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Everyone here just calls it coronavirus. WHO was way too late with their official branding, corona is going to stick.
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EimiYoshikawa posted:I have little sympathy for their attempt to dodge the perceived bad PR of having the disease associated with Wuhan and/or China.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:24
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Well if you've got travel health insurance they will go through hell or high water to get you back to Canada instead of having to pay for your treatment in the US. They'll do that even if you're from the US. My mom's friend (a doctor, even) fell and broke her hip in Italy. The insurance flew someone to Italy out to examine her, then flew out a whole team and chartered a private jet to fly her back to the states. It cost her an extra $50,000 cash on top of the coverage to do this. The whole thing sounded insane.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:How about all the actual Chinese human being i, including those in countries other than China, who are being treated as disease vectors? It's bad now, but if you call it the China Virus you've put the stigma permanently into the language. Problem solved by replacing all names everywhere whether personal or national with randomised alphanumeric strings. Congradulations on your new name xy4-pdg-8a Alternatively: don't get offended on behalf of other people who didn't ask you to.
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mike12345 posted:Wet market sounds like cyberpunk poo poo where I can buy eyes and stuff. It is literally that.
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DancingShade posted:Problem solved by replacing all names everywhere whether personal or national with randomised alphanumeric strings. Angelman syndrome used to be called, no lie, "happy puppet syndrome", because the doctors who saw this genetic illness first thought the children with it looked like happy puppets. (Angelman isn't a description, it's the name of the first person to describe it.) Down syndrome used to be called "mongoloid idiocy", because descriptions with baked-in eugenics are fun and useful. "Legionnaires disease" showed up first (as far as we know) at a Legionnaires convention, where the real problem was not the dudes in the funny hats but the hotel water supply. The first name for what we now call HIV was "Gay-Related Immune Disorder". The WHO is trying to avoid bullshit like those names going on into the future.
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TheJanitor posted:Specifically at that briefing they said if they take action too soon then people might get "fatigued" and it won't last through the peak of infections. Or that we could take action and stop it now, but the country would just get re-infected again later in the year, moving the peak of infections from summer to winter, loving the NHS even more. Maybe there's some merit to both of those points? The second one certainly sounds like they think the solution is to get everyone infected and be immune (and/or dead) by the end of summer. I'd be more inclined to believe that if we didn't have a Prime Minister who's infamously lazy and irresponsible. He just doesn't want to bring in emergency measures now because people would not see the point, get stroppy and blame him. The bit about people getting 'fatigued' gives it away; it translates into: "Our elderly voter base will throw a fit if their routines are interrupted in any way, so let's leave things until they're clamoring for Something To Be Done and we'll step in then."
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Galewolf posted:Also, lol, if "There is a deadly virus out there and you can protect yourself by MEDITATING AND RUBBING ESSENTIAL OILS (using our carefully placed ads and affiliate links, of course)" isn't the most late stage capitalism thing ever, I don't know what it is. I've heard good things about forsythia.
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Tree Bucket posted:I’ve heard good things about forsythia. I keep hearing that the true cure is Coca Cola Classic (tm)
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Mar 9, 2020 21:48
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Holy poo poo Italy just banned public gatherings. Can someone catch me up on why Italy is so hosed in particular by COVID? Did it just get there earlier?
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smoobles posted:Holy poo poo Italy just banned public gatherings. They have one of if not THE oldest populations in Europe and the population is very dense, most live in very crowded cities. This makes them especially vulnerable.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:55
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The genetic evidence suggest Italy got some cases in mid to late Jan. that were undetected. Of course, that's based on the genetic models and probability. But it would make sense given how many surprise cases popped up in Feb.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:55
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Shaocaholica posted:Buying 1 or 2 masks for everyone in your household seems fine to me. Buying 100 masks for everyone is not. You're not using the masks properly if you're not disposing of the mask every time you take it off and replacing it with a clean one
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Mar 9, 2020 21:56
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Their average age is 45 vs. 35 or 38 in the USA. I think they had a huge influx of people with it all at once, which was like 500, right? Or am I misremembering.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:58
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Has there been any further development of the connection between covid and smoking?
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https://www.ksl.com/article/46727977/person-diagnosed-with-covid-19-attended-byu-basketball-game-health-department-says Welp looks like I'm toast.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:07
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smoobles posted:Holy poo poo Italy just banned public gatherings. Italy is just a bit further ahead. Every country that doesn't act decisively will be another Italy if left long enough.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:07
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poverty goat posted:You're not using the masks properly if you're not disposing of the mask every time you take it off and replacing it with a clean one Why they get clogged up with viruses or something?
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Mar 9, 2020 22:08
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CassandraZara posted:I keep hearing that the true cure is Coca Cola Classic (tm) The stock market disagrees, because Coca Cola plunged 6 more percent today. Lucky for Coca Cola businesses that sell sugary sweets tend to do well during recessions. So if that gets officially declared they should be golden.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:09
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Griefor posted:Italy is just a bit further ahead. Every country that doesn't act decisively will be another Italy if left long enough. Can't wait for France to try it.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:12
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Is there any reliable critique anywhere of China's drastically reduced number of cases recently? I want to believe it's true that they're past the worst of it, but tbh I absolutely don't trust the numbers they put out.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:13
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Arsenic Lupin posted:How about all the actual Chinese human being i, including those in countries other than China, who are being treated as disease vectors? It's bad now, but if you call it the China Virus you've put the stigma permanently into the language. Call it the China Syndrome. That way you're actually taking a preexisting term and making it less scary.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:14
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20 people from march 1st to march 9th in NYC isn't terrible. I guess the real test is the third week of march. Or if you're in the future like I am, also known as The Great Purge of March.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:16
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Apparently the average age of the people who've died from it in Italy is 81.4. If that's the average then there must be a shitload of really old people in Italy, goddamn.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:18
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All indications are that if you're old, which generally includes a lot of aggravating conditions, it dunks on you pretty drat fast. Preexisting conditions in general are pretty bad on this one.
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Bardeh posted:Apparently the average age of the people who've died from it in Italy is 81.4. If that's the average then there must be a shitload of really old people in Italy, goddamn. it's just that no one else is dying FlamingLiberal posted:Look at that age range for the deaths reported in Italy today
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Bardeh posted:Apparently the average age of the people who've died from it in Italy is 81.4. If that's the average then there must be a shitload of really old people in Italy, goddamn. *throws whiskey into campfire* there were
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Bardeh posted:Apparently the average age of the people who've died from it in Italy is 81.4. If that's the average then there must be a shitload of really old people in Italy, goddamn. You never heard about the Mediterranean diet?
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Shaocaholica posted:Why they get clogged up with viruses or something? Pretty much. And then you're providing them with a warm, moist environment. Ideally, if you wear a mask you dispose of it after a single use and wash both your hands and your face before touching anything else. That said, when I was in hospital a couple of weeks ago they had me mask whenever I had to leave my isolation room because it wouldn't be practical to have everyone I might come within a few feet of mask.
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:You never heard about the Mediterranean diet? seems like it's no match for the roni E: here's today's breakdown from Italy btw https://twitter.com/ViralRNA/status/1237084982922936321?s=19 Bardeh fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Can't wait for France to try it. France just did
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zer0spunk posted:20 people from march 1st to march 9th in NYC isn't terrible. I guess the real test is the third week of march.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:31
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smoobles posted:Holy poo poo Italy just banned public gatherings. I hear it's because a-somebody touch-a my spaghet. This infection route may only affect bears though.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:33
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OMFG FURRY posted:is it really that hard to call it corvid-19
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China people aint gonna be saying 'corvid' shi-jiu.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:44
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Hadlock posted:What's going to happen to the elderly care industry in 2021 Well, in a way, you're looking at it.
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Bardeh posted:seems like it's no match for the roni the 80s must be one hell of a crucible if surviving to 90 actually boosts your odds of beating an infection
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Hadlock posted:What's going to happen to the elderly care industry in 2021 bailouts
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