Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Considered HARMful]

China is literally already sending health aid to the US lol

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is shipping coronavirus test kits and masks to the U.S.

Ma's first tweet ever was about the shipment of supplies he is sending to the U.S.

www.cbsnews.com

Oh come on, this is next level retarded, even for you. A Chinese billionaire is not "China" ffs. Next up you'll be saying that Gates Foundation is US.

 

[Stoneheart]

wiped out of potatoes,

how can that happen? the supply at this point in the year is endless.
I got my biweekly delivery from a local farm yesterday, had a quick talk, they have to many potatoes and are anticipating an early harvest.

 

[simulated goat]

I'm glad we have troons to try and make it all about themselves in the midst of a pandemic.

As if royalty wasn't bad enough before.
Protip, it didn't save their asses for the most part.

 

[WeDon'tNeedToWhisper]

I'm so far behind on this thread.

I just wanted to say, for people who are able to help out financially, look up your local food bank's website. My food bank has/had an Amazon wish list filled with food. A lot of the food had already been purchased and some of it was out of stock. I was able to purchase some food that looked like it was going to go into a kid's sack lunch (since our schools are closed) or feed them breakfast.

But um, yeah, see if you can help some unfortunate kiddos out. It might warm your dark, cold heart for a second or two

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

900 pages holy fuck we're gonna surpass weeb wars at this point

 

[Computer Boy]

What the fuck is tesla doing?

Tesla memo: Essential employees, including production, should still come to work

A new internal email at Tesla tells employees, "We have had conflicting guidance from different levels of government," about how to operate during the covid-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place orders. Production employees told to work if they can.

www.cnbc.com

 

[ComedyEnjoyer]

Is anybody watching the conference? It's nuts. Trump is saying it's very contagious, comparing it to WW2, shutting down non essential procedures like at dentists, talking about how millennials are going to get it and there will be a spike in cases coming soon (but they attribute it to a backlog of tests). Stuff I heard a couple of days ago that was considered conspiracy like shutting down dental procedures is happening.

The backlog is true in part for sure. Here in Texas we have almost no capacity for testing yet, but there is evidence of community spread in many cities, so despite small numbers of confirmations were probably already well into the thousands of infected.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

We have plenty of ventilators in stockpile. It's in excess of 10,000

Mike Pence

oh cool, that sounds goo....wait, 10 THOUSAND? I think that number you just said is missing a zero Mister vice president.

Have no fear. 3D printers are here!

UK manufacturers to regear factories to build ventilators for NHS | B…

archived 17 Mar 2020 20:36:46 UTC

archive.fo

lol
"Ration your mom" and people saying they're contacting the USDA

His mom's so fat, there's no need to ration her.

 

[Aria]

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

“BREAKING: Italy reports 4,207 new cases of coronavirus and 475 new deaths, raising total to 35,713 cases and 2,978 dead https://t.co/eUoE2b20hL”

twitter.com

BNO Newsroom on Twitter: "BREAKING: Italy reports 4,207 new cases of …

archived 18 Mar 2020 17:21:47 UTC

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Italy reports 4,207 new cases of coronavirus and 475 new deaths, raising total to 35,713 cases and 2,978 dead

 

[Safir]

May I present: wisdom of the crowds

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

BNO Newsroom on Twitter

“BREAKING: Italy reports 4,207 new cases of coronavirus and 475 new deaths, raising total to 35,713 cases and 2,978 dead https://t.co/eUoE2b20hL”

twitter.com

Italy reports 4,207 new cases of coronavirus and 475 new deaths, raising total to 35,713 cases and 2,978 dead

We should just rename Italy to Hubei-West.

 

[Logical Fallacies]

Germany just stopped taking in refugees. The Resettlement Program for refugees from Turkey will be paused until further notice. Imagine that.

Deutschland setzt humanitäre Flüchtlingsaufnahme aus

Das sogenannten Resettlement-Verfahren soll einem Medienbericht zufolge ausgesetzt werden. Als Grund gibt das Innenministerium die derzeitige ...

www.traunsteiner-tagblatt.de

 

[Mikoyan]

how can that happen? the supply at this point in the year is endless.
I got my biweekly delivery from a local farm yesterday, had a quick talk, they have to many potatoes and are anticipating an early harvest.

People are hoarding anything that'll store, that's all. I bet they'll be back in shortly.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

What the fuck is tesla doing?
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Tesla memo: Essential employees, including production, should still come to work

A new internal email at Tesla tells employees, "We have had conflicting guidance from different levels of government," about how to operate during the covid-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place orders. Production employees told to work if they can.

www.cnbc.com

Someone tell Elon no one is thinking of buying those shitty electric cars right now

 

[MrBlueSocks]

Bloody hell. 16 pages back. Must ... catch... up.
Just putting couple of archive links here, as they are official UK government sites that refer to the "Wuhan virus" .

public health matters blog
archive

gov collections
archive

With the pressure to avoid using regional/national names to avoid stigmatising filthy people, I wanted to get this before it's memory holed.
Also, UK gov info sites are usually very clear and easy to read. You might find some info there.

 

[It's HK-47]

Anyone want a flashback reminder as to why the WHO and the Chinese Communist Party shouldn't be trusted?

 

[EmuWarsVeteran]

Welp now I know sanchez's plan for reelection. All the media that was telling us how lazy we were now are blasting it was never an "incautacion" it was just a "temporary emergency" and trying to claim the unions overreacted. I saw the cops, I talked with them, personally, I helped on the first fucking line. They. Are. Lying. I'm definitely gonna drop a history lesson on A3media tonight. Get ready for a looooong post. But now I need to eat and relax. I'm fuming. My head's gonna kill me.

 

[derpherp2]

LOL "Chinese-made medicine". Remind me who invented that medicine again? Meanwhile the Chinese are still grinding up pangolin scales and harvesting bear bile. This virus is the first thing created in China since gunpowder that works and isn't a total copy of something invented elsewhere.

Actually if you believe the bioweapons theory, chances are they stole samples of a similar virus from either harvard or canada, and fucked up containment.

So they can't even pandemic without stealing ideas from someone.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Okay this is a question I need to get answered asap:
I got a package from Hong Kong I ordered beginning of December last year.
It came in an air tight package. You know those plastic-elastic dhl packaging. When it arrived I wore mask and protection goggles. I packaged it now 3 times in a garbage back and put it somewhere safe outside my apartment. How long you guys think I should wait before opening the package?
I don't want to die to Corona-Chan.
Edit: forgot to say it was sent from Hong Kong on the 10th of March.

it’s 3 days max on hard surfaces, less on soft. So it should be dead. Depending on how you received it the outer packaging should be fine. US Mail, Fed Ex and UPS pass pretty much everything through UV sterilizers ever since the Anthrax envelopes. If you are worried about what’s inside open it with gloves and wipe it down. But it should be fine.

NYC getting that

Those poor poor sailors. Being sent into the madness that is Cuomo and deBlasio. With luck somebody might elect to Keelhaul the Mayor,

So Trump mentioned he's going to invoke the Defense Production Act and "suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April.".

I can’t wait to see the Twatter spergout as Spoony realizes he has been given a reprieve from living under a bridge directly by Drumpf. The mental contortions should be Olympic Class.

We have plenty of ventilators in stockpile. It's in excess of 10,000

Mike Pence

oh cool, that sounds goo....wait, 10 THOUSAND? I think that number you just said is missing a zero Mister vice president.

Speaking of mental gymnastics, this sort of thing always amazes me. How much surge capacity does anybody think the healthcare system should routinely have? Everyone forgets that the other word for Surge Capacity in Medicine is “Waste”. Nobody is keeping half a million Ventilators in a warehouse, at $100k apiece “just in case”. The US maintains the largest medical surge capacity in the world. Largely through the US Military being tasked to be able to project Medical Assistance and Disaster relief globally in two directions at once. Having a surge capacity of 10k Vents is actually remarkable.

Oh and just to add some extra worry to everybodies psyche. The frontline Healthcare providers, the Doctors and Nurses are not the only ones you need to worry about getting sick in the hospitals. there is some overflow capacity of clinical personnel. What you need to worry about is down in the basement. Biomedical Engineering. This is a small department every hospital has made up of 3-10 Uber Nerds. The old school bearded unix nerds. The type of nerds that are exempt from the corporate dress codes, because they are THAT important, nobody else even begins to know how to do what they do, and without them things fall apart. These are the strange wizards that can keep broad catalogs of 10, 20, even 50 year old mission critical Medical technology working day to day. Every hospital has them. Every hospital needs them. They are hard to find and have insane job requirements. And there are no spares. As they get sick, shits gonna stop working. Fast.

 

[mindlessobserver]

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Anyone want a flashback reminder as to why the WHO and the Chinese Communist Party shouldn't be trusted?

Once this is over there had better be consequences.