Coronavirus (COVID-19 Outbreak) (210 Viewers)

Red

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Nov 26, 2006
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Tell that to the spastics in the park today together walking around and talking in groups of 5, 6, 7 or more (with their spawn of course). People are dumb as shit. It should be made temporarily legal to be able to hit them with a big stick (of shame).
Can be temporary initially, but I think we have to keep an open mind on these things.

If results are encouraging, making the law permanent might be a great step to creating a better society in the longer term.
 

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Snobist

DareDevil
Apr 16, 2017
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Christ. It's only 6:30 PM there. There's talk about a marked difference between what they're experiencing and the experience elsewhere. The virus is more aggressive. The mortality rate for those admitted to hospital is virtually 50%.
I saw a video on Facebook an Albanian who lives in Bergamo was telling that if an old man got virus and died at home it's not counted in statistics, and he said people call ambulance and it takes 10 hours to get to them. Scary as shit.
 

Strickland

Senior Member
May 17, 2019
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South Korea has probably the most relevant numbers because they have done effective testing over a huge swath of the population and have a top tier health care system. And I believe it’s mortality rate is around ~1%

Mortality rate would be hugely affected by how well social distance is maintained from the elderly and other at risk groups. Quarantining pensioners and immunocompromised folk away from the general populace would be an ideal way to do this imo.
Jurisdictions are bound to identify almost all of the severe cases, especially deaths, and never get the full count of the 80% who have relatively easy symptoms or none at all. So even if South Korea is testing hundreds of thousands, I'd wager their local mortality rate is significantly below the ~1% officially reported.
 

Gian

COME HOME MOGGI
Apr 12, 2009
17,859
Meanwhile in The Netherlands the parks and beaches were overcrowded today, just seems like people cant sit at home and the lack of awareness is worrying
 

Gian

COME HOME MOGGI
Apr 12, 2009
17,859
So you're basically like Italy 2 weeks ago. Good luck guys :D
There are a lot of stories about us following the Italian trend (which is sadly true), I really hope from tomorrow on we go in total lockdown as a group of people still don't really understand the risks.
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
Jurisdictions are bound to identify almost all of the severe cases, especially deaths, and never get the full count of the 80% who have relatively easy symptoms or none at all. So even if South Korea is testing hundreds of thousands, I'd wager their local mortality rate is significantly below the ~1% officially reported.
Imo, wouldn’t place it too far below the 1% in South Korea. From places that have managed to contain this like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, etc... they have done so with massive testing and finding large numbers of these asymptomatic cases to stop them spreading. South Korea has done ~300,000 tests. Usually working from confirmed cases outwards to possible contacts. I doubt there’s 10x more cases running around out there in place like that. While that 1% may drop with asymptomatics who recovered in isolation without knowing they ever had it, I doubt it’s a huge number there.
 

acmilan

Plusvalenza Akbar
Nov 8, 2005
10,722
USA has
+14,550 new cases so far and 400 deaths. Crazy shit.
Shit here is just barely starting to hit the fan. If people in other nations lack awareness of the real threat this poses, in the US you have to additionally consider the irrationally inflated sense of self-worth and idea that rules don't apply to americans (aka freedom).
And, of course, there is the unfathomably incompetent fuckwit in charge of it all ...
Factor all those in and nothing good is in store for this country in the coming months.
 

Enron

Tickle Me
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Oct 11, 2005
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Shit here is just barely starting to hit the fan. If people in other nations lack awareness of the real threat this poses, in the US you have to additionally consider the irrationally inflated sense of self-worth and idea that rules don't apply to americans (aka freedom).
And, of course, there is the unfathomably incompetent fuckwit in charge of it all ...
Factor all those in and nothing good is in store for this country in the coming months.
ive read that we probably have anywhere from 400,000 to 800,000 cases right now.
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
Not only he voted against it, but he delayed it intentionally. Unfortunately he’ll be OK.
He’s such an asshat. Delays and votes against emergency funding after being part of team Trump downplaying coronavirus and its seriousness. And then he gets tested while being completely asymptomatic just as a precaution, while people with lots of symptoms can’t get themselves tested in much of America.
 

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