demagogue on 16/3/2020 at 02:02
Just an interesting observation... This is the first thing I can remember where every country (that I have a contact to, which is most of them) is obsessed about the same thing at the same time in the same way, from North America to West and East Europe to Latin America to the Middle East to North, West, East, Central and South Africa to Central, South, Southeast, and not least East Asia. (Edit: For our work I feel like Oceania is Southeast Asia-like, it's weird as a region, but anyway them too.)
The only other thing that comes close is Psy's Gangnam Style, but that wasn't exactly dominating everybody's day to day life like this is.
Tony_Tarantula on 16/3/2020 at 02:30
Shocking admission in a CNN article this morning: "(
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/us/coronavirus-pandemic-us/index.html) Globalization made the world more vulnerable to the spread of infectious diseases, increasing the potential for catastrophic worldwide epidemics."
Obvious point, but shocked it was printed by a globalist shill outlet like CNN.
Renzatic on 16/3/2020 at 03:21
So what do you suggest we do, Tony? Burn our airports to the ground, sink all our ships, and stick to the countries of our births? Coronavirus was spread primarily by vacationers bringing it with them as they traveled home from abroad. How do we punish these people for globalist hubris?
Renzatic on 16/3/2020 at 04:27
They just make me so mad... :mad:
Pyrian on 16/3/2020 at 05:56
What I'm seeing now from right-wingers on Facebook is the idea that all these closures are a violation of the constitutional right to assembly.
...I assume these people also claim that yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre is protected speech.
Renzatic on 16/3/2020 at 06:02
There's no clause in the Constitution stating that all these privately owned places of business have to stay open to allow them to exercise their right to free assembly. They can go hang out in a field or something. No one's stopping them.
demagogue on 16/3/2020 at 08:11
If the state is ordering private places to shut down, and for public places being shut down, they'd have a prima facie claim. (They wouldn't if the private places were voluntarily shutting down, unless the restrictions were discriminatory, like whites can come on in but not blacks, but that's not the issue here.)
But even if they brought such a claim under the First Amendment, they'd lose because it's a legitimate restriction that's necessary to meet a compelling public interest. (The analysis would differ a little between Civil Law proportionality analysis, if we're talking about a civil law country doing it, and Common Law/US Constitutional Law category-based analysis, if we're talking about the UK or US or another common law country doing it, but it's the basically the same punchline with same result in different words.)
nickie on 16/3/2020 at 09:47
Quote Posted by jkcerda
Nickie. keeping it to the numbers just to try and keep the panic down a bit, I am well aware those numbers are loved ones to many and this is affecting them greatly.
OK, but I don't see anyone panicking here. I will admit to feeling vulnerable and a bit scared yesterday when I woke with a sore throat and it was 5 days since I'd last been out - to my doctor's practice and we know they're a hotbed of germs. I haven't had a sore throat in as long as I can remember. 3000mg of vitamin C spread throughout the day sorted it out. Phew!
Edit. Well done Woolworths in Australia for instituting a dedicated shopping hour for the elderly and people with disabilities.
Starker on 16/3/2020 at 11:15
Quote Posted by nickie
3000mg of vitamin C spread throughout the day sorted it out. Phew!
From what I've heard, there is only so much vitamin C a human body can absorb -- up to 200mg per day is absorbed completely, depending on the person. If you take more than that, the body will actually start doing worse at absorbing it and about 2 grams is supposed to be the safe limit that doesn't cause any side effects like kidney stones.
lowenz on 16/3/2020 at 12:43
Quote Posted by Starker
From what I've heard, there is only so much vitamin C a human body can absorb -- up to 200mg per day is absorbed completely, depending on the person. If you take more than that, the body will actually start doing worse at absorbing it and about 2 grams is supposed to be the safe limit that doesn't cause any side effects like kidney stones.
Exactly.
DO NOT OVERDO.
