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ohrwurm
Jun 25, 2003

this is the vengeance of the sea

no land being will be spared

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Thug Lessons
Dec 14, 2006


I lust in my heart for as many dead refugees as possible.

That's about the same as Spanish flu. Real pivotal moment going on here: people never appreciated the public health triumph of containing SARS and bird flu, and if the same can be accomplished here that's 3/3. If not we're in for a lot of bodies and a lot less confidence for the future.

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


there's no flu, this is just their excuse for when all the uyghurs suddenly turn up dead

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Thug Lessons posted:

That's about the same as Spanish flu. Real pivotal moment going on here: people never appreciated the public health triumph of containing SARS and bird flu, and if the same can be accomplished here that's 3/3. If not we're in for a lot of bodies and a lot less confidence for the future.

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quote:

The global mortality rate from the 1918–1919 pandemic is not known, but an estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died. With about a third of the world population infected, this case-fatality ratio means 3% to 6% of the entire global population died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

if this reached spanish flu levels (infecting a third of the world population) it would kill about 70 million people.

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

If you want some real nightmares just glance at all the bacterial, viral, and fungal infections you can get from fish. Then take a look at the parasites.

Add that to the insane amount of live mammals and birds they were selling in that market.

SARS supposedly spread from bats to civet cats to us.

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1220589936732188672

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
Watch Winnie the Pooh put a fifth of Humanity under quarantine.

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
China is shutting down every movie theater in operation, and closing the Disney park.

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!
...

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Like I know there's a lot of "hahaha china is just using this as an excuse to be totalitarian" but even a super regressive totalitarian state like China has to know that they are going to be kneecapping their economy severely doing this. Reports are coming out of fourth generation infections in Wuhan, and second generation infections outside of Wuhan. This isn't able to be detected with usual flu symptoms of fever, so the general quick checks at airports and ports using temp sensors won't work. There are reports that the virus is surviving on surfaces for days, possibly a lot longer, which means that anything shipped out of those provinces are a risk even if they are at sea for a week. China has put a pupulation bigger than every US state under total quarantine and that quarantine is expanding constantly.

If there was one to be worried about, it's probably this one.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


yeah the extreme reaction of the CCP to this, basically completely halting the economy of a huge party of the country, makes me think they think this is pretty serious.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


anyways yall know whats a pretty good movie? contagion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g

succ
Nov 11, 2016

by Cyrano4747
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/united-states-coronavirus-cases.html

U.S update

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220616882132094976



"" At the station that travels to and from Wuhan, heavily armed special police have been stationed. They all wear epidemic prevention suits and are equipped with automatic rifles. Some netizens have questioned, do epidemic prevention need these weapons of great lethality? ""

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
There are now a confirmed total of 12 cities under lockdown, most of them in the million+ population range. Newest one is Tianamen. 12 confirmed, 1 unconfirmed. Might be as many as 15 total right now.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

Tashilicious posted:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1220616882132094976



"" At the station that travels to and from Wuhan, heavily armed special police have been stationed. They all wear epidemic prevention suits and are equipped with automatic rifles. Some netizens have questioned, do epidemic prevention need these weapons of great lethality? ""
They're for enforcing quarantine, duh.

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
HongKong hospitals now at full capacity as well.

strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

anyways yall know whats a pretty good movie? contagion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g
This was pretty good. Even the bat vector was similar to real life.

BabelFish
Jul 20, 2013

Fallen Rib
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1220623209940185088

More cities being added to the list.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



bs

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
Someone's trying to ride the Q train.

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

yeah the extreme reaction of the CCP to this, basically completely halting the economy of a huge party of the country, makes me think they think this is pretty serious.

chinese news today was talking about the economic impacts of the quarantine being better in the long term than economic impacts of the virus spreading freely

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

anyways yall know whats a pretty good movie? contagion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g

everyone should get really high and watch this, it'll calm us all down

Togger
Jan 16, 2019
Contagion taught me that the world will be fine as long as American teens get to do their prom dance, also that Gwyneth Paltrow is going to kill us all

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CODChimera posted:

everyone should get really high and watch this, it'll calm us all down

I'm going to get really high on acid and do this it'll be great

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tashilicious posted:

I'm going to get really high on acid and do this it'll be great

turns out this was a bad idea and now I am screaming into an eternal void without echo or depth. help me.

Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets

Viruses don’t get secreted through sweat. At least, the ones that cause pneumonia. Skin to skin contact is a pretty piss poor way to spread disease. He doesn’t use technical terms. You can have plenty of quick transmission through fomites (cough droplets) and the most infectious viruses spread that way. See: Measles. One person with measles can infect 20 or more people.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
Heavily modified "chimera" strain

Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets
Also, flu is a completely different kind of virus with other quirks that make it difficult to treat. The reason that we don’t have treatments for corona viruses is that usually it’s super common, self limiting, and not that bad.

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

if this reached spanish flu levels (infecting a third of the world population) it would kill about 70 million people.

according to my Plague Inc. modelling, the virus is currently stealth-upgrading it's transmission vectors in order to blitz all afflicted with every symptom at once

Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets
My background is also slightly more than a superficial understanding of infectious diseases. I’ve done two months worth of rotations on a clinical infectious disease service. Someone with a British medical background and works for the WHO would have 3-4 years specialized training in addition to being an internal medicine doc and would likely also have a public health degree, so a shitload more training and understanding.

Prince Myshkin
Jun 17, 2018
The guy posting a bunch of incoherent fear-mongering bullshit on a chan site is...lying??????

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

we’ll find out soon!

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

Dreylad posted:

Heavily modified "chimera" strain

something something resident evil reference

Pf. Hikikomoriarty
Feb 15, 2003

RO YNSHO


Slippery Tilde

when you definitely passed freshman bio

Tinestram
Jan 13, 2006

Excalibur? More like "Needle"

Grimey Drawer
That's it I'm moving to Madagascar

Pead
May 31, 2001
Nap Ghost
Lolling at the "I used to work at the UN, thus I have Top Secret clearance"

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fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

i used to work on a strawberry farm

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