jkcerda on 8/3/2020 at 07:06
Renz. Good luck. Don't forget I will always love you
Renzatic on 8/3/2020 at 07:34
I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU, JK!
lowenz on 8/3/2020 at 08:30
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Way to go! Now I'm obligated to blow my nose in your sock drawer. :mad:
Honestly, it should be the sick people wearing the masks. They're the ones blowing infectious bodily fluids out of their faces onto people's clothes, which can linger for days after. A mask blocks that shit from getting out in the first place.
You're right, but there are too many "healthy carriers" around with NO symptoms! So you must act preemptively!
Renzatic on 8/3/2020 at 10:18
Quote Posted by icemann
Not satire. The truth. Whole things being blown out of proportion. Fear is worse than the virus itself.
That's a sorta yeah, sorta no. Sure, the media's playing it for all it's worth, loading up the big, boomy graphics, and breaking out the talking head experts to give us breathless accounts of how things can go, like, REAL bad, real quick. An epidemic is great for ratings, so this response is to be expected. It isn't anything new. It's been happening literally for decades now. Anyone pointing out this fact isn't some super woke free thinking individual who's above it all. Stating the obvious doesn't make anyone smart, no matter how dead serious and smug the people in the memes are doing their best to look.
Given how virulent this thing is, that it hasn't broken out, and infected millions of people by this point is a good indicator that our various epidemic response teams across the world have done their job, and kept the situation mostly under control. It's still not over with, but we're probably approaching the worst of it, which isn't all that terrible.
But on that same note, given how virulent this thing is, if we don't pay it a healthy amount of cautious respect, and people start getting sloppy because they're taking the current state of things for granted, it can break loose, spiral out of control, and give the world a good, hard reaming out.
So yeah, the thing is being blown out of proportions a bit. But no, the fear isn't worse than the virus. It's pretty bad, and needs to be treated seriously, and with level heads.
Thirith on 8/3/2020 at 13:26
Honestly, at least here it also depends on what media you follow. It's obviously a top news item everywhere, but some outlets come across as pretty level-headed, while others go for one variety of insanity or another. Under these circumstances, I can't really say that The Media are doing a bad job. Some are, some aren't, and it's pretty much no different than it is with any other big issue.
Gryzemuis on 8/3/2020 at 13:49
Haru Basho has started today (the March Sumo-wrestling tournament in Japan). Without spectators. I had not expected it, but it wasn't fun to watch at all. Without spectators the tournament lacks spirit, lacks energy. Not fun at all.
I hope the Olympics won't be played without spectators too. I'm afraid that would ruin the event.
Edit:
People are making nice websites to track the infections.
Here's one for the Netherlands. Very detailed.
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https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/cfc2084c995c40e7ae72254029bf6251)
Look at the nice graphs.
Red numbers to the left:
"Bevestigd aantal besmettingen" means: "confirmed number of infections" (currently 265).
"waarvan overleden" means: "of which have died" (3).
Yellow graphs to the right:
"Nieuw aantal besmetting per dag" means: "number of new infections per day" (77 today).
"Verloop" means: "increase in number of cases" (getting to 300).
Both graphs look pretty exponential to me.
My neighboring city (165k people, 10 km from my house) has 2 infections.
The small village (5k) where I grew up has an infection.
The larger village (20k) where I went to high-school has an infection.
The small city (90k) where my dad used to work has 5 infections.
I don't think this can be contained anymore.
The weird thing is: most people I've spoken to about this think it'll blow over. They said the virus has been contained in China (not true). And that the number of cases in NL wasn't rising anymore (also not true). As we haven't tested many people (too expensive, causing too much panic, etc) and the incubation time is between 1 week and 4 weeks, I don't think anyone has a clue how many people are infected yet.
Our ministry of Foreign Affairs has finally said "don't go to northern Italy". Before today they haven't said that yet. A week ago, a group of 900 students from the north of NL went skiing in Northern Italy. Just like that. Tony had some stupid (really stupid) remarks about the Chinese. The fact is: all over the western world people are egoistical, opportunistic and dumb. It's one of the reasons this can't be contained, I think.
heywood on 8/3/2020 at 14:51
I don't think we're anywhere close to the end of it. Over here in the US, we're still in the denial stage.
Our response has been too late and too reactive. Because of the way this virus spreads, the late onset of symptoms, and the fact that it broke out during winter cold & flu season, it is hard to tell who is infected. By the time someone steps forward, they've already been spreading the virus for a week or two. So if we keep responding to individual cases in a reactive fashion like we have been, we'll always be responding to what the virus did a week or two ago and not what it's doing now.
And even when we know where there's an epidemic, we're not responding to it seriously enough. We've known for 1.5 weeks that the virus is spreading through community transmission in CA and WA, with Seattle being the hottest spot. Now, with >100 cases and 16 deaths, Seattle is still open for business, kids are going to school tomorrow, student athletics are still on, the downtown public market is still open, theater, sporting events, conferences, etc. If Seattle avoids a major widespread outbreak, it will be because of individual prudence, not public health policy.
Unless people start taking it seriously, we're going to end up with multiple regions of the country looking like Northern Italy.
Dia on 8/3/2020 at 15:27
Meanwhile, The Great Orange One, this past Friday (2/06), boasted to the people at the CDC headquarters during his visit there:
'“I like this stuff. I really get it,” Trump claimed during his trip Friday to the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”'However, in reality:
'Scientists have had to explain to Trump a number of times that a vaccine against coronavirus can’t be developed for public use in a matter of a few months, as he has claimed. They have also had to explain the concept of antibodies to him.'Yep, we've got a narcissistic moron at the helm of our country and we're all gonna die. God save us from fools and madmen, ffs. *smh*
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https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/snl-weekend-update-colin-jost-coronavirus-091309778.html)
Yeah, Trump is
so concerned about the whole coronavirus thing that he interrupted his own ramblings (also while visiting the CDC headquarters) on the subject to ask how his ratings were on Fox News (2:23 into the clip).
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I don't even, any more .........
