SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Not saying this is one or buying into any conspiracy theories but can you imagine the damage an actual bioweapon could do? I think this virus has given us an idea. Scary as hell.
 
Whoever suggested to download and play Plague Inc. Well I did and wiped out the world on my first play through so is it worth buying full game or is that it. As in, completed it mate?
 
I won't trust a single thing coming out of China, all they've done is obfuscate, deny, spread disinformation and suppress health professionals.

They could be piling people into mass graves as they release these reports.

They've done a lot more. They've published publicly available scientific papers, shared data with the WHO, and discussed treatment strategies that other countries seem to be taking into account.
 
Netflix are reducing their streaming quality apparently. Will I pay less for it? Of course not. This is unacceptable. How am I expected to enjoy 4k quality programs if they're being streamed in standard definition and I'm still paying the extra money? Fecking virus.

Oh wait, shite, yeah there's an actual virus

They've upgraded "wash your hands" to "use your elbows to open doors at the pub.

I actually find it amazing that when they're reporting the new numbers they don't say how many there are for a single day, they just give you the running total. Dunno why I find it so odd.

This annoys me to be honest, anyone not really keeping up, or like me anyone with information overload who doesn't remember the previous days figure, won't really see the significance each day.
 
This annoys me to be honest, anyone not really keeping up, or like me anyone with information overload who doesn't remember the previous days figure, won't really see the significance each day.
Totally man. I mean, one minute your episode of Paw Patrol is streaming at 1080p and the next minute Chase looks like a fecking willy in a Japanese porno.
 
Whoever suggested to download and play Plague Inc. Well I did and wiped out the world on my first play through so is it worth buying full game or is that it. As in, completed it mate?
Depends, you probably played with the bacteria plague which is the easiest. There are virus, fungus, parasite, worm, prion etc, all with different characteristics. I'm stuck on the fungal one at the moment. It passes the time for sure, I like it.
 
They've done a lot more. They've published publicly available scientific papers, shared data with the WHO, and discussed treatment strategies that other countries seem to be taking into account.

Kinda the equivalent of breeding a maniacal fighting dog, letting it loose in all your neighbour's yards and then 'helping them out' with directions to the nearest Hospital.

This is their doing, this whole thing. And by 'their' I mean the Chinese Government, not any and every person from China.
 
Depends, you probably played with the bacteria plague which is the easiest. There are virus, fungus, parasite, worm, prion etc, all with different characteristics. I'm stuck on the fungal one at the moment. It passes the time for sure, I like it.
Tbh. I'm playing it for education purposes but thanks.
 
Kinda the equivalent of breeding a maniacal fighting dog, letting it loose in all your neighbour's yards and then 'helping them out' with directions to the nearest Hospital.

This is their doing, this whole thing. And by 'their' I mean the Chinese Government, not any and every person from China.

The point is whether you trust info from China or not, and I don't see any reason not to. Again, I've read that the treatments they found work best ahve been tested elsewhere and fond to work as well. So it's ont like they're just sending out nonsense data.
 
Not saying this is one or buying into any conspiracy theories but can you imagine the damage an actual bioweapon could do? I think this virus has given us an idea. Scary as hell.
i dread to think what terrorists think of this. They dont have to do anything
 
The point is whether you trust info from China or not, and I don't see any reason not to. Again, I've read that the treatments they found work best ahve been tested elsewhere and fond to work as well. So it's ont like they're just sending out nonsense data.

Have you not see Cal’s infographics?
 
Kinda the equivalent of breeding a maniacal fighting dog, letting it loose in all your neighbour's yards and then 'helping them out' with directions to the nearest Hospital.

This is their doing, this whole thing. And by 'their' I mean the Chinese Government, not any and every person from China.
After all this is said and done, we need to start pressuring them to end these wet markets.
 
It's hard to know what to say on this anymore, I live in a fairly isolated area in England, and stupidly thought I was fairly insulated, yet my sister has had Covid-19 symptoms (returned from Portugal two weeks ago), rang 111, and they wouldn't test her, my brother's wife has just found out her friend ( a teacher) has tested positive, someone she has seen daily, he was ill 2-3 weeks ago, as was their son, as was I, as was my wife, as was my son, etc, the point is it's just all around us, there is no realistic way of avoiding it.
 
It's hard to know what to say on this anymore, I live in a fairly isolated area in England, and stupidly thought I was fairly insulated, yet my sister has had Covid-19 symptoms (returned from Portugal two weeks ago), rang 111, and they wouldn't test her, my brother's wife has just found out her friend ( a teacher) has tested positive, someone she has seen daily, he was ill 2-3 weeks ago, as was their son, as was I, as was my wife, as was my son, etc, the point is it's just all around us, there is no realistic way of avoiding it.
Not quite clear on your timing but it sounds like you may have been infected and cleared?
 
It's hard to know what to say on this anymore, I live in a fairly isolated area in England, and stupidly thought I was fairly insulated, yet my sister has had Covid-19 symptoms (returned from Portugal two weeks ago), rang 111, and they wouldn't test her, my brother's wife has just found out her friend ( a teacher) has tested positive, someone she has seen daily, he was ill 2-3 weeks ago, as was their son, as was I, as was my wife, as was my son, etc, the point is it's just all around us, there is no realistic way of avoiding it.
Absolutely. The best we can do is prepare our bodies to get it (exercise, sleep, food, vitamins), try NOT to get it and also hope that if we do, it’s mild to medium illness.
 
After all this is said and done, we need to start pressuring them to end these wet markets.

These pandemics will become more common. The Guardian wrote an article that this is just the tip of the ice berg.

The thing as well is that we could pick up the disease that initially stemmed from bats from pigs. As in it passed from bats to pigs to us. Swine flu was pigs.

It is not just China as well. Ebola is central Africa. Some argue that Spanish Flu came from America or France.

We have been due a pandemic for some time tbh. As miserable and frightening as it is.
 
Just saw on Portuguese news, lots of British tourists (and residents) queeing on Algarve airport and packing flights to return home, with little precautions and lots of fear.
 
Maybe it's time for me to read The Stand again... The time is right.

"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just...come out the other side."
 
After all this is said and done, we need to start pressuring them to end these wet markets.
We won't need to do that. I doubt they still exist and the Chinese will not allow them to resurface.
 
Not quite clear on your timing but it sounds like you may have been infected and cleared?

Timings are out I agree, but symptoms stack up.. I think, the lack of testing is going to make this worse if they don't get it sorted asap, I/we could just as easily have had the usual stuff at this time of year.
 
Interesting he dosen't think closing down schools is an ideal scenario. Nor limiting air travel. Interesting interview. Only time will tell with all these theories.

Yes interesting. But he is thinking that this thing is already out of control and that its going the way of spanish flu.

He has repeatedly said that once china removes the lock down on its economy, the virus will return.
 
Maybe it's time for me to read The Stand again... The time is right.

"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just...come out the other side."

I just started it!

If haven’t read it already, I recommend Camus’ The Plague.