are caring for people who genuinely need that shit and can't get it. wish this virus would go ahead and kill off whoever it's gonna already so shit can go back to normal.

No. 524660

>>524641
Overcrowding is putting it very mildly… in the EU the mean number of intensive care beds w/ oxygen etc per country is ab 600 …if you think ab the fact that approximately 10% of symptomatic coronavirus cases do need intensive care …:we are talking about thousands of people who need intensive care not having access to a hospital bed

No. 524661

It sounds wrong but I work in a supermarket and I'am scared of the asian people I come into contact with. I spoke with this one Chinese man today who was being waaaaay to nice, asking for an entire un-opended box of potato chips. Does he have corona and he needed the tire box cos he intends on self isolating? Am I being too paranoid? Seriously, behind nurses and healthcare workers, retail workers in supermarkets are the most at risk.

No. 524663

>>524661
Yes you are being paranoid, most of the cases in the US come from Italy.

No. 524664

>>524661
lol anon you're just being racist, everyone is hoarding shit. would you ask yourself the same question if a white person asked for the whole box? just because the virus started in china doesnt mean chinese/asian people are diseased

No. 524666

>>524610
I don't really think so. This shit is a disaster on their economy and public image, not to mention healthcare and society. Also, they would probably start with Hong Kong, not Wuhan, which is way up from there.

No. 524670

>>524338
ha, now you all know how other minorities feel.

ENJOY

No. 524673

>>524653
>hopefully when they weather gets warm all this will stop eventually

Hate to break your spirits anon, but Qatar has about 300 diagnosed cases at 40 degrees Celsius outside.

No. 524677

>>524661
>tfw you cannot be nice anymore because a racist retard will now suspect you of carrying a virus


>>524670
is this now the oppression olympics or what? racism towards asians always has been a thing but it's not seen as something as serious as racism towards other POC because you know, "ching chong" jokes and funny haha fried dog haha jokes are always funny and seen as something harmless. you seriously sound so fucking stupid

No. 524678

My Mother was discharged from hospital on Tuesday, on weds she tested positive. Yesterday I tested positive. The phyical side of it is not that bad but I am so worried for my Mother, and I think my dumb ass is the one that gave it to her. She is MENTALLY different, she was calling for " her baby" she meant me, and telling hospital staff that her " baby" is very sick and one time got very angry with the hospital staff. This is NOT how my mother behaves. Are there any med anon here that could explain why my mum is like this? she did have a pneumonia so her system was weak, but I was not aware that Covid couled effect mental state. Ironically I have been trying not to pay too much attention to the Covid. but does it have 2 strains? I feel like I just have regular flu. The cases in my area has shot up so they are using an entire ward/floor for covid patients and some of the rooms will be set up like an ITU room, others just plain. It may also be mixed genders.Back to my Mother she is in poor health and I am afraid she will die. our mental problem symptoms of the final stage? I can't even think properly my mind anf body feel oddly disconected and I literally struggle to read. I have been trying to keep coherent in this post but this is the best I can do. I am also mad about local news publsihing stories saying things like a 38yr old man from xtown is believed to have caught the virus from xtone where he was working as an X, etc. So far there has been NO mention of a Mother and daughter in the papers. My siblings have come back negative, but I had a text of my bro who said they want to retest him? I am a britfag and the NHS is sending patients to private hospitals, they are also going to put " pods" in the car park I may blur some faces and show a pic of the ward. The virus only hit my town Sunday. I read someplace that in a few months everyone will know or know off someone in their social group / work place/ family who will have the bug. also my white blood cells are very high not sure if that is good thing or nad thing?

No. 524679

>>524660
in my hospital, they are cancelling operations and sending people either into private hospitals, including this hospice ran by nuns, as a TEMP measure not a hospice manner. some sick people will have nurses visit them at their home. They are putting pods in the car park and they maybe having a make shift feild hospital near the main hospital. drunk people go into a seperate pod with the BPD cutters. The mental hospital is opening up some of thire old wards to take in people that have dementia. They have emptied and prepared an entire ward some of them will be ITU beds, others will not be. I will get around to posting a pic, one of the tents is a passage way I have not seen a tent that looks like a giant pipe. I am in the UK, and I am also samefagging.

No. 524680

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This is depressing.

No. 524681

>>524680
Pornhub is gonna turn all Italians into coomers now.

No. 524683

>>524680
This is so annoying. PH literally only cares about their shitty ass videos and not the actual disease that's killing people and ruining lives. How the fuck is this supposed to help humanity? Will the disease magically remove itself as soon as they start jacking it or what?

No. 524684

>>524681
italian men are already all coomers anyways kek

No. 524685

>>524683
Wow, a company wants to make money and doesn't want to lose money? Call the cops right now

No. 524686

>>524678
Your mom might be behaving like that because of fever, anon

No. 524687

>>524622
>It's just hard to believe that the people at our top are this incompetent if it's not on purpose lmao.
It really isn't.

No. 524688

>>524670
>implying racism against Asians wasn't a thing before Corona
Please fuck off with your ignorant ass oppression Olympics bullshit

>>524685
Wow, people on a feminist website are critical of a company that's sole purpose is to profit off of getting men addicted to viewing the sexual exploitation of women? Call the cops right now

No. 524689

>>524685

The Corona crisis wouldn’t make them lose money anyway. They’re using it for PR.

No. 524690

>>524680
"Company known for exploiting child rape victims for profit also uses a pandemic as a marketing opportunity."

At least if the world ends Pornhub will end as well.

No. 524691

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0312/1121915-hoax-covid-19-aer-lingus/

> A man who caused "pandemonium" on an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin yesterday when he made a hoax coronavirus claim, has been given a two-month prison sentence.30-year-old, Job van den Broek, from the Netherlands pleaded guilty to an air rage charge after he delayed a flight from Amsterdam. Van den Broek was on board flight EI 605 yesterday, on his way to get a connecting flight to Los Angeles to propose to his girlfriend.Dublin District Court heard cabin crew were reduced to tears and pandemonium broke out among passengers.


30 years old and on his way to propose to some unfortunate woman..

No. 524692

>>524657
This wouldn't be in issue if you had proper forsight and would have prepared before it finally hit the news. Anyone who wasn't busy being in denial and spreading just-flu memes could see that coming from a mile away. Fact is those "doomsday-preppers" are prepared while you are stuck with retail chaos and you have no one but yourself to blame.

No. 524693

>>524688
*gossip website

No. 524695

>>524693
Yes, a gossip website where almost everyone is a feminist. Your point?

No. 524696

>>524655
You'll home isolate and call the hotline for more instructions

No. 524697

>>524655
was the same, had a litte fever and a cough and i spent 3 days in bed and now i am literally back to normal

No. 524703

>>524697
corona goes through stages. you get sick and then you feel fine again until the next stage hits you like a brick. if you're in a country that lets you get tested i recommend doing that, if not try to minimize human contact for the next few weeks anyways

No. 524706

>>524650
>tfw Disney trip was today and got cancelled last-minute

No. 524707

>>524691
Hopefully she dodged a bullet there.

No. 524708

>>524692
>Prepared
They're taking away resources from other people who need it. This individualistic shit you cunts keep pushing is gonna get more people killed that would've been fine if everyone didn't start needlessly hoarding shit because all you retards think about is yourselves.

No. 524709

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>be me
>have fever
THEY GOT ME

No. 524714

Is quitting smoking going to lessen my chances of getting this shit or am I just withdrawing from nicotine for no reason rn? I’m so anxious and I just want a fucking cigarette

No. 524716

>>524714
Smokers have a higher chance of developing pneumonia in general, not just with this coronavirus. If you're able to quit smoking, it'd help.

No. 524718

If you do test positive, is it still the 2 week isolation if you have no severe symptoms or what? I tried to read up on it but I am so stupid and so tired

No. 524721

I woke up today with a scratchy throat and an itchy sensation in my ears. Should I be concerned or is it probably just a normal ear infection/cold?

No. 524723

>>524721
Most countries have websites dedicated to giving out health service announcements, thats probably the best place to find advice rather than this thread

No. 524727

>>524708
You're not the only one who needs water lmao. Again cry all you want but in the end it's your own fault. They have those resources and you don't because you can't think outside of your comfort zone.

No. 524728

>>524708
I'm not thinking about myself. I'm thinking about my family. Sorry that you weren't thinking about yours.

No. 524729

>>524679
But even so there is not one country with a health system that can cope with a pandemic. The hospital they built in china for example with 1000sth beds (even though the number seems small when you think ab the population and no. of cases in china) is more than most countries have in total. Some have already issued that they will not be giving O2 to anyone over 60 as they have a higher chance of not surviving

No. 524730

>>524708
>get warned
>call people schizos and paranoid dumbasses
>shit hits the fan, just as you were warned
>get angry that the people you called schizos actually prepared themselves
Don't blame others for decisions that you made. Instead, use the resources you still have left and try to stay safe while letting this thing run its course.
All these "Haha it's a nothingburger y'all are just hysterical" people seething and panicking have only themselves to blame.

No. 524731

>>524714
quit that nasty shit, anon. I don't wanna moralize but it does make you a lot more prone to sickness.

No. 524732

>>524730
you're hardcore projecting. governments all over the world are BEGGING people to stop hoarding shit. not hoarding stuff is literally the responsible thing to do yet you think this is somehow wrong because someone on the internet called you a schizo in some corner (where even because nobody here did it you retard)

No. 524735

>>524732
How am I projecting? I'm certainly not getting mad at people over water because of my own negligence. Do you actually know the definition of the word, or are you just so pissed that you used the first term that came to mind?
No one told you to hoard shit, but would it have killed you to think "Hmm, this virus is getting people antsy. For my own and my mom's wellbeing, maybe I should buy enough necessities to last us at least a week before things go out of stock"? Basic logic.
Stop getting angry at others over your own irresponsibility, the blame game won't fix anything. Like I said before, use what you have. Maybe find another store, and try thinking ahead for once.

No. 524737

>>524735
i'm not that anon with the mom lmao you absolute brainlet. i have all necessary resources i could need and i still go out to the grocery store because this isn't a fucking apocalypse and going outside to buy things every day won't kill me if i take the necessary precautions. there's 0 need to hoard shit and there's nothing to fucking prepare for. i'm mad because you hoarders are actually the worst.

>i'm not projecting

>assumes we spent the weeks before calling people schizos and paranoid
ok.jpg

i hope you get corona so that shit you're hamstering doesn't go to waste

>>524736

you don't even make any sense and you know it

No. 524738

1. This thread isn't a substitute for your local hotline
2. Why the fuck are yall fighting?

No. 524740

>not hoarding stuff is literally the responsible thing to do
What are you seething about then? Do the "responsible" thing and buy sparkling water, or better yet, no water at all so other nothingburgerfags who need it more can get it.

No. 524741

>>524732
>Dying with everyone else is the responsible thing to do.
Haha. Good one, sis.
Listen, if governments cared about lives they'd have gone the Russian route of closing their borders way back in January. Instead most of what they care about is obtaining more money and power. They just don't want people to panic because then they might ask questions that endangers their money and power. Seriously, just ignore them. Now IS the time to panic. The more you panic today the better off you'll be tomorrow.

No. 524743

>>524741
>thinking you will die from grocery store trips
this is too good. i take it back you guys are paranoid schizos

No. 524744

>>521808
This aged terribly.

No. 524746

>>524737
>I-I have enough!
>I can go buy whatever I want everyday (despite already empty shelfs that get refilled less and less)!
Lmao, see you in a few months.

No. 524747

>>524746
Gee I wonder why those shelves are empty and get refilled less and less… could it be… because of hoarders?

No. 524750

>>524748
>literally told you i have all the stuff i need
>still talks like i have nothing and am mad because of that
speaking about 15 IQs…

No. 524752

>>524737
>didn't specify they weren't that anon with an "NTA", like anyone with an IQ above 15 would
>expects people to just know they're some random person butting in angrily
No wonder you're so mad, you're literally incapable of planning ahead.
Even if you don't believe the virus will ever get that bad, any person with a brain would've seen that other people are buying out the market (and blogging about it, even) and make sure they're not the one lacking. It's what a shitload of people did, but you were clearly too dumb to, and assuming you're not lying about being able to buy shit, you clearly still are.
Keep listening to the government's (bad) advice, wishing coronavirus on strangers and bitching in general all because you have no supplies, or are worried you won't, but are too stubborn to admit it's time to stock up like an adult would. Remember, you put yourself in this situation, and no one is obliged to pity you. Also, Google "projection" anytime. I think you need to.

No. 524753

>>524752
I just hope you know that in China you'd be in the gulag by now for this behavior

No. 524754

>>524737
>i hope you get corona so I get a chance at that shit you're hamstering
Holy shit just accept your own failure and try to save what you can instead of still coping and denying.

No. 524755

>>524747
The food that ends up on shelves, it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from human labor. So when the people that grow the food, prepare the food, ship the food, etc, start calling in sick or dropping dead completely that food will stop appearing on the shelves whether there's hoarders around or not.

No. 524756

>>524754
Damn it really is impossible for you guys to fathom that someone could think hoarding is retarded without actually being in need, huh?

No. 524757

>>524753
The same country that suppressed information on Corona's spread and threw a giant food festival days after they knew about it? The same country that loves to kill off its own citizens and shows no regard for their wellbeing?
Glad you're on their side. Maybe you should move there and live in Wuhan to show your allegiance. That way, people who actually deserve to survive can live in your house and use the meagre supplies you still have.

No. 524759

>>524747
Then why are you complaining to us? Do you think the shelves will be restocked quicker because you yelled at people on Lolcow? Most embarrassing behavior.

No. 524760

>>524757
It's a joke. Calm your autism, reddit.

No. 524761

>>524747
>continues to be this dense and short-sighted
You really have no one but yourself to blame. I'd wish you good luck but at this point you reap what you sow.

No. 524762

>>524760
What in my post didn't sound like a joke to you? I literally told you to move to China, lmao.
>autism
>reddit
Now this is projection. Anyway, stop screeching. If you're right, you have nothing to bitch at us about.

No. 524763

>>524756
Is the problem that you don't know what the word 'emergency' means? You buy shit BEFORE you need it because otherwise it will probably be too late.

No. 524765

>>524761
Reap what? Literally nothing is happening lol

No. 524767

>>524762
>I-I was just pretending to be retarded
feel free to stop replying if you want me to stop "screeching" at you so badly(infighting)

No. 524769

>>524760
>I-It's just a joke! I'm not seething and wishing dead on more prepared anons for 10+ replies now at all!!

No. 524770

>>524767
You just unwittingly gave another example of actual projection, kek.
You replied to me first to sperg out, but alright. I'm sure you need the last word, so feel free to take it after this.
If this spreads to you, I hope you don't spend your last moments to throw tantrums on Lolcow instead of going to the hospital.

No. 524774

Happy Friday the 13th, anons! Can't wait to see what kind of fuckshit goes on in the world today.

My sister was tested and came back negative so hopefully she stays that way. Took her until now to take this whole thing seriously so I've been quietly stressing over her lmao

No. 524777

>>524774
What is the test like, like is it on saliva, are the results instant or sent away?

No. 524778

My uncle made me feel shitty for going grocery shopping. He made a comment threatening that if people hog supplies, sick people are more likely to infect me. I don't understand why he even brought it up to me as if I was hoarding anything. I was buying a month's supply for myself and my stepdad, aka a normal grocery visit but with more emphasis on non-perishables. I wasn't "hogging" anything, my buggy looked normal.
It seemed so bitter of him. Like did he not prepare and now he's getting angry at anyone taking reasonable precautions because it reminds him of his own fear and denial? We have corona in our county.

I just watched that video of the Italian actor pleading for someone to come take his deceased sister's body as she's been dead since Saturday. You could see her corpse on the bed in the background. How is this no big deal to people still?

No. 524783

>>524718
uh yeah why the fuck would you go out to infect people if you're actually sick

No. 524786

tl;dr I hate this

I worked at a pharmacy yesterday and it was nuts. Went in at 12, we close at 9pm but I didn't leave until 9:45. Didn't even get a single break. All the customers were buying toilet paper because they were "running low at home" and worried about hoarders taking it all. And somehow we still had people coming in to ask about masks and sanitizer when we've been sold out for weeks, and the warehouse has sanitizer backordered for TWO MONTHS. To top off the shitshow of the night one customer was coughing with every word they spoke, into their elbow or on their hand that they used on the pinpad.

A rival pharmacy has the employees wearing masks and they make the customers use hand sanitizer before cashing out. We have no masks and our sanitizer is down to one small bottle (I bought it for myself, but someone else already opened it). I'm sure it'll be bad today too but at least I won't be there.

I had put my two weeks in because I got another job but now I'm worried about getting sick right after my normal shifts there begin.

No. 524787

>>524783
Of course but i meant like will it be just the 2 weeks?

No. 524788

>>524786
Your pharmacy sells toilet paper?

No. 524789

I can't believe the amount of people defending hoarding in this thread. Coronavirus is mostly dangerous to the elderly and those with underlying health conditions, and I assume most of us don't fit that demographic.

You're all lucky that you CAN hoard. There are people who live paycheck to paycheck who can't afford to hoard this ridiculous amount of shit every time they go grocery shopping. The elderly and disabled (those that it's actually dangerous to) often struggle to do their shopping every week. They'll go to the store and the shelves are empty. Are they supposed to go and run around stores trying to find what they need? They have difficulties getting around already, and hoarders are making it even harder.

Hoarders are selfish, individualistic, and straight up retarded. You aren't going to die if you're not old or already sick. Are you saving up for the apocalypse or something?

No. 524790

>>524787
Roughly two weeks, possibly more. Pretty sure they're having people re-tested after their symptoms clear to make sure they're negative in a lot of places.

No. 524791

>>524788
Yeah, and all the customers said the same "OMG WALMART/COSTCO/BJS/SAM'S IS SOLD OUT!!!"

It was annoying to hear people say they're totally not hoarding but of course they need to buy four packages while bringing up all the facebook videos they saw of people carting cases of tp.

No. 524792

>>524789

Poofags like me have been buying over the course of a month exactly because we’re poor. And we aren’t pointlessly buying 57 packs of toilet paper and paper masks.

No. 524796

>>524789
a 22% of healthy people without illness died in italy

No. 524797

>>524789
Went shopping today and where I live I mostly saw older people bulk buying toilet rolls and tinned/dry food items that will last. Didn't really see young people shopping differently. I was let skip the queue because I only had a basket while everyone else had piled up trolleys. Pensioners were out in force stocking up.

Sounds different in the US but younger people aren't panic buying here.

No. 524798

>>524790
He hE anon, I am just asking bc my country just informed they're mainly gonna only test medical pros and sick people at the hospital. This is a shit show. It's just confusing as to how long you're supposed to stay in, till you have 0 symptoms like cough or what. That could take ages. (I would stay in no matter what though, not gonna spread that shit dw)

No. 524802

>>524789
My whole family including me live from paycheck to paycheck and if it wasn't for me looking father than 5 inches in the future, saving up and starting to prepare since late january, my mother, brother, grandmom and granddad would be in the situation you're trying to concern troll about. Instead, they can relax and don't need to start panicing now that it is already to late. Stop blaming everyone else and suck it up. It's your own fault.

No. 524805

>>524797
I live in the US in the most affected area, I can tell you that young people here are not the ones hoarding. Went to the store yesterday for something to eat for dinner and it was hell. Suburban moms everywhere hoarding like psychos, cars full to the brim etc. while young people were all just trying to get food for NOW. So crazy the richer are hoarding and we can’t even live normally right now. I just want food to get by for today what the fucks going to happen when it all gets worse. Fuck preppers

No. 524806

It's not hoarder's fault that people aren't prepared. News about coronavirus has been out for months and the writing was on the wall once the CDC said now is the time to prep, IIRC a month ago. I don't have lots of money, but gradually I started prepping and preparing. It's not their fault or my fault that you started late.

No. 524807

>>524791
why do you sell toilet paper on your pharmacy

No. 524808

>>524807
>>524788
Why is this such a big deal

No. 524810

>>524806
There’s been nothing that says hoard all fucking resources. Prepare for if you get the flu, not the apocalypse. Like one box of flu medicine, summer is coming and than is won’t be so contagious. The hoarding makes no sense, you’re all going into meltdown mode like extra toilet paper is going to be your saving grace when your taking from other peoples day to day. I work all week I don’t have a car, I have limited time to go to the store and I have not been told by my government to war prep, it makes no sense to do so. I need toilet paper for now, I’m not dying and neither are you anon. It’s just selfish irrational behavior, if it gets to a point where there’s no food and governments can’t help you are all completely fucked anyways!!!!!! And if you get sick it’ll only last 2 weeks, one pack of 6 rolls last two weeks, no need to hoard. And if governments on lockdown, they have to keep food store open etc. it’s all just so fucking irrational.

No. 524812

>>524778
jesus christ I should not have looked that video up.

No. 524813

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>>524796
Do you have stats? Were they healthy but just old? Pic related.

>>524802
Good for you that your all-seeing clairvoyant family saw that people would be absolutely retarded about hoarding in a month's time. If you get coronavirus will you manage to go through all of that toilet paper you bought?

>Stop blaming everyone else and suck it up. It's your own fault.


The lack of empathy is truly astounding. How are people supposed to hoard when everyone else is hoarding too? That's why there are shortages right now and other people can't buy anything.

No. 524814

>>524810
Go stand outside costco and scream this at the Karens then retard. Maybe they will leave some for you. Us paranoid schizos BEEN DONE with our buying already.

No. 524815

>>524807
It's normal for American pharmacies to carry bathroom and cleaning supplies. Gas stations sell this stuff too.

No. 524816

guys im trying to get tested for coronavirus bc I have a bit of a fever and cough/shortness of breath and I might have had contact w someone who had close contact w someone who has it but I have called 4 doctors and none of them have availability to test me idk what to do

No. 524817

>>524810
The problem I have for feeling bad about the people who didn't prepare is that for a lot of people, they HAD the time, resources, and money to get extra, but they didn't. I'm sorry but it's your fault. Like I said, this virus has been known since late December/early February. When you prepare early, you can avoid shit like people hoarding toilet paper or water. I have no sympathy especially because I'm poor with no car.

The signs were there and many people didn't listen. Yeah the hoarders are assholes, but your life is your responsibility.

No. 524818


No. 524819

>>524814
NTA but why do you feel spoken to then? You're so insistent on telling everyone who thinks bulk hoarders are ridiculous that they're "yelling at you" when you yourself say that you aren't bulk hoarding but were slowly preparing over a months time. Like, why are you so bothered?

No. 524821

>>524818
i cant see any ages mentioned here anon, so im assuming its all old people unless you have another source with the ages

No. 524822

>>524807
I'm assuming anon works at a drug store which in burgerland usually has a pharmacy and a small selection of household, beauty, and food items.

No. 524823

>>524817
Anon, THERES NO RATIONAL REASON TO BE PANIC BUYING and telling me I should have for seen this is completely illogical. I’m not going to go to the store and start hoarding because other people are, I’m going to get toilet paper tomorrow, the shelves re stock, it’s just completely laughable and out right ridiculous. You shouldn’t feel bad because it’s not some apocalyptic life or death there’s no toilet paper anywhere situation holy shit, people are just being dickheads.

No. 524824

>>524821
yes im sorry there is no actual data on the ages i think its mostly elder people yes, but not all unfortunately.

No. 524825

>>524816
If you're in the US, good luck and keep trying. And keep calm, due to bureaucracy and stupidity testing kits aren't widely available unless you fit a very narrow criteria.
Hopefully you're reaching out over the phone and not running around.

No. 524826

>>524810
It's not their fault your asshole is itchy. You had almost 3 months and online shopping is a thing. But you wasted all your energy playing it down instead of being responsible and you're even still at it. Stop acting like you care for the elderly when you're (literally) butthurt because people bought the things you want.(incessant infighting)

No. 524827

>>524823
You couldn't see people panic buying during a pandemic? Maybe I should be more frank? I don't care about the hoarders, because I bought most of my shit when idiots were saying COVID was going to stay in China and that only Asians get it. Of course people will hoard, it is logical and illogical at the same time. But if you paid attention to current events as they were happening, you could see this a mile away.

No. 524828

>>524826
Your hoarding resources from said elderly, don’t get butthurt because you’re being irrational and paranoid. so I should have hoarded 3 months ago and for seen that people would hoard now? You’re hoarding for what exactly? Seriously there’s no reason to hoard, if you get sick you only get sick for two weeks. If government locks down you can still go to food stores, if riots happened YOU ARE ALL FUCKED ANYWAYS especially if you’re the ones with the resources. It’s NOT a fucking apocalypse people you’re literally fine. It’s literally irrational and you’re pissed cause you know it kek. The fact toilet paper is still available, it exactly why we should be hoarding. It’s just the irrational draining resources for no real reason

No. 524829

>>524828
*shouldnt be hoarding kekeke, no for real not that big a deal I was being hypothetical about the toilet paper anyways, you are all just upset because your the ones doing the resource draining for the actual sick

No. 524832

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The people only NOW hoarding are panicking hysterical retards, wow who woulda thunk.(stop)

No. 524833

>>524827
theres still no reason to be hoarding this much shit. its not ebola, anon

No. 524835

Quit it with the infighting. We've heard all the arguments from both sides now and this is just going in circles. Obvious infighters will be recieving bans and anyone who continues this discussion will recieve them as well.

No. 524838

>>524813
>Good for you that your all-seeing clairvoyant family saw that people would be absolutely retarded about hoarding in a month's time.
Not my family, I did. And you don't have to be all-seeing to recognize an upcoming crisis (especially when you literally have an example for how it will evolve)and the consequences will have. Even those "retards" are more clever than you but keep hoping it will magically resolve anytime soon.

>If you get coronavirus will you manage to go through all of that toilet paper you bought?

My family will, that's why I bought it. Without having to fight people for it. Meanwhile you're already crying now.

>The lack of empathy is truly astounding. How are people supposed to hoard when everyone else is hoarding too?

They were supposed to do it over the span of the last months when anyone who didn't cover their eyes and ears could see it coming. You already could've bought anything you want but you yourself chose not to.(ban evasion, ignoring farmhand warning)

No. 524839

>>524681
Italian men are already some of the worst coomers you'll ever meet.
t. Italiananon

No. 524841

>>524835
Then why don't you ban the ones who start it in the first place?

No. 524844

Why is everyone buying toliet paper? I get it's helpful to have but there's so many alternatives like water, shouldn't people be more worried about food??

No. 524846

>>524844
Not to get in to the hoard vs not hoarding discussion but yeah I had a moment at the store today where I thought it looked more like a deadly stomach virus is spreading, more toilet paper being bought than food.

No. 524848

>>524844
>>524846
agreed, not sure why the toilet paper is such a problem. pasta is selling out too though so maybe people are moving on to food now?

No. 524851

>>524817
>they had money and resources to get extra

you sure about that? not everyone actually has the money for that

No. 524853

it's a kind-of-happening-but-not-really burger. people will calm down in a bit(2 weeks or so) about the hoarding most likely after some of them catch the illness and realize its not too bad and i imagine a lot of people will be returning to work but it's possible ICUs will still be fucked for a while. in actuality not much is going to change in people's daily lives beyond hitting peak critical boredom from cancelled events.

at least, that's my prediction. since i already had and recovered from it i'm thinking about volunteering to help out at my local hospital if they need it.

No. 524855

>>524853
Not sure if you've posted this already but what was the onset of the virus like?

No. 524857

>>524853
You can catch it again, anon. There's been cases of people who recovered only to get sick from it again. Be careful if you do decide to volunteer!

No. 524865

>>524857
I'm not sure if this is true, anon. I see this being attributed to faulty tests that were manufactured in the early stages of research and also misuse of antivirals. I will do more research for sure, though.

>>524855
Fever > 103F (that was the worst part, without fever meds I felt awful and couldn't find the energy to move around or eat and would wake up in the middle of the night sweating with chills), lots of coughing. Coughed so hard I thought I would see blood but never actually did. Recovered in about 5 days with a slight cough that persisted for another week or so roughly.

No. 524869

>>524808
places outside the us have pharmacies for pharmaceuticals only and maybe personal hygiene stuff, just like only having a store that sells bread, fish, etc

No. 524871

>>524865
I also want to specify that I'm early twenties and have a (controlled) chronic autoimmune disease so it is likely I had a slightly more severe onset and recovery time than others in my age bracket.

No. 524872

>>524812
I'm sad for his situation but I'm really glad he's getting the reality of the situation out there, hopefully people can take this more serious

No. 524873

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Thank you Corona-chan, my company now lets me work remote from home now

No. 524881

my country just closed down every cafe/restaurant etc and i booked a ticket last night to go back to my parents on sunday, how fucked am i?

No. 524884

I live with my grandma who has health conditions along with old age. If she catches it, she's done. Fuck reckless people. I will do everything I can to keep my grandma safe.

No. 524885

>>524853
We haven't even hit the peak of the outbreak yet.

Many countries are looking at 10-14 weeks for the peak to approach.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-03-12/uk-coronavirus-peak-10-to-14-weeks-away-government-chief-scientific-adviser

No. 524887

There was one confirmed case in my city maybe 2 weeks ago. No word on any others here yet. But they cancelled college classes all across the board, no word on other schools, people are Hoarding and they’re cancelling city wide events and festivals for months out, like stuff in April and May. Is this normal? Should I be concerned?

No. 524888

>>524885
I don't think the virus will magically go away in 2 weeks, but I do think the hype might die down a bit when more stories about recoveries start surfacing and countries take definitive measures instead of overall confusionville. That's my optimistic hope. People will still be getting sick though.

No. 524890

my mind will barely let me think about the homeless and how despairing it is for them. they're going to be dying in the streets quickly. food banks will be low. what measures can be taken for them to be safer?

No. 524893

>>524890
Daycentres for the homeless have been closed where I am, so no showers, no getting out of the cold for a bit or access to the hot drinks/food that's usually available in the centres

No. 524894

>>524881
are you a greek anon? regardless, be careful and hopefully you will be fine. and even keep a distance with your parents

we are slowly getting an Italy-style quarantine and I've lowkey started freaking out.I should stop watching the news and reading places like here but on the other hand I wanna be sure that I'm getting my sources correctly and be updated as more and more places shut down.I don't wanna give into the panic but at times I'm getting overwhelmed

No. 524896

>>524890
Eat the rich?

No. 524901

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spero che i vostri nonni e parenti etc stiano tutti bene

No. 524902

>>524901
Don't bump w pastaspeech

No. 524904

>>524680
This is honestly so disgusting

No. 524905

>High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

Explains why the virus hasn't spread enmasse to Jamaica and Guyana and other Caribbean Islands. Wtf I love global warming now.

No. 524906

>>524902
shut the fuck up

No. 524907

>>524905
Praying we get an early summer in April because this shit needs to end

No. 524908

>>524680
Ok now I want to kill myself. Pornhub is disgusting and this shouldn't be news.

No. 524912

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No. 524914

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>>524680
Disgusting.

No. 524918

Any advice for mask/respirator alternatives or should I just stick to the general hand hygiene guidelines? I naively believed the news when they said that masks wouldn't help at all and not to buy them. Now that I've decided I'd like a few, they're already sold out basically everywhere in the UK and all the stuff I can find online is ridiculously overpriced and/or hasn't been reliably tested. Anything else I can do to avoid breathing in shit particles from coofers?

No. 524922

>>524918
the news is absolutely right. assuming youre a healthy young person who isnt immunocompromised, you dont need a mask, and buying them is just decreasing the supply available for people that actually need them. even if you did buy some, those generic paper masks people wear arent going to protect you from shit, those are for sick people so that when they cough/sneeze the virus doesn't spread as easily to others. n95 masks are ineffective unless youre 100% sure you have the right size, you also have to test it to see if it's the right size and if the mask even works.

No. 524926

im having constant panic attacks since last night

i dont know if i can handle it

No. 524927

I'm prepped and I still don't see why hoarder anons can't understand hoarding is bad.
If you take unreasonable amounts, nobody else can be "prepared". You're not going to die because you have to ration your prepping stock, but people who couldn't afford to prep because stores were emptied out by hoarders are going to be in a much worse position. What are hoarders going to do with all that spam after this if they don't eat it anyway? It'll just go to waste.

I imagine the same kind of anons that disagree with me are also against public Healthcare or tax-funded education.

No. 524928

I hope snapchat rolls out some corona filters soon

No. 524929

>>524926

Stay off social media and news sites right now. Try to figure out what you can do in your situation once you can calm down and breathe a little. You're gonna be okay, anon.

No. 524933

>>524926
Take a break, maybe try to limit your coronamedia intake for now and let yourself have some rest. I just told my friend irl that the situation won't get worse if you have a nap. Maybe follow only your local health org for updates instead of here and so on, until you feel calmer. It'll be okay at some point, it's ok to take a second.

No. 524934

>>524928
girl…

No. 524937

>>524914
what the fuck is wrong with people. seriously

No. 524940

File: 1584127119664.png (494.02 KB, 492x503, 06d.png)

work at a grocery store, watched two people get into a fist fight, watched someone throw a 24 ct pack of water bottles at my manager cus there is a two per person limit among a few other items and what ended my shift was someone cracking a bottle of wine over someones head and knocking them out cold and the dude passed out into a case of wine and watched all the wine fall and break all over the place. wtf is wrong with people??

No. 524941

>>524914
tbh I hope they all go cause this is fucking nasty and they have no sense of decency

No. 524944

>>524940
Wtf? Did you at least film them and get some twitter clout? Stay safe anon, bitches be crazy.

No. 524945

Anyone know if it’s actually dumb/risky for me to travel domestically? I planned to go see my parents for spring break and now they’re saying it’s too risky but I’m pissed off because this is the one fucking week I gave myself to do stuff and I already planned shit for the whole week. I don’t want to stay here living in a nasty house with 5 other disgusting people I’ll lose my damn mind. When I look at pages for my city groups, there’s barely any panic and life is going on as normal lol so sorry for the vent but it’s annoying. I was scared of this maybe a week ago but now I’m over it honestly

No. 524946

>>524937
what is wrong with men. you mean. but i digress we have a whole other thread for that.

No. 524947

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>>524680
I hope they meet the same fate as girls do porn

>>524927
Not everyone you see bulk buying is hoarding things for themselves. Where I live younger people with cars have started helping old and disabled people who can't go out and buy supplies.

No. 524949

>>524944
shit bitch i wish, you could see the life drain out of every employees eyes with the wine incident. some retard is gonna go away for assault plus whatever damages the store charges him with. bitches be crazy indeed

No. 524952

>>524381
nice to see another norwegianon. i work in a grocery store and it's been utter chaos, even when i work in bumfuck nowhere. we've been cleaning every nook and cranny with chlorine and we need almost double the amount of usual people on each shift because there are so many people and they make a fucking mess. it's nuts.

No. 524954

>>524940
hiram anon?

No. 524956

>>524954
yoooo!

No. 524958

>>524670
>now
Way to miss the point, Chinese diaspora has always suffered racism and you're a prime example of the people who don't consider it as serious as the abuse towards other minorities even though it's the same sneaky, underhanded shit. Are you happy for having more racism in the world or something?
>>524660
Think critically about what you are doing with your fear and where that sentiment comes from. You know what that is? Prejudice. We're not asking you to hug and shake hands with every Asian for being so brave in these trying times, the other anons are right in saying you're just being paranoid and he's probably trying to stock up as much as you.

>some fucking morons who see me shopping at my local supermarket in the city I was born and raised in my entire life probably think this shit in their heads

>mfw I'm always assumed to be some mainlander university student until I open my mouth

No. 524959

>>524956
lol im in douglasville and i saw it all over my facebook this morning!

No. 524961

>>524427

update to my own post from yesterday:

>School will be shut down from next week until the end of April in germany

>Grandma ain't feeling great, said she has fever and "flu like symptoms", contacted her doctor and needs to watch how it evolves the next days
>My mum is just hysteric at this point. Said germany is surrounded my soldiers and tanks and that nobody will leave germany and that all shops will be closed and is now panic shopping.

let's see how it goes.

No. 524962

>>524959
small world lmao its getting crazy out here.

No. 524963

>>524940
https://twitter.com/GAFollowers/status/1238284227906592774

here's a vid anon. see if you can spot yourself or something kek.

for real though that's terrifying, stay safe anon.

No. 524964

>>524958
Did you mean to respond to >>524660? They weren't saying anything about Asians, they were talking about overcrowded hospitals. Being concerned about the pandemic at this point is not prejudice.

No. 524969

>>524958
>>524964
whoops lol, not at all, I meant to reply to >>524661

No. 524970

>>524963
I’m out here filling a couple of empty 3 gallon jugs and any plastic milk/juice containers that haven’t been recycled yet from tap, just in case.
It’s not time to fight over bottled water yet, my god.
Unless your tap water is poisoned or shut off, wtf are these people doing.

No. 524971

>>524894
yes, i need to gtfo of the island im on before it gets quarantined or worse…

i understand the panic, im even starting to give in after lurking here and on various discussion threads (not to mention the whole deal in evros) but at least they are doing something about it and aren't letting people roam free.. things seem so scary right now but we still are pretty lucky compared to other countries. stay safe (you and your family) fellow greekanon!

No. 524975

so what are the chances things like electricity and water will be shut off if things escalate? am I worrying about it getting that bad for no reason?

No. 524977

>>524975
Very unlikely. Shutting off electricity and water is like inviting actual societal collapse.

No. 524978

officially panic mode as well. i used to not give a fuck, i'm young, my parents are gen xers who don't have history of medical shit going on, just wash your hands and wear gloves and don't touch your face. but i have two cats, and i read they have the same ace2 protein we do and are at risk. i'm genuinely scared to go out now and disinfected every orifice and told my dad to stay the fuck home too or i'm giving him to the quarantine once he just as much as coughs. i just recently lost a cat i can't do this again. idec about people dying and idc if that makes me wrong.

>>524975
almost none from what i heard

No. 524985

>>524975
Nobody who works for utilities companies are boomers. Also they are essential services. I, for example, work for a utility company and almost all of us in operations are essential staff and have worked during times of crisis before like hurricanes etc. Companies like this even pay overtime if they have to because they are required by their huge government contracts to maintain a SLA. Besides that most plants run with minimal human intervention…just a technician or two if something breaks.

No. 524988

>>524978
Your cats will be fine, they have high body temperature and they’ll outlive your bitch ass

No. 524992

>>524988
thank you anon i pray you're right

No. 524995

>>524978
You're jinxing your cats lmao

No. 525002

>>524988
there is still literally no evidence that the virus is averse to heat. it came from bats after all, which have high body temp.

No. 525006

I have the urge to watch Contagion again

No. 525012

They closed all the universities in my town, and have begun closing the elementary school as well.

Im beginning to panic and want to run to the store to buy some supplies, but my boyfriend says that an over reaction. It likely is, still though

No. 525014

>>525006
i already did, kek. good movie

No. 525017

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>>525012
over-reaction or not. pic related is a store in my city.

No. 525022

Sooo I work in a travel agency in Germany and things are just crazy.
People can be so fucking rude to you and it's just frustrating.
Now even Turkey has a travel ban for Germans until after the easter holiday.
It makes sense that they do that I mean good for them really but I am not lookong forward to the chaos tomorrow.

The tourism branche will be in shambles after this.
I just hope that the government gets the small offices help because this is a nightmare.
I bet that so many will go bankrupt after this…

Anyways I really hope the government does not do a 360 and is quarantining everyone like they do in Italy.

No. 525023

>No food in house
>Finally get paid so I can go grocery shopping
>Literally nothing on the shelves
>Only pick up some frozen chicken and pasta
>Get yelled at by a couple boomers for "hoarding" and taking resources from people who need it

I just wanted something to eat besides rice and ramen anons…

No. 525024

>>525002
They're not actually for certain that it came from bats. It's speculation at this point

No. 525026

why is the death rate so high in italy ? sorry but I can't believe that italy is the only country being transparent about the numbers, highly doubt that

No. 525027

>>525026
Italy has a high population of the elderly

No. 525028

not to fedpost but does anybody have diy shotgun/weapon pdfs?

>>525026
no offence to italians but it's their mentality of "i dont care if i die" which translates into i dont care if i infect others, couple that with a country with a lot of boomers and bad healthcare (at least from what i saw when i broke my hand on a trip once). that's my speculation anyway.
also you must know south korea has about same numbers of infected people and the death rate of 0,6, why? because they tested the whole country and saw who exactly has it, not only based on symptopms, while italians only count those who already show symptoms.

No. 525030

>>525028
>not to fedpost but does anybody have diy shotgun/weapon pdfs?
Why you need these?

No. 525031

>>525028
Anon-chan, you're glowing so bright…

No. 525032

>>525012
I live in a rural area and even the schools here are shutting down. scary shit

No. 525034

I live in Texas and I’ve been pretty unbothered by all this hype.. but my husband has been showing symptoms and he went to the doctor today, it’s not strep or the flu. But they literally won’t even say “corona virus” or “COVID-19” where he went, won’t recommend he get tested for it, etc. My college extended spring break by a week and the following two weeks of classes will be online. I’m starting to feel under the weather too, so I’m glad I won’t miss school because of it but I still have to work. I can’t afford to miss it, I don’t get sick pay and haven’t been there long enough to have vacation time. My main concern is that we take care of his grandma and despite her being healthy for her age, we are worried about getting her sick. Ugh stress, I hope this is just something that passes through and doesn’t have drastic consequences.

No. 525046

>>524906
you first faggot

No. 525047

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No. 525049

>>525046
Je ne suis pas l'anon à qui vous parliez, mais mangez mon cul.

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No. 525052

>>524678
If you're serious keep us updated pls. I hope you and your mother recover soon

No. 525059

>>525051
Kek I love this one

No. 525086

Man coronavirus almost feels like some kind of divine plague sometimes. Mysteriously spares infants and children (something the flu virus doesn't) but kills off elderly people with one foot in the grave and boomers with beetus and heart disease almost exclusively. Even the upper echelons of society and government are getting infected. And just the act of social distancing and reduced travel is reducing greenhouse gasses significantly. Not tinfoiling that this is all intentional or whatever to combat climate change or that I wish death on anyone's grandma, it's just fucking nuts how it's all unfolding.

No. 525091

Call me spergy but i started doing weekly voice memos i put on a flashdrive, talking about corona and the fucking absurdity hit me so hard. Yea some possible bat soup has now forced me to count my soup cans, fear for many lives and no one can do shit about. Wild shit, anons.

No. 525092

>>525034
Texanon here too. I was diagnosed with viral bronchitis and they put me on a bunch of antibiotics. I have shortness of breath, had a fever of 100.3, muscle aches, and night sweats

No. 525095

>>525091
>i started doing weekly voice memos i put on a flashdrive
sounds kinda fun tbh i was thinking of doing the same thing, just to listen to it years later (if things don't get worse and i'll survive)

No. 525096

>>525086
I must admit that kid's being basically "immune" but able to pass it on thing I heard had me scratching my chin. Weird shit, weird times. Stay safe, anons.

No. 525099

>>525095
Exactly! I like rambling outloud and find it easier than to just write shit, it's like a personal podcast with one listener lmao

No. 525108

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>>525028
>diy shotguns/weapons
Unless you live in a extremely shitty third world country you won't need those.
I live in the city with the highest murder rate in the world and around this time last year we had nationwide blackouts lasting weeks. Of course the phone lines, the internet and even the radio died together with our electricity as there was literally no power in the entire country. And of course no electricity for water pumps means no tap water either. I know it doesn't sound like such a big deal but it was. Imagine all of your food rotting away, the supermarkets' food rotting away, not knowing how your family is doing because no phone signal, not knowing what's happening in the country or why is there even a blackout (before the blackout there were rumors of a coup), all transportation collapsed because no gas and no subway, etc.
There was a lot of looting, and a lot of people selling water for a fortune. A lot of people that needed life support died. A lot of people that just needed a simple dialysis died. Still, no one went out shotting people nor looting homes.
If anything people will loot businesses, but not homes.

In other news, today the government announced the first two cases or coronavirus in the country, and after that there were local blackouts.
There was already a health crisis here because the entire health system is in such terrible shape that people are dying from medieval illnesses.
Coronavirus is going to wipe out this country, but oh well, I guess.

No. 525110

>>525091
This is honestly really cool.
I wish I didn't hate my voice so I could tolerate doing this as well.

No. 525112

Crying bc I have kidney disease, lowered immunity due to arthritis, and multiple heart probs. My daughter asked me if I would get "the virus" and I said no but didn't tell her I was more at risk than others.

No. 525113

here in uruguay some dumbass designer came from Milan and went straight to a high society wedding so now not only she's sick but apparently 20+ were showing symptoms. it sucks because now covid is here but ngl it put a smile in my face when I heard of it

No. 525114

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Mexico is considering closing its border to stop Americans bringing coronavirus into its country as US case count passes 2,000

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8110163/Mexico-wants-close-border-Americans-stop-spread-coronavirus.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

No. 525115

>>525112
Wishing you the best in these trying times, anon. You did the right thing, your child shouldn't worry needlessly if all goes well. Stay safe!

I'm annoyed there are reports in Norway of people travelling to their cabins in other parts of the country. Even if you're not sick yet: travelling to another small town and potentially infecting others could be detrimental to the workload in that small community. Can people have some respect and just not go skiing and stay in their own area? Clearly hard to fathom for some. Some people also seem oblivious to the fact that quarantine means staying at home!! It's not that hard of a concept. You can even go for walks as long as you stay away from other people but some people are legit pissy they can't grab frozen pizza from their local store themselves, I guess.

No. 525120

>>523856
Hi fellow Nebraskanon!
I'm a bit concerned, too, but trying to keep calm and level-headed. Currently living with family that have always had excess food/supplies even without a pandemic threat, so if it was announced we all had to be locked in our homes for a month we'd be good, thankfully. I know many people are not that lucky.

Stay safe, if we're gonna get it then we're gonna get it. Doesnt seem like theres much you can do outside of staying away from people as much as possible.

No. 525126

This evening someone rammed the front doors of a walmart with a car in my town. Several people are reported injured along with another fight with injuries at a Costco. Schools only announced closures yesterday nobody is under proper lockdown and still people are being crazy.It's state known for drug use and poverty so I guess it is to be expected but damn.

>>525114
They 100% should. My prof asked students in class today who would be traveling out of country for break and a good 20 people were still going to fly, most to mexico.

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>>525050
Yeah, ngl I was going through a suicidal patch unrelated to all this and was doomer as hell, but now the news has blown up with all of this and telling people to stay indoors just as my mood improved enough for me to want to return back to work and keep fighting for my future. Dafuq, man.

>>525113
So whenever someone brings up infections like these, are they able to walk around and pass off as normal or sick with a regular cold? Then suddenly those healthy adult 20 people go down with the same thing? The thing with posts like these is that they're leaving gaps and I'm knowingly getting scared filling in the details imagining all those people going down with it without a voice of reason

No. 525130

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How the hell I am supposed to take my GED now?I'm in Texas
Taking the GED online seems to be way too tricky

No. 525132

>>525130
can you even take GED online? i thought you can't cause of some dumb reason even though you can take adult hs online.

No. 525135

All the schools in my area are now closed until the end of the month including the one I work at. Just got the news about it today, but not only that, someone who was subbing for a teacher was in close contacted with another who had the virus, and has test positive with it. So this person was around the school for god knows how long and may have infected others they were in contact with there. Wish me luck anons, hopfully I won't contracted it but I am still fearful for the kids I work with because several of them have Immunodifficencies, including their parents.

No. 525138

>>525108
Wait are you from Venezuela too?, thougth I was alone, this will be a shitshow (Probably worst than Italy) considering Venezuela is full of elders and people with an already weak inmune system, healthcare here is absolute shit too, this is literaly the worst case scenario.

No. 525140

>>525128

iirc there is a two week period where you can remain asymptomatic while being a carrier thus the quarantine. in some people the virus is so mild they never show any symptoms at all

No. 525141

Guys, like I feel like this was created to get rid of higher figures out there. I feel like this was created to get rid of people like Putin and Trump. I know that it isn't but I can't get my mind off of it.

I think it's coming for me next, but I'm just paranoid. My best bet is to kill myself, but I probably won't because I'm a coward and just over reacting. However it's the best thing to do.

No. 525142

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I work at Starbucks and I'm so anxious about my elderly regulars. I have a lot because of where I live and many are over 60 with some kind of weakened immune system or condition meaning if they contract it they wouldn't survive. I've known them for years now and they prefer me to make their drinks if I'm there. Something that was sweet/flattering now keeps me up at night. I've literally been crying for hours thinking I could have corona and not know and have given it to them. I know about their families or met their families and some have given me presents for my birthday or Christmas so I'm very close to them and I just couldn't live with myself. I've been washing my hands raw and even though I know there's other places they could get it I would still feel responsible. I'm so anxious about it. I wish we'd shut down like disney or walmart is doing now and just get some paid time off so I wouldn't have to worry about money and infecting the people I've come to really care about.

No. 525144

>>525086
yup. makes you think.

today I heard an older guy talking about how corona-chan won't kill him because he's gone through much worse. he then proceeded to proudly list off some of his medical history, as if it would be a fly on his shoulder to get the virus. he needs to watch the fuck out though.

we all do, everyone here is all "oh the medias overhyping it!" and rolling their eyes. I wanna head north, get the fuck out of the city while I can. don't have driver's license, car, or a place to stay though… fuck.

No. 525145

>>525141
Holy shit, I'm samefaggjng hard but I'm avtually going to die. My heart's beating so fast, I'm fucking freaking out, where the fuck's my doctor I need help I'm going to die . I hear the sirens they're coming for me.
I'm so sorry

No. 525146

>>525108
that sounds like an enormous fucking deal… Thanks for sharing though, makes me worry less about getting robbed and sold into post-apocalyptic sex trafficking

No. 525147

>>525145
Don't wana be rude but are you mentally ill by any chance?

No. 525148

>>525132
off topic but if you could, and had a spare working computer, you could ace that baby no problem kek

No. 525150

>>525142
This is heartbreaking but even if you did it's not your fault. Times like these you really realize how enslaved we are. I'd love to stay home and flatten the curve, not get sick, not infect anyone, but wOn't AnyONe PleASe ThINk oF thE EcOnOMy??? Ain't no rest for the wicked, man.

No. 525154

>>525150
this
im seeing a lot of people right now who are feeling really depressed and hopeless over this because it feels like theres nothing we can do

if you have to work, you're probably going to get the virus
until they shut down all the retail, food service jobs, grocery stores etc, anyone who is employed somewhere where you cant work from home will more than likely get it the longer they keep things open

its so fucked it really does feel like the world is ending or something

No. 525156

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Why are boomers so goddamn reckless?, my grandfather is going to get infected because he refuses to stay inside just because he wants to randomly buy groceries, my grandma will probably get infected too because of him no matter how much we try to protect them both from COVID-19, I can't believe my grandparents are probably going to fucking die because of typical boomer behaviour.

No. 525161

I'm happy people in my country are being really relaxed about it and now hoarding like it's the apocalypse. In a few month this will all seem like a fever dream to you all crazed anons.

No. 525165


No. 525166

The corporation who owns my workplace (a vet clinic) finally sent out a statement regarding the virus protocols and it was basically just "if you have cold or flu symptoms make sure you wash your hands and dispose of used tissues and don't shake hands with clients" That's literally it. Nothing about people with symptoms self-quarantining or anything. They actually want us to keep coming to work if we are sick. I didnt expect us to shut down for 2 weeks by any means, we still have animals to take care of, but I'm just in awe that they straight up don't care if any of us could potentially have the virus. All it requires to pass it on is being in a closed space with people for 2 hours or face to face contact for 15 minutes; a small clinic full of people for 8 hours will spread real fast. Not to mention all the elderly customers we could spread it to during consults. Fantastic.

No. 525172

I love how quickly it went from gaslighting concerned folks to finally declaring a national emergency, thanks trump, thanks boomers, thanks retarded zoomers.

No. 525175

>>525154
I work retail and me and my boss had a mutual moment of FUCK THIS where we were both like let's call out tomorrow who gives a fuck! we're both still gonna go in though because we need the money but jesus after the shitstorm today it's so tempting to take tomorrow off. it was about as busy as peak holiday season, but at least during December 23rd or whatever I know exactly what day the madness will end whereas with this, I have NO idea.

No. 525180

My city (nyc) now has the highest number of cases and the mayor still did not mandatory shut down nightclubs, bars and retail. I understand not shutting down schools where some kids rely on food but entertainment should be on lockdown by now otherwise we’re going to go into the same direction as Italy. A few businesses have shown they have a spine and shut down voluntary but most are still business as usual and one of them is my friend who is 50+ and def going to get infected, like I get he has a bottom line but wtf I’m wondering if I should dm him or if it’s just a waste of time. I’m so disgusting that we can’t even get tests out, I could go stay with my 80+ y/o grandparents and help them if I knew for a fact I was negative. I’m so freaked out for their welfare. They live in a huge apartment building with lots of old people and 100% someone is going to get sick there and not self-quarantine because majority of Russian people in NY are literal smoothbrain retards that believe Alex Jones conspiracy theory level shit like smoking doesn’t cause cancer, genetics do. They still leave the apartment to take walks outside and to do that they have touch elevator and doors.

No. 525182

>>525145
sounds like you're having a panic attack

No. 525183

>>525142
i relate anon. i work retail and me + my coworkers (some of who are on the older side and smokers), will most definitely get the virus. im so anxious about passing it to my fragile mom, my boyfriends fragile mom, but i still need to go to work every day and put my family, my customers and my coworkers at risk. we cant even get tested since they only test those with severe symptoms now and hospital staff. it fucking sucks.

No. 525191

>>525166
Same thing at my workplace. Wash your hands frequently, if you can't, use hand sanitizer, don't shake hands with people.
Also, my boss said that working remotely is out of the question, unless 'things get really bad'.

No. 525192

>>525034
>>525092
If they're not gonna test you guys properly either because of politics or just because they don't have enough good tests to go round you should definitely act as if you have it just in case.

No. 525194

>>525028
No. Just no. Unless you own a machine shop and are extremely proficient with it anything you could make would have a sky high probability of literally blowing up in your face. Buy a legal one that definitely works, or trade for a black market one that definitely works, or come up with a different contingency plan entirely.

No. 525196

Drugs are the first thing i'm gonna stock up on

No. 525197

>>525191
Not allowing people to work remotely if possible is idiotic. My husband's office resisted for a few weeks but since everyone started refusing to come in they finally gave up and allowed it. It's literally all online work too so there was no reason to not let them. Bonus points for our state starting to have local transmissions now. God these companies are fucking dumb.

No. 525201

>>525128
Off topic as heck, but I've thinking a lot about this movie, Melancholia. Long story short Kirsten Dunst is suffering from serious, incapacitating depression UNTIL everyone finds out that a rogue planet is on a collision course with Earth. At that point she's the only one that's able to step up in being completely calm rational. The world still ends of course, but at least she could go out with her niece and nephew smiling.

No. 525209

Wish people would realise masks and antibacterial spray is absolutely shit.

Just use bleach on everything at home, keep it out of kids way. Obv.

Be clean and stay fucking clean.

No. 525212

>>525028
I agree that South Korea has been very efficient with containing the infection. The drive-through testing was a great idea that I wish could be applied everywhere.
But you're wrong about Italy, they've been doing their best considering how it took them unprepared, and they're being very thorough with testing, more than almost every affected country. Look at the number of swabs done vs the USA number, compare it to Germany too. They don't "only" test people showing symptoms. The total lock down now will work even more in their favor.
More testing leads to discover more cases, and being the most ancient population in Europe leads to more deaths. And don't forget that some countries are applying the China method of only counting deaths of people who tested positive for corona, rather than checking the "pneumonia" deaths as well.

No. 525214

>>525128
Anon, I have it and for me it is like a regular cold I was able to go out and about.

No. 525217

>>525214
NTA but at my job yesterday a couple customers were saying that it’s pretty likely corona has already been in the USA for weeks and no one knew because of people not seeing the doctor (assuming it was a normal cold or the flu) and the difficulty to get tested.

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>>525212

I agree with the other anon, I’ve had Italian friends and they told me healthcare and other institutions have been decaying for decades, rampant corruption and extreme nepotism in every facet of life, no failson left behind deeply engrained in society fueling a brain drain of this generations educated and qualified people. It’s not just about elderly

No. 525228

So people hoarding shit like a bunch of dumbasses, that some cant find food and items for themselves. All the shelves are fuckin empty. Can stores please but a limit on how much you can buy? Theres other people too.

No. 525231

>>525217
Ntayrt but I agree with this, people in the US, even with medical insurance, don’t go to the doctor so it’s likely it’s been here awhile. I also imagine the number of deaths, and just the number of people who have it in America; is way higher than we could even imagine. I know some dumb tweaker who tested positive but he feels fine so he refused to quarantine and is just walking around our small ass town. A dude at a quarantine hotel in a near by city freaking ran away and got on a public bus and was caught on video going into a crowded gas station store also. No one has stopped either of these dumb men! Ugh.

No. 525233

Why are Americans buying guns? Do they think they can shoot the virus?

No. 525234

>>525233
No, to protect themselves. We legitimately feel unsafe, especially when we know other people also have guns. I don’t have a gun, but I understand why other people get them here. A lot of people are scared of being burglarized.

No. 525235

>>525233
To shoot at anyone that comes after their toilet paper.

No. 525238

>>525235
fucking kek anon, ty for the laugh.
on another note my family doesn’t have much food and all the stores are sold out of a lot. my mom is coughing pretty bad now and my schools been cancelled for another week. i live in a small ass bumpkin town, how the fuck do we have coronavirus cases???

No. 525239

>>525233
I think people are really starting to panic because of all the school and work closures, sanitary products selling out and the Wall Street stocks plummeting every other day. The only recent time something like this happened to a nationwide extent were the months after 9/11.

It sounds like working class jobs (like construction and state projects) are being delayed because of the virus. A lot of people aren’t working right now so they’re at home freaking out.

No. 525240

>>525233
Because other Americans have guns and are nuckin' futs, that's why. Everyone's stockpiling in the first place because they're expecting a worst case scenario with mandated quarantines, which means others are likely going to try to loot and burglarize which would be armed attempts. Law enforcement is shoddy enough under our best circumstances, people would expect complete lawlessness and pandemonium for criminals if we really went into a legit panic scenario. I'm most concerned for people in urban and suburban centers.

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No. 525243

>>525242
Love the part where Amazon is acting high and mighty when they profit from it most.

No. 525246

>>525166
Med anon in Seattle here. It is a shitshow right now.

A lot of clinics and hospitals are doing this too. We aren't told to wear masks or really do much of anything else other than wash hands and disinfect surfaces frequently.

What's fucked up is, most clinics and hospitals now are completely infected, but because of our fucking president privatizing the tests and the CDC's unrealistic testing condition limitations, no one can get tested easily. One major hospital just started doing tons of tests illegally because they couldn't sit by and just twiddle their thumbs, so they said fuck it and are just breaking the law. But patients with symptoms are still being turned away from hospitals despite having severe symptoms like super high fever and difficulty breathing.

Lots of drs, nurses, and staff are having to go to work even with symptoms now because there are just not enough people otherwise. Two of my depts lead Drs have had fevers since Wednesday and are still seeing patients because they have no other choice. Some providers are even being asked to come out of retirement to help.

And contrary to popular belief, not everyone who works in healthcare has insurance here. While some have PTO which is lucky, once that runs out they will have zero income. Private clinics, which is where the Dept of Health is telling people to go for testing which is generally a lie, are often broke and have no fallback financially if they have to close.

What surprises me the most is how there is not as much info about getting things to boost your immune system vs hoarding groceries. There are some proven things people can take as antiviral or to strengthen their system against similar flu strains but no, better buy up all the TP.

>>525214
99% sure I have it too, just got it around Mon or Tues I expect because I started getting a sore throat but was asymptomatic otherwise. I was only able to do the test yesterday and have to wait 2-4 days for the results. So far feels like the regular flu, not too bad, but it still sucks and it seems to have slipped into the lungs more easily than when I had the flu last, but it may just be me.

I basically had to work until I got exposed to it, and due to the reset in Jan I only have 3 sick days accrued so I had to work to pay my bills and student loans. Starting next week, I am fucked if I can't go into work. Or I have to go to work sick and perpetuate the problem.

No. 525247

>>525223
How does this and your pic relate to the topic? Are you saying that they're just letting people die?

No. 525249

>>525142
It's not your fault anon. They should be quarantining themselves, but instead they brazenly ignore the warnings like typical boomers. It's not your fault, you have to work. It is not necessary to drink a Starbucks.

No. 525250

I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but it is really strange how corona-chan doesn't infect children. Maximum tinfoil that this was released by some government to get rid of the pensioner strain on the economy.

No. 525251

>>525250
Hate to burst your bubble but there are children that got infected already.

No. 525253

>>525251
They do get infected and are carriers but most don't display symptoms and don't get severely I'll. Its very unlike swine flu which was literally killing children.

No. 525256

I'm not even worried about getting sick (I do worry about my family though) but I am horrified of being laid off. I don't know how I will survive then. I have no savings and rent to be paid, as well as mental illness medication. I will find out on Monday what's the decision for now but I am so horrified I can't focus on anything and I am suicidal AF. I don't know what to do.

No. 525257

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>>525250

Corona-chan is essentially a comet impact for boomers.

All the boomer memes have brought this about through meme magic and you should all feel bad.

No. 525258

>>525250
I still think it was a biological weapon that accidentally leaked. It doesn't make many sense imo if it was done on purpos (except for a pharmaceutical lobby).

No. 525259

>>525034

Hmm I'm in Houston and while there isn't panic, the stores are still packed with people and out of tp and Water in my area, but there was a confirmed case at the University near me.

I'm not worried, but I HATE the lack of social awareness of some of these old fucks who should actually care.

I've gotten a part time at a retailer since schools out my main job has been affected and the first customer I deal with is this nasty old fart open mouth coughing everywhere and licking his fingers to handle his money.

I mean this is just basic manners, what the fuck is wrong with some people

No. 525260

>>525258
It doesn't make sense that CPP leaked it on purpose, but they're not the only evil people in the world that could have. To be honest though, I don't really want to waste any time on speculating until it's all been dealt with.

No. 525262


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No. 525266

Just got the word that I have corona, ladies! Group hug!

No. 525267

Stay strong, Anon. I'm glad you were able to get tested.

No. 525268

>>525266
Jfc Anon, I'm sorry and I hope you recover fast. Do you have support/time off work/etc?

No. 525270

>>525268
>>525267
Thank you and yeah I'm thankfully in a country that's very supportive and can safely chill at home until I'm better.

No. 525271

>>525266
Take care anon! What were your doctor's recommandations?

No. 525272

File: 1584208298641.png (768.79 KB, 1046x852, Screen Shot 2020-03-14 at 1.46…)

i really hate the guilt tripping that small businesses are doing on twitter. i get it, we're ALL struggling right now. a lot of us have lost jobs, a lot of us are sick or have family who are sick. the reason we aren't buying your wares isn't because we're afraid of getting sick, it's because we're spending out money on things that we NEED not that we WANT. your haircut? not a priority. a cute little bralette? not a priority. a doodle of your favorite character? DEFINITELY NOT PRIORITY.

No. 525273

>>525272
I've been seeing dumb shit like that or "Please support small asian businesses because of the xenophobia from corona, go order some asian food now" like Chinese food isn't non-perishable

No. 525274

>>525273
yeah people are being overdramatic with the ~stop being racist eat chinese food NOW or you're racist i bet you wont stop eating pizzas" like…bitch, eating out in general now is stupid af whether its chinese food or taco bell or chick fil a or anything that can be touched by strangers

No. 525277

>>525271
Taking pain killers/fever relievers, relaxing as much as possible/laying down, using creams for my throat/cough drops and to drink and eat lots. Basically what you'd do with any other flu since I'm not in any at risk group

No. 525278

>>525266
You’ll recover in no time! Are those in your household okay?

No. 525279

>>525277
are your family and/or anyone you came in contact with also up for quarantine? i really fear getting it but only for my family and their health.

No. 525280

>>525172
Yep. And the same people gaslighting are now saying "stop hoarding1111!"

We didn't hoard, we bought shit weeks back in reasonable quantities when it was still plentiful/ a little at a time. Now you losers panic buying and crying lost out.

The only people I feel bad for are the poor/homeless/disabled that can't prep. Not for you able bodied retards with money that don't have a brain and refused to see the signs weeks ago, even when masks were disappearing off shelves. Don't you all have social media? I mean, if China ran out of food and supplies, and weeks later Italy ran out of food and supplies while ignoring it till it got too late, you all couldn't correlate that the same would happen here?

Did you all really think you were invincible from a disease that doesn't discriminate? It's a fucking virus, not a genetic disorder.

Go after the price gougers on Amazon/Ebay, not people who had a brain and slowly prepared over time.

No. 525282

>>525196
>>525246
Yea, unfortunately because people are just impulse buying on TP and food, people aren't thinking about boosting their immune system so I was able to still buy enough vitamin C and multivitamins.

No. 525283

>>525279
>>525278
I live alone thankfully but the one family member I was in contact with is in a semi-quarantine. They're still able to work and get necessities as long as they keep minimal human contact and practice good hand hygiene. My doctor said if you live with someone else to get seperate towels and cutlery etc. to minimize exposure to other members in your household. As long as everyone is hygienic and nobody coughs next to you (how I got it) you'll be fine and so will your family most likely.

No. 525284

>>525280
i am however going to go after the dumb twats who are panic buying BABY WIPES instead of toilet paper when some of us moms actually need them for our kids.

No. 525285

>>525233
raiders

No. 525287

>>524887
Same anon. They’ve cancelled all schools in general and they’re shutting down one of the largest grocery store chains in the city “until further notice”
I still have to go to work at a restaurant tonight, not sure why we aren’t closing up for a few days at least. They are however sending home anyone who coughs or sneezes for 2 weeks. Hope that means they plan to pay our rents too. Two of my managers were talking in the back about how employees are stealing toilet paper (idk if I believe that it seemed like two privileged assholes shitting on their less fortunate, overworked employees)

I have had plenty of food for a while but I’m scared it’s not enough. Definitely don’t want to go face this crowd though.

Also my son has sniffles and a cough. But I have allergies too. How do I not be completely paranoid??

No. 525288

>>525272
Speaking as an artist, if anything right now is a good time for community outreach vs begging. Maybe learn some new techniques for when things finally improve. Put some stuff out that keeps morale up and build your following that way since a lot of people will be online. Nothing wrong w/keeping commissions open right now because you never know, but people can't go beg.

I'm thinking now is the time I work on my black and white ink drawings (which are therapeutic for me to make) so that I can clean them up and make them into coloring pages, which can be therapeutic for people to color, and put them online for free right now. Maybe by the time this is all over, my handling of linework will be improved and more confident.

No. 525289

File: 1584209294872.jpg (70.62 KB, 720x677, covid19.jpg)

Found this chart for anyone who's curious
Think it was translated from Spanish or something

No. 525290

>>525289
thank you! i woke up with a scratchy throat and was so paranoid and now i'm thinking it's just allergies.

No. 525292

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>>525273
It's funny, yet they discriminate against people in their home countries not to eat at their establishments…

https://twitter.com/thegoldskittle/status/1238564924818931714

NOW, they are begging for patrons around the world.

No. 525295

Hi friends, I must admit I'm a bit concerned now about this situation. My father is 63 and travels once a week, and even though he never gets sick and is in very good shape, I can't help but worry about him since he's been my biggest supporter ever and if something were to happen to him I wouldn't be able to do anything. He's also an independent worker and I economically depend on him. I decided to stop kissing him but I'll still hug him. He's been exposed to germs his entire life which makes me think he has a strong immune system but again, it still worries me.
Stay safe anons, remember to tell your loved ones you love them but not physically!

No. 525296

File: 1584210243308.png (38.68 KB, 681x725, 01.png)

>>525289
Please don't take charts like these as cold hard facts. What makes Corona so dangerous is that symptoms vary from patient to patient

>pic related

No. 525299

>>525296
Not to be all "its just the flu" but the flu literally affects people differently from patient to patient as well

No. 525300

>>525296
if thats the case then literally how is this different from the flu?
it just doesnt make sense to me

theres got to be something more to it and they're just not saying because they dont want people to panic and go crazy, hence why they were literally rounding people up in china and welding them into their apartments

somethings not right

No. 525301

>>525292
I don't get the logic of that place. Why go to a country if you're so racist you refuse to accept the locals of that country in restaurants? Why don't they just go back home?
Any sane government would've deported their asses for this kind of discrimination and disrespect.

No. 525303

>>525299
Obviously. It's tricky.

No. 525305

File: 1584211104509.jpg (2.69 MB, 2020x4799, corona.jpg)

>>525300
>theres got to be something more to it and they're just not saying because they dont want people to panic and go crazy, hence why they were literally rounding people up in china and welding them into their apartments
This is tinfoil-tier, but I've seen pic related going around. Relevant parts:
>Heavily modified "chimera" strain of flu with a bioengineered neurological kick to it; two viruses in one, the flu is just a method of delivery for the real payload
>Causes people to develop flu-like symptoms that creep for a while and then suddenly fall over where they stand as the payload creeps through the body and then infects the brain (which then does something to the diaphragm inhibiting breathing) and lung tissue (you produce liquid in your lungs so you drown)
>It produces rapid death while hiding behind a usually harmless flu-type infection. This was a weapon that was designed to stealthily infiltrate a population as much as it can before finally unleashing its cargo.
>To facilitate further spread, the host's bronchi rupture and the diaphragm stops, making the patient's breaths ragged, harsh and full of blood; meaning that they will spray blood everywhere infecting others if they assist.
>Yes the lungs secrete blood when infected fully
>What we think are mutations are actually just the BW (bioweapon) coming into itself fully. This is a black swan event. Nothing else like it. Been advised by our supervisors to start prepping barrels and bags.
>the TTK is around 10-11 days (week and a half) with some portion of it being a flu component that eventually heals up making the individual believe they are healthy

No. 525312

>>525305
yep ive read this a few times and thats what i mean
im really starting to think theres something to it and im not even a conspiracy fag
because the response and difference in what went on in china, iran and even italy now, in comparison to other places is just weird
USA is literally just treating it like a cold

No. 525313

>>525305
>more /pol/ fanfic
If the TTK is 10-11 days, people would already be dying in way higher quantities than we are seeing. I know people personally who've gotten corona and are already recovered in that time frame. I liked the doomer stuff at first but they should try harder.

No. 525314

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>>525305
Samefagging. Just for fun, I'll post the other thread screencaps I have.
Personally, I don't really know what to believe about all this.

No. 525315

>>525313
but china clearly lied about how many people were dying anon…come on

No. 525316

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No. 525319

>>525312
All 3 of those countries have either a high population of elders, have poor air quality, or heavy smoking as a part of their culture. And they all have wildly different governments hence the difference in actions they've taken. It's not weird.
>>525314
/pol/ will take any world changing event and use it to write doomer fanfics lol

No. 525320

>>525316
This has been posted like 3 times already in this thread.

>>525315
Who mentioned China? It's highly infectious and people have the virus right now. You can watch the effects of the virus with your eyes, my dude.

No. 525321

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No. 525322

>>525320
people arent even getting tested in america like…at all…and almost everyone they let get tested is testing positive
shouldnt that be a concern if its not just a slightly more dangerous flu type illness?
because in america it feels like people are genuinely sicker when they have a flu than this, so why quarantine people yet not shut things down, other than schools if its worse?

it just doesnt make sense to me its like they still literally know nothing and for all we know, people theyre counting as dying from this, could just be dying from the flu
people are taking multiple tests and they're different everytime

idk dude im just confused

No. 525323

>>525322
CDC fucked up with the tests giving them out and making them so now the governments scrambling to get it fixed, some states are doing their own testing, plenty of places have been getting shut down
You're confused because you're days behind on this

No. 525325

File: 1584212156923.jpg (1.37 MB, 1744x3093, corona5.jpg)


No. 525327

>>525322
The first batch of tests were giving false positives and were 50% likely to be wrong. Hence why people think they can be 'reinfected'. They had to redistribute them.

>>525321
>Youtube comments
Lmao. But in all honesty I do think a lot of countries are covering numbers just because they don't want people to panic…which they are already doing. A lot of people had/have it and don't even know it like the governor in Ohio estimating around 100,000 untested with coronavirus. Numbers scare people. It's more than a flu but doesn't have as high of a mortality rate as doomers are saying. Viruses that are THAT deadly don't spread quickly because…people are dead.

No. 525331

>>525319
>/pol/ will take any world changing event and use it to write doomer fanfics lol
Can't find it now, but there was another image proving the "proof photo" was actually taken in the facility the person claimed, because of the door.

No. 525332

File: 1584212719659.png (467.6 KB, 1705x2000, corona6.png)


No. 525334

Random but I started talking to my sister again because of this. We were estranged from a huge fight and just agreed to disagree and haven't talked to each other in years. When this started blowing up a week ago I messaged her with my concerns and now we're communicating again. I'm still quarantined and have anxiety about this whole thing but I guess that's one good thing to come out of it. People really do show their true colors in times of crisis.

No. 525337

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>>525332
That's all I got. Some seem fake, others seem to have a grain of truth. I just save them as I see them for future reference.

No. 525338

>>525332
This one I believe actually has truth to it and is more than a /pol/ fanfic.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883944118307780

No. 525339

>>525332
>super deadly virus
>possibly cured by vitamin C

Hoard the orange juice.

No. 525341

>>524678
Late response anon but don't worry too much. It's normal not to be totally lucid when you have a serious fever. Don't be afraid to tell your nurses to keep a closer eye on your fever if you experience excessive brain fog, chills, or tiredness. You can also ask if they've given you anything for the fever recently. Ask for a Tylenol if they haven't.
t. hospitalized with sepsis last year

>>525332
I've always heard that Vitamin C being good for preventing the flu was a myth.

No. 525342

>>525339
Please no they'll leave all the ones with pulp in stock

No. 525343

>>525339
Intravenously though.

No. 525344

Missing the feeling of real vegetables during the apocalypse? Canned spinach is fucking disgusting? Don’t wanna shit beans every day?
Super easy crunchy spicy long lasting pickled vegetable recipe! 10/10 will elevate the fuck ton of plain white rice and Spam that is your diet now.

No. 525345

>>524678
as a britfag your english is awful or you're just schizophrenic. even my english is better and i'm drunk off my nuts and russian and writing from my nintendo ds. but do get well soon. praying for you and your mum. i guess language is subjective innit

No. 525347

>>525342
>drinking non pulp
Bitch you may as well drink Sunny D

No. 525352

>>525345
>i'm drunk off my nuts and russian
High-spirited as usual I see.

No. 525364

>>525266
Haha. No.
Stay in a warm bed with Office reruns playing, a hot chocolate, some icecream, and chicken soup beside it. Just remember to stay off work AFTER you're feeling like you're on the mend as well.

No. 525392

Just tried to get a few groceries and everybody is just being selfish buying shit.

No milk, no eggs, potatoes, lettuce, laundry detergent, dish soap, baby wipes, just totally random shit is gone. Of course saw two crusty faggots taking EVERY single goddamn coffee creamer, like 10 jugs. Who needs that much creamer???

I am in California btw. I hope it will be over soon because you would think an asteroid is coming to hit us. At leasr

I feel like I god must be laughing at us all. I would too.

No. 525394

>>525392

Same fagging but sorry for the retarded typos.

No. 525396

File: 1584220287630.jpeg (61.22 KB, 626x631, 1535532597643.jpeg)

Hey I have mononucleosis I'm in danger anons?

No. 525397

>>525396
perfectly healthy people are getting it anon

everyone is in danger, but you could be more likely to experience the more severe symptoms, so protect yourself as much as possible!

No. 525399

Hey i have bronquitis/cough and difficult breathing without flu, i'm at risk of dying? Lol i think i actually got it lmao, i'm from Venezuela btw wish me luck this is fucked

No. 525400

i feel like i have the virus tbh. i’m having shortness of breath with chest pain, it feels like i have asthma, i’m dizzy and have a headache, and i’m really tired. i have no fever or cough though. my city isn’t doing testing unless you have a fever, and i have to go to work tomorrow ugh. this just sucks

No. 525401

>>525392
>Of course saw two crusty faggots taking EVERY single goddamn coffee creamer, like 10 jugs. Who needs that much creamer???
I hope all of the hoarderfags get robbed blind by hobos. ALL OF THEM. Goddamn.

No. 525403

hey guys, just saw someone post on my news feed
>if you're out of groceries, a lot of local asian markets are being discriminated against and have tons of stuff left

do not do this.
how about not introducing an entirely different demographic to hoard shit from asian markets. i fucking hate weeb logic. it's also entirely not true, but this person likely doesn't even go to asian markets to know.

No. 525404

>>525397
thanks anon but my parents are coming over and they don't give a shit about protecting themselves so is highly probable i will get fucked over by the virus even if I try to stay safe.

>>525401
Not to be a fatalist but this makes me think about how all of this COVID situation seriously has "social pandemonium" written all over it.

No. 525408

>>525400
my throat has been itching a little since yesterday and i'm kinda scared because I clean airbnbs for living. especially after that news that said the virus survived 30 minutes on air so fuck me

what's bothering me more is the routine change. everything is closing/closed down in my country, and we're advised to stay home as much as we can. i know it's for the best but it's making me so depressed, and i don't even understand why since i spent all my time home anyway lol. but i've been feeling like crying lately

fucking virus

No. 525409

>>525408
i had a moment yesterday where my three year old niece was playing with my dad, and she was so happy and full of energy and being loud and it just made me start bawling because she has no idea what goes on in the world you know?
its perfectly understandable to be on edge right now and have moments where you get emotional for what feels like no reason

No. 525411

>>525401

I regret not taking a picture because I am not exaggerating.

He had taken EVERY jug of vanilla coffee creamer. I bet he is selling it, they had nothing else in their cart. Just vanilla creamer and cheap water.

I really fucking hate people.

No. 525413

>>525411
There's no way he's buying that much creamer for himself but at this point anything is possible.

No. 525420

>>525339
>tfw my ma has always been making lots of orange juice whenever the flu is around because vitamin C
>turns out she was right and possibly saved our asses

No. 525421

For anyone who doesn't have toilet paper you might want to buy baby wipes instead,I find them far more superior even though they might be out of stock in your supermarket

No. 525422

>>525421
to add to your post anon, i also recommend going to supply websites that supply to companies, restaurants etc although you more or less will have to buy bulk packages, but its good to have backup because you'll eventually use it anyway

its not the best quality though so maybe buy a lot of trashbags to ensure you can dispose of used tissue rather than flush it

No. 525424

The way Merkel is "managing" this crisis is more than just infuriating, no other country's leader is so inactive. Aren't we supposed to have some kind of emergency plans for cases like this?


I just survived my weekly parttime job day. Bread was sold out by lunch time, my coworkers told me that they made more profit yesterday than on fucking christmas. Other stores have a card only policy now, but that's not possible in our old af store; I had like 130 costumers and 90% of them insisted on handing me the money and also me handing them back the change, meaning I touched dozens of hands… I washed them whenever I could (20-30 times?), hopefully that's enough.
My coworkers are all mad that everything is closing down but nobody is thinking about us. Everybody always only praises medical staff while completely forgetting that we're also putting our health on the line for them (plus everybody always treats retail workers shitty anyway).

All those middle aged women are so annoying, constantly raging about hoarders, but I know exactly that you're hoarding too, so quit shitting on others!
Most are simply too proud to admit that they're scared (myself included).

The only person not worried seems to be my grandpa, he totally doesn't get how serious the situation is. I was always happy that he's so much more fit and active than other, but now I wish he'd be less busy. Normal people buy necessities, he's going to the sauna…

No. 525425

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>>525424
We're placing 6th worldwide (thankfully not in deaths) yet other countries who are barely hit reacted much quicker and are doing so much more, why?

No. 525426

>>525403
This is actually very true in my area and numerous other states. I don't believe people should take a bunch of stuff like a nut from the Asian stores but for those of us who are sane and aren't buying enough hand sanitizer for three decades while completely bypassing the hand soap , going to H Mart and various other big Asian stores can be helpful for both sane people and the Asian business that aren't getting as much business as usual. I saw a news report the other day explaining that various chinatowns are actually having a hard time and some restaurants can't pay their rent because people just stopped going. It's not…~weeb logic~. It's just the reality in some areas in the US right now.

No. 525428

>>525339
Hoard frozen strawberries!!!

No. 525430

So tired of all of the mombies complaining that the evil hoarders without kids are taking all of their precious formula. "How about you save some for people with actual babies!!!" I'm pretty sure its the people with kids hoarding that shit along with diapers and wipes, but apparently its more believable to assume adults are using disgusting smelling baby formula as a substitute for milk. These people are parents and know how nasty that shit is when it dries on your wrist. Nobody is saving that shit for their cheerios lol

Same with bottled water and wipes, which aren't complete necessary for wiping asses (paper towel and toilet paper work just fine) but they feel entitled to all wipes because of their babies.

People are hoarding because other people are hoarding. Funny how everybody just so happens to have run out of paper, they totally aren't hoarders either just doing my regular shopping!!!!1! Yet if there were 2 packs of whatever sitting on a shelf at Walmart, you'd bet they'd take both packs lol

No. 525432

>>525424
Well, they claimed we have - along other things - but too bad we aren't seeing any of that.
Maybe you could wear gloves while handling the money, you know these Nitril/Vinyl/Einmalhandschuhe for cleaning? Some brands are still in stock online except for black colorways but they might still be available in irl shops. Otherwise, some onlineshops have regular food stock left. If you don't want to pay amazon's already ridiculously inflated prices, idealo and similar websites are a good way to find the most reasonable deals.

No. 525433

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>>525432
Dropped my screenshot

No. 525434

>>525425
Third world countries are doing very well because "deadly disease" isn't a concept so far removed from the public consciousness like in developed nations.

No. 525438

>>525426
asian super markets aren't getting hurt though. asians shop there, not racist white people. and white people discriminate against those places enough as it is. they should be going to restaurants. also those big stores are already having shortages.

No. 525440

>>525438
> asians shop there
NTA, Asians were the first to stop going to their usual places like Chinatown etc though. You're right that it's not because of white people, but Asian businesses are being hurt.

No. 525441

My job is suddenly acting like they care if we're sick, when the unspoken standard has always been to work through it unless you're literally dying. Anyone who takes off for "the sniffles" is always a social pariah who gets shittalked for faking it or being lazy. I have no doubt my coworkers are still going to come in to work if they get sick, because that's been the company culture for years. I wish the US would follow Italy's lead, but I doubt it.

No. 525442

Are Italian businesses hurt? lol

No. 525447

Sorry if I'm too early, I wanted to make a new thread before I went to bed
>>525445

No. 525448

>>525440
i was at hmart a few days ago and it was already looked over. most of the rice was gone other than a couple of brands. maybe asian americans are doing that, but it was packed.

No. 525451

>>525433
Meanwhile everybody can enter germany and the phone numbers doesn‘t work

No. 525453

>>525442

Everybody hurts, sometimes.

No. 525477

Tbh I think were all gonna get it some time or another

The scaremongering is annoying af

No. 525479

>>525441

Face it, its in the air. Whether you're at home or in work. People just want to be off for the sake of being off work and school.

No. 525530

>>525529
I was 17 during 911 attacks and still in nyc. I remember the mass media giving so much fear about bag bombs and to this day we still have the 'if you see something, say something' ads in subways.

I think the fear mongering is disgusting. Basic wash your hands and be careful are fine, but the racism i see against asians is reminding me A LOT of post 911 hysteria. I hate this shit. I cant wait for it to calm down and we can make a vaccine.

No. 525531

A special needs person coughed in my face at work today and their aide said they were tested for coronavirus. The test came back negative but now I’m worried about getting sick from her, along with everyone that was around us when it happened.

No. 525532

>>525440
>Asians were the first to stop going to their usual places like Chinatown etc though.

No, that's not true at all.

No. 525535

>>525529
That's an extremely US-centric viewpoint. Your comparisons don't really fit either, since we already had an example that gave us a good gist of the extend of the damage and what it can look like before it hit the west, even when certain details were hidden.

No. 525538

>>525440
asians started panic buying and staying home first, but they're not discriminating against their own stores. if you live in a big city you'd know this.

No. 525539

>>525537
Seriously starting to lose patience with the fucking panic buyers.

>>525530
Hear hear

No. 525541

>>525530
>>525529
100 percent agree! How many times in history do we see this?
>Something terrible happens (disease, mass shootings/killings, ect ect).
>Word gets around (media, word of mouth, the news, ect)
>People panic like hell
>Companies and organizations profit from mass hysteria
>Time passes
>People chill out and go back to day to day lives, forget it even happens
>Rinse and repeat every few years.

Jesus fucking christ, the virus itself is becoming less of a problem and the retarded Doomers and Co. buying and hoarding hygiene and food supplies are becoming the main issue. The panic is completely unwarranted. Concern is natural I get it and understand… But freaking out over a virus transmitted through "droplets" (the air), and gives you pretty much the common cold and most (OVERWHELMINGLY MOST TOO) people recover from it anyway. Everyone problably has it at this point, but guess what? Like any other virus, your body either has immunity for it, or fights it off (aka a cold/flu), or die (the least and worse case scenario. ) Im not trying to be an asshole. Its just this is just sad and infuriating because big business is profiting off everyone's fear (as always).

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Jim Corr, a former musician in a mildly successful band, is kinda my personal lolcow and has a very active twitter account.
The guy is into everything from ultra nationalism (trump/alex jones/farage/Breitbart supporter), pro lifer because church, to the earth is flat or lizards are among us bullshit.
He's also very fiercely anti vaccine and has been retweeting a ton of things on how corona is not a real threat and other stuff.
If you're bored and need some entertainment, head to his twitter, it's a party

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jimcorrsays

No. 525543

>>525541
Anon, if I could, I'd buy you a drink. I'd buy you a Corona, or 5. Or toilet paper and hand sanitizer, our new currency.
Seriously, THANK YOU. I tried reasoning with other anons a few days ago about this and it felt like talking to brick walls.
I'm fairly certain these were mostly doomers.
I couldn't put that better so thank you.

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I made this and don’t know anyone who would get it so I’m sharing here.

No. 525865

>>525541

Seriously, thank you! I've been chatting with my uber driver coworkers and people are going insane when the regular flu kill more in just January alon. this is pissing me off , now i'm really worried all the events planned out this summer will be off with this bs. this is no worse than the flu . We just need to handle it with some common sense

No. 525920

>>525541
This makes me feel better. Thanks anon.

No. 526193

>>525865

If only the world would listen to the expertise of you and your fellow Uber drivers. You fucking toid.

No. 526250

>>526193
if only the world would listen to the expertise of you and your fellow doomers. You retard.

No. 527572

>>522312
> I've been told Chinese inmigrants have been bulk buying masks to send to their country. I don't know if it's true, but it could make sense.

It is absolutely true. In Finland, Yle (National Broadcasting Company) showed a clip in their MOT program (investigative journalism) and mentions Coronavirus as the cause. 00:09:52 @ https://areena.yle.fi/1-50278142
The program covers China's recent heavy investment into outreach with the western world through associations and governments to promote communism and greatness of China. The orders come from Beijing, in exchange for favors from the Chinese government.



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